G'day all, A lovely follow-up to the MUA story (remember the Ozzie wharfies' strike?) ... The government, interest groups and Patrick Stevedores may yet be laid low! But not by the union. Nope. The spectre that haunts them is that of the scabs! These blokes are suing for millions in compensation for being cast asunder as soon as the dirty work was done. And whatever evidence for the conspiracy the MUA had so long hinted at (but either didn't use or didn't have) would logically be in the possession of this lot, no? They reckon they have it, anyway - all the way back to the quasi-military training in Dubai. And they look like they're prepared to pull the trigger, too. 'Course, the election has been and gone (the Tories won), but one suspects there is a bit of good in this. At the very least upwards of 350 people might just have endured a salutory lesson in class consciousness, eh? At the very best, some hitherto smug brows might now be furrowing a bit (quickly, I hope - a goods and services tax and the repeal of some unfair dismissal regulations are on the immediate agenda here) and a lot of other people might get a clearer idea of where the ultimate battle lines are ... Cheers, Rob.
