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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Sorry Pierre but that's ridiculous, it's not even close to being the free market at work. In a free market these guys would've been fired and replaced by cheaper staff, of which there's no shortage who'd do the job for less.
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And where would they have got all these replacement drivers from, and how quickly would they have recruited them, trained them and have them in place - all whilst still maintaining a service.
So the train drivers are leveraging their position to get the best possible deal for themselves....and anyone on this forum would do any different for themselves????
It's collective bargining, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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As it is it's a pretty much closed shop, they've their nice benefits packages, cannot be made compulsorily redundant, in short all the most market distorting aspects of public sector employment.
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Sounds like the police force.