What’s so special about Sundays? Maybe train crew feel the need to be in church or some such?!
This is 2022 not 1922. A business that operates 24/7 should not be relying on volunteers for one day of the week.
I love the "its 2022" argument , the same as the "we need 21st century working conditions " argument . Why has it taken us until 21 years into the 21st century for us to start thinking about these things .
The industry was the one that put the cart before the horse trying to run sunday services without guranteeing staff coverage and relying on overtime be that enforced or completely voluntary .
If someones contract gives them the right to not work Sundays , they dont have to justify that to you , me or anyone else if they want to exercise that right .
Meanwhile outside the railway bubble that is exactly what happens in the airline industry, healthcare, retail etc etc.
I am sure railway staff would be well miffed if they turn up on a Sunday morning to go on their holidays and find their Ryanair pilot hasn’t volunteered for work.
And while I’m at it why do conductors feel they need extra payments to check tickets using the scanners. Maybe I should have got extra money when I got a new laptop?!
I know it actually costs the employers more to have Sundays in the working week by the way.
Outside that same "railway bubble" bus drivers at the same parent company have just secured an 8.9% payrise and a £750 one off payment . Im sure rail staff will be wrong though when they want some of that outside the railway bubble influence wont they .
Ill criticise any business that promises a service but does so relying on voluntary labour which leads to that service not being delivered . The railway is no different .
The ticket scanning thing has already been done to death earlier in this thread , its worth a heck of a lot to the TOC's , the TOC in question here actually come up with the idea of the incentive payment .
Let’s shut the railways at weekends so staff can have valuable family time. Maybe the same should apply to shops, pubs, emergency services etc
Nobody is suggesting that the railway should shut on a sunday , least of all not the unions who actually have a lot to gain by bringing sundays in the working week . As I earlier said it is an ASLEF charter committment and the RMT is committed to fully staffed services with a clean fully pensionable salary not reliance on overtime . Besides a few people that have never and wont ever want to work them the majority of staff get this but also rightly want their terms and conditions to be negotiated not enforced.
The cash-strapped DfT are currently paying other operators on the same lines and routes as TPE for the scanning of tickets, the benefits to the company from a marketing and insight perspective are worth the 2p.
Quite , that other operator even reported that it had saved them £10million in digital fraud . Its clearly quite valiable to tocs .
That's not at all true. You'll have Rest Days on Saturdays which you'll know far in advance. Nor are you going to work every single Sunday suddenly, probably somewhere between 1 in 3-8 (this is going to be highly TOC/depot dependent)
To be fair the talk is of a seven day railway with sunday service on par with saturday . That does probably mean more like 2 in 3 hence why its such an effort and cost to bring them inside the week .
On and yes I have worked weekends when matters have got particularly tricky and it was at the going rate (the same as in the week).
more fool you for working what was presumably overtime for flat rate .
