The news today shows the depravity and entitlement of the Union movement from which Labor gets $ms in donations in return for favours.

"The nasty threats at a union rally on Tuesday, directed at ABCC inspectors by the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union’s Victorian boss, John Setka, were disturbing. He dubbed the inspectors “f..kers” and suggested unionists would find out where they lived. “We will lobby their neighbourhoods,” he sneered, “we will tell them who lives in that house, what he does for a living, or she. We will go to their local football club. We will go to the local shopping centre. They will not be able to show their faces anywhere. Their kids will be ashamed of who their parents are when we expose all these ABCC inspectors.”

And "Sally McManus suggested in March that unions could pick and choose which laws to obey. “I believe in the rule of law where the law is fair when the law is right,” she told the ABC. “But when it’s unjust, I don’t think there’s a problem with breaking it.”

Shadow, as you already know, there is no finer body of men and women in Australia than the members of the CFMEU.

You are the type that takes all the benefits unions have obtain for workers in Australia, yet criticize them at any opportunity. It is the hypocrite in you that takes the benefits but wont pay the dues!

Very precise, SM is a radical right where else does this meddling come from. The law is fair and just, says it all and where did that come from. Non other than an all time great liar and fraudster.
SM best look after his english politics he is so fond of.
This was part of the Abbott agenda to get more and more control of the community, to further his dictatorial ways of the far right.

Paul,

There is no finer collection of Crooks, thugs and stand over men than the CFMEU. However, as generous donors to the greens, you have to put your mouth where the money is and overlook their misdeeds.

Between 2003 and 2015 there were 3,207 worker fatalities in Australia, and many thousands of non fatal serious accidents as well, as reported by Safe Work Australia. Something the smug union bashing brigade always fail to mention. The same people, I wont call them workers, often from the safety of the ivory tower, where the only likelihood of an injury is a nose bleed due to the rarefied atmosphere, like to firstly line up and take the hard won benifits unions win for their members, then secondly they like to heap scorn on the real workers, workers like you find on construction sites, doing the hard yakka, members of the CFMEU. Yes, they can be offensive, they can be aggressive, they can be militant. But no one can deny, it was through the efforts of that rough union mob that an unregulated, poorly paid, unsafe construction industry was turned on its head, and made safer, better regulated and better paid.
Shadow do you favor returning to the dark old days, but I'm sure regardless, you'll be safe!

Unlike the Liberal Party that took illegal donations from property developers in NSW, through the back door, wink wink nudge nudge, ah, I wonder why! The Greens are always happy to take up front legal donations from a legitimate union.

Paul,

Noticeably, during this period the rate of fatalities has hardly changed and the CFMEU has strong-armed about $100m from workers and employers and driven construction costs to the highest in the world. In the same time, there were roughly 20 000 road casualties, about 24000 died from the flu etc, so the safety badge the Crooked union wears is largely undeserved.

But Labor and the Greens are now so dependent on the proceeds of crime from the unions that they will hold their noses and support them no matter what.