Spot on Bug-A-Lugs
The military has only ever been used twice to break a strike - both times by the supposed worker's friends in the ALP.
1. Chifley used the army to break the 1948/49 coal strike
2. Hawke used the airforce in the 1989 pilots dispute
When the ALP rules it is a triumvirate of big government, big business and big unions. Everyone else gets squashed.
Exhibit (A) - favoured treatment of big miners at the expense of small ones under the revised Mining Tax.
Now the TWU is a "big union" and as such may be spared the pain but the ALAEA and AIPA, while ACTU affiliated (unlike AFAP in '89) are small unions. Whose interest will prevail: big business or small unions?
Just be careful & smart out there guys.