Comments on: Industrial relations campaign update

By: Naomi

Naomi — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:07:03 +0000

can I just praise the Herald temporarily by pointing out that they did run an ad for the Government, but also an article critical of it?

That’s it, praise over. Oh, one more thing – the Herald is doing a nice stern line against this stuff.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:32:08 +0000

Ch 7 News had a story about The West’s Printing Staff being cut by 150 odd due to automation.

I wonder if that’s why they’ve been so supportive of Howard’s IR Reforms?

I wonder how their staff will be paid out ?

By: Alex Uren

Alex Uren — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:31:09 +0000

Stuart, anyway you look at it-nothing was done. It’s almost akin to an Irish joke- Did you hear about the Irish union? ———-Got their members a wage freeze.
Trouble is – it did happen & the wage freeze continues, ie, started in 2000.
Even Howard could’nt be as bad- but then maybe he could.
Alex

By: Stuart Fenech

Stuart Fenech — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:04:55 +0000

Alex – curious – did the unions and the ALP genuinely not give a stuff, or are they powerless?

By: Alex Uren

Alex Uren — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:19:38 +0000

Robert, as I said – I contacted the parent union & the ACTU as well as just about every Labour politician- not one of them could give a stuff. I had always been a very staunch unionist & as such I find it hard to believe that this could actually happen. This is so un-Australian.
Alex

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:14:25 +0000

true :-) cos you have to vote to get the latest result when you log onto the net each day, but you know what I mean :-)

I see KIm Beazley has written to all ALP members to “Rally The Troops”, I wonder if Howeard will do the same for members of the Libs ?? :-)

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:04:58 +0000

and is no more accurate than newspoll etc

I daresay it’s far less accurate than Newspoll, Frank.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:00:08 +0000

That sounds terrible, Alex. I’m sure you’ll agree that it would be awful if everyone else had to suffer the same fate. How well unionised is your workplace? Have you considered approaching another union for help?

By: Alex Uren

Alex Uren — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:13:53 +0000

The TAPS union of NSW got the jump on JH’s IR policies. They have already imposed a 5 year wage freeze on us, workloads have nearly doubled, lost the right to approach the IR Comission on most disputes & then upped their fees to boot,
Alex-

By: David Heidelberg

David Heidelberg — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:31:48 +0000

Today's RN Media Report was an interesting one. Spoke in detail about the Coalition's use of tax payers money for propaganda purposes. Also mentioned the fact that there is no internal or external accountability process for how this money is spent on advertising. Don't expect the media to make a big deal out of this though. They are the financial beneficiaries. The opposition wont kick up a stink either, as they will abuse the system in the same way.