The business of unions and the business of business. My Blog 5.12.

In my life time, I have reached some interesting conclusions, based on personal experience and observation, this is just one.

Unions are nothing more than a placebo for the working masses, taking payment from both ends.
Unions serve at the very least masters: first and foremost they serve there own interests, second they serve the business interests, third they serve the worker interest. The bible mentions aboue a man serving two masters and the result of this.     

In any collective agreement, within the first 3-4 pages it is made perfectly clear that the union can never own any workplace. They are allowed to exist by companies as a buffer and bouncer, offering the occasional bone to the working masses.

Frogs in a pot cooked slowly, will not jump out until they are well cooked…and then it is usually too late for the frog.

The secret to running a successful business lays in the sure and certain knowledge that the working masses will always slit the throats of their own kind for a fast buck, and that a worker will always attack another weaker worker rather than face management. Almost too easy. A man plagued by morality could never take advantage of this truth, being morally and ethically bankrupt is the key to success and successful business.

At the moment when the ''consciousness tipping point'' is achieved in the growth of any business, owners and management along with all employees, become the property of the new living being that has come into existence. Like a child biding its time until it is stronger than its parents, any business will become a separate ''self-aware'' conscious being, that will ruthlessly defend itself if threatened in any way, even going as far as to turn on its parents. It mirrors all that has created it, and will far surpass the ruthless underhanded scheming and contempt for life, which it has undoubtedly witnessed during its growth. When the ''consciousness tipping point'' is reached, the business becomes a new conscious life form...and it now owns all that it has contact with. It thirsts for more, just as its creators and workers did. It has a name given at birth, it has an identity cultivated over time, it has a drive and purpose, and a vicious need to live, survive, thrive, and reproduce on its terms. The cat is in the cradle and it sees all.

E.L