IN any given country, the number of employees is higher than the number of employers. Naturally, this means that any story of purported poor conditions of service is likely to attract more sympathy from the majority of readers and condemnation towards the employers. This prejudice in the court of public opinion sets the narrative that employers everywhere and anywhere are the same, they all want to get rich at the expense of the workers in a typical capitalist way. Politicians in government who know how to abuse the media can actually paint a very gloomy picture of the situation in private companies where it suits them, forgetting that they are also employers of poorly paid civil servants. On the occasion...

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