MUST READ: Dublin is being held to ransom over people wanting €55,000 to drive a bus – it’s time to take a stand and offer these jobs to people on the dole who’d be grateful to have work – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

MUST READ: Dublin is being held to ransom over people wanting €55,000 to drive a bus – it’s time to take a stand and offer these jobs to people on the dole who’d be grateful to have work




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There’s a fine line between fair pay and greed. Today the unions pushing the Dublin Bus agenda have crossed that line.

Already being offered an increase of over 8%, drivers want more. They’re not happy with their current average wage of €46,000 per annum, along with their benefits, holiday and sick pay, they want a staggering top end €55,000 a year.

The demands along with a further 13 planned strike days in October alone have served only one purpose – turned the public against them.

Thousands upon thousands of young, middle aged and even pushing elderly people, desperately yearning work on the dole, would literally jump at the chance of taking a 6 week bus driving course and replacing any driver who is currently doing their best to hold the capital to ransom.

There’s 400,000 people massively inconvenienced with these enormous demands. They’re workers, shoppers, tourists and students.

But what about the elderly? The frail? The poor unfortunate disabled people who may have no family but desperately need that loaf of bread or packet of sausages.

The actions of Dublin Bus drivers are those with pure Euro signs in their eyes. They saw what greed got the Luas drivers and they wasted no time in following suit.

If the drivers and union cared about the public at all, they’d do what the German bus drivers do – drive the bus but take no fare, the company still lose profit but the public isn’t held to ransom.

Dublin Bus should stand firm on their proposed 8% increase in wages, if it’s not acceptable, hand over P45’s to the drivers unwilling to accept the offer and put out an open recruitment to anyone eligible on the dole.

No doubt they’d be inundated with applications.

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