This is what should be done :
https://www.workerscontrol.net/authors/worker-management-barcelona-public-transit-system-1936-1939 https://www.workerscontrol.net/authors/worker-management-barcelona-public-transit-system-1936-1939
As for “efficiencies", this is real efficiency :
1936 revolution in Barcelona
Much of Barcelona‘s economy was put under worker control. Factories were run through worker committees. Even places like hotels, barber shops, and restaurants were collectivized and managed by their workers. In some places, money was entirely eliminated, to be replaced with vouchers.
It is reported,
“ The first measure in the collectivization of the Barcelona street railways was to discharge the excessively paid directors and company stooges. The saving was considerable. A conductor averaged 250 to 300 pesetas a month, while the general director (manager) was paid 5,000 and his three assistants 4,441, 2,384, and 2,000 pesetas respectively. The amount saved through the abolition of these posts went to increase the wages of the lowest paid workers 40% to 60%, and intermediate and higher brackets 10% to 20%. The next step was the reduction of working time to 40 hours per week (but for the war situation, it would have been cut to 36 hours weekly). ”
Another improvement was in the area of management. Before the revolution, streetcars, buses, and subways were each privately owned by separate companies. The union decided to integrate and consolidate all transportation into an efficient system without waste. This improvement meant better facilities, rights of way, and incomparably better service for the riding public. Fares were reduced from 15 to 10 centimes, with free transportation for school children, wounded militiamen, those injured at work, other invalids, and the aged.[6]
“ Despite their limitations, the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists established libertarian collectives where the means of production and exchange were socialised, through direct management by the workers and not through imposition by the state. Economic surplus was also self-managed. Also, and once again in contrast to the USSR, the workers of the collectives were rewarded equally, without productivity falling or initiative lacking. The bourgeoisie and the bureaucracy believe that if there is not a large wage differential, initiative and interest in increasing production will be lost. This idea was shown to be false in the Spanish libertarian collectives, where solidarity between the collectivists made self-government function satisfactorily.[7]
No snouts in trough, or lackey straw bosses hitting the Dunning-Kruger ceiling of their abilities and taking their incompetence out on their underlings, like I experienced at Railcorp.
The bludging rent seekers are unnecessary and a waste of space.
Tony
> On 26 Nov 2021, at 8:23 pm, TP historyworks@...> wrote:
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> The average private contract operator would be rolling on the floor with laughter at that pigs in the trough analogy. In reality, TfNSW's margins are so tight that it's barely commercially viable to win some of these contracts. A lot of them take on the job to maintain their profile in the market, because it's a national sector and there are more lucrative contracts elsewhere, but they can't afford to let competitors occupy too much of the available space and establish a dominant presence. They do save operating costs compared to the government operations and have better operational efficiencies and improved customer service, some of the reasons for the now almost universal practice of operational privatisation. They have very elaborate performance standards that they have to comply with and sometimes there's tension between what they're paid and what they're required to do. Obviously they can't allow the business to go into loss.
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> As for the rest of the "anti-privatisation" scare propaganda about loss of public assets, service cuts, fare rises etc, in fact that all remains under government control, so anything that happens there emanates from the government, not the operator.
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> Tony P
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> On Friday, 26 November 2021 at 15:54:02 UTC+11a...@... wrote:
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> Nothing else.
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> Tony
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>> On 26 Nov 2021, at 3:23 pm, TP histor...@... <applewebdata://7E966177-C366-4A5F-9E3B-AB0251084BDF>> wrote:
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>> Transdev in association with John Holland will take over Sydney bus region 9, the last of State Transit's operations, in April 2022. From a tram perspective, this is the region within which CSELR operates, the eastern and south eastern suburbs.
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>> https://www.transdev.com.au/news-en/greener-connections-in-sydneys-eastern-beaches/ https://www.transdev.com.au/news-en/greener-connections-in-sydneys-eastern-beaches/
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