Is it appropriate that the already over-inflated commonwealth purse (tax payer) should pay for dispute resolution which I pay a union for?.

It would be good if there was any legal accountability for unions to represent their paying members. In USA this falls under the umbrella of anti discrimination legislation, however we have no similar cover here. Today the office of Fair Trading also contacted me, advising me they were unable to assist me in a matter where I suggested I had been sold Union membership under false pretences, as the service sold was not the service provided.

I had made a complaint that I had not been paid entitlements upon resignation. In pursuit of expert legal advice, the union contacted the already discredited state health pay services (both in newspapers and union publications). Even in advising them that Fair work Australia had identified that policies could not supersede legislation, the Union stated Fair Work Australia was a federal body and had no power over state matters. The Union refused to represent me.

Four months after my resignation, at some expense to the tax payer, Fair Work Australia managed to resolve the issue.

I would like to see a review of the accountability of unions, both in the stated provisions of services provided upon recruiting members (especially as state health policies encourage membership of new staff), and in providing a quality service which is free from selective discrimination as to which paying members they will represent.

runner in a link above evidence tells us this union if we must call it one stood alone in its wages paid to the criminals leading it.
Unions There Is a Difference

Belly

'runner in a link above evidence tells us this union if we must call it one stood alone in its wages paid to the criminals leading it.
Unions There Is a Difference'

I would like to think it was true that this is an isolated incident of all those faithful workers (many low paid) are being fleeced by charlotans. It does however say alot about Gillards willingness to defend Thomson just to cling to power a little longer. It makes her not much better.

Hi Belly,
I've been a union member for 40 years and my partner is a member of the HSU east. In all my working life I have never advised anyone to quit the union, until now. I'll write her a lengthy letter of resignation this weekend.

In my mind I had laid the thread to rest.
I posted only in reply to runner, saw the other one, too hard to comment, but? well I will have ago.
First runner.
See you took the Abbott path,a comment not related to truth not ,or is it informed but uninterested in the truth.
In Abbott's case you just do not know!
Australia's oldest and best union, AWU pays its head $140.000 a year.
It has been part of the HSU scandal, that the National Secretary has been screaming for 8 months,that SHE IS BEING OVER PAID!
Because she tells us,its head needed as part of his crime, to pay her that,so he could get more.
Child of a blow fly that he is I want his head too.
But warn, do not be fooled,it is one union not all
next

I can not talk about the need for fair work Australia to fix the other posters complaints
but many who blame unions are not even members
they often said they are but.
While I heard their case checks came back they are not paid up members.
At that point I should have stood up and ended the talk, after all members payed my wages.
But I would hear the claim, put a plan together and inform them how to act.
It was not worth the effort to get a card filled in that would not see fees in any case.
Those that returned AFTER being paid and joined made it worth the effort.
Unions are not rip offs,some who walk in that door have no case or are the ones at fault, and it is them who shout the loudest.