Christopher Back (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I preface my comments this evening on the Construction Industry (Improving Productivity) Bill 2013 with the observation that I am the proud grandson of Mr Tom Back, who was the secretary of what was then the Lumpers Union on the wharf in Fremantle in the 1930s until his death working in 1945. The Lumpers Union became the Waterside Workers Federation. I think Senator Sterle will agree with me that the Waterside Workers Federation became the MUA. So I come from a background as both an employer and from a family in which the value of unions was always there to see.