Recent content by Bumbler

You do know about the changes to strike laws and being able to support your colleagues in other grades restricting what you can do,you bare no ill feelings but so clearly do or you wouldn’t be bringing these issues up regularly ,I have heard of many collections by drivers at most depots across...

30 years of pay increases T&Cs negotiated by Aslef suggest it’s not just supply and demand but many many changes to the job role of a driver but let’s leave that there ,Sunday working should of been sorted properly in 1996 across all prospective Tocs it wasn’t ,the Dft will need to do some...

Jealousy It’s rather insulting to say all ops staff are low skilled and to be so dismissive of entering the drivers grade before privatisation, you know that everything is done by negotiation Aslef over the years has negotiated better had more solidarity within its specific grade and on many...

It does seem you have an issue with drivers pay and T&Cs not being fair compared to other grades if you’ve been on the railway since privatisation you’ve had plenty of opportunity to become a driver also you would know that in the early 2000s drivers moving from Toc to Toc made for very...

You are correct it’s not a choice,each Toc has to have X no.of managers per X no. of drivers and is mandated as you know , and as boring as it is to point out ,you fully understand the irony intended by my post I might add sorry for being so droll !!

And as you might know that’s not the primary function of a manager and creates more issues or maybe don’t have managers employ more drivers ?

I think it’s been said many times being able to retire with relatively short notice and practically no training of new drivers for 18 months are large factors but it’s still not a good excuse, the only way to reduce the dependence on RDW is to make it vastly more expensive for whoever is in...

There is another update from dcc hopefully you will receive it soon

SWR have asked to extend the existing agreement that is still in place .

Swr have guaranteed F/D s the amount differs from depot to depot and they still cannot cover the work required so the idea of being paid to do nothing went 25 years ago

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SWRs rest day working agreement runs until timetable change 2025 that’s why nothing has been discussed .