Yes, because that's not putting words in my mouth is it? What I'm in fact saying is that overtime should, in any well run business, be the exception rather than the rule surely? I'm not saying they should cut all overtime, that would be ludicrous. I'm in fact saying that they should have staff...
But the disruption hasn't been from strikes has it? Southern have built a system that relies entirely on overtime from workers to run, and then (depending on what you believe) either they stopped workers working overtime if they'd been on strike or workers stopped working overtime. Either way...
Whether you agree with the strikers or not, it's obvious that the disruption from this strike is the union's fault. Which is not to say that striking is wrong, but they felt backed into a corner and took the only action they saw available to them. The overall disruption to the service for the...