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In your £1000 example, over two years A 4+4% payrise 12 paychecks of £1040 12 paychecks of £1081.6 A total of £25,459, an increase of 6.08% over the previous 2 year period An 8% payrise 24 paychecks of £1080 A total of £25,920, an increase of 8% over the previous 2 year period 4+4% is less...

From the very outset of the dispute, yes. In fact the conditions are almost exactly what we were told about before the first ballot, only 4+4% is news.

It bears no relationship to these deals, and would have certainly been rejected outside of England. But it looks like the government's plan is working, even with the details published people can't see the obvious problems. Yes the RMT has an agenda, it shouldn't be a surprise that that agenda...

How on earth can a pay offer with DOO attached ever be expected to get through a member vote? So for a conductor, they're voting for 4+4%, followed by...a 100% reduction in salary because they lose their job?

I doubt they'd feel the need to go into such a detailed explanation of why they're doing it if it was just to do with making cash. The problem they're trying to find a solution for seems really obvious to me, I'm surprised people are struggling to recognise it here - a ten-person deep...

Travelling en masse isn't unique to football, neither is alcohol consumption. And whereas poor behaviour also isn't unique to the fans of the sport, it takes only a few weeks working on the railway to see the disruption and discomfort they cause when they invade public space. Anyone given a...

TfW Pay Offer from RMT website It's a sensible deal, that I'd take if offered by my English TOC. But I don't know enough about what this means for other grades to guess what they'd think of their particular terms

A shame they'll only enforce "minimum service levels" when it means an attack on the unions...but at times when no industrial action is being taken, TOCs can totally decimate timetables and screw over people wanting to make "essential journeys" as much as they like, and even bag a nice...

I've always felt like we're doing things backwards in regards to ticketing. If we had a massive overhaul and simplification of ticketing, with the near-mandatory use of e-tickets and TVMs built in from the outset, we'd be left with much fewer scenarios where an argument for retaining ticket...

But the performance fee doesn't taper off to zero. Achieving good performance on today's railway would incur great cost. Why bother when you could literally not run a single train and still receive payment?

I'd definitely disagree that it isn't the DfT. They've created an environment where poor TOC performance is not the Dft's problem, or the TOCs, but the passengers. In a system where you 1) have an obligation to make as much profit as possible and 2) have no obligation to provide any particular...

But at present, frontline, customer facing railway staff work on only one, the public timetable. A train being both a 09:13 and a 09:15 departure isn't currently something train crew and platform staff have to navigate. Instead everyone works towards the same time - the time the train is...

Surely a better option is a blanket door closing/boarding close time across the network, with *this* being advertised on all timetables and in more places. At locations where a longer time isn't necessary, train crew and dispatchers can simply start the dispatch process slightly later so that a...

At Manchester Victoria they hold out their dispatch bat

I'd assume the problem TOCs would have is that a part time worker would cost more per hour than a full time one, and most likely more than a full time worker on overtime receiving enhanced pay. If a business offers a good pension, uniform, continuous training and assessments and other benefits...

As far as I'm aware, the idea is for passengers to remain behind the yellow, and wait behind the red. There are a few benefits to the red line which I think, even though it makes the platforms uncomfortable and stressful, are worth it. - The corridor between the red and yellow lines allow for...

Oh nice! I'd never been able to get someone to sell me one from Coventry or Stoke in the past, so assumed they didn't exist, and they aren't listed on the TfGM website so gave up trying! Will definitely recommend these for visitors in the future.

Is it that bad? £3.90 for a journey between towns 13 miles apart as the crow flies, 17 miles when routed through Manchester? A journey from Manchester to Alderley Edge, same distance, but a much more direct route is more like £6 each way! In fact, a few random searches for towns 13-17 miles...

It is available either way, but no, no through ticketing from outside GM.

If your card is lost or stolen, advice is to ring immediately and have it cancelled, not to spend time looking for it. I'd hope anyone who found mine would destroy it, not leave potentially unlimited access to my bank account out of my hands!