Sky Pilot wrote:Manufacturing in Oz could be improved if we became more efficient. Our workers are as good as anywhere in the world and better than most. But employers struggle with stupidity like the annual leave loading, relentless sick leave entitlements, exorbitant penalty rates, union intervention in everything from toilet paper types to the size of the tea room and positioning of the dart boards. Greed and corruption at the management level is also a handbrake but this can be tackled and eradicated. Try negotiating with a union (I'm a financial member of a union) and you go nowhere fast.
We are our own worst enemy.
The answer is not cutting pay and leave entitlements. It is the Libs mode of operation though, something we can look forward to I guess.
Labor goofed by propping up the sector with billions of dollars, when they should have been using the money to retrain workers in the manufacturing sector.