Dear Mr Crow
For the second successive week our local commuters have been made to pay the price of the very unreasonable demands of some extremist union members with political agendas. At a time of economic decline those people in the Harlow and Epping Forest areas who rely on National Express East Anglia to get to work are being held to ransom thanks to the behaviour of the unions. Sadly many people are feeling the affects of the recession and credit crunch. Many people have lost their jobs. Such is the current situation that the bulk of our workforces are just grateful to be employed. But here we have rail union members taking industrial action which is making life a misery for those people who have to use the mainline service to go about their daily lives.
It is a regrettable situation but there have been many job losses in the country, and much closer to home, and I am sure many of the losses were the result of compulsory redundancies.
That, I am afraid, is the state we find our country in at the moment but there must be better ways, Mr Crow, of managing the situation instead of causing unnecessary suffering to the many people who when able to get to work are helping to pay the wages of union members through ever-increasing ticket prices.
The rail union members whose jobs may be under threat are not a special case. Other professions and trades have seen job losses in recent months, and there could well be more to come.
Any job loss is regrettable but the ongoing industrial action by the rail members will not earn the rail unions any sort of public support.
In fact if people find alternative ways to get to work - with many last week and the week before opting for the car and London Underground instead - there could be another reason soon why rail jobs are being lost.
Yours sincerely
Robert Halfon
Harlow Constituency Conservative Prospective MP
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