Issue - 204 spring 2011
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Occupy Melbourne: the return
If it achieves nothing else, by locking out all its staff, Qantas has shown why the Occupy movement matters.
Naturally, the usual performing seals will bark and clap their fins in the Murdoch press about how Alan Joyce had no option. He had to crush the union, you see – it’s that old Vietnam logic about destroying the village to save it.
But, if you pardon the obvious pun, that’s not gonna fly with most Australians.
Joyce has, after all, just awarded himself a pay rise of 71 per cent, bringing his remuneration up from $2.9 million to – cough! – more than $5 million a year. ... read more
Written by Jeff Sparrow on 29-10-2011, 1 user comment
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