Sportsdude wrote:
lol classic anti-union spew post 1980 Reaganism economics where he complained poor people on welfare were living it up, viciously attack the poor and weak, the modern conservative way. total bs. So said that a political ideology has spewed into just hate. When we think of conservatism now its Rush Limbaugh. lol
Company profits go down, blame the worker of course, not the over paid management who made the bad decisions. It's always the workers fault because you know they make all the decisions of course.
BC Ferries is in trouble because of the decision to build the stupid ships in Germany. BC Ferries could have built the ships in Victoria for much cheaper and would have helped BC shipbuilding industry. But Campbell rather help out his buddies in Germany than the citizens of British Columbia. So, of course Campbell was hopping mad when Harper said BC had to pay the huge import tax and refused to waive it. So the tax payers of BC now had to pay the bills on the giant cruise ships.
The giant import tax+ building the ships in Germany+ high cost of fuel = current BC Ferries problems.
All of those decisions aren't the workers problems, but the failure of management. So instead of only having to deal with high fuel costs, the government due to sloppy inept managing has a 4 headed monster. Then add on top of that Gordon gave himself a raise. And you've got problems, my friends.
LOL. Classic pro union spew. (could help it sorry SD)
Buzz.
The ships built in germany were brought in on budget because the unions there have a clue. They want the work and are willing to work at keeping them on time and in budget.They did overtime for nothing which was the equivalent of like 10 unpaid days to bring in the ships on time and on budget.
Do you know why the ferries were not built here?
The ferry corp tendered the ferries internationally, the local yards were 15% above the international bids, and months longer to build. Even with the import tax (which of course they should pay) overall in the long run its cheaper. On top of that they would not accept the inclusion of clauses that the ferries wanted for penalties, which would have helped hold the shipyards to task on keeping them on time and on budget. Part of what they would not accept was a fixed price on labour.. so that means if they were going to be behind time building them, they could eat they lower penalties they would accept, and just keep charging the taxpayers more and more on labour.
The german ships are top notch quality and built with parts availability and interchangability in mind. I work on ships, these are really good. Worth the money.
On top of that the ferries as they were tendering had the yards do some repair work for them. The work was done right, dont get me wrong the workers are good adn do the job, but they were done overbudget and late. That didnt do them any favours during the decion.
Look at the vessels built here before. Let me know if you find any done on time and on budget. The shipyards cry and the ferry corp pays more.
