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W.S.Gosset

Re: Can someone please explain...

> who would be doing the forcing?

> It cant be the union as they arnt the ones offering employment.

Actually, it can be.

Welcome to the REALITY of (abuse of) unions, as opposed to the theory.

Same concept as the yawning gap between the faux-left (99%) and the actual left (1%) (and typically vilified by the 99% -- Orwell was savaged for his ideas by the socialists/faux-left, not the right).

The unions, like any large system, get hijacked by parasites. And a substantial proportion of them get hijacked by triumphalist parasites. And they can and do put pressure on government/industry to make it illegal/impossible to work. Some of them get arrogant and aggressively shut down companies who seek to avoid union employees.

For example:

Australia's BLF morphed into the CFMEU (via the WA branch) and is routinely dragged into court for closing down building sites and even every building site of an entire company, if an employer seeks to engage non-CFMEU workers. And by "building sites", I mean fuckoff great big-ticket major-con$$truction type things, and also most large government projects -- the type of employer which In Theory is All Powerful & Oppressive. And they are happy to use/threaten serious violence -- I've seen myself 2 sites have a busload of rentathugs delivered to "help" the actual picketing workers, being instructed on the footpath re who "the enemy" is.

Extreme example of the degree of control: they have shut down entire project portfolios of entire companies because management took down the black CFMEU Flag, which MUST be flown from the highest point on site (usually a crane). I am not joking.

But the max.court penalty is low five figures per-breach-of-law so they just ignore it. Just that one union has been shown to increase Australia's large-project (buildings/infrastructure) cost by a minimum of 20% relative to other countries.

quick google: A chain: B C D(a) D(b)

You don't work on any large construction project in Australia without CFMEU permission. "No ticket, no start". It's their law.

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