To not understand what the RMT are in a snit about?

[Sistanotcista]

Going to try and post a link to this article, but it might not work. This is the important extract: “If you earned, on average, £44,000 a year, wouldn’t you put up and shut up just now and thank your lucky stars that you’re fortunate enough to have a job which pays at least ten grand more than the UK’s median annual income of £31,772 (to the Office of National Statistics).”

Why on earth are they striking for better pay? I get that we would all like more (of course!) but their salaries seem pretty fair. What have I missed?

It'll be junior doctors.

Ballot preparations have already begun.

Ask will be a 35% pay rise to restore parity with the real term cuts since 2007.

Exactly. DH will be on strike next week. Once the signallers down tools, the railways will ground to a halt. No one is going anywhere.

This is done for good reason. If you had your terms and conditions of work mucked around, you are justified to strike.

In my mind train drivers should be compared with pilots, signallers air traffic controllers. Their role carries a huge safety risk and the timings to deliver are down to the minute.

A train driver saved a life when I was on a train a month or so ago.

Since Network Rail was fully taken over fully by the Government in 2014/15, people conditions have declined massively. Pay rises are a thing of the past, pensions declined and It’s a toxic management culture (first hand experience).

Although not striking, on top of the front line staff, there’s also a lot of amazingly talented people at Network Rail with a social conscience who could earn far more in the private sector - civil, electrical engineer, specialist railway lawyers, commercial teams. But the focus is on placating the Government and hence people fall to the bottom.

I wonder if they may shoot themselves in the foot with this one.Record numbers of people are WFH and will be doing so again even more if this goes on .Problem is if they get a rise who pays for it? Commuters have bills too! Public sympathy will not be with them .

Tbh, I wish more industries would stand up and strike for better pay and conditions especially nurses and teachers.

Good for NR employees. Hopefully strike action has a positive impact.