Re: Patricks Train
Rex (bd107@tsn.cc)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 19:42:54 +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
>
>> >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)) says that 90% of what is reported about pay, conditions and rorts is
>correct!
>
>> >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.
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>
>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. What is needed in the Finance sector is a union that is
>prepared to sit down with management and work through the issues involved,
>not one that is prepared to shut everything down when they cant get their
>own way!
>
>Regards
>
>David "The Doctor" Proctor
>daproc@bigfoot.com
>
>I apologise to everybody else who reads this newsgroup - I DID after all
>remind those involved in the last Industrial Relations flame war that this
>was a rail newsgroup, not an IR one.
Who the hell do you think you are to aplogize for free speech. You should
hand your union ticket back mate, you sound like a mangement lackey.
Cheers
Rex