Quote from PAF
"What I do point out is that striking should be illegal, and those that do strike are morally bankrupt. Willing to deliberately harm others to achieve their aim."
This is a VERY immature statement Mr Frozo. The primary intention to take industrial action is to improve ones working conditions when ALL other avenues have been exhausted. To gain a fair increase on the standards of living as prescribed by the CPI is not that extreme an idea. It is not to harm others and if it does it will illustrate the importance of any worker group in an organisation and hopefully gain that fair and equitable CPI rise. Don't spruik your idealistic, perfect world scenarios to people who just want a fair deal and have asked for that reasonably by an intransient management group. You always seem to blame the workers. Why is that?
Your comments about leaving for other jobs is just plain offensive. Some people want to work for companies and in certain cities, they like their jobs and unlike you, money might not be their primary motivating factor in staying somewhere, maybe they are proud of the company and it's history. I get well fed up with short term managers who say "if you don't like it leave" Guess what econ 101 MBA master managers are emloyees too and if they don't like it they can leave too and generally do when their short sighted policies fall apart in the real world. It's arrogant to the extreme to treat employees this way and this attitude goes some way in explaining some of the main problems in previous industrial relations in Australia.
If you treat your employees well you'll get more out of them. If you did your MBA you may have done the management course that outlines the very specific differences between Australian employees as opposed to other cultures. In Australia micro managing doesn't work, we like to be left alone to do our work. Aussies work best when empowered and independent, trust them and treat them well and production will show this. Your style of yelling and take what you get is old thinking and hopefully Q and others will discover this before it implodes and if you want the examples of companies that succeed by using my model just do a couple of searches on these pages. If not go back to your books or maybe a current working successful company.
Sorry for the rant punters but the old industrial action doom and gloom scenario gets boring and anyone who's put in the position that means they even have to consider it has to put up with the PAFs of this world who assume they are the red raggers, want to destroy the company and are not intelligent which in this case is certainly not true. Ahhh, cliches are the domain of the unimaginative.
Game on
Last edited by Whiskey Oscar Golf; 15th May 2008 at 13:38.
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