Judith Sloan
It’s good to see Judith Sloan (Productivity Commission and Australian Fair Pay Commission Commissioner, Director of the Westfield Group and Board member of the Lowy Institute) moving into comedy.
In the Weekend Australian (Nov. 26-7), she writes,
…in a perfect world, the ideal arrangement is for employers and employees to reach agreement about wages and conditions by mutual and private consent.
(p. 22)
‘Bahahahaha’.
In the real world, there are more employees to choose from than there are employers. In the real world, employers hire trained negotiators to carry out their end of the bargaining.
In the real world, employers wield more power than employees.
So in the real world, employees increase their power by acting collectively.