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The NSW defacto leader Chris Minns has made a rare admission this morning that dealing with the rail and bus union this year has been rather stressful for him and Minister Jo Hayden.
Sydney, the largest open air sewer in the southern hemisphere, is a very expensive place to live and for rail and bus workers, it’s even harder because previous governments in NSW haven’t valued their hard work.
Each day, transport workers help the rat-like people of Sydney get to where they need to go. As most people in Sydney are cunts, the job is often a thankless task.
Which is why transport workers in NSW have been going on strike intermittently all year. Labor is in power and they hope that the will meet them in the middle when it comes to getting a pay rise, more secure work and better hours. So far, only the state’s police have been granted a gargantuan pay rise.
Nevertheless, standing on the banks of Sydney Harbour today, Premier Minns spoke to the media for the last time before Christmas. After watching a few dead cats and great logs of human faeces float eastward to the Tasman, Minns was asked by the masthead’s Sydney bureau chief how he felt given the robust negotiations he’d had with registered domestic terrorist organisations (unions) this year.
“I can’t say it’s been easy,” said Minns as the media scrum watched a jogger lower his tights, pull his bum cheeks apart and poo explosively into the harbour from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.
“But I appreciate their work, they do good work but I’m not here to let the people of NSW have their pants pulled down by some mouth breathing sucker fish that was too dumb to drive a train in the first place. I want the NSW stamp duty payer to get bang for their buck. I also want train drivers to have a nice life. Their job isn’t easy. It’s much harder than being a teacher or a nurse. But I’d say being a cop is harder,”
“This ACAB rubbish, it kind of grinds my gears. You know, you’ve got these, you know, big fat lefties that live around Sydney University. Renting, obviously. Newtown slash Glebe lefties, you know, ones trying to escape the stain of their elite north shore private school education. You know, ACAB people. They hate cops, supposedly, but who are they going to call when someone steals their Subaru? Me? The fire brigade? It’s silly,”
“But yeah look, to answer the question, yeah it’s been tough dealing with the rail union but fuck, it’s my job, isn’t it? Someone’s gotta do it.”
More to come.
