John Howard has run out of issues to fight the next election on. Its looks like Union Bosses is the new mantra.

Joe Hockey in a recent interview seemed to suddenly realise that he should be saying Union Bosses instead of just Unions, it must be party policy to add bosses when referring to the Union movement.

As if people are unaware the Labor party has always been the political arm of the union movement.

The other and related issue is that all Governments in Australia will have Labor Governments, is this a bad thing? If it happens it will be because it is the will of the people, it will get rid of the "its all the states fault" defence and maybe it would be a good thing. Some real State-Federal cooperation may happen without the present system where funding is contingent on Federal Govt. demands.

The last issue is the Future Fund. This is being spun as being for the benefit of our Kids. In fact it is to pay Commonwealth Public Servants super and as Peter Costello said in parliament today it will not be needed until 2030.

Billions of dollars that should be spent on infrastructure for our kids is being locked away, our taxes being used to speculate on the stock exchange. Producing nothing, except profits on paper.

If this is the best Howard can think of its time to retire. :)

Steve the fact Johny short bottom and his dirty half dozen are focused on more lies about unions is fun.
After all it is the wrong time and place to drop the red herring just as workchoices has taken the lower income earners even lower.
Fear driven the campaign is unlikely to stick nearly as well as the community one known as your rights at work has and will continue to do.
Why lie? well it worked so very well, once so try and try again.
But you can tell if you understand body language when Hockey is about to lie.
In fact any member of the dirty half dozen including the leader.
Give body language a go watch carefully ,if the lips are moving they are lieing~!

hey Belly Mr wran had something to do with TNT didnt he

hows labor going with suncorp metway

any state assets going to union or labor companies

The union bosses dont know whats going on just like workchoices

Unions didnt know labor didnt know they were both asleep and next state election well lets see the Australian peoples Party will be at those next time.

Choice for the people

Not just voting labor for labor
liberal for liberal
but

The Australian Peoples Party for the people.

This party may not make a difference this time federally but next time, get yourself some new union approved safety shoes, you will need them for running.

www.tapp.org.au

Stu will you please not spam this topic. I suggest you attend a remedial english course before you post again.

Poor old steve

Unions and labor the same if you want to go on about the future fund
then why does the government have to pay for a public listed company

Maybe we should just give it to the unions, the bosses would enjoy the pay rise.
And on that when the workers get a pay rise ever noticed how union fees go up.

I dont remedial, if you dont like it try english, Australian.
Short straight to the point.

Telstra should get on with the job but who gets this work that labor is so hard at getting done, any union companies,maybe labor.

The unions should be worried about rudd, lets see how far he pushes them out.

So if its union bosses labor all the same, looking after themselves.

Steve is, of course, correct.

From today's Crikey email: "Today, as he celebrates the first birthday of the Government’s WorkChoices legislation, the Prime Minister is manning the airwaves to kick the union can. But is it a can still worth kicking?

"The unions are not interested in the working conditions of families," according to the PM. "They are interested in union power … on this issue, Labor power means union power."

“Union power”? Twenty years ago, 50% of all Australian workers were members of a union: today the unionisation rate is just 23%. Twenty years ago, strikes were rife: now the number of days lost to industrial disputes is around a quarter of its level in the early 1980s. During the year ended December 2006, there were 202 disputes, 270 fewer than in the year ended December 2005.

Attacking Labor’s association with the unions used to be one of the most effective tactics for conservative politicians. But in 2007, when a grandfatherly 67-year-old appears in public wearing his old union-bashing boots, it reveals more about his old-fashioned ideas about "union power" than it reflects on the real state of the modern world of work."

As for this:

tapp: "I dont remedial, if you dont like it try english, Australian.
Short straight to the point (sic)".

Stu, if you want to be taken seriously, you really need to lift your game.