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Originally Posted by martyh
As has been pointed out to you on a few occasions ,driverless trains may need a token member of staff on board but that staff member will not be on £50-55k a year more closer to 15-20k which is a much more attractive proposition to LU .Also these staff members could be replaced at a whim by agency staff or staff from other areas of LU not involved in any disputes dramatically weakening the unions hand
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What if those staff are members of Unions like the ones on the DLR?
Why can yuo not stand up for Unions, do you want more people to go nito poverty?
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Originally Posted by Rob
Perhaps you should ask yourself the real question then as to why the costs are so high to the public and how that then sits with your statement of
Wages are clearly a major proportion of the costs of running a transport system, with the infrastructure maintenance and investment costs the other big part. Both need to be balanced if a system is to be efficient against the income that is acceptable from fares and other grants and subsidies.
The money to meet demands of unions has to come from somewhere. It might be great to take the communist or socialist approach (some thing that failed in the soviet block countries that are now pursuing a more capitalist economy) so that high earning individuals are taxed to such a level where they have no incentive to innovate and will look to relocate to other countries so that all their income is lost to our economy.
Funding is not the bottomless pit you seem to extole. Or actually perhaps that is how you see the underground as a big hole that is bottomless in terms of the expenditure that should be allowed? |
What about dividents to Private Transport companies? It is just that communism has failed but Free Market Capitalism as well and I feel that if Rich people move abroad then they need to pay a lot for doing that along with a harmonisation of Taxes so no nation has a Tax advantage over another, becoming a tax haven should be considered a act of war!
I am not talking about a bottomless pit but the need to claw back most of many Trillions and Trillions that the very rich hold!