Power to Mick Lynch

Semple said:
Forgot to ask yesterday, has your company seen at least a 14% increase in revenue? Or are they making spending cuts in other places / reducing dividend payments etc. If not, are you concerned about job security?

As I can see in a few years time if companies haven't managed to increase revenue then we'll start to see redundancies as companies struggle to afford the wage bill.
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Revenues are mental so far this year.

Just a few of the divisions.

Concrete - revenues up 34.7% which consists of volume sold up 15.1% and price increases of 14.6%

Groundworks - revenues up 44% which consists of volume of work done up by 18.6% and increase in what we charge by 21.4%

Haulage - revenues up 65% which consist of increase in work of 11% and price increases of 48.6%

I don't know the other division's off the top of my head.

Currently I am forecasting total revenues to be at least up by 40% this year, mainly due to price increases, not extra work.

The problem will come when the recession/depression hits and the work dries up. It will come, its just a matter of time.

But unless we go through a period of large deflation, rates arent going to drop by much.

I mean take haulage. Fuel is now 43% of our costs. Wages and fuel costs for a day now total what we were more than happy to earn for a truck for a day less than 2 years ago. We cant ever go back to those rates unless fuel drops back to a £1 a litre again.
 
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imtoooldforthis said:
How exactly are you expecting a train station employee on £30k a year to fix the trains being late, cancelled or being overcrowded ?
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Communication would be a good start, empathy, what they are doing to fix it going forwards (they're doing nothing, they don't give a ****), etc. Transport is an essential service people rely on to get to work, trains should almost never be late or cancelled. This is basic stuff in other countries, why can't we get it right in the UK?
 
Greebo said:
Revenues are mental so far this year.

Just a few of the divisions.

Concrete - revenues up 34.7% which consists of volume sold up 15.1% and price increases of 14.6%

Groundworks - revenues up 44% which consists of volume of work done up by 18.6% and increase in what we charge by 21.4%

Haulage - revenues up 65% which consist of increase in work of 11% and price increases of 48.6%

I don't know the other division's off the top of my head.
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Kudos to your firm.
 
Roar87 said:
Communication would be a good start, empathy, what they are doing to fix it going forwards (they're doing nothing, they don't give a ****), etc. Transport is an essential service people rely on to get to work, trains should almost never be late or cancelled. This is basic stuff in other countries, why can't we get it right in the UK?
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Erosion of British Values by the right wing.
 
Greebo said:
Revenues are mental so far this year.

Just a few of the divisions.

Concrete - revenues up 34.7% which consists of volume sold up 15.1% and price increases of 14.6%

Groundworks - revenues up 44% which consists of volume of work done up by 18.6% and increase in what we charge by 21.4%

Haulage - revenues up 65% which consist of increase in work of 11% and price increases of 48.6%

I don't know the other division's off the top of my head.

Currently I am forecasting total revenues to be at least up by 40% this year, mainly due to price increases, not extra work.

The problem will come when the recession/depression hits and the work dries up. It will come, its just a matter of time.

But unless we go through a period of large deflation, rates arent going to drop by much.

I mean take haulage. Fuel is now 43% of our costs. Wages and fuel costs for a day now total what we were more than happy to earn for a truck for a day less than 2 years ago. We cant ever go back to those rates unless fuel drops back to a £1 a litre again.
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That's good, either way it sounds like they can more than afford it.

I suspect other industries won't be as fortune though. Anything that's deemed a luxury or non-essential, take hospitality for example. With the costs of ingredients going up inevitably menu prices will go up, and less people will be able to afford to eat out. So revenues drying up along with increasing staff costs will likely end up having a disastrous outcome. Especially as restaurants/pubs/bars took a bit of a beating for 2 years over covid. They're not likely to have the cash reserves to weather another storm.
 
Roar87 said:
Communication would be a good start, empathy, what they are doing to fix it going forwards (they're doing nothing, they don't give a ****), etc. Transport is an essential service people rely on to get to work, trains should almost never be late or cancelled. This is basic stuff in other countries, why can't we get it right in the UK?
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So you expect the platform staff, who have zero say in running the trains and are certainly not given detailed information years in advance to be able to tell you what they're doing to fix the trains?

The staff you see are probably at least as annoyed and fed up of the situation as you are, probably a lot more so because they have to deal with train users who take it out on them hundreds of times a day.
The most they're likely to know is a few days or maybe a few weeks in advance of planned works (or if something has gone wrong they might know something is up but not the details), but anything else is entirely up to the government and the heads of the rail companies who don't share their musings with the average guy working at the station.

