(27 Oct 2023, 1:23 pm)Bazza wrote Notes to editors
The average wage at Go North East is just £12.83 per hour yet the same workers at Go North West earn £15.53 per hour. That would mean workers in Newcastle and Sunderland would require a pay rise of over 20 per cent to earn the same as those in Manchester.
This equates to a loss of £105 per week on a 39-hour week or £5,475 per year.
Additional research by Unite shows that Go North East workers have not had a pay rise for over five years (when adjusted for inflation) and their salaries have actually fallen by 5 per cent since 2018.
Meanwhile, the highest paid director at Go North East was paid £185,000 in 2022. This is 6 times the pay of the average employee. Go North East is part of the wider Go Ahead Group of companies. Their last accounts show their bus division made profits of nearly £85million[2].
Above is a quote from Unite’s press release. I don’t think GNE would publicise these stats
All those stats are publicly available.
GNE made a loss of £4.5m last year.
GNE drivers received at least a 10% pay rise last year - between 2018 and 2022 there was of course the COVID-19 pandemic which depressed everybody’s pay.
Go North West drivers do a lot more work in a shift than GNE drivers do in the same shift length - that’s why they get paid more per hour.
(27 Oct 2023, 1:03 pm)markydh wrote Ben Maxwell is a man-child from the school of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. The statements he makes make a toddler seem professional. It never ceases to amaze me that people like that rise way above their capability.Will his next statement be “loss making GNE closes depots and cuts services”?