Train drivers are going ahead with their protest outside the premiere of a comedy about suicides on the Tube, telling members of the public that the reality is deeply traumatising.
Members of Aslef will hand out leaflets when Three And Out, starring Mackenzie Crook, who played Gareth in The Office, is shown in London's Leicester Square today (April 21).
The film is being advertised in newspapers and at London Underground stations, sometimes on walls right next to the spot where the front of Tube trains stop, which has led to complaints from distressed staff.
On the day that the comedy film Three and Out is premiered, RMT emphasised that every death under a train was the cause of massive anguish to all those involved - drivers, platform staff and the cleaners who have to clean blood and human tissue from trains.
"Drivers unlucky enough to experience the awful reality of a suicide or accidental death under their train are quite rightly offered counselling and help to get them back to work, but there are some who never recover," RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.
"The credibility of this film rests on a Tube driver believing there is a three-and-out policy with massive compensation, which our members know is complete nonsense, so the whole thing is really a bit thin.
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A spokesman for the film said it was disappointed that Aslef had reacted in this way.
"People who see the film will make up their own minds but we feel that by far the majority will see that the difficult issues portrayed in the film have been handled sensitively," he said.
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