London tube strike: Rail network brought to a standstill
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2017
- There have been chaotic scenes across parts of the British capital as millions of commuters attempt to get to and from work during a 24-hour tube strike.
The London tube network carries up to 4.8 million passengers a day.
Commuters packed the pavements and overcrowded buses on Monday after tube staff walked out in protest against job cuts and ticket-office closures.
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan has called the strike “unnecessary” and appealed to the unions to return to the negotiating table.
Al Jazeera's Neave Barker reports from London.
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dollars? it's London mate
This looks like one of those days where you stay home.
I work at home, as a software developer. Just need a phone , a high-speed Internet connection, and a laptop and tablet .
these are modern legalized terrorists, if you don't like your job why not quit it ? Why protest and have everyone in the city as hostage ? I'm sure, I'm actually 100000000000% sure that it wont take long to get whole tube staff replaced, London has more than enough people and there wont be any kind of shortage of applicants working for 50k+/y salaries.
yep
If the unions keep pushing strikes for more driver pay, driverless drone trains will be coming real quick. It would be extremely easy to make driverless trains...
But it still need a train captain on board to manually override during emergencies unlike some metro systems in other cities where they can be left unattended.
@@pikachu8508 not really. An indian could easily be employed to control the train remotely from India. How about that?
@@Glass_Nkoaa Yeaaaah and we all can trust an Indian with a Laptop cant we?
@@Glass_Nkoaa so you will then also have to equip tunnels with internet, oh and what if the wireless system breaks down?
@@railwaystuff an Indian would be flown to come and fix it.
"Tory Chancellor George Osborne cut £700 million from the central
government operating grant to Transport for London in November 2015.
Tory Mayor Boris Johnson welcomed the cuts and within six months
abolished 800 Tube jobs, closed ticket offices and the subsequent "new
work practices" introduced under his regime have been so brutal they
have led to a further exodus of staff from the service. The pair of them
have heaped havoc on the Tube. And though Osborne and Johnson are gone
from those offices, their damage is set to continue with another
£1.4billion in cuts due by 2018.
"Put quite simply these level of cuts are not compatible with a
safely run, properly staffed Tube and my members are now highly anxious
about the impact this is having and will continue to have on their
ability to keep you safe. . Our overtime ban of the last month has
demonstrated effectively that there are no longer enough Tube staff
employed employed to keep the networks 270 tube stations open.
"Too many stations are being been left open without staff, CCTV
monitoring which protects against congestion has all but vanished,
evacuation procedures are now insecure and the abolition of ticket
offices have exposed our members to a sharp spike in levels of personal
and physical abuse at work from increasingly frustrated passengers. No
wonder they are fearful at work - there is much for them to be worried
about.
"My members go to work every day proud to serve Londoners, proud to
keep our city's people transported. They are striking today to tell you
that they can no longer transport you as safely as you, or they, would
like and as safely as you were transported this time last year.
"They want safety standards ring-fenced as TfL faces a new round of
cuts in the next year. They want central government to halt the
abolition of the grant that will leave London the only major city in the
world without a public transport subsidy. They need many more than the
200 jobs returned to the Tube if they are to keep 4million commuters a
day travelling safely. And they want me to thank the public for your
solidarity as we fight this battle to preserve your right to
Tube-travel with maximum safety.
"And of course our negotiating team available round the clock for talks with LU to resolve these matters."
TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes
I'm absolutely amazed at how reliant London is on the tube network without it ....it just grinds to a halt!
Pointless? but it happened on your watch and that's the main point..
Tube strikes have been happening under the watch of every mayor since the tubes existed.
The Union always look for a reason to strike. Before they strike because 55k a year is not enough, they get about 43 days annual leave and work 36 hours a week.
Now they strike because of noisy rails. Next they will complain about their uncomfortable drivers sit.
When I was in London for work I saw a lot of drivers put their both hands at the back of their head and both feet up while they operate the train..
You're ignorant. Ever work on railways?
One bus would take ages to reach its destination instead of some few minutes. That produces too much pollution. 1000000 times more than usual. Not to mention that London has already exceeded the limits for poor quality air in this very new year.
Sadiq Khan's father was a bus driver, so he learned early how to throw unions under them. Why not focus on the actual reasons of the strike (2 sentences) than the suffering of folks who don't seem to know or care
Abdul Taha tempting, but if you're not at the bottom of the Thames afterwards then its not really better is it?
Abdul Taha ? I'm not Irish...
