30 November 2006

let's see action

Today's day of action has been and gone and if the crowd at the Treasury hotel was any indication, the hospitality industry did very well after the event.

Make no mistake, the V V B union supports action to protest unjust laws and in this case, we believe the nicely euphemistic WorkChoices legislation tilts the balance too far towards employers. When the next downturn comes, those AWAs will come in very handy.

And the sinister side of the 'sphere knows that it's not about economic outcomes at all, just ideological obsession and the desire to get even. Those bad bad 60s and 70s!

But the union movement does itself no favours when dozens/hundreds/whatever of its members head straight for the pub after the march and rally.

This has been an equal opportunity, ABC bias-free snark brought to you by factory floor VVB.

Mind you, it's hard to get good coverage when the top story of the day is
this. Hi ho Silver, indeed.

And fwiw, Mike Steketee nails the truth in today's Oz.

But there was no hint this week of any Lindberg-type contrition from Foreign
Minister Alexander Downer or then trade minister Mark Vaile.

They are the ones who are supposed to be accountable to voters for failings in their
department. Missing the little matter of $290 million in bribes surely is sufficient to warrant the resignations of both. Instead, they are blustering about how the Opposition owes them apologies.


You'd hardly think it was the Australian until you read the ever-reliable Greg Sheridan's daily advertisement for the government right alongside.

Finally, seen in traffic this arvo: a late model high range BMW with the number plate Risk.

1 comment:

phil said...

Momo - because I think we (as in the wishy-washy left) are on a hiding to nothing,we have to make every post a winner. I think the union folk should have protested and gone back to work. The perceptions generated by a bunch of union people,in easily identifiable t-shirts, getting a skinful aboard after protesting about how unfair the workplace regulations are is exactly what the slave drivers and nazis at the ACCI, VECCI, BCA and so on want. Why the fuck give it to them?

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