Originally Posted by
OK4Wire
Agree that a complete reset is required. A bit like Australia's Labour party, who have just lost their third "unloseable" election.
We lost when B scales were introduced, then C scales, then COS99 and COS18. With a whole host of other losses in between; all the while maintaining the same "winning formula" of contract compliance.
Cancel everything, and have six months of town square meetings, or better yet talk to every member, but please find a new way forward.
Certainly not true when the rot of ‘B’ Scales set in... at the “negotiating” table we told the then DFO that no one would ever come to Hong Kong on such a derisory salary and conditions... he showed us the umpteen job applications he’d had, particularly from the great unwashed land DownUnder, we took his deal to the Mariners Club (the venue for HKAOA meetings at the time) and everybody just sucked up the few increments involved (including yours truly)... the general consensus was, ‘If they are daft enough to come here on those conditions that’s up to them’.... it seems very little has changed...