Comrades.
The Right are screaming that the Unions are political!
They are c clutching their pearls and claiming, ‘what is to be done’.
Isn’t it outrageous?
The Unions apparently can not be political, but the fucking Taxpayers’ Union, Federated Farmers, Business NZ, The NZ Initiative, The Campaign Company, Hobson’s Pledge, Free Speech Union and the Atlas Network are sure as fuck political, yet the millisecond Unions are, it’s the end of western civilisation as we know it!
Fuck them.
It is time for the Unions to rise and embrace the challenge in front of us!
Brooke Van Velden just appoint a Worksafe Board WITH NO FUCKING WORKERS!
This Government ARE NOT a good faith Government!
Brooke loves blood as much as your average Great White Shark, this Government is here to destroy what remains of the Union movement – you can’t negotiate with that, you can only protest it with more and more Mega strikes!
This Government represents a full scale attack on public services, and the Unions and their menbers need to understand that they are NOT on the streets simply demanding their interests, they are on the streets fighting for an egalitarian NZ whose infrastructure is built upon those well funded public services.
You are fighting for a NZ that stands for the many, not the few!
You are fighting for a NZ that is not led by right wing astro turf organisations!
You are fighting for a NZ beyond the thrall of corporations, speculators and polluters!
You are fighting for OUR NZ and you need to be ready to step up that battle in the election year because this fight IS political, cultural and economic!
Judith, Luxon, Simeon, Erica all cry out the Unions are being political OF COURSE THEY ARE!
They are the last line of defence for a public service that has been neutered and robbed and underfunded as a political decision.
This idea that Unions aren’t supposed rot be political is a noose put on us by the Right as they actively engage in political hit jobs.
Stand at the 20th Biennial Conference!
Stand up for the values of Labour Day!
Stand for an Egalitarian NZ!
There is no negotiating with this…
…and when Government tell you they don’t have the money to properly fund our Public Service, remember this…
…and remember this…
…stand and make Helen Kelly proud of the Union movement you represent!!!
Now is the hour, there can be no more half measures against a Government intent ion destroying worker rights.
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“The Unions apparently can not be political, but the fucking Taxpayers’ Union, Federated Farmers, Business NZ, The NZ Initiative, The Campaign Company, Hobson’s Pledge, Free Speech Union and the Atlas Network are sure as fuck political, yet the millisecond Unions are, it’s the end of western civilisation as we know it!”
That is compelling and the anti left wokesters attacking the union forget that the privileges they have to this day are due to unions. Holidays, workers’ rights, wages, breaks, overtime, work life balance. Even those in the public sector can thank unions for the contracts they have today based on the past negotiations of unions.
To the right wing dramatists…cheer up you little snowflakes.
The major problem that this CoC now has is they aren’t trying to destroy our infrastructure and economy – they have already done that. How the hell Willis can claim the Labour CGT would destroy the economy is so stupid as to defy belief? How can you destroy something that has already been TOTALLY DESTROYED – DER? Real NZ voters, i.e. those who love their country and don’t wish to relocate, get out there, join your union and fight tooth and nail for your/our rights. NZ is teetering on the brink of collapse and the imbecilic, senile RW are still pretending they can’t see it or it won’t happen. This CoC and its enablers are basking in the dark donations [BRIBES] for greedy self-serving gains. It’s all about building their own person profiles and bank a/c’s. And Media, you are equally as guilty!! Just for once publish the truth not your twisted version of it. We all know where the huge multi million $ losses have occurred due to the ineptitude of this current CoC but they just DON’T LEARN from it. It’s helter-skelter, like headless chickens, fast tracking every silly little issue they can lay their hands on to cause massive distractions from their real and threatening agenda! To all decent folk, WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NOV 2026 – THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT OF THE NZ WE LOVE. Stand up to these bullies now. Left, bring in policies that look after all the people not the privileged! Give us some hope that we will see the end of this torment soon, we are running out of time and patience!
That’s absolutely absurd PG.
Please explain why BTF if you are capable?
Bob the F/wit – instead of continually criticising everything everyone puts on TDB how about you learn to string more than a couple of words together and actually come up with something intelligent, thus contributing. I am entitled to view things as I see them – that is my democratic right. Why don’t you simply SOD OFF.
Did you read PGs comments she said decent folks BTF that does not include you
I am left wondering why the Right has a playbook they do not hesitate to ram through and which they are doing in the US and NZ yet the Left seems to have nothing but incremental nothings. Sick and tired of the weak left, stop fuckin whining. People, unions where is the left playbook that needs to be rammed through government. The one that shoulda been the LAST time, probably forever, Labour were in power, with such great political capital to spend. Which they frittered away to the dismay of whoever voted for them. What a joke.
Really helpful approach here
We all grew up with the images and testimonies and knowledge of the Holocaust, and at one point we all have imagined, ‘if I had been alive then, what would I have done?’
There is a new holocaust being committed in Gaza.
‘I am only one person, what can I do?’
Dear union members, you are not powerless, you just need to recover your power.
Now just imagine that you have recovered your power.
Now that you have imagined that you have recovered your power, imagine that you are living during the Holocaust.
Now imagine that you are the FOL union members who in 1975 who voted to ban trade with Fascist Chile.
Now imagine that you are at the Auckland Trades Council meeting in 1977 that voted to put a Green Ban on Bastion Pt.
Next imagine are you are seated at the FOL conference in Wellington 1983 that voted to ban all nuclear ship visits.
After imagining all that, now imagine what you can do to pressure our government to act against the genocide in Gaza?
And now imagine that you have recovered your power, what else you can do, to benefit the working people of New Zealand?
Arise like lions from your slumber….
Cast off your chains like dew, that in your sleep has fallen on you.