Re: BHP & BLUESCOPE Job losses ?
Casting my mind back a few years and can still hear those anti union people trying to tell me and others that if we where to become non union labour that the company would look after us better as we are their greatest asset to the company. Well thanks to their attitudes they have managed to weaken the union base and this is the result. Have to say there are those on this site with that same self attitude towards the common worker and to this day will denigrate anything union wise. Well thank you to all those with that attitude and just look at what has transpired. As said in the past? If the company had looked after its workers in the first place there never would have been a union. Hence why we are going to end up with a rehash of the past and foster radical action from those being exploited by companies. As for those that have lost their jobs on the two Aussie ships there was a report that crew on each of those ships had agreed to a wage freeze back in 2014 to help save their positions and that the company had delayed one of the ships so that both where out of australian waters for when they informed the crews that their positions where no longer there. This all stems back to the Howard governement which started process to weaken the unions especially the MUA. Viva the revolution that is coming real soon.
That's the way the mop flops.
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