Labor’s attacks on unions that lack a legal monopoly is an attempt to prop up decrepit union machines—including the SDA—but not limited to them. The attacks should be opposed by everyone who supports unions as organisations dedicated to advancing the interests of workers.
There’s a power in collective resistance and solidarity that, if only it can be organised, could flush away Hanson and her ilk into history’s septic tank. Yesterday, students pointed the way forward.
Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.
