Further to the last post this day we rang that boss, he told us he was not anti union.
In fact claimed he was still a rank and file member of a very strong and militant union.
However on replying to a question we asked said his low paying award was THE 4 YEAR OLD VERSION!
Quick research and while on the phone we informed him he was under paying that insulting award by near 2 bucks an hour.
See it was very much out dated.
Even under workchoices the prime contractor has to be assured right rates are paid.
This assurance is a stat dec , nothing more, a lie on paper and it is cool no further action.
The pro union union member boss used the filthiest words I ever heard on a phone threatened to have me killed!
Wonder if the building industry task group cares?
No silly thought.
But these poorly paid non unionists will be paid the right rates and get back pay via a trade union that cares.
Safety net? over to you John Howard.

At a large national supermarket chain on the north coast of NSW the kids that work after school recently went onto contracts that cut their rate by $2 an hour.

Work Choice? Yes, sign or terminate. The choice is yours.

If anyone thinks they have a problem with the new work-place laws now - wait for another five or ten years. You haven't seen anything yet!

Team you are all aware but these expensive Government adverts are not in the real world. This is so frustrating as the Government have all the taxpayers money to fool the taxpayer. What can we all do to expose these misleading assurances ?
That Barbara Bennett on the TV advert is actually extremely heartless that is why she was appointed on to that job. If the employee has signed an individual contract whether coerced under duress or misguided in a court of law or an ombudsman that lonely little worker will not stand a ghost of a chance in a court of law.

Gday Mark, our country's second in charge! not in real life a bad bloke either but can we talk?
Yep I am a proud trade union official, maybe a bit brash? rash even?
No mate my birth was in the bush and education was drummed into me you must work hard and honestly.
But I will be in Taree tomorrow, my union shirt will have Belly on the pocket, and proud to be union forever under that.
We can watch the weekend trolley pushers together.
Those on the dole or pension who only work weekends hiding from social security people.
We can ask would you if those shares went belly up do that to eat? FOR 7 DOLLARS AN HOUR?
Or just maybe Sir we could ask why a true employment , true work for the dole structure can not be built.
Paying if you must the minimum wage so a trolley pusher can make a living in a true job.
Maybe next step is stacking shelves?
Is this the Australia you want mate?
Our nations biggest food retailers paying half the minimum wage to our worst off workers?
Defrauding the tax man?
The welfare system?
Some suffer so a firm based on low wages and theft is the biggest contractor in trolley pushing?
What next bloke? if you win? if workchoices changes that are programed to start in 2009 , already past Parliament come in?
Is our classless society only a lie?
Are some more equal than others?
Is the Aussie fair go dead?

As the thread lays here in the dust of our past thoughts and views I wish to leave it with some insights from my work life.
Most victims of workchoices are not unionists, most are not even in a union.
While the headlines of some dreadful acts by SOME unions can never be denied, I in my work as a union official have been a victim of those acts,we are clearly mostly not far from mainstream Australia.
This morning I WILL BE at the gates of our biggest food retailer, Mark will not be, he looks well groomed every inch the man he is our country's second in charge.
While the trolley pushers will be dressed as always shirts torn here and there nothing that was not new a few years ago.
Can it be one day the focus will be on the fraud they commit and not the blindness of a government intent on controlling IR but not dreadful grubby unAustralian criminal bosses?
Are those biggest of the big who use them not ever to feel shame for doing so?
Get your self to a union Australia.
Have your say
are we a nation willing to surrender the Aussie fair go?