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Originally Posted by LondonRoad
So the employer who gives no notice to it's customers, even those already in transit, or to the Government is to be applauded.
Yet you condemn a trade union who has gone through a democratic process and gives the public, the employer and the government adequate notice.
You're so funny.  |
I don't think it's remotely funny, no. But I don't think trade union activism is funny either, even when forced to operate under the fig-leaf of respectability granted it by legislation.
We are a long way from the days of satanic mills, arbitrary mass-sackings, wage cuts and non-existent health and safety that brought the movement into being. I don't believe the unions involved here have any business in telling the management of the company that they disagree with strategic changes that might result in the company 'not being Australian enough'.
They're not employed in a worker's cooperative, they're employed by a public listed company. If they want to forge a business strategy they should either seek promotion to management positions or else go and form their own company and make it as Australian as they like.