… and fight for Australian Maritime jobs
Independent Senator for Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie as an invited guest speaker, delivered a speech to the MAU Tasmanian Branch 3 day meeting in Devonport today, where she vowed to oppose the Liberal / National government’s Coastal Shipping legislation and fight to protect all Australian maritime jobs.
Senator Lambie told the union members that:
“I’m a proud Tasmanian and even prouder Australia and I’m going to fight with all my strength to stop our Prime Minister and his government… and the opposition leader and his crew – from selling out Australian workers and giving their jobs to foreigners.
So its not going to come as a shock to you when I say that the Government can go to hell – I will never vote for their Coast Shipping legislation. It’s a recipe to kill of the rest of Australian Maritime workers jobs.
And I’m not going to stand buy and watch silently, as Australian jobs are taken by overseas workers…but at the same time I’m not going to stick my head in the sand and pretend that we can continue doing business in the same way – and that efficiencies and work place reform is a thing of the past.
I believe that I’m talking with a group of people who know that for Australian Businesses in order to compete and make a profit in a corrupt and unfair world market … compromise will have to be made on both sides – by management and workers if Australian jobs are to be protected and new jobs created for our children.
In the maritime industry, I believe that if we all get together (as we’ve already started) and have honest conversations, in spirit of good will and conciliation – collectively we can come up with a workable plan, which we can put to government and opposition.”
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Rob Messenger for Senator Jacqui Lambie Senator for Tasmania
