Union power
Sir,—New Zealand trade unions have a proud record of fighting for and protecting the fragile institutions of democracy, including the freedom of the press. It is sad therefore that your paper .should confuse a correspondent’s right to free expression with printing any garbage that should cross the editor’s desk. E. F. Spencer (June 22) believes that all union power is fundamentally corrupt and evil, and attempts to establish by inference that what happens overseas therefore must be happening here. What malicious nonsense; and the assertion that compulsory unionism leads to “Melbournestyle union thuggery” is ridiculous — Australian trade
unions are completely voluntary. This is but one example from the whole litany of misinformation and anti-union propaganda, and I am surprised that “The Press” should choose to publish such small-minded' opinions masquerading as facts when they are so completely untrue. In New Zealand, the unionmembers make the union decisions; that’s also democracy.— Yours, etc., ROD LINGARD, Canterbury Hotel, Hospital and Restaurant Workers Union. June 22, 1981.
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