Today is my 66th birth day.
I with pride and certainty am both Unionist and Labor.
Yet those 66 years [still feel 40] have not always been good for such as me.
I live today back in 1972 to 1975.
A nightmare I cannot wake from.
Labor then and now faced a media not intent on truth.
Not intent on other than constructing news .
It also, can it be we still have not learned? as in the septic tank of the last NSW Government, provided idiots to write anti Labor headlines.
Look, take the briefest look, at Abbott,the lost ground faced by workers,the self help we Unions/Labor .
WORK CHOICES RETURNS we let that awful word SOLIDARITY blind us, ties us to sinking ships!
I will be a SCANDAL, rather cuddle a rat than Belly!
Yet my party has too many rats still in its ranks.
We are better, so very much better , but why are some Unions in festered with white collar criminals?
This snotty nosed kid dreamed of unions, now they are a ladder for traitors, not all, to a seat in the party.
SOLIDARITY? only the best must serve, we are an outstanding movement sometimes served by rats in suits.
Voices like mine are ignored , unless leading a group in a fight.
We must not wrap our party in ribbons and call it reform.
Workers hate own goals,unions must become more open , we need less but bigger unions, they must stop being stepping stones to Parliament for fleas.
Labor needs a few less white collar mice and rats, and more who understand the simple truth.
Serving Unions/Labor is an Honorable thing,each time they sit down first remember it is those who put them there they serve.
And those who come after.
SOLIDARITY? grubby word used to cover filth!

Dear Belly,

Warmest Birthday Wishes young man!

May your Birthday and the rest of the year hold much
happiness for you... Good Health, Good Friends,
And many reasons to smile!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

As for Unions. Belly, I support without reservation
the right of all working people to join together so
as to preserve and protect their livelihoods. Of course
Unions need to be more sensitive to the realities of
modern economic conditions. And, as you point out -
sectarian attitudes and greed serve the cause of Labor
badly.

I believe a re-assessment of Labor's values is
what the Prime Minister is trying to do at present and
come up with programs that will move the Party in
the right direction - atttracting new members. She's
accepted the recommendations of an early report - listing
Labor's weaknesses and how to correct them. It's a
positive step to change things.

Enjoy your day.

Belly many happy returns.

Belly do you recall my bleating on about a generational thing regarding the quality of our present elected representatives, I stand by that, your generation could well have been the last to produce representatives of the people rather than representatives of the party.

happy birthday ol mate
i guess i allready said too much here
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=4658&page=0

so will reply you here

""SOLIDARITY? grubby word used to cover filth!""

no mate..only a means..that powerfull saw as a means
to divide us..[mate if you take over the collective..collective bargaining becomes collective deciete

""A nightmare I cannot wake from.''

ME TOO MATE

""a media not intent on truth.""

no mate
backdoor black suited black guards
dressing as lambs while being wolves in sheep skin

""intent on other than constructing news""

no mate intent on spinning a web of lies
READ THE LINK.

""can it be we still have not learned?""

so have they..mate
we once thought we could control politricks
so they simply found other ways to control us..!

""as in the septic tank of the last NSW Government,
provided idiots to write anti Labor headlines.""

spin merchants...selling us on ALLOWING
them to rule..[lord it over us]

mate we went to sleep
it was easier..to let the other guy do it

now we seen we shouldnt have trusted them
heck read the transcripts
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2011/s3319925.htm

its wholsale TREASON
but instead you focus on
""at Abbott,""

INSTEAD of..""the lost ground
faced by workers,""

cause ""the self help""
of the blackguards what took over the unions
to get their bit of 'silver'..their powefull elites
to subvert the partyy and the union..

MATE howard thunk of the tax...!
and EVERY unionist affectivly cops a pay cut..!

paying it
plus doubled prices for services
thanks to state alp drones[wolves in blue collar]

now in black suits..
saying.."we Unions/Labor.""

WORK CHOICES RETURNS
but no choice re this NEW TAX

too true blue..""we let that awful word SOLIDARITY blind us,
tie us to sinking ships...[unions/party lines]liberal policy[tax]!

It IS..a SCANDAL
we allowed the clever guys to do..for you

ANYHOW...

happy birthday mate

we need YOU
to have many more..!

Belly, happy birthday. Hope the birds are leaving your garden alone and everything else is fantastic.

My memories of the unions are more of the tactics on the ETU in Qld in the mid 80's. Intent on using workers as pawns in a political game to try and bring down Joh regardless of how low they had to go.
- Workers getting bashed for voting against what the union bosses wanted.
- Ladders being removed from under people working up power poles.
- People being rung in the middle of the night to be informed that their kids were at risk if the parent continued to defy the strike.

R0bert

OUG Kathy Jackson for P.M.

Integrity and trust oozes from this TRUE BELIEVER, she's my kinda gal. Sticking it to Sussex St, I despised them in my Unity Hall days. The "we want our ALP back" sentiment that was apparent after the NSW State conference a month or two back is the only hope the ALP have, a branch driven revolution and Sussex St the first against the wall