Hi everybody.
I find it difficult to believe that persons are still trying to argue against the case in regard to DOO when every authoritative body within or associated to Britain's railways have advised that the proposed driver door operation is safe to place into practise. The guards renamed as conductors will remain on the trains but will be more concentrated on ticket inspection etc which is badly needed with wholesale “fare dodging” being carried out which anyone who travels regularly on our railways witnesses every day.
Also in the above, we all now know that this so called “safety dispute” has nothing to do with safety whatsoever. The General Secretary of the RMT union has been recorded addressing a union reps conference stating that the dispute is about bringing down a “working class hating government”. The foregoing statement confirms what many have suspected throughout this dispute, that the leadership of both ASLEF and the RMT union's have some vision of creating through chaos a socialist utopian Britain that has never been achieved anywhere even after 70 years of continuous trying and failing in Russia.
What I do find discouraging is that this once proud rail workforce are being led towards its own destruction by way of listening to a union leadership that have nothing to lose themselves as it is not their jobs that will be under threat when the move to transfer government investment from rail to the road infrastructure really gets under way next year.
In the above, public regard and confidence in the railways ability to carry out the daily demands of Britain's commuters in anything like the professional manner that should be expected has been totally lost. Even prior to this dispute there has been constant and unacceptable levels of staff sickness and absenteeism that would have seen almost all of those involved in that staggering deficiency dismissed from their employment in “very short order” in any other industry.
If the guards and drivers feel they have a strong case in the door opening dispute, then why not ask an outside body such as IOSH (the Institute for occupational safety and health) to look at all the evidence and give an independent judgment on the matter. But, no they will not do that, they would rather take it out on the long suffering rail traveling public who in many cases have lost wages through not be able to get to work or in other instances lost their employment completely (disgusting).
As stated, in what was once a proud workforce and industry, we now seem to have a situation of “donkeys being led by Jackasses” at the expense of the whole British economy, and that situation must change.
Bill