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Whilst the debate in South Africa rages over the poorest workers allegedly being over paid, ‘The Occupy Wall Street’ movement that is now being replicated throughout the world expresses growing outrage at the ‘one percent’ of people whose wealth allows them to...
Average real wage within Construction (contractors), 1994-2011 1. Wage increases above inflation? Yes, of course! The wage Bargaining season is here again and the media will again complain about "wage demands are inflationary". Read: "Wage demands are too high". But...
Youth labour more attractive, but in abundant supply The campaign for a youth wage subsidy fits well with the "common sense" truth in the business press that ordinary wages are too high and unions are too strong. The youth wage subsidy is just "an entry point to a...
Youth labour more attractive, but in abundant supply The campaign for a youth wage subsidy fits well with the “common sense” truth in the business press that ordinary wages are too high and unions are too strong. The youth wage subsidy is just “an entry point to a...
The Business Report is not a place to trade insults, as Mike Schussler does in his xenophobic piece “Putting data in someone else’s study is untruthful” (4/6). As Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) we are interested in stimulating a real debate on...
The Occupy movement that began in New York in September 2011 and has spread with remarkable speed across the country represents a massive shift in the politics of the United States.1 A year ago the seemingly inexorable rise of the Tea Party saw the startling...
Dick Forslund responds to Mike Schüssler and Tim Cohen Again a report hit the front pages of both Business Day and Business Report (May 7 2012). "South Africa cannot afford South Africans" was prepared on behalf of the trade union UASA by Mike Schüssler from...
Introduction The Greek crisis represents the deepening of a long systemic contradiction whose origins lie in the 1960s, in the stagnation of monopoly capitalism and the emergence of the South. The industrial centers of the world economy were struck by a crisis of...
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi responds to an opinion piece in Friday’s Business Day by Adcorp’s Loane Sharp that ‘SA trade unions are the biggest obstacle to job creation’. He calls it “hogwash” that would not have shocked Joseph Goebbels, “whom Mr Sharp...