Solidarity

An employer in the film industry has admitted paying his staff illegal, below-award wages, and has been caught on tape making threats of violence against a union official. Film producer Brad Diebert rang the MEAA’s Simon Whipp:

How dare you say we have the money to pay actors more money… fuck you, spreading shit like that. … You and me see each other in the street you better walk the other way, fucker, ’cause I’m going to rip your fucking eyes out.

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Which reminds me — whatever happened to Liberal councillor Jim Aitken? John Howard said “his position is now being examined”, but that was a while ago. Has that convicted criminal been expelled from the Liberal Party yet, or is John Howard soft on workplace thuggery?