Unions will be the death of Australian car manufacturing

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Originally Posted by fte50

We are in the new phase (although its reality) where the worker is continually threatened with the argument of accept less or lose your jobs to the Asian competitors etc.
We don't eat a bowl of rice a week, we don't live at work - we eat steak, drink beer and on average drive 200kms per week between work alone.
The average mtg is approx. 400K and utilities are up 17% in one yr.

What good would it be for anyone to have a manufacturing presence, but its workers are living below the economy scale???
There are 2 sides of the union debate !

its all well and good to claim hardship and increased cost of living, but where does the extra money come from? if the company isn't doing fantastic surely demanding even higher wages is going to hasten the demise.

and if 'mtg' stands for mortgage, then to me that right there is the problem. to me, you can't bury yourself in that much debt and then blame everyone else for your high cost of living.