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Subject: tube strike
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bozzalad 13.04.18 - 12:04pm
Tube drivers on strike in support of a colleague who allegedly ran three red lights.

The 24 hour walkout on the District Line, one of the busiest London Underground lines, was organised by the Aslef Union, and is causing severe delays across the capital.
The action is over the treatment of a new driver, who is said to have passed three red signals in his 11 weeks driving, two of which are said to have been passed 'at danger' within a four-week period.

Some 800,000 Londoners use the service every day
Transport for London said it was 'simply not safe for this employee to continue in a role as a driver' and that he was offered another role.

The transport body added that the driver agreed to these measures before the dispute escalated.

The line, which runs from Upminster in the east, through central London to Ealing Broadway, Richmond and Wimbledon in the west, remained open, but there were huge gaps between trains.

London Underground said: 'There are severe delays throughout the length of the line.'

They should Sack every single person on strike


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ementalm 13.04.18 - 12:05pm
walk or catch a bus or cycle or drive * +

kimjongl 13.04.18 - 12:08pm
Unions are cancer. The quicker automation kills them the better. * +

dodgey 13.04.18 - 12:09pm
Just sack him, if a driver ran 3 traffic lights he would be looking at a ban, let alone a tube driver who has many peoples lives in his hand. * +

ladibud 13.04.18 - 12:14pm
I can't believe they are striking for this... he deserves to be without a job which he isn't. * +

bozzalad 13.04.18 - 12:17pm
On LBC radio this morning, presenter Nick Ferrari confronted Mr Brennan from the union telling him the driver 'is not up to the job.'

The presenter said: 'He spent three days training after the first incident. After the second, he had another five days training. Then another five on stand-down. Then he passed a third SPAD [Signal Passed At Danger].

'I don't wish to speak ill of him because he's not here to defend himself. I'm sure he's a lovely fellow, but he's not up to the job.'


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ogdenz 13.04.18 - 12:19pm
The key word here is ''Allegedly''. * +

bozzalad 13.04.18 - 12:25pm
the key word here is, agreed
or, danger
unions are useless * +

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