The outgoing union leader said that beyond the new Victorian royal commission, ‘a lot more needs to be done’ to fight corruption in construction Australia-wide.
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Australian unions, representing around 1.6 million workers, are about to get two new leaders. Here’s what changed in the past decade and the challenges ahead.
McManus doesn’t expect instant wins on shorter work hours from next week’s economic summit, but says it still needs to be on the table – along with AI protections.
By Monday morning the CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith had put the Victorian branch into administration.
Under the change, promised in Labor’s election campaign, there will be a new definition of when an employee can be classified as “casual”.
Chalmers is in the driver’s seat as another Labor government copes with an economic crisis – very different from the GFC, but similar in being driven by circumstances not of the government’s making.
Perhaps a silver-lining of the pandemic, the economic downturn has created a more constructive discourse between the minister for industrial relations and the unions.
The latest scandal involving the CFMMEU leader has the potential to cause serious damage to the Labor Party and the union movement.
John Setka says he won’t resign, and he has the backing of Victorian branch delegates, making it uncertain how things will play out.
The Setka affair is now dominating discussion at the highest level of the union movement.
There are 750,000 fewer workers under enterprise agreements now than when the Coalition was elected, McManus says in her speech to the John Curtin Research Centre.
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
The Prices and Incomes Accord was a series of agreements between Labor and the ACTU where unions would moderate their wage demands in exchange for improvements in the ‘social wage’.
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus said 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay “not one cent of tax”. Is that right?
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