OK, here’s a question for you guys and gals – what is the point of having a managing team for the London Underground if the drivers and engineers can over-ride any policy from the top and do the exact opposite it they want?
The RMT members have just decided on ‘Industrial Action short of a strike’ because they are dissatisfied with Management plans to reduce delays through engineering overruns and the like. Will this affect their safety? Or their hours of work? Or their pay? Frankly, if these are not affected then what right have they got to threaten disruption to the network – yet again?
Silly me – they are threatening to disrupt my journeys around London and to cause me even more grief than I currently put up with because they are concerned for MY safety and conditions. I should be grateful that the true experts in running a railway care only for my safety and not the actual running of the service.
When the despised Management proposed, a while back, that the virtually redundant ticket office staff should be brought out from their booths and used as platform guards and the like the union threw its hands up in shock and concern for MY safety. Apparently the 1% of users that buy tickets from the booth completely outweighed the needs of the 99% who use Oyster cards or buy their tickets from the machines that are available even when the ticket office is on a break (nothing to do with being readily available for union duties at the end of a phone line or instant access to warm cups of tea) and it was only by throwing money at the aggrieved Union members that their concerns were eased.
We, the taxpayers and users of the ‘services’, pay a lot of money for the wages of the management of London Underground and we expect them to manage the lines, minimise the disruption of weekend works etc. etc. etc.
But if they set a policy and the members of the RMT don’t like it then they cannot implement the policy and the world stands still.
But if they set a policy and the members of the RMT don’t like it then they cannot implement the policy and the world stands still.
I repeat, what is the point of having a management team that isn’t able to manage?
There is a general rule in business:
Management manages and the workers do what they are told. If it all goes to pot you know who to point the finger at. (doesn’t always work out that way but I did say general rule).
In a well managed organisation the people doing the work advise their managers if they see trouble brewing and their advice is considered. The decision comes from the manager and the buck is supposed to stop there.
If the managed are making the decisions who are you going to blame? And more to the point – as I said at the start – “what is the point of having a managing team for the London Underground if the drivers and engineers can over-ride any policy from the top and do the exact opposite it they want?”
Management manages and the workers do what they are told. If it all goes to pot you know who to point the finger at. (doesn’t always work out that way but I did say general rule).
In a well managed organisation the people doing the work advise their managers if they see trouble brewing and their advice is considered. The decision comes from the manager and the buck is supposed to stop there.
If the managed are making the decisions who are you going to blame? And more to the point – as I said at the start – “what is the point of having a managing team for the London Underground if the drivers and engineers can over-ride any policy from the top and do the exact opposite it they want?”
Now here is a thought - If the RMT members are better than the (highly) paid professional managers at running the railroad then maybe we need to get rid of the management team, save ourselves a fortune and leave running the railroad to the leaders of the RMT? Oh, except that would piss off the members of ASLEF or the members of TSSA or any of the other Unions that control a piece of the business. OK, invite all the union leaders to give up their plush jobs and actually do a stint as the management of London Underground. No that won’t work either because they might not be available to call their members out if they manage to transgress one of the rules that the members hold so dear – now the unions need to elect new leaders to deal with the Union leaders who are now the management of the London Underground.
Oh – “what is the point of having a managing team for the London Underground if the drivers and engineers can over-ride any policy from the top and do the exact opposite it they want?”
Next tiome you see a union member on the Underground (They all are actually) thank them kindly for their attention to your safety - they are only thinking of you, you know.
Oh – “what is the point of having a managing team for the London Underground if the drivers and engineers can over-ride any policy from the top and do the exact opposite it they want?”
Next tiome you see a union member on the Underground (They all are actually) thank them kindly for their attention to your safety - they are only thinking of you, you know.
Point 2 Kretin Ken Livingstone has just discovered that Bumbling Boris Johnson has a huge sum of money sitting in a desk drawer somewhere – yet was still proposing to hike Fare prices. His response is to spend it all on a cut in fare prices of 5% - yes the average fare will go down from £1:60 to £1:52. Staggering reduction and I’ll be sure to spend my 16p per day savings carefully – damn, won’t quite stretch to the ‘i’.
If there isn’t a reserve then the next unexpected problem to hit the system will have to be paid for from borrowed money – at an interest rate that will not be beneficial to the commuters of London but to the bank that supplied the money. If the money isn’t invested somewhere that it will at least make the rate of inflation (India maybe) in profit then it will gradually be pissed away
As usual, a spat of two bald men struggling for control of the scissors.
What we want is a system that is cheap and efficient - not a political pawn for the amusement of two idiots. When the next election comes around - Don't Vote Idiot
If there isn’t a reserve then the next unexpected problem to hit the system will have to be paid for from borrowed money – at an interest rate that will not be beneficial to the commuters of London but to the bank that supplied the money. If the money isn’t invested somewhere that it will at least make the rate of inflation (India maybe) in profit then it will gradually be pissed away
As usual, a spat of two bald men struggling for control of the scissors.
What we want is a system that is cheap and efficient - not a political pawn for the amusement of two idiots. When the next election comes around - Don't Vote Idiot
Point 3 Can anyone explain to me how this isn’t discrimination against the disabled?
I have been for an interview with a company - the company concerned has the most impeccable credentials as regards workers rights and treatment of individuals - that is located in a brilliantly designed business park in West London.. No effort has been spared to ensure that the buildings are green and spacious with the most brilliant use of recyclable materials and reclaimed and salvaged materials where possible. 13 buildings in all around a central park and quite delightfully appointed with a campus area for the workers to gather and gad about. It is so green that the number of parking spots in the park is kept to a bare minimum and it is the responsibility of all of the companies that rent space in the park to rent parking spaces for their people – however, there are very few of them in comparison to the number of individuals who work in the park. It is approx 15 minutes walk from the nearest tube station and the same from the nearest bus stop to the middle of the park.
There is no (Zero, nada, nil, fuckall, notalot) provision for disabled workers to park anywhere except as part of their companies provision. (There is even less provision for contractors who are necessarily classed as ‘visitors’ even if they work there 5 days a week and there are no visitors spaces.) No shuttle service and “it is the responsibility of London Transport to route a bus through the park” – now doesn’t this just shout out “go away you nasty cripples – no space for you here”?
Oh, and before anyone wastes their time looking it up – they have met the letter of the law.
I have been for an interview with a company - the company concerned has the most impeccable credentials as regards workers rights and treatment of individuals - that is located in a brilliantly designed business park in West London.. No effort has been spared to ensure that the buildings are green and spacious with the most brilliant use of recyclable materials and reclaimed and salvaged materials where possible. 13 buildings in all around a central park and quite delightfully appointed with a campus area for the workers to gather and gad about. It is so green that the number of parking spots in the park is kept to a bare minimum and it is the responsibility of all of the companies that rent space in the park to rent parking spaces for their people – however, there are very few of them in comparison to the number of individuals who work in the park. It is approx 15 minutes walk from the nearest tube station and the same from the nearest bus stop to the middle of the park.
There is no (Zero, nada, nil, fuckall, notalot) provision for disabled workers to park anywhere except as part of their companies provision. (There is even less provision for contractors who are necessarily classed as ‘visitors’ even if they work there 5 days a week and there are no visitors spaces.) No shuttle service and “it is the responsibility of London Transport to route a bus through the park” – now doesn’t this just shout out “go away you nasty cripples – no space for you here”?
Oh, and before anyone wastes their time looking it up – they have met the letter of the law.
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