Tube Strike (Was: [ANNOUNCE] [SOCIAL] Social at Dirty Dicks, Thursday 6th September)

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
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> I don't understand that "no transfers" bit. Metronet has collapsed; the
> work that was being done by Metronet will be taken over by other
> organizations -- surely the staff would _want_ to be transferred to the
> other organizations, rather than stay with the one that's got no money and
> no work?

I suspect that means that there will continuation of employment at the
existing terms, rather than a rehire. This suggests to me that a
nationalisation in the spirit of Railtrack might happen.