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> I would thought to ensure a better future for you and your colleagues,
> is to promote the use of public transport to the general public. I am
> yet to see any action taken by your union(s) for such promotion. It is
> obvious that you have never run a business of your own. Then you will
> know the importance of holding on to your long term customers, while
> attracting new ones.
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I would have thought that it was the operators responsibility to promote
its services to the general public, ie the government.
I've seen this type of commment a couple of times now, anyone would think
it was the union that is responsible for the running (or running down) of
the public transport system. But who is meant to be running the system??
That's right, the government. So why is the system gradually running
backwards, falling apart under rushed privatisation plans & losing many
senior staff who are leaving early rather than lose all their super
through 'workplace reforms'
It's funny you say that the union members obviously have no business
skills of their own, when it is the gov't that is running the business,(
more like selling off the family jewels). Perhaps a radical plan would be
for the gov't to actually give over control of the public transport system
to the union.
look at the advantages
-no more strikes (you don't go out against yourself)
-a genuine vested interest in making the system work( the more efficent
the system, the more you can employ)
-we currently let politicans (failed businessmen mostly) run a large
company, can the union do it worse??
-It saves flogging it off to private enterprise, whose bottom line is
profit, not service (at least the unions have a social conscience)
-and they could scrap the stupid & incompetent auto ticketing system .
Imagine if the company building transponders for city link tollway
collection was 2 years late in implementing the system, city link would
kick their arse thruogh every court in the land, squeeze mony from them
for failing to deliver & get someone to do the job properly. But not our
dear government, just let them go, after all, it's "only" public
transport.
But for F^*% sake, stop blaming the unions for the state of the system,
when it is the gov't who is in the drivers seat (only metaphorically
speaking, thank god)
Disclaimer: I'm not a member of the PTU or for that matter the PTUA, but
think that either of them could do a better job than what's being done
now.
-- Stuart Thyer Suzuki Gs1000s Photographer University of Melbourne DoD No-1724 One time winner of the 'imaginary chocolate frog of discretion' _____________