Henare Tau: Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Henare Tau: Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill — In Committee 
[Sitting date: 21 March 2012. Volume:678;Page:1196. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 It is just not about the cheap shot from the former leader of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions or wherever and whomever he represented— 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: The EPMU. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh the Amalgamated Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union the “elephant union”—well whatever. It is not about a cheap shot about me getting married and a cheap shot at my wife because that is what it was. That is the sort of thing that I expect. We have been hearing it all day: the cheap dirty shot. I will tell you this; I will let you in on a little secret. I went to the acting Opposition whip tonight and asked whether they would stand in the way of us going back to clause 2 and she said “No not a problem. As long as you don’t play dirty that’s fine.” What happens? The first speaker— 
Kris Faafoi 
: Stop putting words into her mouth. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: It is very hard to put words into anybody’s mouth over there. I mean I would have to have a million of them because their mouths are so big. Look the fact of the matter is that this is about democracy. He talks about freedom—the workers’ freedom. Well I tell you what. Workers will be free if they are not bullied by the likes of Andrew Little—bullied into taking industrial action. Here is a question for the Amalgamated Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union and every other union. How many of their organisers take the pay cut—do not take wages—while their members are on strike? What about Garry Parsloe? He took the wage all right while his so-called comrades were out on strike. 
Andrew Little 
: I learnt everything on you from Michelle Boag. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh here we go. I have seen many a union organiser take the money take the organiser’s car and drive around in it while their mates and their members are on strike. Do you know which is the worst one? Which is the worst union? The Amalgamated Engineering Printing and Manufacturing Union. Its organisers drive around in a big car with a sign on the door and it is the same with the Service and Food Workers Union. The one in Te Atatu Peninsula is always parked outside Countdown looking for a few members. It cannot get any. 
Let us talk about the bullyboy tactics of that member when he was in charge of that two-bit outfit. [ 
Interruption 
] That is right oh yeah. They shivered in their boots all right. Do you know why workers shiver in their boots? Because they do not want to take the action that they have been told to take by guys like Andrew Little. That is why. The only people who lose in a strike are workers. They are ones who do not get paid. These guys get paid—do not forget it. This is my plea to New Zealand: do not forget that workers are the ones who lose wages not the union organisers. And you know what here is something else. 
Andrew Little 
: Here it comes. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: That is right. If you shut up I will tell you. The Labour Party is full of union organisers and failed teachers.