Politics Super Thread - keep it all in here

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formerguest said:
Not so for the vast majority of worker representatives, though there are bad eggs in all walks of life.

Certainly not in the case of a young protege of mine, that I knocked the rough edges off and trained as an organiser in the early nineties, who is now the CEPU/CWU national president.

As branch secretary, he worked particularly well with CEO Christine Holgate to successfully improve the viability of sections of Australia Post, to the point of really pissing off the coalition that were trying to dismantle and sell it off.

Little doubt that it played a part in the Morrison "she can go" parliament debacle and the taxpayer subsequently paying out for her unfair dismissal.
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The neocons around here don’t like unions. Colour me surprised. Sure there’s better unions than others but there’s a lot of good ones too. Im amazed they didn’t call for the dismantling of the banking industry after the Royal commission.

As another person who has seen first hand a bunch of hardworking delegates and organisers I can only say there’s dozens of people I’ve personally seen benefit whether it’s getting benefits retained, EA rights protected or standing up against unfair treatment.
 
In most issues I prefer the right side of politics but the division of labour through globalization and the simultaneous curtailment of unions in developed countries has led to continued declines in living standards for the average guy.

These policies formulated across the Pacific where sadly implemented by a former ACTU ALP PM in the 80s in this country.

Not great for most businesses either unless your a multinational.
 
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I remember when almost every employee was in a union and it isn’t all that long ago either. I reckon, start of the 90s most employees were in a union still. For example, I had a job in a pub back then and was in some union or other. About the same time Alan Bond went down for fraud, I reckon, things started to change. There was corruption everywhere and productivity wasn’t too good, wasn’t just the unions fault, I reckon. Anyway, Howard and Reith pretty much got rid of them by copying the US and the UK. Interestingly, I read somewhere that Japan and Germany didn’t do that and that’s what saved their manufacturing sectors. Turns out good manufacturing companies need a good relationship between workers and management to produce good products. Anyway, the unions in Australia are pretty much ancient history now. Like North Sydney Bears.
 
Jedi_Tiger said:
Solidarity forever
It won't be easy under Albanese
oh wait
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In case you haven't noticed, most business and employer groups are on-board overall with the intended changes to industry bargaining.

You won't see it on Murdoch's musing talking heads or in his papers, but it was effective before Howard ruined things, and having been involved in negotiations at the coalface back then, it was similarly accepted by all and worked well.

For those that think that representatives don't work hard, upon changing roles, I had more free time and less pressure when running my business as an on the tools builder, than I did when looking after my workmates interests.
 
stryker 69 said:
The CEPU got done earlier this year for intimidatory tactics to force workers at the Convention Centre up here to join up. They delayed workers start dates and abused them for not joining.
Federal Circuit and Family Court got them though. $50k fine.
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Assuming rightly so, though I do hope that legislation will soon be tabled to address same on the employer side, including similar for abuse and in underpaying workers.
 
Yossarian said:
The neocons around here don’t like unions. Colour me surprised. Sure there’s better unions than others but there’s a lot of good ones too. Im amazed they didn’t call for the dismantling of the banking industry after the Royal commission.

As another person who has seen first hand a bunch of hardworking delegates and organisers I can only say there’s dozens of people I’ve personally seen benefit whether it’s getting benefits retained, EA rights protected or standing up against unfair treatment.
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Little doubt that you already know, but for others, the banking Royal Commission only went ahead once the hawks got their way by adding superannuation to its scope, in yet another attempt to attack unions.

Shows how stupid those ideologues are, when all it could ever do was spell out ever so clearly that in general, the industry funds were long performing head and shoulders over almost all others. Embarrassing really.
 
formerguest said:
Little doubt that you already know, but for others, the banking Royal Commission only went ahead once the hawks got their way by adding superannuation to its scope, in yet another attempt to attack unions.

Shows how stupid those ideologues are, when all it could ever do was spell out ever so clearly that in general, the industry funds were long performing head and shoulders over almost all others. Embarrassing really.
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Yep. Every time they waste money and on union busting antics it goes nowhere. But the hopelessly right wing reactionary types around never see the reality.
 
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