>We run the trains! Ooohh we want more money!
>Then we'll get behind the desk and treat you like shit because you're ticket's wrong!
>And do random improvement works that herd you onto buses wheree you still pay full price!
They should be paid more money but they're also a bunch of incompetent dogfuckers. Fuck em! Pay them the cash to shut them the fuck up!
I think the strikes are wrong while negotiations are still under way, that the government has acted in a reckless and provocative manner, and that it's time for both sides to put aside the rhetoric and get round the negotiating table.
>>98346 Cunts the lot of them. Needs an enormous amount of money throwing at it, and nobody has the fucking balls to do anything because everyone involved is a cunt.
>>98347 OP here. I hope you were joking because while it can in theory work, the negotiations are literally just that, and you don't back down until you get some of what you want. To generalise.
However, the way quite a lot of public sector workers treat the public (with the exception of the NHS and Fire Services) is with incompetence, so they don't deserve more money; it's just that it's more wrong to exploit people by paying them unlivable wages and that has to stop. I really hate the strikes, but I support them regardless. Duality of man etc.
>>98355 >We asked the Department for Transport (DfT) how it got to this [median] figure and it initially said it had taken the median figures from the ONS for four categories of rail workers, added them up and divided by four
LOL
According to the ONS, train drivers earn an average of £59k. ASLEF only represents drivers, not other rail staff; it's ASLEF that are going on strike next week, not the RMT.
Cleaners and other low-paid workers on the railways can legitimately argue that they're struggling to make ends meet, but drivers absolutely cannot. They are well paid by any reasonable standard.
