The London Underground (the tube) is closed but buses are running. The thing is that the buses cannot cope with the numbers of people that want to get on because it includes those would normally be travelling by tube.
Normally, bus passengers are forbidden to stand forward of the section reserved for the driver, but not today, when they were crammed everywhere, including into the front of the bus.
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My daughter travels in everyday and my brother once a week. It’s more than a nuisance; and I wonder what the issue is now? Pay, conditions and pensions I suspect.
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I subscribe to LondonCentric, and the writer interviewed an RMT spokesman, who cited fatigue as an issue, saying that workers on London Underground “will typically work a roster where they may do seven shifts where they start at 4.30am in the morning. They’ll then move to middle shifts where you’re working from later in the morning to the afternoon. Then you do really late shifts, where you’re starting late afternoon, finishing at 1 or 2am. And then many people work overnight as well.
We do that on a constant cycle where bank holidays and weekends are considered as normal working days. And it is exhausting. I did it myself for many years, and you’re in a constant sort of brain fog state of fatigue. You never really recover. The only way that you can recover is with more quality time away from the workplace. And that’s what we’re asking for.”
Thanks David. That makes much more sense than the usual headline which always makes it sound as if those on strike are being unreasonable.
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