The average trade union member these days is not a big beefy bloke in a hard hat and black T-shirt, but a 46-year-old female nurse.
Already a subscriber?Early last week, as the Labor government and the Coalition opposition negotiated details of the legislation to force the CFMEU’s construction divisions into administration, an ubiquitous figure in the building was the union’s national secretary, Zach Smith.
“ wandering around parliament … boasting of how, if Labor supports this legislation, they’ll be able to take political advantage of that by getting donations from the CFMEU and other unions,” said Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt. But the suspicions go beyond the administration period and were only further fuelled when Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather stood in solidarity with the union by attending the Brisbane rally on Monday, which was one ofAdvertisement
“We have to reach out to other groups such as small business, for example, because the whole nature of the workforce has changed,” he said.This push coincided with the entrenched move to the Right by Labor that began under Hawke and Keating, making the Left feel further disenfranchised. Inside Labor, there is no fretting about adverse electoral consequences. For starters, mainstream voters are no fans of the CFMEU and will only laud the government for taking tough action.
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