Oooops. My apologies for the typo. Here's the link again:

http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/07/17/stronger-union-rights-can-mean-more-productive--sustainable-work.html#:

"If that's true..."

If that's true? Struth.

These are figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. So yeah they are true.

But if you don't want it to be true, then it isn't? Isn't that so.

mhaze,

I didn't mean to question you old chap. I gave the
same figures myself - had you bothered to read
my posts. The difference between us was - I explained
why the figures happened to be what they were.

Calm down.

Some people just can't answer a simple question asked of OLO posters without referring to organisations that have nothing to do with OLO. You either think that unions are relevant or you don't think that they are relevant.

What the Sydney University thinks is definitely not relevant: for posters who think for themselves, that is.

" I gave the same figures myself - had you bothered to read my posts."

You used the same figures AFTER I'd called you out. So I had read your posts BEFORE I called you out, I'd have found someone questioning the accuracy of the numbers based on protest crowd sizes. Same old Foxy.

Still its nice to see you are sometimes capable of learning.

So with unions representing around 1 in 20 private employees, (and those numbers don't include self-employed) we find that they have very little place in the day-to-day lives of those people.

Its not so for public employees who use unions to extract more funds from government who then raise taxes on the public employees, but that's called being fair in Labor circles!!

People are affected by the strikes and go-slows from the public sector unions but I think most people simply mark that down as part and parcel of how government works.

mhaze,

As Donald Trump would say,
You're a fantastic knowledgeable well-informed poster.
Great, really great.
Really terrific.
Other posters, especially females,
Losers, total Woke-Left-Wing Marxists.
Believe me, Everyone here agrees!

Struth!