I have no idea what if anything they are paid and care even less. But let us assume you are right for once. £750 is a lot less for five shifts than what I would earn as a conductor. Have you seen the length of their diagrams? £750 for nearly 60 hours work. Umm about two thirds of what I get...Don't managers come cheap these days.
You don't say. And there was I thinking they were doing it for the love of the company.
I've had a quick look at the ITT issued in February 2015.
Unless this was later revised, it seems that your claim that a second member of staff is "mandated" on all services is rather wrong. Even on those services which don't meet the exception criteria, the only requirement is to "plan" to provide a second member of staff, not to actually provide one.
What do you mean? Presumably the first part suggests that DOO implementation (which can't happen yet anyway) would remove the need for managers to work trains. The second part, though - how can any payment to drivers "cover the problem" of them going out of competency, medical etc.?
ASLEF Negotiated the settlement out of sheer panic on the part of Northern management. Well done to ASLEF for finding themselves in a position to achieve it. But it hardly takes a genius to figure out that drivers of the trains that is the whole purpose of the business will always have the whip hand.
I’d have thought that’d potentially be an even bigger spanner in Northern’s works, if there’s anything left of it by then.
Interesting, as when a similar happening occurred recently on Virgin trains, it led to a strike by the majority of the rest of their workforce
No it isn't. I suggest you read the franchise agreement. Even Northern have confirmed that they don't plan to have a second person aboard every train and some stations will be staffed instead.
Where is that definition, please?
Mick Cash's actually a lot cleverer than you think. His main aim is to ensure that his statements make the national press, and gets free publicity that way, something he is very good at doing. If he makes a well balanced statement in perfect English with no hint of controversy he knows the national press will not pick up and it will be a waste of time, stuck at the back of the RMT website for no one to read.Highly amusing. As I said earlier, I reckon you must be Mick Cash (or a member of his family/fan club).
You suggest that others only read/hear what they want to but ignore the fact that your 'hero' has created many of the difficulties himself, through appalling communications, irrelevant issues and living in the 1970s.
Have you ever tried taking those blinkers off ?
Absolutely. Interesting that now a lot of people are picking up on the fact that fare increases are being used to boost profits of foreign owned rail companies. That is thanks to the RMT's blunt campaign of the truth. Asking why we are paying German state railways to undermine safety on our own is one of the best publicity leaflets I have ever seen. It gets right under the skin does that.
Thanks.
...suggests that the paragraph doesn't apply to all services that'll run DOO, but it seems contradictory. However, it doesn't mandate that a second person is actually provided, only that the train crew diagrams provide for one.