It is time to speak out

[severe_delays]

Today has been a day of dancing and madness at the Delays hovel. And also a day of jaws hitting floors so often that I've had to get my handlamp out to scour under the furniture for those that detached and rolled away. Why such expressions of joy? Because London Underground managers have been found to be idiots, conspirators, lawbreakers and such

Comments

[mathcathy]

This sounds like a really good reason to strike.

Working as I do for a company which is new enough that it doesn't legally have to recognise unions and where any walkout, however motivated, would open the participants up to disciplinary action, it is difficult sometimes to find any grounds for understanding when staff of other companies walk out over pay or restructures.

No one I work with ever seems to even consider strike action and our pay is near enough frozen with redundancy announcements a regular occurrence.

I've heard rumour that a similar cost-benefit analysis has been done from time to time, with employees dismissed illegally and expected to be awarded damages. It's kept quiet and I've never seen it myself, assuming it does happen. I suppose the feeling is that the individual wins, other employees aren't affected and the company wins.

In what you are describing though, other employees lose if this can happen and the only way to prevent it happening again is to redress that cost-benefit analysis.

If you need a union and for unions to have rights then you need to strike.
Hopefully the damages the individuals receive will be sufficient for them.

Is this similar to what you're thinking or have I missed the point?

[severe_delays]

LUL has no moral or legal right to sack anyone for being in a protected legal class. The strike is about more than a "mere" two jobs. And the strike need not go ahead. London Underground have refused to engage in reinstating the "mere" two employees.

[severe_delays]

Sort of. In all honesty I'd prefer it that we didn't strike, the victimised staff got their jobs back and those who have perpetrated this were disciplined for illegal activity and bringing the company into disrepute. I know this won't happen as the sort of behaviour shown by the managers here is all too common within London Underground. It's a strange situation where they've clearly broken the law yet they'll face very little in the way of penalty and will be free to do so again.