- The Guardian
- Issue #2116
Dear Editor,
Congratulations on moving to 16 pages! It’s nice to have more of the Guardian to read.
Thank you for covering the CFMEU issue so thoroughly. The more mainstream papers I read either ignore the topic, or just pass on slurs as though they’re facts.
I work in a nice safe office job. Nobody I work with has any of the physical risks associated with the building trade. All of us are going to come home from work safely every day.
I could ask myself what I have in common with the CFMEU members. I could ask myself “Why should I care?”
But I know that if the government can do this to the CFMEU, they can do it to anyone. It almost doesn’t matter if the allegations about union officials are true or not (there’s so many, I think they can’t all be true). What’s really important about this for me, as a working person, is that a Labor government is prepared to throw due process and the Fair Work legislation away, just to make themselves look tough on a union that the Liberals and the media don’t like. That’s really scary, so I’m in solidarity with the CFMEU in opposing what the Labor government is doing.
All the best,
Arroka Nekazari
Melbourne
