The Metronet strike next week should be a chance for all of us on London Underground who hate PPP - most of us! - to fight the privatisation agenda by showing solidarity with striking contractors.
But some LUL staff have the attitude of 'why should I care about their rights and struggles? We never wanted separate maintenance companies anyway'.
Underground workers should not see Metronet workers as the enemy. Metronet workers did not want PPP any more than LU workers did. In fact, this strike is fighting further contracting-out!
It is the bosses who wanted to carve the workforce into separate companies, enhancing their profits by worsening conditions. This fight undermines their agenda.
We should remember whose side we're on. We're with the workers in other companies - the victims of PPP - and should do all we can to ensure their strike is successful.
Comments
Division of the workforce
Tubeworker is totaly correct. The fragmentation of the maintenance workforce is only the start of an exercise that will see management comming for us soon. The proposed privatisation of the East London Line shows that bits of the Tube can be carved off. If we dont stand up to metronet as a united workforce we will be giving the green light to our own future contracting out. We should give the Metronet workers every assistance that we can
Rick Grogan