Quote Originally Posted by London_Manila View Post
Nice to see that at least in London we have workers who are prepared to go on strike to save their working conditions and will not be bullied by the management

Why should any workers have to roll over and just accept what the management decides to throw at them

The idiots posting comments on the Daily Mail's website all presumed it was just about money
Quite true LM
In all honesty I tend to ignore public opinion when it comes to work because when you're on the inside looking out you can see they way the media manipulate the story to paint the workers in a bad light.
10,000 odd people were out on strike Drivers, Station Staff, Controllers, Power supply staff and many more and yet the media focuses on the just over 1000 drivers who've been offered an extra £2k to change their terms and conditions. What about the rest who've been slung £500 and face horrendous rosters.
Up until Monday the offer on the table after 5 months of negotiations was 0.75% pay rise this year 1% next year £500 one of bonus for bringing in night tube and an extra £250 one off payment for drivers. At mid day 2 days before strike management arrived at ACAS with an offer of 2% pay rise this year 1% for 2016 and 2017 £500 one off bonus for night tube plus an extra £2k for drivers affected by night tube which is about 1200 drivers out of approx 3500 to 4000. They said we had until 18:30 that day to accept or the offer would be withdrawn. I have this in writing from management. They were not prepared to discuss rostering or impact on weekend working. Hence the strike went ahead as clearly 4 unions would not be able to discuss the offer with members in approx 5 hours.
3 months ago I had a discussion with one of Managements negotiating team and he said to me " I don't know what your moaning about Mark your getting £500 for doing nothing as we're getting part time drivers to cover night tube." You cant train new divers in 2 months and there are no part time drivers currently in training on my line.
Night tube start date was announced by Boris on the day he started closing ticket offices because he wanted to deflect from the story on that day. It's widely recognised by staff and management that there was never going to be enough time to implement it properly. If you speak to management off the record, to a man they are saying we haven't had enough time but sadly nobody had the guts to say it to a Mayor on a Mission. It's Boris's legacy to London so he doesn't want it to fail.
They're back at acas next week so hopefully they can start talking about rosters and work/life balance instead of throwing more money around.