In Australia the unions hired an agency Work Partners to recruit new members. Work Partners collapsed owing workers lot of money and had not paid worker entitlements for years. Should be simple but it isn't. The former directors and management were setting up a new company, which the unions signed up with. Also the unions have been found to be behind in paying bills to the old company. Money which would go to workers owed unpaid wages and superannuation.
Seems the unions attitude is we ONLY look after ourselves.
Isn't first and will not be last time unions get into trouble. Unions historically have no business sense. Once there used to be lots of small unions, due to financial mismanagement unions merged. Then unions formed into super unions in effort to "globalise".
Well it comes as no surprise that unions are losing members, when membership can be as much as a one to two weeks wages. With the economy running so tight, no surprise people are ditching the unions. In Australia the unions give money to Labor Party. A clear advantage over many other parties who have to find donars and hold fund raisers. In turn Labor Party is full of unionists and most of the top people in the party are not from the party, but unions.
Been lot of corruption in unions and almost nothing done. Misuse of union funds for parties, prostitutes and union leaders hiring family, as well as the promotion in the union of "political animals" instead of whom the rank and file prefer has contributed to decline in union membership. While main reason is high fees, a minor reason is also union dealings with members. Unions claim to represent workers and workers rights. Yet unions lead from the top, only interested in socialist agenda and telling members who to vote for. A situation not unique to Australia. As seen with unions in France, UK and US been highly political. In UK and France the unions lean so far left they need training wheels to stand up straight.
So it comes to me as no surprise big unions hire a recruitment agency and the non-union employees of said agency are scammed out of their superannuation. Thanks to corruption of corporation laws the unions and management are not held liable, but "the company". A piece of paper still is a "legal entity". Yet unions claim to be against "19th century thinking". But unions themselves are "19th century" thinking. So unions get out of not paying bills and management get out of paying bills because of 19th century laws that an incorporated company is a legal entity. Last time I checked paper isn't an AI that is capable of independent thought, that management was at the helm so to speak.
So clear to me unions are not the solution, but one of many problems needing to be solved.
We need an end to "incorporation", unionism and the whole "winner takes all" economics. Unions clearly are as self centred as merchant banks who engaged in wild speculation to raise big finances. Many in the finance industry do tell that one reason banks have to raise so much is to high expectations to pay all the union pension funds, especially since the unions pay themselves first and keep paying themselves out of union funds.
Seems the unions attitude is we ONLY look after ourselves.
Isn't first and will not be last time unions get into trouble. Unions historically have no business sense. Once there used to be lots of small unions, due to financial mismanagement unions merged. Then unions formed into super unions in effort to "globalise".
Well it comes as no surprise that unions are losing members, when membership can be as much as a one to two weeks wages. With the economy running so tight, no surprise people are ditching the unions. In Australia the unions give money to Labor Party. A clear advantage over many other parties who have to find donars and hold fund raisers. In turn Labor Party is full of unionists and most of the top people in the party are not from the party, but unions.
Been lot of corruption in unions and almost nothing done. Misuse of union funds for parties, prostitutes and union leaders hiring family, as well as the promotion in the union of "political animals" instead of whom the rank and file prefer has contributed to decline in union membership. While main reason is high fees, a minor reason is also union dealings with members. Unions claim to represent workers and workers rights. Yet unions lead from the top, only interested in socialist agenda and telling members who to vote for. A situation not unique to Australia. As seen with unions in France, UK and US been highly political. In UK and France the unions lean so far left they need training wheels to stand up straight.
So it comes to me as no surprise big unions hire a recruitment agency and the non-union employees of said agency are scammed out of their superannuation. Thanks to corruption of corporation laws the unions and management are not held liable, but "the company". A piece of paper still is a "legal entity". Yet unions claim to be against "19th century thinking". But unions themselves are "19th century" thinking. So unions get out of not paying bills and management get out of paying bills because of 19th century laws that an incorporated company is a legal entity. Last time I checked paper isn't an AI that is capable of independent thought, that management was at the helm so to speak.
So clear to me unions are not the solution, but one of many problems needing to be solved.
We need an end to "incorporation", unionism and the whole "winner takes all" economics. Unions clearly are as self centred as merchant banks who engaged in wild speculation to raise big finances. Many in the finance industry do tell that one reason banks have to raise so much is to high expectations to pay all the union pension funds, especially since the unions pay themselves first and keep paying themselves out of union funds.
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