...but that won't diminish some of the other good work that unions do.
In an ideal world. In the unideal real world a lot of people are seeing the whole movement as one big rort, which is untrue.
Remember what happened to Catholic priests? Mention the two words and all most people say is 'child molester.' That's unfair, because most priests aren't child molesters, but that's what people think. Ask my cousin, he is a priest who no longer wears a dog collar in public because he's sick of the verbal abuse. And no, before anyone asks; he's not a child molester. He was a missionary, a tireless worker for the needy here and in many foreign countries, a great administrator and a damned good bloke, but all he hears in public if he's wearing 'uniform' are the words 'kid
er.'
Mud sticks, and the mud Thomson and Co have dredged up for their own petty, puny and despicable goals has stuck to everyone in the union movement.
Every honest person who wears the Eureka flag and works tirelessly for their members is copping abuse thanks to these self serving pricks. Try getting people to part with their hard earned cash for a membership when all they see on the news is Thomson's credit receipts. Oh, that's right, he's innocent until proven guilty. Maybe his dog borrowed his credit card, forged his signature and had a big night on the town
. No-one's buying it.
Whether through ignorance or inaction the ACTU has allowed this to happen, and they deserve a group pineappling for that. It happened on their watch.
I occasionally sit with these young Labor upstarts and they have no comprehension of what the ordinary person thinks. It is as if there is a fantasy world that has been created for them where they have been given a birthright to absolute power. It disgusts me.
Agreed. First to the wall, the little toerags. They saw a buck in the labour rights 'business' and snouted their way to the trough. Not one of the little bastards has ever worked a year of their lives. Not one of them has served customers, dug holes, driven vans or fixed stuff for a living, apart from the odd student job between lectures. There's nothing wrong with going to uni (I've done it, paid for it and was grateful for the opportunity) but it's not being a worker. It's not the same as doing a job effectively for twenty years and now hoping like hell you don't get punted because you're the wrong side of fifty, only got to junior because the family needed you to earn, and have trouble getting the hang of all this new computer stuff.
Then they have the nerve to claim they're 'for the workers.' Grow the
up, the workers aren't stupid and don't buy a word of it.
The HSU has handed a whopping big advantage to the Liberal Party and the anti union brigade, and all for drinks and prostitutes. What a great achievement. What a great step forward for worker rights. What a bunch of
heads.