Looks like good news that the RMT have come to an agreement that the drivers can open the doors on the new stock.
Maybe it will end the situation where you have non commercial guards on the suburban network who in some cases are silent and only pops out to do the doors
So essentially everyone wins. RMT can now calm down since there will be a second member of staff on each train and SWR negotiate to allow driver release of the door to speed up dwell times (potentially?) and with the whole ''risk assessment" I wouldn't be surprised if SWR attempted to let drivers close the doors too at quite a few stations without a dispatch team or the guard's help.
If guards on suburban routes become commercial and check tickets then SWR may stop hiring third party agencies to check tickets who often don't display their lanyard to many peoples annoyance from the tweets I often see about it.
Genuine question, it seems that the TOC just has to give in to the union, what circiumstance would the TOC win, in this case could SWR have ignored the union and trained drivers from other unions on DOO?