Remember my claim? Unions there is a difference?
Remember in this thread I spoke of planned strikes being removed, called off at a time they still impacted.
Have you seen my remarks based on truth strikes can ONLY TAKE PLACE during wage negotiations?
Let us look, at that lady I told you about yesterday.
Yabby picked her up by the scruff of the neck and hurled her back at me! fun stuff!
History lesson, 1963, Painters and dockers, not just in Victoria, A Union America would be proud of, like all water side unions, a MAFIA hiding under the words COMMUNISM/UNION.
Along with a radical PMG [do we all know John Howard while just a minister broke them] Communist without doubt.
These filth, together,went on to even stop mail going to troops in Vietnam!
So I at that time delegate to the AWU on a road construction site first came to see such Ba%$#dry was low.
Move on, murders prison a lot more started the Patrick Stevedoring clash.
Few would not have agreed with me,this was not unionism, waterfront unions, Marine Workers union, oil rigs, hurt the term union.
But it was the dogs, and the masks, we got, all unions did, involved in feeding the strikers and after threats picketing for them.
The unfairness won the day, unions did see an extraordinary thing!
water front workers began working!no you say! yes it shocked me too!
While we picketed for them.
Comrade Maritime workers Union,while on strike! took our few members in the Tassy straight oil rigs!
Solidarity brothers!
It became clear change must come, tactics like lies fear stand over would not do painters and dockers failed.

I come from Australia's GREATEST UNION we cover from the sheering sheds to open cut mines we always have and will be of our birth place the bush.
We are targeted Australia's Weakest Union, AWU, by the comrades and those blindly following them.
Was it 1993?
A riot no other description took place, busses went to Canberra to tell John Howard we did not like him very much.
Radical rats, loony Lefty's,and committed COMMUNISTS still committed today after its death, rioted.
MOST THERE hated them for it.
It is those half wits who bought about a defamation that lives still of the whole movement.
Today, those self indulgent fools , are trying to become mainstream.
Change, even telling bosses they once threatened, hear this! to rape! they are different now.
That lady is from such.
She sold her beliefs,WRONG I AGREE, for cash.
Her union, forgive me bloke,I speak to a hero of mine he knows who he is,like a wet dog trying to dry off is rubbing up against my union.
While leaving a very few crumbs/members for us.
It wants what it can not have! our good name!
A fact yabby, less than 2000 out there, yes they get extraordinary pay, once brutal force set the standards, todays law will not allowed that to happen judge me and my union on the workers who are valued by bosses never had a second on strike and just use me as insurance.
And bargainer
PS 66 two hard hits and thats me, but can not run so must stand and bit of a sticky beak do not want to be left wondering your shout.

Belly, for you its all very interesting, which unions are which
and all the details. The general public arn't interested. Unions
are unions, if one or two are troublemakers, it affects all unions.
Live with it.

The managements of Singapore Airlines, Emirates etc, would be
chuckling away highly bemused, watching all this Qantas story unfold.
For eventually they will be the big winners, not Australians.

Now we even have Australian unions telling customers not to buy
Qantas tickets but to buy tickets from other airlines.

Today Qantas is worth no more then one of BHPs Queensland coalmines.
Value is already destroyed.

Qantas lost 200m$ on international routes, that can't continue. Its
cheaper to shut those routes down and get rid of the staff.

So its all very sad really. Australians destroying an Australian
company, overseas companies laughing all the way to the cash
register. Why? Because some Australians are obstinate and
won't deal with today's reality, desperately trying to cling to
the past. Its true. People need pain to learn, for some insist
on learning the hard way, time and time again.

Dear Belly,

I've just come across this website - and thought that
you may be interested in reading something positive
for a change. So, here tis:

http://newmatilda.com/2011/10/10/labor-governs-like-their-job

Lexi thanks, the written word can deceive if it looks like I am upset it is wrong.
Yabby, you know we have got on mostly and no intention of insulting you.
I truly understand and think you know little about the subject.
And do not wish to.
You actually rant here!
A STORY SO VERY BAD, ABOUT BOSSES, some bosses, no less than some unions EXISTS.
a union is a social activist thing too.
I broke union rules to help non members.
I gave cash hand outs to single mums and never saw them or it again after boss did not pay on pay day.
We gave, each of us, weekly donation direct from our pay to helicopter rescue services.
Pooled a few hundred each then bought a prize and raffled it, to help a kid within cancer or mum with the same.
The future, for this I am Happy, is not in people like you.
IT IS BARGAINING IN GOOD FAITH from both sides.
It is now more like that than not.
I am forced to remember my unions roots came from bush workers victims of the SQUATTER class, who wanted to re live the British Lords /serf life.
A future awaits not one of us can know, if we are to revert to the idea profit can only come by reducing workers standards of living ?
You, based on your comments would not care.

I heard an interesting interview this morning, on the radio. IIRC,
the fellow was a journalist from the West Australian who is following
the Qantas dispute and is able to present a bit of an objective
viewpoint.

He says that Australia has a population of 22 million, the rest of
Asia 4 billion, so it makes perfect sense for Qantas to seek growth
in Asia. But growth is in no frills airlines, consumers are voting
with their wallets.

According to him, Qantas international pilots are earning around
100'000 to 150'000$ a year more then American pilots. Clearly
passengers are not more prepared to pay so much extra for Qantas
flights, then for other flights. So you can't build a no frills
airline on those kind of huge salaries. Today the airline business
is international, times have changed.

He mentioned that Ansett baggage handlers insisted on being paid
more then any university professor.

More and more of what I'm reading suggests that Qantas is going
down the same path as Ansett.

That will be another proud notch for the union movement, another
disaster for Australia. Belly, your unions have lots to learn
about the real world, they really do.