London Banter - View Single Post - NTfL: usual suspects short-listed

[email protected] · January 20th 16, 08:37 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:16:49 +0100
Eric wrote:
On 2016-01-19, d wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:43:48 +0100
Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:06:57 +0000 (UTC), d wrote:

Doesn't surprise me. But can you imagine what would happen if LU tried to
cut
driver salaries or recruit new drivers on lower ones to operate these
trains.
LU have made a rod for their own backs - the RMT know they always cave in
the
end when faced with a strike.

Several strikes have happened, so that's not the reality.

Point is the drivers always get what they want in the end. The law needs to
be
changed so that if people go on strike for minor issues like salary disputes
then they can legally be sacked.

A salary dispute is not a minor issue. If you need more money you might

It is if you're already grossly overpaid for the skills the job requires.
I don't think sitting on your arse pressing the doors open/close and go button
every 2 minutes merits 50K, do you?

still be reasonably certain of being able to go elsewhere almost
immediately. Tube drivers (and enormous numbers of people in a wide
variety of jobs) not so much. And since the current tendency is for the
value of wages to be eroded, why wouldn't they need more money?

Inflation briefly went negative last year so I'm not sure why you think they
deserve a pay rise.

Note the deliberate use of "need" rather than "want".

There are plenty of professions who need a payrise - nurses paid bog all,
met policemen who can't afford to live in london and so on. Tube drivers are
not amongst them.

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Spud