Thread: ALCOA CLOSING

It'll be a major blow to Geelong, having Ford going, now Alcoa Where afe the young people going to go for work, to Melbourne? where they're are already people looking for employment.
May be it's time to stop immigration and say sorry we are full, there is no work in Australia anymore?
What would be the better option? Public tax payer money used to prop up these large employing businesses, who will always want had outs , but give people a job and some self respect and honour?

Or
Not give them a hand out and instead spend the money supporting those retrenched and can't get a job, and have low self esteem and honour.

Now with record low interest rates, will we start seeing bank foreclosures in the future as people cannot meet mortgage repayments.
It's not a good time in Australia at the moment, I think there is going to be hard times ahead for the work force, for those that still have jobs.
Where once you started to work for a company and retired at an old age, now its uncertian whether you'll have a job tomorrow.

Yes, it's not looking to healthy in Victoria at the moment.

I was made redundant back in May. Centrelink are still not paying me. They have made a couple of monumental stuff ups.

First, they sent me a nasty letter and canceled my newstart (which I hadn't been paid) and could not explain why. When pressed, it was suggested it may have been a computer glitch.

Then, some months later, they accused me of having a hidden bank account because of the amount of savings I told them I had in a phone interview. It looked as if the fellow who input the data had a keyboard that suffered from key bounce on the numbers. There was a double digit in there.

The poor souls in Centrelink are clearly suffering from overwork.

Yep, things are looking dire out there. Oh, well. I think I'll have a treat tonight to cheer me up. I'll put a dash of soy sauce on my bowl of rice for dinner tonight.

Maybe its time for some major infrustructure projects a la snowy mountains project. Give some of the factory workers a chance to transfer skills to other industries, but of course they'll import the steel from china and the workers on 457.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Maybe its time for some major infrustructure projects a la snowy mountains project. Give some of the factory workers a chance to transfer skills to other industries, but of course they'll import the steel from china and the workers on 457.

Can't do it.
Because of the world bank, IMF and other international pressures, projects like that must be open to private enerprise. Of course, private enterprise won't do it because they don't see short term returns.

Private industry is O.K. by me, they have built a number of infrastructure projects around the country, the gateway bridge in Qld, Clem7, CrossCity tunnel, M2., M7, Land Cove Tunnel and some of them go broke.

But at least they give some hundreds or thousands of workers a job.

Isn't it time for a high speed freight rail link between Melbourne and Brisbane and a high speed passenger rail system between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Then it can start going West to Adelaide and Perth. Would employ thousands over decades.

The good thing is that the actual planting of the infrustructure in Aussie soil cant be sent overseas, even if the carriages etc have to be built somewhere else.

Honestly I think it is about time our federal govt made conditions that these companies must have so much processing in Australia as part of their mining licence agreements, if they cannot fulfill these obligations then take their licences and give to a company that can do so. Very easy really.

Originally Posted by CraigE

Honestly I think it is about time our federal govt made conditions that these companies must have so much processing in Australia as part of their mining licence agreements, if they cannot fulfill these obligations then take their licences and give to a company that can do so. Very easy really.

Then we'd have to deal with the WTO because that requirement is a breach of WTO rules.

How many years have they been talking about the high speed rail link?
Private industry don't see any money in it.
Governments say it's private industry's responsibility to build such a thing.