And this morning Flowers and his colleague Phillip Tate made the insinuation that if the government isn't too concerned with that resistance, it may be because their mandatory vax campaign is merely a retrenchment in disguise.

Phillip Tate, Public Service Union

"Well, if they don't get vaccinated then you can't come to work, if you come to work you'll be sent home because you're not vaccinated, and based on the regulation it is very clear that if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck, so most likely, it could be retrenchment, quite easy for people not to be able to get access to their workplace because of the fact that they're not vaccinated."

Reporter:
"They're being mandated to do so."

Phillip Tate, Public Service Union
"They're being mandated to do so, and that has implications."

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