The rail unions….

[mickd1961]

Stitch up the inept Labour Transport Minister.

Labour cave in and give them 15% over three years but forget to get them to accept the new working practices that were supposed to be part f the deal.

So they’re still going on strike anyway…..absolutely farcical, a total lack of nous by Labour OR maybe they’ve just fallen in line with the unions who pull their strings.

One of the other rail unions say they now expect a 15% wage hike.

[soulman101]

Stitch up the inept Labour Transport Minister.

Labour cave in and give them 15% over three years but forget to get them to accept the new working practices that were supposed to be part f the deal.

So they’re still going on strike anyway…..absolutely farcical, a total lack of nous by Labour OR maybe they’ve just fallen in line with the unions who pull their strings.

One of the other rail unions say they now expect a 15% wage hike.

Mike Lynch their union boss was speaking at a rally with Palestine waving mob ,recently.
I think the union also made a big donation to the Labour party .

[kettering_baggie]

Mick Lynch should catch a train to Russia, absolute pr@t. Of course Labour will give the unions what they want, far more important to make well off train drivers even wealthier than subsidise pensioners fuel costs. How to change the face of England, vote Labour.

[albion68]

Heard on the news they get..between 60/70 grand a year.

[mickd1961]

Heard on the news they get..between 60/70 grand a year.

At least that plus overtime.

[Omegstrat6]

At least that plus overtime.

Whilst many rail workers are not paid particularly well, the drivers themselves aren't exactly badly paid! I know a few managers who have left my sector (retail) over the years to train as drivers and all are comfortably better paid with a lot less stress. I was only speaking to an ex colleague last week who has been a station master for a couple of years now and he too has little sympathy for many drivers he knows who are on decent wages with several earning over £60k.

Part of the confusion is because the RMT represent the poorer paid rail workers and Aslef, the actual drivers. The RMT had argued before that they were striking because 75% of their members were on less than £32k for "working 24/7" but maybe they forget that plenty of others in this country, whether nurses, carers or retail workers for example, get paid less than that.

[westcountryvillain]

I thought safety was a key factor in their decision to strike?