Older workers - stop cringing and start fighting for your rights!

"Bosses dig their heels in over older workers" screams the headline in Management-Issues.com

I am simply amazed at this story. On the one hand we have bosses screaming about:

• their inability to fill jobs,
  
• the lack of talent among younger workers,
  
• the lack of skills among the younger workers,
  
• the problems with the attitude of younger workers and yet they do not want to hire older workers.

As the Americans would say "Go figure!"

People are out there wanting jobs simply because the way that the economy has been managed has led to the cost of things in the world being so high that they NEED to work to be able to pay for their retirement.

They have the time, they have the inclination, they have the motivation and above all else they have the skills and abilities honed by time and experience.

Here is a message to all bosses!

The next time you scream for workers and the next time you try and introduce some measure into parliament to import foreign workers to do the work which is capable of being done by those of us who live here, let us hear the voices of those in the community who have been asking for work and have been denied.

It's time for the older worker lobby to be formed and its time that its voting muscles to be flexed.

Politicians beware of the 'grey lobby'.

Until we die, we "baby boomers" will continue to outnumber the weak and soppy crowd that I am afraid some among us seem to have given birth to!