You don"t worry about the city square mile bankers and their bonus"s at Christmas on top of huge wages all year? But prefer to try and drag the train drivers down to the level of workers using food banks perhaps? We have to drag people up to the bankers wages, rather than cut the most successful union and it"s workers down to poverty zero hour CONservative level Teddy!

If someone is working for a private company the wage level has to relate to revenue.

If someone is working as a civil servant or in other words being paid by the taxpayer, then the wage should reflect the value and responsibility level of the job.....but it still can't be divorced from governmental revenue.

Though I recognise that governments today use MMT and so rely on the never never.

But you would think that at that base level wages are not that complicated. At least to a reasonable person.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Of course the BOEs performance is lamentable and they are probably in control and responsible for the current inflation situation.

But rail workers are over=paid and most of the public regard their demands, and them, as a pain in the a***e.

It offends natural justice to give in to their demands.

It is ridiculous to suggest a train driver could be dragged into using a food bank, they earn fantastic money, what do they actually do except depress a lever occasionally?

The rest of them earning 44K plus they are hardly the brightest and need clearing out.

As a 'leftie' I am not going to be bullied by freeloaders like this either.

Unions have been necessary where would working people be, but this is taking the p*ss.

Of course society is badly in need of re-balancing away from a privileged few, but this is only driving the public away from the labour movement.

Train drivers earn a small fortune

imagine being unsackable, uneducated, and paid a ton of money. For doing a job that requires all the talent and self-discipline of a lolly-pop man.

and regarding recruitment , getting a job there ?

''its not what you know, its who you know''

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

Good plan. Let's pay everyone a million a year and give them a free house and a two day working week - mind you cabbies will still be bleating about Uber drivers getting the same.

I have no time for the Eton elite but I also have no time for the money grabbing Unions who hold every day folk to ransom. CP I am very much working class, born and bred in Thornton Heath whose parents had very little money.
Who am I jealous of? Do you not read my posts before you go on a rant? The last part of your post describes my own son.
Think you need to take a chill pill

Just checked the tube driver is on approximately £70k pa very good shift roster lots of rest days. Not bad life really

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Edited by Spiderman (12 Jun 2022 7.45pm)