Re: Excess NR Locos for Sale

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

"Mark & Roz Creely" <mcreely@pnc.com.au> wrote in message
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| <All previous comments snipped>
|
| I think the problem is gentlemen, that Management & Union at all of our
| respective employers have created an "US & THEM" mentality.


With "them" being management and the Union.


| We are all train drivers, all trying to make a living, and all trying to
come
| home to our families safe at the end of our shift.
|
| The RTBU should have not allowed the disparity between our wages and
| conditions, but had a National Standard for wages and conditions -
possibly
| based on National Rails original Greenfields Agreement, but the various
states
| did their own thing.

The idea, according to Bob Plain, was to keep leap frogging.


| As far as NR selling off or leasing surplus rolling stock or locomotives,
if it
| generates extra revenue - assisting with the bottom line , I believe this
can
| be a good thing, provided that in the case of locos whoever leases them
looks
| after them(in case we want them back) and don't go out and use those locos
to
| tender for work National rail is currently doing.

They'd have no control over that, which is why FC stopped selling locos.



| Thats just my 2 bobs worth

What have Plain and McManus got to do with it?  :-)