“Employers’ group slams strike
Today’s strike action has been criticised by a European employers organisation, which fears the walkout will damage Europe’s already-weak economy and deter potential foreign investors.
Philippe de Buck , the chief of Eurobusiness ? the Brussels-based EU employers’ federation ? said:
If you start striking at national level and in companies you only will harm the economy, and it is not the right thing to do today… It costs billions [of euros].”
Well good heavens! They are quite right! Any right to strike should be abolished in Europe at once! How on earth are we going to become competitive? It’s not enough to impose below subsistence levels wages. It’s not enough to impose a completely flexible market whereby virtuous employers can fire the lazy rotten vermin at will. No!
Now we must abolish the right to strike. The Brussels based employers federation is quite right. Strikes cost billions of Euros and are therefore quite intolerable!
Now to whom do they cost these billions of Euros? In Greece alone (a tiny country, by now under 2% of the total EU economy) the brilliant austerity policy imposed to put its economy “on track” has already cost ordinary Greeks, workers, professionals (even businesses you know) billions and is set to cost many more billions. So why are the European employers getting their collective knickers in a twist?
And lest these wise employers haven’t realised, the growing number of unemployed in Europe are unlikely to be moved by such pleas. Imagine! Billions being lost! The homeless, the hungry and those out of work with families to care for, really can’t be expect to see your (il)logic.
We all know how history repeats itself as farce. I wonder what kind of farcical instrument will substitute for the Guillotine. After all, by this point in time we are all so much more humanitarian. Aren’t we?
Are we?
Creating humanitarian crises in the richest continent in the world does not convince one that there are any humanitarian sentiments left in Europe, and particularly not in the ruling classes. The ruling classes being the “captains” of finance capitalism and their loyal servants, the politicians.
Whether history repeats itself or not, whether it repeats itself as farce or not, it does appear to move in cycles. What comes round, goes round. So when these wise people of business start screaming against strikes, they should perhaps remember what eventually happens to all oppressors. Throughout history.
“Allons Enfants de la Patrie! Le jour de gloire est arriv?. Contre nous de la tyrannie |: L’?tendard sanglant est lev? 😐 Entendez vous dans les campagnes …”
This was composed and acted on in the heart of Europe and changed the world. Open your eyes and look at what is going on in the real world, not your natty little models! Forget your petty competitiveness and accounts. Forget the number crunching which abolishes people altogether as a concept, replacing them with ideas such as expensive factors of production that have to be cut.
Yo will only end up cutting yourselves. Badly.