Re: 2 EL's on Patrick's

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Les Brown)]

"Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au> wrote in aus.rail:

>When an employee works for 15 hour on their day off and wants payment for
>it, only to be told we don't pay overtime your on an AWA.
>
>I wouldn't call it that!!!
>
>To quote your misguided statement "that the workers of GSR are the one's
>being subsidised by the shareholders at the moment"
>
>I'd call that exploitation not subsidisation!!!!
>
So quit! Go work for another company. I believe that any worker who is
exploited, allows it to happen - IN MOST CASES! Unless they are
chaining you to your locomotive, feeding you bread and water, and have
threatened to evict your wife and kids from your one-roomed shack by
the track, you are permitted to terminate your labour with whoever
employs you. These days you should have no problem finding work with
other R.O.'s.

Look, Bob, I don't know the full story and I suspect that you aren't
telling it either.

Did you sign the AWA? Did your union take a look at it and agree with
it? If you are required to work on an RDO, can you take it again at
another time in lieu? There are more questions than these which need
to be anwered before anyone come to any judgement on your supposed
exploitation. One-line rhetoric only means one-sided opinions.

I mean, why are you blaming the company? They are trying to make a
profit on something that has never been profitable. Would you buy
shares in your company if it looses money? It's called GSR, not
Amazon.com, mate.

And it's still called subsidisation 'cause you and your mates have
never made enough money to cover your wages.

My advice to you is: Wait until the company makes a profit, as they
expect it to this financial year, and then press them for better wages
and conditions. You do not have much of a bargaining chip if the
company is bleeding money..

Les Brown