Abdul Taha well I never
Automate the trains and fire half of the employees.
That's what they're trying to do, and passenger safety is being put at risk :) yay!
Put passenger safety at risk? Unwise
@@gnnascarfan2410 Letting humans operate trains is putting passenger safety at risk.
"There is no strength in flesh, only weakness"
Very interesting bit.
So pleased that I’m no longer part of that rat-race, now 68, retired on a State Pension, two years from 70.
Ticket worksers are mad that their jobs are being taken away by automation.
Um ... yea ... thats how the world works.
dmonkface the world is moving towards automation. We will have to find a new system. That's all I can say.
6 years pld this video nothing changes does it
Why did the strike happen?
Religion of peace.
+MrJachhonda He didn't say Muslims, he said "religion of peace" so was probably talking about the Buddhists. Not sure why you'd think "religion of peace" referred to the most violent religion
Abdul Taha Lol the two world wars weren't religious wars, take your own advice and read a book (but please not the quran)
I dunno what to say, though i saw my girlfriend suffer trying to get to work in the city was painful.
Am I the only one who is surprised to find out that Al Jazeera's London offices are based in The Shard ?
Indeed, but I would have thought with all the allegations of partiality, they would have tried to downplay the ties. Just a thought, from a PR perspective.
Abdul Taha That may be the case, but Al Jazeera English is fast occupying the media space that once belonged to BBC World Service. Therefore, you could say Al Jazeera as a Network does care about PR.
Abdul Taha yea
fun u sadiq khan for not standing in solidarity with the pli
ght of working men...u r dad a union member rolls in his grave sadiq
The tube workers do not easily give up two days' wages. Their concern is perfectly valid and in the interest of the travelling public.
@nicole the issue is job security cause technology will increase unemployment for them...it makes sense to strike if you not well compensated for such a permanent detrimental change which affects their well being but to strike simply because of technological advancements that are actually inevitable in this era, seems a Lil annoying though valid from an emotional point of view. its sad but if tour in a career or job that can easily be take over by computers or other technologies, then in ten years you would be in big trouble
Judith majesty Everybody will be in big trouble if robots will take over your job, my job. We will have useless government only good for collecting taxes n waging wars to bring other countries to heel since they've already subjugated their own people. I read that even surgical operations n diagnoses will be done by robots. They will be more intelligent than us n more precise, less prone to making mistakes. What's happening in the transport strike is called privitization. In order to make more profits, employers will employ the least number of staff. It can only be good for everybody if we have well staffed services. We must be in solidarity with them. What's going to happen when half the population will have no jobs? It will destroy societies. Will we let politicians continue to put wool over our eyes? Maybe it's time to let go of our love affair with capitalism. Gutted manufacturing jobs, emasculated social and public services, the global financial crisis, banking greed n crimes, We let our governments be the masters, instead of the other way around. We are the taxpayers n we pay their wages. We have become sheeples!
We created the problem by buying the sale of "multiculturalism" & imoporting more people than we create new jobs & build new housing each year. Hence the prices of properties skyrocketed. This enables gov to raise revenue from property taxes & reduce vacant jobs by overflowing demand for work. Of course if we call for a re-think on immigration were nazis, zenophobes, racists, deplorables etc. If we ask for our Employers to hire our own people as opposed to foreigners were every nasty name in the book. The other destructor factor is the unions. We have allowed the unions too much power. When these unions have that much power theyre dangerous as their often lead by incompitent idiots. As they keep forcing wages through the roof and the gov drives up costs with too much immigration & increased property and energy taxes, the companies make reduntant its workers & as the regulations keep coming more & more businesses leave completely or shift its centre of operations overseas. The only way to fix the problem is to Trump it. Remove bogus regulations, lower business taxes, strip unions of power, unleash the mining sector & turn the power plants back on. Get people inspired again. I really hoped Farage would be a British PM he seems like Englands only hope. Australias only hope is Pauline Hanson. Phillipines has Duterte, France hopefully will get Le Penn, Norway hopefully Geert Wilders gets in, Mother Russia has Sir Putin & we definatelly will never forget how corrupt Hillary got Trumped in America... We the people need to vote for our nationalist leaders and Smash the Eatablishment! We can be our own soverign nations & get along nicely & have good deals with each other.
'.... as their often lead by incompitent idiots.' (as THEY ARE/THEY'RE LED by INCOMPETENT idiots). It's a good thing they're not as smart as you Ozzies then isn't it!?!
ban tube strikes
Do it again
U will see more of these strikes