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Old 22nd May 2016, 13:37
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His dudeness
 
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This is why airlines have closed say their catering department and subcontracted out. The gimme gimme unions have shot themselves in the foot. How can you have the bread buttering department shut down an airline.
Iīd say your view is very shortsighted. If you live on a continent that tries to get together and has 28 different social and labour laws, the workforce is subject to real problems in terms of competition. The employers on the other hand do have a golden opportunity in exploiting their workforce and the big, big handle of "if you donīt obey Iīll move next door".

Now, one can sit back and let that happen, or not. France has a very good example right at their doorstep: Germany, were the labour and contract laws have been twisted in a way, that we do have a lot of employed people, but employed for wages were they canīt live off, canīt get anything aside for retirement etcetc. which will lead to massive amounts of poor people in a few years. All for the sake of profits of people that donīt get taxed properly or can evade said taxes, the prime example being Amazon that pays 0,9% in Luxembourg, whilst ruining the small shop in the inner cities in all european countries. Said shops pay up to 30% taxes and their employees are usually native people that could live and pay into the pension funds, unemployment insurance etcetc.

It is high time that the european people (and IMO the americans too) put an end to this. But instead some think voting for a billionaire will make things any better for them. The european politicians are a disgusting bunch of lobbyists and hardly disguised speaks persons for large corporations, which are the main winners of our legislative process by not democratically elected persons such as Jean-Claude Juncker & the likes...

We need to go back to system were one cannot easily make more money simply by having money, but were employing people makes one earn it.

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