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Admiral Lard 11:53 Tue May 24
Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

It must be hard to make ends meet for an £80+K a year train driver or a £35+k a year train staff. Platform staff average salary £48K
Starting salaries may not be all that but the overtime and add ons make it a lucrative piece of work.
The RMT should be run out of town, bastards!!

riosleftsock 11:56 Tue May 24
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

They probably don't have enough diversity managers.

Withamexile 1:23 Wed May 25
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

Platform staff 48k?

Absolute horse shit, I’m in charge of platform staff and earn 30k after over 20 years service. Platform staff earn 24k in Essex and barrier staff 16k.

Don’t believe the tripe this government and the daily Mail will feed you.

zebthecat 1:27 Wed May 25
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"Platform staff average salary £48K "

That is utter bollocks so I assume the rest your post is.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 1:32 Wed May 25
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

***tears up job application***

gph 1:39 Wed May 25
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If train-drivers are overpaid, why the fuck is there a shortage of them?

Is it just that the people who think it's money for old rope are too dim to do the job?

master 2:05 Wed May 25
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

Automate the whole lot and put them out of a job

yngwies Cat 2:13 Wed May 25
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Fair play to them for sticking up to there members.

RBshorty 5:26 Wed May 25
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Lard. Could you be so kind to show me a TOC who pays their drivers £80k+ per.? Even Eurostar don’t pay that amount.

joe royal 7:50 Wed May 25
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

Isn’t 16k below minimum wage?

chav_corner 10:38 Wed May 25
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Sorry mate but I find some of the salaries quoted hard to believe.When workers go on strike it is a massive decision they have taken since they obviously dont get paid for when they strike.I am sure they have good reasons and that we should maybe look into their reasons for striking before we condemn them.

⚒️ 10:40 Wed May 25
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Greedy cunts.

BRANDED 10:52 Wed May 25
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I had a sherman conductor on a train the other day. His clarity of communication was astounding. Well worth a pat on the back.

Withamexile 11:02 Wed May 25
Re: Oh goody, a rail strike....... Thank you RMT you self serving bar stewards

‘Isn’t 16k below minimum wage?‘

It is minimum wage for an absolutely shit job.

And they were told there was no money in the pot by someone who earns near 300k a year and received a 38k bonus this year.

We were also told we should be grateful we weren’t furloughed. Well we were told to go to work during a period of great uncertainty and worry for our and our families health as we were key workers.
The worry of watching scenes on the news from Italian emergency rooms and that This could soon be us was put to the back of our minds and we did our albeit small bit on getting the real key workers to their place of work.

Don’t get me wrong I was happy to come to work and am proud of what we achieved, But it wasn’t a choice, to now be told we were lucky not to be furloughed is disgraceful.

If we didn’t vote for this we are just saying that year after year going forward we will accept getting shafted, the fares have gone up 5/6 times since the last Payrise we had in April 2019.

And since then we have this cost of living crisis that is putting a serious strain on my colleagues and I’s lives. As I’m sure it is on many of the people in here. But why should any of us accept it?

This will be only the second time I have been involved in strike action in over 20 years and I do it with a heavy heart. I’ll probably lose more than I will gain but I(and 89%) of my colleagues believe we need to stand up for something we believe in.

Lastly as I said before, don’t believe the hatchet job that’ll be printed in the papers and demonstrated in the opening post here.

AKA ERNIE 11:48 Wed May 25
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If uts such a shit job with shit wages and conditions and cuntvmanagers you could of course just leave rather than whine like a bitch and fuck up everyones travel just because you think you deserve more.
But of course you wont because its a well paid job considering what you do plus being oh so brave for working and doing the job youre paid to do during covid maybe you deserve another 6 weeks holiday

White Pony 11:58 Wed May 25
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FMOB, that was like a toddler’s tantrum Ern, son.

AKA ERNIE 12:03 Wed May 25
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Pony it was mate but its true
Imsick of pricks this demanding massive raises then striking and fucking up the public

Vexed 12:14 Wed May 25
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Its difficult to have too much sympathy with them, they dont really pick their moments very well.

Withamexile 12:22 Wed May 25
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AKA ERNIE 11:48 Wed May 25

6 weeks? 😂 22 days plus bank holidays. Not terrible but not 6 weeks.

As previously said I do class my wage as decent at 30k. But to class what I for example do as ‘easy’ is a little ignorant. Even just shift work with young children is tough. This week alone my shift start times are 0600, 1300, day off 0530, 1300, and 0800. I’m also rostered to work at least one day of 5 weekends out of 6. Again not moaning just outlying facts.

Then we come to the challenges of the great British public, 99% of which are great and I enjoy our interaction and will and do go above and beyond every day to help them in any way I can.

Unfortunately the other 1% are in no way shape or form ‘easy’. Anything from aggressive drunks to suicidal people are all part of railway life and are a far greater occurrence than you’d imagine.

People who tell us how well paid and easy we have it rarely want to apply for a job which is strange.
I agree The argument about leave if you don’t like it is valid. But I’ve been doing this from school, have made dozens of very close friends and the jobs world is extremely uncertain. It’s not that simple.

Withamexile 12:29 Wed May 25
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AKA ERNIE 12:03 Wed May 25

No one I know is demanding massive rises. I feel when your management are receiving bonuses of up to 38k to be told there is nothing for you is insulting to some earning less than half of that a year.

In this cost of living crisis I feel a 3% Payrise is more than fair after a 3 year freeze.

And as I said before this is the second time in over two decades I have been balloted to strike so it’s not like it’s a yearly occurrence.

joyo 12:38 Wed May 25
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Withamexile your point comes across very well and fair play even if you do fuck me up next month.
You're spot on about the public and greedy bosses.

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