This is what comes of the modern day PR approach, that you only ever put out anything positive, and gloss over items that are otherwise, regardless of how inaccurate an impression is then given. Positive statements only. Presumably the 'Twitter Team' are indeed graduates of this style, even though they may not know one end of a train from the other.
The LFB made all stations remove their book swaps because of health and safety concerns, yet open section stations can be left unmanned ALL DAY. The LFB should step in and demand all stations are manned at all times.
Underground stations must be staffed at all times whilst open, overground stations dont have to be, sadly its that way across the country.
Better terminology would be "Surface" and "Sub-Surface" stations.
If we're talking overground stations as in from London Overground then they have to be staffed from when it opens to when it closes. This also applies to the surface (open air) stations on the Elizabeth line as a part of the stipulation imposed on them.
How come? Since the staff that staff the gatelines are striking, and XR aren’t standing in for them?
What’s an ‘Ambassador’ in this context?
Sorry, if it isn’t clear. I’m obviously referring to Stratford. You said XR staff won’t staff the gatelines when LU are on strike but somehow the station remains open
You are right actually, it was @Mojo that said XR staff aren't staffing Stratford gatelines. I would have assumed, however, since fare evasion is a huge topic currently and TfL is under a lot of pressure; and Stratford is pretty much recognised as a hub for fare evasion that they'd be very reluctant to have the gateline open.
TfL micromanage their communications strategy to within an inch of its life. One of the many examples is banning staff from announcing "there are severe delays due to a signal failure"; they are required to say "...whilst we fix a signal failure".
It's voluntary until somehow it could potentially become permanent. But we'll see. As I said before from reading up on the 4 day week Aslef approved for their trial on the Bakerloo Line if it gets adopted on every line then anyone in the pool or about to enter the grade will get shafted and that's a fact.
Yet part of the commitment of 'fit for the future' was that every station would be staffed from the start to the close of traffic. This is regularly ignored.
Which is a matter for TfL and their employees, but is nothing to do with LFB whose role here is to do with fire.
Which is what im getting at. Up here in Merseyrail land supposedly every station is staffed from start to end of service.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I think you're going to have to produce some numbers on that.
At present it looks like TfL, the Mayor of London and the Government are going to let this strike go ahead and not make any concessions to end it. The dispute is with the RMT only. ASLEF is not involved, nor are any other unions. This probably does not help in convincing the public who may not understand why one union is on strike and the other unions are not.
Not necessarily just ex-drivers, other grades can be members of ASLEF if in line of promotion to Operator.
Of the drivers, I reckon its roughly even Aslef vs RMT with if anything a slight bias in favour of Aslef. An Aslef ballot from August 2024 of passenger train operators returned 1,487 votes on a 74.6% turnout, which means at the time they must have had circa 1,993 members. A 2018 FoI response said TfL have a total of 3,946 passenger train operators. Obviously these numbers would have changed in the intervening period with one FoI dated 2021 showing quite a few less T/Ops.
RMT balloted 10,424 members in the current dispute.
Quite likely to be passenger services. If Train Ops turn up, LU will try and run a shuttle service - more for the PR I think than for any actual reason.
