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notgold@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I feel a lot of the old union reps don’t want to fight anymore. They just want their pay check and peace at work. I want them to ruffle some feathers and push for strikes. Will it hurt me financially? yes, in the short term. The abolishment of the CFMEU by the current government just shows we are losing everything to the boss; our rights, our time, our political parties. Fuck the boss.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Self-organising within the rank and file membership itself is so important for building and maintaining militancy. Members of the formal union bureacracies simply have different incentives to the rank and file.