Re: Corporate Downsizing

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

"Michael" <usenet.spam@gunzel.net> wrote in message
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| Bruce Greening <norrail@optusnet.com.au> wrote in article
| >> "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.

The SRA has been decimated over the last decade.


| 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.

There is always only 1 guard per train. Some stations have CSA's, the new
fancy name for station assistants.