Re: Corporate Downsizing

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

"Bruce Greening" <norrail@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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| Bill Bolton wrote:
| > "Paul Jones" <dj_wiseguy2_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
| >
| > > Whilst writing a management essay for uni I stumbled upon the
following
| > > figures in my text book that i thought interesting:
| > >
| > >              Number of employees
| > >                       1990    1998  diffrence
| > > State Rail NSW        28642   9344   19498
| > > TNT                   52175   36000  16175
| > > Westpac               45395   31606  13787
| > > Public Transport Vic  21959   9072   12887
| > > ANZ                   48182   35926  12256
| > > Foster's              21600   10800  10800
| > >
| > > Interesting to note biggest cuts in banks and public transport.....
| >
| > From your limited list, the biggest percentage cuts appear to be in
| > public transport and alcoholic beverage production/distribution
|
| I sugest the figurers for SRA are due to the break up of the industry
rather
| than any real cuts in staff.

The SRA used to have around 50,000 employees in the combined workforce (it
used to be known as the world's largest sheltered workshop). All sections
have been decimated under Labor with the co-operation of the Unions. The SRA
now has more managers with sub-20,000 than it had with 50,000.