06-23-2014, 03:16 AM
Howard wrote:
The closer I drew to my teaching twilight, the more disillusioned I became with teaching. Not the doing of it, but what it was becoming at the hands of politicians (and not just the partisan ones in Canberra or Brisbane) and the press and in the popular understanding.
According to the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership “the proportion of students entering teaching with poor Year 12 results rose to 13 per cent from less than 10 per cent.”
It seems that students in the top echelons are avoiding teaching as a career. I don’t blame them. Left wing policies and do gooder lawyers are also to blame. To attract better teachers, or the cream of the student echelon, teacher’s wages need to be increased dramatically. I’ve crossed paths with many a person who had the desire to want to teach but didn’t because they could make more money in the commercial sector.
Howard wrote:
But, here's the thing. What workforce - what jobs? That part of the world that offers gainful employment is changing at a dizzying pace.
New technologies do make some jobs redundant, but it also creates new jobs. Children born today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been invented. You ask what workforce? I would answer and say look at the unions. The building union, which also includes the electrical trades union is threatening strike action against a new national building code that will “ensure that lazy, unproductive agreements can no longer be entered into by contractors undertaking taxpayer-funded work,” and “it will help prevent the -delays and cost blowouts that have plagued major projects in Victoria for years.”
This is another example of a corrupt union supported by Labour that has the same modus operandi that would be termed in America as the mafia. A by product of working in the film industry is it has created a non insular form of employment. By non insular I mean that the films, documentaries, commercials and training films I have worked on have exposed me to many facets of people’s lives, occupations, successes and failures. If you work in a office or your employment requires you to turn up at the same place everyday, and work with the same people, then I term that a insular environment. You are working in a bubble, and only being exposed to the real world around you via the media. The film industry has exposed me to many bubbles. Besides working free lance for various current affairs shows, I have government security clearance and I have worked on a lot of government projects ranging from classified military training films, indigenous issues, environment issue, urban planning, boat people issues (economic scammers) and even investigating UFO sightings. When all is said and done, I have witnessed a lot of the destruction caused by militant unions.
On a personal note, a friend of mine during what the Labour voters are now describing as the so called golden days of the Labour government of Rudd and Gillard, closed his construction business down, which had at times 30 million dollar contracts because of union bullying, intimidation, especially to his family and other threats. The union demanded he use union sanctioned employment agencies, which at first he refused to do because he knew they were connected to the Chinese Triad. What the union did was bring in cheap Chinese workers on 457 visas, given out by the Labour government by the bag load (at a price also). As long as the union official’s pockets were being lined, it was stuff the Australian worker mentality. My friend gave into the union demands, in fact everyone of them as he had no leg to stand on. In the end he just made a weekly wage and could not support maintaining his business and the construction equipment. Everything was sold off just to pay the bills. But in the eyes of the Labour voters my friend would be an exploiter of the so called worker, and celebrate by singing the union song “solidarity forever.” Then we have the Collin’s Class submarine fiasco. Rather than buy the submarines from another country, the government elects to have them made in South Australia so as to increase employment. So what do the unions do, when the foundations of the subs are laid, they start strike action for increased wages etc. etc. In the end, added to the design problems, the project is as financial blowout. So now the Liberal government, learning from the past, has elected to buy the next generation of subs from overseas and will be accused by Labour of not producing jobs for Australians by having them built here.
Unions have already destroyed the car manufacturing industry, one airline (Ansett) and now another (Qantas). I have no time for unions, as they are killing this country and the legacy of their destructive and greedy mentality is now taking affect. You sow what you reap and Australia is now paying the price. And you cannot blame it all on the union officials; they introduced policies which are supported by their greedy members. Besides major companies being bought down by unions, there are other untold stories of smaller business being closed by unions. One example is a small clothing manufacture that employed handicapped people. The business made a small profit each year but the owner could not pay his handicapped staff the required union rate. None of the handicapped people belonged to the union and had no desire to join the union. However, the owner at the end of each financial year gave his handicapped staff a percentage of the profits, but this still didn’t appease the union. They closed this man’s business by blocking his ability to buy the material (cloth) required to run his business. The handicapped people are now on the disability pension paid by taxpayers and the disability pension is less than what they were making when they were working in the clothing business (after the yearly bonus). Yep, I can see the union celebrating their victory against this evil exploitive business owner, slapping themselves on the back as they sing “solidarity forever.”
So instead of the Labour voters of this country blaming overseas trends or greedy companies taking their business overseas, they should start investigating their beloved unions. It is there you will find the answers.
Howard wrote:
Ah, Education; how the exploiting class must hate it!
This is a prevalent problem in Thailand. You cannot rise up through the ranks by merit alone. If you were born into the rural class, then your career progress will be blocked by those of the middle to upper class.
Ok, I also have vented my frustration.
