Well Done Conservatives

[Aloysius]

ALP support for the worker? Well its recent past was to slip to the right with neo liberality under the Hawke/Keating Govts which probably explains the decline in union membership which started in 1992.


Recently however, union membership has steadied and/or climbed according to the stats over the last decade.


You have to ask yourself where is the support for the worker? If any?


Certainly not from employers; you only have to look at the 7/11 debacle as one example of exploitation.


Certainly not from conservative Govt; look at workchoices and its various offshoot attempts including attacking penalty rates.


Happily, the current ALP has thwarted attempts by conservative Govts to disadvantage workers which resulted in community support followed by an unpopular conservative Govt knifing its leader so I can't agree with the suggestion that ALP support for the worker has gone. Not yet anyway.

 

 

Fancy citiing 7/11 as an example - I could equally cite major employers who have their workers confidence.

 

Under  work choices unemployment rate was very very low - a good thing to my mind.

 

Class warfare pronouncements about conservative politics  bear no relation to actuality - under Howard economic growth, employment growth - where is anti worker in that?

 

Lets stay with the data and avoid the outmoded emotion.

 

Look no further than the ALP/CFMEU racist scare campaigns against a Free Trade agreement with the prime world economic growth leader - Hello?