Who should be shot next ...
this guy should be!
I am becoming more and more intolerant of unions and their bosses who seize every opportunity to invoke industrial action. Cosatu are now filing to hold a strike around the appropriation of the R20b dedicated to the development of Guatrain.
Their argument is that goverment should rather redirect that money from developing new infrastructure towards the upgrading of Metrorails already existing infrastructure. The reason: Gautrain will only benefit the rich, upgrading metrorail will benefit the poor.
Has this dickhead forgotten that Gautrain is being built for 2010, so that our gazillions of international spectators can be transported safely and comfortably from JIA to their hotels and stadiums? How the hell should we expect them to use metrorail?
So, R20b should be rather spent on improving transport for the poor, nevermind the knock-on economic benefits to thewhole countryby having our international guest looked after? Perhaps this guy should use his time to rather improve the performance of Metrorail staff so that their service improves instead of organising opportunistic strikes that severly hurt our economy. He clearly comes from a generation where you get what you want by uprising ... move on bru. Your shallow, same old same old communist strategy does not improve the lot of your members!
Can we strike against unions?
posted by Aiden at
8:31 am
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Unions are opportunistic shit flies. Where there may be shit to throw at the fan - there be unions. The shit does not benefit from having them around.
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Aiden, at 4/04/2006 02:12:00 pm
In particular to metrorail, COSATU organised a massive strike last year - remember it? Well, it debilitated the public transport system and hurt the economy massively. I was an HR manager at the time in a company that was debilitated.
Then at the beginning of the year Cosatu organised another strike around the privatisation issue of metrorail taking Maria Ramos to the cleaners.
Now, the Guatrain vibe.
Mid-last year the whole country was hurt by massive union mobilisation ... in my opionion is was a co-ordinated attempt to destabilise the labour market in South Africa. The problem then is that one peice of union action leads to others in other sectors. Its like seeing your older brother get a toy, you then ask where yours is and then throw a tantrum until you get on of your own. Downward spiral!
Such an industrialised workforce is only matched by economies such as Brazil who are highly unionised. It seems to go hand-in-hand ... restrictive labour laws and unions.
Granted, public transport in SOuth Africa needs to be addressed for the poor. But it seems that even when that happens (i.e. taxi recaptialisation - btw, have you begun seeing them on the road yet? I feel safer driving on the raod just by virtue of these new taxi's looking safer and well-kept) the unions jump on an opportunity to milk more from the situation.
My feeling is that the desire to strike is fostered by people in SA who have learnt that you get what you want by invoking mass action. Mass action is needed in serious arenas e.g apartheid, but this generation (known as the Uprising Generation, between 30 and 40 in age) seem not to have moved on from that form of dealing with social problems.
The history of globalisation also shows that countries who make it in a globalised world are not highly unionised - unions retard the development of the country and the economy. I suppose this is the clash of socialism and capitalism. The irnnoy is that cosatu is not calling for expanded infrastrucure, but they are calling for better quality existing trains that will make the ride more comfortable.
dw - bring it on!
thoma - do you run a union?
dube - step of your fence.
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Aiden, at 4/04/2006 08:47:00 pm
read a nice quote today:
Unions are labour cartels whose sole aim is to extort profits from shareholders and executives.
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Aiden, at 4/05/2006 12:09:00 pm
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