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Originally Posted by Dynamo
I don't know what depot you are or were at, but its obviously a lot worse than at Thornaby. The lads there are all pretty happy with the job and have very few gripes with their current management.
I speak to people from all walks of life in lots of different industries, and I find that on the whole, the staff where I work are treated a heck of a sight better than a lot of my friends who work for different companies. I'm not saying its all a bed of roses, but to say DBS/EWS is one of the worst is a gross distortion IMHO.
Another thing to remember is that it was EWS who did the initial restructuring, not DBS. Rumours were abound when DBS took over that the sectors would be for the chop straight away, but instead they let them go for a while, probably to see how the land layed for a while. Fair play to them that they didn't go about things like a bull in a china shop and are doing restructuring in a more subtle way.
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My Deopt is by the by, but I worked with mainly Thornaby drivers on a daily basis.
Knowing the EWS managment at Thornaby its not suprising that many people take this view of the type of management that was in play in EWS.
Two of those people did not get jobs in the reformed mess that was EWS when sectorisation came in.
Look as the way the RMT as a whole were treated by this wonderful Comapany.
total derecognition by with the Partnership Agreement torn up for the groundstaff, with ASLEF making cosy deals with management, and RMT members paying for it with thier jobs.
In all my time on the railway, I have had to put up with DOO, Trainmans Concept, last but not least EWS.
Most of the RMT people had 30 plus years service on the railways and were treated with contempt by this company.
We are all entitled to our opinion, you have your and mine is formed by bitter front line experience of the antics of EWS and what eminated from the Doom Dome.