GLA Condemns Unsafe Staffing Levels Shocker

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News from the Ministry of Stating the Obvious, Department of Saying One Thing But Doing Another. The Greater London Authority’s Transport Committee has revealed that passengers are not very safe on stations that do not have enough staff on duty.

The report concentrates on National Rail stations in London, and rightly points out that the fragmentation of the railway caused by privatisation and franchising is largely to blame.

But the same basic principle – you need staff to keep passengers safe – applies to the Underground too. Which makes you wonder why the same GLA that produced this report has been happy to see staffing levels cut at Tube stations. Let’s think … Keeping staff levels while cutting the working week would cost money? Bashing Tube workers and our unions is more important than passenger safety? Politicians are hypocrites?

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