“All unions are corrupt, that’s why America got rid of them.”
Actual words I heard a friend’s husband say yesterday.
Because I’m an idiot all I replied was “They got rid of unions so they didn’t have to pay their workers. It’s not really a good thing.”
So yeah I’m pretty sure my friend’s husband probably hates me now lmao.
I fucking hate the narrative. I hate how easy it is for the media to get people to believe dumb backwards shit, because no one it taught properly about anything anymore. An entire population of the easily grifted.
When America says jump, Australia asks, “how high, master?”
Better start getting used to even more American bullshit flooding into the vassal states. Considering how much Australia loves swearing undying fealty to the USA you guys might as well just join as the 51st state.
Feels bad man
Hey now, at least you won’t be alone! The EU and the Bri’ish will accompany you guys in the destruction of their own countries as tribute to the great satan
https://johnmenadue.com/ripe-for-the-plucking/
The US should require that mined materials from Australia be refined by American companies in the US. The US should also require that the mined material have an end use in a strategic US sector like aerospace or transportation, not consumer electronics like televisions and mobile phones.
christ the US is actually giving the aussies a bit of the south america treatment
Yeah, it’s bullshit. Labor are trying to destroy unions. It’s the logical conclusion of their shifting right to appeal to voters.
Labor are barely even Labor and I’ve lost any tiny amount of hope I had left. Long time coming tbh, they’ve been shit for my entire lifetime.
It makes me want to screm
Scream with me. Let it all out
screm
AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaaaaaaaaaAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAx1000
In my head saying, “I’d rather have a corrupt union over a regular corporation” sounds like a massive own but fortunately I don’t know people to get into these sorts of debates with
Not many things are dumber than America, but copying America is
Australia’s media is genuinely the most annoying media on the planet. It beats fox news in annoying levels.
Literally owned by the same dude
Thanks Murdoch
So yeah I’m pretty sure my friend’s husband probably hates me now lmao.
That is a merit, considering the context.
all unions are corrupt, haven’t you seen The Sopranos?
Bob Hawke broke unions in Australia
The Americans particularly appreciated Hawke’s willingness to deradicalise the labour movement. As Coventry puts it: “Hawke proved useful in pre-empting and pacifying union disputes.”
After Hawke’s death in 2019, pundits celebrated him as an authentic, strine-speaking ocker, devoted to “unionism, labourism and the Labor party”.
The Americans thought different. For them, Hawke was “an experienced chameleon”, a man who “successfully played down his academic record and bookish background” to present himself as “the ideal Australian Labor leader”.
The cables show that as early as 1974 the US was suggesting to Hawke that he foster a “tripartite committee of unions, employers and government” to reach agreement on wages and other industrial issues.
After becoming prime minister in 1983, Hawke implemented the prices and income accord, a project in which the labour movement embraced wage restraint as part of an ongoing collaboration with employers and the state. In her important 2018 book How Labour Built Neoliberalism, Elizabeth Humphrys argues that Hawke’s accord – with its commitment to market principles, privatisations and user-pay mechanisms – brought into Australia the neoliberal strategies that were elsewhere implemented by the parties of the right.
Anyway our unions are weak and captured at best, but your friend’s husband is a fucking idiot
I remember reading a Jeff Sparrow piece, or someone similar, that heavily implied Hawke was a US op.
The working class got more concessions under Menzies because he was such an unpopular prime minister it was what he had to do to stay in power
yeah i’ve been seeing the weird red scare bs as of late. i didn’t realise how much dormant union-hate existed here…
fuck Labor, fuck the media - lapdogs of industrial lobby groups
Because I’m an idiot all I replied was “They got rid of unions so they didn’t have to pay their workers. It’s not really a good thing.”
It is not worth holding your tongue for these types. Most of the time they don’t really care that much and there’s a small chance you’ll actually make them think a little, and if they’re that invested that an offhand comment actually gets under their skin then they’re the one being a problem not you
Australian unions are not even that radical (also which one do I join?)
I would also like some advice on Aussie unions tbh.
Organising is hard when you don’t use social media
Edit: redundant/low quality advice editing out my comment
I’m sure your advice was fine
It’s basically to check your local trades hall website or actu directory. I’ve been in one union my whole full-time working life, and they have a strong presence, so I don’t think I’ve ever really been in your situation/know what advice you were looking for, so it was presumptuous of me to assume you werent already informed/researching. However if you’re already organising and in contact with your representative union then you’re already off to a good start.
pissing people off is good maybe itll make them think about communism
disassembling the parts of the state established to deradicalise workers
nothing could go wrong with this plan
They probably just think I’m some blue hair liberal, unfortunately.