And you know this for a fact or is it the company press release. Is their no greedy employer?

Was listening to Matt Cooper yesterday, the starting wage for a year one luas driver is 36K, wouldn’t say that’s a crap wage. They are looking for in and around 50% pay raise for an already good wage!

Ah Irish begrugery while we are at it lets drop the min wage to €0.10 an hour!

Michael, these guys are on very good wages already without a 50% raise. Because of their greed thousands of people are currently being affected, climb down off that high horse of yours.

How do you know it’s a good wage and with their training and all. Yes strikes are designed to affect (it that purpose). How about the luas management upstairs? Ps I’m loving the view from my horse !!

@Michael, not everything is about begrugery. Why should a luas driver start on more than a Garda for goodness sake? Not every job deserves a high salary.

Why don’t the gardai go on strike (blue flu) because they have dangerous profession. See a luas driver have responsibly for passengers and the general public (life or death) now that is a burden which is heavy hence pay them more.

I’m with the workers. The same people who are apoplectic with outrage at the very notion of tram drivers earning €60k hardly bat an eyelid when senior bank executives earn 10, 20 or 100 times that figure.

The bankers produce nothing of value and their financial institutions are parasitic on the real economy and the workers. The Luas drivers provide a valuable service bring tens of thousands into and out of the city every day.

The bankers’ huge wealth is hoarded and the vast majority of it will never circulate in the domestic economy. In contrast, the drivers will spend most or all of their €60 (less tax) into the local economy which pays other worker’s wages and supports other families as the macro economy is circular.
Solidarity with the drivers and all workers struggling to obtain a greater share of the wealth which we create. The great and largely unspoken divide in society is the one between capital and labour and the vast majority of us are on the labour side though many don’t seem to understand this.

32k I think was figure rising to 42l over 10 years alan

but not for nurses,cops, and teachers Michael

Wally Mooney, you have said it yesterday, you work as a Luas driver, it is written, you can’t delete it. Stop playing like you’re some concerned citizen supporting the working class in their struggle against greedy corporations. You are writing in every single post about this subject because you want that pay rise for you. The Luas is currently at loss and you want a 54% pay rise by sitting your arse pulling a leaver, there is no physical work or intellectual work involved. You can be replaced tomorrow by a machine.

If you want €60K by sitting your arse all day, then a cleaner should get €80K per year because they work much harder and have to you more brains than you.

Ha ha. Anyone would take a 52% pay increase over 3 years. Their pay would be on the same level as a pharmacist after doing a degree in Trinity College. Now do the Maths. Train drivers in Greece are on €90-€120,000. It’s a disgrace this strike. No public support. We are in a recession. Who will have to pick up the tab for these greedy workers.

I support them too!!!

The journal.ie ain’t the general public. I have yet to read one article who’s comments are any way positive in any respect. I think you’ll find that of u look most places online you’ll find negative comments cos folks rarely write stuff to be positive. The biggest problem with the tripe being posted here is that most of it is from people with opinions which have no basis in fact. One of the first comments I read about this strike was that the PRIVATE company who runs the luas were doing a great job without even getting subsidies like the public transport companies. Total fantasy, luas is subsidised only difference is with luas we’re subsidising a private companies profits. At the end of the day it simple begrudgery why shouldn’t someone aspire to a good wage, remember if a luas drive crashed he’s going to court cos he’s responsible for the x amount of people on his team. Why shouldn’t all workers have good job security or good pensions? These are things we should aspire too for everyone not begrudge. I really do despair of the morons on here, its a good app for news but the idiots that comment make it not worth having. And in good journal style the idiots will now slag me off and point out some grammatical error.

Fran, if those people want to aspire to a good wage that’s fantastic. They should also aspire to work in a job that pays them the wage they dream of. They’re not being paid badly now for the level of skill their job requires. If they want to be paid better let them go back to college to retrain and work their way towards a better paying job.

Clearly a Luas driver.

I’m not a luas driver I just think they should get some sort of annual pay rise, at least on par with cost of living increase. Luas fares have gone up and transdev just keep all money for themselves at the expense on drivers.

Do they not get annual increments on top of a guaranteed bonus?

The transdev CEO was on Matt Cooper yesterday and said it wasn’t true they were only offering increases in line with CPI. He said they would negotiate any sensible wage increase request.
And the long term service is 9 years, it’s not exactly 20 years in the job before you reach the top of the pay scale like many other jobs.

Anto The do get cpi