Climate summit ends with Joe Biden pledging that action equals jobs
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By Brady Dennis, Steven Mufson and Sean Sullivan
April 24, 2021 10.28am
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Washington: US President Joe Biden used the waning hours of a White House climate summit to hammer home a message aimed as much at Americans as at the dozens of world leaders he had convened: Combating the Earth’s warming is not simply a responsibility, but a chance to boost battered economies.
“Today’s final session is not about the threat climate change poses,” Biden said on Friday morning from the East Room.
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The excellent article by Ewin Hannan in
The Australian on Saturday told a depressing story.
That story, as I see it, was about two different approaches to getting change.
One group’s approach is to secure change in workplace relations through negotiation and consensus, through give and take.
The approach of the other group a group that claims the IR space as its own is to deliberately and covertly destroy any chance of change by those outside its exclusive club.
The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) has experienced this before. We will not put up a white flag and will continue to pursue the changes we need for small business employers and their employees.
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He had come from far north Queensland to Sydney to play football and obtained paid employment as a builders’ labourer.
The work was notoriously lacking in safety measures, the amenities on site almost non-existent and the wages poor.
He joined the union only to discover that those who tried to do something about improving wages and conditions on the job were soon dismissed, not only with the support of the union leadership but often at their instigation.
He joined the rank and file organisation which, in an excellent example of daring to struggle, eventually overthrew the previous, corrupt, leadership of the union.