Rail Union Makes Wild Holiday Demand After Labour Caves on Pay Deal
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association is demanding 38 days off a year and a 35-hour workweek for its members, following last week’s 14% pay rise for train drivers from the Government. The Express has more.
A letter sent to members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) last week said the union had asked Great Western Railway (GWR) to increase their holiday entitlement to 38 days per year including bank holidays.
The TSSA – which represents train service controllers, ticket officers and gate line personnel – was one of three trade unions to meet Department for Transport (DfT) officials yesterday for talks about pay rises.
It comes after the Government agreed a 14% pay hike for train drivers last week.
The letter, reported by the Telegraph, said: “I have ensured that the team that is likely to meet with DfT are briefed and aware of your aspirations in advance of any such meeting between TSSA and the DfT.”
The TSSA said the GWR holiday request was not put forward as part of Tuesday’s pay negotiations. …
Tuesday’s meetings saw representatives from the TSSA, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and Unite meet DfT officials to push for pay increases for their members.
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It would all depend on what their current deal is with GWR. 30 days annual leave excluding bank holidays was normal for long term staff years ago under BR, so it would depend on how many years they need to climb up to the maximum, Decades ago, I was a member of the TSSA (had to be, as it was a “closed shop”) and I used to have 30 days plus public BHs after a while.
Ask Gov departments how it works for them, such as the Treasury.
Let’s all have more holiday and work fewer hours – as long as someone else is paying!
Trebles all round!
I didn’t get 25 days until I was in my 49s.
I met an American on a cruise recently who said he had never before had a two week holiday.
We cannot be competitive with such an expensive public sector.
I agree 30 days excluding bank holidays was certainly the norm when I was working (a long time ago now!). Having said that you had to have been with the company for 3 years. Something along those iines (no pun intended) I don’t believe would be too excessive.
The various railways have been on work to rules or strikes for the past 13 years. They will never work again on public holidays or many school holidays.
The railways will be reduced to a Tues to Thurs service. Most people have already adapted to the poor service by using alternative transport, staying home or travelling Tues to Thurs.
Having put up with the closed shop train drivers unions for years and all the delays they have caused, I wish them nothing but ill.
38 days isn’t a great deal but I have to say the standard of the workers on British railways is pretty crap. Complete disregard for passengers, one wonders why they went into customer service. Very expensive trains – you can travel to the other side of Europe for less than the cost of a ticket to York. Cramped, tired, dirty carriages. Horrible stations almost as bad as British airports. Probably not worth describing the reliability issues. This is proof that they don’t take their green agenda seriously. They couldn’t do more to make public transport a nightmare.
Well – whoever could have predicted that?
Feed the crocodile……..
Use British railways and develop PTSD because we offer several flavpurs of hell.
Like the Cenobytes in Hellraiser.
I have a 40+ hours work week and no fixed number of holidays at all, I’m just allowed to ask for taking some days off if I feel inclined to do so (which I usually don’t as I usually don’t think that’s a wise thing to do). Which means I’m usually 4 days off over Christmas and maybe 1 or 2 days additionally 1 – 3 times per year. And this has been going on for the last 22 years.
Can’t help wondering what admin type train personnel do that they need over 7 weeks/ year to recover from that.
I imagine that the job is infinitely repetitive and quite boring. The upside would be knowing that you are responsible for the lives of hundreds of people, thereby affirming a level of responsibility commensurate with your abilities. I suppose if you are of a dextrous and lively frame of mind then such a job could become tedious. The most important thing is to match jobs with the utmost of the talent available to you. Britain fares the worst in this regard. An American economist took a look and saw straightaway that real talent is being missed entirely by this economy.
If you want in in Christian terms you sold your birthright for a mess of pottage. There is no simple way back. The warning signs were there since Mike Leigh’s remarkably prescient play called Abigail’s Party.
The entry of the Christ spirit into the world was something that can only happen once. Christianity existed in England long before Jesus of Nazareth. The association with this belief system and these islands is way older and way more significant than people recognise.,These islands have seen the entry of the Christ spirit. Don’t throw all of that away in a time of uncertainty. There is far more to Christianity than people commonly understand.
I am only surprised that they are not asking to just work for 38 days a year.
Socialists dislike Kipling (far too “nationalistic” and right wing for them).
If they held their snobby little noses and read The Danegeld, they might learn something about giving in to threats.
If you think HS2 is too expensive, wait until it’s up and running like the Elizabeth Line, with the threat of an unreliable service .
This is worse than the 1970s and its not two months since Starmfuhrer became Prime Minister.
I won’t say he was elected or that he ‘won’ the election because with only 1 in 5 votes, he did not.