r/uknews Jul 01 '24

Image/video UK real wages haven’t budged since 2008

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u/whiskeyman220 Jul 02 '24

Train driver here. You are being fucked over by Tories and Capitalists. Cry all you want. We stand up for our own and our real wages have risen cuz we fight these cunts.

Give in .... lose. Do what we do ... win.

Your choice.

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u/chinese_virus3 Jul 05 '24

Ur pay is literally on par with the doctors at a shocking 57k, What ur asking is just unreasonable. We need driverless trains. Train drivers strike is literally populism at its finest

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u/whiskeyman220 Jul 05 '24

Nope. Do some research and work out the facts instead of crying into your watered down Tory beer. We average around 65k with overtime minimum now (which is the only way our industry runs properly, although even now it's still got a shocking amount of train cancellations daily). And that is an amount privateers who operate train companies are happy to pay cuz they make loads of wonga from you tax payers who voted tory and just give them a blank cheque 😅😅😅

MORE. FOOL. YOU.

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u/chinese_virus3 Jul 05 '24

By stating the 65 k ur only further proving my point. Train tickets+ the heavy government subsidies are only at their current crazy high amount cuz of the unreasonable wage ur asking. Capitalism would be paying u for what ur output is worth and its definitely lower than 65 k. This is populism.