Bob Crowe is such a *expletive deleted*

[shaunbhoy]

You'd probably have to pay them enough to retire straight away on their current benefits.

Nonsense, just ship in a load of Poles to replace them. At least the trains in Poland are cheap and run on time too.

[sasguru]

Nonsense, just ship in a load of Poles to replace them. At least the trains in Poland are cheap and run on time too.

Plus if something goes wrong with the train or network, the Polish drivers could just nip out and fix the problem.

[sweetandsour]

You'd probably have to pay them enough to retire straight away on their current benefits.

They already get two months paid holiday a year so it wouldn't be such a huge leap to pay them for doing nothing.

Here is an article. It's an old one but I don't expect conditions to have worsened in that time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2002...slaves.careers

[Addanc]

He's doing what he's paid to do, representing the interests of the members of his union.

Hopefully this will result in the tube-trains becoming fully automated.