Chimbu et al, see my previous post.
Big and medium business has been make ****eloads of money in this country - all with the uncompetitve wage levels that we 'expect' . So, how much profit do these guys really want to make? Work'choices'
has not
yet been enough to keep wages down as was the original plan, and now in some fields, business has to start forking out for their labour.
The free market economy and market forces are pointed to when it means that workers get their jobs, t's& c's, price of food, fuel etc
pulled out of their ar$es, but when it swings the other way, and workers actually are in some sort of demand, well, it hurts these prikcs just a little too much.
As an aside, foreign guest workers could prove really useful on another front. It will give the tabloids fodder for sales and the talkback radio twats (and their callers) when they report of the 'increase in crime', their congregating into 'ghettos' and not 'assimilating', and not accepting the 'aussie way'.
Finally, if Gerry wants someone to clean out his stables, and the mines in WA are paying $130,000pa for a worker, then Gerry had better shell out $130,001 - or, pick up the shovel or, get rid of the horses.
