Tube strike

[spongebob59]

Didn't realise how much they earned

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...hy-Tories-should-support-the-Tube-strike.html

 

[guest100718]

The best thing is most trains don't really need a driver.......

 

[Beezerk]

It's south of Sheffield so who cares :thup:

 

[Lump]

If your a HST driver you'll be earning about the same country wide. It's a good career to get into, if you can, companies are very very selective.

 

[Khamelion]

I guess the wage is relative, 50K in the North East is a damn good wage, 50k in London due to the cost of living is probably average. However if the Telegraph is right in the comparison they make to doctors, nurses, police and fire fighters, then the tube people need to get a grip

 

[jp5]

I guess the wage is relative, 50K in the North East is a damn good wage, 50k in London due to the cost of living is probably average. However if the Telegraph is right in the comparison they make to doctors, nurses, police and fire fighters, then the tube people need to get a grip

Why should other peoples wages affect tube workers wages? (& btw the strike is not just about pay)

 

[Khamelion]

Why should other peoples wages affect tube workers wages? (& btw the strike is not just about pay)

It shouldn't.

But the comparison the Telegraph makes between the tube drivers and the doctors, nurses, police and fire services, shows a disparity which I would guess most people will be surprised at and being on strike for whatever the overall reason is not going to enamour the tube workers to the general public.

 

[chrisd]

Just pleased they aren't stacking all the passengers where I live, like they are for the Channel Tunnel and Dover Docks - it's carnage round here!

 

[MegaSteve]

Just pleased they aren't stacking all the passengers where I live, like they are for the Channel Tunnel and Dover Docks - it's carnage round here!

We drove back from a visit to Hythe on Monday along the M20... Was amazed at how far the portaloos stretched along side of motorway in readiness for 'operation stack'...

 

[MegaSteve]

Didn't realise how much they earned

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/gen...hy-Tories-should-support-the-Tube-strike.html

'Earned' being the right word... Reckon they are worth far more than the desk jockeys, in county hall, who get paid six figure salaries... Don't suppose they'll be getting of their backsides to help out where they can today...

 

[chrisd]

We drove back from a visit to Hythe on Monday along the M20... Was amazed at how far the portaloos stretched along side of motorway in readiness for 'operation stack'...

Last week it was 5,000 lorries parked on 26 miles of motorway

 

[spongebob59]

Last week it was 5,000 lorries parked on 26 miles of motorway

Hopefully that lot won't be moved to Thanet :smirk:

 

[Foxholer]

Back to the Tube Strike.....

While it irks me that their salary is out of proportion to what the required skills are - there's a healthy dollop of bung for 'key-worker' type status! - that starting rate is also the only rate! That's quite different from the other careers, where experience and promotion can mean salary will overtake that of tube drivers.

As for the strike. It's never a good thing to happen or have to do, but was pretty inevitable given the significant change to their working conditions! That's just the way both sides have ended up working - and it will be forever that way because of the nature of the (really damned good if occasionally overcrowded) service! While the Tory press will roundly criticise public service unions - and therefore the Labour Party - for their 'holding the country (London in this case) to ransom' attitude, it seems to me that it's actually precisely what many Tory types would dearly love - a virtual monopoly, with huge demand for the service, so virtual license to print money! Oh hang on...that's Banking! And maybe the NHS too!

 

[Billythefish]

50k per annum and 43 days holiday, yes that's 43 days holiday. A 36 hour week. Bringing the capital to a stop so fellow workers cannot get to their jobs. Solidarity in all it's glory. Been offered 2K for the extra night work they want doing, but no, lets **** up the our fellow workers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33459515

 

[MegaSteve]

Greatly amusing hearing Boris call others pig headed...

At least he didn't wish them expletive deleted dead... Saves that for his other favourite folk...