Do you support the RMT?

Semper aggressus said:
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.
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When you getting your job application in?
Let me know how you get on.
 
TinFoilHat said:
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.
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Tories took away the legal right to strike on behalf of other workers.
 
Semper aggressus said:
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.
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Market forces. Privatisation meant different companies competing for the same drivers whose wages had effectively been suppressed under British Rail.

It's now a seller's market for drivers selling their labour. Keep wages down, you perpetuate driver shortages and train cancellations.

And not everyone fancies a job with 4 a.m. starts.
 
Semper aggressus said:
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.
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Because

1. You have to be trained how to drive the train (they're not all the same)
2. Then you have to be trained on the track you will travel.
3. Then you have to learn all the signs .



Just a benefit of privatisation . Now if the state owned it and had all the trains the same (within reason ) oh wait.......
 
Ifwecouldjust....... said:
Because

1. You have to be trained how to drive the train (they're not all the same)
2. Then you have to be trained on the track you will travel.
3. Then you have to learn all the signs .



Just a benefit of privatisation . Now if the state owned it and had all the trains the same (within reason ) oh wait.......
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You mean like

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