00:00what's the problem with being asked to work overtime? Well there's no problem
00:05whatsoever but our members are continuously asked to work overtime and
00:09they would like an incentive payment to do that. At the moment Avanti pay their
00:14managers their management grades, premium rates so that they work those shifts
00:20instead of our members. Our members are meant to be doing that work we would
00:23like an agreement with the company they pay them they're up they pay
00:27themselves in effect as managers double what our members will earn on those
00:32shifts so we'd simply like an agreement with that. We have an agreement with some
00:36companies on it but the problem is that under the previous government the train
00:41operating companies were allowed to run down the amount of staff so Avanti
00:45simply don't have enough people to run the service that they're committed to in
00:49the timetable and in the contract they've got with the Department of
00:53Transport so they've allowed these vacancies to exist inside their
00:58network which means they cannot run the trains so if we can get an agreement
01:02with Avanti we'll look forward to discussing that with them.
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