We'd have a much better situation with the trains if for example the government actually invested in additional tracks, as at the moment we've got virtually no resilience in the network and a problem at one station or on one section of track can disrupt everything on that line.
 
Honestly surprised based on posters profile that they are so needy to require assurance from front line staff on problems they have zero control over.
 
Werewolf said:
So you expect the platform staff, who have zero say in running the trains and are certainly not given detailed information years in advance to be able to tell you what they're doing to fix the trains?

The staff you see are probably at least as annoyed and fed up of the situation as you are, probably a lot more so because they have to deal with train users who take it out on them hundreds of times a day.
The most they're likely to know is a few days or maybe a few weeks in advance of planned works (or if something has gone wrong they might know something is up but not the details), but anything else is entirely up to the government and the heads of the rail companies who don't share their musings with the average guy working at the station.

We'd have a much better situation with the trains if for example the government actually invested in additional tracks, as at the moment we've got virtually no resilience in the network and a problem at one station or on one section of track can disrupt everything on that line.
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I think you're basically doing the very British thing of not wanting to cause a fuss, but the trains are ****, they'll stay **** for as long as people accept them as being ****. We invest more per capita in our trains than Germany, we have the highest ticket prices in Europe per mile travelled. It isn't a lack of money. These "problems at stations" simply shouldn't occur as often, what is happening? People should be held to account if services are constantly delayed or cancelled, that was my experience using the train commuting into Leeds for 9 years, I'm so glad to be working from home every day now.
 
Roar87 said:
I think you're basically doing the very British thing of not wanting to cause a fuss, but the trains are ****, they'll stay **** for as long as people accept them as being ****. We invest more per capita in our trains than Germany, we have the highest ticket prices in Europe per mile travelled. It isn't a lack of money. These "problems at stations" simply shouldn't occur as often, what is happening? People should be held to account if services are constantly delayed or cancelled, that was my experience using the train commuting into Leeds for 9 years, I'm so glad to be working from home every day now.
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So, Elon Musk is a genius and the entire company's success is down to him, but the lack of investment and a long term strategy in the train service is down to the ticket guys?
 
I brought the support many members here have shown for Mick to the attention of a customer unable to bring his car today as he could not get trains back home.

"Power to Mick Lynch? I agree with that entirely, about 2000 volts at 10 Amps". he spluttered :) It seems some people are not fully supportive of his antics :)
 
Mason- said:
I believe we have the technology where trains should be able to drive themselves, we don’t need conductors and most people can pre purchase tickets online or use the self service booths at stations.
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As others have said, difficult task to do across the entire railway network due to the variables involved. But, i never understood why automation hasn't been brought in for the underground networks in the UK, especially if platform safety barriers are put in place, as the hazards involved are a lot less than over ground.
Unions would complain like anything over the reduced workforce but it always seemed a bit of a no-brainer.
 
I'm no expert on the ongoing dispute, but I can see why some people like Mick Lynch. In the minds of the left, he seems to be making Keir Starmer look especially weak.

He's abrasive and doesn't pander to the media when they ask deliberately antagonising questions. I don't think that's a bad thing.
 
wesimmo said:
So, Elon Musk is a genius and the entire company's success is down to him, but the lack of investment and a long term strategy in the train service is down to the ticket guys?
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You Speakers Corner bunch are honestly so sad, do you have a private discord where you discuss beard oil and what chequered shirt you're going to wear that day? If I'm ever struggling to sleep maybe I could read some of the politically correct banter
 
Chris Wilson said:
I brought the support many members here have shown for Mick to the attention of a customer unable to bring his car today as he could not get trains back home.

"Power to Mick Lynch? I agree with that entirely, about 2000 volts at 10 Amps". he spluttered :) It seems some people are not fully supportive of his antics :)
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Indeed, those antics like facts and truth, people won't stand for it.
 
And for more fun and games, BA staff have just voted for strikes starting in the school summer holidays.
 
Roar87 said:
You Speakers Corner bunch are honestly so sad, do you have a private discord where you discuss beard oil and what chequered shirt you're going to wear that day? If I'm ever struggling to sleep maybe I could read some of the politically correct banter
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I don't think that answered the question?

You're a very sensitive 'little shouty person' though aren't you?
 
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