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Come on man, if peoples trains don’t arrive they don’t think oh Alex Claassens is on a committee to ensure that Labor are elected and was handing out Labor how to vote cards in a red labor T-shirt at the federal election they blame the current government. That goes with anything.
I’ve said here previously that I think Labor will win in March. I’ve also said I’m leaning towards voting for them but my second worry (after Chris Minns being so western Sydney centric) is that Minns doesn’t seem to have the balls to even call the union and tell them to pull their heads in. He admitted himself that he isn’t happy with the strike action but hasn’t called them.
I think it’s the unions more following what they’ve been instructed at the IRC rather than being ethical. Let’s see how this pans out. I very rarely catch a train so it doesn’t worry me personally but as I’ve touched on, they are all lucky they kept a very good paying job when others didn’t have a job. I’m not anti union but still can’t agree they are ethical at all
The general public think of unions as a collective and think of the unions being the same as Labor, not specifically Alex Classens. And as shown by the SMH calling the previous problem a 'strike' (when it was cancellation by the state government), the public lapped up the SMH's 'strike' headlines and abused train workers. If in this industrial action predicament, the unions are acting unethically then again this is going to blow black on Labor again. So again I don't see how Labor or the unions have planned this to help Labor in next years elections, and again Labor already has ICAC and John Baralillo to use to attack state Libs credibility, they have no need for this industrial action.
Minns not calling the unions and not having sway over them, doesn't this show that while Labor and the Unions have a relationship, that their connections aren't that strong that they can sway the other to do what they want to do.
Again the unions have acted ethically within the realm of industrial action. Workers going on strike and affecting their employers bottom dollar is always going to be 'unethical' in a ways but when coupled with industrial action, the purpose/history of industrial action, then the unions have acted ethically in this current negotiation.
And this idea that they are "lucky they kept a very good paying job when others didn't have a job" is not relevant in wanting better working conditions. Given the concerns about the new trains, it's those train drivers/station guards, who have to live with that trauma when something happens to a passenger.