Bottom line !
When we joined as B-Scalers in April 1993, we were perhaps miffed that the then A-Scalers had not 'stood firm' to protect themselves (and us) from the very degradation of conditions (for us all !) which, surprise surprise, soon followed! Much gnashing of teeth has since occurred about what if anything A-Scalers could have done back then, to 'stop the rot'.
To that point in time though, there were no 2nd class citizens in CX, it was just ONE UNFIED SCALE.
Fast forward 16 years 3 months to July 2009 and HEY PRESTO the HK Government RDO legislation that ushered in 'Local Terms' for anyone Employing staff and / or Working in HKG, has been the document that CX has lent upon to try and become the GREAT harbinger of future work practices and conditions for the blue collar workers that we are certainly seen / deemed to be!
It's time for all of us to realise that 'divide and conquer' is RULE #1 in most corporate play books and here we are as B-Scalers, staring down the barrel of having our Expat Housing and other (agreed upon and naturally expected to continue) conditions, effectively traded for a deal that sees guys and girls who conciously / knowingly (90% plus would have done their research and new the history and that crew joining before July 2009 were on an historically better deal) accepted 'local terms', yet now naturally want what we B-Scalers have contractually accepted as the basis of our contract.
Could we have resisted the insidious shift at that point in 2009 ? Not likely is the retrospective answer. Sorry to say IMHO / FWIW.
If we can't now ALL effectively hold onto what we have, then the C-Scalers who joined of their own volition post July 2009 must surely realise that collectively we are simply 'greasing the slippery slide' that CX wants us to COLLECTIVELY slide down whilst bickering with our jealousy-infected 'blue collar' Brian's !!
We are not! We must not! And we certainly are capable of being smarter this time, ........... If only for the benefit of generation D and E.
Let's hold the line and force the trend line upwards, not downwards.
Last edited by Runnymede; 10th Sep 2016 at 03:17.
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