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dickboyd ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Serves the cleaning ladies right for talking and eating in a car share situation. The cleaning ladies should have been jailed! [:-P] Parasitical competition indeed! The cleaning ladies should be ashamed. Ashamed, I say.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1525590,00.html Bus firm takes car sharers to court Kim Willsher in Paris Monday July 11, 2005 The Guardian They might have been congratulated for their "green" efforts in an area of heavy air pollution. Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of "an act of unfair and parasitical competition". The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated. Two years ago a business tribunal threw out the company's case. It is now pursuing the women in a higher court, claiming that their action has cost it €2m (£1.4m). The women explained that for many years cleaners used the TSE line for the 40-minute ride across the border, which cost them €110 (£76) a month. "Using our cars is quicker and at least twice as cheap. And on the bus we didn't have the right to eat or even to speak," said Martine Bourguignon. Odette Friedmann added: "In the evening instead of coming to get us at 9.30pm the bus would arrive at 10.30pm. If you made any comment to the driver you'd get a mouthful of abuse." "It's absurd and ridiculous," said the women's lawyer, Cécile Klein- Schmitt. "I don't see how any magistrate can find any legal basis for this case." TSE is also suing the women's employer, Onet-Luxembourg. "They've basically accused us of inciting the car-sharing scheme when we have nothing to do with the method of transport used by our staff," said director Frédéric Sirerol. The court case will be heard in January next year. dickboyd@aol.com |
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MDC ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 04 Dec 2002 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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I guess this is kinda HOT related. :D Crazy car-sharing schemers stealing all the profits from legitimate businesses.
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sluDgE ![]() Master Slug ![]() Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Status: Offline Points: 501 |
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.... and in NoVa, one could say that car sharering (AKA slugging) takes revenue from local mass transit providers (Metro, VRE, and all the commuter bus companies that serve PW, Stafford, and Spotsy counties). [B)]
Dick don't send this to Metro, they may get "ideas"! [;)] Keep on sluggin'! [:)] |
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122582 ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Since slugging is really just formalized hitchhiking, I doubt the mass transit companies would have a leg to stand on.
On the other hand, while we complain the bus companies don't have enough routes at convenient times, we effectively to take away from their ridership and revenue they would use to expand services. |
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Wagonman ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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Wow, can you say frivolous lawsuit? Why they are at it, why don't they sue all drivers that drive between those two points? Even if one of the carpoolers was making money off operating the route, this suit reeks or monopoly behaviour. This bus company needs to be sanctioned for their arrogance.
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SpotsySlugBug ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 02 May 2005 Location: VA Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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A few cleaning ladies considered competition? So stupid. Does anyone know what if any law was actually broken? There couldn't possibly be any law on their books for this....
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Wagonman ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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quote: It sounds like they are trying to stretch some law against "unfair and parasitical competition". I'm sure the law was never intended for something like this. The law was probably meant to be used against companies that steal other company's customer lists and then try to gain their business. Or when an employee leaves a company and tries to open his/her own competing business and steals the former employers customers. |
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122582 ![]() New Slug ![]() Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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well, this was in France. Not too surprising when you consider that.
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