Tube strikes - Boxing day!

[TheAnimus]

I suspect they come under train drivers... thing is that averages out across the whole of that catagory, i suspect the LU drivers bring the average up somewhat!

I think it even depends on which line your working on too, some have more militant unions than others.

RMT chairman Bob Crow who earns more than the directors of TFL, would make a brilliant monopolist.

[mycarsavw]

And London/the south east gets the lions share of the transport funding as well (according to the local rag £2700-ish per head, as opposed to £5 per head in the North East) so I can guess where they are getting the idea for such a bump in pay from.

Yet the SE annual rail fares have increased by 5.9% making a season ticket from Ramsgate to London £5.5k

[shakerist]

*contains strong language*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UymKurTBdhw

[Biscuit]

strong but fair!

[Gerrard]

So, we either pay them triple pay or let them go on strike and don't pay them anything?

Also, I would guess the 43 days holiday includes 8 bank holidays (it's the way it works for us), so if they work Boxing Day, they simply get to use the day another time and therefore don't need another day off in lieu. Besides, if I had to work next week (and there are plenty of people who are working over Xmas, both in this country and OOA), I wouldn't get any extra pay at all.

[Predator]

...I'm in the wrong job!

Wheres the application form

43 Days Holiday, 50k a year and triple pay on 'special' days. Plus a union that seems to be able to get anything it wants.

I'd most definitely have a 3XS system then

[TheAnimus]

In fairness I think the £50k a year includes the pay from the special days.

I think the basic is only about £40k, which for a job that doesn't really require anything special, half of them can't even speak English clearly (the announcements are of course automatic, but some of them find it easier to press the talk button than locate the "please stand clear of the doors" button again)

[Barrichello]

ouch....glad I'm not in London this year!

Luckily never use the tube for London travel so no big deal for me, but friends in North London who only have the tube for Transport pretty annoyed their Boxing day shopping plans screwed now

[alpha channel]

£5.5K for a season ticket? (if there was a dropped jaw emoticon it'd be on there as well).

[Barrichello]

£5.5K for a season ticket? (if there was a dropped jaw emoticon it'd be on there as well).

Yeah that's crazy money. I only pay £680 a year for gold season ticket, but i still always buy it at the year before prices in December to beat the rises for a year, feel for people who do the same but have to fork out around £5k though - ouch!

[santa claus]

Perhaps you should show these upstarts that you don't need them and travel around your fair City just like the rest of the Country i.e. with no tube at all. Then, when you're drunk and expecting to be ferried around by someone working on a public holiday, you can fork out the taxi fare instead. See how much that costs you .

[roachcoach]

I think the basic is only about £40k

*only* wouldnt be the way I'd phrase it.

Perhaps I am being unfair but it's far from my definition of a skilled job.

Heck it's not a kick in the arse off air traffic controllers salary, I know who I think earns the money...