Tube strike, London

Well I didn't wite the Guiardian article, but as I understand it thee reason the job is so popular is entirely down to the strikes, industrial action has maintained a reasonable salary for those currently employed as well as all future train drivers.....had there been no action, they would be on pitiful wages and we would be desperately short of staff and a decent tube service may not be posssible.....then people would be just as pissed off as they are today.

If there are that many people queueing up for a job as a train driver then the laws of supply and demand dictate that the pay is too high and the conditions too generous.

I wonder just how much better the tube would be, and how much cheaper tickets would be if every penny of tube investment went on the infrastructure instead of inflation-busting pay rises?

Going on strike is a legitimate response if you are being exploited. Doing it because you want a day off to watch the football is cuntishness.