Re: Corporate Downsizing

[usenet.spam@gunzel.net (Michael)]

Bruce Greening <norrail@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
<3AE9EA89.2F528517@optusnet.com.au>: 

>> "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
>
>I sugest the figurers for SRA are due to the break up of the industry
>rather than any real cuts in staff.

Yes. I find it extremely hard to believe that State Rail NSW have almost 
the same amount of employees that Public Transport Vic have. When you take 
into account, that SRA have a much larger suburban network than Melbourne, 
and also 1, 2, 3, 4 or more guards in some instances, it just doesn't add 
up. I've seen cases of 3 guards on a Sydney station just to let one train 
go, then the train guard to push the buttons.

In Melbourne very few stations are staffed, and all trains are single 
person operated. Even taking tram drivers into account, I can't see how the 
figures above add up.

[TAX INVOICE: ABN 69 696 969 412] Just my 2.2 cents (inc GST).

MK.

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