Do you support the RMT?

metalblue said:
The RMT has confirmed it will enter pay talks next week with the Department for Transport, which will negotiate on behalf of the train operating companies. It will also have talks with Network Rail.

Under the terms of a deal brokered last November, RMT members, such as train guards, were offered a backdated 5% rise for 2022/23, the same as that offered to Aslef members under their three-year deal.

The RMT deal said a 2023/24 pay offer would depend on formal negotiations with individual train companies on working conditions.

It is understood the agreement included a commitment to negotiate reforms at a local level for an expected 4% rise this year.

That amount would be below the 4.75% offered to Aslef drivers for that year as part of the deal to settle their dispute. Drivers have also been offered 4.5% for this year, which would take the average driver salary to around £68,000.

Mr Lynch told the Times: "All the indications are that we will be offered the same terms as Aslef. And we are expecting that it will be delivered."


www.bbc.co.uk

We want same pay award as drivers, says RMT boss Mick Lynch

The Conservatives say Labour has been "played" by the unions and lost control of public sector pay.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Was t just about pay though was it, how have the got on with the other stuff they were asking for?
 
TinFoilHat said:
The LNER strike has fuck all to do with pay.

It's to do with a bullying high up manager who's dictating, threating staff and ignoring agreed contractual rights because they are anti union.
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So what's the strike for?
 
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TinFoilHat said:
The LNER strike has fuck all to do with pay.

It's to do with a bullying high up manager who's dictating, threating staff and ignoring agreed contractual rights because they are anti union.
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I think they’re right, especially when it comes to exposing the chronic staffing levels of drivers and the assumption that they’ll work their days of. They nominally run a train to and from both Lincoln and Harrogate everyday and, almost every single day, they’re both cancelled. They start ‘Edinburgh to London’ trains, from Newcastle, York or Doncaster at least once a day.
Even though they know there is a driver shortfall, they refuse to alter the timetable which would at least give passengers some certainty.
Where I disagree is the timing of this. Get round the table with the new minister and see if it can be resolved. I’m sure there will be a new management team put on place sooner or later and giving the new government a chance might have been a wiser course of action?
 
Brewster's millions said:
Are they really going on strike because of one person?
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The unions have played the Labour government like a fiddle. When you offer a ‘no-strings’ deal, it’s not a negotiation, it’s a capitulation. Only a fool does that, and the unions know it. With the new pay increases the train drivers don’t want and don’t need to work Saturdays. The new strikes very conveniently solve that problem. Embarrassing to say the least for Labour.
 
PPT said:
The unions have played the Labour government like a fiddle. When you offer a ‘no-strings’ deal, it’s not a negotiation, it’s a capitulation. Only a fool does that, and the unions know it. With the new pay increases the train drivers don’t want and don’t need to work Saturdays. The new strikes very conveniently solve that problem. Embarrassing to say the least for Labour.
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Do you work for the Daily Heil or Talk TV? That's the kind of bollocks I'd expect them to come out with.
 
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