Now is the summer of our discontent - ASLEF District Organiser Finn Brennan and committee member Terry Wilkinson give a union view of the recent dispute over the introduction of the Night Tube on London Underground. “Long-serving directors and senior managers in employee relations have left and it is no longer clear to anyone just who is in charge or who can make an agreement”.
“Perhaps it’s because of the lack of a railway background among the senior managers at London Underground that they do not understand that our members will never be prepared to be treated like this. Or, of course, it may be that the Mayor of London wants to demonstrate how tough he is. Either way, they have badly misjudged the situation and risk scuppering the Night Tube in London and destroying all the good work that has been done in the recent past to improve industrial relations”. - PP
We read it in: ASLEF journal, July 2015, page 12
