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Can We Get our Manufacturing Back ? Trumpery ?
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He was told to get out of town by union leaders. He didn't, as it turned out he had 30 mates who wanted to work rather than go on useless strikes, & told the union people in no uncertain terms.
The large high speed cats I ran for tourists in the Whitsundays were built by NQEA in Cairns. One was new, & still having warranty problems. NQEA became hard to deal with after they got the contract to build navy patrol boats. They had to import a lot of their increased workforce from south, & got union problems with the southerners. {Mexicans are always trouble}.
Most of our problems were with multi technology systems, often requiring electrical, electronic hydraulic & perhaps air conditioning expertise to cure. The strikes that never stopped with these southern unionists were bad enough, but they had been forced to grant a 9 day fortnight, which meant it was only Tuesday Wednesday & Thursday when you would find all the required expertise at work together.
In fact we had to sort many of the designed &/or built in problems ourselves, which took almost 9 months, plus a lot of effort & money.
The 9 day fortnight was so unworkable in a small/medium business that when the patrol boat contract was finished they abolished it unilaterally. They had to suffer a 3 month strike, which saw most of the Mexicans return south, to get the business operable again.
It is this bloody mindedness by some that has cost us much industry, & made others simply unviable.