140209 My
Comment to The Guardian Article "Bill Shorten demands Coalition sets
up police taskforce into union allegations"
Opposition
leader says police could act more quickly than a royal commission to
investigate claims of union corruption
Lenore
Taylor, political editor
My
reply to '42yearsinbuilding'
who wrote...
09 February 2014
2:19am
42 years as a
building contractor qualifies me, more than most, to comment on Union
corruption in the building industry.
Anyone who
doesn't believe that Union officials haven't got their snouts in the
trough is living in "cloud cuckoo land"
Physical
threats...I've experienced first hand on several occasions, as well
as demands for back door payments.
I've witnessed
other builders lose everything...houses...family and even their lives
just for trying to earn a living (Yes...I said "LIVES"...a
builder friend of mine was bankrupted by 2 union walk offs after
concrete pours and committed suicide)
The Unions have
all contractors over a barrel since the introduction of "Liquidated
Damages"...If you don't "pay the piper"...they will
find any manner of excuses (usually false safety issues) to delay the
completion of contracted works.
I've worked all
over Australia...and with the exception of Darwin...nothing changes.
For years,I tried
to stand to stand up to the Unions...but sad to say...I gave up and
did what I had to do to keep my business afloat.
The good news is
that I'm retiring this year and the Unions can no longer control me.
I for one will be
happy to testify before a Royal Commission (as will many others)
I have
names...dates and amounts...and there are some senior business
executives as well that will be looking over their shoulders
And lets not
forget the politicians..I know of one former cabinet Minister that
paid for his million dollar house extension and renovation with cash
(supposedly supplied by the unions)...(every 2 weeks he rolled up
with a briefcase of cash...and that's how we all got paid. He knows
who I mean...and if he reads this...he will be peeing his pants. (I
don't much care if disclosure means that the Tax man will be on my
back. It will be worth it.
Bring on the
"Royal Commission"...The sooner the better
BTW: Any of you
that still believe that "Corruption" isn't rife in the
Unions...I have a bridge over Sydney Harbour for sale
Me;
Well written,
[Comrade! hohoho]
But, as I write
in my posted comment but 10 minutes after yours was posted here, it's
a far far larger issue than just 'Union corruption'.
Can't blame a
bloke, especially one who knows 'an honest day's work' for being
bitter and 'anti' the Unions.
But you write
well, and with facts. So can you not see that the errant behaviors
of all 'Unionism' has always been merely to stay in the game against
the far more powerful, cashed-up and thus influential right wing
land-owing global elites? Elites who've always corrupted all Honest
and Egalitarian Economics to their selfish advantage.
Sure, they, the
Unions, small and large, have had to play the game of corruption, if
only to keep the Mob onside. We all need, and want, a better life.
So they too, like their 'enemies' the monarchic elites, lose their
way, and brutality becomes the basis of upholding their influence and
power. And a roof over their families heads.
It's a shitful
situation, which ruins everything in the end.
You, have the
right, and Duty to put forth your evidence.
But you also have
the Duty to dig deeper, to see why one side, supposedly 'For the
People' takes the measures they have.
An earlier
[referred-to] comment from mememe
We have to go to
the core of our errant culture to get to the roots of corruption.
That, will mean
we must dig back centuries, and, millennia, to root-out where we, as
a dominant culture, went off the track.
Clearly, 'Moses'
lost out, to the 'golden calf tribe' whenever the Jew's records tell
us he was 'leader'.
Then, 'Rome' and
it's eye on owning the world.
Then, the 'rum
rebellion' here in 1808, when Sergeant John MacArthur destroyed all
chances of an Egalitarian Nation-State, by trashing the Equitable
Land Rent, Revenues and Distribution Laws [the first Australian
employment of a 'National Land Tax', as came with the First Fleet, as
was being Dutifully applied by the pre-rum rebellion administration].
What a very
different nation, thus mindset and culture we would have today, if
the 'rum rebellion' had really been stomped?
We'd have much
more of a people who Respect Honesty, and Integrity, and the very
notion of 'Government', as opposed to the rampant filth of tax
cheats, liars, thieves and a generally beggared polity.
'Racism' against
our Indigenous True Fellas, might well not exist, for the completely
Noble Recognition King George the 3rd's Edicts held within them.
[One chief reason why He was since derided as 'mad King George']
Shorten shows his
limited [right-wing] bias, by avoiding the hard truths about our
modern culture of politics, deceit and general perversion of our
humanity. But ALAS! A Jesuit? What else can we expect?
I also expect
he'd dream of - and gladly accept - a knighthood, once his political
career is over? Or perhaps a sainthood from Rome? [Posthumously, of
course.]
ICAC started, and
went further than usual into our endemic corruption, this time
'round.
But, as the song
goes,
"It's no
good, leavin' things' half unpacked.
It jus' leaves
you more to do, further down the track!
[Lyrics
laid-down, for the Sydney ICAC.]
If you've got
a tribal problem, don't keep puttin' it away.
'Cause it's
gonna come back, and haunt you some day.
It's no good,
it's no good!"
[from "The
No Good Song" by Anonymous]
So, getting to
the root of our cultural corruption is a much larger task than the
NSW ICAC, or any 'royal commission' [an oxymoron, in fact] can
tackle.
But one thing is
a certainty - the Unions are better to be part of any inquiry, than
to be set out as the only target. Time their Elders found once more,
the Courage to Talk True.
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