With friends like this, who needs enemies
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:00 pm by David FarrarOkay imagine you are NZUSA. Your source of income is about to be cut off. Your best hope of surivival is to appeal to National MPs not to continue their support for the VSM bill.
So after hours of brain-storming, what do you come up with as the best way to convince National they are wrong.
You get the Maritime Union to put out a press release stating their support for compulsory membership, and demand National drop the bill.
Yes that should do it.
I can’t think of anything more likely to convince any doubting MPs in National they should support the bill, than having the Maritime Union speak out on the virtues of compulsory membership.
It’s like getting Graeme Burton to come out against the three strikes law. Fail.
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December 2nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Is it just me, but does their concluding comment not make grammatical sense
“The John Key Government should drop the bill before it went any further”
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Comrades of the world, unite!
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Or getting David “The Jackal” Garrett to propose a law on harsher sentences.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Ironswan – no, but the whole idea of the press release makes little sense. Is there anything in common between the Maritime Union and students associations? Apart from:
“Collective strength was important for any group such as students and workers who would otherwise have little influence or say over large institutions.”
At the moment students who don’t want compulsory membership have little influence or say over large institutions they are forced to belong to.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
NZUSA are a bunch of pussies.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Wanklers!!
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Interestingly, I heard some years back a program on National Radio about changes in the unions from the ECA.
It was interesting because, none actually wanted to go back to compulsory membership. The comment was that they had had to reevaluate themselves and pursue their members interests more carefully.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Graeme Burton call – gold.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
“Maritime Union General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says that student associations have served students well.”
Translation – compulsory membership of student associations has served unions well.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 5:06 pm
And just how many graduates of NZ Universities now work as seamen?
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 5:38 pm
I still don’t get their gripe .. the union is not banned, it’s just not compulsory .. the majority say they want to keep it so great.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Of course, membership of the Hitler Youth was also compulsory, as was membership of the Soviet Union’s Young Pioneers in practise.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
The connection is NZUSA and semen.
Vote:December 2nd, 2010 at 10:01 pm
wat: given the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written in part as a response to Nazi Germany’s assault on freedoms, I suspect that this is *exactly* the sort of situation it was intended to ban – forcing people into a political organisation against their will. The only mitigating factor is that in theory the association’s politics can be changed. In practice of course that’s pretty hard.
Vote:December 3rd, 2010 at 8:21 am
These fucktards do not have the support ot the majority of their members and they know it.
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