Archive for February 10th, 2014
The new McCarthyism and the Royal Commission into unions
Posted by John, February 10th, 2014 - under Royal Commission into unions, Trade unions, Union bureaucracy, Unions.
Tags: ACTU, Australian Council of Trade Unions, CFMEU
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Paid trade union officials are the retailers of our labour power to the bosses and what Abbott wants to do through this Royal Commission is cut out the middle men and women, the union officials, and allow the bosses to completely dominate atomised workers and thus drive down wages and slash conditions, cut jobs, and lengthen the working day, among other things.