'I HAVE been a train-driver's wife for forty-two years. My life like my husband's has been ruled by the railway timetable - and what a timetable!
'Over the years I've got used to it — not flushing the toilet if he's sleeping in the day, vacuuming at night, eating Christmas dinners by myself, pleading with the neighbours to turn the television down.
'There's just no room in our lives for any more "flexibility". Our lives just wouldn't be worth living.' British Rail screams about the rail union's disregard for the poor satety crime! total rostering. crease the number of shift starting times in the same week; daily shifts of 7-9 hours instead of the standard 8 hours; widely ranging weekly working hours of between less regular free Saturdays which could end up working 10 in a row.
Flexible rostering means bad health, disrupted social lives, lack passengers workers; loss of jobs - up to 45 per cent. Flexible rostering is a It is just one example of the measures proposed in every industry to increase productivity and profits at workers' expense. The British Rail bosses complain that ASLEF is questioning their right to manage the industry as the Board see fit. They demand submission flexible ASLEF told British Rail that