Right, let's knock this religion BS right on its head. It ain't that and using it as an argument for/against is ridiculous .
Let's put it like this as an example. You work a 5 day week and have quite a few Saturdays off in your link and say one Sunday a month, maybe two, and with the Sunday being fairly easy to get rid of, you have the reasonable ability to plan weekends, especially if a week of rest days is involved afterwards. (You achieve this by working enough hours in 4 weeks to accrue the time off for the 5th week. Sunday is
overtime. Bear this in mind, it is crucial to understanding the mentality over Sundays.
Say management and the union both then thrash out a deal and propose a 4 day week with Sundays in. Now if you are on say 50k a year and are offered 55k what looks an excellent amount of money to any non driver out there, suddenly doesn't make financial sense, You've suddenly lost your week of rest days, those regular Saturdays and Sundays off are far more likely to suddenly become tues-thurs off, Getting a Sunday off becomes a lot harder to get off as fewer people will work them any longer and when you add up the cost of what you earnt the Sunday as O/T crazily, is now worth less as a regular day to work, you should understand that if you want drivers to change something they
A: like
B. Use to have adequate recovery time from a hard week
C. Book holidays on that week off
D. Don't have to work.
then you have to both financially compensate and also guarantee that the weekends off will not be place on the end of a week of nights or squeezed to the absolute minimum to ensure adequate cover on a weekend.
Now we can have another
@whhistle style post here and say to me if you don't like it, get another job. Unfortunately for those people that tend to say this very right wing reactionary comment straight out of the Daily Mail playbook, your political party of choice created this internal market and there are a lot of us who are rather savvy when it comes to economics and also self aware enough to know a little about supply and demand and how to play that system. And it's also excellent at passing on this knowledge to one another.
To term it simply. Make it worth their while and you will get past one hurdle, then you have to convince the drivers who will not work overtime at all. ((A lot more than you think). Finally, change a well established and extremely popular way of working to get time off in lieu, (the single biggest barrier to change)
Oh and one final point, would you give up a weeks worth of holidays? (4 day week and Sundays are heavily linked together, a 4 day week costs annual leave.