It has become increasingly clear that the prime reason that the unions exist is to extort money from employers and fund labor and the greens who in turn shield them from scrutiny, give them police level powers of access, and near total immunity.

To quote Grace Collier:

"Way back, when Shorten ran the AWU, within other unions, resentment and suspicion towards the union was widespread. Through the years, other union officials, struggling with dwindling memberships and declining finances, developed a theory to explain how the clapped-out AWU inexplicably had been revived. This theory had its foundation in widespread anecdotal evidence.

Every union official I have ever met has their own AWU story to tell, and these stories always follow the same theme. The interests of working people are traded away in exchange for money from a grateful employer. The union official visits a work site to find all their members have been “put into the AWU” and they are consequently shut out of the workplace.

Now, the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption has provided much evidence to back up those stories. Because of these stories, the AWU, among the other unions, has long been considered not a proper union.

It is considered a business, and if it is a business, its product is said to be cheap, compliant labour. Imagine having the opportunity to run a union, with all its legal privileges and its tax-exempt status, as a business that is able to charge for a cut-rate, acquiescent workforce and the legislative ability to lock other unions out of the workplace."

Nice try shallow minister but we all know it is the 1% and the big corporations who are shafting the rest of us and destroying our economy. Sending all our jobs overseas. Manipulating us with their propaganda and their mates in the media.
Tax evasion, tax havens, Swiss bank accounts, massive government welfare all while attacking the poorest and most vulnerable. What heros.

There are hardly any union members left and we are paying the price with no wage growth, overwork and underemployment are both rife, 7/11 and all the others who import virtual slave labor instead of employing Aussies. The destruction of all our industry. And still the right wing tory pigs continue their biased attacks on working people and their conditions. Witness their gleeful charge to reduce peoples penalty rates. The push to up the GST.

It is not unions or refugees or black people or dole bludgers or pensioners or students or sick people or the elderly that are the problem.
It is greedy, selfish, cowardly, rightards who are destroying this world and its civilisation with their lies and their power and their money and their idiotic infatuation with capitalism, and endless growth.

Lets attack workers, that is what it’s all about. So where is the difference, there isn’t any. The core objective of the far right conservatives faction. The gap has further widened, and the fat cats are fatter than ever.

K Jackson was all good while she was spilling beans all over the place, I would put her in the same class as that other chaff eating female. The era of Abbott-mania, gord help us.

Government allowed corruption 457 visa’s mushroom farms, cleaners, 7/11, Free trade agreements open to interpretation. Submarines for a signature. The ride has been wild.

Shadow obviously missed the conga line of "on the take Liberals" in NSW who have been exposed by the ICAC for taking corrupt payments from business. At last count there were about a dozen or more, one of the first to go was the primer himself Boozy Fatty O'Barrel. This fact is something Shadow has ignored constantly on the forum.

Malcolm wants you all to invest in AUSTRALIA! Building a better nation, investment is the key. Unfortunately in his own case, his invested millions are earning him a better return in the CAYMAN ISLANDS!

Malcolm's Cayman Islands business, and if it is a business, its product is said to be cheap, compliant labour. Imagine having the opportunity to run a Malcolm Cayman Island business, with all its legal privileges and its tax-exempt status, as a business that is able to charge for a cut-rate, acquiescent workforce and the legislative ability to lock other Australians out of the workplace."

Shadow sees unions as "the cancer eating at the Australian economy" claiming that "Every union official I have ever met has their own AWU story to tell" Shadow do these "union official's" you meet, and I can only assume it it not on a rep to member basis that you meet, as I also assume you have never been a union member in your life. Do they simply run to you to blurt out their sorry tail of woe, or do they see you as a sympathetic shoulder to cry on, supplied by the boss.

From the SMH; "The priority for Parliament should remain pinging the big tax culprits – foreign-controlled multinationals."

http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/malcolm-turnbulls-cayman-islands-connection-isnt-the-problem-20151015-gk9teq.html