I can’t afford a house either and now I have to walk to work.
Tube drivers can hold to capital to ransom so they can basically ask for whatever salary they want, the gov will eventually have to give in.
Lol @ these comments. Workers fighting workers when we’re all overworked and underpaid.
True though.
The reason why houses are unaffordable is not due to anyone else but government policy since Thatcher.
Everyone would be much better off if we focused on building housing instead of paying others more, which will actually increase inflation for housing due to limited supply…
Paying everyone more without building, all things being as they are now, will only increase housing costs.
You could double it and still not afford it.
My salary of less than half of that isn’t either. (Bags under eyes) but my aunt was kind enough to make my father’s grave big enough to fit me in after. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
No shit. I’m on more and can only afford a 1 bed flat. We’re all in the shit.
But he’s right to highlight it. There needs to be a large scale house/apartment development. Our housing stock is old and expensive to own/run, the reality is that this needs replacing in lots of areas.
Where’s the lie
I mean, he is just stating facts.
London is a city where the people who keep it going can’t afford to live in it – madness.
By that logic people working in Tesco, or as teachers, or as junior doctors or in a myriad number of professions should all have their wages raised to at least £150K.
Wish I was in such a heavily unionised job. We’ve lost so much control of our rights by not having unions. Workers have so much power and this shit is just done to distract us from the fact that we do.
Call them selfish but they provide an essential service and want to be paid well for it, we could all take a lesson from them in standing up for ourselves. We should all be arguing for reduced hours and better pay, fuck these greedy corporations.
Well, it actually is not, especially if you have family to support or/and are renting.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a fantastic salary and it SHOULD be enough. It is just that housing market/cost of living in London is through the roof.
This headline is designed to make reader dislike the drivers for their perceived greediness, instead of bozos inflating housing prices.
Now imagine making half that and feeling sympathy still for the people who make us take rammed slow bus journeys home a few times every year. Especially love it at Christmas in the dead of a wet cold winter.
We ALL know it’s not enough to live in London but it’s double the average UK salary and more than most of us who need the tube to travel to our jobs make. They’ve had a 25% wage increase since Covid alone, well above the inflation rate and it’s still not enough. No external hiring for drivers in years either. They don’t help themselves and I genuinely feel they don’t want to open the floodgates because half of London would love these jobs with these benefits (free TfL travel, final salary pension, discounted national rail and Eurostar, discounted private health insurance and gym membership etc).
More people getting enraged by this and totally skipping past the amount of TfL workers who earn far less than this that are also striking.
£72k should be standard salary for skilled salaried workers in a rich, global city populated by the world’s uber-wealthy and dirty money.
Instead the British state advertises teaching jobs with a starting salary of £32k as if that’s a good thing.
And I can’t use the NHS app to contact my GP surgery because of “IT issues”.
The state of this country.
He’s right but also why tube drivers and not say junior doctors or anyone else, the problem is the house prices, not the salary and that is because big fortunes are buying everything so the market caters for them, for the millionaires and billionaires buying
Maybe we should all go on a strike against wealth inequality
* majority of salaries in London not enough to buy house in London
For what it’s worth I can save £750 a month on that and rent alone. If I was on £72K I’d be really comfortable.
If that’s the goal, they will be striking every month for next decade
Wow. The lie has been well and truly adopted by all newspapers, hasn’t it? Tube drivers are mostly in ASLEF. This RMT strike is the other tube workers, not drivers, and they earn substantially less. Good luck to them.
Bottom line is, they’re right. They are tied to the capital and need to be able to live here because of their shift patterns and skill set. They can’t work from home, can’t dial in to meetings on other sites.l and can’t just move to another transport system in the way we can move to another company.
However.
They’re in a good position in terms of wage, pension and other add ons. They will lose public support if they don’t take into account the national and local mood. We’re all fucked in some respects. I’d much prefer it if unions got together and targeted the government for a long term solution for public sector workers for the capital as they all need housing which isn’t far away from their base. This would benefit Londoners.
Right now it looks like greed, even if its not.
True and a fair point.
I haven’t had a pay rise since January 2024, I deserve a pay rise and if could strike for it I absolutely would! I completely stand with the strikes, we all deserve better and fair pay for our work
The drivers aren’t striking. Only around 10% of driver are members of the RMT and not all of them are on strike.
I mean…they aren’t wrong lol
It’s a pretty high salary, but to be fair their argument makes sense. It that’s your job you’d really need to live close to the network. It’s also true for lots of other London jobs too. Think lots of people need a pay rise.
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True
Nobody lying
He’s not wrong.
Join the club
I can’t afford a house either and now I have to walk to work.
