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  1. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    Good report last night on the 7:30 report about all this. You can see it on their website. Lovely to see Brian Fitzpatrick wants to be a hero now. I could tell some corkers about that @hole. Another article about it here...
  2. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    Why? The government sets the award, why don't we just follow that instead.
  3. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    Let me put it this way. As an entity, it is corrupt, full of hacks. There were some officials in there who I felt were decent and had the interest of the workers at heart but the vast majority are just working for the machine portraying themselves as warriors for the common man - Bull$hit...
  4. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    Probably yes, give us a solid reason why they are needed now? Oh that's right, where would the Labor party get their funding from. My bad.
  5. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    The ones I have dealt with in the building game were. They all seem to drive blue Ford Falcons too.
  6. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    The governement can (and does) do that. You don't need a pack of thugs in jeans wandering around taking bribes to sort our crook bosses.
  7. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    It's kind of a double edge sword. No doubt the unions have pushed the cost of labour up extremely high but if they cracked down on the cash in hand thing the costs would be a lot higher again than what they are now. I used to think sometimes they government knows about it but doesn't do...
  8. ok180

    Ever wondered what your union fees pay for?

    Lol this is news? When I was in the building game a lot of the big contractors on the big sites in Sydney had "EBA's". They had 150 employee's, 50 or so were on the books and over 100 cash in hand. The union knows all about it but does nothing because at least they are still getting a cut from...
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