Rally against unfair dismissal : Melbourne Indymedia

Rally - City
4pm Fri, Jan 5
OptusWorld
253 Elizabeth St
City. (crn of Elizabeth & Lonsdale)

Action against to against Phonetec is set escalate tomorrow in the fight against the unfair dismissal of Maggi Li. Maggi, a CEPU member, was sacked unfairly two days before Christmas.

CEPU officials served papers on Phonetec today for unfair dismissal of Maggi Li. Again Garry Chan reacted by throwing union flags across the nature strip.

The rally is planned to give union and community members an opportunity to express their outrage against Maggi Li's unfair dismissal.

Clearly the law is on the employers side. However we have the ability to organise and fight for what is right.

If you haven't been involved in the campaign to get Maggi Li reinstated this is your chance to do something.

lol so its a desperate fight to keep people in workplaces operated by total shonks....

doesn't seem at all silly to you people?

Surely a more appropriate action would be, say, a 10-year boycott of the business involved. Unions still have just about enough power to make that painful, surely.

But no, we're not actually opposing the powers that be. We just want them to pay lip service to certain ideals while they put the boot in.

Pathetic, and a measure of how low the unions have sunk.

Government-Corporate-Union - The unholy triumvirate. There's no difference between them anymore.

For fucks sake, David, try and at least SOUND abit less over-privilaged and middle class. People work to survive, The protest advertised is about making that survival easier. You respond with patrician sneers.

people should set their sights higher is what I'm saying, and not define themselves (eg 'worker') by the conditions they're currently subjected to.

Ive spent plenty of time doing shite work for corporate fookers for fuck-all pay. But all that time my interest was in seeing EXECUTIVE SALARIES REDUCED, not my salary increased.

Point is - the executives are only a controlling class as long as people continue to recognise the distinction. And defining yourself as a 'worker' is barely any different to conceding the 'executive class' has a rightful place lording it over you.

In Australia we're all upper class in global terms. Imagine how people elsewhere in the world would laugh at our notion of injustice. Nobody in Australia is so impoverished they can't make choices about how they live their lives.

What keeps people's sights set so low? The executives, obviously, and all who sail with them. But also the Unions, who promise crumbs in return for sweat, who no longer take any serious action against the corporates, who tell people they're not articulate or bright enough to speak for themselves, who fight against LEGISLATION that would enable individuals to exercise their own power without a sad mob mentality at work.

I'm not middle class - I'm upperclass. I'm in the wealthiest 15 per cent. And SO ARE WE ALL. We should start behaving like it, and stop letting a defeated and corrupt union movement set the bar so low.