Aussie Techs Threaten Chaos

tintinaujapon writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that NCR staff with key responsibility (among other things) for fast food & supermarket chains, banking ATMs, schools and baggage handling at Sydney airport are preparing to walk off the job next week, in industrial action aimed at resolving a pay dispute. NCR's general manager thinks few people in the general community will care about the plight of the palest workforce, but the union claims potential disruption and financial losses could be huge. The strike could last up to a week and is the most significant action yet taken in Australia by the techie workforce."

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NCR! They still exist?

[bogaboga]

Ohh NCR! I thought this company died ages ago! I guess I was wrong. In the mid-nineties, I worked with their computers and liked them a lot. They were compact, light and quiet. Their system units were also easy to open for me as a technician then.

Back to the subject:

This is the more reason why a monopoly MUST not be accepted under any circumstances. What would happen if Microsoft threatened the same action? I understand they're yet to solve their differences with the EU. Right?

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[1000101]

Unions are "bad" because they free the individual of responsibility. The union mindset is similar to liberals with their reliance on government and on others to support them. An individual should study hard, work hard, and acheive their goals on their own merits. Your compensation should be based on work ethic, productivity, and position, not on political pressure and scare tactics.

Obviously they need Gates

[Baldrson]

If they'd just remove the cap on foreign worker visas like Gates tells them to do they wouldn't have these problems with uppity geeks trying to destroy civilization by demanding enough money to attract a decent mate, reliably pay a mortgate and have a couple of kids they can afford to send to college.

Re:Biased headline

[mc6809e]

Having said all of that, one thing that a lot of self-styled libertarians seem to gloss over is the inherent advantage that government confers upon corporations, specifically corporate personhood and all of the stuff that falls out from that, and the fact that corporations exist without fear of any kind of real punishment for criminal acts.

Ah, but unions are genuine, legal, corporations. In theory, they're "not for profit", but can anyone deny that the union doesn't exist for the purpose of increasing the income of it's members?

And don't forget that union corporations have plenty of exemptions that business corporations don't. Things like anti-trust laws and anti-monopoly laws don't apply to unions.

And recently, Former Governor Davis in California near the end of his term actually signed into law a limit to union liability for damages. A union corporation can only be liable for up to $100,000.

and the fact that corporations exist without fear of any kind of real punishment for criminal acts.

LOL. The association between unions and organized crime is well-known.