Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
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.