The Price of Rights...
... is eternal vigilance.
Go here and make a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (WorkChoices) Bill 2005 .
You have until tomorrow. I doesn't have to be long, but I can't urge you enough to register your rejection of the the changes to the IR system proposed by WorkChoices.
If you believe that employees and employers have relative bargaining power, I want to come and work with you. Are you on a commune where you have a stake in the management of your enterprise, because I doubt that you work anywhere in Australia, or that your particular work environment is representative of anything other than your personal good fortune.
There's a reason that a body of law and regulation around child labour, the minimum wage, hours of work, workers' compensation, penalty rates and similar was developed. It's because left to their own devices, employers exploit employees - and this happens regardless of the colour of your collar.
*here ends the public service announcement*
Go here and make a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Workplace Relations Amendment (WorkChoices) Bill 2005 .
You have until tomorrow. I doesn't have to be long, but I can't urge you enough to register your rejection of the the changes to the IR system proposed by WorkChoices.
If you believe that employees and employers have relative bargaining power, I want to come and work with you. Are you on a commune where you have a stake in the management of your enterprise, because I doubt that you work anywhere in Australia, or that your particular work environment is representative of anything other than your personal good fortune.
There's a reason that a body of law and regulation around child labour, the minimum wage, hours of work, workers' compensation, penalty rates and similar was developed. It's because left to their own devices, employers exploit employees - and this happens regardless of the colour of your collar.
*here ends the public service announcement*
posted by Countess at 10:45 AM
8 Comments:
C'mon people! I'm hoping that the deafenng silence means that you are all busy responding to the Inquiry!
Nice, succinct, cogent and not bogon at all.
Thank you, anon, but did you make a submission??
Well after being called "right wing" (which tchick and I found quite amusing btw) I thought I'd better...
I did a submission for this (and a number of other) senate hearings, but the reality is that it will do fuck all.
On the positie side, maybe if things get really bad, people will take direct action against the government. Well, I can hope.
You are righteous, Aleks.
I had to make a submission for work, and even in the knowledge that it would do sweet fuck all, I think it is important for us all to go on the record as comorehensively rejecting the notion that reducing wages and entitlements and decreasing job security will ensure the future prosperity of both the nation and it's 'families.'
well i've commented on evrything else, (just in case you missed me) so i might as well add something here too, although not being a member of the working class i find i have little to say ...
that's right Down & Out - that would mean that you work right ????
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