Its nice to see that the South West Trains strike by drivers at London Waterloo depot is still going ahead!
This Tuesday and Thursday, up to 200 drivers will fail to sign in for duty, and protest that they can no longer get subsidised taxi's from their homes to work at 3am or from work at 3am. Would this be the same group of drivers that originally lived in the outskirts of London, but decided to move to Peterborough, Milton Keynes and beyond?
Ahhhh so they got caught taking the proverbial!
Passengers will be pleased to know that like the last time, SWT intend to utalise Drivers Managers to maintain service. Thats the Drivers Managers that will probably only drive a train once every 4 months to ensure that they are still covered as competant, and insured to drive the trains.
Ahhh yes and they will probably use trainee drivers, who although know how to drive a train, have got very little "in anger" experience, although a trainer or manager will be with them to ensure they do their job properly.
I do genuinely feel sorr for the (mainly surburban) passengers, who have to put up with this nonsence. If it was pensions, job losses, or the consideration of Driver Only Trains (all SWT services currently have a guard... otherwise they do not run) then I could understand, but getting a free taxi, because you don't want to work at the local depot because its a different company??
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