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Originally Posted by klordger1900
If the railways werent safe there would be more accidents.
THATS THE WHOLE POINT!!!!!! At the moment the railways are as safe as we can possibly make them, you now take away 1500 maintance staff and that will create the unsafe system that the RMT are trying to prevent. As a driver I do not want to drive over a sytem that is not aswell maintained as it is at the moment. Its incidents like Grayrigg and Potters Bar that the unions are trying to prevent from happening again. Les
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I completely agree - this has little to do with money, except for the unfortunate 1500 victims of yet another big company doing its utmost to maximise its profits by reducing staffing levels. This sort of thing is exactly WHY there ARE unions; Thatcher did it's utmost to destroy the rights of workers, much as that might have seemed a great idea to many at the time, since there were a huge number of strikes back then. As a result, we've lost most of our UK manufacturers - ask yourself where all our trains come from...
