And another one bites the dust!

waynestr that's a very good point why would you work for less than they offer after all you only live once don't give your life away for any less than you can. I often read on here about someone looking for dirt cheap backloading to get some old what ever home and I wonder isn't that the whole problem with this industry everyone trying to screw the last cent out of everyone. Just a thought don't shoot me just thinking out aloud!

$34 per/hour no wonder we pay so much at the checkout.

Trevor

With out starting a political argument that's what driving up prices in most thing especially manufacturing. Eveyone wants to be paid lots and once one gets the next one wants the same amount as they do the same job so therefore prices rise next thing wages rise so on and so on
JMO

The end of 1972 was working in saw mill on $32 per week and decided to have holiday in victoria and looked around for a job and found one,for a year as a builders labour on $76 per week and up to $150 with over time, shoveling concrete no harder than mill work where one lunch time we measured distance walked and numbers of boards carried to stacks according to length which came out at just under 12 and half miles per day .
Payed of hg holden ute at$28 per week easily and after coming back to tasmania one year later worked at rubbish paying jobs till i found a better paying one never worked in sawmills again.
peter

And then old Marius Klopper get's a $74 million golden handshake for leaving BHP with the worst half year profits in years and they complain about how much good labour costs

just watching news on abc tas and reported Road



Runners ,a courier mob had gone in to administration
peter

$34 per/hour no wonder we pay so much at the checkout.

Trevor[/quote]

You don't honestly think that a drivers wages is forcing the price of goods upwards do you. It might have something to do with greed. Look at the price of a barrel of crude oil today (much cheaper than what it was a few years ago), but we are paying substantially more now for fuel, then when it was cheaper. It believe the term corporate greed fits in there somewhere.

A 20 Franna with driver and dogman cost $966.00 for 3 hours.

A 20 Franna with driver and dogman cost $966.00 for 3 hours.

Does that include travel on / off the job?