Salient. Victoria University Students' Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 25. October 4, 1976
Discussion Reveals All
Discussion Reveals All
The seminar closed with a lively and revealing panel discussion. The panel represented a diversity of views in the various shapes of Ken Douglas (from the Drivers' Union) Jim Turner (from PSA), and Ted Thompson (Watersiders). To initiate discussion the panel first stated their position.
Ken Douglas saw the legislation as an attack against rank and file democracy in the interest of big business. However he saw little need for worry as the legal position was not the important issue - rather, what mattered was Trade Union solidarity and wider community support. Jim Turner saw the legislation in terms of its anti-democratic nature, where workers are virtually enslaved to their jobs through fear of penalties.