15-05-2011, 07:23 AM
Just wanted to mention here some similarities of some thing that happened in Austrlaia under the former Howard government. The attempted to break the Maritime Union, one of the better more organised and stronger unions here. This was so once they got the stonger unions down all the other ones could be easily picked off. One of the main stevedoring companies, Patricks, an employer of waterside workers and union members, opened a $2 company and moved all the employees there from the main solvent company with out their knowledge or permission. When the workers arrived for their shift at Easter morning they found the gates locked and security guards and dogs everywhere. Patricks said the company was insolvent but they could be employed again if they worked for a pittance. It was once of the biggest industrial show downs here is decades. In the mean time Patricks had either established or was working with another stevedoring company, Fynwest Pty Ltd, sought to recruit former and current Australian Defence Force members to counter the MUA. In particular, from December 1997, Fynwest began a campaign to recruit former and current members of the Special Air Service (SAS), paratroopers from 3RAR, commandos from 4RAR and other military specialists, to become stevedores. Others were recruited from controversial private military and security consulting companies, such as Sandline International and the Control Risks Group.
Fynwest planned to send these recruits to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where training could be provided. The newly-trained stevedores would then take part in an Australian non-union dock workers training program.
The MUA was 'tipped off' about the planned Fynwest operation and took the matter to the media who met the departing Fynwest employees as they boarded a flight to Dubai and questioned their 'tourist' status. Intense criticism and the spotlight on the visa irregularities and the threat of international industrial retaliation forced the Dubai Government to cancel visas for the Fynwest company employees. The Australian government denied all knowledge of the plan which has since been disproved in Howard's autobiography, despite still-serving defence personnel being involved, and evidence provided by some of these members that the government was actively involved in supporting the plan.
I just found the similarities interesting between this and Balckwaters reincarnation in the desert.
Fynwest planned to send these recruits to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where training could be provided. The newly-trained stevedores would then take part in an Australian non-union dock workers training program.
The MUA was 'tipped off' about the planned Fynwest operation and took the matter to the media who met the departing Fynwest employees as they boarded a flight to Dubai and questioned their 'tourist' status. Intense criticism and the spotlight on the visa irregularities and the threat of international industrial retaliation forced the Dubai Government to cancel visas for the Fynwest company employees. The Australian government denied all knowledge of the plan which has since been disproved in Howard's autobiography, despite still-serving defence personnel being involved, and evidence provided by some of these members that the government was actively involved in supporting the plan.
I just found the similarities interesting between this and Balckwaters reincarnation in the desert.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.