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The 30—a0 years of thatcherism, however you want to put it, people are determined to hang on to those conditions and, indeed, win them back for other people, set an example. right, again, an interesting turn of phrase. you say, "our people will hang on to their conditions" — but the fact is, surely, you would accept, your workers, your members would accept that technologies change, the ways of doing business change, and that involves change on the railways. for example, we canjust take a cou...

On to their conditions" — but the fact is, surely, you would accept, your workers, your members would accept that technologies change, the ways of doing business change, and that involves change on the railways. gor example, we canjust take a couple of issues, lets start with the way customers buy tickets. you are determined to stop the closure of ticket offices, when it is quite plain, if you just look at the figures, that only one in eight rail customers now purchases their ticket in a ticke...

Right, again, an interesting turn of phrase. you say, "our people will hang on to their conditions" — but the fact is, surely, you would accept, your workers, your members would accept that technologies change, the ways of doing business change, and that involves change on the railways. for example, we canjust take a couple of issues, lets start with the way customers buy tickets. you are determined to stop the closure of ticket offices, when it is quite plain, if you just look at the figures,...

People, set an example. right, again, an interesting turn of phrase. you say, "our people will hang on to their conditions" — but the fact is, surely, you would accept, your workers, your members would accept that technologies change, the ways of doing business change, and that involves change on the railways. gor example, we canjust take a couple of issues, for example, we canjust take a couple of issues, lets start with the way customers buy tickets. you are determined to stop the closure of...

Isntjust the only issue, or even the most important. its about their conditions of service, the way theyre deployed. its about their pensions going forward. many are things that have been ripped out of workers�* hands. even here at the bbc, i would venture that many of the terms and conditions have been ripped away, people have been casualised, forced to work for subcontractors and, indeed, have had their pension promise ripped up and are now having to fend for themselves. and if you look at, ...

The current health care benefit onto our employees. i socked our retirees with a big health care bill. and we are looking at outsourcing a number of the services that we provide. i am not a big believer in the fact that the private sector can always do it better, but sometimes when youre looking at the overhead on our personnel and there may be opportunities so we begin to unload pieces of things that weve done for a very long time. none of these choices are ones that we like to make. there are ...

>> weshlgs were all hope thath economy starts to grow but you cant depend ones that. you have to bring your budget into line with the current realities. and there are cuts in services, there have to be. were also pushing more costs off on to our employees, were all dealing with health care costs. we, too, are looking at self-insurance but were also pushing more of the cost of the current health care benefit on to our employees. i socked our retirees why a big health care bill and were looking at...