Originally Posted by
wheels_down
ha. Not only a Labor premier doing the bidding of his billionaire mate but Bill Kelty , ex union official also best mates with the billionaire. And yet Labor and their supporters scream how the Liberals are the party of billionaire mates and interests. And these same Labor supporters are too stupid to realise the big unions sold out workers as did the Labor party ,one and the same, to big business decades ago. We saw that with Bill the pieman Shorten during the union Royal Commission.
and of course people like Simon Bourke federal Labor were regular guests at the billionaire Pratt family ski lodge.
But this article is yet more proof Andrews needs to resign or be forced out.
examples of Labor and unions selling out workers, especially penalty rates, doing the bidding of big business.
Both Coles and the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association (SDA) had fought for years to keep the previous deal which paid tens of thousands of workers less than the minimum rates of the award, the basic wages safety net.
The old deal slashed - or did not pay at all - penalty rates and other entitlements in exchange for modest increases in hourly pay.The SDA is well known for its conservative social positions whether on abortion, euthanasia and for many years on same sex marriage.
It is the largest affiliate of the ALP and has substantial political sway in Labor and the ACTU.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/work...wwo.htmlBurger
giant McDonald's is underpaying its Australian workers tens of millions of dollars a year under a cosy deal struck with Labor's largest union affiliate that excludes weekend penalty rates.
A Fairfax Media investigation has found the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) negotiated a 2013 agreement under which some McDonald's employees are paid nearly one-third less than the award – the minimum pay and conditions safety net.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/work...18-goycw5.html