Re: re why ......

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

"BEE EFF" <mcreely@pnc.com.au> wrote in message
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| As I have said before I have never understood with the amount of training
and
| knowledge that is required to become a driver and maintain that
qualification
| why it has never been recognised as a trade, something the union should
have
| pushed for years ago

Bit hard when even Bob Plain calls Drivers glorified labourers.


| (please I don't want to start a seperate argument about
| what unions do and don't do).
|
| I can remember hearing years ago that a driver used to be held in the same
| esteem as a High School Principal or a Crown Sergeant of Police(not now,
we are
| treated with contempt as any other blue collar worker is treated).


Not only the same esteem, but the same pay as a Crown sergeant of police.
Nowadays, Drivers are held in higher esteem, but paid lower than cops or
chalkies, and have much lower conditions.