The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations today published a scathing criticism of WorkChoices, saying it is biased towards bosses. Denis Peters’ AAP story is quite good — it mentions the long list of problems with WorkChoices, including “the minimum wage, minimum conditions and bargaining, unfair dismissals and the role of unions.” But Peters gets [...]
Alexander Downer has suggested Australian Labor should look to the Tony Blair’s industrial regime for inspiration. Downer says the British ex-PM …saw the modernisation of his national economy as the key to job creation, fairness and equality for all workers… [and] set a strong example for future Labour leaders, both in Britain and around the [...]
As you might expect, the Government has been ramping up a campaign about so-called “dirty tricks” being employed by the unions. First John Howard slammed an ACTU document as “a dirty tricks manual”, but couldn’t explain how unions phoning or visiting their members is a problem. Howard’s complaint to the electoral commission went nowhere, as [...]
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