Annetts key
Established Member
a) yes, when you start, you know that you will be doing some shift work, however read on…There is a - not enormously unreasonable - argument, that you train drivers that knew that when they took the job.
But then, also the argument that’s when they took the job, enhancements were paid.
b) you missed the bit where I said that I’m not a train driver,
c) the requirement to work unsocial hours (nights and weekends) has increased since I started, by a considerable amount, for employees that started since 2014, they can now be made to work 39 weeks of nights in a year, and 39 weekends in a year. Or if you want promotion, you are forced to accept these same conditions. That’s significantly different from before 2014.
d) in 1999 when we traded away higher enhancements for a better basic wage, we had no way of knowing what would happen in the future…
And now Network Rail’s modernisation programme wants to slash the routine infrastructure maintenance by an average of 50%. And in doing so, cut the number of infrastructure staff.