https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-45751498
Staff on South Western Railway (SWR) are striking over the role of guards on
trains.
Their union, the RMT, said 88% had voted in favour of the 48-hour walkout,
which began at midnight.
The RMT has held seven walkouts and is calling for a guarantee that guards
will remain on trains and a halt to the "rolling out of driver-only
operation".
SWR said it would run nearly two thirds of regular services on Friday and
about half of its services on Saturday.
RMT staff on Northern will also stage a strike, as part of the same dispute,
on Saturday. Northern said it expects to run about 30% of services.
The union's general secretary Mick Cash said SWR "has continued to fail to
provide any offer that comes close to resolving this dispute and their latest
attempts at delaying talks has left us feeling angry and frustrated".
He called on the firm to "stop playing with words and negotiate the guard
guarantee that reflects the best safety practice elsewhere in the industry".
An SWR spokesperson said: "We continue to call on the RMT to talk to us
rather than strike."
The walkout will affect services to London Waterloo, and passengers face
further disruption in the capital due to a 24-hour Tube strike on the Central
Line.
A further strike on SWR is planned on 15 October, with walkouts also planned
on Northern on 13 and 20 October.
除了倫敦地鐵罷工外
倫敦西南的South West Railway也罷工
一樣是激進派工會RMT惹的禍
他們反對一人駕駛
目前大約可維持2/3服務，週六約1/2
另外北英格蘭的Northern也中獎 現在只能維持30%服務