Salary
Wage increase gained for members by evil unionist? 2%
Salary increase gained by parliamentarians? 2.5%
The fact one gets sacked by the ALP (despite gaining no personal benefit) for such a disgraceful figure, and the other will (most likely**) be accepted by the very same party? Priceless*.
(* - may not actually be priceless, may be an actual monetary figure, level of hypocrisy directly related to public outrage.)
(** - will change "most likely" to "did" if/when Labor fails to request something a bit more rational.)
I should also note the unions increase was about 2/3 of inflation, the politicians seems to be around double.
posted by Larry Bonewend @ 11:39 PM
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Hi Larry,
Yes the ALP. and Unions.
ALP is still playing it's little prefernce games with right-wing parties (though I suppose the ALP is now a right wing party)even though the last time they did it federally it meant that Family First fuckwit Stephen Fielding got up in the Senate.
Oh, and some unions. I was recently offered a job, with what I though was a very progressive union - but it was on the condition that I joined the ALP. Obviously I'm not going to be working for them
Heya Aleks,
Fielding isn't a complete fuckwit, I've grown slightly fond of his voting patterns (considering).
You should have joined the union, then left the ALP - and filed for unlawful dismissal if they let you go ... the door swings both ways.
But that is a disgraceful requirement - political allegience a requirement for a job - surely that's illegal.
The problem is that you would be playing into the coalitions plans - the potential negative feedback it could have on the union, which is really it's members not the officials, would be too much of a risk for most officials. The reason why people do it is to help the membership, noy harm them.
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