Ziad wrote:And ppl believe their crap. Have a friend loyal union guy. I remember when I got given my retrenchment orders the union told me to fk off as I wan't their member. Then my work colleague had a chat with the guy (as the were a couple other employees getting the arse and they were members) and the reply was the union cannot do anything.
The thing is union would rather sell out their members (eg shop front employee union at woolies and coles) or never give up their conditions even if it meant that in the long run all the workers lose their jobs.
And where did Shorten come from? Lol
bob hawke was one of our better prime ministers, he came up through the union. but he's an exception. the union helped me battle a multi national company when they tried to shaft me over work related illness. but i also remember when they tried to "advise" people who to vote for at election time . on several high rise developements in inner city brisbane the union has guys on stupidly high pay rates that in the long run are going to hurt the industry. flying in overseas workers is something developers have been working on. i'm a sheetmetal worker, i make commercial air con ducting for big building projects , shopping centres and the like. the air ducting is starting to be imported from china in "flat" form in shipping containers. the governments dropped the ball on several fronts in protecting local jobs. am i gunna have a job in 5 years ? are we going to make anything in this country in the future ? holden and ford no longer manufacture in this country because of silly high pay rates made them uncompetitive and unprofitable. and i've seen the bully boy tactics used by union officials on job sights.