GLOBALISATION
STEP
10: National
governments will disempower unions, abolish wage fixation, & allow their
labour forces to compete in an unregulated global labour market.
HURTING
AUSTRALIAN FAMILIES
The globalisation of Australia has been
going on since at least 1983 & the Hawke government.
THE
MEANING OF GLOBALISATION
The official story – that globalisation is ‘just
another name for global free trade’ – is at best a half truth. There is
certainly something being sold to the public as ‘free trade’ involved, but
it is merely one of the means by which the world is being globalised. Something
is being made global now which wasn’t global before, & it isn’t free
trade. Trade has always been global, & free trade was the official policy of
the major trading powers 200 years ago.
So what is it that is being ‘made global’? The
answer is: the ownership of the world’s economic assets & resources, is
being transferred out of national hands into international (global) hands –
into the hands of transnational corporations (TNCs) & consortiums of global
investors. To protect the interest of the new owners, control over national
economies has to be transferred out of the hands of national governments into
the hands of global bodies such as the World Trade Organization (WTO),
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the OECD (Organization for
Economic Cooperation’s & Development), - organizations called
‘institutions of global governance’ (world government) by the CFR Globalists.
Australia
is no longer to be owned or controlled by Australians.
Besides the transfer of our ownership we are surrendering control of our
country away from the people & to world government as we illegally adopt
phoney United Nations (UN) treaties thanks to Senator Gareth Evans.
STEP
10.1:
There is to be a single unregulated global labour pool, which workers in all
countries must compete for jobs without any protection from government or
unions. Globalising governments are required to disempower unions, abolish wage
fixation & deregulate their labour forces in preparation. Since employment
is a political sensitive area, globalising governments have to move cautiously.
Nobody has yet told Australian workers they will be required to compete for jobs
with workers in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines & India. (But they are
beginning to find out).
10.2:
Under the euphemisms “deregulating the labour market’ & industrial
relations reforms’, governments are assisting TNCs & CFR to disempower
unions & wind back all the gains made by organised labour through collective
bargaining since the Industrial Revolution. The power of unions is being broken
through devices such as ‘enterprise bargaining’ & contract employment,
which force un-organised workers to negotiate wage rates & conditions of
employment with organised monopoly capital. The economic rationalist myth is
that individual workers can emerge from such negotiations with a fair deal
because ‘employees can choose their employers,
10:3
In Australia there are clear examples of government involvement in union
breaking. The Hawke government in the airline pilot’s strike, used
taxpayer’s money to subsidise the airlines & prolong the strike until the
pilots union capitulated. Under the guise of ‘waterfront reform’, the
Australian government actively assisted two stevedoring companies, Patrick’s
& P&O Ports, & the CFR agribusiness lobby group, the NFF, to break
the maritime union. Military personnel were trained in Dubai to act as scab
labour. Mining TNC Rio Tinto bussed non-union workers on to the Gordonstone coal
mine site (Emerald, QLD.) to break a strike, which resulted from moves by the
corporation to employ non-union miners on individual contracts. In January 2001
a Federal Court judge held that BHP could exclude unions from wage negotiations
with workers at its Pilbara mine in WA.
10.4:
The Australian, 8 March 1999, stated that big business leaders have been
enlisted by Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith to “lead the campaign for
an aggressive new wave of industrial reform”. In a speech to (yet another)
closed session of the Business Council of Australia, Mr Reith told corporate
chiefs they had to back the Government in putting more “grunt” (force) into
the ‘debate’ (campaign) to ‘counter union policies’ (destroy unions).
10.5:
Australian workers will be required to compete in the global labour market with
workers in cheap labour countries. International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing
director Michel Camdessus said, at the Australia Unlimited conference in
Melbourne, May 19998: “In the globalised economy, wage rates & labour-market
practices cannot be insulated from market conditions”.
10.6:
Each year 47 million extra workers enter the global workforce, 38 million of
them in the third world cheap labour countries. TNCs are taking over more &
more of the world economy, yet overall they are cutting jobs. The top 200 are
responsible for over 28% of the world’s production yet they employ only 18.8
million people, 0.75% of the global workforce. Add to this the feminist push to
get women into the workforce worldwide, & the widespread use of child labour
by TNCs throughout the Third World, & global unemployment is a looming
catastrophe.
