Disciplined For Defending Company Policy
Submitted on 9 October, 2008 - 08:37
Word reaches Tubeworker that the King's Cross staff who walked out to prevent abuse of the SRT are to face disciplinary action. So it's not a disciplinary offence for management to break the agreements that they themselves signed, but it is a crime to defend those agreements?!
You get the impression that management get really rattled when workers stand up for ourselves. Which means we should probably do it more often - and we should certainly defend those of our workmates who face victimisation for doing so.
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Two faced
Yet another example of management's two faced approach to its staff. How these managers think its ok to carry on like this I dont know. Creating a two tier workforce, with the SRT on one side and the "regular" staff on the other, management hope to destabilise station staff and set one group on the other. I give full support to my colleagues at King's Cross.
What we really need is a link up with the other unions, co-ordinating all the disputes on LU [SRT, harrassment/disciplining reps...notably Andy Littlechild]and those of the bus drivers in London, and having a mass walkout of transport workers in a massive show of Working class solidarity.
Quite right
Yes indeed. In the meantime, there is a leaflet available about the King's Cross 7 on the RMT Platform website. You have to be logged in to see it.
an another thing
Wasn't one of the carrots to lure staff into the srt, the lack of extreme shifts? I note they're slipping in. Inexorable march, of something!
Not that carrots abound these days; more like the King's Shilling.
extreme shifts
I thought that early turns started between 6 and 8, and lates between 3 and 5 (plus occasional nights).
If you're getting shifts that fall outside that - complain!