While I agree that industrial action is the right of workers, the cost of such actions to everyone including the workers themselves must be clearly identified and factored into people’s choices. It is therefore important that the partnership between government, employers and workers is strengthened further in Fiji bearing in mind that at the end of the day our goals are mutual.
As a result, East Asia’s economic profile has been greatly heightened. Japan, China and Korea now rank the 2nd, the 6th and the 12th country respectively in terms of the scale of their economies with the combined GDP of three countries representing 18% of that of the world as a whole.