Monday 29th of April 2024

a cunning GOP trick...

a cunning GOP trick...

Presently, the GOP is white-anting unions from within... Basically GOP is enticing workers to become free from the "oppression and rorts" of unions with a new bill called Employee Rights Act... Brother. The name is sneakily chosen to hide a hiding to nothing... Of course it's the old trick of presenting the carrot of greed and freedom when eventually workers end up worse off... Divide to rule... Nothing new, Here is Australia, the Liberal Party tried the Work Choices legislation that got them booted out... But the Work Choices is not dead as Rattus Detritus (Tony Abbott) would let us believe... Merely delayed by a thread...

http://employeerightsact.com/

When one looks at the origin of the bill one can see some very clever "unsavoury" bigoted characters of the extreme right in the USA who are presenting it and seconding it... The rights of employees? Honey clap trap...

tainting the political landscape...

Mind you some unions in Australia have had some problems... But the members are often not made aware of the way some union leaders cook the books in their favour... The HSU east being one of those... The concept of unionism should not be detroyed by the few bad apples that rort the system... In the same vein, some bankers will rort the system but because they are not directly attached to a system of governance (Conservative political power) but to a process (capitalism) the Conservatives get away without being associated with the rorts...

But should a union chief get "overpaid" or rotten, then the whole Labor movement gets tainted — especially by the ritewingnuts press of the Merde-ochcracy...

tainting the worth of unions...

 

 

SUSPICIOUS procurement practices, nepotism and cronyism resulted in the union boss Michael Williamson, his family and friends reaping millions of dollars from the troubled Health Services Union during his 15-year reign.

The final report by Ian Temby, QC, and the accountant Dennis Robertson, which has been obtained by the Herald, paints a disturbing picture of the HSUeast branch. More than $20 million in questionable payments was paid to suppliers to the union without any form of tendering or contract.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/hsu-20-million-of-dubious-spending-report-finds-20120723-22kmi.html#ixzz21UwJ64nl