52K a year for Tube driver's.

[Nottseagull]

This I think...
They have to stop the train in exactly the right place on other lines otherwise the doors wont open, as the train is the exact length of the platform.

Yeah, and I have to stop my car when I park it otherwise I crash into the vehicle already parked there

 

[Captain Sensible]

Job description

Well, compared to a National Expess coach driver at £10.88 per hour, a tube driver is paid a crazy amount of money. At least a coach driver has to steer a vehicle and negotiate traffic which is probably bloody stressful day in day out, compared a tube driver where much of the "work" is automated.

This is exactly what is wrong this day and age, a bloody race to the bottom. So would the National Express man be happy if the tube driver earned £10 per hour? Why not try to get the National express driver BETTER paid. By using the Tube driver as an example the national express driver and their collegues can bargain for better pay. Yes I do mean unions (sorry dirty word). Sadly it is a race to the bottom these days and the majority are falling right into that trap. A trap set by company bosses that create the feeling of inequality amongst a workforce and then rather than trying to better the workforces pay, they decide to make an example of these others that are on more cash. Site them as the problem, then try to reduce their wages down to others. And where is public support? nowhere. Because the Daily Mail say they are overpaid it makes it so and the company wins.
Race to the bottom mentality is gonna create the biggest gulf in rich and poor and the poor are the ones pushing for it, the pawns in someone elses game.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

This is pretty much one person in effect responsible for close to probably 600 or so people's lives at any one time. If £50k or so means that they have gone through all the training necessary to respond effectively to things like 7/7 bombings, does that make it a more reasonable salary?

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

This is exactly what is wrong this day and age, a bloody race to the bottom. So would the National Express man be happy if the tube driver earned £10 per hour? Why not try to get the National express driver BETTER paid. By using the Tube driver as an example the national express driver and their collegues can bargain for better pay. Yes I do mean unions (sorry dirty word). Sadly it is a race to the bottom these days and the majority are falling right into that trap. A trap set by company bosses that create the feeling of inequality amongst a workforce and then rather than trying to better the workforces pay, they decide to make an example of these others that are on more cash. Site them as the problem, then try to reduce their wages down to others. And where is public support? nowhere. Because the Daily Mail say they are overpaid it makes it so and the company wins.
Race to the bottom mentality is gonna create the biggest gulf in rich and poor and the poor are the ones pushing for it, the pawns in someone elses game.

It's exactly your type of attitude that has got this country into financial meltdown,the sort of people that drive tube trains need to know their place,you start paying these people a living wage and expectations rise,we're all in this together,we need to consolidate our debts an ALL pull our belts in.

 

[Rowdey]

hehe.. out yourself now..!

http://www.jedistar.com/images/pedal/chandler_industries_tubedriver.jpg

 

[clapham_gull]

Genuine question... why do they get twice as much as bus drivers?

Are bus drivers trained to the bus going again if it breaks down these days ?

I've no idea. Tube drivers are trained to do that and the training lasts longer than a bus driver.

As for the comments regarding driver-less trains - f*ck that ! Think about - deep level track and no bugger on board to radio up when the thing breaks down. Cue - mass panic.

No thanks.

 

[Captain Sensible]

It's exactly your type of attitude that has got this country into financial meltdown,the sort of people that drive tube trains need to know their place,you start paying these people a living wage and expectations rise,we're all in this together,we need to consolidate our debts an ALL pull our belts in.

Utter nonsense! So the working person is the one at fault? not the bosses and the bankers that reign in millions and hundreds of thousands in golden handshakes. Not the hedge fund traders and the banking investors, not the mortgage lenders and the credit providers, but the working man?
The tube drivers, the bus drivers, the postal workers, the cabin crew, the train drivers, the fireman, the ambulance drivers& the coast guard. These are the people that put us in this mess?
Thanks for letting me into your logic.
No it is your thinking that is the problem. From your response I take it that you hear about the wages of a worker and have immediate opinions of if they're over paid or not. 50k cof cof, oh why that's far too much to pay a worker. But what about a CEO? Look at the likes if Willie Walsh at BA. Even convinced some of his idiot staff to work for free as the company was in a 'fight for survival'. More like a fight for his wage rise. The guy promoted himself 12mobths later with a bonus of1.1million and a 50% wages rise.
We sneer at the normal employee that has a larger wage than us but then ask nothing of the guys at the top, let's face it a low wage and a race to the bottom only pleases the very few at the top. That is the way this country is going IMO.

 

[Dasmith]

Typical London salaries as of 2011.

Bus driver - 30k (more with overtime)
Automatic DLR with no driver - ooops but it needs a passenger service agent on every train : 35k
Croydon Tram driver - 33k

Tube driver - 42k. (no overtime allowed)

Seems a fair salary compared with the others.