Power to Mick Lynch

Roar87 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:07

newbiejim said:
Really research this , they are not paid a lot, if it is badly run it's the mad Tory desire to privatise everything that's resulted in this, don't fall for the nonsense, who would you believe, Bojo or any of his cronies, like that galoot barefaced LYING on TV.

Rail travel assistants - £33,310 - includes ticket collectors, guards and information staff
Rail construction and maintenance operatives - £34,998 - they lay and repair tracks
Rail transport operatives - £48,750 - includes signallers and drivers' assistants
Train and tram drivers - £59,189

A bus driver around here is paid £25k, Managers at the bank I work at start on around £33k, but Rail Travel Assistants get that for collecting tickets and telling people train times? What planet are these people from?

newbiejim · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:08

Roar87 said:
The average worker is on £44k, they're on good money for the actual work they do. They would not get paid the money they are in similar jobs.

Source?

JaWalks · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:08

Roar87 said:
The average worker is on £44k, they're on good money for the actual work they do. They would not get paid the money they are in similar jobs.

The median worker. Which includes Drivers and Managers who aren't striking. The RMT represents the poorest paid workers in the industry.

Richie · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:09

So, devils advocate here as I'm on the fence about the demands and strikes.

Let's say they get their 7% that they are asking for... Do we give teachers the 10% they want and nurses the 15% they are asking for?

Uther · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:10

Hands up everyone who's getting an 11% + payrise this year.
Everyone is in the ****, the public will very quickly get tired and withdraw any support for strikes. Not everyone can work from home.
And yes, we're on a race to the bottom.

aVdub · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:10

JaWalks said:
The median worker. Which includes Drivers and Managers who aren't striking. The RMT represents the poorest paid workers in the industry.

Which are taking home how much PA?

JonRGV250 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:11

Yay, lets have a summer of discontent.

The completely out of touch bed wetting left thinks that this sort of behavior will warm the public to their cause..

I very much doubt it.
It was also fun to see Sir Beer Korma banning MP's from the picket line, and then plenty of them flat out ignoring him.
He can't run his own party (bar the Durham one), so how could he possibly be trusted to run our government?
I doubt Micky Lynch gives one single rats ass about the workers, it's all political.

Roar87 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:11

JaWalks said:
The median worker. Which includes Drivers and Managers who aren't striking. The RMT represents the poorest paid workers in the industry.

None of them are paid poorly, they're clowns. People would line the streets to be paid their salary for the jobs they do.

JaWalks · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:12

Roar87 said:
None of them are paid poorly, they're clowns. People would line the streets to be paid their salary for the jobs they do.

You sound like an expert on the industry

Roar87 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:13

JaWalks said:
You sound like an expert on the industry

Walking the aisle checking tickets for £33k a year? There are people working warehouse jobs and doing care work for £16-£20k who would bite your hand off for that.

wildman · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:14

I am not, nor have ever been a union member, however one things that really winds me up is how the right wing press and Sky and BBC refer to the union leaders as "Union Barons". It's a dog whistle piece of **** aimed at pitting workers against workers and making the general population think that one fat controller is doing all of this for <insert reasons made up by right wing liers>. If anything that piece of **** Johnson is the one acting like a feudal ******* baron.

This kind of action has been a long time coming TBH and I expect this will be the summer of strikes across all sectors with unionised representation. The workers have had enough of **** wages and now being told by Boris " I have £200 a roll gold wall paper Johnson" that they need to accept a real terms cut in wages, all while he still chugs down his expensive hors d'oeuvres washed down with a suitcase of wine.

It's about time the UK learned something from france when it comes to civil unrest and how to riot like professionals.

JaWalks · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:14

Roar87 said:
Walking the aisle checking tickets for £33k a year? There are people working warehouse jobs and doing care work for £16-£20k who would bite your hand off for that.

Then why don't they if it's that easy?

Slam62 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:14

I'm no expert on the rail industry, but they seem very strike happy and collectively should not have so much disruptive power.

chroniclard · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:14

JonRGV250 said:
Yay, lets have a summer of discontent.

The completely out of touch bed wetting left thinks that this sort of behavior will warm the public to their cause..

I very much doubt it.
It was also fun to see Sir Beer Korma banning MP's from the picket line, and then plenty of them flat out ignoring him.
He can't run his own party (bar the Durham one), so how could he possibly be trusted to run our government?
I doubt Micky Lynch gives one single rats ass about the workers, it's all political.

Did Boris promise you a BJ for this guff. :cry:

Leesey · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:14

Directors at Network Rail range from 125-600k. The highest paid public sector workers are railway directors.

Managers/Engineers 35k - 125k

Drivers tend not to be represented by RMT, but Aslef, and work for ToCs. They are not on strike afaik.

Roar87 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:16

JaWalks said:
Then why don't they if it's that easy?

It isn't easy, everyone wants the jobs, they probably get 150 applicants for each job. The jobs probably go to someone who's Dad or Uncle works there, that is how these places work.

newbiejim · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:16

Richie said:
So, devils advocate here as I'm on the fence about the demands and strikes.

Let's say they get their 7% that they are asking for... Do we give teachers the 10% they want and nurses the 15% they are asking for?

They have been offered 2% , 3% with strings, its derisory given inflation is circa 10%, and remember it's the utter goons running everything who have got us here.
Where are all the protesting voices when MPs get massive increases and milk expenses, at least these workers are a net gain to the country.

Naff8000 · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:16

Slam62 said:
I'm no expert on the rail industry, but they seem very strike happy and collectively should not have so much disruptive power.

Because they can get away with it. If I strike I get fired

chroniclard · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:17

Naff8000 said:
Because they can get away with it. If I strike I get fired

Not if you form a union.

Richie · 21 Jun 2022 at 20:18

newbiejim said:
They have been offered 2% , 3% with strings, its derisory given inflation is circa 10%, and remember it's the utter goons running everything who have got us here.
Where are all the protesting voices when MPs get massive increases and milk expenses, at least these workers are a net gain to the country.

Not sure what your reply has to do with my question :confused:

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Do we give them what they want and therefore also accept the 10% for teachers and 15% for nurses that is apparently being asked for?