So you want to be a union official?
The Rules
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give all the glory to the union not your self.
2
Only the best should serve the members, if you are not one do not take the job.
3
Its a 24/7 job be prepared to answer the phone every time.
4
Use no lie no threat and understand its your job to communicate with both sides.
5
Grubs exist in the movement,never hide them get them out in the open, unionists pay for them.
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stop see every member as often as you can,communicate use e mail any thing to service every one.
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Ever member, each single one, is the power of the union why we exist do only your best for them.
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Even if your member is wrong if nothing you can do will save them, be honest with them and sorry for them or leave the job.
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put your hands on the back of the chair you are about to sit in, remind your self it is others who put you there and you owe them your best.
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If you give your best it will not be superannuation that rewards you.
If you are the right person you will be filled with joy knowing your members trusted and liked you.
You can never have too much Passion to be a union official.
Some sadly, have too little, they and those who put up with them have betrayed our reason to exist.
Belly

Belly, if you refer to that crew known as Can't F k Much Else Up, then it has nothing to do with me.

And I agree with you that the run-through merchants should have been expelled from the ALP and their union too.

Combet is not from them though, is he?

And Dougie is not either.

The AWU carries its tag of being Australia's Worst Union from well beyond your nemesis union's lips, I have to say.

Not always said in spite, mostly jest, I should add.

There are far worse unions than yours, for sure, the SDA for instance, but then, in their defence, they have to deal with the reality of their membership, and potential membership, and their own inability to unionise beyond the major shopping centre stores.

I have a son working in 'retail' who I advise to join them though, bad though they are, because his boss is even worse.

I abandoned my job as an organiser when I could no longer tolerate the reality that our membership, primarily but not entirely, politically-conservative women, were not really the primary objective of our leadership, their own political elevation was.

In fact, our employer was so bad, I joined a union to ensure some protection for myself, and had to pay two union fees.

I don't think anyone here on OLO would doubt your dedication to 'the cause', from your posts at least.

But my comment was really about Howes, and his openly challenging the idiocy of the ALP. He is correct, and so is Cameron.

The interesting part will be how the notionally right and notionally left harmonise their critiques of their brain-dead colleagues, and breath life back into Lazarus.

Greg is a great man Howe's too but please let him stay till he achieves his/my dream.
Bill Shorten and Howe's saved the AWU.
Without them the amalgamated union may not exist.
I can not defend every union official.
And would never hide my contempt for one, my ex boss.
You and I know, unionism has not fully recovered from compulsory unionism.
Had unions been servicing it would not have hurt.
I think no one ever should be pushed to join, but have cracked some hard nuts by just being fair dinkum.
I want to go on record here, Gillard is not the one to lead Labor, in my view she crossed the river.
From left to right,she would become Republican or anything in her own interests.
Wise men in my paddock rather than get in to me should note my views are shared and growing.
I am proud that my in box is full every day from mates from my job both bosses and members, not planning a revolution just communicating and being? mates.