Re: [NSW]CCTV Spying on staff

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

"paul" <paulwatts@xoptushome.com.au> wrote in message
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| On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 23:04:46 +1000, "Tezza"
| >"paul" <paulwatts@xoptushome.com.au> wrote in message

| >| The problem mgmt have is that train crew are rather more organised and
| >| powerful than station staff
| >
| >I disagree. Station staff are the ones who got the huge pay rises under
Work
| >and Job Re-design, the Drivers haven't recieved anything. The Drivers
| >haven't been on strike since 1984, the guards and station staff were on
| >strike last year. The Drivers Union won't even threaten to go on strike,
| >that would upset Labor and the Masons.
| >
|
| Job and Work wasn't initiated by station staff, but by management.

And pushed forward by their Union Division, for good results, something the
Loco Division hasn't done.


| They wanted to use it as a tool to cut out and downgrade jobs, but by
| the time it was done most of the cuts had been watered down, Some
| bright spark agreed to backdate it to 1995 and thats why some staff
| received quite large amounts of back pay from it.

It wasn't the backpay Drivers were dirty about, but the large rises they
got. Dirty at Loco Division, not station staff.


| Their ability to stop trains from running gives train crew bargaining
| position, if you like, not enjoyed by other classifications, even at
| the local level.

Only if the threat of using it is there, as it is, management and the
government know there's bugger of chance of that happening.



| Were the SM and an outdepot to start pushing the
| issue of safety vests among train crew, things could be made very
| uncomfortable for him very quickly. He could probably expect a few
| friendly phone calls from high places within hours.

It's already happened and no phone calls.