How anybody can support this strike is beyond me! It's disgusting and completely unjustified when you compare it to what people in the NHS/ Armed Forces / Emergency Services have to put up with, and what they get in return.

They should have joined a union.

What a load of complete crap!

Why?

Or they should leave their jobs and apply to be a tube driver, if it's so ing brilliant.

Because they've chosen to do something worthwhile in their lives by choosing to help provide a vital service to the people within their country. By doing so they have clearly wavered their right to a union, I get that, but what they don't want to see is overpaid & underworked prats (who basically push a lever back and forth all day) deciding that their fat wedge salary isn't enough, so they're going to make other peoples lives a misery in the process. It's pathetic. And the attitude from people like you i.e. "should have joined a union" (which is thankfully a minority!) is infuriating to those that sacrifice a great deal more than what they are actually paid to do.

The problem with applying to be a tube driver is that the unions have held tfl to ransom so much that tfl aren't allowed to advertise externally for tube drivers unless they prove that they can't find a suitable candidate internally. Basically the union have them by the short and curlys!

Well said that man.

You're either a wind up merchant or a f8cking idiot.
push a lever backand forth. tell that to the poor c*nt who was blown up in the 7/7 attacks and the drivers who risk terrorist attacks every day in London. Or the poor sods who have to deal with people regularly throwing themselves in front of the trains.
47,000 in London wont get you a mortgage on a shed.
You should educate yourself and not believe everything in the media. Striking is people's right to protect themselves from exploitation. If my colleagues inthe NHs did it more we might save what's left of the NHS. Then everyone would stop moaning about how sh#t it is and maybe notice most of the problems are down to privatisation.
Hope they strike on the 29th and then you can walk and then maybe you'll appreciate them. I 'll be in London for the final and will supprt them whatever they decide.
Go educate yourself you oaf.

Looks like the strike might be off, London Transport have postponed the night shift start.

I was going to reply to the working class who have been brain washed by the sun and daily mail but Burtons forearm has summed it up perfectly.

To say they risk terrorist attacks everyday is just stupid they are at risk as much as anyone else in London sounds like you want us to go back to the 70s were strikes solved nothing in the end I was in a union for 10 years and when it came for them actually having to do something they were useless never again would I waste my time with these crooks I also remember my dad who was a docker coming out for a month in support of the miners and the only person who came out of that well was scargill with his nice new house

47k may not be enough to mortgage a shed but should tube drivers really be getting more than doctors who work in excess of 50 hours per week with no overtime payments? Should they get more time off than Nurses who have to deal with the Sh*t they do day in day out? Should they get more on top of the 47k basic for doing night shifts? Should they get 30k more per year than an infantry soldier who is fighting for his country?

If your answer to any of these questions is yes then you are what is wrong with this country. I believe that any employee should be able to strike to get what they deserve. Tube drivers currently get more than they deserve and are a set of greedy <insert expletive>. By all means, strike for better safety at work but striking because they now have to work that bit harder (even though they still wont work as hard as Doctors/Nurses/Policemen/firemen/Soldier) for their money is ridiculous.

What a load of crap you spout I was in the union for 50 yrs yes 50 and i was also a shop steward and can tell you if it was not for a union we would not have the hols or pay we have now i can tell you you would not be working a 5 day week on good money you would be working 6 days or more,sure some unions have gone over the top but with out them you would be going to work all hours and on a bike with string round your coat and if it was left to this bunch the zero hours would be for every person going except them, if Maggie Thacher had her way when she was alive thats what would have happened, and the idiot in charge now will do the same if not stopped but i do not say they should get more then doctors or nurses they should of course get more but every person from a street cleaner to a top doctor should try to better their selves you are

I didn't realise that there was a salary threshold whereby if you're over it, you have no right to strike. New one on me that.

Londoners don't support the strike? Well I never. The self-serving commuters that will be directly effected by the strike don't like it, I can't believe it.

Some horrendous, crass, jealous comments on here. I only popped on to see if there was any news on the strikes, or other options anyone had found as I'm heading down on Friday morning.