{"id":7457,"date":"2009-09-09T19:48:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2009-09-09T19:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T09:48:20","slug":"building-workers-or-terrorists-we-report-you-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=7457","title":{"rendered":"Building workers or terrorists? We report. You decide."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chase ‘put road users in danger’<\/a>
\nBen Schneiders
\nThe Age<\/em>
\nSeptember 9, 2009<\/p>\n

A 45-MINUTE car chase across Melbourne during the heated West Gate industrial dispute would have left those being pursued feeling fearful for their safety, having clearly placed them and other road users in danger, a magistrate said yesterday… The case took on political significance after Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard used it in June in a controversial speech to the ACTU congress to justify keeping laws that treat building workers differently…<\/p>\n

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There is both debate and difference on display as the Rudd Government honours its election commitment to abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission and replace it on 1 February 2010 with a new specialist Fair Work body.<\/p>\n

But as there is debate and difference, I expect there to be one clear point of unanimity.<\/p>\n

Like me, I am sure you were appalled to read of dangerous car chases across Melbourne City involving carloads of balaclava wearing people, criminal damage to vehicles resulting in arrests, threats of physical violence and intimidation of individuals, including damage to a private residence.<\/p>\n

The last time I read of balaclavas in an industrial dispute they were being worn by security thugs at the Melbourne waterfront when the MUA fought its history making battle against Patricks and the Liberal Party.<\/p>\n

Balaclavas, violence and intimidation must be unreservedly condemned as wrong by every unionist, every ALP member, every decent Australian.<\/p>\n

And the Rudd Labor Government will do everything necessary to ensure that we do not see this appalling conduct again.<\/p>\n

This is another part of our commitment to fairness and decency at work.<\/p>\n

~ Julia Gillard, ‘Address to ACTU Congress’, June 3, 2009, Brisbane [PDF<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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No guarantees over workplace reforms: Rudd<\/a>
\nThe Age<\/em> [AAP]
\nSeptember 4, 2009<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has backed away from a pledge that no worker would be left worse off by award modernisation, saying that remained the government’s objective but was never a guarantee…<\/p>\n

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James Hardie<\/a>, the name, like the company, is a lie. The real James Hardie died a long time ago and had almost no connection to the Australian asbestos empire that grew under his partner Andrew Reid. The Reid family amassed a huge fortune as its asbestos company expanded, killing in its wake thousands of unwitting workers and customers.<\/p>\n

Today, Reid\u2032s grandson John Reid is an honoured multi-millionaire, revered for his patronage and philanthropy. He chaired the company for 23 years, and oversaw a strategy that ignored the dangers of asbestos and silenced Australia\u2032s largest asbestos union and government health authorities, concealing Australia\u2032s largest peacetime disaster. Reid mentored his eventual successor, Meredith Hellicar, who defended Hardie\u2032s move offshore until public campaigning by asbestos disease sufferers like Bernie Banton forced the company to adequately provide for its victims.<\/p>\n

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The councilor comes with his battered old suit
\nAnd his head all filled with plans
\nSays “It’s not for myself, for the fame or wealth
\nBut to help my fellow man”
\nFist in the air and the first to stand
\nWhen the Internationale<\/em> plays
\nSays “We’ll break down the walls of the old Town Hall
\nAnd we’ll fight all the lifelong day!”
\nTen years later where is he now?
\nHe’s ditched all the old ideas
\nMilked all the life from the old cash cow
\nNow he’s got a fine career
\nNow he’s got a fine career<\/em><\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Ark Tribe<\/a> (July 23, 2009) | ABCC, John Holland, West Gate Bridge<\/a> (May 10, 2009) | International Day of Mourning<\/a> (April 29, 2009) | Eureka Flag Banned?!? Time To Rebel!<\/a> (November 19, 2007)<\/p>\n

Bonus!<\/h2>\n

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