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Mired in a parochial midset & ignorant of history
The parochial mindset of nationally-based companies and trade unions reveals asn ignorance of economic history, including the fact that shareholder companies — a cornerstone of our system — were banned in Britain for 105 years because of their inherent tendency to be corrupt.
Don’t blame workers for managerial incompetence
May 26, 2015
Don’t blame workers for poor management. And feel some sympathy for any competent managers, whether in a large school, a government department, or parastatal who often have to deal with a legacy of maladministration, all too often accompanied by levels of corruption.
No worker joy in SA public sector pay deal
May 25, 2015
By comparing last week the pay and conditions of nurses and teachers to those of cabinet ministers and MPs I seem to have touched a raw nerve, especially among paramedics and fire fighters. They too have concerns — and not only about money.
Of pay, politicians & nurses
May 17, 2015
Some critics of South African nurses and teachers who have left to work abroad have dubbed them unpatriotic. They are not. They are part of the international army of migrant labour. In any event, since capital knows no boundaries nor should labour accept any borders .
Wage gaps disfigure SA public service
May 10, 2015
A wage and welfare gap is one of the prime problems in the SA public service. It's an example of maladministration for which workers should not be blamed. And some sympathy should be extended to competent managers who have to deal with a legacy of maladministration, often coupled with levels of corruption.
A paradox for post May Day focus
May 3, 2015
It’s a great paradox: as food production has increased, so too, has the amount of hunger in the world. And not because of a rapidly increasing population — there is actually enough food to adequately feed everyone.
The ticking time bomb of Swaziland
April 19, 2015
There is official silence in South Africa silence about the feudal monarchy in Swaziland. As a result, labour activists have every right to ask whether the “beacon of hope and democracy” that SA was professed to be is being dimmed by the acceptance of autocracy and so-called traditional cultural values.
Some light amid the labour gloom
April 19, 2015
News on the labour front over the recent past — and the past week — has involved ongoing infighting, death threats, an assassination and the petrol bombing of a union president’s house. Little wonder then that an important labour law development — esepcially the "three-month rule" — has gone largely unnoticed.
Terry Bell Writes 
May 31, 2015
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