Thoughts from thesis: Australias right to strike is little more - TopicsExpress

Thoughts from thesis: Australias right to strike is little more than the right to partipate in slightly more aggressive bargaining once every few years, coupled with numerous serious sanctions for any exercise of collective industrial power outside of this narrow, highly-regulated, state-sanctioned negotiation process. The carrot: unions that behave get to continue their pleasant little hierarchies without disruption and with all the kudos of defending workers from (some of) the sharp edges of capitalism. The stick: unions that do not are slammed with, at best, fines and court fees, and at worst, total propaganda wars from the capitalist media, deregistration and the criminal prosecution of their officials. Australias right to strike is in reality, the most clever suppression of the workers most promising avenue of self-emancipation (revolutionary syndicalism) that one could imagine. And it was implemented by the so-called Labor party. Bravo, capitalism. You win this round...