• First London Tube strike dates announced.
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Thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHn-g7T9f9A[/media] [quote] Thousands of workers on the London Underground are to begin the first in a series of 24-hour strikes on 6 September in a row over job cuts. The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) said walkouts would then be staged on a weekly basis. The unions said they would continue striking until plans to reduce ticket office opening hours were withdrawn. London Underground (LU) said there would be no compulsory redundancies. Overtime ban The unions said up to 10,000 members would take part in the industrial action in protest at plans to cut 800 jobs. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote We will defend a vital public service on which millions of people depend every day of their working lives” End Quote TSSA general secretary Gerry Doherty Maintenance and engineering staff will walkout for 24 hours at 1700 on 6 September, 3 October, 2 November and 28 November. Other workers, including Tube drivers, signallers and station staff, will strike for 24 hours from 2100 BST on the same dates. An indefinite overtime ban for Tube staff belonging to both unions will also start at a minute after midnight on 6 September. RMT general secretary Bob Crow said the cuts were unacceptable and would undermine safety and service for passengers. He said: "The mayor was elected on a promise of maintaining safe staffing levels and he is doing the opposite, planning to leave stations and platforms dangerously understaffed and threatening to turn the network into a mugger's paradise." 'Need for change' TSSA general secretary Gerry Doherty said: "Boris Johnson may be prepared to go into the Olympic Games with a second class Tube service when the eyes of the world will be on the capital - we are not. "We will defend a vital public service on which millions of people depend every day of their working lives. "We will not see jobs and services sacrificed to pay for the sins of the City of London and Wall Street." The London Chamber of Commerce has estimated the cost of the strikes to the capital would be £48m per day. Howard Collins, LU's chief operating officer, previously said: "We need to change, but we will do so without compromising safety, without compulsory redundancies, and in a way that means all stations will continue to be staffed at all times and all stations with a ticket office will continue to have one. "These threatened strikes are in nobody's interest, and should not go ahead." [/quote] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11083153"]Source[/url] Justified i guess but [I]alot[/I] of people are going to hate them.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVJSOFZxDE[/media] [b]Edit:[/b] GOD DAMMIT! I swear you edited that song into the OP at the SAME TIME as I posted this!
This is going to cause a lot of people to be pissed off.
A million or more angry people... Good thing I don't live in London
[QUOTE=sltungle;24337044][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVJSOFZxDE[/media] [b]Edit:[/b] GOD DAMMIT! I swear you edited that song into the OP at the SAME TIME as I posted this![/QUOTE] No i didn't :ninja:
It's a shame the company can't just sack the cunts. It's not as though theres not thousands of people out there who need jobs.
[QUOTE=Mobzor;24342424]It's a shame the company can't just sack the cunts. It's not as though theres not thousands of people out there who need jobs.[/QUOTE] Yes, of course! The people working there now are just working there for fun, not because they need the job or families to support. Screw 'em! Shame it's public transportation though, that's going to complicate things for a lot of people.
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