What’s Wrong with the CFMEU-QLD?

In the aftermath of these disastrous federal elections, that is a question that all of us, Australian workers and trade union members who took to social media and attended rallies and street protests and donated our money and our time by volunteering should be asking ourselves.

Under the leadership of Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil, we proudly fought back against the COALition’s class warfare against workers all over Australia. We campaigned to see an end to the COALition’s endless efforts to erode our wages and our working conditions. We did that not only in our own names, but in the names of all workers in this country.

And we campaigned to have the Australian Building and Construction Commission, created specifically by the COALition on behalf of their corporate masters to attack the CFMEU, abolished.

Many of us, including the Victorian branch of the CFMEU, also supported the School Children’s Strike for Climate Change action. We make no apologies for that: that coal must remain underground if we all, Queenslanders included, are going to survive.

We did not campaign to see the CFMEU-QLD take the side of Adani and against the weak Labor Queensland State government of Annastacia Palaszczuk.

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QLD workers are setting themselves up for a let-down, but as a worker I can understand their hope Adani will mean decent jobs for them and a livelihood for their families. It’s a vain hope, for Adani will betray them. Adani and their lackeys and handmaids in the COALition and One Nation don’t fool us.

QLD workers are wrong and they are hurting us, but their need is a good excuse. CFMEU-QLD Mining and Energy Division have none. You are betraying the Australian working class and acting like an Adani-sponsored union and becoming willing accomplices in the tragedy that will inevitably befall those same workers on whose interests you pretend to speak. You are aiding and abetting the COALition in their war against all of us. You are playing the useful idiot to pro-boss hacks.

That is unforgivable.

Solidarity is a two-way street, comrades. Keep that in mind as you abuse of it. How dare you ask us to join the Greens? Instead go yourselves join hands with that fat charlatan who refused to pay his Queensland Nickel workers and stop pretending you speak for us.

Remember: solidarity is a two-way street.