Denben "I wonder how many workers felt relaxed and comfortable about their drop in wages. Did they feel relaxed and comfortable working of a weekend with no penalty rates? Or when they were working on public holidays? Were they relaxed about the possibility of losing their annual holidays?"
In spite of the unions utterly misleading deceitful propaganda. the vaste majority of workers favoured workchoices particularly in the mining sectors. Howard also brought in the "no disadvatage" rule, so how the hell do you explain your drop in wages claim??? Is that what getup told you to write? Outrageous weekend penalty wages now simply force small businesses to only open during weekdays...the fact that we are (were)a tourist destination seems lost on Labor. Tourists done care what day it is, but are forced to pay over the top on weekends and the endless public holidays, or not have the choice at all because the restuarant or whatever is closed. There may be some who lost holidays but as a result of bargaining for higher wages...after all it was work CHOICES...not the draconian rubbish spewed out by the unions. And also for those precious souls on huge holiday penalty rates, maybe think of the thousands of volunteers in rescue organisations rostered for duty on the same holidays with zero pay...on duty looking after the wellbeing of your union members and others.
