AEU Visit (Brian Lennon)

We had a visit from an AEU rep as well, who was honest about the way in which the union "negotiated" this deal. It raises very big question marks indeed, I think, that the negotiator(s) accepted Brumby's figures on inflation -- 3% this year and 2% the next two years - as their starting point on the negotiation. All they had to do was check on the net for the Reserve Bank's figure on underlying inflation this year of 4.5% and their prediction that they would not get it under 3% the next two years. What sort of integrity (or lack of) was this negotiation conducted with if the AEU accepted Brumby's figures instead of the Reserve Bank's as their starting point? The AEU leadership just HAS to be doing something unacceptable to basic decency and respect for the members to START negotiations this way. They just have to be incompetent ... or worse.
What a shambles. For mine, it beggars belief that anyone with any sort of self-respect would vote to confirm such a dodgy process.
Brian Lennon