10.7:
Global unemployment will exert strong downward pressure on wages. In the
globalised economy, capital is free to move where it likes, but labour is
largely confined to its country of origin (though cheap labour will be imported
into high cost countries like Australia to drive down wages & living
standards). This means capital can play one country off against another, forcing
down labour rates, work & safety standards, & environmental standards,
under threat of taking investment elsewhere. When workers in the Hawaiian
pineapple industry demanded a better deal, the TNC involved moved the industry
to the Philippines virtually overnight, leaving 6000 jobless. (Now they are
about to destroy Australian industry).
10.8:
Australian workers will have to compete with workers in Mexico, Honduras, &
Southeast Asian countries & India for foreign investment & therefore
jobs. To gain some idea of the competition, the hourly wage rates in some of the
countries involved are (February 1988 figures): Australia $16.96/hour; NZ
$11.03, Singapore & Korea around $8.30; Taiwan $5.83; Hong Kong $5.14;
Mexico $1.50; China $0.45:
Thailand $0.69; the Philippines $0.57; & Indonesia $0.39/hr. Vietnam
$0.23/hr. Australian labour has a long way to go downwards in order to become
more ‘internationally competitive.
10.9:
TNCs throughout Asia are exploiting child labour, & Australia will be
forced to follow suite if it’s to compete. Global Corporation is literally
putting children back up chimneys. In Thailand the Philippines, Bangladesh &
Indonesia, children aged 8 & 10 work 14 hours days for eight to ten pennies
an hour sewing shirts & hammering rivets into jeans for the American market.
In Bangladesh, TNCs have opened over 2100 factories which employ 1.3 million
workers, 85% of them women or young girls. Children as young as 7 years work
twenty hours a day in garment factories. The minimum wage is $23 a month.
10.10/11:
provide examples of Labour exploitation in Australia.
10.12:
Downward pressure on wages within Australia will be increase through (CFR) big
business lobby groups pressurising the federal government to increase
immigration. It is cheaper to have government import cheap labour into Australia
than for TNCs to move the factory offshore. Labour & business groups called
for the Government’s program for 1998-99 of 80,000, including 12,000 refugees,
to be increased sharply in the subsequent financial year. (Due to governments
Immigration policy we have become the dumping ground for UN trash, resulting in
the evils of Multiculturism & terrorism.)
10.13:
Under the pretext of having to be ‘rational’, Corporatism claims to exempt
itself from the requirement to act morally. Anything that can be done will be
done if there is profit in it regardless of the consequences to the human race
or the environment. That can include peddling pornography to children, cloning
human beings for body parts, knowingly selling faulty & dangerous products,
feeding the public genetically modified foods before proper testing, etc. (for
further details please read the excellent work by Graham Strachan “22 Steps to
Global Tyranny”)
The
government has now taken another step towards Globalism with the passing of
their IR laws, which opens the doors for the full introduction of GATS
None of this would be possible without the complicity of the world’s
media, the ownership of which is now concentrated in relatively few hands, all
committed to globalisation.
The first role of the media is to keep the public distracted from what
is going on. Apart from an occasional article to give an appearance of balance,
nothing critical of globalism is allowed to reach the public. Any political
party advocating nationalism – Australia for Australians – will be
discredited through biased reporting, propaganda & outright lies if need be
(One Nation) or made to disappear by a total media blackout.
The peak oil lie is a typical example of the media promoting the lie of
oil shortages so as to condition people to high oil prices whilst they discredit
the Debit tax.
What is the answer to the corrupt two party system of government? What
have they given us?
Globalisation, Job losses & rights, sale of public industries,
transfer of thousands of jobs offshore, resulting in record imports & debt.
Huge taxes & GST to pay for the debt, not to mention the fuel price rip off
due to the giving away of our resources to the CFR.
The
choice is simple to save Australia we must reform Tax & finances &
reduce fuel prices. The Debit tax enables you to retain 99% of your income &
only pay 1% tax as it eliminates all other taxes including the GST. A national
energy policy will ensure that Australians receive the benefit of our limitless
supply of renewable energy, & maximum uniform prices will be regulated to: Petrol
50 cents per litre, Diesel 40 cents per litre & LPG 20 cents per litre.
This
will reduce costs, increase take home pay & savings & create jobs &
investment. A complete change in direction from the debt that we are having
thrust upon us.
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