Re: Patricks Train

tezza (tezza@atinet.com.au)
Sun, 12 Apr 1998 09:19:07 +1000

David Proctor wrote in message <6gmcjj$njn$1@wbn.sydnet.com>...
>David Proctor wrote in message
>
>>How come tezza seems to know so much about the MUA and the waterside
>>>workers?
>
>
>tezza wrote in message <6gle7i$ija$1@nswpull.telstra.net>...
>
>>From TV, newspapers, websites and friends in the MUA. Also from being
a
>>PTU delegate.
>
>
>I believe tezza wrote in an earlier posting "Don't believe everything
you
>read or hear on TV" - I would imagine the internet would be much the
same

When each source confirms the other, especially when the media is
confirming all the MUA claims, I'd give it credence.

> >If this was a dispute involving the PTU, I would give his
>>>statements some credence, but as it doesn't, we should treat them as
>>>opinions only, not as fact.
>>
>>All facts.
>
>
>Who says they are? My ex-wharfie friend (ex, because he was one of the
1400
>who were sacked, and would return as a non-unionist (go on, call him a
>scab))

He's a DIRTY FILTHY ROTTEN SCAB. I hope his Workmates find out that he
intends to betray them.

> says that 90% of what is reported about pay, conditions and rorts is
>correct!

Once again, post his pay details.

>> >Otherwise, I will have to express my views as a
>>>delegate of the Finance Sector Union, and they would hold equal
weight.
>>
>>
>>Only if they're correct. Your's is another Union (along with the PTU)
>>that needs a good kick in the guts from it's Members to get it to
start
>>protecting their jobs.
>
>
>Not really - the FSU just realises that technology has moved on, and
that
>the financial corporations do not need the huge numbers of staff that
were
>previously needed.

Tell that to all the people who can't get service in banks.

>What is needed in the Finance sector is a union that is
>prepared to sit down with management and work through the issues
involved,

The only issues the banks are interested in are the record profits
they're scalping from their customers. The record *real* interest rates
they're gouging out of people. They don't give a shit about the workers,
customers or Australia.

>not one that is prepared to shut everything down when they cant get
their
>own way!