Obviously they will be fixing their business model in other countries. There goes jobs and skills here.
I have for 43 years and I am well aware of the pitfalls and I have never worked 38 hours a week.....more like 60 and 70 hours over 6 days and sometimes 7.
And can you blame them from taking their business to other countries?
So why are you still here if it's so bad ?
Not now that Abbott is PM, no.
Manufacturing has been in decline since the early 1970's thanks to the communist dominated trade unions..
Here's a chart from the ABC website, showing job loses in manufacturing.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-19/manufacturing-chart-provided-by-aig/5264452
Here's a chart from the ABC website, showing job loses in manufacturing.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-19/manufacturing-chart-provided-by-aig/5264452
Can we blame government policy for the losses under Labor ? I would say the GFC would have had a lot to do with it, plus the Rudd governments adroit handling of the stimulus packages, shielding the economy from recession thereby creating a safe haven for money here and driving up the dollar. So losses in manufacturing jobs would be a side effect of a good policy. Pity the attempts to create a quasi sovereign wealth wealth fund via a mining tax to protect the $AUD was so opposed by vested interests.
Also interesting how the jobs rose as soon as Rudd got in, following a downtrend in the Howard years untill the GFC bit.
Yes, I think it's a shame we didn't get another term of Labor. They were about to turn the corner.
At least it took them six years to get rid of two car makers, it only took Abbott two months
Have you ever been in business rumpole?
I have for 43 years and I am well aware of the pitfalls and I have never worked 38 hours a week.....more like 60 and 70 hours over 6 days and sometimes 7.
Interesting the Abbott Govt expected the SPC workers to be reduced to the minimum award pay rate before the Govt would be willing to provide assistance.
* How is this attitude compatible with Abbott defending Don Randall and his $5000 2 hour meeting, or claiming work expenses for being at a friends' wedding? Easy for a PM on $500K to say, or a lowly backbencher on $195K.
* The total blindness to the overall loss of competitiveness in Australia due to high land and rent, high utilities and the cripplingly high AUD. Also a decade or more of minimal infrastructure investment is holding us back.
Wage growth outside the resource sector over the last 5 years has been minuscule (except CEOs and Politicians) compared to land price inflation and 50%+ growth cost of utilities due partly to over investment. RET and carbon tax are way down the list of cost push pressures too.
Interesting the Abbott Govt expected the SPC workers to be reduced to the minimum award pay rate before the Govt would be willing to provide assistance.
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That's capitalism at work, we're just lucky there isn't 50million of us, it would be ten times worse.
Politics is full of lawyers, bankers, accountants, that tells you, it's either a lucrative scam or they weren't very good at their real job.
You must be f*cking loaded then, Noco?
And if your not, then your management skills must have been worse than the Labor Party that you whinge about all the bloody time.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...ilout-union-officials-say-20140219-3314e.html
An extract from the article below,
If SPC Ardmona workers had been moved on to the award, pay for a level-two process worker would have been cut from about $50,000 a year to $33,000. For higher-paid maintenance workers, the falls would have been even more dramatic, dropping from as much as $85,000 a year to about $50,000.
So actually, Abbott wasn't telling lies when he said the workers had lucrative above award conditions.
It sounds as though they amount to about 75% loading on the base wage.
Depends what was bumping up their pay. I get around 25% extra grosse pay each year due to working nights and weekends and public holidays.
I don't consider those payments as being lucrative but fair compensation for wearing my body out faster due to the constant flipping of my body clock and the anti social late shift and weekend work.
It's the rank hypocrisy of a group of people on a minimum of $195K calling for workers already earning atleast 75% less to take a pay cut. This is the group of politicians who received 3 payrises over 16 months (IIRC).
How about Abbott and his colleges pledge to accept no pay rise till:
* Budget is balanced - according to Pyne it's a simple matter
* 4 qtrs of real per capita GDP growth
When / if they achieve that then I'd consider them deserving of a pay rise. They're already in the top 5% of income earners of Australia.
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