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Tube Drivers Again.
ILW
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Will the employers stand up to them this time now the Olympics are out of the way?
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Creatures without backbones cannot stand.Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.0
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The sooner tubes become driverless the better. Time to stop bribing the greedy unions.0
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The sooner tubes become driverless the better. Time to stop bribing the greedy unions.
A similar thing is happening in the mines here: driverless trucks are coming in.
Now to be fair, that isn't greedy unions so much as an inability to fill posts without paying huge sums of money. Pay of £80,000+ a year wouldn't be unusual for a mine driver.
My point is that you can price yourself out of a job very easily these days.0 -
I said this the last time they threatened to strike and I will say it again.
This is a great thing, the more they disrupt and hold the capital to ransom the quicker their demise will come about.
This is what happens when a union gets too powerful - people sat in cabs pressing stop and go getting paid £200+ a day for it. It's barely even skilled labour and no reason why a computer could not do a better job.Thinking critically since 1996....0 -
somethingcorporate wrote: »I said this the last time they threatened to strike and I will say it again.
This is a great thing, the more they disrupt and hold the capital to ransom the quicker their demise will come about.
This is what happens when a union gets too powerful - people sat in cabs pressing stop and go getting paid £200+ a day for it. It's barely even skilled labour and no reason why a computer could not do a better job.
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the Victoria line was built in the late 60s and was designed to be driverless
today there are still drivers.0 -
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the Victoria line was built in the late 60s and was designed to be driverless
today there are still drivers.
And why is this?
Due to lack of technology or due to the impact of the unions? (I genuinely don't know).
If technology could get us to the moon and back in the 60s I am pretty sure 50+ years later we can get it to make a couple of trains stop and start at the right time
Thinking critically since 1996....0 -
somethingcorporate wrote: »I said this the last time they threatened to strike and I will say it again.
This is a great thing, the more they disrupt and hold the capital to ransom the quicker their demise will come about.
This is what happens when a union gets too powerful - people sat in cabs pressing stop and go getting paid £200+ a day for it. It's barely even skilled labour and no reason why a computer could not do a better job.
I was beginning to agree with this thread until I read that drivel.
It can take well over a year to train a driver -thats not just pressing stop & go buttons and merely displays your ignorance of their role.
No: I am not a driver nor do I gree with strikes for their own sake however I DO know what it takes to qualify and what responsibilities rail/tube safety staff have.
For christsakes try to get an informed opinion before belittling others would you?Unless specifically stated all posts by me are my own considered opinion.
If you don't like my opinion feel free to respond with your own.0 -
Anybody know what Ed Millibands stance on this strike is?0
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I wish someone could explain why it takes a year to train a tube driver. It is basically start and stop in the right places.I was beginning to agree with this thread until I read that drivel.
It can take well over a year to train a driver -thats not just pressing stop & go buttons and merely displays your ignorance of their role.
No: I am not a driver nor do I gree with strikes for their own sake however I DO know what it takes to qualify and what responsibilities rail/tube safety staff have.
For christsakes try to get an informed opinion before belittling others would you?0 -
I was beginning to agree with this thread until I read that drivel.
It can take well over a year to train a driver -thats not just pressing stop & go buttons and merely displays your ignorance of their role.
No: I am not a driver nor do I gree with strikes for their own sake however I DO know what it takes to qualify and what responsibilities rail/tube safety staff have.
For christsakes try to get an informed opinion before belittling others would you?
Perhaps you could help inform us.
Why does it take over a year to train a driver?0
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