The union-bosses-government working groups to discuss industrial relations reform have not delivered and the PM has signalled new IR laws before Christmas. Sarah Hathway argues union leaderships need to get prepared.
Ensuring Integrity Bill
The Coalition鈥檚 union-busting Ensuring Integrity Bill failed to pass after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson changed her position. But Sam Wainwright writes that it reveals a serious strategic and political聽weakness in the union movement.
This bill is about giving even more power to a billionaire class that has shown itself to have absolutely no integrity.
Governments 鈥 and the corporations they serve 鈥 understand that as the economic and climate crises deepen, they will need to resort to more authoritarian measures to maintain their ecologically and socially destructive system.
School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) is calling on all workers and unions to join the Climate Strike on September 20. To make this a reality they have been working on building links with trade unions and have expressed their condemnation of the Scott Morrison Coalition government鈥檚 latest attacks on the rights of trade unions.
It is well-established that the right to strike is protected under the International Labour Organization鈥檚 and . However, this is another internationally recognised right that Prime Minister Scott Morrison鈥檚 Coalition government has been incrementally eroding.
Tony Abbott was elected in 2013 on the 鈥減romise鈥 that the Coalition鈥檚 proposed industrial relations legislation, Work Choices, was 鈥渄ead, buried and cremated鈥.
Of course, few workers genuinely believed that an incoming Coalition government would keep its word. Certainly, construction workers knew it was only a matter of time before they were in the firing line.