Suvarnabhumi luggage staff go on strike, call for bonus and raise

[maxpower]

25 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Luggage handler must be the lowest skilled work after sidewalk sweeping. How much should you get paid for an abosolutely no skill labor. Do they even have to read?

Enter the selfish capitalist with short-sighted views.

[kkerry]

30 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Luggage handler must be the lowest skilled work after sidewalk sweeping. How much should you get paid for an abosolutely no skill labor. Do they even have to read?

A lot of low skilled jobs aren't always so easy to do properly. Try for a few days yourself and see how you get on. I imagine a lot of people here wouldn't last a week. Even a job as basic as a kitchen hand. I did that in my traveling days and one place where I worked for a couple of months, four out of five people lasted a week before never coming back or being fired, same with picking fruit. Put your average person who thinks they're pretty clever on a supermarket cash register and watch how clueless they suddenly become. Stock picker in a warehouse, friend of mine does that and she tells me the staff turnover is huge as many people cannot hack it. Undercover Boss, the TV show, same thing most episodes.

[Fookhaht]

45 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Luggage handler must be the lowest skilled work after sidewalk sweeping. How much should you get paid for an abosolutely no skill labor. Do they even have to read?

"Do they even have to read?"

 

Judging by where my bags have ended up, no.  

[Lupatria]

I miss the placard saying: if you don't pay we continue stealing.

[fish monger]

3 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

Yea, BKK has it all but if you only make 9k a month would you rather stay at your home with no extra costs of living or go to BKK where you have to pay 2-3000 to rent a room, then add transport costs to and from work and only see your family 1-2 times a year?!

I stayed in BKK 3 months then I relocated to the north, living in the village we don't have everything but life is as you say in Thai it's Sabay-sabay. You know, listening to the birds, go down to the river and do some fishing, maybe whole roasted a pig and just enjoy life compared to living in BKK where the noise and traffic jam never stop, you wouldn't eat the fish caught from Chaopraya river, pay 300 Baht for mo katha (compared to 600 I pay for a whole piglet) and and they charge you as a foreigner 2-5 as much as they charge a Thai person!

And yes, people are different. So far most (90%) of those I know who chose to live in BKK comes from big cities and their primary reasons for living in BKK is that it's easy to find ladies for the night and beer/alcohol while most of those who are living in the villages comes from small places and live here because they found love in either a woman or just love this country. 

 You must know some pretty amazing people...! I have a vey close friend from home that writes for the BKK Post...Has for many years. He is planning on moving North, since he can work from home. He's not here looking for the ladies, beer/alcohol....The rest of your comment, I couldn't agree more with...I also live in the North. They can keep Bangkok.

[namoi]

i have said it before and heard the saying all my life "you can take the boy out of the bush but you can't the bush out of the boy"", in saying that many of the younger people from all over the world move to the cities for the excitement, some choose to stay even with the higher cost of living

[The Dark Lord]

6 hours ago, robblok said:

Because Bangkok has it all... it might not be to your taste but to many it is. Bangkok has far more than any upcountry village or city. At some time I was thinking about relocating.. but i quickly changed my mind. I would be bored to death and there would be no shops that I like. 

 

Now that goes for me.. but for a lot of Thais too, you are different so are some Thais.. but most are not. If i were a vet id want to work in BKK too. Why make money if you can't spend it on the things you like and are locked up in a small town.

 

OT 9000 is a pittance.. but its a starting salary.. not sure how much work they have to do, and it is probably not as hard work as on a pig farm. I know what I would choose.

True my old mucker BUT if the missus pees you off too much and you own a pig farm, no probs in disposing of the body.....

[robblok]

2 minutes ago, The Dark Lord said:

True my old mucker BUT if the missus pees you off too much and you own a pig farm, no probs in disposing of the body.....

Point well taken... your right. 

[DrTuner]

16 hours ago, Kasset Tak said:

Many people seems to be obsessed with living and working in Bangkok...

Standard urbanization. BKK is a shitehole, but it's the only shitehole around here with any chances of upwards career mobility. The politics behind that are clear to every one who's spent any time here. A pity.

[Oxx]

In the interests of clarification, more reliable news sources are reporting that it's not the "baggage handlers", but the X-ray screening staff.

 

https://www.stickboybangkok.com/news/disruption-delays-suvarnabhumi-x-ray-screening-staff-walk/

 

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