London Underground: Tube drivers to strike over pay
October 16, 2024
London Underground: Tube drivers to strike over pay
by imcrazyandproud
29 comments
Automate it.
these people really do need to disappear. automate their jobs into oblivion.
Their average salary is £63k
Up the workers!
A labour government that bends over to appease every strike will naturally lead to more striking.
Because why wouldn’t they.
this is just not the time. Self defeating tbh.
They are already paid a very good wage for what they do imo. But I’m not going to pretend to be super informed on the finer details of it, so if someone wants to educate me on why they deserve even more please feel free (no sarcasm, genuine). Yes I realise they need to be paid well to have a calm mental state as their job requires full-focus, but to me an average salary of £60k is nothing to sneeze at. It happens too often and feels like they take advantage of their role as a necessity for many.
I wish the NHS would get the same union backing them as the TfL because it seems like they’re so much more successful at it – I’m guessing the profitability is a factor?
given that for the majority of these the strikes are called off after further negotiations, I think the headline should be:
# Tube drivers and other staff vote to strike over pay
can save “do strike” for if it actually happens.
Open the job up to the General public Stop nepotism
Isn’t there a song about this?
I see I’m in after people started complaining about workers who have benefitted from being unionised continuing to use it to counteract the exploitative forces of capitalism.
I’d have more sympathy with train drivers if they weren’t on strike all the time. At least it feels the way.
I get the need of course. But when they earn £63k with benefits, it looks greedy and exploitative; especially to people already adversarial to unions. They could use thier considerable influence to elevate other areas who are well below the average salary instead of once again of once again appearing to only be looking for more money for themselves. Especially of the package offered does look above inflation; it’s certainly not the worst offer I’ve seen.
I think at some point they need to consider that commuters will be asking for automation just to ensure a consistent service too. Trains need to run to ensure people can get around. You can’t always just work from home all the time. At least give it a year or two because there’s only so much sympathy available for a service that is consistently late, cancelled, expensive and unreliable.
I’m truly shocked.
If the salaries go up does that mean we have to pay more for a ticket? It’s getting really unaffordable to travel in London
*edited to mean pay *more* for a ticket.
The title is a bit unassuming as it’s actually all staff that are part of the RMT union who have been advised to strike so it’s also station staff, controllers, control centre…. the list is endless
Omg can they just fuck off? Replace them with robots already
Automation is far too costly given the absolute mess which constitutes the station network.
Why not bite the bullet, put them on sweet heart deals for say the next 5-10 years and in the meantime roll out a massive training programme for non-unionised labour or create a quasi governmental train driver department with explicit no strike terms like the police?
We rid ourselves of these unions holding public infrastructure to ransom and existing employees get good deals…
Or just pass legislation making it a threat to national security for anyone involved in the mass movement of the public to go on strike and destroy them financially if they strike… either or!
It’s not over pay for tube drivers, it’s over terms and conditions. More clickbait.
I will always support workers asking for better pay and conditions. Solidarity!
The can fuck right off, respectfully
OUT BROTHERS OUT!!!
Union membership costs less than £20 a month, unless you are a member of the baron class, it’s in your interest to join and maybe you will also have someone backing you in your pay claim.
Get the whole UK to strike for pay, these so called bosses are taking home millions a year of our work then tax us to fuck
Minimum service law now.
I swear right-wing nonces always post these rage bait titles!
Reddit is quite literally one of the only places where everyone apparently supports these strikes. Feels like a psyop.
The transport network should be designated as an essential service like the police. It’s perfectly possible to do. And yes, more automation can’t come soon enough. This isn’t an unpopular view outside Reddit.
Driverless trains can’t arrive soon enough.
I have a friend who runs a district line train. Gets paid £75k a year. Between stops he has enough time and space (in the cavernous cabin of those trains) to do workouts, read, you name it.
It’s an important but NOT A HARD job! A £69k entry salary is more than enough!
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Automate it.
these people really do need to disappear. automate their jobs into oblivion.
Their average salary is £63k
Up the workers!
A labour government that bends over to appease every strike will naturally lead to more striking.
Because why wouldn’t they.
this is just not the time. Self defeating tbh.
They are already paid a very good wage for what they do imo. But I’m not going to pretend to be super informed on the finer details of it, so if someone wants to educate me on why they deserve even more please feel free (no sarcasm, genuine). Yes I realise they need to be paid well to have a calm mental state as their job requires full-focus, but to me an average salary of £60k is nothing to sneeze at. It happens too often and feels like they take advantage of their role as a necessity for many.
I wish the NHS would get the same union backing them as the TfL because it seems like they’re so much more successful at it – I’m guessing the profitability is a factor?
given that for the majority of these the strikes are called off after further negotiations, I think the headline should be:
# Tube drivers and other staff vote to strike over pay
can save “do strike” for if it actually happens.
Open the job up to the General public Stop nepotism
Isn’t there a song about this?
I see I’m in after people started complaining about workers who have benefitted from being unionised continuing to use it to counteract the exploitative forces of capitalism.
I’d have more sympathy with train drivers if they weren’t on strike all the time. At least it feels the way.
I get the need of course. But when they earn £63k with benefits, it looks greedy and exploitative; especially to people already adversarial to unions. They could use thier considerable influence to elevate other areas who are well below the average salary instead of once again of once again appearing to only be looking for more money for themselves. Especially of the package offered does look above inflation; it’s certainly not the worst offer I’ve seen.
I think at some point they need to consider that commuters will be asking for automation just to ensure a consistent service too. Trains need to run to ensure people can get around. You can’t always just work from home all the time. At least give it a year or two because there’s only so much sympathy available for a service that is consistently late, cancelled, expensive and unreliable.
I’m truly shocked.
If the salaries go up does that mean we have to pay more for a ticket? It’s getting really unaffordable to travel in London
*edited to mean pay *more* for a ticket.
The title is a bit unassuming as it’s actually all staff that are part of the RMT union who have been advised to strike so it’s also station staff, controllers, control centre…. the list is endless
Omg can they just fuck off? Replace them with robots already
Automation is far too costly given the absolute mess which constitutes the station network.
Why not bite the bullet, put them on sweet heart deals for say the next 5-10 years and in the meantime roll out a massive training programme for non-unionised labour or create a quasi governmental train driver department with explicit no strike terms like the police?
We rid ourselves of these unions holding public infrastructure to ransom and existing employees get good deals…
Or just pass legislation making it a threat to national security for anyone involved in the mass movement of the public to go on strike and destroy them financially if they strike… either or!
It’s not over pay for tube drivers, it’s over terms and conditions. More clickbait.
I will always support workers asking for better pay and conditions. Solidarity!
The can fuck right off, respectfully
OUT BROTHERS OUT!!!
Union membership costs less than £20 a month, unless you are a member of the baron class, it’s in your interest to join and maybe you will also have someone backing you in your pay claim.
Get the whole UK to strike for pay, these so called bosses are taking home millions a year of our work then tax us to fuck
Minimum service law now.
I swear right-wing nonces always post these rage bait titles!
Reddit is quite literally one of the only places where everyone apparently supports these strikes. Feels like a psyop.
The transport network should be designated as an essential service like the police. It’s perfectly possible to do. And yes, more automation can’t come soon enough. This isn’t an unpopular view outside Reddit.
Driverless trains can’t arrive soon enough.
I have a friend who runs a district line train. Gets paid £75k a year. Between stops he has enough time and space (in the cavernous cabin of those trains) to do workouts, read, you name it.
It’s an important but NOT A HARD job! A £69k entry salary is more than enough!
