It's FGW▸ that are breaching their "conditions", not drivers and guards, it's over YOUR safety that these strikes are being carried out, where competence assesors who aren't actually passed out as guards OR drivers are working trains, if your train derailed you would expect a competent person to take charge of your safety.
Whilst I sure hope that agreement is reached and Strike action called off, it should be remembered that NOBODY on the Railway WINS when strikes occur, the Road Lobby WINS.
I'm not a big surporter of Unions, but whilst
BR▸ was a fair employer, there were a few strikes but the whole Railway industry worked for a common goal.
In my Job if I ****ed up, and Trains got Cancelled it was my boss would come and see me, He'd get to the root Cause, he would then have to see the top Knobs and square things up, he would then come back to me the next day with, "It's all been sorted, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN, for that you owe me a PINT", and that was fair really.
Today it's a BLAME CULTURE and ANYBODY on the railway screwing things up and they are out the door, even if they had great skills in the job, for this Blame Culture it's now essential for ALL railway workers to be in a Union.
Whilst FGW Quote "they only used a manager to work a train" this is Manament by "BULLING" and I BET the manager so used was not at all happy about being ordered to work the train.
First group show their true colours in America where due to the lack of union laws, (that Britain enjoys), the use of Non union labour in the States is almost a condition of First group service.
The
TOC▸ 's will always argue that Safety First, yet given just 1/2 a chance, every train would work
DOO▸ (Driver Only Operation), in my working enviroment it's now more often
Profit first Safety second, that is the reason a Manager worked a train.
It truely JUSTIFIED for the unions to call a strike.
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