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Cheap shot in Herald16 July 2003
National Secretary's letter to the editor in response to McGuiness outrage. PP McGuiness' backhanded attack on Tas Bull after his death, including having a go at where he lived, is offensive. The standing and respect Tas received from all quarters is more indicative of his achievements than Mr McGuiness' posthumous cheap shot.
The support of both P&O and Chris Corrigan's Patrick stevedores for waterside workers leaving their jobs for Tas' funeral is the real testimony of the respect he was held in throughout the industry.
Mr McGuiness fits his own description of someone who 'clings to their beliefs regardless of the evidence.'
The evidence is that the High Court in their decision in the Patrick dispute confirmed a prima facie finding of unlawful conspiracy between Patrick and others including the Federal Government against unionised maritime workers.
Patrick established companies without assets into which it transferred its workforce and which it knew would become insolvent when required to pay worker's entitlements.
Other related companies had been secretly training workers while Patrick where negotiating a new enterprise agreement with the MUA. This duplicitas breach of professional and ethical standards was the real thuggery - dogs and balaclavas were only the facilitators.
The waterfront dispute was resolved through a negotiated settlement with the ACTU and the MUA. This agreement improved productivity.
In regard to destroying our coastal trade, look no further than the issue of permits to sub-standard foreign shipping by the Dept of Transport. This is effective support for a tax avoidance scheme that employs Third World seafarers in an Australian domestic industry.
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