It is typicle of you folk to assume everything. You assume I support the earning of sports stars, movie stars and alike. You are so wrong.

What I do support is the rewarding of one putting in the effort and making the sacrifices to become skilled in thier field.

And for the record I am a model employer. Every one of my staff are well paid, well above the award and receive bonusses when we have a good week. I reward everyone from the manager to the apprentice.

Unfortunately my industry (NOT ME) is loosing staff to unskilled jobs becasue the money is better and in most cases they don't work weekends.

As for brickies labouring.Most start at 5, finnish around 3, 10 hours @ 35 = $350, der!

Yes it is hard work. Just imagine though if each labourer was given an 'unemployed' as a lackie. Now that would make their job easier hey, or are you against that as well? Let's see, $240/week at say $17 per hour, that's 2 x 7 hour days per week as work for the dole. What is wrong with that?

As for unemployment figures you are forgetting one main point. There are hundreds of people out there working for cash so in effect they are unemployed. It is just that they don't show up on the system, but they will once they loose their cash job, that is if they already havn't done.

belly you cant argue with a closed mind...Posted by one under god,

Wow! with a name like that I think that is the pot calling the kettle black mate!

And finnaly, belly, I am happy to be proven wrong come july 1, and I hope I am wrong.

rechtub I have to hold my hand up, rare as it is I am only reading your posts now.
I believe you, that you are indeed a good boss, have you any idea how many are just that?
And I bet you understand some are far from it.
Your industry group is a union, just that nothing less or more.
Little mud sticks to them ,but the same sins exist in such unions as on my side of the fence.
High wages for non skilled workers, is it a hard working brickies mates fault a motor mechanic earns so much less?
Or is it true supply and demand?
Hair dressers get very little, but are they chained to the chair?
My hands are 50 years older than the rest of me.
Holding on to a jack pick, [ the hammer is a drill, not a rock breaker]
And working hard has taken its toll, my body is forever harmed by gut busting work.
I earned the extra cash, worked twice the hours even you do with those 4 am window dressing jobs and Saturday mornings.
If a boss is willing to pay then are you a criminal for taking it?
Are you aware almost every brickie in home building is non union?
I will without cost answer your questions about workers rights.
The lost in space on both sides feel they need to make mountains out of little hills to prove their worth.
Find that Herald story, read it, then ask how could your advice be so wrong?
And you paid for it!
Your leg has been pulled, from the day he took over the ALP, and during the election Rudd , and even I knew, this IR reform has to be balanced and so good the incoming next conservative government, in 20 years, will see no need to change it.
Mate not a week passes without a BOSS ringing for advice, even asking us to call in and see his/her workers, we can not be all that bad

rechtub I have to hold my hand up, rare as it is I am only reading your posts now.
I believe you, that you are indeed a good boss, have you any idea how many are just that?
And I bet you understand some are far from it.

Yes belly, I hear you. My industry has some of the worst.

Being a 'cash industry' it is quite common for workers to be paid as low as $10 per hour cash at times, catch is, if the worker is a family man he also gets all the hand outs as he is considered to be a low income earner even though he works 70 to 80 hours per week.

Now that sucks!

Many bosses don't even pay super, or if they do they pay the bare minimum only, which makes it hard for me to compete.

As I have said before, a cashless society would rid us of many problems hey!

In that post we agreed on every point.
I get the verbal kick in the shins for saying it but we owe no man a living.
I too can tell of 60 and 70 hours worked in the cash world by those who get full social security.
I could never tell some day to day story's of my workplace.
You would be surprised to know some very good bosses are unionists!
Not bribe just belief in two way help .
See a boss must make a quid if he is to pay wages, most but not all are ok.
My day, this day, included a verbal battering from a left wing radical union delegate, below the belt stuff, I gave no ground.
But while in the middle of the madness thought what would people think if they walked in on this?
Youthful people new to unionism answered my question, they sided with me, few workers like radical actions.

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