It does seem that the union-bosses decided that many of their long-term thugs should be laundered into politics for a couple of terms so that the taxpayer will then pick up the cost of the retirement benefits of these union-thugs rather than the unions...
I would not be surprised to see some of this socialist rabble find positions in the UN for at least as long as Gillard's cash-strip-mining carbon-dioxide tax remains in force in Australia...
After all as I understand it the UN will collect some 10% of the loot skimmed from the Australian public under the guise of the fantasy-land cardbon-dioxde tax...