Many assertions that such things take place - poor widdle bossie can't sit down to the table and negotiate?
It is the 'boss class' with their fantastic imaginations about their 'position' and 'privileges' that carries out most of the standover and such.... what it means at the end of the day is that they can't run a business. Sitting down and expecting full conditions to apply to workers on sites etc, full safety and so forth and full pay rates, is not standover. Even threatening legitimate strike action is not standover .... attacking union negotiators on a personal basis by threatening their jobs is standover - and that is why there are all these Union bloke paid by the Unions to do that work (though the site reps still cop it)....
Real world. How much does it cost a stupid management to try on an industrial war when all they had to do was know and accept the proper conditions and rates of pay? Former Royal Commission found one sucker ready to admit guilt - a Maori with no real idea I think... nobody else fell for the lies and bullying of using lawfare.
I suppose we should just go back to full Awards and nothing else then ................... make it easier and fairer for everyone. Bossy wouldn't like that - no 'wriggle room' that Howard was trying for.
Footnote:- Been watching the 'retirement complex' construction going on - the one whose noise caused us to move and 'go bush' for years now - heaps of earnest young tradies in utes copping a grand a day each or something....... sheilas hanging off every arm .... and progress is slow and the prices keep escalating.... locally it's called The Gulag and nobody is buying ... it's actually ony a couple of feet above the lake - in a major flood it will go under... last big one the water nearly came through our back fence and we were on the rise... wonder why nobody's buying a tract house separated by a metre from the neighbours...
Onya, Bossy!! Great planning!!
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