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Business needs to admit workchoices dead
The ACTU has called on the business community to also admit Work Choices is dead and to immediately stop pushing workers onto unfair AWA individual contracts, following the announcement of Liberal leader Brendan Nelson today.
ACTU President Sharan Burrow said:
The ACTU has called on the business community to also admit Work Choices is dead and to immediately stop pushing workers onto unfair AWA individual contracts, following the announcement of Liberal leader Brendan Nelson today.
ACTU President Sharan Burrow said:
"The Liberals are finally starting to admit they got it wrong on IR and it's time now for business to do the same.
"Many employers in Australia's largest businesses as well as business lobby groups ACCI, BCA, NFF and others joined with the Liberals to vilify Australia's trade union movement and promote the Howard Government's unfair Work Choices IR laws.
"Sections of the business community not only received considerable resources from the Government to implement Work Choices but devoted millions of dollars to their own discredited advertising campaign in support of the unfair IR laws.
"The business community and the Liberals both need to wake up and listen to the Australian people.
"The emphatic election result shows that Australians want their rights at work respected and protected and they know and support the role unions play in that.
"It is time for the business community to get with the program and admit Work Choices is dead.
"All employers should now put a stop to using AWAs and sit down and negotiate with workers and their unions on fair collective agreements.
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