Beginning tomorrow, RMT union members will strike for 3 days - June 21, 23 and 25.
The rail staff shall be hanging for higher pay amid the skyrocketing price of residing, in addition to elevated job safety.
The strikes are set to trigger main disruption, even in Scotland the place ScotRail workers won't be hanging.
It's because signallers shall be on strike and are very important for protected rail operations.
This comes amid greater than a month of disruption in Scotland, with ASLEF - the prepare drivers' union - additionally demanding greater pay for staff.
Between the 2 unions rail operations are set to gradual to a close to standstill throughout many elements the UK, report Wales On-line.
With numerous figures quoted over the previous weeks, some could also be questioning how a lot rail staff within the UK truly earn.
Here's a take a look at rail staff' pay packs forward of the RMT rail strikes.
How a lot are prepare drivers paid?
A ScotRail prepare driver at present has an estimated wage of £53,444, in line with Glassdoor, though this information depends on drivers reporting their very own salaries so will not be fully correct.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps responded to Jeremy Corbyn's claims drivers had been underpaid by saying their median wage was £59,000.
He stated: "The median wage for a prepare driver is £59,000, in contrast with £31,000 for a nurse and £21,000 for a care employee."
Median, as a median determine, takes all the staff, and selects the one within the center as a consultant instance.
And the BBC studies, Mr Shapps can be proper, in line with the most recent figures from the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics.
The median for prepare and tram drivers in 2021 was £59,189. Whereas nurses acquired £31,039.
The Transport Secretary was nonetheless a bit off together with his figures for care staff. The median there's reportedly £16,502, with a senior care employee incomes £20,105.
What's the median wage for rail staff?
One subject encountered when utilizing the median wage for rail staff, the BBC says, is the actual fact drivers are represented by their very own union, ASLEF, which claims to cowl 96 per cent of drivers. A majority of the remaining 4 per cent aren't stated to be unionised.
ASLEF will not be a part of the nationwide strike. Though they do have motion of their very own, with ScotRail drivers refusing time beyond regulation which has led to a diminished timetable amid driver shortages.
Mr Shapps stated: "The median wage for the rail sector is £44,000, which is considerably above the median wage within the nation."
The BBC claims Mr Shapps' division has taken the median figures from the ONS classes for 4 varieties of employee. This consists of rail journey assistants, similar to ticket collectors, guards and knowledge workers, who earn £33,310 on common.
In addition to rail building and upkeep operatives, who earn £34,998, transport operatives, similar to signallers and assistants who earn £48,750, and the prepare drivers, incomes £59,189. It has added these up and divided by 4 to get a imply.
This implies his determine will not be a median. That means the median might be greater or decrease than the quoted £44,000.
That being stated, the median for all UK staff final 12 months was £25,971. That means rail staff are prone to be greater.
RMT claims of £33,000
The RMT says the figures are too excessive attributable to prepare and tram drivers being members of a distinct union. It additionally says it could not rely staff like cleaners, who aren't formally counted as rail staff.
The union says should you take a look at the £44,000 median and take away the drivers and embody cleansing workers as an alternative, it involves a determine of £33,000. This it says higher displays the common pay of staff who shall be hanging.
The BBC did its personal calculation and mirrored the variety of individuals in every of the teams utilized by the federal government, however excluded drivers. It says the approximate median was £37,500.
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