The closer I drew to my teaching twilight, the more disillusioned I became with teaching. Not the doing of it, but what it was becoming at the hands of politicians (and not just the partisan ones in Canberra or Brisbane) and the press and in the popular understanding.
According to the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership “the proportion of students entering teaching with poor Year 12 results rose to 13 per cent from less than 10 per cent.”
It seems that students in the top echelons are avoiding teaching as a career. I don’t blame them. Left wing policies and do gooder lawyers are also to blame. To attract better teachers, or the cream of the student echelon, teacher’s wages need to be increased dramatically. I’ve crossed paths with many a person who had the desire to want to teach but didn’t because they could make more money in the commercial sector.
Howard wrote:
But, here's the thing. What workforce - what jobs? That part of the world that offers gainful employment is changing at a dizzying pace.
New technologies do make some jobs redundant, but it also creates new jobs. Children born today will be working in jobs that haven’t yet been invented. You ask what workforce? I would answer and say look at the unions. The building union, which also includes the electrical trades union is threatening strike action against a new national building code that will “ensure that lazy, unproductive agreements can no longer be entered into by contractors undertaking taxpayer-funded work,” and “it will help prevent the -delays and cost blowouts that have plagued major projects in Victoria for years.”
This is another example of a corrupt union supported by Labour that has the same modus operandi that would be termed in America as the mafia. A by product of working in the film industry is it has created a non insular form of employment. By non insular I mean that the films, documentaries, commercials and training films I have worked on have exposed me to many facets of people’s lives, occupations, successes and failures. If you work in a office or your employment requires you to turn up at the same place everyday, and work with the same people, then I term that a insular environment. You are working in a bubble, and only being exposed to the real world around you via the media. The film industry has exposed me to many bubbles. Besides working free lance for various current affairs shows, I have government security clearance and I have worked on a lot of government projects ranging from classified military training films, indigenous issues, environment issue, urban planning, boat people issues (economic scammers) and even investigating UFO sightings. When all is said and done, I have witnessed a lot of the destruction caused by militant unions.
On a personal note, a friend of mine during what the Labour voters are now describing as the so called golden days of the Labour government of Rudd and Gillard, closed his construction business down, which had at times 30 million dollar contracts because of union bullying, intimidation, especially to his family and other threats. The union demanded he use union sanctioned employment agencies, which at first he refused to do because he knew they were connected to the Chinese Triad. What the union did was bring in cheap Chinese workers on 457 visas, given out by the Labour government by the bag load (at a price also). As long as the union official’s pockets were being lined, it was stuff the Australian worker mentality. My friend gave into the union demands, in fact everyone of them as he had no leg to stand on. In the end he just made a weekly wage and could not support maintaining his business and the construction equipment. Everything was sold off just to pay the bills. But in the eyes of the Labour voters my friend would be an exploiter of the so called worker, and celebrate by singing the union song “solidarity forever.” Then we have the Collin’s Class submarine fiasco. Rather than buy the submarines from another country, the government elects to have them made in South Australia so as to increase employment. So what do the unions do, when the foundations of the subs are laid, they start strike action for increased wages etc. etc. In the end, added to the design problems, the project is as financial blowout. So now the Liberal government, learning from the past, has elected to buy the next generation of subs from overseas and will be accused by Labour of not producing jobs for Australians by having them built here.
Unions have already destroyed the car manufacturing industry, one airline (Ansett) and now another (Qantas). I have no time for unions, as they are killing this country and the legacy of their destructive and greedy mentality is now taking affect. You sow what you reap and Australia is now paying the price. And you cannot blame it all on the union officials; they introduced policies which are supported by their greedy members. Besides major companies being bought down by unions, there are other untold stories of smaller business being closed by unions. One example is a small clothing manufacture that employed handicapped people. The business made a small profit each year but the owner could not pay his handicapped staff the required union rate. None of the handicapped people belonged to the union and had no desire to join the union. However, the owner at the end of each financial year gave his handicapped staff a percentage of the profits, but this still didn’t appease the union. They closed this man’s business by blocking his ability to buy the material (cloth) required to run his business. The handicapped people are now on the disability pension paid by taxpayers and the disability pension is less than what they were making when they were working in the clothing business (after the yearly bonus). Yep, I can see the union celebrating their victory against this evil exploitive business owner, slapping themselves on the back as they sing “solidarity forever.”
So instead of the Labour voters of this country blaming overseas trends or greedy companies taking their business overseas, they should start investigating their beloved unions. It is there you will find the answers.
Howard wrote:
Ah, Education; how the exploiting class must hate it!
This is a prevalent problem in Thailand. You cannot rise up through the ranks by merit alone. If you were born into the rural class, then your career progress will be blocked by those of the middle to upper class.
Ok, I also have vented my frustration.
