Quite so
I have been commissioned to review Tom Bramble's Trade Unionism in Australia: A History from Flood to Ebb Tide. I have drafted a review and sent it around for comment. One of my interlocuters made the following apposite comment:
The Brambles of the world irritate me beyond belief because they ultimately don't care about people, in particular the people for whom they have invested their careers to ostensibly care about. Tens of thousands of families are going to lose their life savings as the combination of high minimum wages, jobs cutbacks and falling house prices squeeze the unskilled on struggle street. Bramble's solution to this would be for the workers to revolt and demand that employers employ them all at sufficiently high wages whilst simultaneously bragging to his friends how he has cut back on all personal expenditure because everything has become so expensive.
A "pox" on them all.
Quite.
The Brambles of the world irritate me beyond belief because they ultimately don't care about people, in particular the people for whom they have invested their careers to ostensibly care about. Tens of thousands of families are going to lose their life savings as the combination of high minimum wages, jobs cutbacks and falling house prices squeeze the unskilled on struggle street. Bramble's solution to this would be for the workers to revolt and demand that employers employ them all at sufficiently high wages whilst simultaneously bragging to his friends how he has cut back on all personal expenditure because everything has become so expensive.
A "pox" on them all.
Quite.