In message , at 17:48:55 on
Mon, 5 May 2008, Paul Corfield remarked:
What? Pay parity with tube drivers? Seriously? How about starting with
professionalism parity? Bus drivers are currently a bunch of dangerous,
incompetent, passenger-hating maniacs. Well, not all of them, obviously,
but there's a huge gap in professionalism between bus and tube drivers.

I think parity with tube drivers is a long term aim. Their aim in this
pay round is equal pay and conditions across all companies running TfL
tendered services. Can't see that happening somehow.

Why can't all drivers be on the same pay scale?

You'd just have different *grades* of driver, including the most junior
which was "have licence to drive bus, but not trains".
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Roland Perry