Negotiating with the union is supposed to prevent worse shit from happening
people sadly forgot this truth. so corpos can do whatever the hell they want for now.
The 1% need to think hard about what “worse shit” can look like.
Somebody dropping some history books on these idiot’s yachts could leave them better off.
Rich assholes worldwide forgot that us guillotining them is always an option.
Union negotiations is the option that lets them keep their head and wealth.
government bans what you can say.
does Australia has any fee speech laws?
edit: not fixing my typo because it makes more sense this way
Australia has implied freedom of expression, but there’s actually a lot of laws regarding things you cannot say, mostly around being ‘offensive’
the Union Accords which came into effect in the 1990s made it functionally illegal for Unions to strike, they only time they’re allowed is duing a Bargaining Agreement negotiation, and they need permission to do so
a lot of our unions are also now huge amalgamations, so when for example construction workers strike, the forestry workers Union (the same union, CFMEU) cops a fine, and everyone gets mad at the workers struggling for better conditions
there’s huge anti Union sentiment here, less than %20 of person are in their Union, and a lot of what the struggle for is a bigger piece of capital’s cake (especially because theyre not allowed to do secondary strikes in solidarity with other workers outside of their job site, so there’s no strikes to support international workers)
the colonies suck, but you gotta struggle where you are
how is that even accepted by the public. that’s like the government making work mandatory and bans freedom of assembly.
that’s like more tyrannical than whatever stereotypes the USSR had
It does, but the main constraint are the right to protest (or rather lack thereof) laws.
All states and territories are cracking down on right to protest laws, but NSW is particularly egregious in that it never had one to begin with, only a right to assemble.
Free speech laws are an American phenomenon. In most of the world we prefer that Nazi’s aren’t allowed to speak their mind. Of course in practice the Nazi’s aren’t gonna stop but they are still on the fringes compared to America.
As for striking, like America we’ve had a history of striking so much it harms our economic prospects. Unlike America though we didn’t go all the way in the opposite direction (Taft-Hartley Act). Though the distance we did go is excessive today given the declining power of unions.
Sounds like it’s time to strike even harder
