It's time to close down London Underground and sack all employees who are not prepared to give up their right to strike. Start recruiting and training new staff. Most existing staff will want to retain their jobs so there will be minimal job losses. Within a few months we could then have a new Underground service, run the way TFL want to run it.
It's a short term sacrifice for a long term solution. Goodness knows how we'll get to work in the meantime, but it will solve future problems.

Vonschnitzel, London,

Why do people always think of themselves.
Look into the arguments they have and see the possible effect it could have on the safety of us tube users. Think about the effect on the tourists and the feed back they will give their fellow counrtymen about the way England can't organise anything.
There should be a better way than striking but what is the option if the people in charge have no idea about the basic running of the tube network and are only interested in making cost cuts to boost their bonuses and not worring about the effect on the pressures of the tube staff and the tube users.
Whoever commented about the drivers is obviously up on the situation......... wake up it's not about them its about station staff and our safety.

Anon, London, England

They don't have to strike, if you don't like your job then do what the rest of us do - get a new one! At £40k a year it isn't going to be hard to replace them. How hard can it be to hold a lever all day? Perhaps we can borrow some chimps from London Zoo then everyone will be happy. Commuters get a civil service, monkeys get a time off and the chimps get some stimulus.

Matt, London,

If you abuse the right to strike you should lose the right to strike. Let's hope Boris Johnson wins the London Mayoral election and "removes the RMT thumb from the London Commuters windpipe".

We need legislation to ban strikes on the London Underground and have compulsory - and fair - arbitration in disputes.

Any chance of transporting Bob Crow back to the 1970's in Life on Mars?

Paul Canal, London,

If Gerry Doherty means what he says then I suggest a virtual strike (VS) might give the TSSA more support than the proposed strike which costs London an estimatted £50M a day. VS would work as follows: TFL would donate its profits to charity, and Tube strikers would lose their wages. Tube strikers could wear a white bow on their sleeves to demonstrate their participation. Meanwhile the rest of London can get on with our lives. By the way, this VS has been used in Italy by their transport union.

Matthew Stickley, London, England

RMT and Bob Crow, we the traveling public don't believe your overused safety manta, its nothing but a cover for you extorting increased wages and even shorter work hours from the helpless commuters.

"a driver working in the London area [is on a] basic salary before overtime of £40,447 for a 37-hour, 4.4-day week."
- It must be such a hard life for your drivers.

Gavin, London, UK

For crying out loud, NO!

This sort of thing is so counter-productive yet it seems to be the decision of choice for lazy, over-payed TFL employees and their out-dated yet-scarily-effective union 'leaders.'

Is it really so wrong to want all union leaders to be carted off in a slow, over-crowded tube train and taken away from this country for good?

Hmm, I may have over-reacted here.

Matt, London,

ahhh, are those nasty subcontractors wearing the same clothes as you?! Grow up Bob Crow.

Tom Peterson, London,

Just another day in London, nothing new.

Martin , Londonabad,

Coincidence that the strike starts on the same evening as the Olympic torch relay for Beijing passes through London? Absolutely not. I have lost any remaining respect for the RMT. They could strike at any other time but of course they have to get the clout behind thier striking and punish all the Londoners that wish to go and see something very special. The RMT may very well be justified to strike about thier cause, I am not at liberty to decide, but it is completely unfair and downright spiteful to stop myself and my friends going to see the Olympic Relay. Boo!

tom, london, england

Toughen up and work! They should all be fired and get some people in who will work for less, work harder and not do something so selfish to make themselves feel special for their 19k a year! I am angry and so will the million other people who are effected. Its not like the strike is going to do anything to remedy the saftey issues anyway, I guess we should say enjoy your 3 day unpaid holiday and the wrath of every tube commuter. No wonder people treat transport workers with such distain.

Nim, London, UK

Isn’t it about time we removed the right to strike from tube workers?

Time after time they strike with no reason and I for one am tired of being held to ransom by these people.

Travelling in London is bad enough already, without this every few months. It is not like there is an alternative service we can use to protest.

Luke, London,