Diary of a Tube worker: The loudmouths and the rattled
The weeks leading up to a strike, like our Tube strike on 21 June, tend to bring out the most sceptical voices the loudest. There is a general consensus in my depot that you strike, you don’t scab, and whatever misgivings you have are not aired in loud debate in the mess room. Those that speak up tend to be the minority, those that want to justify coming in, often raising old grievances against this or that union stance or some often long forgotten rep. “I don’t give a fuck about…” O starts all his sentences like this when he’s making a point, usually about why he’s no time for a strike. “It...