Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

[Doucas]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

we have seen the '70's before

Have you been completely asleep during 2010s and completely unaware of life for young working people now?

[Pearcey3]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Bloody bell ends with their opinions different from my own!

Shock horror that the trade union want a deal to try and reduce the huge downward spiral in their real terms living conditions. Its staggering that anyone could argue against it.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Shock horror that the trade union want a deal to try and reduce the huge downward spiral in their real terms living conditions. Its staggering that anyone could argue against it.

JW did last night. He even tried suggesting that the lowest paid workers are much better off than a decade ago.....

[JamesWales]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

JW did last night. He even tried suggesting that the lowest paid workers are much better off than a decade ago.....

Well someone said no one was better off, to which I proved that the minimum wage rises in the last decade have gone up twice as fast as inflation.

If only you lot could eliminate economic facts and anyone with different opinions, then finally you would be happy!

[Pearcey3]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

JW did last night. He even tried suggesting that the lowest paid workers are much better off than a decade ago.....

Then he is fukking clueless. Has he heard about food banks and the explosion in their numbers in the past 12 years?

[+ the native hipster]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Have you been completely asleep during 2010s and completely unaware of life for young working people now?

i have noticed that jobs in bristol pay more because firms dont want to come to wales because mmm4 every youngster in the workforce has/ had / the same problems you are nothing special .

[Doucas]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/status/1540094836140826637?t=gY8k181Txk3klH5a0RDJBA&s=19

Thick as shit.

[JamesWales]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Then he is fukking clueless. Has he heard about food banks and the explosion in their numbers in the past 12 years?

Here you go.

Well, sorry to bring some facts to the table, but the minimum wage was £6.19 in 2012. It's £9.50 now. Thats an increase of 53%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation..._Wage_Act_1998

We can add a little from the last few months, but Inflation from 2012 to 2021 was 25%.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator

No one disputes the global financial crisis, then a pandemic then a war in Europe don't impact on things. They do. It's been fkn tough, but the solution isn't to give everyone 10% more money. You may want to support the union on ideological ground but you know that in your heart it isn't the answer for the country as a whole.

[JamesWales]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

https://twitter.com/AvaSantina/statu...H5a0RDJBA&s=19

Thick as shit.

Amazed to find out you follow left wing polemicists on twitter who share out of context clips to their echo chambers.

[Doucas]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

i have noticed that jobs in bristol pay more because firms dont want to come to wales because mmm4 every youngster in the workforce has/ had / the same problems you are nothing special .

Nah you're talking rubbish. When has housing, gas and electric and petrol been this expensive? Millenials currently have around 7% of wealth compared to 22% boomers had at the same age (https://fortune.com/2022/03/22/mille...llion-boomers/).

Your generation just deny deny and deny that there are any issues and then act shocked when people begin to strike.

I honestly think lead paint has ****ed your heads.

[Doucas]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Amazed to find out you follow left wing polemicists on twitter who share out of context clips to their echo chambers.

Out of context? She is literally comparing rail strikes to dinosaurs. She is clearly thick as shit.

Do you even know what a hashtag is?

[Rjk]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Here you go.

Well, sorry to bring some facts to the table, but the minimum wage was £6.19 in 2012. It's £9.50 now. Thats an increase of 53%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation..._Wage_Act_1998

We can add a little from the last few months, but Inflation from 2012 to 2021 was 25%.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator

No one disputes the global financial crisis, then a pandemic then a war in Europe don't impact on things. They do. It's been fkn tough, but the solution isn't to give everyone 10% more money. You may want to support the union on ideological ground but you know that in your heart it isn't the answer for the country as a whole.

You aren't considering the whole picture there - someone on minimum wage is likely to also have benefits that they need in order to be able to live (because we effectively subsidise businesses to pay workers poorly, basically a tax break for the business owners). So you'd need to look at both aspects of someones salary.

Additionally the effective inflation rate for someone on minimum wage is not the same as the inflation rate that the bank of england calculates. It has been shown that they face far higher inflation, as the things that have risen the most (energy, food etc) take up a far higher proportion of their overall spend.

[Pearcey3]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Here you go.

Well, sorry to bring some facts to the table, but the minimum wage was £6.19 in 2012. It's £9.50 now. Thats an increase of 53%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation..._Wage_Act_1998

We can add a little from the last few months, but Inflation from 2012 to 2021 was 25%.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator

No one disputes the global financial crisis, then a pandemic then a war in Europe don't impact on things. They do. It's been fkn tough, but the solution isn't to give everyone 10% more money. You may want to support the union on ideological ground but you know that in your heart it isn't the answer for the country as a whole.

Big deal. These pay rises are peanuts. That doesn’t make people on a minimum wage much better off at all. They remain on very basic wages and in many cases still reliant on food banks.
Would you be comfortably off working for £9:50 an hour? Do you think anyone can live comfortably off that? How can they afford a mortgage on these kind of figures?

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Re: Mick Lynch RMT Gen Sec

Well someone said no one was better off, to which I proved that the minimum wage rises in the last decade have gone up twice as fast as inflation.

If only you lot could eliminate economic facts and anyone with different opinions, then finally you would be happy!

It only proves that the minimum wage was shit to begin with and has also brought people on minimum wage into paying income tax. What the government gives with one hand, it takes with another. (That's not a Tory dig as it applies to all governments)