Unions crash bridge party

THE ALP can run but it can't hide. Unions NSW, in its standard grubby fashion has plotted to dominate the 75th aniversary Sydney Harbour Bridge walk with protesters. Labor, the unions' political face has come to the party too late, just as it did when Premier Morris Iemma claimed that he opposed the pro-drug policy of the Greens, the party he has embraced in a sleazy vote preference deal. It fits. Iemma served his political apprenticeship learning at the hand of Graham "Whatever it takes" Richardson, who s currently under investigation for tax fraud. Sunday's mass bridge walk is meant to be a celebration. Unions NSW, the bunch who sold off the worker's paradise at Currawong claiming it needed the cash to defeat the Federal government's industrial relations reforms, wants to engineer a mass protest of its members. The reality is that the employment is currently at record levels, thanks, in part to the IR reforms which have lifted the dead hand of regulation from small business. Unions NSW has nothing to celebrate. Unionism has not created a single job in Australia - except for those enjoyed by fat cat trade union bosses and power brokers. The Carr-Iemma government has driven NSW toward the bottom of the performance stakes of Australia's States. While Iemma talks the talk, his true masters want to walk the walk. The Harbour Bridge belongs to all Australians, not just a rump of disgruntled members of the dwindling union movement. This stunt is in the same league as the Teachers' Federation's disgusting attempt to brainwash school children with extremist ideology. Unions NSW boss John Robertson should be pilloried for masterminding this plan to sabotage what should be celebrated as a family outing.