Bus Eireann Strike

While I think that they are overpaid for what they do and they have not proposed realistic or viable alternatives to their pay cuts, it is almost heartening that there are still some people left in the country with a bit of fight left in them who are not willing to just lie down and take the cuts imposed on them.
Discuss.

I heard the leader of one of their unions on the radio this morning.
Sounded like a right prick.

Is it true that only drivers are being hit and not admin staff?

Buses are for peasants.

Only losers take the bus. Who said that?

Mrs Thatcher. Something along the lines of “a man still using public transport at the age of 30 is a failure”.

Bus Eireann is loss-making year on year despite getting a subsidy of about €45 million/year
Private bus companies are profit-making and looking to expand services where permitted.
Join the dots. Its just another bloated semi-state where workers have a sense of entitlement, think normal business rules don’t apply and are under the impression that the company is run for their benefit - not the paying public.

[quote=“tallback, post: 771658, member: 1158”]Bus Eireann is loss-making year on year despite getting a subsidy of about €45 million/year
Private bus companies are profit-making and looking to expand services where permitted.
Join the dots. Its just another bloated semi-state where workers have a sense of entitlement, think normal business rules don’t apply and are under the impression that the company is run for their benefit - not the paying public.[/quote]
Part of me wants Bus Eireann to fold and for these lads to find out how much private bus drivers make in a year. Something tells me it’s not €45k. Of course, Bus Eireann is ran by complete incompetents as well.

Why should a bus driver get a higher wage than a nurse?

I think that one was mistakenly attributed to Thatcher because it sounded like something a cunt would say.

“Bus Wankers” was how it was cleverly summed up on the Inbetweeners …

Because he is entitled to it Runt. Now Bus Eireann want to take away their entitlements but they have gone on strike because they are entitled to it.

Bus Eireann provides a lot of loss making routes though, that no private company will ever want to run.
Privatisation in the UK ended up costing them more every year.

That said it goes without saying that they all need a pay cut.

Irish Rail on the other hand have absolutley no excuse to be losing money apart from their own incompetence. I reckon you could turn Irish Rail into profit within a year if a competent person was in charge.

[quote=“Julio Geordio, post: 771679, member: 332”]

Irish Rail on the other hand have absolutley no excuse to be losing money apart from their own incompetence. I reckon you could turn Irish Rail into profit within a year if a competent person was in charge.[/quote]

Again you’d need to crush the unions. Train drivers get over €50k a year.

Average wage for a DART driver-approx €70k.
Average wage for a LUAS driver-approx €42k.

I’d say thats fair enough.

It’s the cunts pushing the carts up the middle of the train or the ticket inspectors that are being completely overpaid.

[quote=“Horsebox, post: 771684, member: 1537”]Average wage for a DART driver-approx €70k.
Average wage for a LUAS driver-approx €42k.[/quote]
DART is at least one third bigger than the LUAS… QED

DART drivers get paid a don’t crash the train allowance-LUAS drivers don’t.

Is it not the name of a Microdisney/Cathal Coughlan/Fatima Mansions song from the 80s??

Shouldn’t LUAS drivers be given some incentive not to crash the LUAS?