Trade unionists are pro-business

What has Prime Minister Howard and the Liberal Party got against tradesmen?

I am a tradesman and like tens of thousands of tradesmen across the country we work hard for our employers, and often side by side with our employers, whether they are a small company or a multinational.

We recognise that the best system for all is one where everyone is a winner.

What the PM is somehow doing is trying to convince the rest of Australia that because we ask a union to represent us, to give us a stronger voice and to look after our interests, we are somehow militant thugs.

Much has been made of the recent case of Joe McDonald in WA and his language on a construction site.

Well let me inform you that he is a representative of a construction union where men are men and we tell it like it is.

If the Liberal Party want to denigrate the working men of Australia, let them do so at their own risk.

It is time the Labor Party stood up for the workers as it once did.

The only support unions seem to be getting publicly is from The Greens.

I am not a member of Joe McDonald's union but I am a union member and proud of it.

And last time I asked, my family did not consider my membership in a trade union as being in partnership with the devil.

Trade unionists are not anti-business.

We are pro-business but we have morals and rights that mean something even if profit is not our number on priority like the Liberal Party want us to think.

Ross Cochrane Woy Woy