EPMU Donations
The EPMU has announced its donations:
- $60,000 to Labour
- $5,000 to Greens
- $4,000 to Maori Party
- $1,000 to Progressives
This makes the EPMU the third biggest donor in this election, to date.
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November 6th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
not counting voluntary labour, petrol, man hours pamphlets, lobbying and blog-rates and staffer time off to organise clandestine taping sessions.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I am pleased I am self employed and don’t have to belong to a union these days. I could perhaps tolerate the small amount to the Maori Party but wouldn’t want any of my money going to any of the others.
When I did pay Union Fees from 1964 to 1982 it was not for the purpose of funding political parties.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Unions: Todays answer to the now irrelevant workplace issues of the 1800′s
November 6th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
A whole $1000 to Jim… I do hope when they handed it over they said “This is a token of our esteem… and a reflection of everyone else’s”
November 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Rich Pricks !!!!! – Arseholes !!!!!!!!!!
November 6th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Do they include services of their members, using their vehicles and all the internet based campaigning they do? I’m guessing not. Well, big money in the NZ elections. At least we know where it is coming from. The very people who helped ensure nobody else can spend freely in an election year.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Did they cut labout a cheque or did they use a relay team of bagmen?
November 6th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Not that meaningful a stat, as we can’t really count the donations that went into the various parties’ trusts last year.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Thats about 12,000 weekly subs by their poor deranged members. Hope they feel it was value for money when the lefties get assholed on saturday.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
How come the value of years of ass licking is only $1000. Jim should go with National this time.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Small tounge.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Yesterday afternoon I noticed the vehicles of two Labour candidates and two EPMU vehicles parked outside the manufacturing plant where I used to work (and where I was a card-carrying EPMU member). Would the salaries of the EPMU “escorts” to the campaigning MP’s be included in that total, or are they a “quid-pro-quo”?
November 6th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Stupid pricks, talking about pissing it up against a wall. Inventory2, knowing these jackals you will probably see the EPMU vehicles parked outside Liarbore head office come Monday morning, no doubt they will be looking for a refund.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
What’s the bet the government contributed more than $100K of tax payer funds to the EPMU last year?
There’s always various reasons – “training allowances” “workplace safety initiatives” and so forth. It’s a nice way of ensuring that they do have $70K to throw into electioneering, and that’s without taking account of the other political activities they are engaged in.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Mean of them not to have donated to Winston First for all the service he has provided… They could have made a secret payment through the Spencer Trust run by his brother though I guess.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
ZenTiger – excatly. I’d be gobsmacked if this kind of laundering of public money wasn’t going on.
November 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Hmmm, anyone would think there were still some people around who **LIKE Labour**, eh?
Guess they’ll never learn.
Hey, I know, let’s all try to construct arguments about how ANYONE who votes or campaigns for the left is morally bankrupt and probably corrupt as well. Won’t that be fun?
November 6th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
They will be sorry … really sorry they didn’t donate to National. But $60k to Labour, isn’t that about what they get in taxpayer funds for “employment relations eduction grants”?
November 7th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Unfortunately, it’s called “the news” Ratbiter. Although I think you are taking a rather harsh view of some of the comments here.
The right have never argued that “ANYONE who votes or campaigns for the left is morally bankrupt and probably corrupt as well. ”
Some on the left are simply ignorant.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:30 am
The EPMU has a strike fund of over $1million.
Remember the Progressive strike orchestrated by the NDU? Imagine the damage they could have caused with $1million.
Under Labour’s Industrial Relations policy, released on Labour weekend, strikes will be made legal for the purpose of stymieing a restructuring/outsourcing that occurs during the term of a collective agreement.
With the resources it has, the EPMU has the potential of crippling our manufacturing industry through strike action.
Next time a leftie tells you there is an “inherent imbalance of bargaining power” in an employment relationship, point and laugh.