Acton Town Drivers To Ballot For Strikes

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Drivers at Bollo House (Acton Town) have had enough of the management regime in their depot and have asked RMT to ballot them for strike action.

The problems have been going on for some time now, and drivers' patience is exhausted. Management have clamped down on sickness and SPADs, and while disciplinaries used to be an annual event, they are now dished out like confetti.

Management are also routinely putting drivers in a position where you end up going over your 4 hours 15 minutes driving time - and thus breaking Framework 5.3 - by sending drivers on trips that they know will take them over the time.

It is open season on Picc drivers - and will continue to be unless we fight back. That fightback is now starting with the strike ballot. We will be unnecessarily weak if only half the line strikes, so it would be good to see Arnos drivers join in. It's not like they are short of issues to be naffed off about too!

Comments

Submitted by Tom Street (not verified) on Wed, 23/06/2021 - 17:51

I retired at age 65 in 2009. I was based at Bollo House and back then there was a regime of bullying, demanding outchadcomes that breached safety guidelines and blowing minor things out of all proportion.

I had responsibility for training when Terminal 4 and then Terminal 5 opened. All DMTs and the TOM at the time tried blocking our routines. In actual fact all the Instructor Ops booked on with supervisors at both locations. The TOM, via a particular DMT told me they had to book on at Bollo House. I said fine, and we will also come back to Acton Town for meal breaks which would result in some trains not being able to go around the loop or direct to T5. Quick backtrack and we were aloud to carry on.

On the day T5 opened you couldn't move for a mass of white collar managers who were eager to get on TV. To his credit Mr O'Toole got up and berated them for now trying to claim the credit when they in fact had hidden away from any responsibility. 

It would appear that the culture of bullying is alive and well still.

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