Raving on Ruddism by "Class Actions"
Mon, 21/04/2008 - 17:55 — miek
New labour ie Blair & Rudd just like Margaret Thatcher and John Howard have a neo liberal outlook.
Gillard was quoted saying that they are going to bring in legislation to allow employers to spy on their employees emails. I suspect many employers do that already but it just shows how anti worker people like Rudd and Gillard are. Not only this Gillard has been egging on the Australian Building and Construction Commission to hit the CFMEU and its members on the job. The Crime - Industrial action or in the case of Craig johnston standing up for his members.
It looks like finally elements of the Trade union movement might be looking at considering a boycott of the ABCC, despite the 6 month jail term that can be slapped on a worker who gives the ABCC star chamber a miss. The ACTU's violent criminal policy dictates that unionists must not break any laws which would mean that workers asked to appear before the ABCC and who boycott hearings would be in breach of ACTU policy. It seems that a boycott of the ABCC may result in a difference of opinion between progressive unions and the ACTU bureaucracy.
The ascension of politicians in the ALP such as John Button in the 1980's whose policies gutted the motor vehicle industry and whose cutting of tarrifs placed many auto workers on the economic scrap heap is a classic example of the post world war II ALP politician who is not on about supporting the working class but instead is all about carving a career out for themself by trying to demonstrate that he and his ALP mates can do the bidding of the bosses better than the so called conservatives. The accord and other awful 'reforms' of the 1980's under Hawke sealed the party's fate as a bosses party, if it wasn't already sealed when Chifley sent in troops to smash a coal strike. Or even earlier when Billy Hughes and Scullin did the bidding of the bosses when they were leaders of Labor federal governments.
Will the Ruddster and his cronies be more conservative than the conservatives when they were in office? I think the question is wrong in that it should be phrased as Will Rudd send Australian politics further to the right than the previous Howard government. howard brought in laws that declared war on acts of class solidarity across the board. Rudd is keeping most of the anti worker workchoices nasties.
Whilst maybe Rudd will not be as extreme and disgustingly anti worker as howard was in the short term, I'd say that it is a fair bet that Australia will be a more conservative place when Rudd or whoever the next labor leader is when the Coalition end up in government again in who knows when
2013, 2016????
The Ruddster's spin is full of contradictions. He says he supports working families but he does not let members of working families who work improve their wages, conditions and world by taking “unlawful' industrial action. The unions helped the Ruddster over the line last year but Rudd will not restore essential programs such as Trade union training - The ACTU says 'those days are gone' Why should they be? Skills learned via delegate training would be also put to good use by delegates in the wider community. At any rate union members pay taxes so why shouldn't some of those taxes be spent on training up union delegates. Enough money is spent on employer programs as it is.
The Ruddster says he is about fairness but he hasn’t buried Australia's biggest Star Chamber the ABCC.
Gillard was quoted saying that they are going to bring in legislation to allow employers to spy on their employees emails. I suspect many employers do that already but it just shows how anti worker people like Rudd and Gillard are. Not only this Gillard has been egging on the Australian Building and Construction Commission to hit the CFMEU and its members on the job. The Crime - Industrial action or in the case of Craig johnston standing up for his members.
It looks like finally elements of the Trade union movement might be looking at considering a boycott of the ABCC, despite the 6 month jail term that can be slapped on a worker who gives the ABCC star chamber a miss. The ACTU's violent criminal policy dictates that unionists must not break any laws which would mean that workers asked to appear before the ABCC and who boycott hearings would be in breach of ACTU policy. It seems that a boycott of the ABCC may result in a difference of opinion between progressive unions and the ACTU bureaucracy.
The ascension of politicians in the ALP such as John Button in the 1980's whose policies gutted the motor vehicle industry and whose cutting of tarrifs placed many auto workers on the economic scrap heap is a classic example of the post world war II ALP politician who is not on about supporting the working class but instead is all about carving a career out for themself by trying to demonstrate that he and his ALP mates can do the bidding of the bosses better than the so called conservatives. The accord and other awful 'reforms' of the 1980's under Hawke sealed the party's fate as a bosses party, if it wasn't already sealed when Chifley sent in troops to smash a coal strike. Or even earlier when Billy Hughes and Scullin did the bidding of the bosses when they were leaders of Labor federal governments.
Will the Ruddster and his cronies be more conservative than the conservatives when they were in office? I think the question is wrong in that it should be phrased as Will Rudd send Australian politics further to the right than the previous Howard government. howard brought in laws that declared war on acts of class solidarity across the board. Rudd is keeping most of the anti worker workchoices nasties.
Whilst maybe Rudd will not be as extreme and disgustingly anti worker as howard was in the short term, I'd say that it is a fair bet that Australia will be a more conservative place when Rudd or whoever the next labor leader is when the Coalition end up in government again in who knows when
2013, 2016????
The Ruddster's spin is full of contradictions. He says he supports working families but he does not let members of working families who work improve their wages, conditions and world by taking “unlawful' industrial action. The unions helped the Ruddster over the line last year but Rudd will not restore essential programs such as Trade union training - The ACTU says 'those days are gone' Why should they be? Skills learned via delegate training would be also put to good use by delegates in the wider community. At any rate union members pay taxes so why shouldn't some of those taxes be spent on training up union delegates. Enough money is spent on employer programs as it is.
The Ruddster says he is about fairness but he hasn’t buried Australia's biggest Star Chamber the ABCC.
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By "Y"And the irony is that
By "Y"And the irony is that for the workers of Australia, Julia Gillard is about as far as they're willing to go to the left, even in terms of the meek and mild version of politics, voting.I know that rank and file unionists in WA who actually go out and demonstrate, like at the recent Wharfie victory demo commemoration in Freo, they're ready to dump on Labor's continued support for the ABCC.The ALP will never save the working class from the wage system. Only the working class organized as ONe Big Union can do that. I do get tired of hearing that the Labor Party will not save us. Most workers I know, know this already. But they also know that the Labor Party is a hell of lot better when it comes to governing than the alternative form of capitalist dictatorship.“Will the Ruddster and his cronies be more conservative than the conservatives when they were in office?” As any worker with his/her head screwed on will tell you, "NO."Whether Australia is a more conservative place or not will depend on us, not Labor Party bureaucrats. Labor is more likely to respond to increased worker militancy with the velvet glove. The Coaliton is likely to come down with a hard, iron fist.“The Ruddster's spin is full of contradictions. He says he supports working families but he does not let members of working families who work improve their wages, conditions and world by taking 'unlawful' industrial action.” - Neither would the Coalition. The point is to get workers to organise around issues which will have long term impact on the balance of class power e.g. the shorter work week with no cut in pay.“The Ruddster says heis about fairness but he hasn't buried Australia's biggest star chamber the ABCC.” - Which all goes to prove my point: the social revolution and the lead up to same with be the act of the class conscious workers themselves or it won't happen. Constantly harping about how the Labor Party is not left enough will get us nowhere, except perhaps in the arms of a lefter party, say the Greens or the Socialist Alliance and believe me, they've got their own agendas to fulfil and amongst them isn't workers' control of the social product of their labour and the abolition of the wages system.