CORPORATE DESIRE - A CHEAP SUBSERVIENT WORKFORCE.

       The present corporate friendly government, is hell bent on handing the big business lobby what it has always wanted, ie; to be able to fire workers without running the risk of being taken to a tribunal for unfair dismissal. The corporate world is asking the government to do away with legislation that the workers and unions have fought long and hard for, protection against dismissal at the vagaries of their employer. They are also asking for another couple of favours from their millionaire puppet politicians, to do away with redundancy and collective bargaining. According to the double-speak of the deranged minds of the corporate bosses, this will create more jobs by allowing businesses to hire and fire without fear of facing a tribunal. They maintain that it would help business if they could hire and fire more cheaply.

We need protection from the workers.

       This is just hogwash, in an attempt to take away what little rights workers have. Employers can at present hire workers on an temporary contract for up to three months to determine their suitability for the job and can dismiss them at the end of that three months, with no costs involved for the employer. If they were eager to hire more workers but feel they don't want to run the risk of a tribunal if the worker is unsuitable, they can use the temporary contract and if they are suitable retain them. The fact that they don't just means that they don't want to employ more workers and it is not the legislation that is stopping them.

      In the present climate the corporate bosses know that they have the backing of our public school millionaire politicians to do what they can to dismantle what little protection workers have. Less workers rights, easy hiring and firing, no redundancy, no collective bargaining, all helps to keep down wages and increase profit margins. In this exploitive system of capitalism, that's the name of the game. A cheap subservient work force is the corporate world's dream. No amount of tinkering will change that. We have to remember that as we fight for decent conditions, they are never ours when we win them, they are merely on loan, the bosses will come back later with the backing of their friends in The Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption and take them all back again. For a decent life for all we have to get rid of this exploitive system of capitalism.

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