Unions want the right to maintain criminal enterprises

Tony Sheldon, one of the nation’s most powerful unionists says Coalition plans to block people convicted of certain crimes from entering secure areas of airports and the waterfront is “window dressing” that will do little to reduce crime rates.

Blocking people from receiving a security clearance would have little or no effect on crime in airports, because many workers who had not had a background check – but could be escorted into secure zones – could also be committing crimes.

While the’re being escorted?  I guess that depends on who is doing the escorting.  If the escort is an ex crim trying to run an honest business of getting drugs and pistols thru customs then I imagine the visitor could be aiding and abetting  crimes. In fact it is happening all the time which is exactly why we want union crims out of the picture.

The union believes the “dredging up of old offences” to stop someone from receiving an aviation or maritime security identification card would be “a double penalty” and security access should be determined by whether a person posed a current risk.

It could be a “quadrillion penalty” depending on how many times the ex crim applies for a job in a secure area. Get used to it Tony, and,  get used to the fact that the unions are not running the country anymore.