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Issue No. 182 | 13 June 2003 |
The Dead Couple
History: Nest of Traitors Interview: A Nation of Hope Unions: National Focus Safety: The Shocking Truth Tribute: A Comrade Departed History: Working Bees Education: The Big Picture International: Static Labour Economics: Budget And Fudge It Technology: Google and Campaigning Review: Secretary With A Difference Poetry: The Minimale Satire: Howard Calls for Senate to be Replaced by Clap-O-Meter
Carr Faces Acid On Job Security Abbott Prescribes Dole for Mother of Six Cole Batting Zero from Thirty Two Dust Busters � MUA Sails into Allianz Fight Security Forces Come Out Firing Women�s Centre Faces Ideological Jihad Varsity Casuals Win Wage Increase Fortress NSW Protects BHP Workers Pharmacists Seek Jobs Medicine Iranian Textile Workers Sewn Up
Politics The Soapbox Media The Locker Room
Saharwi Struggle Vinegar Hill Tom's Toons
Labor Council of NSW |
Letters to the Editor Costa Must Be Crazy
Surely Michael Costa can't be serious when he claims 20% of train drivers have got a Roo loose in the top paddock (labor.net 120603) The train drivers here do a sensational job considering the breath taking incompetence of the politicians and senior bureaucrats. *$80 million for a super computer that can't get the trains running. *Rail bridges that can't carry trains. *Millennium Trains running three years late and then too heavy for the tracks. How many hundreds of millions of dollars are these lunatics going to pump down the drain before we get some sanity testing going on in Macquarie Street? I say get 'em out of the subsidized silver service dining room and the Chesterfield benches of the Parliamentary Mosh Pit and down onto The Domain for a Psychometric Show Down. I would be more than happy to have the leadership of my trade union put up against Comrade Carr and his crew in a new Olympics of Lunacy. We would have to set some ground rules like no workers comp for anyone with less than a 15% total body injury. Perhaps pre-existing injuries could be assessed by a medical panel comprised of former bank tellers suffering post traumatic stress and chaired by say a flamboyant stock broker with a recent appreciation of justice.
Why is it that politicians are promoted in cabinet and bureaucrats paid massive bonuses when they do what they're paid for but workers are vilified and abused when we do what we are paid for. Enough of this Parliamentary Lunacy I say random drug, alcohol and sanity tests for all members of State Parliament. Simon Flynn FBEU
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