RANT TIME!

[RetroPug]

Again I feel it necessary to suggest we help raise up the standards to which we look after our public servants, rather than bringing down the standards of employment of private employees. Can we not stop the race to the bottom?

Nobody is suggesting that public servants shouldn't be looked after more.

The point is that even if tube drivers got 150k a year and worked 11hours a week, they could still call a strike and cause major, major problems. Tube drivers threatening a strike happens with such regularity it barely qualifies as news anymore. Let's say they strike and get more pay and better benefits now. What's to stop them doing the same thing in 12 months and holding the city to ransom again?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.