Wage Strikes
Security guards are out on strike again, they demanding 11% increase but being offered 8%. Now in all fairness to them, 8% is not anything to write home about especially when you earning something like R2000 a month. That gives them a measly R160 increase. That is enough to make anybody unhealthily upset. That R160 might just put them into another tax bracket for instance, and would result in them receiving an even lower net every month than before the increase.
BUT, does this give them the right to violate every act in the book. A few weeks ago we were startled with loud nose, and as I looked out the office window, realised it was gunshots in the main road in Mowbray. All one could see was smoke. About an hour later two of our office guys reports that every car's windscreen, side mirror, back window, side windows, actually just all the glass areas of the cars in the side roads of the waverley had been smashed. And to top that, the security's working were assaulted in their booths. Now this raises the question, "WHY". Those people who were parked in the side roads are not the reason they are not getting their increase. The security guards that are working are working because they know that they need the money to feed their families. And yes, we can argue that if they win and receive the 11% increase that everybody will benefit, but we need to be realistic, not everybody feels the need to act like hooligans, running around the streets and smashing cars and beating fellow workers.
I say these guilty people are pathetic, irresponsible and just uncultured. I don't see the whole of Cape Town running around and protesting every increase that they not satisfied with. I don't see other workers smashing cars that are irrelevant to the cause. Why is it so easy for some people to abuse every act given to them. Freedom of speech or freedom to be heard. Gee, if I had to exercise those freedom's I'd possibly be the president. The reality of having all these acts is so that we can have a better life, that we can be heard with unfairness towards ourselves, towards others. But no, lets just go and smash cars and beat others and call it Freedom of Speech!!
This is a joke really. During workers day these angry workers were breaking down the stage in the Goodhope Centre. Now what did the stage do to them, did the stage say that they shouldn't get the 11% increase. Another thing, they were throwing things at the cameramen, but yet tomorrow they will turn around and say nobody is interested in their problems. They chasing the people away! What is the easiest way of being heard?? Using the media isn't it?? I rest my case.
All this just gets my heart pumping blood faster than it can handle because its unnecessary and stupid really. If they not happy with conditions of employment or with their salaries, why don't they, like other normal people, FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! I mean!
Your thoughts
Sonja
xxx
BUT, does this give them the right to violate every act in the book. A few weeks ago we were startled with loud nose, and as I looked out the office window, realised it was gunshots in the main road in Mowbray. All one could see was smoke. About an hour later two of our office guys reports that every car's windscreen, side mirror, back window, side windows, actually just all the glass areas of the cars in the side roads of the waverley had been smashed. And to top that, the security's working were assaulted in their booths. Now this raises the question, "WHY". Those people who were parked in the side roads are not the reason they are not getting their increase. The security guards that are working are working because they know that they need the money to feed their families. And yes, we can argue that if they win and receive the 11% increase that everybody will benefit, but we need to be realistic, not everybody feels the need to act like hooligans, running around the streets and smashing cars and beating fellow workers.
I say these guilty people are pathetic, irresponsible and just uncultured. I don't see the whole of Cape Town running around and protesting every increase that they not satisfied with. I don't see other workers smashing cars that are irrelevant to the cause. Why is it so easy for some people to abuse every act given to them. Freedom of speech or freedom to be heard. Gee, if I had to exercise those freedom's I'd possibly be the president. The reality of having all these acts is so that we can have a better life, that we can be heard with unfairness towards ourselves, towards others. But no, lets just go and smash cars and beat others and call it Freedom of Speech!!
This is a joke really. During workers day these angry workers were breaking down the stage in the Goodhope Centre. Now what did the stage do to them, did the stage say that they shouldn't get the 11% increase. Another thing, they were throwing things at the cameramen, but yet tomorrow they will turn around and say nobody is interested in their problems. They chasing the people away! What is the easiest way of being heard?? Using the media isn't it?? I rest my case.
All this just gets my heart pumping blood faster than it can handle because its unnecessary and stupid really. If they not happy with conditions of employment or with their salaries, why don't they, like other normal people, FIND ANOTHER JOB!!! I mean!
Your thoughts
Sonja
xxx
posted by Sonja Lietch at 2:32 pm
3 Comments:
I totally agree. How can they expect to be rewarded when they committing acts of crime and destruction to get the authorities to take note of them!? Their mentality clearly leaves a lot to be desired if thinking that a outburst of that type is going to get them any kind of reward. Everyone else has to work for what they want, who said these people can just demand it. On the other side of the coin, have these people been sufficiently educated and informed that THAT is not the way to go about getting something... Maybe they don't know that there actually are other alternatives.
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