Management are still at it. Messing reserve staff around, routinely destroying what little 'work-life balance' you have.
Tubeworker has long campaigned for a better deal for reserves, with some success. What is essential is that:
(a) reserve staff know their rights, so they can refuse abuses by management;
(b) the unions demand both more rostered jobs, and better rights for reserves; and
(c) union reps represent individuals effectively, but also take this up as a collective issue - you can bet that where one reserve is being treated badly, so are plenty of others.
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Yeah, good points
Even the few rights that are in the Framework Agreement are routinely ignored. So telling people those rights - and getting them to complain when they are abused - is essential.
But you are right, we need additional rights too, and the ones you mention are good examples. This would, of course, require the unions to get beyond their usual defend-the-way-we've-always-done-it mentality. And it will require a strategy from the unions to fight and win, cos management are in no mood to roll over, and we don't want to be fiddling while Rome burns.
Know Your Rights
Dear Tubeworker and its readers
I have done a 'Know Your Rights' leaflets for reserve station staff on my group, which is easily adaptable to other locations. E-mail me and I'll e-mail you a copy.