Jobhop Jobhop's blog : Another London Tube Strike Misery
I never planned to chat about the Tube strike but just before the last one on 9th July Jamie Wareham from audioboom contacted me and asked me if he could use one of our space-hoppers to travel into work on, which got me thinking about tube train strikes and the unions.
Unions say they give the worker a voice in the work place but surely organisations today realise that everyone should have a voice and they shouldn’t have to pay into a “club” to have a voice. Unions say that without them management can exploit the workers! We have to ask the question... why would management exploit workers? We know that by looking after employees the results are engagement, loyalty and better productivity. Perhaps the root cause of all of this is the culture, the culture of the organisation needs looking at.
In the meantime the tube train drivers are striking again because there’s change on the horizon, a partial 24hour service is to be introduced, but the constant bickering hasn’t resulted in any solutions!
Because there’s still no solution London is doomed to become miserable again as commuters try to get to and from work somehow.
The last tube strike cost London £300m, it stopped people getting to their jobs, their presentations, their meetings and many didn’t get home to see their families before bed time. Surely every tube train driver feels slightly embarrassed by the misery there is in London without the trains running. The train drivers who have called into the radio stations to defend themselves all say it isn’t about the money, one train driver said he gets too much money! So if it’s not about the money it must be the poor culture and the reluctance to change. It’s a change in how people work, it doesn’t just affect the tube trains, 50% of people using the London night bus are working people, they need a 24 hr service, it’s just how the world is now. If the tube train drivers don’t embrace change quickly then some clever person is going to realise very soon that speeding up the replacement of drivers with robots will save few £300 million losses. We will then be saying goodbye to the drivers and the Unions!
Harriet from audioboom borrowing the space hopper to sit on whilst she ate her choc ice!
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