Putting prepare drivers have loved bumper pay hikes of as much as 62 per cent in recent times – greater than double the speed of inflation over the identical interval.
Business figures obtained by the Each day Mail present the typical driver’s wage has surged by greater than a 3rd – 34 per cent – since 2012.
However the highest will increase throughout 15 prepare operators overlaying a lot of the nation have been 55 per cent and 62 per cent.
By comparability, the Shopper Value Index charge of inflation over the last decade quantities to about 27 per cent.
Business figures obtained by the Each day Mail present the typical driver’s wage has surged by greater than a 3rd – 34 per cent – since 2012 (Pictured: RMT boss Mick Lynch on the picket line on Tuesday)
Putting prepare drivers have loved bumper pay hikes of as much as 62 per cent in recent times – greater than double the speed of inflation over the identical interval (Pictured: Putting drivers on the picket line)
It means the typical wage is now £60,055 – up from £44,985 ten years in the past – with a fifth of prepare drivers on £70,000 or extra.
The quantities don’t embrace additional time, rest-day working and different beneficiant allowances for doing unsociable hours.
Greater than 20,000 drivers go on strike at present amid a bitter pay dispute between trade bosses and their union Aslef.
It needs wage rises according to the speed of inflation, at the moment 10.7 per cent, regardless of the inflation-busting pay packets Aslef members have loved for years.
Ministers are getting ready to go to warfare with the union if it snubs a suggestion, which might on common be value greater than £2,000.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper has warned there is not ‘a bottomless pit’ of cash for pay rises.
Sources say authorities officers and trade chiefs discovered Aslef boss Mick Whelan ‘deeply disagreeable’ in current conferences.
Mr Whelan stated final night time: ‘The scenario is getting worse and my members now wish to go more durable and sooner due to the dearth of progress.’
Fellow rail union the RMT has snubbed a suggestion from Community Rail value 14 per cent to its lower-paid employees.
Union chief Mick Lynch joined a picket line exterior Euston station in London yesterday.
Tory MP Craig Mackinlay stated: ‘Many within the public sector would look on with envy at such beneficiant packages.
Greater than 20,000 drivers go on strike at present amid a bitter pay dispute between trade bosses and their union Aslef (Pictured: Abandoned Studying prepare station amid strikes on Tuesday)
‘It is changing into apparent that rail sector strike motion is following the hard-Left ideology of attempting to convey an elected Tory Authorities down, slightly than it being a critical dispute over what’s, and at all times has been, a really beneficiant pay bundle.’
It comes after the Mail revealed how 250 signallers and monitor employees represented by the RMT earn £100,000 or extra, and round 1 / 4 £60,000 or extra.
British employees at on-line big Amazon will go on strike for the primary time this month.
Members of the GMB union primarily based at a Coventry warehouse will stroll out on January 25 in a dispute over pay.
