Train Strike

Wallace1492

Well, railway workers propsing to strike when a driver gets diciplined for throwing a sickie to watch a football match.

Sack the lot of them!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-16620288

sketchley

Lucky to still have job. If someone in my firm got caught like that they would be out.

mudcow007

Sketchley wrote:

Lucky to still have job. If someone in my firm got caught like that they would be out.

+1

how much was he being paid to have a paycut of £20,000?!

bails87

mudcow007 wrote:

Sketchley wrote:

Lucky to still have job. If someone in my firm got caught like that they would be out.

+1

how much was he being paid to have a paycut of £20,000?!

Minimum wage works out at under 12k per year, so I guess anywhere from £29k upwards.

"Almost £20,000" could be anything from £17k.

I think a typical train driver will be earning at least in the mid 30s.

clarkey cat

Lucky to still have job. If someone in my firm got caught like that they would be out.

Why pull a sickie? Just put it down to BD.

What an amateur.

sketchley

In other news

http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/rmt-rejects ... /201218490

and

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 201194789/

Stevo_666

Beat you to it on the second one Sketchley ;-)

Oh dear, Bob Crow rears ugly head again - a man paid £145k a year to make commuters lives a misery.