Unions are passe. Fewer workers are joining unions, which, to my mind says everything about their usefulness. I was a member of several different unions when I was working: why? Well, everyone joined 'the union' those days. I honestly can't think of another reason.

There was a time in our history when the labour movement, the Labor Party, and the unions were the best thing that happened. They improved the lot of workers out of all imagining. Now, as with much of the rest society, they have succumbed to the greed and corruption of a thuggish minority of union bosses. There is only one way to get rid of them: do not join. Have faith in the law, the decency of your fellow man, and public opinion.

Poirot mentioned 4 Corners. What an unlikeable, self-interested, selfish and 'evil' couple; what a pair of show ponies, especially him, with his Harrison Ford attempt. A shocking revelation of people inhabiting the halls of power.

LOL Poirot

Those two are the biggest space cadets I have ever seen on television.
Im pretty sure the whole show was a plot to convince the public they really are insane. Their mate with dementia seemed the only competent one there.

Im sure shallow will be along soon to defend them and throw in a bit of vilification of C Thompson and the unions. Talk about predictable. And boring.

"Karel Solomon, a Greens member who contested the 2012 Marrickville local council election, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in an undercover police operation. Police allege Solomon, 61, made sexually explicit comments to a police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl online during the operation last month. He then planned to meet the girl at a Parramatta restaurant but was instead confronted by detectives. (Daily Telegraph)"

Paul,

It is no secret that the greens dance to the CFMEU's tune and are deeply and systemically corrupt, receiving nearly $1m from them just last year from money gained from selling out workers.

Feel free to name a liberal MP that has been convicted, or even arrested for corruption.

There are dozens of Labor and Unions officials

Shadow do you recommend this Karel Solomon fella avails himself of the Alan Jones London defense of police entrapment? You know Jones that loud mouthed anti union shock jock. failed Liberal Party candidate and current party member, the one you admire so much. Unlike Jones, Solomon was not a Greens member at the time of the alleged offence.

A bit on Jones and his days as a master at the all boys kings School.

http://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2015/05/21/2gbs-alan-jones-sent-love-letters-to-a-school-boy-why-has-he-never-been-charged-with-grooming/

Parrot,

I also saw your hero Kathy Jackson, (or is it Craig Thomson or Obeid?)

As for the request to comment on your opinion that Lawler was "off center": I can only guess that as your comment is so vague as to be meaningless that you have no clue either.

Paul,

I guess that was your admission that the idiocy was not feigned. I guess the word quotation is too big for you to understand, and that you shy away from well read and educated columnists and defer to the nobodies in blogs that most people haven't even heard of.

Paul,

You seem a little conflicted, first you leap to the defense of your fellow green Karel Solomon, then you try to claim that he wasn't a green, even though he represented you at the Marrickville elections, and there is no evidence that he quit.

I was also unaware that Jones was a member of the greens, but if you say so!