Recent content by Confused52

Quite bizarre. The Station status for access says nothing for Euston at present, one would assume work on escalators is over, as promised for during April. However a journey plan just received tells me that I should get a bus from Euston Station to Euston Square, then Metropolitan line to...

A power cut

The National Rail site says "The Published Timetable of the Day will be available no later than 22:00 on the day before the changes happen." So what would be the response if I asked for a copy of the "Published timetable"? I have no confidence that such a document actually exists. It is not...

Of course I have read them, but your interpretation is not as clear as you carefully word it to suggest. They have to inform the DfT and seek authority to incur additional costs but that would be true for any owning group too, so the union should be used to that. It is not the same as forbidding...

Wrong. You need to agree to negotiate, not to accept the starting point. However if your General Secretary says he will not accept a word, as he did, one defends it with the interpretation which you repeated. It is just blame shifting.

Given that the offer required ASLEF to agree to have the talks and they did not do so that is what you would expect. ASLEF want to have full control of what happens and how. I have a very strong suspicion that both sides in this dispute are being economical with the facts and I am now fed up of...

More distraction. The TOCs have contracts which require DFT to agree changes in costs but they are able to negotiate but need the agreement to be signed off. As you confirm ASLEF have not negotiated with the TOCs, the DFT do not employ the staff and the contracts do not require that DFT...

Yes I know they can, I didn't say they couldn't. But what I said is not proved wrong by an attempt at diversion. You have not said that ASLEF has actually tried to negotiate the details which form part of the offer from the RDG. Please answer the question, is there evidence of any negotiation to...

The Government is not the employer, the TOCs (which have chosne to negotiate jointly in part, but not on detailed T&Cs, via the RDG) are the employer. Not talking to the TOCs is what makes it such that ASLEF have not chosen to negotiate, which your response at least confirms. 1711048203 Not...

I recall Mick Whelan stating that he would not agree with a single word of the RDG offer in the Transport Select Committee. The Offer called for TOC by TOC negotiations with the reaching of a settlement, and it did not say that acceptance in full was a precondition - it was stated to be normal...

Why is that? Do they perhaps depend also on Liverpool crews, or crews from elsewhere that are not fully covered?

Only 61 of them are today, the remaining 100 are the usual response from the Western side to it being Sunday!

There is a major difference between ASLEF and the other unions. Only for ASLEF did Mick Whelan say "There is not one line in that deal, from the opening comments to the final full stop, that I could recommend.". He said that on the record , transcript and video available, on Wednesday 11 January...

There is no uncertainty anyway. The ballot paper mentioned agreements which were no doubt about Terms and Conditions. The action proposed is about non-adherence to those agreements which form part of the T&Cs but it isn't about pay per se. It was clearly properly balloted and legal. Your...

I suspect it is the ones which give the union final say on the acceptability of rosters; thereby giving the union effective control of running the railway. No doubt the DfT want to stir up that little hornet's nest.