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Old November 27th 04, 10:31 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Guy Perry Guy Perry is offline
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Greg Hennessy wrote:
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:22:03 -0000, "JB"
wrote:

Fair enough, why couldn't you have said that to start with instead of all
the "passed over for promotion" stuff? If employers break laws they should
be punished.


Which ignores how the real world works.


Jesus, the british unions are amongst the strongest in Europe. Who else
if not them could prevent these methods?

Since we elected Labour, who we knew were going to agree with the policy,
didn't we do just that?


We didn't elect them to import failed franco/german social policy.


In Germany's case the reason for failure is not the social policy. They
simply should not have united the country so fast, _that_ did kill economy.