Labor likely to win Batman by-election
Current ALP 'hero' Geraldine Kearney was at one time in her life a scab. Who would have thought that the head of the ACTU was also a scab.
The 'scab' who went to the top of the union movement
Ged Kearney's first experience of work involved under-aged scab labour in a pub.
Kearney, 46, who has been chosen to take over the role of president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions next year, had an unlikely introduction to the cause.
Her father was a publican in the working class Melbourne suburb of Richmond. ''Although he was a small businessman, he had a very strong social justice bent,'' Kearney recalls. ''He encouraged all of the staff to belong to the union. During the brewery strikes our workers would down tools and my father would support that, even though it affected our business.''
She adds: ''He was very lucky he had nine children. He used his own children as scab labour. We would work very hard during those strikes.''
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-scab-who-went-to-the-top-of-the-union-moveme...Sure it's not as romantic as former PM Rudd living in a car in his formative years and being kept awake by Bessie the cow but ALP stories are the glue that holds the party together.
Ged Kearney is a phu*k'n hypocrite.