Originally Posted by Conductor
I think that in accordance with Godwin's Law, the thread now ends (although it usually takes more than 3 posts!).
Yeah I was actually trying to avoid invoking Godwin's Law directly!
As I said, there are multiple regimes that used these sort of anti-union tactics through history. They were just one of the most notorious - another was their opposition in eastern europe. Then there have been various others scattered around the place, all of which are totalitarian in one form or another.
My point, I suppose, was that the Fiji Government made these laws and they were advised and supported by an airline, the board members of which cannot possibly (or at least not credibly) just plead ignorance. It is an extremely disturbing development for anyone who knows history.
I openly wonder if the airline bosses and primary stakeholders tacitly condone this sort of worrying trend, ie, just lock the union organisers up and ban them from doing anything.