| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Tube Strike RMT | |
| Posted by: | Mark Walker | |
| Date/Time: | 07/10/10 18:06:00 |
My blind father is always grateful to the ticket staff who come down to the platform to see him out of the stations in Ealing (Broadway and North Ealing). It does seem to me that these job cuts are simply an excuse to attack one of the few remaining indutrial unions in this coutry. To ask "when was the last time a booking clerk physically involved in a passenger safety problem?" is unfair. It is like me asking how often someone intervenes in an assault on the street, stops young thugs smashing up a bus stop, told a group of hoodies to pick up their litter ... it's not always easy to be brave, is it? I'm not asking for heroes, but I want station staff to at least be present when my wife returns home late at night, if only to call the police in the event of an incident. It's strange how LUL staff, who were so highly praised at the time of the London bominggs, have become the subjects of such bile and anger so quickly. Sad. |