Comments on Janet Albrechtsen “Buy Australia sells us short”, 26/07/2009, http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/janetalbrechtsen/index.php/theaustralian/comments/buy_australia_sells_us_short/
The intelligence of union leaders have not advanced much from the old days in the long past. Their less interest in keeping up with the changed reality means increasing irrelevance to modern Australians. Less relevance means falling memberships.
They need to wake up to the reality of the 21st century to be relevant and to best represent the interests of their members. The world is increasingly integrated and trade plays a very important role in improving the well beings of all nations including Australia.
Some recent studies have shown that trade with China increased Australians’ real income by thousands dollars. Australia is the only advanced countries that has avoided technical recession so far, largely due to China’s imports of minerals like iron ore from Australia.
What the unions want to do is to undermine those benefits. If they continue to push their silly ideas, they will be left completely behind by Australians.
Grow up, union leaders.
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2009-07-26
2009-07-24
The unions should be smarter to survive
Comments on ABC report “Unions bury hatchet for 'Buy Australian' push” by Alexandra Kirk, 24/07/2009, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/24/2634983.htm?section=justin
It is reported that “The nation's two biggest blue collar unions have not always got along, but they are burying the hatchet in a bid to save jobs in Australia's manufacturing industry, which has lost more than 70,000 positions in the past year.”
“The unions - one from the right, the other from the left - have bridged their ideological divide and will appear as a united front at next week's ALP national conference to maximise pressure on the Government to back their manufacturing strategy and to give priority to locally produced goods.”
The unions have done good and bad things over its history to date. But they should learn or evolve fast in the 21st century. They should embrace globalisation and improve and maximise the well beings of Australians through specialisation and trade according to Australian's comparative advantages. They should not live in the past and ignore the modern reality.
They say 76,000 jobs have lost out of industry over the past 12 months. But why don't they say how many have been saved due to higher than expected demand from China? Why Australia is having a much lower unemployment rate than most other OECD countries?
If Australian governments do what the unions ask, then other countries will retaliate. What will be the consequences of those actions and interactions? Did they say anything count that?
They should reasonable and rational.
If they want to last, they'd better be strategic and truly smarter than they are.
It is reported that “The nation's two biggest blue collar unions have not always got along, but they are burying the hatchet in a bid to save jobs in Australia's manufacturing industry, which has lost more than 70,000 positions in the past year.”
“The unions - one from the right, the other from the left - have bridged their ideological divide and will appear as a united front at next week's ALP national conference to maximise pressure on the Government to back their manufacturing strategy and to give priority to locally produced goods.”
The unions have done good and bad things over its history to date. But they should learn or evolve fast in the 21st century. They should embrace globalisation and improve and maximise the well beings of Australians through specialisation and trade according to Australian's comparative advantages. They should not live in the past and ignore the modern reality.
They say 76,000 jobs have lost out of industry over the past 12 months. But why don't they say how many have been saved due to higher than expected demand from China? Why Australia is having a much lower unemployment rate than most other OECD countries?
If Australian governments do what the unions ask, then other countries will retaliate. What will be the consequences of those actions and interactions? Did they say anything count that?
They should reasonable and rational.
If they want to last, they'd better be strategic and truly smarter than they are.
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