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"Transport Secretary Grant Shapps responded to a suggestion from Jeremy Corbyn that pay was inadequate by saying: "The median salary for a train driver is £59,000, compared with £31,000 for a nurse and £21,000 for a care worker."
https://www.bbc.com/news/61840077
That seems to be directly proportionate to union membership and militancy in the sector.
Nurses and care workers clearly underpaid. They need more militant unions!
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@russss I think a lot of unions struggle with this. Especially in terms of new media.
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@russss "Network Rail plans to cut 2,500 maintenance jobs, the union says, as it tries to make £2bn of savings over the next two years." found in another article
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@kawaiipunk Nurses unions aren't nonmilitant or not widespread, it's just that they are legally barred from striking usually.
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@pettter I mean they don't go on strike very often right? Do you mean the RCN?
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Obviously it's all govt propaganda. A lot of train drivers aren't even in RMT and are in their less militant union ASLEF (96% according to that article).