Replying to LO29849 --
Gday Rene,
Your comment about self serving workers, raises some thoughts. During my
employment in an Australian Government owned Telecommunications giant, I
wrote to the unions suggesting that when the Department was privatised, an
approach should be made for a loyaltry share issue,.
Eventually this was granted and most of the workers purchased shares,
which have since decreassed in value.
I suggest it is healthy for workers to share enterprise risk, gains and
losses.
At shareholders meetings the proceedings have in the last few years, been
held up with Dorothy Dix's - questions to turn the meetings away from
certain business. The workers are becoming aware of this ploy - it's all
part of democracy and share ownership.
What is also healthy is that NO CASH BONUSES are paid, which might
encourage short cutting of Health and Safety requirements.
I believe employees should have some ownership of their company, if they
are ever to be genuine in their endeavors. Unfortunately the Australian
Government encorages an adversarial position in IR matters, this is done
for purely conservative political reasons, and does every citizen a major
disservice.
Best Regards,
Alan Cotterell
--"Alan Cotterell" <acotrel@cnl.com.au>
Learning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <Richard@Karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>
"Learning-org" and the format of our message identifiers (LO1234, etc.) are trademarks of Richard Karash.