Take a company with a nett profit of 5% of say 5 million dollars Won't a 1% increase in costs ( 1 million dollars )reduce their bottom line 20% To maintain their profitability I guess they can always decrease their labour costs - shed staff - reduce the number of employees - downsize - redundancies - natural attrition etc. Yep chicken little stuff. When the unions realize their parliamentary wing has screwed them over and they have no members left they will look for solace in a bottle and yearn for the good old days or just yearn for the good old days and argue who is going to pay for the bottle?