Re: Sydney Rail strike tomorrow

[gonoNOCRAP@bigpond.com]

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:20:27 +1000, Kingpin <kingpin1@ozemail.com.au>
wrote:

>'Twas a dark and stormy night on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:38:19 +1000 as David
>Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> took time out from the neverending quest to
>rid the world of grues and wrote:
>  
>> The last thing the Union wants to do is get the public off-side.  They are
>> attacking management, not the customers.
>
>It hasn't worked.  I am totally pissed off with the strikers and it is now my
>firm hope that they ALL lose their jobs!
>
>The bottom line of the mess that is called the SRA is that it is losing too much
>money.  They have already raised the fares and the other option is to shed
>staff.
>
>
>Catchya
>
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Here we go again i gotta ask you why are they shedding operational
staff when you have the ridiculous situation where some employees
drive all over the state in four wheel drives pressing buttons on
level crossing equipment to see if it still works???? this has to be
one of the most inefficient work practices known to man.
In Vic they fitted "healthy state indicators" A flashing white light
attached to the crossing lights if this does not flash it is the
drivers responsibility to report this to train control 
I'm sure if SRA adopted this policy they could shed 500 non productive
workers and save thousands of litres of fuel and wear and tear on
vehicles a week !!!
Regards Paul Johnston (mnrc)