Matthew Wood has been trying to work out what to tell his children after he was locked out of his job as a Coles warehouse worker without pay for three months over summer because of an industrial dispute that will eventually claim his job.
Data collected by Australian Catholic University researcher Tom Barnes for the United Workers Union shows the prospects for warehouse workers who lose jobs to automation are not good. Coles warned workers it would have "no choice" but to lock them out if they went on strike in the lead-up to Christmas because it needed to set up alternative arrangements to make sure goods got to Christmas lunches on time, Mr Swindells said.
nickbonyhady It's brutal but very few of us have a job that is guaranteed to always be there for life these days. Hopefully these machines/robots are at least developed and manufactured in Australia so there are other roles created
nickbonyhady Just the beginning.
nickbonyhady Skill up on the maintenance of the Automated machinery, that's where the job's will come from in the future
nickbonyhady 3 years to retrain, I don’t think that’s a problem
nickbonyhady The reality is that future efficiency gains (and profits) are likely to come (and should) from automation. This is why Australia needs to stop importing 'temp' workers as we will have massive unemployment issues in the future.
nickbonyhady this is only the beginning.
nickbonyhady If a large organisation goes down this path, then they should be taxed higher to pay for unemployment support to ppl that lose their jobs because of the automation Implemented.
nickbonyhady Matthew hang in there! - & know that you’re much better of in Australia then you’d be in America.