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I'm not taking anything back, LU are free to decline the pay demands.
Leveraging your position in a free market economy is fundamental to potential success or potential failure.
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As previously noted it's a monopoly, not a free market position.
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I don't have to worry about that, as there is a monopolies commission.
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Why would we want one? 'Leveraging your position in a free market economy is fundamental to potential success or potential failure' after all. Companies with monopolies overcharging is purely leveraging their position surely?
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Get the bus
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Spoken like someone with no idea what they're talking about. Come down to London during a tube strike.
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If your jealous of their career, then apply to be tube driver.
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I'm not, I wouldn't take the pay cut. I didn't realise you'd go to the childish 'If you're jealous' arguments so quickly though I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
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That last paragraph could be applied to a dozen other professions I don't see the need to single out tube drivers
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They are already hugely overpaid and work in a public sector that's seeing cuts, pension changes and pay freezes. That's the simple reason to single them out, they're getting special treatment which is entirely undeserved.