Union thug looking at Goal
Craig Johnston is looking at doing time after pleading guilty to a raft of charges including threatening to kill and causing $42,000 worth of damage at Skilled Engineering in Melbourne.
Johnston, of Parer Road, Airport West, was Australian Manufacturing Workers Union state secretary at the time of the so-called “run-throughs”.
According to the prosecution, Johnston threatened Claude Ceccomancini, a manager of non-union labour at the factory with words to the effect of: “I know who you are, you’re dead.”He then leads his thugs on a rampage.
Later that morning, unionists force their way into the offices of Skilled Engineering and took part in what Mr Johnson described as an unbridled rampage. Pictures were torn from the wall, filing cabinets were upturned and computers smashed as part of the wanton destruction that caused $42,000 damage.Bob Johnson, prosecutor says It is clear that Johnston was the ringleader… of both these invasions.
Mr Johnson said both invasions caused considerable trauma, with some Skilled Engineering employees requiring counselling. He said the use of balaclavas at Johnson Tiles was “sinister and disconcerting”, and had a “terrifying effect” on the workers.Surprisingly, the Greens who I thought were all about cuddly Koalas, disenfranchised frogs and tree hugging, want us to support thug Johnstone. They have an article here calling for support for militant unionism. I’m all for responsible unionism but not thuggery. Johnstone should be locked up and barred from union appointments for life.
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Despite calling themselves Green Left, the weekly newspaper is actually associated with Socialist Alliance rather than Australian Greens. Red Left would have been more appropriate.
You are right however I have always subscribed to the watermelon theory when considering the Greens. Green skin, red centre.
“watermelon theory”; ROTFL!!.. that’s absolutely bloody wonderful, Kev. I think I’ll use it on my blog, with acknowledgement to you of course.
Has anyone noticed how amazingly many Socialist Alliance flags, posters and people there are at “protests” lately? It doesn’t matter if it’s a protest about bats in the Botanical Gardens or Gays & Lesbians rights to work in the local knock-shop, the bloody SA are there in force.