Tube drivers have been offered a four-day week by Sadiq Khan’s Transport for London in return for calling off strikes. The Telegraph has the story.
A letter from Nick Dent, the TfL Director, to the Aslef trade union on Tuesday pledged to “set out a proposal for delivering an average four-day working week”.
The condition for opening discussions on a four-day working week was accepting a 3.8% pay rise and calling off “all pending industrial action”. Aslef’s strikes, which had been planned for November 7th and November 12th, were suspended that day.
In January, Tube workers were given a 5% pay rise by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, that cost the taxpayer £30 million, prompting accusations that he had found a “magic money tree”.
The Conservatives called the deal a “total capitulation” to the unions, and questioned how much the plans would cost London taxpayers.
Tube drivers agreed to accept a pay rise that will take their salaries to just shy of £70,000 per year, and after the new Labour Government offered public sector workers pay deals worth about £10 billion.
Tube drivers currently work a five-day, 35-hour week. The four-day week plan would see no overall change in working hours, but sources said that in practice it would mean longer working days.
Underground drivers also enjoy 43 days holiday a year, thanks to a previous deal that saw time spent on shift but not working rolled up into extra holidays.
Walkouts by the RMT, the other Tube drivers’ union, were suspended last week after shop stewards said they had secured a “significantly improved offer” on pay and working conditions. No details of that offer have yet emerged into the public domain.
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“wasting millions of pounds on pointless diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes”
Far from pointless, though not the purported point (to increase “fairness” – whatever that is).
What would a non-pointless “DEI” scheme look like? What is the “point” of “DEI”? Why is it “good”?
It is intended to wreck free market capitalism by sabotaging meritocracy.
Absolutely.
and again
and again
The serial red arrow fiend strikes again
“…feeling betrayed for being shepherded by HR into the vicious culture wars.”
If all this causes companies to lose money and/or go bankrupt then it’s win/win for the anti-capitalists. Do companies not see that DEI (DIE) is Marxist?
“…quick fixes to create a fairer workplace”
The workplace was already fair as it could be.
“Fairness” sounds good but it seems like attempts to impose “fairness” (whatever that is) just lead to something that looks like the opposite of fairness.
And, as with all these things: who decides what is ‘fair’ and how do you challenge their decision?
The NHS advertises constantly for ‘Diversity Officers’. In an organisation that is already possibly the most diverse employer in the world…
Hmm. sounds familiar.
What metrics do HR departments survive by? If all other departments in a company have to show value for resources expended how do HR get away with just pissing money up the wall?
The only way to get away with saying black is white (or vice versa) is in politics – where lying is
expectedrequired.I was working at a company that embraced this stuff (like many others) after the BLM hysteria. I looked into it at the time and the research had already shown that these courses did not have any measurable difference on prejudice. We have turned away from science and embraced doing things just for the sake of doing them. I’d also add that as the company HR nazis cracked down on all form of political correctness and embraced lecturing us about sexism, racism etc. the workplace became increasing miserable as everyone was too scared to crack a joke.
I’m surprised they have no effect, they always seemed designed to rub against the nap and irritate, to me? Certainly, my own small experience leads me to believe we are probably in a worse place than we were 40 years ago.
I agree we are in a worse place than 40 years ago
Making life fairer for everyone. What’s not to like about that?
This is how, like a Trojan Horse, DEI infiltrated all aspects of our lives.
Good luck getting this nightmare back in the box, after you embraced it so enthusiastically. People tried to tell you but you mostly forced them out or passed them over… good, you can reap what you’ve sown, as we all will after five years of what is already, increasingly, appearing to be a lunatic potential government…
yep I’ve published a series of articles on this platform about this.
The only problem is that the MSM appear to have just woken up!
And we’re about to get all this nonsense on steroids from the Labour Party!
Only because they are seeing a drop in profits.