Read no further than Flying Fox's words. The ACTU rolled over so often when its former leader was PM and Mr. W. Kelty (whatever happened to him?) was Secretary.
Sadly their support for strikebreaking by the government (use of the military, fast tracking foreign import pilots, financial support for the airlines, outrageous media attacks, threatening letters sent to pilots homes, support for legal action over "illegal" industrial action etc) was in no way the least of the ways that the fat cats aided and abetted the demise of not just the labour movement but in doing so the significant subersion of the Australian economy.
And lets not forget that the bottom line of the Kelty-Hawke-Abeles "Axis of Evil" was of course the ultimate demise of the 4 airlines involved, with massive job losses. Their actions were not only unconsionable, but useless and destructive!
If a Liberal government tried on even half of what happened to the workers under Hawke, there'd be an insurrection.