RMT Reject Insulting Tube Bosses' Assertion That Station Staff Not Good Enough To Drive Trains
Submitted by rmtlondon on 7 November, 2013 - 13:22We note the correspondence from London Underground Ltd, advising that it plans to recruit Train Operators from "the open market" and the Military Redeployment Agency.
We reject LUL's assertion that "the agreed internal processes have been exhausted without success". We believe that the implication that internal applicants, primarily Customer Service Assistants, are not good enough to become drivers is inaccurate and insulting. There are very few promotional opportunities for CSAs; this move further reduces those opportunities.