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The looming battle on the Underground
With Tube management seeking to force workers to work harder, for longer and for less, is it any wonder that fed-up Aslef members are likely to deliver a Yes vote for industrial action in the new year, asks MICHAEL CULHANE
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BALLOT papers will be dropping through the letter boxes of Aslef members on London Underground from mid-January.
Despite what the right-wing press will no doubt say, this is not a dispute about pay. The company has been presenting Tube drivers with a series of slides on the changes it wishes to make to conditions and pensions, and Tube drivers will no doubt reject these changes by an overwhelming margin.
There have been several presentations made so far, and two things are clear. First, the company managers are not negotiating with the trade unions. They are showing us slides of what they intend to do and then plan on imposing the changes.
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