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04 August 2000 |
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Letters to the EditorWe want a bigger slice of pie
When is the union movement going to lobby government to legislate for the distribution of profits to workers? While shareholders these days are demanding more and more and workers are getting less and less, there needs to be a widespread campaign to ensure that profit margins are distributed back to workers. That this check on greed must be enshrined in law is a reflection of our current materialistic culture. If workers are expected to cop the down-side when a company goes bust, they should also benefit from its upside when it is making healthy profits. Unions need to go for the big issues to restore some faith amongst workers in their existence. While executives can excuse their disproportionate salaries and their mean salaries to workers on lower levels because shareholders demand higher dividends, these faceless shareholders must be held accountable to the increasing numbers of working poor in this country whose working conditions are daily eroding. When are you going to start listening to these rumbles of discontent? Workers in most situations, can't negotiate with their employers, the shareholders, you must do this - start talking to the big corporations like Woolworths, whose check-out chicks aren't happy! By the way I am a member of the Teachers Fed. and have utmost faith in the union movement to restore this country to a place of the fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Wayne Patterson
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