Why do workers go on strike? | The Daily Aus
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025
- There’s been a lot of news this week about planned strikes by the Rail Tram and Bus Union NSW which have since been postponed. Numerous strikes have been held across the health, education, and retail sectors this year, mostly calling for better pay and working conditions. But how do strikes actually work? What role do unions play? And how is an agreement reached?In today's podcast, we strip it back and look into the different types of strike action, some of the ongoing negotiations, and why you might have been looking at alternative modes of travel this week.
Hosts: Zara Seidler and Nandini Dhir
Producer: Elliot Lawry
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Unions are like a lobby group but instead of lobbying for corporations, they lobby for workers.
I'm a member of the RTBU and they do a good job of representing the rights of transport workers.
Take a look at the USA and how Unions have been decimated alongside the rights of workers.
The problem with train strikes is they punish the people using public transport and they have been doing this for a very long time. The wealthy don’t use public transport as don’t politicians. The public are sick of it. There are plenty of people working in low paying jobs and no one cares about their work life balance.
I am now retired and my entire life I refused to join a union. Why it is there millitant attitude they are run by thugs. I was called a lot of names by union's like a scab. But through out my career I found having a conection with my employers and been open and transparent with them was better than stopping work which takes money away from the company paying your wages. So I had always got a better work place agreement outside of unions. I was private sector though.
Congrats, you enjoyed all the historical benefits that organised labour won on your behalf & contributed nothing to better the conditions of your fellow workers!