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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Unions should never be involved in running Super Funds
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:41:48 +1100
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Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
> Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Mountain Magpie <Leura@blue.mountains.org> wrote
>>>
>>>>>"The troubled super fund for energy workers spent hundreds of thousands
>>>>>of dollars on luxury cars for staff and paid for its former chief
>>>>>executive to attend Stanford University for executive training, adding
>>>>>to the list of lavish expenses that will be questioned in Parliament
>>>>>next week.
>>>>>
>>>>>EISS Super's chief executive, chair and three directors resigned last
>>>>>month after The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald revealed the fund
>>>>>bankrolled extravagant staff parties, spent around $75,000 sending one
>>>>>executive to Harvard and sponsored a number of sporting clubs with
>>>>>links to senior management's families."
>>>>>
>>>>>https://is.gd/L6B9KJ
>>>>>
>>>>>Fuck our members. Let's rip them off.  The history of the Union
>>>>>movement in Australia.
>>>
>>>> Unions need to be compulsory.
>>>
>>>Fuck that, that's the last thing we need.
>> You believe bad press and are hyptnotized into believing crap
>
> Nope, I have watched unions fuck things completely.
>>>> Members of these unions need to be made to accept nominations
>>>
>>>What ?
>>>
>> If in your union you are nominated and seconded you must stand
>
> Fuck that too. Makes no sense to force someone who doesn't want the job to 
> do it because they realise unions are fucked.
>>>
>>>> This should remove most of the bad ones
>>>
>>>Bullshit.
>> The ONLY factor in Australian standard of living has not been from
>> religion, communists, Parliament, etc, it has been from the
>> effectiveness of Trade Unions.
>
> Bullshit. It's the economy that has done that. Nothing to do with pollys 
> or unions.
>> The media has most everyone believing Unions are bad,
>
> Anyone with even half a clue has noticed that unions are fucked.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-07/transport-union-workers-strike-enterprise-bargaining-christmas/100520450

Fuck that.