LATIN EUROPE HANGS ITSELF

happy unions with placards outside once proud and contributive industries shouting hatred slogans with greater concern for monies outstanding than real concern for getting the business back on its feet. It is not difficult to see that fairly inconsequential support from Ministerial or banking sources could have kept all these businesses on their feet under a minimum of supervision. It seems likely that these are not the real concerns and that such demonstrations are no more than cheap propaganda exercices designed to reinforce the dependence of the work force on union backing. Nothing in nature of conscientious study of the structure and capabilities of the sinking, once prolific companies, exists, and disaster looms when the capacity to fire or decrease overhead costs, meet with union demands and worker judicial interference in order to keep salaries flowing. Whether or not the employers can afford to continue to pay up is of no consideration. The ultimate scenario in all cases, is closure and massive debts that ensure that the production system will never see the light of day again.

 

Unions Create Unemployment.

Unions have a great deal to answer for in the growing unemployment of many a country but it is in these three particularly where the fostering of wrong attitudes forces investment away. Criticising employers for not employing enough workers suggest that the issue is one of supposed duty on the part of the only one risking everything for what could be years of wait for responsive returns. These dismal and intrinsically false premises are incorporated in the educational system that throws all the burden of employment responsibility on the employer without reference to the constitutional garantees of dignified work which these governments do not allow for either in unemployment benefits or family allowances. As such therefore, public anger is skillfully deflected through the worst type of propaganda, against employers who gradually see their profits whittle away in massive social security contributions, lengthy holidays, addtional yearly extra salaries, increasingly frequent festive days and long weekend “bridges”, not to mention annual holidays and lists of added costs depending on host a host of factors. An average salary of 14,000 euros pero annum costs the employer as much as 28,000 euros which is way above what a highly geared industrial country in Europe would be looking at. In short, it seems that the Unions and the fear they generate in all political parties, have managed finally to kill the goose.

If it were true that without the Union movement, workers would still be in the stone age, then a case could perhaps be made for its existance, but the reverse is the genuine reality. Market forces are based on standards and whereas low quality personnel would suffer considerably from their better equipped competitors, it is easily proven that employers are glad to pay in accordance with the demand for the specific personnel. Both clerical and manual workers have in all nations with much less militant or aggressive, so called guardians, established both work standards and remuneration of a much higher and sustainable essence. In fact it can be said that these left wing influences which prosper unduly under socialist governments, encourage labour delincuency through overprotection of the workforce and ultimately create escalating unemployment. Excessive government expenditure is usually due to the nervous response on the part of the politicians who buy their way out of unpopularity by keeping everyone happily esconced in dreams of paradise, where there is no need for great effort at the workplace. Attempts to cut down costs in these sections of the bureacracy is almost impossible as the unions strike with a vengeance with threats of paralising whole sections of necessary social support. This combination therefore of collapsing and demoralised service and industrial investment platforms and the inability of government forces to reduce public expenditure is as deadly as can be put together. This economic illness, however, becomes terminal in the face of the union movement, which clings to its inflexible, false image of worker protection and plunges whole societies into the chaotic abyss of bankruptcy and family despair.

 

The Dying Employment Industry.

The union movement, employment taxation and the sinister judicial apparatus which figures in the background, is undoubtedly behind the economically unstable situations which Greece, Portugal and Spain are experiencing. The deep rooted misconceptions of the nature of government and capitalist market forces, render these movements superfluous as the results of their “struggles” are particularly unimpressive. They do not create jobs, they close down and discourage industrial investments and neglect to encourage government protection of the unemployed or the family. Natural market forces in the absence of these aggressive and meaningless assaults on free enterprise, have and would continue to care for employees, reduce inflation and establish criteria for quality of life. Free markets foster standards and production levels through the discipline that determine results as can be easily seen in countries like Germany, Britain and France, In all these countries the union movements know that their days would be numbered if they went against national interests. This intelligent background role by the unions has resulted in a fair day´s work for a fair day´s pay and achieved standards of living way above those of the workers of the Latin trio in question. It is a well known fact among those well informed Europeans that none of these Latin countries offer family support of any real consequence, nor do they guarantee unemployment or social benefits of any real value. Conversely, corruption in the public sector is rife and the example set to those well below the breadline, is one of family neglect and abuse of authority. The fact that street muscles are flexing for the sort of confrontation that has historically plagued these badly managed societies, comes as no surprise.