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Encouraging thousands of underemployed individuals on minimum wages to join a union is a great idea. A minimum wage sounds great in theory. In reality, it is nowhere near a living wage, especially on a casual contract with inadequate hours of work and several debts to repay. Encouraging thousands of victims of wage theft to join a union is also a great idea, except for the possibility that quite a few may usually be paid in cash to dodge tax and work much longer hours than their visas allow. A unionised workforce of the lowest paid workers is a great idea for the associated lobbyists. There is much money to be made from keeping wages low. A unionised workforce of the lowest paid workers is also great from the point of view of a senior union official with an overly generous salary, access to a trade union credit card and political ambitions. The public knows that low paid jobs are usually boring jobs. The work may even be detrimental to the mental health of the workers. The people d