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Originally posted by pints: ↑

Wake up into.
It's not the 1950's anymore is it. The incessant union demands got well out of hand and destroyed many of Australia's previously economically productive industries.
The car industry a prime example. We are no longer competitive thanks to the ever increasing wage demands of the unions. I witnessed that commencing from my early working years down at the waterside with the communist Waterside workers and Seaman's unions in Sydney.

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" It's not the 1950's anymore is it."

Reference period
August 2022
Key statistics
12.5% of employees (1.4 million) were trade union members.
Since 1992, the proportion of employees who were trade union members has fallen from 41% to 12.5%.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/trade-union-membership/latest-release
Yes indeed some people need to wake up alright.

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