"The HSU," says a Labor powerbroker with detailed knowledge of its affairs, "is not a union or an organisation - it's a crime family."
This gent is an accessory after the fact. Clearly, in his mind, solidarity was more important than protecting the members from this mafia.
...... this government, consciously or not, has despaired of winning the next election. Is it now just battening down, trying to endure this term in full rather than win another? One union leader suspects so: "This government just doesn't have the hunger to win - it's resigned to defeat."
What an astute "union leader" ..... NOT. It is plain to see.
The union movement is positioning in anticipation of a Labor defeat. That was the real purpose of the recent coup against the secretary of the ACTU, Jeff Lawrence. The pleasant Lawrence was replaced by a hard-fighting, hard-driving campaigner. The secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union, Dave Oliver, is to take over in the full expectation that the union movement will have to do battle with an incoming conservative government.
So the unions are willing to have a conciliatory leader with a "friendly" gov but will go to war with the liberals.
it is now moving to a war footing.
I just said that!
At a political level, unions have no more morals than the mafia and with another 18 months of this on show, they [hopefully] will have no political future.
