So (as Tubeworker predicted), ASLEF has agreed to put all train drivers' frameworks to one side for a month during the Olympics. This for £500 plus overtime. It may sound good in the long run, but £500 to lose our hard-won conditions, for the next 40 years the younger of us could be train ops, doesn’t seem worth the risk.
What message is being sent out here? That we’ll strike and lose pay to win these terms, but give us a few bob and we’ll put them on hold? It sets a dangerous precedent for the future - don’t be surprised when the money has been spent but longer shifts become the norm.
To its credit, RMT has not signed up to this nonsense. ASLEF members should be banging down the Society's door demanding to know why on earth they did.
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