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On Tue, 28 May 1996 00:21:03 GMT, bryce@anythink.iinet.net.au (Bryce
Moore) wrote:

>There is a very perceptive car sticker I've seen doing the rounds,
>probably put out by the TLC: "United we bargain, divided we beg". This
>just about sums up the situation facing a lot of workers these days.
>As much as they might whinge and moan about having to belong to
>unions, and how 'the union does nothing for me' etc. etc. few workers
>are aware just how much worse off they will be when they are on their
>own in what the Liberals call 'the labour market'. 

The union I belong to Bryce which is the BLPPU gives heaps of goodies
to there members. Such as....

Safety,and pushing for better safety on building sites.

Membership to ambalance cover for the worker and there family.

Covers the worker while he or she drives to and from work.

Free legal advice.

Special rates while making phone calls to a mobile phone.

They make sure I get paid these...

Redundancy pay

Superanuation

Long Service Leave

If by some bad luck I kick the bucket,my next of kin gets $5000
straight away to cover the cost of a funeral.

And the most important thing they do is.....Protect me from employers
who would take advantage of the down turn in the construction game.
>
>As another poster to this thread has pointed out, employers will
>always pay big money to keep their most important and crucial workers
>on, and to prevent them from selling their skills for a higher price
>elsewhere. At the same time, they are striving to create a buyers'
>market for labour, to be in a situation where no employee cannot be
>forced to accept diminished wages and conditions in order to keep
>his/her job. 

I am not to sure about this as I would like to class myself as a good
worker. I have been working for the same company now for a year. 
Which is a long stint in my trade and the boss has never offered me
more money. He did tell me that 35 people applied to a job advert he
put in the paper....I wonder why he told me this <g>.
>
>A very shabby miyth being put about by proponents of the 'de-regulated
>labour market' is that once wages and conditions decline, employment
>levels will beging to rise, as employers can afford to employ more
>workers. Employers are business people, not philanthropists, and they
>will employ no more, nor no fewer workers than are required to
>generate the level of profit they desire, and they will want to pay
>them as little as possible. They will not hire extra workers just
>because they are cheap, if they have no need for them. What has
>happened recently is that many firms 'downsized' (ie sacked workers)
>during the recession, and have now discovered that, as things pick up,
>they can make do with fewer workers, by making their remaining staff
>work harder, and putting them on overtime, rather than re-hiring the
>workers they dispensed with. So, even while output and profits rise
>back to pre-recession levels, unemployment remains high.

Comes down to social conscience Bryce. 

Certain job occupations do not need unions,while some job occupations
do. That is why certain people cannot understand why people such as me
get very worried if the goverement have there way and kill of the
unions.

How many workers would die on the job if it was not for the unions
pushing for better safety on site?

I have every right to go to work and fill safe and my family has every
right to expect me to come home at night. If the unions are killed of,
so is safety and so am I.

>
>All workers should be wary of entering into work-place 'agreement',
>without the support of a union or association, which enables them to
>negotiate from a position of equality. As it is, employers want the
>advantage all on their own side, with the worker being given one
>option: "Take itr or leave it."

I could not of said it better Bryce.

Like most things on the news. People only see the ugly side of the
unions as all the good the unions do and have done would not make
interesting news. A bit like the coverage the internet gets on
t.v,just the bad side of the internet,not the good side.
>
>Bryce.
>
>
>Bryce Moore, PO Box 277 
>South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia
>Ph (+61) 09 3146042 Fax (+61) 9 3375736
>Email bryce@anythink.iinet.net.au
>http://www.iinet.net.au/~bryce

Bye
Anthony :)