Mike?
Do you mean Mick Lynch? Or Mick Wheelan?
They aren't on strike. They are working for their members. They get paid by their members to work for them and that's what they are doing. At a time of multiple disputes with multiple TOCs and Network Rail grades, I expect they are working harder than ever. Why would they not get paid when their workload is at its highest?
Your thinking is bizarre alright if that's who you were asking about.
and one final question, if they get the pay rise to cover the cost of living crisis, they wont need the grants etc the govt. have given the rest of us will they?...
You know those grants kick in in October this year? To offset the massive rise in energy bills that were going to take place when the government's energy price cap changed in October?
You know that price rises in the cost of living (or not so bad ones with the edge taken off by government grants) that occur from this October to next September make the RPI figure for next September. Thats September 2023?
You do know most of the pay rises rail workers are trying to get a resolution over are with a January or April anniversary of earlier this year, don't you? 2022?
Before any energy cap upward change or the government's suppression of it's effects has anything to do with it.
I fail to see why you are, bizarrely it has to be said, separating out rail workers from the rest of the population.
The increase in the cost of living was the RPI rate for everybody in January or April 2022, for the previous year.
The increase in the cost of living for next January or April (2023) will be the same for everybody. Hopefully it will be suppressed by the energy grant.
You are saying that a grant for the future shouldn't be given for a group of people who still havent got their cost of living payrise due in the past, because when they get it, it somehow magically offsets any rise in the cost of living in the future?
That makes no sense.
Bizarre. Totally bizarre.