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MP’s
sometimes ten other jobs
who has had 10 other jobs? (concurrent?)
MP’s
sometimes ten other jobs
And even with train drivers getting a decent wage the privatised rail operators are pocketing huge profits for staggeringly poor service provision.
So think please consider that lot before forming an opinion.
I can’t understand why the same people who object to foreigners coming here, taking our jobs and using our services and resources, don’t have a problem with foreigners benefitting from our privatised national services.Which is in turn paid to the owners of the train companies who are often overseas governments. This is obviously a far better arrangement than nationalisation.
Like GPsIf MP’s work so hard, how come many of them have time for second, third, fourth, sometimes ten other jobs?
Expect a lot more strikes, from a lot more professions, as inflation rises - there are estimates of 20% next year.
I suspect Tony is right, the economy is shagged. But I don't hold much hope for a Truss government doing much to help. So what choice do people have?
That’s not necessarily true - some TOCs have Sundays included in the working week as do all freight companies.
Most TOCs have Sundays outside the working week but there is a contractual commitment that means staff either work what is rostered or find others prepared to work it as o/t.
Contrary to popular belief, Unions have pushed to have Sundays included in the working week - it means more staff required, a higher ‘establishment’ and more potential union members.
Most TOCs are against it because of cost.
Shapps and certain TOCs (I’m looking at you Avanti…) issued weasel worded press releases muddying the facts which a client media were delighted to report as fact.
In my earlier post I said differing disputes with different grades and unions should be separated.
Yes, drivers are fairly well paid but that has nothing to do with a NR track worker making £27K being forced to agree to working 39 weekends a year, up from 22 for example.
I can’t understand why the same people who object to foreigners coming here, taking our jobs and using our services and resources, don’t have a problem with foreigners benefitting from our privatised national services.
I can’t understand why the same people who object to foreigners coming here, taking our jobs and using our services and resources, don’t have a problem with foreigners benefitting from our privatised national services.
As a train driver of over 40 years experience, I’d suggest anyone who’s not happy with the amount drivers earn, why not apply for a job? There are hundreds, if not thousands of vacancies throughout the UK. My own company has over 50 jobs uncovered every day. The problem comes when applicants can meet the standard, pass the medical, but most important is the ability to work at the most stupid hours of the day. Many find out later than they can’t. My company are able to roster staff to work days, nights, afternoons in the same week. Sundays are included in the week, as are bank holidays, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. They can also put you in a hire car and have you drive 200 miles to cover a ballast job which often takes shifts up to 13 hours. ( 1 unpaid). Working away from home for weeks at a time is allowed, which many with families find unacceptable. When I started on the footplate in the late 1970’s, driver’s told me that the wages are earned when it’s all gone pear shaped, and you are the one to sort it out, and answer to the person in the funny wig if you were deemed to have made an error.
This. This is what those who blindly repeat the “already well paid” mantra omit.Always worth realizing, the people doing the hardest graft are usually on the lowest wages. Never truer when we see the poor sods out on the track every night. Shoveling ballast in the wind, rain and snow, miles from civilization, a few feet from 100 MPH trains. I believe Network Rail want to cut night rate from plus 25% to plus 10% and increase compulsory weekends from 22 to 39.
striking train drivers left me about £500 out of pocket having had to make alternative arrangements for travel. Under any other circumstance we would have not travelled, but this time we risked losing several times that amount.
Now they are disrupting the London Marathon - an event where people raise millions for charity...