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.
