EDITORIAL
Welcome to another edition of Sparks.
Some of the most important news lately has been the mass protest outside NSW Parliament on Tuesday 26th Feb. to oppose the Iemma ALP’s privatisation rampage. Such rallies are of course purely symbolic and unlikely to seriously discourage the Govt. and its corporate masters from pursuing its nefarious designs. On the day the union hierarchy was able to preclude any form of industrial action which might upset the Govt and the corporate bosses. In the case of the electricity industry, skeleton work forces remained on the job. (See article page 19.)
This edition particularly spotlights and provides new details on a particularly brazen example of the treachery of the ALP dominated union hierarchy. Entailing its role in facilitating the sacking of a union rep at Port Botany STA Depot who was doing important work to assist grass roots control of the union in that workplace and fight the bosses’ attacks . This case certainly highlights as never before the urgency of over throwing the ALP octopus in the union structure and establishing grass roots control of the union. (See article page 8.) In Rail Corp , the Iemma Govt. has been truly fattening up its fat cats with the provision of outlandish pay rises without any regard to the CPI. Whilst demanding give backs of conditions by the lower grades to achieve a meagre pay rise below the CPI. (See article page 3.)
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