to be perfectly honest my memory is not as good as it once was ( radiation i think ) but i know it was not any of the current officials and i think in all fairness i dont think it was the previous. As for Lou i think he's only been on the Union for about 18 months. Like a lot of good supporters Lou supports whoever is in office. I think its only recently that he has thrown his hat into the ring.
i think thats its good to get a good cross section of the membership on the council. i would like to see more women onboard and perhaps they could give the guys more insight into motivating our girls to take a bit more interest in industrial issues.
The real challenge for us now is to be united and as least not turn on each other or the union. If the company gets a sniff that we are not united they will do what they did at Air NZ and set up a different union for the CSMs and CSS's. That would be the beginningh of the end for us all