Re: Freightcorp's interstate sell-off blamed on competition fears

["Steve Zvillis" <szvillis@netspace.net.au>]

Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Greg Rudd <grudd@mail.usyd.edu.au> wrote and I have
> snipped selectively:
> > >
> > > You won't win many friends in this NG slagging off the Labor Party, to
the
> > > one-eyed faithful they can do no wrong.

To the "one - eyed faithful" they can do wrong and get told in no uncertain
terms!!

> > That is the sad thing.  Remember it is not your enemies that are going
to
> > screw you but it is your so-called friends that will do it.

Correct

> >Also the biggest
> >problem is the unions are in bed so much with the labor party that they
can't
> > see the forest for the trees.

Rubbish. Contadicts your preceeding and subsequent comments. Unions get more
headaches from the A.L.P. than the conservatives, as it is easier to deal
with your known enemies than "friends" who are sticking a knife in your
back!

>  For it is the labor party that screws unions.

Correct. The A.L.P. was invented to relay union's and worker's issues in the
political arena. But often due to "political expediency" they can and do
dump on union concerns.
>
>
> So true.  It was one Simon Crean now Deputy Fed ALP
> Opposition Leader who was running the ACTU back in the
> Hawke/Keating days and along with his little mate Kelty
> introduced the "wages accord" which held back wage
> rises just to make the bodgie & undertaker look good.

Unions can't win. Push for high wage outcomes for members and get branded
economic vandals. Try to assist the government by being economically
responsible and get branded traitors by the workers1

> They were also instrumental in forcing the "super
> union" whereby small unions who looked after their
> members were gobbled up by the biggies who are now
> going broke and morally bankrupt.

Absolute rubbish!!! So the likes of the small unions of the ilk of the
B.L.F. and Painters and Dockers "looked after their members" (yeah right!!
Onya Normie G.). Whilst the C.F.M.E.U. and Maritime Union rip off the
members??
I think you've got that backwards!!

Regards,
Steve Z.
>
> ....Tell
>