Next Rail Strikes Announced.

The clear shortage of train drivers implies they are not paid enough. Simple supply and demand which in other areas - say rentals - Tories say is both good and inevitable.

Alternatively, the shortage of train drivers is due to the train companies being too tight-arsed to employ sufficient of them, or to pay for their training.

Tories want to suspend the laws of supply and demand when they benefit working people, but not in any other situation. Fancy that!
 
BrianW said:
The clear shortage of train drivers implies they are not paid enough. Simple supply and demand which in other areas - say rentals - Tories say is both good and inevitable.

Alternatively, the shortage of train drivers is due to the train companies being too tight-arsed to employ sufficient of them, or to pay for their training.

Tories want to suspend the laws of supply and demand when they benefit working people, but not in any other situation. Fancy that!
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Train Operating Companies do pay for training, (not a lot, but increases when qualified.) But the much lauded 'Offer on the Table' that Harper keeps referring to, (that wasn't asked for and is totally risible,) contains stipulations that would have had to have been agreed; one of which was that trainees would have to pay for their own training, like pilots or HGV drivers.

So even fewer people stepping up to fill the vacancies that all companies have. Great idea.
 
BrianW said:
The clear shortage of train drivers implies they are not paid enough. Simple supply and demand which in other areas - say rentals - Tories say is both good and inevitable.

Alternatively, the shortage of train drivers is due to the train companies being too tight-arsed to employ sufficient of them, or to pay for their training.

Tories want to suspend the laws of supply and demand when they benefit working people, but not in any other situation. Fancy that!
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Some Train operating Companies are using a government "Apprenticeship scheme" where new drivers are paid £29,000 for the first two years of their role. Yet the government gives the train operators £6,000 per "apprentice". Once the newbies are fully passed out and on full pay the money grabbers join the companies that pay the most money and the cycle starts again.

They've started that with guards in my company, which we went into dispute over because they were being paid minimum wage and inclusive Sundays in their contract. The ballot made them back down.
 
Zubrman said:
Way too early. Unions are forced to give fourteen days notice of dates and therefore Aslef could announce some tomorrow, at the earliest, and they would be for 15th Jan onwards.
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So, time goes by very slow when you're a driver of a train? Windy Miller will have to wait a bit longer.
 
Next strike days announced:

Avanti West Coast - Sat 3rd Feb
C2C - Fri 2nd Feb
Chiltern - Mon 5th Feb
CrossCountry - Mon 5th Feb
East Midlands - Sat 3rd Feb
Great Western - Mon 5th Feb
Greater Anglia - Fri 2nd Feb
GTR Great Northern Thameslink - Tue 30th Jan
Island Line - Tue 30th Jan
LNER - Fri 2nd Feb
Northern - Wed 31st Jan
South Western - Tue 30th Jan
Southeastern - Tue 30th Jan
Southern/Gatwick Express - Tue 30th Jan
Transpennine - Wed 31st Jan
West Midlands - Sat 3rd Feb
 
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