Do you support the RMT?

[TinFoilHat]

Aslef will not be calling off the strikes until the govt allows the RDG to let Aslef negotiate with each individual Train Operating Company. Aslef has not ever wanted a blanket deal for all drivers because each TOC has different terms and conditions.

Thanks for the info.

Next week will be fun.

 

[Vic]

some pay deals being struck at the moment - makes me think a GE will be sooner rather than later. Still reckon @ March as its half term and a lot of students will have gone back to parents thus some younger votes may not be cast and we know what the young voter thinks of this lot

Register in both places, and choose postal vote in the more marginal constituency - which may be the ones with a 25,000 Tory majority!

(It's what the aristos will be doing with their several houses.)

 

[TinFoilHat]

 

[Semper aggressus]

Why do train drivers feel they deserve more than twice the national average wage? Is it that difficult a job or requires a masters degree or anything? How is about 60k a year not enough? Aren’t easyJet pilots on about 60k, surely that’s a more demanding and intense job? If train drivers get over 60k imagine what nurses should be earning.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Why do train drivers feel they deserve more than twice the national average wage? Is it that difficult a job or requires a masters degree or anything? How is about 60k a year not enough? Aren’t easyJet pilots on about 60k, surely that’s a more demanding and intense job? If train drivers get over 60k imagine what nurses should be earning.

You've been reading the Daily Mail haven't you.

Would you agree to a huge pay cut, longer hours and set rest day pattern obliterated for 'business flexibility'?

The DFT think that a drivers and all that comes with it is worth £29,000 max.

29 grand to drive, learn routes right down to the sleepers, level crossings,bridges,tunnels, controlling signal boxes, basic maintenance, maintaining on train safety.

The media won't report that as "greedy bastard workers."


Maximising profits over passengers safety and employee workers rights is the DFT goal.

The RMT dispute isn't over either. I fully expect it all to start again in April.

A change of government in May might change that but I doubt it.

 

[Semper aggressus]

You've been reading the Daily Mail haven't you.

Would you agree to a huge pay cut, longer hours and set rest day pattern obliterated for 'business flexibility'?

The DFT think that a drivers and all that comes with it is worth £29,000 max.

29 grand to drive, learn routes right down to the sleepers, level crossings,bridges,tunnels, controlling signal boxes, basic maintenance, maintaining on train safety.

The media won't report that as "greedy bastard workers."


Maximising profits over passengers safety and employee workers rights is the DFT goal.

The RMT dispute isn't over either. I fully expect it all to start again in April.

A change of government in May might change that but I doubt it.

I never read the Mail, just my own observations based on what other seemingly more difficult professions earn. Admittedly with little understanding of what it involves driving a train, but it seems odd having parity with pilots and more than being a copper or nurse with all the shit, abuse and pressure they face.

 

[Zubrman]

The Aslef ballot results are out. Average 75% respondents and 91% in favour of strikes.

 

[The blue phantom]

Why do train drivers feel they deserve more than twice the national average wage? Is it that difficult a job or requires a masters degree or anything? How is about 60k a year not enough? Aren’t easyJet pilots on about 60k, surely that’s a more demanding and intense job? If train drivers get over 60k imagine what nurses should be earning.

There's tradesman out there earning more than £60'000 so I've no problem with Train Drivers earning what they do.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I never read the Mail, just my own observations based on what other seemingly more difficult professions earn. Admittedly with little understanding of what it involves driving a train, but it seems odd having parity with pilots and more than being a copper or nurse with all the shit, abuse and pressure they face.

Every single picket line I've stood on someone gives me this question.

"What about the nurses?!" Etc as some sort of perverse emotional blackmailing for striking.

I agree all emergency services and NHS workers should be on more money. They have to collectively organise to do so.

They are fucked between taken advantage of for doing their roles and standing up for their true worth.

If they all down tools on the same day. The right wing media would shame them into working. Yet I bet you only one day of action they'd get a better deal for themselves.

I'm lucky to what I would say is the best organised union sector in the country.

 

[Zubrman]

Every single picket line I've stood on someone gives me this question.

"What about the nurses?!" Etc as some sort of perverse emotional blackmailing for striking.

I agree all emergency services and NHS workers should be on more money. They have to collectively organise to do so.

They are fucked between taken advantage of for doing their roles and standing up for their true worth.

If they all down tools on the same day. The right wing media would shame them into working. Yet I bet you only one day of action they'd get a better deal for themselves.

I'm lucky to what I would say is the best organised union sector in the country.

And this fucking government is trying to take away our fundamental right to strike with this 'Minimum Service Level' bollocks. We must get these cunts out of parliament next election!