Deal of the centuary

Been fighting like hell to sort out my Christmas leave and flights with the company. And its a real uphill struggle. Also trying to fight it out to get our back pay sorted, which falls close to the US$4000 mark. But it is like trying to reason with a 5 year old who is asked to do something he doesn't want to.

Anyway was last told a meeting would be held with the top brass to address these issues. And today the results are out. To address the back pay issue. They have decided to cut back our pay scale so we are no longer owed US$4000, but US$2000 instead. Yay... we aren't owed so much money any more... And regarding our leave issues they will give us 8 days less leave next year so there will be less days to argue over. Also they will do away with all public holiday days, so we turn up to work regardless. In addition, they will maintain their arbitrary value of our average monthly working hours of 173 as opposed to the real hours we do of 182 hours every month...

And how they hell are they getting away with all this, you might ask. Simple... they will tear up our contracts and write the above into a new contract which we all shall then sign...yeah...rightttt, I'm sure we will...