Do you support the RMT?

Nellies left peg said:
People in the private sector suffer just as much if not more than the public sector. No sick pay and can’t remember the last time I had a pay rise and told if you don’t like it fuck off someone else will do the job . Managers in every sector now has a total lack of respect for their workforce. Royal Mail will go out of business at this rate and nobody will give a shit, our post ends up in every house on the estate bar ours,it’s not rocket science reading a fucking envelope surely?
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Sick pay is a statutory entitlement in all sectors in the U.K.
 
inbetween said:
I think they should just give the pay-rises and increase ticket prices by 10% to pay for it.

They'll soon see where public perception truly lies on this failing system.
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In the last decade - up until the start of this inflationary crisis - railway workers take home pay was about 22% above inflation for the same period (based on a train dispatcher starting basic salary of £17,500 in 2011 and £23,825 today, accounting for increases in tax thresholds…ignores overtime etc). Right now it’s about 7%. By comparison over the same period nurses take home pay was about 2% lower and is now about 14% lower (based on top of band 5 pay).

7% seems a fair demand from the RMT
20% seems a fair demand from the RCN - however eye watering that figure looks.
 
Vic said:
I thought that was government policy.

The issue is that in hospitals, care homes, transport, someone else will not do the job at these pay rates.

(Are all the people in the private sector who haven't had a pay rise all on this thread? As the stats say private sector pay rates are 6% up.)
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Really? Not at the lower end of the scale.private sector pay rises are probably for the bankers and high end managers and average out at 6%
 
metalblue said:
It depends how you define waste really. £29.65bn of that £30bn was money largely pushed back into the economy through employment, testing and renting of sites/equipment - so the money was redistributed to a degree...
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Do you use the same argument for pay rises?
 
metalblue said:
In the last decade - up until the start of this inflationary crisis - railway workers take home pay was about 22% above inflation for the same period (based on a train dispatcher starting basic salary of £17,500 in 2011 and £23,825 today...
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Source?
 
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