Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Wed Aug 12, 2015 7:07 pm  

LifeLongHKRFan wrote:

Have you seen the salary of a tube driver? Compare it to an A&E doctor and then tell me they don't get paid enough.

Starting Salary of a Speciality Doctor with the NHS is £37,176
Starting Salary of a newly qualified Tube Driver is £49,673

Also Tube drivers work on average 35 hours per week. Anything more and they get paid overtime.

Also the Tube Drivers get 43 days paid holiday a year too and have been offered an extra 2k per year for working these shifts on weekends only. Unlike police and nurses, they have negotiated above inflation wage increases. In London, it seems the court of public opinion is firmly against them. I wonder why.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:16 pm  

Strikers should be regarded amongst people found guilty of treason, bestiality or supporting Hull by all others in society.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Wed Aug 12, 2015 10:30 pm  

Pickering Red wrote:

Are you Arthur Scargill's lovechild?

I see you haven't bothered to read the effing detail in my initial post either, so if you are one of those fans who travel down on Friday and get off the train, then you will need a second mortgage for the taxi fare to the hotels after a 2 to 3 hour wait for one. It's likely coach passengers travelling down on Friday will need to get used to staring at tarmac for an extra few hours, cork it up or just pee in their pants.

I guess you could just walk to your hotel and enjoy the sights on the way ......That's what I'll be doing when I step off the train at Kings Cross ......Do you remember walking, or are you too old to do that now? ......If so, my apologies!

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 4:49 am  

How anybody can support this strike is beyond me! It's disgusting and completely unjustified when you compare it to what people in the NHS/ Armed Forces / Emergency Services have to put up with, and what they get in return.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:31 am  

bob bob bobin robin wrote:

How anybody can support this strike is beyond me! It's disgusting and completely unjustified when you compare it to what people in the NHS/ Armed Forces / Emergency Services have to put up with, and what they get in return.

They should have joined a union.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:02 am  

Sheldon wrote:

They should have joined a union.

What a load of complete crap!

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:05 am  

bob bob bobin robin wrote:

What a load of complete crap!

Why?

Or they should leave their jobs and apply to be a tube driver, if it's so loving brilliant.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:47 am  

Sheldon wrote:

Why?

Or they should leave their jobs and apply to be a tube driver, if it's so loving brilliant.

Because they've chosen to do something worthwhile in their lives by choosing to help provide a vital service to the people within their country. By doing so they have clearly wavered their right to a union, I get that, but what they don't want to see is overpaid & underworked prats (who basically push a lever back and forth all day) deciding that their fat wedge salary isn't enough, so they're going to make other peoples lives a misery in the process. It's pathetic. And the attitude from people like you i.e. "should have joined a union" (which is thankfully a minority!) is infuriating to those that sacrifice a great deal more than what they are actually paid to do.

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 7:49 am  

Sheldon wrote:

Why?

Or they should leave their jobs and apply to be a tube driver, if it's so loving brilliant.

The problem with applying to be a tube driver is that the unions have held tfl to ransom so much that tfl aren't allowed to advertise externally for tube drivers unless they prove that they can't find a suitable candidate internally. Basically the union have them by the short and curlys!

Re: London Underground Tube Strike on Fri 28th Aug : Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:02 am  

bob bob bobin robin wrote:

How anybody can support this strike is beyond me! It's disgusting and completely unjustified when you compare it to what people in the NHS/ Armed Forces / Emergency Services have to put up with, and what they get in return.

Well said that man.