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

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

Tezza <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Steve Zvillis"
> | Tell
> | > 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!!
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> You don't seem to understand the term "one - eyed faithful"

Maybe, but the genuine faithful (members/ faction members) could be said to
have more than "one eye" - preferably three (one at the back of the head to
see the knives coming)

>
> | > >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.
>
> No he's quite correct. Unless you happen to be "one - eyed faithful"

Cut enough trees down and the forest becomes quite clear

>
> | 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're paid by the workers to do their bidding, not any polical parties
> agenga.

Thats right. Why do you think unions have so many blues with the A.L.P. when
the workers party hurts the people it was created to help??? [By the way
your beloved spell checker conked out!!]

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> | > 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!!
>
> He's quite right again. Drivers have gone backwards since the AFULE
> amalgamated and became the RTBU.

Maybe because many drivers couldn't be bothered to support the union and let
it get shafted.
I know some good, efficient and enthusistic drivers who loved their job,
worked voluntarily on days off to assist with rail enthusiast endeavours and
did more to "sell" the railway to customers than the lazy incompetent [Lose]
"Sales" Department in Head Office, yet when [Tasrail] got privatised, lost
their jobs, purely because they believed in serving the best interest of
their workmates - those same workmates, some (not all) who hate their job
and couldn't care less about the railway or it's customers, but were first
in line to sign on the dotted line of their A.W.A.'s.

Regards,
Steve Z.
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