tec0:
1. I know of a "mega corporation" that USED to function for more than 20 years but between BEE constraints, government taking months to pay accounts & strikes... they have closed doors.
2. Compare apples with apples... in other words if you want to compare South African minimum wage with Australian minimum wage, then also consider the cost of living in South Africa compared to Australia. We do not get paid in "first world money", we are paid in rands and we pay in rands.
As Justloadit & adrianh said it so eloquently: workers work for the company, the company works for investors who invested their own hard earned money.
Sure a union is there to "protect" the interests of the worker. But when they hold the employer to ransom to the point that small struggling businesses are forced to shut down, where are the unions when the workers are left without work? Besides who wants to be forced to retain employees who willfully destroy company property & violently intimidate other employees?Unfortunately the only suggestion I can come up with at this stage (which no doubt has been thought about it) is that we need to find a way/happy medium where unions may continue ensuring employees are not exploited, without having absolute power to the detriment of the employer and in effect the demise of our economic future.
1. I know of a "mega corporation" that USED to function for more than 20 years but between BEE constraints, government taking months to pay accounts & strikes... they have closed doors.
2. Compare apples with apples... in other words if you want to compare South African minimum wage with Australian minimum wage, then also consider the cost of living in South Africa compared to Australia. We do not get paid in "first world money", we are paid in rands and we pay in rands.
As Justloadit & adrianh said it so eloquently: workers work for the company, the company works for investors who invested their own hard earned money.
Sure a union is there to "protect" the interests of the worker. But when they hold the employer to ransom to the point that small struggling businesses are forced to shut down, where are the unions when the workers are left without work? Besides who wants to be forced to retain employees who willfully destroy company property & violently intimidate other employees?Unfortunately the only suggestion I can come up with at this stage (which no doubt has been thought about it) is that we need to find a way/happy medium where unions may continue ensuring employees are not exploited, without having absolute power to the detriment of the employer and in effect the demise of our economic future.
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