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Subject: [OM] Re: Kodak Australasia plant shuts down
From: David Thatcher <davidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:00:57 +0930
And M*ts*b*shi here in South Australia... It's the 'Standard Deal':  

"Prop us up with lots of taxpayer dollars so our offshore parent company
can milk even more profit out of the local sales, or we'll close the
local operation & the hundreds of jobs lost will look really bad on your
tenure, Mr Premier. You won't be re-elected"  

"Then we'll closes it anyway, amid your state government howls of "we'll
get the money back". Back out of whom exactly, Mr Premier???"  

yours cynically,
davidt


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:57:08PM +1000, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> 
> And a Liberal government did the same in Vic with Toyota! Transnational 
> corps. (TNC's) have that kind of power - give us tax breaks, etc., or 
> we move offshore. Corporate bullying.

> On 17/09/2004, at 11:55 AM, John Wheeler wrote:
> 
> > for some time. A few years back a Labor government propped them up 
> > with many
> > millions of Oz$'s when they were about to shut down (Kodak that is, 
> > not the
> > Labor government - unfortunately).


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