Overmanning: will the public pay?
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THE GREATER London Council is asking Londoners and others various questions about the future of London Transport. One is: "Should reduced employment be accepted to improve London Transport's efficiency and, if so, should this be to the extent of enforced redundancies?"
Translated, this means: Are you willing to pay for unnecessary labour? If it were put that way, many people might answer the original question differently. In any event, I would have thought it was a matter for management and unions, and not for passengers.
The public might also be asked whether Moslem maintenance workers should be allowed to stop to pray at sunset. One who did so was dismissed by London Country Bus Services and complained an industrial tribunal. He migh find sympathy from passenge who had stood, cold and wet, praying for a bus that never came.