Bishop told parliament: "The leader of the opposition is now in lockstep with Labor's union masters who are running a campaign of economic treason against our nation's interests by making dishonest and untrue statements about China's free trade agreement, directly undermining Australian jobs and Australia's future prosperity".
But the executives are not denying that the threat of a new licensing requirement could help them achieve another goal: eliminating a small but expensive class of workers in the union -- master mechanics and oilers -- whose jobs, they say, were long ago rendered obsolete by technological advances.
There are several options available to the union's master executive council, officials said.
The challenged ballots belong to voters who were not on the union's master list of members.
The vote by the union's master executive council was unanimous, said the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents pilots at Canadian and United States carriers, including Northwest.
But he said those numbers do not distinguish between union members, "master" masons and unskilled workers who simply build stone walls.
Captain Dubinsky served out a second two-year term as chairman of the union's master executive council and left office in 1991.
Last week, Rick Dubinsky, the chairman of the United union's master executive council who is also on UAL's board, criticized Mr. Goodwin for pursuing the merger before first sealing a new contract with the pilots.
According to the Dutch Athletic union, a master athlete is aged over 35 years (up till 2007 this age limit was 40 years).
Suckered by the Rugby Football Union, those masters of cringe, into performing a pre-match advertising stunt on behalf of the kit manufacturer responsible for dressing England in purple, the paying public were bored to the marrow so quickly that they spent the first 20 minutes turning their silly little pieces of coloured card into paper aeroplanes and lobbing them towards the pitch.
