Qld Budget 2009 Asset Sales - articles and discussion

[mufreight]

this is a blatent lie. I can not talk to these people unless I am given their contact deatils which would be a breach of privacy laws.

So you never ask anyone about anything because you might breach privacy laws, a bit of a cop out here, if you never ask you never know.

You misunderstand. I gave greater credibility to the person on the job because I personally knew them not simply because they were on the job.  if I knew any of these people personally I could easily contact them and ask if what you say is true.  At the moment though in my example you are like the former defence force person not the person on the job.

A large difference here I talk not to one person on the job as you put it but to many then balance what I have been told before shooting my mouth off.

As to the staffing levels there has been a steady and ongoing increase in the numbers in clerical and administrative positions and an equaly ongoing decline in the ratio of actual workers, again if you feel so inclined there are avenues by which you or any other person can verify the actual figures should one so desire.
I notice that you did not respond in respect of the levels of accomodation provided for railway workers who are in the situation of an enforced transfer.  Perhaps since the pedantic doting of I's and crossing of T's is of such great importance you might like to take the opportunity to respond.

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Once again absolute rubbish that I have been provided with avenues to check. You have not provide one single link to a source that I can look at.
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So you are incapable of picking up a phone and talking to people or Government Departments or Union secretaries representing the workers in those areas, I have quite frequently and see no reason why you would not be able to do that also.  Is your only source of information via a computer, if so I am more than confident that if you applied some time, the information would be there also and you would be more than competent to ascertain the facts yourself without any further involvement from myself.

I responded by stating how the situation was in one state and that it was state laws that enforced that not a agreement between the company and union. I also said that my original statement was actually a question asking if anyone checked the legality of it. Lets look at the situation of my brother who received a transfer to London from Sydney. I can assure you prices in London are higher than that here. Yet that was done. It happens tough luck sorry. Is it fair that I lost my job because the business owners had a falling out and as assistant manager my job no longer existed because the new owners were actually going to work in the shop.

So how is that relevant to railway workers faced with redundencies and the accomodation made avaliable to then if they accept involuntary transfers to maintain their employment.

Now can we return to the topic of this thread which is Asset Sales and the effect of the redundencies on rail workers as a consequence of these sales.

[Derwan]

Time to settle down.  While members are encouraged to debate topics, we ask that you respect others.

Thread locked for now.