Anti-Union Ads

By: Sympneology (Registered ) on 22-10-2007 16:18

What, only 70%? The Australian Labor Party was born from the union movement. A Labor cabinet should have 100% union members. But of course Costello is not talking about union members, he is talking about those mythical creaures, the dreaded "Union Bosses" who are all "Anti-Business". The fact is that the only unions to have bosses are the bosses' unions, the unions representing the workers only have democratically elected leaders. And these leaders are not anti-business, how could they be when it is the businesses that provide their members with employment? 
What Costello really means by anti-business is anti-conservative, he knows that the unions stand in the way of his conservative supporters in the business community being able to maximise profits by cost cutting at the expense of their employees, in health and safety, in overtime, in leave loadings, in redundancy payments, and all the other benefits that the labour movement has had to struggle for over more than a century. It is just another shot fired in the long-running war against the unions, aimed at leaving the workers defenceless against the predations of greedy corporate bosses.

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