Dont be a Scab, Pickit

[Juspar Emvan]

Scenario

Emloyer is offering positions with attached remuneration and benifets package. Employee applies, and is awarded the position. In the fullness of time, as is wont to happen, the cost of living goes up and the position changes. The employee applies (either individually or collectively) for a change in the pay, benifets, conditions. If an agreement or compromise cant be met, something happens.

Freemarket
If the employer won't offer a package that suits the employee, the employee excercises thier right and resigns. The up shot of this is that the employer has to re-hire. If the package they offer is too low, they will either be unable to re-hire, or will hire a substandard work force. Either way the resulting flow on to customers will force them to re-evaluate or fold.
The job becomes worth whatever someone capable is willing to do it for. It's like a product, it will sell for what people are willing to pay for it, not what it cost to make or what the manufacturer 'thinks' it is worth.

Labour Union
The union force all labour in the industry to lay down thier tools and strike. The employer is unable to re-hire until a settlement has been reached, and the entire service shuts down. The union effectively holds the entire fucking customer base hostage until the employer meets thier ransom demands.


I am sick and fucking tired of walking 30 kilometres a day in the rain to do a underpaid job. It's the olny one I can get, because I have "no reliable transport". Any BC transit arseholes reading this, get your lazy, terrorist, but back in that bus drivers seat and stop fucking up my life!

 

[Guest]

Not that I am a BC transit asshole...

While we were in BC last month we noticed the striking bus workers, and even drove past a depot that had official striking workers on the picket line.

I do understand the frustration from both sides having worked in the bus industry for 15 plus years.

I was working in London in 1991 and again in 1995, in the 4 years between those two dates, the wages had dropped over 30% in real terms.

The hours per day's work had increased to an average of 9 hours 20 mins from 7 hours 36mins and even though the hours had increased the weekly wages had dropped by just under £100 or $200 Canadian.

When I started driving busses you had to be 25 years old and have a minimum of 3 years driving experience, they can now take driver at 18 years old and with a maximum of 1 years experience, if they had past their driving test on their 17th birthday and got the job working on the busses when they were 18.

Those 7 years in maturity make a big difference and the standards of driving on the busses dropped in line with the increase in younger more foolhardy people working driving them.

If you know of any other area where there have been consistent cuts in wages and remuneration packages, please feel free to share them.

The deregulation of the UK bus industry caused more problems than it solved and they (Those in National Government as well as in Local Government who had anything to do with the deregulation) are making the public pay with more accidents and fewer busses on any given route.

Sorry to go off topic but it is one thing not often covered in any format.



EZ

 

[*bratcat*]

Re: Not that I am a BC transit asshole...

 

[Logic]

well there are a lot of enticements out there for people to go and work as scabs. I guess you just had to have been brought up in the union environment to understand it right.

But i would never work as a scab.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

Privatise!

Deregulate!



Hey, just my opinion, based on my experiences, feel free to hold your own.