Union News: People have got in touch here and requested advice regarding conditions at various waterfront workplaces, since the union was deregistered there is nothing I can do in a legal sense as a union official, since when I won the election for Branch Secretary in 1992, the incumbency I was elected to replace refused to vacate the office, while everyone else including my nominator and seconder abandoned ship. I was the only one to pay union dues in 1993 in any case and went on alone, and at no time did the Federal Industrial Commission, since we were a federally registered union, recognize my election so much of my case rests upon my unbroken record of union membership which began in 1974, after having worked for two years as kindred labor, The original union book was stolen, the replacement begins at 1975 and goes until the 1993 receipt signed by scab secretary John Burke, who I had expelled from the union the previous year, click the above link. The Painters and Dockers Union has only one way of dealing with substandard work conditions.. if you are unhappy about the job get off of it.. tell the boss you are on strike, I did that in Gove in 2005 when scabs at work and in the union, Marina Williams sold me out for the sake of larrikinism and an attitude of license, and townies rules regarding smoking in twin cab utilities on the same Alcan Gove worksite. I got the sack, however there is an outstanding work wage bill owing to me that has accumulated since Melbourne Cup Day that year, since I went off on a safety issue which by union ascribed custom & practice means I get paid until the matter is sorted out. For anyone that gets the same treatment we need organizers here, so maybe you can fill in those idle hours battling on for the union, at this time our agenda is more concerned with getting outcomes, and people prosecuted, for the long list of killings, bashings, rapes and murders that accompanied the de registration of the union. Feedback: A scab named Brian Cosh, a former member of this union rang on two occasions after the daughter of another scab, Arthur Redding who is the subject of a single complaint that we made to police regarding scabbing, murder and thuggery in the Painters and Dockers Union Queensland Branch, which included his testimony regarding the disappearance of his teenage son in 1990. She told us that they were all unhappy with the publicity we have given the case, and made a demand accompanied by threats of legal action that we remove the story, http://www.dockersunion.com/journals/Journal_10_2001_page10.html This is the page in question. I told her and later Cosh, that since they had both attempted to use coercion against me regarding the testimony I wish to give regarding this young man's disappearance, it makes them interested parties in a murder investigation, so will the union be calling them as witnesses when the Coronor holds an inquest into the case, whence our testimony will remain unchanged!
Links to feature pages..
The Franklin Case: US Child Prostitution & Snuff Porn
Johnny Gosch, whose image appeared
on millions of milk cartons in the wake of his kidnapping at Des
Moines Iowa in 1982, photographed in company with George Herbert
Walker Bush, then Vice President of the United States!
http://www.dockersunion.com/phpbb/ Old forum with hundreds of great archived stories!
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