It is indeed day one in the new fight for our rights at work, I hope we can take about it with understanding.
Mr Rudd do you know you are my hero?
You truly are we unionists manned the booths letter boxed and hoped, you delivered.
My view of your task is to restore the ALP brand name, while governing for all Australia.
I have no fear of New Labor and watch with hope for your government to bring back accountability, bloke may I ask a favor?
Can you make a seat for ROBO from unions NSW at your talks about our IR policy?
Bill Shorten too? maybe keep the two Bills together one more time and add Bill Ludwig?
We need understanding about the impacts of Casualisation of the workforce.
Arbitration of disputes.
your balanced plan for unfair dismissals is ok by me.
And I have no problems with accountability for unions and officials.
How about bosses Kev? I have sat opposite side of the table to former union delegates who used workchoices to ignore safety having swam the river and become bosses.
How painful it is Kev to see a needless death on a government funded project because our right of entry is only some times!
See the national highway blinded by dust because my former delegate thinks like he has been trained to and I have no right to stop it.
Kev could it ever be the case? that some construction bosses are worse than even the idiot few officials that insult the union movement? yes mate it is .

belly, clearly you are preparing for disillusionment already. very wise.

Kevin you are our country's leader for the next 9 years, no need to lie here the truth about workchoices is as bad as it gets.
Casual workforce, yes I know the flexible workforce is here to stay.
Must it make victims of those who have no choice? who can only get a casual job?
Those who can never get credit to buy a home? even a car? who will never have a paid sick day? public holiday or annual leave?
In the run up to workchoices, once Howard won the senate, firms did thousands of AWAs, and full of power and without direction shirt fronted unions.
We will do an agreement now before workchoices on our path, keep some of your entitlements but not casual loadings on overtime.
That loading is union won, no gift we fought and won it, to compensate for every one of the lost things like public holidays.
To say yes you have a flexible workforce but pay some of the gains to its victims.
First half of workchoices saw THE AWARD UNDERMINED! casual loading not paid on overtime.
Some times 24 hour weeks one day normal time two on weekend only the one day had the loading.
Both employer and unions knew this undermined fairness, it continued under Howard's fairness test! back packers and casual workers no skills in industrial relations paid to judge fairness in new agreements!
Passed them even undermining awards a fact.
Why should we plan to let permanent jobs be converted to casual?
Let the victims speak life is hard for victims of the race to the bottom in casual wages and conditions.
Let our safety net say clearly casual loading is to be paid on all hours worked.
Let it say the loading is 30% with fixed cost of living increases.
Let it say being treated fairly is for casual workers too.
Look at AWAs and awards in force for years to come that even take the loading away! and overtime too.
Shame Mr Howard!

Right of entry for union officials, no worries Kev, front up to the office present my credentials inform them why I am on site.
Even ask to be taken to job I want to look at.
But while dust flys across the national highway because less water trucks than are needed are at work, while electric faults that may bring death have not been attended for days maybe weeks.
While my concerns about rats running under lunch room floors are sneered at not attended to WORKCHOICES harmed safety!
Knowing ANY attempt to enter a site by me no matter how honest my claims would be reported to your continuing group of slugs the building industry task group I did not force my rights as often as I SHOULD HAVE.
Kev work cover the NSW body charged with overlooking workplace safety is a dreadful disgrace , as well schooled in doing nothing while looking busy as any public servant who ever lived.
As handy as two men short in a tug of war team!
Yes control the idiots in union shirts, they are of no use to unionists but.
GIVE ME FAIR AND HONEST RIGHT OF ENTRY!
That bloke who runs NSW whats his name could do worse than inquire into why workers do not trust work cover razor gangs may have to visit a pub or club to see them not at work sites unless a death has already taken place.
Then they will be as deep as flys and just as useless.

i think i see the problem belly: you cracked open a tin or two saturday night and are writing in that horrid halfway place between drunk and hungover. take to bed for a few days, lots of o.j., a good breakfast and a long fast walk. then you can turn the pc back on.

When a new government is elected the commentators always ask, “What will the honeymoon period be like?” This time there’s now doubt. The best thing that could happen to the new government in the short run would be the election of Brendan Nelson and Julie Bishop to the leadership of the coalition. It was the zombie like zealotry of these two and a few others that brought about the demise of the government. If the ALP wants to remain in power for the foreseeable future the best thing that could happen would be the election of these two to the opposition leadership.