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It shouldn’t wind you up, it is what it is. End of the day these private companies and their shareholders (TOCs and FOCs) willingly pay these rates. Ignore them. But it is a completely fair rail price increase debate when staffing costs make up around a quarter of the ticket price that...

I'm married to a consultant surgeon and would say that in terms of basic salary a driver is nowhere near what a consultant can be earning. Having a medical degree certainly indicates that you will have little difficulty in learning the theoretical part of the job; however in terms of passing...

Worth noting that the Driver RDW Agreement didn’t naturally end. ASLEF pulled it a week or two prior to it’s natural expiry. Think that’s worth noting as some reps are allowing us to believe it simply ended and the company weren’t interested in a renewal, which is untrue.

Although there was a fire warden on duty, someone had agreed to step up (as had happened in the past). But for some reason, a little while later, after agreeing to do so on this occasion subsequently decided they were not going to.

It wasn't 'not renewed', it was pulled before it expired. It may sound pedantic but I honestly believe that is an important difference. The agreement was basically 'ripped up' it was not simply 'allowed to expire' at its expiry date.

The TPE Rest Day agreement was ended early by ASLEF. I believe its natural expiry date was 23rd December.

From a staffing point of view Brexit has had zero impact on our TOC. Can't say if it has driven (up or down) passenger numbers; but any survey into it would be heavily influenced by the COVID impact.

FWIW I agree with you on that point. But that cannot the policy of ASLEF when they have (had) written into the TPE RDW agreement that within certain timescales RD worker is to be used ahead of spare cover and additional daily leave can be granted depending on RD availability. I can't see...

To be fair to say it’s done without consultation isn’t true. It was consulted and discussed during productivity talks.

If by banging tables and attempting to intimidate. And backing members who commit horrible safety violations, makes you a ‘fantastic negotiator’ then I guess you’re right.

Only benefit I can think of is that you can stop the job nationwide and use it as a industrial relation threat/crow bar. Public sector is going to be torn to shreds to help cover the costs of the pandemic. We need to tread a fine line between ‘industry support’ and being fully nationalised...

It certainly was and TPE asked ASLEF to sanction a one year extension. Which was not only turned down but ASLEF withdrew the running one a week early. Now that agreement (which was frankly outstanding from a driver point of view) no longer exists. I imagine TPEs hands are tied and even if they...

Have you given up opportunities in your current career on the off chance you are successful in a process that has a less than 1% success rate? Getting the ‘you’ve made it through the first sift’ letter is more communication than usual. It is a shame that an attempt (that maybe could’ve been...

The group bourdon is a strange phenomenon. I’ve seen qualified forces aircrew (who, have passed a difficult selection process previously) fail these tests. and I’ve seen one candidate score quote by OPC, ‘one of the best performing candidates he’d ever seen’ proceed onto training but just...

Sift will be done on percentile. So the results effectively league tabled. You may have got the same score as last time but depends on how everyone else did.

Agenda? Typical smoke and mirrors. And as a TPE driver I would have expected you to look into it more yourself. How happy are you continually being lied to by some (not all) of the reps? You post your ‘facts’ and ill Post mine, if you know anything about the ‘disciplines’ then you’ll know that...

If drivers really wanted the ‘facts’ those inflammatory letters full of nonsense were not the place to start.

Yes. But depending on your career history it is likely your current employer have taken a punt on you and paid a lot for your training. How long would you stay at TPE? Be prepared for potential questions about loyalty.

Thought that was a Northern unit tbh

I can hand on heart tell you that the issues my (failing) TOC have are little to do with anything government (of any persuasion) have done. Ps I’m about as far away from Tory as you could imagine.