(13 Oct 2022, 2:24 pm)Ambassador wrote £11 an hour is roughly £21k, that is a take home of roughly £18k per year after tax and insurance. Then you might have union fees on top of that. So monthly thats £1500 with weekend working, unsociable hours and the general public. That's to cover your rent/mortgage, soaring energy bills, perhaps a car, food shop and not much left over.
I personally wouldn't do it and I don't think I'd cope on that salary - irregardless of that I could get a nice cushy call centre job for more money with no stress. They are equally desperate to recruit.
Whilst I think the Unions demands are a tad unreasonable its obviously a starting point to meet in the middle with - pretty much like the trains however, life goes on, people adapt - they just won't return to buses and the industry will continue its death spiral
And that's what you can get on benefits these days if you know how to play the game, so why would you bother to work? There's absolutely no incentive to actually go to work. I know a couple who have 3 kids, on paper they live separately to maximise the benefits, and they get about £3k a month between them.