Top post Centaurus,
I agree with AWA’s and feel a return to the old collective bargaining system retrograde.
Of course CB was OK if you were in an industry in demand such as:
tanker drivers (remember them, the long petrol queues),
warfies (painters and dockers),
pilots (strike every Christmas),
Never mind the damage to the rest, never mind the future, grab what you can and shaft your neighbour.
Cases in point-
ACTU breeding ground for future ALP politicians.
AIPA, a useless chatting club breeding future QCC/2 management.
Combet and his socialists will drag us back to the confrontational style of workers v’s management system of the pre Howard era.
I’m waiting for Gillard to spin her way out of ‘bargaining fees for non-union members’.
If Kevni and the ALP get up….. curtains for Oz.
And BTW it would be nice if forum posters refrained from ‘ad-hominem’, maybe these days manners are optional.
Chimbu