The revelations over the ABCC do little to explain the broader labour movement’s continuing counter-productive closeness to its lackeys in the ALP.
Unions
Former MP fights back: electorate staff behave badly too!
As a former MP I can tell you it’s no picnic “managing” your electorate staff either and they often behave very badly, writes Harry Wilde.
Will Bracks take the automotive sector off life support?
It’s high time we stopped treating the Australian automotive industry as a special case and saw it as the costly rort it is, writes Bernard Keane.
Nepotism watch: how dad’s union supports daughter’s footy team
The nurses’ union donated $5,000 to a football club in north-west Sydney. A strange choice … until you realise the general secretary’s daughter is a club member. Alex Mitchell reports.
Unions step up pressure over ABCC powers
The trade union movement is stepping up the pressure on the Rudd Government to shut down the Australian Building and Construction Commission as the case of Noel Washington looms, writes Bernard Keane.
Abjorensen: We fear big business more than unions
The ongoing government advertising campaign about the Labor Party’s union links is highly questionable as a political tactic and might even be backfiring, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Union power a party divide: Morgan
Union power and voting intentions - a new Morgan Poll puts the numbers together. By Christian Kerr.
How come wheat gets its own union?
Take down those Eureka Flags boys! Collective bargaining is a thing of the past, unless of course you’re a monopoly wheat exporter, writes Nahum Ayliffe.
Cobber cans Kev’s compromises
Kevin Rudd seems to be practising a crude form of utilitarianism. He believes winning the greatest number of seats will guarantee the greatest happiness for the ALP – and is determined not to let anything get in his way.
