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Isn't one of the justifications for railway staff being paid better than others especially Drivers and Conductors. The fact that they work shifts with alternating patterns? If they bought in permanent Earlies, Lates and Nights would you be willing to have an adjustment in pay/pay freeze/smaller...

Were the staff balloted at the time, did the RMT and guards argue against potentially unsafe working practices. As I said it smacks very much of I am alright jack from the point of view of the guards

Yes I was referring to Guards. However I apologise that was a petty term to use. Station's such as Worthing, Hove, Lewes and Eastbourne lost platform staff in favour of guard only despatch. At certain stations I cannot see how this was deemed safe. It smacks of a case that the guards jobs'...

I was referring to the decimation of platform staff on the coastway east and west routes about 10 years ago. How many strikes took place for those jobs?

Despatch staff were got rid of at a number of Southern stations a while ago. The union did nothing because it wasn't their little darlings' jobs' on the line.

RMT's intrasigent position has been their downfall in my opinion. They could have got round the table with GTR and ASLEF to discuss a way forward before this dispute even started. Sorry but you can't guarantee a job for life in this day. Please don't say about joining the race to the bottom. A...

No because of the hypocrisy of the sexism movement. If someone that looked like Rab C Nesbitt wanted to come in the woman only carriage the door would stay firmly shut, whereas the bloke from the diet coke add the door would be open before he got to it

Is standing by 'no matter what happens' a sensible attitude to have?

If the only change to terms and conditions attached to the pay deal related to DOO do you think it would have still been rejected? Haven't Thameslink already accepted a similar deal which includes DOO along coastway routes and arun valley driving trains that won't even have an OBS let alone a...

I think it is important not to lose sight of the main reason for this dispute. The government want to annihalate the RMT well the railway side of it at least and greatly weaken the power that ASLEF have. The RMT want anyone that becomes a guard to be guaranteed a job for life. ASLEF want their...

Yes good point about TVM's maybe something for the future. Re Validation process perhaps a booking portal via the RDG website and or TOC internal sites could be an option

I expect it has been discussed in the past. But what do people think about Priv rates being available online or via TVM's

Why do 700s have GOP complete with door open and close function and signal bells. Seems a waste of money if DOO is going to be the be all and end all.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/southern-offers-drivers-75000-in-lastditch-bid-to-settle-dispute-a3566551.html Also Standard clap trap as well it would seem :roll:

In the areas one could argue have been most affected by the dispute. The majority of Tory MPs that retained their seats still have very healthy majorities. I refer to those who represent people living along the Coastway West and East Routes and those who live on the East Grinstead and Uckfield...

Does the fact very few if any Tory MPs in areas Southern trains run through lost their seat. Show that the railway is very low down on most people's agenda? Or does it show that the Government/DFT did a very good job of distancing themselves from the dispute?

What about the Thameslink services that are going to be on these routes? If ASLEF say Southern Trains must have an OBS on "branch lines" The dft are surely going to say "hang on a minute" if they agree that Thameslink trains can run without an additional member of staff

'Where DCO is proposed, the Department would require the Franchisee to undertake appropriate consultation (with passengers and the workforce) including about supporting the continual development and expansion of the professional skills of on- train staff, in particular in relation...

'Where DCO is proposed, the Department would require the Franchisee to undertake appropriate consultation (with passengers and the workforce) including about supporting the continual development and expansion of the professional skills of on- train staff, in particular in relation...

You are forgetting the drivers are yet to say yay or nay to the latest proposals.