newtownmgr
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Most will work remotely if needed but the railways (especially Northern) haven't adopted 21st century working practices.
Well if you can find away to allow me to drive my train on my PS5 I’ll happily work remotely.
As regards working practices, despite what the Dft/Rdg etc like to tell you & the media we have continually evolved in our working practices & they are vastly different from even 20 years ago. The Sunday issue isn’t down to the staff it’s down to the companies not willing to employ the correct amount of staff & the continued reliance on overtime. We now have a government who want to force Sundays on to drivers for a measly 4% when drivers on other companies have been paid handsomely to give them up. We will end up with the scenario of drivers on the same contracts but working for different companies with between £15 & £20k difference in pay. If they want a one size fits with everyone on the same contract then pay everyone the same.
Apologies to admin if this reply as gone off on a tangent but i believe it’s connected. I don’t think for one minute the disruption tomorrow is connected to the dispute other than many are getting fed up with putting themselves out for companies that don’t recognise that staff morale is rock bottom.
Well if you can find away to allow me to drive my train on my PS5 I’ll happily work remotely.
As regards working practices, despite what the Dft/Rdg etc like to tell you & the media we have continually evolved in our working practices & they are vastly different from even 20 years ago. The Sunday issue isn’t down to the staff it’s down to the companies not willing to employ the correct amount of staff & the continued reliance on overtime. We now have a government who want to force Sundays on to drivers for a measly 4% when drivers on other companies have been paid handsomely to give them up. We will end up with the scenario of drivers on the same contracts but working for different companies with between £15 & £20k difference in pay. If they want a one size fits with everyone on the same contract then pay everyone the same.
Apologies to admin if this reply as gone off on a tangent but i believe it’s connected. I don’t think for one minute the disruption tomorrow is connected to the dispute other than many are getting fed up with putting themselves out for companies that don’t recognise that staff morale is rock bottom.