Re: Drivers massive pay rise

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Russell Norton" <russelln@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message >

> Yes, and when CityRail launched their big recruitment drive for the
> Olympics, they offered highly experienced drivers' (many of whom had
worked
> for CityRail before) the opportunity to come back to CityRail, and start
off
> on a massive $14 an hour !!! With no overtime or penalty rates !!!
>
> Funny how they didn't attract anywhere near the numbers of qualified
> drivers' they needed, and had to start throwing inexperienced guards in
the
> drivers' seat (with all the resultant problems this has caused).


They really are living in fantasy land - $14 an hour to drive trains and cop
shit, what a joke.