Re: Chubb Security

["Peter Perkins" <peterp@tig.com.au>]

Why has the RTBU left the decision to take trains with securtity guards on
them before 7PM up to individual guards? Why was there no organised campaign
to stop this rot?
It makes no sense to have guards patrolling trains in the afternoon peak,
passengers are already standing in the isles. Maybe this is the reason rail
fares are to rise by 14%.(ie paying the wages of Security Guards).
Chubb has been used in many strike breaking execises before today (ie
Wharfies.) If this new precedented move to have security guards patrolling
trains after 2pm continues then the role of train guards is deminished and
it won't be long before they will come under attack as station staff are
experiencing.
Tell your union representatives that they have to do more to stop Security
Guards. Problem is nobody is willing to citicise the State Labor Party and
Bob Carr.

                                Peter Perkins
     for RTBU Rank and File - Putting "U" back into Unity.

John <beverly@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> I heard on the radio today that the union is against Chubb Security
patrols
> before 7.00pm. They say that the positions that are redundent should be
> retrained for these jobs.
>
> The SRA claim this is not possible because it could take 1 year to train.
>
> Fact 1. The security coarse that the Chubb guards and any guard for that
> matter take is for 8 days. This then entitles the person to have a
Security
> licence.
>
> Fact 2. Most of the guards that Chubb employ are students mainly from
India
> and Pakistan. They arrive in the country do their security training and
then
> apply to Chubb to get a job.
>
> Fact 3. The reason why most guards are not Australian is because of the
low
> pay and hours. The pay rate is 11.33 per hour (it should have gone upto
> 11.69 ) and after 5.30pm 21.7 % loading. Most of the time you get a shift
of
> only 4 hours or less, with 4 hour's pay.
>
> Fact 4. Most of the trouble on the trains does not stop when these guards
> come through the train. A lot of the Guards do not know the law in
relation
> to railway offences.
>
> Fact 5. Most of the Guards are to busy sitting in the back of the train to
> see what is going on. And some are sitting down just reading the paper.
>
> Fact 6. There has never been 1 night that there has been Chubb guards on
> every single train. If the SRA guards reported more often about this
problem
> the quicker they might decide to finally get rid of these toothless
tigers.
>
>
>