You may have been lauded by management as key workers, but in reality you were running empty trains about, irrelevant to the lives of most, and cushioned from being furloughed on government minimums.After working every day through the pandemic, after being lauded by management for being key workers, sacrificing weekends, giving up annual leave to cover shifts, working unsociable hours having to accept new rosters that are awful and leave you worse off each month.
I’m sorry...but F this we deserve to have a pay rise.
And if you don’t work in the industry then as far as I’m concerned your views are fairly irrelevant.
In an industry that has become an irrelevance to so many people, and relies on so much taxpayer support, I would suggest that the views of everyone, including those outside the railway cocoon, are quite relevant.