What exactly are these speculative changes that are concerning staff?
It was a formal proposition to the Trains Functional Council on 10th May 2023.
Many are indicated in the ASLEF link in the first post:...
You forgot the hideous cover week changes.
On the new fully integrated rosters:
1 in 10 weeks would be Advanced Cover weeks with 28 days notice of duties and rest days.
1 in 7 would be Flexible Cover weeks, with 50% of duties being given an early or late "window".
Rest days for the following week would be given on Thursday (so very short notice of a Sunday rest day for example);
Exact duty times would be given at 0400 the day before duty commencement.
It's worth clarifying that the remote booking on and off would be in your own time.
Some examples of which are:
If you're a Brixton driver, you could book on at Victoria Platform.
A Barking (C+H) driver could book on at Moorgate platform.
These book on locations could be unsupervised, which means my fitness for work can not be assessed, important information regarding disruption will not be conveyed, and no examination of the late notice information board in depots can be undertaken (this would apparently be transfered to an iPad, which would form part of our equipment).
I'm of the opinion that employers need to pay me for my time when I provide a service to that business, so I'm not in favour of giving them 20/30 minutes a day for nothing.
Of course, if I'm required to book on at a remote location
and book off at a remote location on the same duty, it's not unreasonable to suggest this would add 60 minutes unpaid to my working day (which they are already extending under these proposals!)
If you multiply these timings across every duty, at every depot, on every day, it's fairly easy to see where the cost savings can be made. However, those savings are made at the expense of my work life balance.