Independent Readers are divided into this week tube Strikes And £ 72,000 initial salary for drivers.
While some saw the package as generous and questioned industrial action, others said that it is not enough to stay in the bus. London, Echoed eedi dempiRailway General Secretary, Marine and Transport (RMT) Milan,
Many readers questioned whether such salary, plus pension and allowances, are appropriate for a job that includes most of the operation doors and driving trains, especially compared with nurses, teachers and junior doctors.
Something else proceeded and suggested the introduction of driverless trains, motivating DLR to success.
Meanwhile, the supporters of the strike pointed to the high life cost and the London Housing Market, deserved to pay the argument workers who coordinate with inflation, emphasizing the role Union To secure fair situations.
Overall, the readers were divided, the alleged union criticism was balanced with support for workers seeking equitable salary in an expensive city.
What did you say here:
Ridiculously
If you look at the medium salary in London, give it to the UK alone, £ 72k is a ridiculous salary for someone who is effectively pushing/pushing a liver and opening the doors.
In London, driving a bus is very high because it takes a lot of attention and concentration to complete pedestrians, cyclists, etc.
I have heard people saying that “Oh, but the trauma of people jumping in front of trains” or “they breathe that ugly air”. It is like saying “A fireman has to deal with fire …”. They knew what they were doing while they were working.
Speaking about – You have really running into burning buildings, saving life – how much they are paid? You have weaving paramedics through traffic, sometimes trying to save your life to deal with aggressive/dangerous patients. How much are they paid? Teacher?
Sorry, but it completely surprises my brain as to why it is being entertained. I have to ask – if DLR (Docklands Light Railway) is already controlled computer, then why do we still have tube drivers on Earth? Certainly it can be done in the same way? Are they afraid that unions will kick a disturbance? Step in skill drivers in other roles. Give the trimmed package and eliminate this nonsense.
Fasmax
What do you think? Does the salary of tube drivers reflect the high life cost of London, or is £ 72,000 already more than enough? Share your thoughts below.
The union should accept the result
The Sangh is fully entitled to fight which believes that it is right for its members. So if they want £ 72k and a four -day week, go for it.
But they also have to accept the results. Passengers can be reluctant to ride the driver -free trains, but no more, and these attacks will only reduce this change.
In addition, if the driver wants to work less due to stress, the management should hire more drivers (on well-defined contracts), all overtime should be eliminated, current work practices should be replaced, and slash all allowances-one proper exchange.
For customer service employees, their position is even more uncertain, with unmanned stations and growing automation.
There is always a balance between the competitive interests of customers, employers and employees. Therefore, the Sangh needs to be careful not to overplay his hand, which is doing so, otherwise it will open the doors that will not be able to close it.
socks
Large -scale disruption
The comments of the Union Leader of RMT are vocal and self-serving. There are very few classes of workers who can cause as much trouble for ordinary people as they can do to the railway unions.
For most private sector workers, unions are an anocronism and attack an expensive and unattainable luxury. Last nationwide railway attacks cost the billions of the country, and therefore these tube attacks are in the capital. Also everything else, damage to hospitality means damage to important taxes, which pay these people to be able to strike.
Steven1954
Original arithmetic
The average house around the entire London region is priced at £ 562,000- £ 715,800, and to be able to receive a mortgage for £ 600,000, you must be on an annual income of £ 120,000- £ 135,000, which is almost double £ 72K.
Certainly it is a basic arithmetic and is not even responsible for the huge deposits that they have to lie down.
Amy
Low paid workers
Most of the members are on striking low wages which are much worse than drivers. It is like a new doctor because advisors are on a ton load; They can work for the same company but they are not the same people.
Carhosthehek
Bus drivers have worse
The unions may focus on low pay for London bus drivers, which just work hard but for very low salary. Tube drivers are well reimbursed compared to the average London veg, and they should think about inequality in payment with drivers, whose work is probably harder than them, when they have to turn left or right, and have no other traffic to struggle with it.
Londonrain
Driver -interest train
In addition to not being able to catch a placard due to not having an anti -thumb, a trained mouse can act as a driver. Now they are all operating the doors. 18 months training and £ 72,000. Give us a break. Bring the driverless trains.
Hiriver
No need to live in central London
Tube trains are parked mainly in the suburbs, where there is more available land and cheap housing – and for those drivers who live elsewhere, there is free transport.
There is no need to buy a house in Central London or in a high -cost area. Unlike teachers and other more poorly paid employees, who do not get any transport assistance …
Dodi geyser
Take us to a ride
Their package as the final pay pension is more than £ 100k.
There should be no support for these people and their unions. They are taking us to both literal and metaphor.
Ian Robinson
Greed has caused this
Good for them. Not only this, the average ‘house’ price for London is also taking into account flats, so the actual price of a proper house that will support a family and will not be a flat for a couple. This is the reason for the greed of Rentiers and Capital.
Paralytic
Tube driver vs doctor
So RMT believes that train driver resident (junior) is more worth than doctors?
£ 72,000 is a good wage.
I am sure many people will be ready to do less work.
Richardathehart
Free travel
Do they not get free train/tube trip so that they are able to buy outside the city and make them free? When I went for a job London underground In the 1980s, it was one of the allowances that were introduced.
Fur ku
Disgusting
The fact is that tube drivers are paid much more than teachers and doctors, clearly disgusting. It has the right to strike on the condition of improper salary/working situation, but the salary to start a £ 72K is not in any way “inappropriate salary” – we need to pay more to our nurses, doctors and teachers, and reduce tube drivers!
I am in the latter half of my 30s, and my first full -time job paid me £ 4.85 per hour, and my first salaried job in the public sector in my early 20s was £ 21k, which had increased to £ 28k, including five years, including fully qualification and two promotions,, to £ 28k. Still, as a senior global manager, I am at a lower 10k from a tube driver!?
Someris
Salary should match inflation
£ 70k is £ 30k of 2010 – this is nothing. Everyone needs to fight for better wages to stay with the UK failed economy. The price of your food, fuel and bills is not increasing … The pound is becoming less and less valuable according to the day. Yes, teachers are agreed with all, along with many other areas.
But can you blame London’s underground workers for demanding payment that are aligning with the retail price index? This is why everyone should do, or we all face poverty. Remember, we still live in a world where banks benefiting from heavy interest rates are paying millions of bonuses to their employees. just saying.
BlackFenden
More payment and change
It is clear that tube train drivers are paid more than the required previous qualifications and compared to other countries. And we all know that they are only paid because they keep on strike and cause serious economic damage.
The time has come for them to start replacing them with a driverless trains. The first line for this should be the Victoria line. When it was designed in the early 1960s and opened a few years later, it was already fully capable of driverless operation. This is still the case, and the only thing that the driver has to do, perhaps on its package of £ 100k PA, has to open and close the doors.
Mark
Unions are arrogant and selfish
I am clearly fed up and hate the ego and selfishness of trade unions in the current dispute. We have accepted their unstable and inappropriate demands for a long time for many years. The truth is that you are grossly overpaid and have long. You get a lot of allowances, liberal pension contribution and much more.
Full -time employment is 40 or 37.5 hours per week. To do less work. If your drivers want to work short hours, they will be paid less. Simple and clear.
As a taxpayer, I refuse to support those who take over high salary without any particular qualification and work only a fraction of my work hours. You should be ashamed! Do not like your job, then leave and see how real life is.
Beetris
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