Unions to punch above their weight at jobs summit
Trade union officials will make up a quarter of attendees at the event alongside business leaders and CEOs, though no banking bosses have been invited.
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Trade union officials will make up a quarter of attendees at the event alongside business leaders and CEOs, though no banking bosses have been invited.
The ACTU has proposed 'multi-employer or sector bargaining' - effectively a return to industry-wide bargaining that in the early 1980s saw workers receive double-digit pay rises.
The government’s job summit could achieve something meaningful, such as a consensus on industrial relations - or it could become a celebration of windbaggery. Jim Chalmers has to tread carefully.
Plans by the government to crack down on the use of labour hire have received a boost after One Nation advocated a similar policy of its own.
All Australians, including Labor-affiliated non-law abiding unions, should be treated equally under the law, and not get handed free passes because of their political connections.