So Tube Drivers now earn £50k a year?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/03/tube-drivers-salaries-50000

I find it difficult to believe how in the current climate the RMT has managed to negotiate above inflation pay rises for the next four years for its members. There must be something seriously challenging about driving a tube train that I am not aware of because £50k seems absolutely crazy to me, especially when you consider other public service jobs

- A Royal Marine apparently earns between £17k and £28k
- A paramedic earns between £21k and £27k
- Bus drivers earn between £19k and £25k

Plus tube drivers get c40 days holiday a year and free tube travel for themselves and their partner (depending on where they live that's going to be worth between £2k and £5k a year.

Is this just the best gig in the world or am I missing something? More importantly, where do I sign up?
 
If they earned 20k I doubt anyone would be able to afford doing that job in London. Although 50K is ridiculous - I know CCNP's in the centre of London earning less than that.
 
I'm not surprised they can afford to pay those wages given how much they charge for tube journeys.

But yeah, rather unrealistically high wages I'd say.
 
Eventually it'll lead to driverless trains like the DLR (I hope). Is the technology possible for the Tube? It is, of course, the Union activity: TFL giving in every time after a strike because one of the drivers was sacked for rolling in drunk and opening his doors on the wrong side again.
 
But what are the consequences of this union action?

Do you think that the fascist TFL will lose profits or do you think they will just increase ticket prices to compensate the union action?

Unfortunately this won't fix the dirty and slow trains, the signal problems, the lack of punctuality.
 
Like the OP says, I must be missing something too, I mean c'mon the things damn near steer themselves too I would imagine, just a slight tweak for this curve and a slight tweak for that :rolleyes:
 
Ah the politics of envy.

When you look at the details it's only inflation plus 0.5% a year. The £50k figure comes from an assumption that inflation will remain at 4.5% for the next four years.
 
hlxbravo said:
Like the OP says, I must be missing something too, I mean c'mon the things damn near steer themselves too I would imagine, just a slight tweak for this curve and a slight tweak for that :rolleyes:
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I doubt that would float in an emergency situation.
 
But, but... there's, like, bumps in the road and jazz that make it dangerous and stuff.

TFL drivers getting paid more than nurses = wrong. End of discussion.

Edit: fixed wordage.
 
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