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Post by melikepie on Apr 22, 2014 20:09:25 GMT
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Post by sawb on Apr 22, 2014 20:47:32 GMT
Oh yeah, thrilling! I'm doomed not to get my flight from terminal 5 next week!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 2:33:10 GMT
RMT are on strike so it's the guards and station staff, the drivers are in ASLEF. |
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Post by norbitonflyer on Apr 25, 2014 10:06:33 GMT
RMT are on strike so it's the guards and station staff, the drivers are in ASLEF. Are there no longer any drivers in the RMT? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 11:06:47 GMT
Are there no longer any drivers in the RMT? I’m 99.9% sure that the only place where RMT has drivers is on the Tube, everywhere else drivers are in ASLEF. Apparently this is because a lot of guards retrained as drivers when the Tube went OPO but rather than switching unions they stayed in RMT. |
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Post by North End on Apr 25, 2014 11:26:14 GMT
Are there no longer any drivers in the RMT? I’m 99.9% sure that the only place where RMT has drivers is on the Tube, everywhere else drivers are in ASLEF. Apparently this is because a lot of guards retrained as drivers when the Tube went OPO but rather than switching unions they stayed in RMT. It depends very much on location - on the Northern Line for example High Barnet, Golders Green and East Finchley depots are majority ASLEF, whilst Morden is majority RMT. I think the Piccadilly Line is also an RMT stronghold. This is why during RMT strikes you will tend to see the Northern running comparatively more trains than some other lines. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 12:39:18 GMT
It depends very much on location - on the Northern Line for example High Barnet, Golders Green and East Finchley depots are majority ASLEF, whilst Morden is majority RMT. I think the Piccadilly Line is also an RMT stronghold. This is why during RMT strikes you will tend to see the Northern running comparatively more trains than some other lines. Very true but overall on the Tube drivers are roughly two third ASLEF and one third RMT whereas on the mainline they are all ASLEF |
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Post by rincew1nd on Apr 25, 2014 18:50:59 GMT
I remember Dave Goulder singing the "Eight Freight Blues" and saying how his driver wouldn't talk to him "since he'd found I'd joined the NUR while he was an ASLEF man". The NUR was a 'railway' union whereas ASLEF was aimed at those on the footplate ( Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen). That said, I'm sure I have seen drivers around here with RMT lanyards and/or tie pins. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 10:35:13 GMT
rincew!nd - interesting, which TOC were they working for? Are you sure they were drivers and not guards?
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Post by rincew1nd on Apr 26, 2014 12:05:06 GMT
Northern I think, possibly TPE. I'd hope they were a driver's, and I was getting off trains they'd just driven!
It is possible I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure they were the green and gold oval RMT badges.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2014 12:17:02 GMT
Not a fan of probably the most expensive commuter rail journey on the planet! It's an ill wind I guess the Piccadilly Line will be busier or are they on strike at the same time?
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Post by class411 on Apr 26, 2014 12:59:46 GMT
I'd hope they were a driver's, and I was getting off trains they'd just driven! I'd be hoping even harder as I was getting on. Mind you, how hard can it be to drive a train? ... ... I'll get me coat. |
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Post by melikepie on Apr 26, 2014 13:22:26 GMT
If I got it wrong I'm sorry. therefore, rail workers with Heathrow Express are going on strike
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