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Unions are under attack from the managerial elite of Rudd Labor

Read the article at crikey.com.au
http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20080508-Whats-the-future-of-unions-
within-the-ALP.html


Or read it on Labor Tribune
http://www.labortribune.net/ArticleHolder/tabid/161/Default.aspx




Fri May 9, 2008 3:26 am

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Unions are under attack from the managerial elite of Rudd Labor Read the article at crikey.com.au ...
Marcus Ström
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May 9, 2008
3:26 am

... Bob Gould makes a lot more sense than does Marcus Strom at the moment. Marcus seems only able to hold to the schematic line that the working class and...
Ratbag Radio
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May 9, 2008
6:31 am

Bob Gould A crisis in the workers movement and a battle as fundamental as the one that's going on in the Labor Party at the moment brings out the best and the...
bobgould987
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May 9, 2008
1:34 pm

... My point was that "light-minded chatter about disaffiliating unions from the Labor Party" was a distraction from the main game. I wasnt the person who...
Ratbag Radio
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May 10, 2008
6:16 am

Thank you for your interest. I'm opposed to disaffiliation unless the unions had somewhere to go to - which they don't. I think it was an error for the NSW...
Marcus Ström
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May 10, 2008
11:47 am

... to - which they don't. Another way of putting this would be: I oppose my mother leaving my father despite the fact that he beats her unless she has...
Ratbag Radio
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May 11, 2008
1:18 am

The Greens may not have a "working-class orientation" to the standard that Dave Riley requires, but they certainly have a record of fighting for issues of...
Ed Lewis
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May 11, 2008
1:52 am

... Thats' true and I was noting that I thought. AND John Kaye's role in the anti privisation campaign, I gather, has been exemplary and his stand fr was very...
Ratbag Radio
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May 11, 2008
7:26 am

Thanks once again for your interest. But I must admit I don't understand a lot of what Dave Riley means in his last post. It seems stream of consciousness...
Marcus Ström
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May 12, 2008
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I think its about time Bob Gould and Ed Lewis woke up to themselves. The fight over Electricity Privatisation is over. Iemma and Costa have won a KO in the...
Michael Berrell
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May 10, 2008
3:07 am

Mike Berrell, There's a fight going on, and at the very least a fight is an opportunity to inflict damage on the enemy. The stakes are high and no outcome is...
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May 10, 2008
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The previous post in this thread, in response to Mike Berrell, is by Ed Lewis, not Bob Gould. Apologies to Bob and readers of the list for any confusion....
Ed Lewis
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May 10, 2008
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There's a thing such as 'defeatism' and there's such a thing as facing reality. What puzzles me is why Ed Lewis is joining Bob Gould in a double act of...
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