what's wrong with TFL?

@LizOwen sorry to break in but nobody pays for extra hours in london but we are just happy to still have a job in this pandemic and war environment no?..

@LizOwen My heart bleeds for them...not. They have jobs and thousands don't. If there hard left union leaders would actually negotiate sensibly this could be sorted quickly. Same with RMT

@Londonn you don’t get paid for extra hours worked !! you need to join a union like the rail workers

@Barny52 Yes do that...and bully the rest of the country into submission.

@SW-User work extra hours for £0

@Barny52 Negotiate then

@SW-User don’t work it doesn’t cost or join a union and don’t get bullied into working for £0

@LizOwen actually if it’s about the closing of tickets offices. The strike is fine by me. I can WFH if it is during the week. And how am i going to get any advice about tickets if there are no ticket offices

@SW-User you think that the unions didn't try negotiating before balloting for strike action? You don't know that Britain already has some of the most stringent anti Union laws in Europe?

@Philth But not stringent enough. I have thought for a long time that strikes by public service employees should be illegal.

What about when thier terms and conditions are being degraded ?@MartinII

@MartinII I've often thought that forcing workers to do longer and longer hours on more and more unwieldy and fatiguing shift patterns, to the point that public safety is endangered, should be illegal, but yeah I guess that makes me one of the loony left in your eyes?
Go look up the report into the Croydon tram crash and tell me - and the relatives of those killed - its about consumer choice, or that unions shouldn't be allowed the ultimate form of protest.

@Royrogers That is certainly one of the genuine reasons - and the loss of jobs and worse conditions

@Londonn gosh.

@Philth No, not at all. My point is that the public shouldn’t have to suffer the withdrawal of an essential service when no alternative is available. On safety and customer service issues, the railway industry is highly regulated and standards should be enforced on both employers and employees. Of course that is also an argument against privatisation!

On the loony left, I would only comment that they, or their leaders, are very far from loony. They no exactly what they are doing!