Stats sacks staff
Posted by Bill, April 18th, 2009 - under Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Labor sackings, Public Service, Reformism, Resistance, Rudd, Rudd Government, Rudd Labor, sackings, Strikes, The Great Recession, Trade unions, unemployment, Unions.
Tags: ALP, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian politics, Community and Public Sector Union, CPSU, efficiency dividend, Fighting back, Great Recession
According to Satuday’s Canberra Times, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun to carry out its decision to sack 180 staff. This week 31 learned they are going. More will get the boot in the coming weeks. My union, the CPSU, has done nothing but talk. Only mass meetings of all CPSU members to consider indefinite strike action has any chance of beating the Rudd Labor Government’s attacks on public service jobs. The present union leadership, up to its armpits in the ALP cesspit, is not only a barrier to defending jobs; by doing nothing it is in reality the agent of this Labor Government in carrying out the sackings.