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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Cracking down on unions … NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. Picture: Daily Telegraph
Source: The Daily Telegraph
UNIONS who ignore orders not to strike will face fines of up to $110,000 under tough new reforms sneaked in by New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell.
Slipping the announcement in during Question Time, as all eyes were on Canberra, Mr O’Farrell also said “excess” public sector jobs would be scrapped – and workers would be able to choose the union they join.
It came after a report released on Wednesday found the NSW public service was bloated and mismanaged.
“We can’t sit back and allow the inefficiencies in the public service to continue,” Mr O’Farrell said.
“The commission of audit confirmed that the public sector had contributed not just to a deterioration in the state budget but also to a deterioration in this state’s ability to compete with other states. Our changes will make it easier to shed excess employees unless they are the best person for an available permanent job.” Under the proposed reforms, penalties for the first day of breaching a dispute order from the Industrial Relations Commission will rise from $10,000 to $110,000. Mr O’Farrell said this would bring NSW in line with current fines in Queensland.
Unions NSW boss Mark Lennon said the changes were aimed at reducing the power of unions.
“Under the guise of the (Schott) report, and under the name allegedly of public sector inefficiencies, the government steps forward and announces new legislation which, once again, is going to attack jobs, attack the rights of working people in NSW.”
Allowing employees to choose the union they join was designed to smash the unions, he added.
“They want to attack the rights of working people, and they think the best way to do that is through the representatives of working people, which is the union movement.”
However, the Australian Medical Association welcomed the changes, saying they “freed doctors-in-training from the monopoly of the Health Services Union”.
Last night, Tim Ayres of the Australian Metal Workers Union said the premier would “ban trade unions altogether if he could”.
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