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    ORR P-Code data releases.

    The National Rail site says "The Published Timetable of the Day will be available no later than 22:00 on the day before the changes happen." So what would be the response if I asked for a copy of the "Published timetable"? I have no confidence that such a document actually exists. It is not...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    Of course I have read them, but your interpretation is not as clear as you carefully word it to suggest. They have to inform the DfT and seek authority to incur additional costs but that would be true for any owning group too, so the union should be used to that. It is not the same as forbidding...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    Wrong. You need to agree to negotiate, not to accept the starting point. However if your General Secretary says he will not accept a word, as he did, one defends it with the interpretation which you repeated. It is just blame shifting.
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    Given that the offer required ASLEF to agree to have the talks and they did not do so that is what you would expect. ASLEF want to have full control of what happens and how. I have a very strong suspicion that both sides in this dispute are being economical with the facts and I am now fed up of...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    More distraction. The TOCs have contracts which require DFT to agree changes in costs but they are able to negotiate but need the agreement to be signed off. As you confirm ASLEF have not negotiated with the TOCs, the DFT do not employ the staff and the contracts do not require that DFT...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    Yes I know they can, I didn't say they couldn't. But what I said is not proved wrong by an attempt at diversion. You have not said that ASLEF has actually tried to negotiate the details which form part of the offer from the RDG. Please answer the question, is there evidence of any negotiation to...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    The Government is not the employer, the TOCs (which have chosne to negotiate jointly in part, but not on detailed T&Cs, via the RDG) are the employer. Not talking to the TOCs is what makes it such that ASLEF have not chosen to negotiate, which your response at least confirms. 1711048203 Not...
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    ASLEF strikes 5th-8th April weekend

    I recall Mick Whelan stating that he would not agree with a single word of the RDG offer in the Transport Select Committee. The Offer called for TOC by TOC negotiations with the reaching of a settlement, and it did not say that acceptance in full was a precondition - it was stated to be normal...
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    Northern Cancellations Sat 16/03

    Why is that? Do they perhaps depend also on Liverpool crews, or crews from elsewhere that are not fully covered?
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    Northern Cancellations Sat 16/03

    Only 61 of them are today, the remaining 100 are the usual response from the Western side to it being Sunday!
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    ASLEF Strike LNER & Northern 1st March

    There is a major difference between ASLEF and the other unions. Only for ASLEF did Mick Whelan say "There is not one line in that deal, from the opening comments to the final full stop, that I could recommend.". He said that on the record , transcript and video available, on Wednesday 11 January...
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    ASLEF Strike LNER & Northern 1st March

    There is no uncertainty anyway. The ballot paper mentioned agreements which were no doubt about Terms and Conditions. The action proposed is about non-adherence to those agreements which form part of the T&Cs but it isn't about pay per se. It was clearly properly balloted and legal. Your...
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    ASLEF Strike LNER & Northern 1st March

    I suspect it is the ones which give the union final say on the acceptability of rosters; thereby giving the union effective control of running the railway. No doubt the DfT want to stir up that little hornet's nest.
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    Birmingham PSB Virtual Tour

    I had the very same thought!
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    Northern Ad hoc cancellations

    North West guards are. Others do not have the same unfettered ability to inconvenience customers just for the sake of it.
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    Northern Ad hoc cancellations

    Indeed and only visible on the National Rail site. It seems that this is because it is the last service, one wonders what the cut-off time is for this level of care?
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    Northern Ad hoc cancellations

    I think you can guess! The service and its inbound were both cancelled on Friday at 1630 ish. The previous service on that unit diagram all ran to and from Buxton. Northern just couldn't find a volunteer at Piccadilly on Friday. We are past the holidays excuse now.
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    So the DfT would not remove the contracts but just reduce the payments and leave the contracts as a punishment! Like Arriva!!
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    No, it will be the timetable for the relevant as it was specified before the 7 days notice required in the work notice, so essentially LTP. However I would expect planners to deal with changes that they know were going to be made as STP by putting them in the 60%. The information in the...
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    Minimum Service Levels Bill receives Royal Assent

    Consider Article 7 of Chapter 4.2 of the National Rail Contract, entitled Obligation to use “all reasonable endeavours” under Chapter 4.2. You will find the same formulation under Obligation to use “all reasonable endeavours” under Schedule 1.2 of the Service Contract with the OLR subsidiaries...

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