RMT members are voting on a 21.3% pay increase for guards at Transport for Wales.
Crucially, it will bring Sundays into the existing 35-hour working week from May 2025. Currently operated as voluntary overtime (on double time), it means that Sunday working will be pensionable, with the bonus of additional rest days.
A further change is that ‘New Days’ will be part of the working week, implemented on January 1 2025.
The three-year deal, backdated to April 2023, takes the full-time salary from £38,440 to £47,035 in April 2024. A further (yet to be determined) increase will be paid at the rate of RPI-inflation from April 2025, covering year three.
Included in the increase, 2.15% payable from April 2024, is a restructuring premium which the RMT says is “significantly better…
