causing untold misery for all who have to use them for daily work routes and daily routines

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yes im fully aware of the dates they have chosen - thanks for reminding me that my journey will be hell on them days - oh and thanks to the tube unions for giving me the opportunity in having 3 days of hell

I wonder what the practical way forward is given the RMT isn't going to change its culture.
Options seem to be, 1) Give up on introducing night time tube or 2) do a President Reagan with the US traffic controllers in early 80's - sack the lot and rehire on a non unionised basis. The only trouble with the latter is you will have months of disruption before it (hopefully) gets better.

As an ex union member, i dont believe that sacking them all and re-hiring as non-union people is really an option, however i also dont believe that they can hold the country to ransom and cause mass disrupution - not really sure what the answer is

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Ha ha - nice one - good news is that they plan to meet on friday with tfl

Foresthillier, interested to hear your take on Mick Cash etc and if you feel they have a genuine grievance.

Where have i Said im taking on Mick Cash ?

What are the moaning about as have TFL not said they will employ more people to cover the night tube, or have I read it all wrong

not that you're / you are taking on Mick Cash

Ah! A grammar pedant. I think we are all aware of the content of my question regardless of my spelling. Do you stop youngsters on the tube or bus and tell them it's "ask" not "arx"?

My fault as I didnt read the post correctly - hopefully I will be able to work from home

Ligersaur, my apologies. My post was uncalled for. I really do need to learn how to spell properly.

Londondrz - wind your neck in, as we say in Belfast. Re-read the last few posts and you'll see that: a) no one was correcting your grammar or spelling as it was fine, and b) misreading 'your' for 'you're' in this case did in fact lead to a misinterpretation of your post.

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RSH, please read the post above your latest one.

Indeed - cross-posted. But I left it because it wasn't clear if you realised your spelling was perfectly correct.

Ah, fair enough. As our American cousins say "no harm, no foul"

Careful, we don't want to get bumped off to the English Usage thread.

I understand that Boris is hiring new staff to work at night on the24 hour tube. Therefore, here will be no problem for the existing workers. Apparently, there is a great deal of interest in being a tube driver. There have been 6,000 applications.