Paul do you think you can ever convince this bloke to think other than that?
You know it is not so.
http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/police-investigate-links-between-bikies-and-building-industry-after-union-officials-found-in-drug-ring/story-fnii5v6w-1226816233350
This link, posted by the unclean ALP/Union thug that I am is further evidence we need change.
Partly unknown to Joe and Jane average, the CFMEU and the QLD builder workers union are the two big unions in the construction industry.
Few know that, for the most part is building construction.
And that is the cash cow for unions intent on bribery and corruption.
Civil construction is mostly AWU but CFMEU has membership and once wanted it all.
I gave evidence at a Federal industrial relations inquiry in a 1990,s attempt by them to take our members, we won.
Remember while we all may have memory lapses to lie to prove a point would make me as bad as those I confront here all bent unions.
Here is the center of my concerns.
We need those who have never been union supporters/those who left us for life/those about to leave us /and those who in the future who we intend to recruit.
We need them to know, to see, us driving the grubs out in to the light of day.
And we need our internal forums to hum with true reform.
*Above all we need to say, and mean it, never ever again*

Unspoken in my post above but needed air is this fact.
Union fees are constantly rising.
And numbers are mostly falling.
Unions are in it deep here our very best union officials are constantly being poached
The company's they deal with as union officials are offering much more money and a very good salary pack so we lost our best some years.
Keeping them would be made harder if wages did not stay close to those they are offered, but can never be matched.
Some big construction firms give training grants to unions,without being asked.
Some ask for a fee unions write up the agreement saving cask on legal firms.
The way ahead should include in a reformed movement fees set for different levels of income, falls not rises some increase in members would result.
And cuts multi branches set up in days long gone and membership over twice today,s can not be justified.
So as funds dry up CFMEU type unions go out and hunt like hungry Wolves for bribes .
A PS last year in NSW the former head of this states CFMEU, a bloke who had a shirt praising Che Guevara fronted inquiry's in to half million dollar bribes, he won that but happy to report he failed to win an ALP senate seat good stuff!

Dear O Sung Wu,

Of course I am against corruption and it should
be investigated by the proper authorities. But that should
also include all the other institutions in Australia,
such as sporting clubs, charities, governments,
and political parties.

As stated previously, serious corruption tends to follow
the circuits of money and power. What goes on behind those
closed doors is something about which most Australians know
little - but you can be assured that a Coalition Government
would never subject these elite interests to the investigative
intrusions of a Royal Commission.

And again, as stated earlier Mr Abbott's Royal Commission is
not about corruption. It is purely political strategy and
every little bit of mud - true or not will be thrown.

Dear Belly,

Here's something you may find of some interest:

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/royal-commission-into-unions-a-witchhunt-says-actu-20140129-31mv7.html

otb your link again proves how morally bankrupt the Fabians are. No wonder they defend corruption so readily and bankrupt a nation so quickly. The sleazy national broadcasters go ballistic at any sort of accountability to them despite their fat pay packets and free spread of lies and propaganda.

runner,

Agreed.

They are immoral and shameless in avoiding responsibility.

Chicken Little has now been joined by Chicken Even Littler and they are both chirping off the same song sheet. The "kiss of death to your argument"... is when Runner agrees with you.