Bakerloo Branch June Newsletter, issue 2

SOLIDARITY!
RMT, ASLEF, TSSA members defy the bosses

Last Wednesday and Thursday
RMT members caused two days of hell in London. The BBC and the newspapers described the two days of strike action as “chaos”. Only London Underground and Boris Johnson tried to claim this was “service as usual”. But they are liars.
Just look at their own figures for how many trains ran. Below is the actual number of trains run (bold) on all lines during the strike against the total each line would normally run:
Wednesday 10th June
Bakerloo: 10/32
Central: 12/76
Victoria: 10/37
Waterloo & City: 0/5
Jubilee: 20/50
Northern 46/91
Piccadilly: 3/78
Metropolitan: 12/47
Circle: 0/14
Hammersmith & City: 4/16
District: 14/77
Thursday 11 June
Bakerloo: 10/32
Central: 17/76
Victoria: 12/37
Waterloo & City: 0/5
Jubilee: 25/50
Northern 45/91
Piccadilly: 9/78
Metropolitan: 10/47
Circle: 0/14
Hammersmith & City: 4/16
District: 14/77
Meanwhile even though management threw the rule book out of the window to try to keep stations open, most stations like Warwick and Lambeth North were closed, but their flagship interchange stations like Piccadilly and Charing were also shut all day. Respect to station staff. It was GSMs and DSMs who kept stations open. Pickets at Elephant & Castle enjoyed the spectacle of 2 GSMs trying to open the boswick gates on Wedneday morning. How these fools would have coped with a serious safety incident is anyones guess.
You can see from the figures above that the Bakerloo train service was hammered.
Management only succeeded in getting a 10 train shuttle service running in the tube section for some parts of the day. Thanks to those Aslef members who respected our picket lines!
But the ten train service was a shambles akin to “Carry On train operations”. Drivers were bussed down from Queens Park to London Road in the LSM’s own private car; Aslef “strike breakers” were escorted by 2 DMTs from SLH to London Road; track managers had to manually operate the points in the depot. And this is what they call “a good service”?
Aye Right!!!

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