(18 Aug 2023, 6:59 pm)Adrian wrote Is it the second or third year running now, that we're seeing an industrial dispute play out in public? Industrial relations must be at an all time low.

I'm not sure where they're getting their rate of RPI from either. They say in their press release that the offer is backdated to July, which indicates that is the pay review date, yet RPI was 10.9% at that point? Unless they're going to accuse the ONS of being wrong: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflation.../doge/mm23

I'm not sure what world they're living in to say it's the best pay either considering that Arriva got a pay rise of 11.9%, 4 month ago. Ironic as at the time I said this would happen.

Believe Stagecoach was similar, and they were paid more before then anyway.