Comment on 'People can't keep going like this': Inside a mortgage-stressed electorate
shads@lemy.lol 1 month agoI know a family, 4 voting adults, who won’t vote Labor at any level because the father had a dispute with a Union when he was the 3IC of a medium sized business.
I mean I hear what he was saying, the union was protecting a bunch of workers who had hit the point in life where they felt the company should hold their current jobs open for the next 10-15 years (until they retired) and they refused to negotiate around upskilling to up to date technology and work practice’s. The idea that a whole company should be stuck with 40 year old process on 50 year old hardware due to a small contingent of union employees is ridiculous.
But voting against your own interests at every state and federal election in the last 6 years and for the forseeable future as a response…
I had the “strong economic mangers” conversation with them about Gladys “Koala Killer” Berejiklian, “Oh she is doing a great job, you leave her alone… she’s only ever done her best and she gets picked on all the time…”