HOW MUCH STRIKE ACTION HAS COST US

There is no doubt that the strike season costs our economy a lot of money in actual productivity costs.
 
The strikes continued to highlight the ideological divide between business-friendly policies of the ANC government and its alliances. Economists find it difficult to put a figure or costs in lost productivity but some estimate it may be as high as R3 billion. It is equally difficult to quantify the negative impact on investor confidence but one thing we know is that low productivity simply means strain on the business.

What suprises me though is that we know all of this for a fact, yet year after year, we have strikes that cost the economy billions of Rands. Strikes are bad for service delivery; you will remember that some people lost loved ones during the strike of emergency workers.
 
My question therefore: Is this the language better understood by employers? Or is this our way of life? So we should expect a strike season year after year?