{"id":1438,"date":"2019-02-04T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2019-02-04T12:00:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T12:00:38","slug":"22-million-reasons-for-alp-to-back-militant-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/22-million-reasons-for-alp-to-back-militant-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"22 million reasons for ALP to back militant unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figures released today have revealed 22 million reasons why Bill Shorten continues to bend over backwards for his militant union masters.<br \/>\nThe Australian Electoral Commission today revealed that unions donated more than $7.9 million to the Labor Party in 2017-18. In addition, they spent more than $14 million on their own campaigns in support of the Labor Party.<br \/>\nThese figures include almost $1 million in donations to Labor from the militant CFMMEU, which currently has 78 representatives before the courts and has been fined over $16.5 million in recent years for law breaking.<br \/>\n\u201cWe now know why Bill Shorten continues to stand by the militant CFMMEU despite their appalling and ever-growing rap sheet of lawlessness,\u201d Minister O\u2019Dwyer said.<br \/>\n\u201cBut it\u2019s not just the militant CFMMEU Bill Shorten and Labor continue to back. While the CFMMEU will get to axe the construction cop, the MUA will get to design their own shipping laws, and the TWU will get the return of the independent trucker destroying RSRT.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIf you\u2019re a militant union with cash to burn, Bill\u2019s policy shop is open for business.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBill Shorten should take a leaf out of Bob Hawke\u2019s book, grow a backbone and stand up to militant unionists instead of making the law breakers the law makers.\u201d<br \/>\nThe figures released today come just a month after Bill Shorten and the Labor Party doubled-down on their support for their militant union bosses at the Labor Party National Conference, whe re they committed to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep under wraps their secret deal with the unions to allow economy-hammering, job-risking<br \/>\nindustry-wide strike action, leaving workers and businesses in the dark.<\/li>\n<li>Black ban certain lawyers and law firms that the lawbreaking CFMMEU don\u2019t like.<\/li>\n<li>Resurrect their disastrous, family business destroying trucker remuneration rules \u2013 only this time also extending the pain to gig economy workers.<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate cuts to workers\u2019 take-home pay and syphon off more of their hard-earned wages into superannuation funds, where retirement savings are drained by the rorts and rip-offs that Labor refuses to help address.<\/li>\n<li>Examine proposals to artificially boost union membership and clout through preferential tax concessions and incentives.<\/li>\n<li>Continue with their crazy policy to scrap the building and construction regulator, the ABCC.<\/li>\n<li>Cost the economy $1.3 billion by giving their union mates paid holiday l eave entitlements that no other worker will get.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cInstead of helping hard-working Australians, it is clear Bill Shorten is focused on one thing and one thing only \u2013 helping his militant union bosses,\u201d Minister O\u2019Dwyer concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figures released today have revealed 22 million reasons why Bill Shorten continues to bend over backwards for his militant union masters. The Australian Electoral Commission today revealed that unions donated more than $7.9 million to the Labor Party in 2017-18. In addition, they spent more than $14 million on their own campaigns in support of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/22-million-reasons-for-alp-to-back-militant-unions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;22 million reasons for ALP to back militant unions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}