Tonight’s 4 Corners on the ABC takes a look at the likely impact of the proposed IR changes. Should be worth a look.
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Lets hope that they put the ladies down.
And of course persecute the coloured people.
What else can a white man do.Death to China and Iran.Free Tibet.
I have no idea what you’re talking about, Larado.
Sorry,Mark.I just got a little bit excited,,
I missed the start, and the whole thing had the bending over backards to be ‘neutral’ about it, but Peetz was very good, as was Buchanan (he’s always very good), and others. Ridout plays a funny line, or is a bit dim, I can’t tell.
Yes, it was good to see David on the tellie.
The most significant thing - for me - was that everyone admitted - even the conservative academic Wooden and Ridout - that there was no link between individual contracts and productivity, and in fact collective bargaining was more conducive to productivity.
The government’s changes are totally unjustified in any policy sense.
Yes, Wooden’s conclusion that collective agreements produce higher productivity was perhaps the highlight of the show.
All credit to him for being honest about his research, at the risk of being he’s been entered onto the Rodent’s hate list.
Yes, now the dead hand of government is intervening in management/ employee realtionships to overturn EBAs recently agreed in several universities.
So much for deregulation. The government just barges in as third party.
Meanwhile, Nelson on VSU - with able assitance from DIMIA who accidentally locked up some of them, FFS - is wrecking our international student income like a silly drunken fratboy on a O-week rampage.
Could this government be any less competent to manage higher education?
I like this comment from Howard:
That damn no disadvantage test is actually preventing workers from getting a raw deal so it has to go. I’m glad that actual empirical evidence was discussed and didn’t rely on Howard’s utopian workplace fantasies.
I found it fairly illuminating. It was good to see the conservative business types basically refute Howard’s central premise.
Ahhhh - an evidenced based approach to analysing potential policy - but this is too difficult for the Howard govt. to do! This should be the rapier that people use to drive through the federal govt.
Best question to Ratty:
And the answer very unconvincing too, Kim!