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Offer made to ASLEF negotiating team. Needs to be voted on by the members. Merry Christmas.

I'd go for the 07:15 if I were you, just to be on the safe side. Cannot say for definite what will be running and what won't but it's unlikely that two 'Cruisers' will be caped in a row. 15 uncovered turns (out of about 80) on Sunday at various Depots on the GN. I'm sure the last minute...

It's not as simple as that. Traditionally the Railway has dragged it's heels come paying up time and I would say that the average month the pay rise is actually seen on the payslip is October. This is after the usual two or three months of wrangling/pleading poverty/table thumping from various...

£38k actually, but what's £2k between friends. I do not have those figures. I would be surprised if it was in the top 10% but as has been mentioned previously headline salary can be misleading when other conditions have to be taken into account Er, ok that is fair comment, just totally...

I have no problem with taking a pay freeze if the Company is struggling, personally. Driver rates of pay are notoriously difficult to compare between different companies due to length of turn, compulsory Sunday working, Bank Holiday arrangements, Annual Leave entitlements and a whole load of...

No, thank God, but they (or rather their apologists/sympathisers/fervent followers) do tend to run most large businesses in this country, and treat the workers accordingly.

Just going back to your earlier post, Jon, I don't think 3% is unreasonable given that FCC have done very well thank you very much. If they had made a loss then it's a different matter, obviously and it amazes me that so many intelligent people fall for the 'recession' red herring put about by...

I'm very courteous when I decline to go to work on one of my days off. There was no action earlier because FCC hadn't put a 0% offer on the table. The pay review is late every year, making this year look nothing out of the ordinary, until the percentage was mentioned. There is plenty of...

If you think waiting seven months to be offered 1%, after originally being offered 0%, when the company has seen it's profits rise by 5.2% and shareholder dividend rise again by 10% in a 'recession', when in the companies own words they are "recession proof", is a good offer, then you need to...

No, Stu!

Apart from Kings Cross, obviously

Apparently talks broke up late this afternoon with no agreement being reached. An offer was made, the bottom line figure being a 1% rise backdated to April with a further 0.25% (or £95) on the headline salary from December. Then April 2010 it was 2.2% with a further 1% based on productivity...

73110 is right. The offer (1%, one year deal) was rejected ysterday afternoon and talks are continuing today. Reps are going up to London this afternoon for a meeting, probably to be told to spread the word to Drivers to get back to working your says off and "stop rocking the boat".

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/video/?from=debate&gid=debate/2009-11-12a.366.3

So what happens at Kings Cross to Hull Trains, Grand Central and the lit that will start running shortly having bought the rights to use the GNER brand? Joining the GN to GNER made sense a few years ago but not anymore.

These are not comparable companies. Freightliner are well in the dung financially so there is a different level of expectation. When they were doing well the staff were rewarded with (comparatively) a higher rate of pay than the average and personally I have no argument with that way of dealing...

FCC do of course have seven days to come up with a reasonable offer to put to ASLEF before the members get ballotted on strike action, so it's not all done and dusted just yet.

Mary Grant is running the sinking ship in the interim.

So, farewell then Jim Morgan, who has departed as MD of FCC, to be replaced in the short term by Mary Grant, who is First Group Head of Trains. Mary Grant is the reason that Elaine Holt could not see herself staying with FCC , due to a clash of personalities, and so left. It seems Morgan was...

First Group won't be handing the keys back at FCC as it's a cash cow for them. Like all Capitalists, they like to keep all the money for themselves and baulk at the idea of sharing the wealth with the people that created it for them. Anyway, from The Times today...