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The option of no FWA is not a very good one though./QUOTE]
I seem to recall that a certain airline executive used the Fair Work Australia to his advantage and caused the bargaining period between the company and the TWU, ALAEA, AIPA to be terminated. That didn't seem too Union friendly.
The Liberal government want to squash the unions.
This quote seems to be the mantra of the ALP and Union Leaders.
The Health Services Union "snouts in trough" affair seems does not seem to be doing much for the positive attraction of Unions, aside from the fact that only 14% of private sector worker (in 2010) were members of a trade union anyway. Total membership from the previous year dropped from 20% to 18% of the total workforce.
In your "Seniority" post you seem rather unhappy with your very own union, so all things considered it would seem that the unions are quite able to self implode without outside assistance.
Having said that, I am a paid up union member, but only stating it as it is.