Dnarever wrote on Aug 11
th, 2014 at 7:49am:
aquascoot wrote on Aug 11
th, 2014 at 7:44am:
Dnarever wrote on Aug 11
th, 2014 at 7:24am:
To the conservatives high unemployment is not a bad thing, sure they took credit for the coincidental low unemployment during the Howard term but that was not really what they wanted.
To the conservatives a huge pool of unemployed can be used to drive the lowest wages down further with competition for low paying work which is done by the people they don't like and don't care about.
No , I would disagree with that.
lots of people, innovative and starting new small businesses (and that's where the future employment is) creates lots of demand in the economy, lots of spenders and buyers,'
The only business that would like high unemployment would be EB games, foxtel and blockbuster video.
Also, people are the business, especially in small business. if you have good people and your competitors have staff that are "slackers", then their business is doomed.
this is the big problem for the unemployed and why I keep telling them that talking doom and gloom like crook or greenswin is death to your employment prospects. its why I keep telling them that getting a job (a good job) is like getting a good date.
you have to put in effort.
it isn't going to just happen and having a negative attitude is something an employer or a customer can pick up on immediately. the slacker has a certain 'stench of failure" about him.
he needs an attitude change before his employment prospects will be going anywhere. and hating on the bosses and employers is plain ridiculous. its like being the worlds biggest misogynist and then going to a singles bar.
No , I would disagree with that.Well there's a surprise.
Actually this was the policy the liberals implemented when Howard was treasurer and they explained what they were trying to do.
It was meant to cure stagflation by driving wages down. It not only didn't work it made the problem worse. One of the reason that Howard is widely considered to be Australia's worst ever treasurer.
But Yes the Liberals have deliberately done this in the past, they implemented policy meant to increase unemployment to achieve a general wage reduction to assist employers. The theory that a large pool of unemployed means a pool of cheap labour is attractive to conservatives.
Workchoices may not be popular but it is a road down which we will be going.
The globalisation of nearly all markets for "stuff" MUST include a realisation that "wages for labour" is part of that "stuff"
when Ken Knight won the Harvard business award for his thesis on NIKE being a "global roamer". that NIKE would move its factory to korea and when cheaper wages became available in Vietnam, would move there and when cheaper wages became availbale in Indonesia , would move there.....the die has been cast my friend,
Hansen wanted to put up barriers, barriers and tarrifs that were shredded by union heavy weight Bob Hawke.
aussies can bury their head in the sand and think they deserve $ 40 a hour to manufacture the same item that an Asian will do for $5.
They can think they deserve $30 an hour to work in a call centre when an Asian will do it for $5.
But they are pissing into the wind.
workchoices and flexibility of the labor market is inevitable.
the powers of globalisation of the labour market aren't going to stop for crook or yourself, no matter how much you bury your head in the sand.
the unions will make this problem much worse.
learn from our sectors which can compete globally
farming
health
finance and insurance
private universities
hardly a union in site.
the union is dead and workchoices is coming.
Bob Hawke and John Button made it so (and good on them)
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