As far as I know Scotrail had no difficulty in recruiting extra staff, it's the training which is the holdup.
ScotRail shouldn't have promoted a timetable change in May they were unable to resource then. The industry was supposed to have got on top of this from the May 18 debacle but time and time again we see operators changing their timetables only to have to crash and burn them within a matter of weeks because of train crew shortages. Yes Covid hasn't helped, although some operators have managed it a darn sight better than others, but these are know factors that reflect the level of resources availability so why not plan against what's available rather than leaving it to train crew managers to coerce staff to work overtime and rest days.As far as I know Scotrail had no difficulty in recruiting extra staff, it's the training which is the holdup.
Seems like really bad planning to me. If there is one thing that stops people using the train it is unreliability of service.As far as I know Scotrail had no difficulty in recruiting extra staff, it's the training which is the holdup.
TOCs fortunate enough to have negotiated multi year pay deals before covid have generally done ok whilst Inter City TOCs are usually the best payers so least prone to industrial unrest anyway, leaving others plagued with disputes & disruption.Yes Covid hasn't helped, although some operators have managed it a darn sight better than others,
I have been a member of many workforces. Some unionised some not. I've worked in a factory on minimum wage, where the sister factory in another city was Unionised. We were always jealous because they had far better terms than us and we wanted the union, but our branch was opened later and deliberately hired 80 percent part time workers so that they couldn't afford the union, and we never got it.
Having seen how a union can fight for the standards of its members, and the protection is can give Vs no union existing at all, I would 100 percent hope my children can work in a Unionised industry where they are not taken advantage of and threatened with their job at every opportunity, frightened of getting poorly and having to go sick, and earning a poor wage
Wow, that is pretty bad.
Same as the attitude of people who worked In paper mills and look how that turned out.....Thanks to RMT, railway services are unreliable, and people turn to other transport options. The RMT have the old attitude that they have a job for life whatever happens. If they can be brought to realise that no customers = no jobs (if that is the case), then there might be some hope.
No. Closed shops haven't been a thing for a long time.Do you have to Join a Union when you are employed?
What have the RMT done at scotrail to cause the current situation ?Thanks to RMT, railway services are unreliable, and people turn to other transport options. The RMT have the old attitude that they have a job for life whatever happens. If they can be brought to realise that no customers = no jobs (if that is the case), then there might be some hope.
RMT didn’t set a timetable that can only work with staff agreeing to work overtime. That is Scotrail. This will be Caledonian McTrain in a year or two.Thanks to RMT, railway services are unreliable, and people turn to other transport options. The RMT have the old attitude that they have a job for life whatever happens. If they can be brought to realise that no customers = no jobs (if that is the case), then there might be some hope.