The mailers attacking Marshall follow ads from Plains PAC that attacked Kobach for his support of abortion rights in 2000 when he was a candidate for … Peter Dale Scott is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (California, 1993). "Peter is deeply dedicated to a cause and the cause is firefighters. Sir Peter Alfred Soulsby (born 27 December 1948) is a British Labour Party politician and the current Mayor of Leicester. In full flight in negotiations or even with his own staff, he can be confronting. "As minister, Garrett agreed to many of the union's demands, including a substantial pay rise and a large increase in the number of professional firefighters.But she backed the CFA in resisting some of the union's more outlandish demands, assuming, probably, that there was ambit in its claims.At the core of the row is what CFA chiefs saw as a union bid to unreasonably extend its control over the volunteer-based CFA. Some know it, too. It might be 2am or 3. And he means it.
In an election campaign, firefighters are a dream come true. Carli says the roots of the current CFA imbroglio lay in the closeness of the relationship in 2014. Garrett's predecessor in the seat of Brunswick, Carlo Carli, recalls them together at campaign functions, and firefighters "thick on the ground" in polling booths across the Brunswick electorate in 2014.Marshall is renowned for his loyalty to those who back him – like Bandt – and fierce on those who cross him.
""It's his life," is a comment made repeatedly by those who know him. "He works tirelessly for his members, 18, 20 hours a day, he only sleeps four or five hours," says Electrical Trades Union secretary Troy Gray. There would not be many – if any – paid firefighters he has not met. The one thing everyone agrees on is that he is uncompromising.The CFA row has led to the ministerial resignation of one of Labor's rising stars, Garrett, the sacking of the CFA board, the resignation of a string of senior officers and internal Labor friction that is eroding Daniel Andrews' leadership.Back in the heady days of late 2014 some newly elected Labor MPs expected the CFA enterprise agreement to be a routine industrial matter for the new Andrews government – a bit of family "argy bargy" between Labor and a public sector union quickly resolved.Anyone who believed that didn't know Marshall and wasn't considering the consequences of fully enlisting him in the 2014 election campaign.Peter Marshall is old school. He backed the union's lawyer, the Greens' Adam Bandt, in 2010 and 2013 for the once-safe Labor heartland seat of Melbourne.But at the state level, and especially in the 2014, the UFU fought hard for an Andrews government, turning out to doorknock, and gathering at the Collingwood Town Hall in honour of their man: Dan Andrews.The UFU is small but special. "You wouldn't meet anyone who would be more fanatical and work harder for his members," says Mighell, who worked as a consultant for the UFU last year.Still, despite his considerable negotiating skills and friendship with both antagonists – Marshall and Garrett – Mighell was not able to get the dispute resolved. )Carli says many young Labor people struggle to understand Marshall's loyalties. To his mainly loyal – often deeply so – members, he is a hero. If one wished to write a Hollywood screenplay for a political thriller about an effort to blow up a hugely corrupt and powerful leftist bureaucratic political establishment (which we fondly Nor did either want to comment.
"It's bullying," says one observer.This is also reflected in his aggressive class-war language preferred by the old warriors of the labour movement but deemed inappropriate in the 2000s – the kind of language is now at the centre of a serious rift between Andrews and Garrett.Some Labor MPs and union leaders are dismissive, saying Marshall's language is standard in the rough and tumble of the labour movement. Peter Marshall drives through the night. Anarcho-Syndicalist Gadsden T-Shirt.
SKU: asgadsenshirt. He has run the UFU as a militant left union for more than 20 years. He was previously state rounds reporter and has also covered education for The Age.Firefighters union slams plans for federal royal commission into fires He wasn't alone.The bamboozling thing for many involved has been Marshall's apparent lack of concern for the government and the wider Labor project. He was raised working class in pre-gentrified, industrial Brunswick. Everyone respects them. (It's a charge laid against Garrett also, especially since Andrews controversially intervened to settle the dispute in June by backing a union-friendly version of the agreement. A senior Labor insider says Marshall is "addicted to war".
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"Texting is becoming an issue for Marshall, the man behind the CFA row now threatening to send an otherwise productive and progressive Andrews government up in flames.He is to be the subject of a formal bullying complaint by former emergency services minister Jane Garrett. "It was a terrible mistake to make Jane the minister responsible for emergency services, responsible for Peter, given their friendship and the support he gave her.