Bugman wrote:That statement reminds me of working down near the old Darling Harbour goods yard when it was demolished and the area was under significant re development .
The building unions would go on strike for just about anything. One strike was because there wasn't enough pie warmers in the lunch sheds. Another was a strike, because the workers wanted special payment for being subjected to Chinese food smells wafting across from Chinatown. Sensibility went out the window.
A mate of mine was called in to deal with a flea outbreak in a couple of the sheds. He wasn't a member of any type of union, so they would not let him in.
Crazy stuff in those days.
bah! wrote:Unions are the worst, I remember the good old days before they got in and stopped child exploitation. Oh and before those damn socialists the IWW fought for the 8 hour work day.
bah! wrote:The SDA is pretty s**t too, bunch of sellouts to big business.
disco stu wrote:What's SDA?
disco stu wrote:bah! wrote:The SDA is pretty s**t too, bunch of sellouts to big business.
What's SDA?
I was wondering how the vaccine thing would go down with unions CZ. Haven't been paying attention though
Got in a big argument on Facebook with friends when someone made a comment blaming the government for the low full time employment/high casual employment rate. I said that it was more likely the unions, as it's so hard for business to move on non performing employee's that they just don't want to take the risk. That's what I've been told by many employers, just don't want to take the risk with people. That went down like a Zepplin. Ironically, out of all the people commenting I was the only one employed casually, rest were all permanent. I haven't had permanent work since I was about 19,but there's a lot to the story
Gamerancher wrote:Even in mining, the best money is in contracting. A lot of "workers" are actually labour hire and it's that company that makes the big bucks. The mines prefer to use them as they aren't tied into the "permanent" employee problems like not being able to sack a useless individual for being useless and having a flexible workforce that they can utilise for the ups and downs of mining..
disco stu wrote:As much as many unions have things to answer for, they've certainly been helpful for my wife. She is a teacher and has had to call on the unions assistance a few times and they've been great for her. Once when she fell down stairs at work and had ongoing issues, and another where her grade partner was so bad and caused so much stress she needed ongoing counseling. It's not that the school are horrible people, quite the opposite, but the decisions are made by the school board who are removed from the day to day operations and are making decisions based on financials etc.
That's the sort of thing unions are important for, representing their members. Striking because the right milk wasn't in the fridge is just stupid. If I hadn't heard local stories more than once that are extremely similar I wouldn't have actually believed that
cz515 wrote:Unions were good in the past. Now they are not
Look at how cfmeu rolled over like a puppy dog and agreed to vax.
cz515 wrote:Yep they were not happy and the police didn't do anything... strange... maybe that was the deal
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cz515 wrote:Yep they were not happy and the police didn't do anything... strange... maybe that was the deal