Tube drivers are preparing to go on strike after rejecting a pay offer which would have raised their salaries to almost £70,000.
This is where the money goes of course. Economic rents are economic rents, whoever is claiming them. The use of market power through combination and cartel to squeeze money out of the rest of society. Tsk, eh?
It is rather comforting to know that we are living once more in the 1970s. I sort of knew my way around then.
Will they reintroduce proper newsreaders, I wonder ?
Fire them. Fire them all! Tube trains don’t need drivers. Automate the whole lot of them.
They’re just warming up. Teachers next? Does the TUC have a schedule, do you think?
And that Doris and Sid is why you’re not getting your winter fuel payment. We have a £22bm black hole to fill don’t you know?
Tell them to do one.
Remote work means people can just work on those days. OK, some people need to work shops or hospitals, but there’s enough road capacity to deal with that.
These salaries are a pisstake now. Fair enough, back in Bob Crow’s day, but since remote, we can manage longer than they can. Start giving them 0% pay rises to get their salaries back to where they should be.
Do a Reagan – sack them all and hire replacements on half-pay. Best time to do this would be beginning of August when everyone’s on holiday anyway.
I have an undying hatred for Tube drivers. They went on strike on the day of my graduation ceremony at London University in 1979. The ceremony was to have been held at the Albert Hall in the presence of the Queen Mum, then chancellor of the university. It was cancelled, and I, and hundreds of other graduates, had what should have been one of the best days of our lives ruined by those arrogant twats.
Did I mention that I have an undying hatred for Tube drivers?
@ Trick with no sleeve
IMHO the white ASLEF drivers of BR trains were far worse than the mostly black NUR drivers of Tube trains (in my commuting days there was a minority of white ASLEF drivers on the Tube but most were black NUR).
I opted to spend a bit over half my net salary on rent in order to give up commuting when ASLEF action led to my weight dropping to 8st 4lbs without my trying to lose weight through exercise. (A few years before 1979 so I don’t specifically remember the Tube strike because I was walking to work).
I am in favour of black train/tube drivers rather than white ones but I am repeatedly told that it is impossible to be anti-white racist so I can deny that I am “racist” [I am not, anyway, if one uses any *honest* definition, because I have been (and to a much smaller extent still am) a victim of ASLEF]