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Don Sutherland's Blog – August 2010 Archive (2)

Job security and 'skills formation' in crisis and recovery - can bosses be trusted to make logical decisions?

Over the past couple of weeks there have been 2 Australian reports that highlight the disfunctional stupidity of the capitalist way of doing things.

A survey by a mob called Right Management discovered that Australian mining corporations lost 50% of the workers that they made redundant during the first 6 months of 2009. These workers sought and most obtained work in a different industry. This is how the Australian mining industry managed its labour force during the global…

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Added by Don Sutherland on August 30, 2010 at 10:35 — No Comments

First attempt at coherent thoughts re Australian federal elections

Dear Friends,

10 months ago it was hard to imagine that the Rudd Labor government would not comfortably win a second term.

Why do we today have - at best - a hung parliament but with Liberals holding 2 more seats than Labor, and 4 undecided? An Abbott neo-con Liberal-National Party government government will be a massive setback for working Australians and their families and for much of the broader population. On the other hand, this is a huge win for the mining companies, energy…

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Added by Don Sutherland on August 22, 2010 at 13:21 — 3 Comments