Mark H.
WA premier, emperor Colin Barnett has announced
that the public sector workforce will be shedding jobs.
1000 public sector workers will at first be
offered voluntary redundancies and a further 200 will be forcibly made
redundant.
He has told the public that further cuts are
possible and he will introduce legislation into parliament that will give him
the ability to sack public sector workers at will.
He hopes to have this legislation through
parliament by December. “Merry Xmas from the emperor!”
The government here will follow the rest of the
capitalist world with austerity and selling off of public assets.
This information has come on the back of an
announcement that the new flagship hospital, (Fiona Stanley hospital, above) has had
to delay its opening due to issues with the compatibility of computer systems
and ''workforce problems''. The multinational Serco has been awarded the
contract to supply support services for Fiona Stanley but interest from
existing public sector workers in going private has been very low. As many as
900 support staff face redeployment or possibly being sacked and forced to the
private contractor. With the delay in opening the new hospital Serco and the
state government will have to renegotiate the contract (that is worth billions
of dollars over 20 years) as the opening has been put back 6 months and
possibly a year.
There is no obligation for Serco to renegotiate
the existing contract and if they don’t the cost to the public will be between $250,000
and $400,000 a day.
Talk about a potential bonanza for Serco, all
that public wealth handed over for nothing! 
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