#john setka

"They want to call us criminals because there’s some shit law designed to never let us win and fuck us over. You know what? We aren’t copping it. We’re going to fight it all the way through."

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John Setka Bio: Union chief John Setka has responded to reports he has been charged over an incident at his home in Melbourne’s west on Boxing Day.

A 54-year-old man has been charged after police were called to an argument on Boxing Day

John Setka has been released on bail and will appear in court next week

Mr. John Setkatweeted that his family had experienced…

Blackmail is a serious charge, carrying a possible penalty of fifteen years in jail. The overwhelming majority of those convicted of blackmail spendtime in prison. The fact that John Setka is alleged to have made an industrial threat, to achieve an industrial outcome, and ends up on a serious criminal charge, is an obvious threat to every unionist in the country.

It’s the drive to shackle unions and boost profits which is driving this offensive. So today’s strike and rally was important: walking off the job, disrupting production and profits, has to be at the heart of an effective response.

In 1969, union leader Clarrie O’Shea was freed from Pentridge Prison by a rolling general strike that smashed the anti-union “penal powers” laws of the day. We can’t snap our fingers and bring back those days, but mass defiance is the orientation we need. As Maritime Union of Australia member Peter Klischat told Red Flag : “The world’s changing and they’re fucking screwing us. Big business and the trade union royal commission are trying to shaft us. We need everyone in the streets. We need to stop the whole country, that’d work”.