history repeats
As an outsider looking in and reading a lot of your posts, it seems that this dispute is not so much about money but about getting square with a management that can't relate to its employees without a rule book in one hand and a big stick in the other. Thank John Howard for bringing back pre conciliation/arbitration days. Is your federal secretary, the small union representative on the ACTU , bringing this to the governments attention.
Where's Julia Gilliard at the moment. I would think that the Labor party would be all over this dispute saying why this country needs a return to a proper Industrial system not one stuck in the 19th century.
Stick to it fella's this is about restoring a fair balance of power in the work place.