"Tony Polson" wrote in message
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disgoftunwells wrote:

Workers keep getting what they ask for. The management can't do
anything. finally external stakeholders force the issue. In a
competitive market, external stakeholders are customers and act very
quickly.

Sounds good in theory. In practice, management does what is necessary
to keep disruption within limits with which their customers are
reasonably content. And that's where we are now.

In the private sector, given a competitive market, if management and workers
don't get things more or less right the business goes bust and they all lose
their jobs. But in the public sector (including quasi-private businesses
that government can't allow to fail) management and workers get bailed out
until the country goes bust.

Peter

"Peter Masson" wrote:
"Tony Polson" wrote in message
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disgoftunwells wrote:

Workers keep getting what they ask for. The management can't do
anything. finally external stakeholders force the issue. In a
competitive market, external stakeholders are customers and act very
quickly.

Sounds good in theory. In practice, management does what is necessary
to keep disruption within limits with which their customers are
reasonably content. And that's where we are now.

In the private sector, given a competitive market, if management and workers
don't get things more or less right the business goes bust and they all lose
their jobs. But in the public sector (including quasi-private businesses
that government can't allow to fail) management and workers get bailed out
until the country goes bust.


I don't see the country going bust because London Underground drivers
are overpaid.

There is more chance of the country going bust because of the botched
part-privatisation (via PFI) of London Underground, costing very many
times the wage bill of all LU staff, not just its train drivers. And
no-one can blame Comrade Crow or the RMT for any of that nonsense!