Tube drivers can hold to capital to ransom so they can basically ask for whatever salary they want, the gov will eventually have to give in.
Lol @ these comments. Workers fighting workers when we’re all overworked and underpaid.
True though.
The reason why houses are unaffordable is not due to anyone else but government policy since Thatcher.
Everyone would be much better off if we focused on building housing instead of paying others more, which will actually increase inflation for housing due to limited supply…
Paying everyone more without building, all things being as they are now, will only increase housing costs.
You could double it and still not afford it.
My salary of less than half of that isn’t either. (Bags under eyes) but my aunt was kind enough to make my father’s grave big enough to fit me in after. So I’ve got that going for me. Which is nice.
No shit. I’m on more and can only afford a 1 bed flat. We’re all in the shit.
But he’s right to highlight it. There needs to be a large scale house/apartment development. Our housing stock is old and expensive to own/run, the reality is that this needs replacing in lots of areas.
Where’s the lie
I mean, he is just stating facts.
London is a city where the people who keep it going can’t afford to live in it – madness.
By that logic people working in Tesco, or as teachers, or as junior doctors or in a myriad number of professions should all have their wages raised to at least £150K.
Wish I was in such a heavily unionised job. We’ve lost so much control of our rights by not having unions. Workers have so much power and this shit is just done to distract us from the fact that we do.
Call them selfish but they provide an essential service and want to be paid well for it, we could all take a lesson from them in standing up for ourselves. We should all be arguing for reduced hours and better pay, fuck these greedy corporations.
Well, it actually is not, especially if you have family to support or/and are renting.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a fantastic salary and it SHOULD be enough. It is just that housing market/cost of living in London is through the roof.
This headline is designed to make reader dislike the drivers for their perceived greediness, instead of bozos inflating housing prices.
Now imagine making half that and feeling sympathy still for the people who make us take rammed slow bus journeys home a few times every year. Especially love it at Christmas in the dead of a wet cold winter.
We ALL know it’s not enough to live in London but it’s double the average UK salary and more than most of us who need the tube to travel to our jobs make. They’ve had a 25% wage increase since Covid alone, well above the inflation rate and it’s still not enough. No external hiring for drivers in years either. They don’t help themselves and I genuinely feel they don’t want to open the floodgates because half of London would love these jobs with these benefits (free TfL travel, final salary pension, discounted national rail and Eurostar, discounted private health insurance and gym membership etc).
More people getting enraged by this and totally skipping past the amount of TfL workers who earn far less than this that are also striking.
£72k should be standard salary for skilled salaried workers in a rich, global city populated by the world’s uber-wealthy and dirty money.
Instead the British state advertises teaching jobs with a starting salary of £32k as if that’s a good thing.
And I can’t use the NHS app to contact my GP surgery because of “IT issues”.
The state of this country.
He’s right but also why tube drivers and not say junior doctors or anyone else, the problem is the house prices, not the salary and that is because big fortunes are buying everything so the market caters for them, for the millionaires and billionaires buying
Maybe we should all go on a strike against wealth inequality
* majority of salaries in London not enough to buy house in London
So 99% of London should just go on strike then.
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Wait, you guys are buying houses??
Well flip I must be destitute on around £55K.
For what it’s worth I can save £750 a month on that and rent alone. If I was on £72K I’d be really comfortable.
If that’s the goal, they will be striking every month for next decade
Wow. The lie has been well and truly adopted by all newspapers, hasn’t it? Tube drivers are mostly in ASLEF. This RMT strike is the other tube workers, not drivers, and they earn substantially less. Good luck to them.
Bottom line is, they’re right. They are tied to the capital and need to be able to live here because of their shift patterns and skill set. They can’t work from home, can’t dial in to meetings on other sites.l and can’t just move to another transport system in the way we can move to another company.
However.
They’re in a good position in terms of wage, pension and other add ons. They will lose public support if they don’t take into account the national and local mood. We’re all fucked in some respects. I’d much prefer it if unions got together and targeted the government for a long term solution for public sector workers for the capital as they all need housing which isn’t far away from their base. This would benefit Londoners.
Right now it looks like greed, even if its not.
True and a fair point.
I haven’t had a pay rise since January 2024, I deserve a pay rise and if could strike for it I absolutely would! I completely stand with the strikes, we all deserve better and fair pay for our work
The drivers aren’t striking. Only around 10% of driver are members of the RMT and not all of them are on strike.
I mean…they aren’t wrong lol
It’s a pretty high salary, but to be fair their argument makes sense. It that’s your job you’d really need to live close to the network. It’s also true for lots of other London jobs too. Think lots of people need a pay rise.
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