Now I know this is quite politcal and I don't mean it to be - afterall I consider myself a swing voter at this point. However what I do know is the difficulty in getting enough people applying for a job posted on one of the big employment sites that tells me there might well be more jobs going than there is people to fill them.
Recently our business has grown enough where we needed another body in our office here, and based on my personal expierence, and what I think is a pretty good package, I was suprised on the number of people advertising the position, and how it took so long in order to get enough candidates together in order to interview to pick the luck person that got the gig.
From that, I can tell you as a growing business our goal is purely to keep staff, aside from the obvious of stability can only be a good thing in business, I don't think there really are enough job seekers in the market that would allows us to abuse and lose staff.
The other thing is too, OK these agreements are an individual thing, but that said I remember years ago when I was working as a sales rep, that the MD sat us all down and gave us work agreements and told us to sign them which meant that he could call us in to work on Christmas day if he wanted to, so not being apart of a union I don't really see much of a difference between the two - sure there may be slight variations on the agreements depending on the ability of the two parties to negotiate, and possibly the value of the staff member?
I guess all this is about taking the power away from the unions and there ability to negotiate the best thing for their members, and being a little cynical, the best terms for themselves.
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