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Tube Drivers get £50k Deal.

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  • Dan:_4
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    Andy_L wrote: »
    Is this £50k basic or does it include overtime/shift/unsocial hours etc?

    They are not on 50k. Current proposals could see some drivers on 50k by 2015 - and that's only if the current RPI rate stays the same which is highly unlikely.
  • Dan:_4
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    somethingcorporate wrote: »
    It wasn't a fully detailed green paper on how I would implement such a plan, it was merely a gripe about the equity of the situation. If it takes a tube driver 20 years to get to 50k then great, but it doesn't. It's hardly a reward for effort, risk or expertise. Arguably a london bus driver has a far harder life having to deal with the public / london traffic etc than a tube driver yet earns what, £30k-£35k?

    A London bus driver does not require the same level of training as a tube train driver.
  • MoneySaverLog
    MoneySaverLog Posts: 3,232 Forumite
    Are there any jobs going on the tube as a driver, can we apply?
  • Dan:_4
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    edited 5 October 2011 at 7:35PM
    MoneySaverLog wrote: »
    Are there any jobs going on the tube as a driver, can we apply?

    It's not that easy unfortunately, they will only hire trainee drivers internally so you will need to get employed at London Underground as, maybe, a Station Assistant to start with.
  • nicko33
    nicko33 Posts: 1,125 Forumite
    Dan: wrote: »
    you will need to get employed at London Underground as, maybe, a Station Assistant to start with.
    and what duties do they have?
    More than just pressing "stop" and "start" surely, so they should be on even more money...
  • somethingcorporate
    somethingcorporate Posts: 9,449 Forumite
    Dan: wrote: »
    A London bus driver does not require the same level of training as a tube train driver.

    and that is a justification for paying significantly higher wages?
    Thinking critically since 1996....
  • Dan:_4
    Dan:_4 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    somethingcorporate wrote: »
    and that is a justification for paying significantly higher wages?

    Of course. A tube driver has much more resposnability.
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    why pay someone £50k to do a job when there are thousands of people readily available who would do the job just as well for £30k. That is just wasting peoples money.

    why pay more than 1k for a handbag when you can get a perfectly good one made by small children in asia for less than a fiver down the market?

    perhaps because there is an intrinsic 'quality' to industries and their products that don't just try to cut labour costs and the living standards of their worker?

    believe it or not there is value in stuff that isn't monetary.
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    ninky wrote: »
    why pay more than 1k for a handbag when you can get a perfectly good one made by small children in asia for less than a fiver down the market?

    perhaps because there is an intrinsic 'quality' to industries and their products that don't just try to cut labour costs and the living standards of their worker?

    believe it or not there is value in stuff that isn't monetary.

    What are you going on about?

    Are you suggesting we need "designer" tube drivers?
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    Dan: wrote: »
    A London bus driver does not require the same level of training as a tube train driver.

    and a tube driver does not require the same level of training as a nurse, or have the same level of responsibility for the lives of others.
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