AWB/CWB 'collective bargaining'

[TOM4CWB]

AWB 'collective bargaining' at its Finest... Iraqi bribes for Ausie Lies... and CWB ties!

What good does the CWB do... if they allow every sort of injustice... in the name of the 'single desk'... to protect power that obviously corrupts absolutely!?

And this is "COLLECTIVE BARGAINING"?

What ever happened to the enjoyment of the fruits of ones labours?



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June 17, 2008 Tuesday 2:55 PM EST

NATIONWIDE INTERNATIONAL NEWS

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AUSTRALIAN NATIONALS MAINTAIN RAGE AGAINST WHEAT EXPORT CHANGES

CANBERRA June 17


The Australian National Party has maintained their futile fight against changes to wheat export rules, but found an unexpected friend in an otherwise hostile Senate.

Family First Senator Steve Fielding, better known for promoting the interests of city-based families than wheat farmers, rose in the Senate to lambast the Rudd government for failing its Labor roots and adopting free-market economics while failing to protect "those without power".

The present "single desk" wheat export system was an example of collective bargaining, which Senator Fielding thought was a core Labor value.

But he knew his opposition was doomed, and spoke only briefly on the Wheat Export Marketing bills before The Nationals forced a vote on the second reading.

As the bells rang for four minutes to summon senators to the vote, Senator Fielding remained at his desk animatedly speaking on the phone to his office.

But as the time neared, he rose to join four lonely Nats on the `no' side of the chamber.

The `yes' side was crowded -- Labor, Liberal, Green and Democrats sat cramped four to a bench.

"Fancy me voting with the Greens," quipped Liberal former minister Rod Kemp.

The vote was 59 to five, and the bills passed the second reading, and will pass the final stages of parliamentary debate later this week.

That will end the long-standing monopoly on bulk wheat exports, stripping wheat exporter AWB of its single desk to allow competition in the $A5 billion ($US4.7 billion) industry.

Some farmers fear the move will see prices fall and their livelihoods threatened, and demonstrated outside and inside parliament yesterday.

Senator Fielding and his new friends in The Nationals know they won't win, but appear determined to go down fighting.

(AAP)

June 17, 2008

[cchurch]

TOM are you on crack?

Just wondering.

[TOM4CWB]

cchurch,

Obviously you did choose to close your eyes... There are none so blind... as those who will not see.

The CWB and the Liberals are as responsible for the demise of the AWB 'single desk" as the National Party/Gov in AU.

Just in case you forgot:

"Dropping the bundle

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Australia might have nipped the Iraq wheat scandal in the bud if it had chosen to look
more closely at what was not being said, writes David Marr.

THIS is bullshit," said the man from AWB and that was good enough for the
Government.

In late January 2000, Canberra was moving in a leisurely way to deal with allegations
coming from deep within the United Nations that the national wheat trader AWB was
sanctions busting.

[...]

"At this time, AWB
was paying its first corrupt "trucking fees" to Iraq. The system that would eventually yield
Saddam Hussein's regime a fortune in bribes and kickbacks was in its very early days.
What follows is the story of Australia's failure to nip the whole system in the bud.

What Canberra had learnt by cable from its UN mission was that Iraq was pressuring a
"third country" - easily identified as Canada - to make payments "outside the oil-for-food
program". Iraq was claiming these payments were already being made by AWB.

It was absolutely true.

Her message to Canberra was that once AWB gave the UN a copy of its "standard terms
and conditions", the crisis would pass.

[…]

AWB had a more nuanced understanding: Canada had also to be squared away. In the
days after the Washington meeting, McConville and Flugge flew north to meet Canadian
Wheat Board officials over breakfast in Winnipeg, and executives of the Saskatchewan
Wheat Pool at a transit hotel at Vancouver Airport.

Though a haze of amnesia descended on these men when they appeared before the
Cole inquiry, it's clear they were mounting a big effort to ingratiate the AWB with the
Canadians, who had an immediate problem: as part of its effort to force them to pay
"trucking fees", Iraq was refusing to unload Canadian ships.

Australia was there to help. Snowball jotted a note in his diary: "Trevor wants to keep
alongside them - see if we could help them … mkts to put the cargoes into."

What happened there is unknown, but it is clear that Canada, which had been pursuing
its complaints against Australia fairly vigorously, let them drop. Over the following year,
Canada was to send a further 300,000 tonnes of wheat to Iraq through an "accredited
exporter". None of those ships would have been landed without paying "trucking fees"."

Remember this?

CBC Manitoba:


WINNIPEG – The Canadian Wheat Board is demanding a retraction from Saskatchewan MP David Anderson for comments he made in the House of Commons.

Last Friday, Conservative MP David Anderson stood in the House of Commons and accused the Wheat Board of illegal and corrupt practices in respect to a sale by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool into Iraq's oil-for-food program.

"This directly affects Canadians because 30 per cent of the value of the contract disappeared through shipping delays and what are referred to as transfers to other buyers, whatever they are. That sounds like even more corruption," Anderson said. "How did the Wheat Board and its exporters manage to lose $8 million out of a $23 million illegal deal with Iraq?"

I am on crack... a track to crack a way to get our money back!

"single desk" gold... Alberta Tea... your jabs will not stop me!

[wilagro]

What Australia does is THEIR business. How we run OUR CWB is ours.

If the AWB conspires with the DEVIL, it is THEIR business.

Focus, Tom...FOCUS.

[AdamSmith]

Yes Willy it is their business and when their world doesn't fall apart and when farmers see higher returns, that will debunk the "single desk" lie once and for all.

Remember all the same arguments and same claims as here in Western Canada have been made in Australia.

Ontario was first, now the Aussies.

Guess what's next!

Focus Willy! Focus!