Bill Shorten is a fraud!!!
He certainly speaks with forked tongue. At the very least he should be sent back to the confessional to beg forgiveness for lying.
This is a man who takes every opportunity to sermonise from the Labor pulpit that he stands up for workers. February 1st this year he even had the gall to unveil a suite of new policy measures designed to protect Australian workers from being ripped off by dodgy bosses. The failure was he left the Union and PM bit out in the middle. It should have read “to protect workers from being ripped off by dodgy union bosses and the Opposition Leader.”
Union, Laborite’s and recalcitrant backbenchers flippantly dismiss the findings of TURC. They vehemently oppose the introduction of ABCC legislation. Instead, they seek to cloud the debate with numerous amendments outside the intent of the legislation. From where I sit, it’s clear that given a choice of supporting workers or jumping to the tune of they who pay the piper, Shorten does the latter. He simply won't stand up to the unions.
Who could forget Shorten and his nauseating political sobbing (AKA photo opportunity) when addressing the workers at Queensland Nickel. So can anyone tell me what he has done since then? If he was the champion of the working man and women he’d be front and centre fighting for the rights of sacked workers. Unless I’m mistaken, he's done nothing of note to help.
Now we have the debate the over The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (RSRT) and the devastating impact of their decision on owner drivers in the transport industry. The Government will be pushing for the abolition of the Tribunal next week. With the support of five of the now enlightened backbenchers, they have a chance of getting this through the senate. That said, I'm cynical enough to think a couple of the backbenchers are only doing this because of the threat of a DD. But, we will take their vote. Fingers crossed the government can get the sixth supporter to guarantee passage. Labor will vote against it and let's not forget it was Bill Shorten who set this Tribunal up.
Bill Shorten doesn’t care about workers. If he did, he’d be front and centre on pushing for the ABCC to help clean up the Unions. He’d be doing everything he can for workers in Q’ld and he’d support getting rid of the RSRT. Instead, he’ll stand by and watch thousands of small owner drivers go out of business.
