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BC wrote: you're probably right TOOL but this doesn't mitigate the fact that union officials have been stealing union funds for a very long time. if an RC on pollies perks was ever held I'm sure they'd find all sorts of things but I can't see any politicians of either persuasion agreeing to it.

Lets start back with BOB HAWKE. Couldn't have been anyone worse since.

BC: by de-regulatting the labour market, you will actually make the TUs relevant again in the future. Never under estimate the capacity of capitalism to tend towards monopoly or moral depravity. The system has been civilised by 150 years of trade unionism and government intervention into the economy to protect workers. The invisible hand only created/creates misery.