South Australia's unions do what Britain's unions should have done
South Australia's unions have just done what Britain's unions should have done before 2003 at the latest: sacked the right-wing Labor premier. Unions have been campaigning to oust Mike Rann as Labor leader for some time. Wayne Hanson, state secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU), the most conservative of Australia's big unions, moved a motion at the South Australian Labor Party conference to demand Rann resign. “The reason why the Labor Party was established was because the unions [knew] we needed to elect our own representatives to parliament to make the laws that cared for workers...