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Old 25th June 2008, 05:10 AM   #16 (permalink)
Roland Perry
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Default Catering on CrossCountry trains

In message <4861c134$0$78072$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>, at 04:53:31 on
Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Dave Hillam <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> remarked:
>>Unfortunately, the RMT doesn't understand the word 'process'. They are
>>completely inflexible, insisting that their 'rest process' only starts
>>in the rest room for an agreed period before their members can 'clock
>>on' again.

>
>Well, quite. Staff should be instructed to start their meal break as
>soon as they step off the train, while walking down the platform.
>Indeed, any who fail to break into a quick trot should be lined up and
>shot as agents of Bob Crow.


That was not my proposition, which preserved the length of the rest
period wherever it is they have their official rest. The walking to and
fro would still be at the TOC's expense, sorry, customer's expense.
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