It’s easy for Labor-friendly economists to look to pin the blame for higher unemployment on the central bank. But other arms of policy should now be working harder to help curb inflation and save as many jobs as possible.
NTEU officials told workers at the strike rally that the union would enter “intensive bargaining” in the Fair Work Commission and “you may not get everything that you want.”
Workers and students from five Melbourne universities joined a stopwork rally to fight for pay rises, job security and against the exploitation of casuals.
This is not a “victory” as unions claim, but a tactical shift. Svitzer is seeking to take advantage of new “intractable bargaining” laws introduced late last year by the federal Labor government.