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Train Drivers Get Bumper Payrise.
Labour gives in to its union pay masters again meanwhile old people wil freeze.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.For a governemnt that talks about getting growth they seem happy to avoid any changes to working practices to umprove effiency, and to pay more to the public sector. Pensioners on £12000 a year get their £200 fuel allowance taken off them, but train drivers who earn 3-4 times as much get a boost worth about £2000 pa
Looks like the drivers on LNER will be striking from now until November due to "industrial relations" - I'd love to know the context.
It is inevitable that others who are paid from the public purse will be queing up for some of the action, but Mr Nick Thomas-Symonds disagrees and says that's an "unfair charachterisation " - he's being naive.
I loved this bit...
"We promised we would sit down and find solutions, and people expressed scepticism about that, but actually that is precisely what we have done in Government."
Throwing inflation busting money around is easy for this Government, but it is not a "solution" - it will cause problems later.
I take back what I said about the 15% increase being spread over 3 years so 'only' around £2000pa- I assumed it was the next 3 years but I read it's being backdated to 2022 with around 5% extra for 2022, then 5% on top of the new salary in 2023/24 and 5% on top of that in 2024/25. And yet there's no certainty the members will accept it- they could push for a bit more and the government wouldn't want to see more strikes so would fudge an increase
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