10 facts about South African Strikes:
1) The workers break things, hit people, assault other workers, intimidate them. Then when the strike is over they revert to "normal mode" and treat those same people that they hurt/injured, as if nothing happened.
2) They always get away with what they've done. I have never heard of any of them (spanning a period of 10 years or more) get prosecuted successfully for the damage they cause, or the people they injure or kill or intimidate during a strike. The trade unions are also equally never held accountable! It just gets swept under the carpet when the strike is over.
3) They cry about how little they are paid... and then they stay away from work for however long the strike is ongoing, which is treated as unpaid leave. Suddenly when the strike is over, they are willing to work, again they've reverted to "normal" mode, back from "ape*****" mode, and with even less money because now they somehow have to make up the salary they lost when they were busy toyi-toyiing in the streets.
4) Instead of engaging with the employer directly, and ask for a raise, they will join the trade union, because, it appears to them that every employer, no matter how well he treats his staff, is the enemy and they believe that they need a union to "fight" the employer for better wages.
5) Most don't understand the concept of hard work and doing your job well. For most South Africans, in all industries/sectors, a job is just a means to an end. Very few people do what they do because they enjoy it or feel passionately about it. The lack of service in SA, is a clear indication of this. If they understood that if they worked harder, and their employer benefitted from this, then there would be no reason why the employer would provide generous increases, when the time came, without the use of trade unions and strikes.
6) The participants in the strike, are almost always black. While they're out there, on the street causing *****, the white people come to work, as normal, and they keep the company running.
Then when the strikers return to work, and overtime has to be worked to catch up, they want to bitch and moan because the whites get to go home early and are off for the weekend.
7) In the Metal industries, companies are forced by law to bring in the unions, as did happen at one company I worked for previously. R17 was deducted every month off my pay for union dues, which I neither wanted, nor consented to, but was forced to join because the govt was going to litigate the company to get the union involved. So there you have it, the unions are an instrument of the ANC, and they want them installed because the idjit masses are a useful tool to the ANC to control big business and industry.
8) Most see a strike as a very happy time, time off work, for the lazy, is always a very welcome thing
9) Most strikers, don't have even the most basic grasp of economics, and therefore will be ignorant for life, about the effects that their actions have on the economy. They whinge and moan about food being so expensive, yet they CAUSED IT to be that way because they're so stupid!
10) They strike, get an increase, which in many cases is not justified. And they're protected because of SA's strict labour laws.
