Mammonite Mining Magnates

The Australian Mines and Metals Association have released a report saying AWA's are not eliminating worker's conditions. However it becomes clear that this report is in fact based purely on the mining industry. So conditions have not in fact worsened in an industry desperate for workers to satisfy the booming Chinese influenced market. Have these champions of industry forgotten about the basic concept of supply and demand, or are they as seems more likely lying mammonite bastards.

How surprising that on average in an industry currently renowned for how desperate it is to get ever more workers, to the extent that there are consequent labour shortages in many professions and trades, especially in WA and Qld, conditions for workers aren't worsening. Mining companies aren't in a position to screw over much of their workforces just at the moment. Hooray, how very reassuring. Likely these figures also include generous contracts for management skewing the averages. To generalise this figures to the economy as a whole is just a blatant lie.

Bizarrely the report seems to suggest that while wages in the mining industry have indeed gone up they have not kept pace with increases in productivity. So apparently miners are indeed still getting stiffed. This constant call from management to link wage increases to increases in productivity has always been manifestly unfair because it means workers have to continue working harder and harder just to keep pace with inflation. Real wages stagnate while companies reap the benefits of increases in productivity and don't pass them along to the people who actually do the work. It's a con.

More so of a con when wages don't keep pace with increases in productivity, so workers are working harder but any increases in reward do not correspond. And what happens when the boom is over, or the labour shortage situation is stabilised and supply starts to catch up with demand? What will happen to people's working conditions then? Nothing good. They will be at the mercies of the kind of people who will peddle this kind of bald faced lie to the public.