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Five reasons Not to vote for the Ruddites PT 4

The Unions and IR policy

I have seen both sides of the workplace fence as a lowly shop assistant when I first left school , then when I was a student I worked as a waiter and as a dishwasher in several restaurants I have also been a manager in several fast food businesses. I have seen just how difficult it can be for an employer to deal with troublesome staff, how some employees will engage in vexatious complaints when they have been dismissed, even when that dismissal has been for dishonesty or for breaches of safety protocols.

None the less I have been fairly indifferent to the government’s “WorkChoices” regime but now that it is installed and working I feel that the Ruddite plan to remove it and replace it with yet another IR scheme is just going to be another impost on business. Small business in particular will be badly hurt, small business like the cafe owned by a friend of mine. He always paid his workers for every minute they worked , was flexible about their hours yet when he caught a young chap with his hand in the til and sacked him on the spot, the young tea leaf made a claim for “unfair dismissal” that ended up costing my friend thousands of dollars to settle. For every story of some good and loyal worker who is capriciously sacked there are just as many stories like the one about my friend’s cafe.

More importantly we have a more aware and astute population who are more able and more willing to argue their own worth to a prospective employer it is a sign of our social maturity and the reality of our employment landscape is that we have what is essentially full employment so if you have skills that are in demand then you can get a far better return for your time than you could have expected under the previous regime. Yet if you are only capable of more menial work then you are still guaranteed one of the best minimum wages in the world.

Much has been made of the history of Union membership and activism by both current members of the Ruddite team and of the candidates being offered up for election. I’m sure that most of them are, like all of those who stand for public office well intentioned and perhaps many are even talented. But they are all imbued with a fairly large dose of Marxist ideology and worldview that ensures that they have an unrealistic notion of what it takes to create and maintain prosperity for the nation. More importantly I find it very hard to accept that Rudd will be able to keep a lid on their Neo Marxist leanings long enough for him to prove that he is the “economic conservative” that he has so often claimed to be. How long will it be before the headline (under a Rudd Government) would be:-

“Rudd Rolled by Union Heavyweights”

You see when it gets down to it the Labor party is, as its name suggests, the party of organised labour (the Union thugs) who now find themselves increasingly irrelevant in the modern workplace so they seek refuge and power in the parliament where they seek to claw back the social control that they have lost over the last few years by fair means or foul.

If you want Government by thuggery, or if you want an industrial landscape where small business are scared to create jobs because they fear having to pay “go away money” every time the sack a thief then by all means vote for the Ruddites. But if you want continued prosperity don’t give your vote to the team that would roll back the clock to the bad old days of unending disputes and strikes.

Think about it Comrades

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