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Originally Posted by Damien
The absurdity of the deal given to Southern should be a bigger story. What's the point of the franchise system, or privatisation in general, if all the risks and fines are put on the taxpayer and the profits to the franchise? It's just free money to private companies from the government. Remember there was that terrible deal given to First group for the west coast(?) mainline where they were promising cheaper tickets and better services as well as more money to the government which was obviously dodgy to anyone looking at it but it only got stopped after Virgin threatened to take it court and the government 'found their mistake'. 
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Absolutely agree ,the whole franchise system is a corrupt mess and the sooner it's stopped the better
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Originally Posted by nomadking
If it's "current terms", then they've already accepted them. We're not talking about something that MIGHT happen next week or even next year.
Unions could call an endless series of strikes purely based upon "what ifs".
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In this case the unions are calling the strikes because they see it as inevitable that guards are on the way out which means less membership and less power if your the cynical type ,if not then they are trying to protect the jobs of members .Whichever way you see it the government have a lot to answer for because as far as i am concerned they are pulling the strings with GTR