Why Are We (Still) Waiting?

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Remember management promising to create the grade of SA(CR) coach, so that all those Stations Assistants (Control Room) who have been coaching other staff in the role could actually get some reward ie. dosh? Hmm, well they might have agreed it a year ago, but they still haven't delivered the goods. No recruitment advert has appeared, and we are not likely to see one before next month.

Contrast this to the undue haste when they have recruitment campaigns that management really want to pursue (such as the French-speaking CSAs at Kings Cross).

Anyone would think that LUL doesn't actually appreciate the essential work that these staff are doing in coaching others. They should say sorry for the delay, and prove that they are sorry by handing over some money to all the people who have been coaching for free.

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Submitted by Tubeworker on Wed, 23/04/2008 - 19:32

SA(CR) coaching should have been set up years ago, with proper remuneration for coaches and proper licences for those they coached. But instead, various managers freelanced and set up informal local arrangements where SA(CR)s coached CSAs who were then 'locally licensed' to work in the station control room. Some groups paid the coaches SS3 rates, some didn't - another aspect of this which is unfair. It was all pretty dodgy, and it's amazing the unions let management get away with it.

Now the dodgy practices are being superceded by proper training and coaching arrangements, but lots of staff - both SA(CR)s and CSAs - are being caught in the transition and being left waiting for their training and their money.

So the answer to your question is probably Yes.

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