Skymonster
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- 7 Feb 2012
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Staff are - they are not working in the same numbers as they have in the past. It really doesn’t matter what the union says - it’s just because it’s the railway, and the staff know there are no long term consequences in refusing to work even if that means huge numbers of paying customers are inconvenienced or even don‘t use the railway. If it was true private industry staff would work because they would know the consequence would be massive risk to the viability of the business (and staff jobs).I'm expecting the usual vitriol from the public on how staff are lazy etc, now that XC have tweeted "Due to train crew availability"
Thats good: with, in XC’s admission, it is till running its current timetable and cancelling services there will be no reason to deny delay repay for customers already ready booked affected services.We shall continue to run our current timetables, although it will be necessary to cancel some services…"