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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Expecting corporations, or the major parties in bed with them, to simply give workers better conditions? Yes, fanciful.

That's why we need robust worker unions that use these opportunities to demand better.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    @bignose @zero_gravitas can you remember who gave us those better working conditions in the first place, and is busy doing so again?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Better working conditions were never given; if you can find a counter example I'd love to know it.

    Better working conditions only ever come because workers organise, demand, and fight for them to be instituted in law. And continue to fight to preserve them.

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    [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    and voters want to make it worse voting for ONP, LNP etc

    you need a triumvirate; unions, politicians and business and working for the betterment of the only important group, society but that doesn't happen in our system as it's adversarial and each group trying to gain the most of a fixed pie.

    Well follow the neo liberal path and keep making the rich richer and "othering" (blaming boomers, zoomers, immigrants, the unemployed etal)

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Declining productivity is a side effect of no secondary industry.

    When there is only Primary industry and service industry, there is no net value added to the economy.

    Raw Materials get shipped out, meanwhile, service industry only keeps society plodding along.

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