By Kim on July 29, 2010
… Now Robert Gottliebsen at Business Spectator has one. The thrust of this allegation is that Julia Gillard produced a very business friendly draft of the Fair Work Act, and Greg Combet and Kevin Rudd intervened to make it more [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business spectator, fair work act, Federal Election 2010, Greg Combet, Industrial Relations, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, leaks, Robert Gottliebsen, unions |
By Kim on July 20, 2010
To get a good handle on how the election is playing, your best best is to watch the first ten minutes or so of any commercial news channel (though Nine and Seven have a bigger footprint than Ten). Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Elections, federal election 2010 | Tagged ACTU, Eric Abetz, Federal Election 2010, Neil Mitchell, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 18, 2010
Apropos of the AWU’s Resources Super Profits Tax ad [reproduced here on LP], Peter Van Onselen has written a piece in today’s Australian warning Paul Howes of the dire consequences should he engage in that cardinal sin, appearing to advocate [...]
Posted in Advertising, History, Language, Media, Politics | Tagged ACTU, Advertising, Bill Kelty, class politics, class warfare, labour movement, Media, mining industry, Paul Howes, Peter Van Onselen, political discourse, political rhetoric, reform, rspt, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 15, 2010
The ACTU has released polling which finds that 53% of respondents believe that Tony Abbott would reintroduce WorkChoices under another name. Abbott’s been addressing some business functions of late, no doubt because he has to build some bridges and mend [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, business, Industrial Relations, poll, polling, Tony Abbott, WorkChoices |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 7, 2009
Julia Gillard has criticised the decision of the Fair Pay Commission to award no increase in the federal minimum wage. She accurately notes that the decision will have an impact on other workers as well, because the safety net is [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged ACTU, AIRC, ALP, ALP policy, decision, Fair Pay Commission, Fair Work Australia, FPC, Ian Harper, IR reform, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour economics, minimum wage, Rudd government, unemployment, wages policy, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 29, 2008
Probably one of the most laudable steps taken by the Rudd government has been the attention given by Senator John Faulkner as Special Minister of State to cleaning up the electoral system. Admittedly, this isn’t one of the funky and [...]
Posted in Activism, Elections | Tagged ACTU, Andrew Norton, campaign finance, Elections, electoral reform, GetUp!, Jamie Briggs, John Faulkner, John Howard, Liberal Party, liberalism, ngos, Nick Minchin, third party campaigns, WorkChoices, Your Rights at Work |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 26, 2008
Julia Gillard is certainly capable of a sophisticated negotiating strategy, and it’s been interesting to observe that the process of formulating the legislation to implement Forward With Fairness and replace WorkChoices – while managed largely behind closed doors – was [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, bargaining, business, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations laws, Julia Gillard, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, unions, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
…45% of Australians think so, according to this fortnight’s Essential Research poll. As a bit of an addendum to my earlier post about Julia Gillard’s speech last week to the National Press Club on the detail of the Forward with [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Polls | Tagged ACTU, ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, political analysis, polling, Polls, psephology, Rudd government, union movement, WorkChoices, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Earlier in the year, writing in On Line Opinion, I thought that Labor’s “Forward With Fairness” industrial relations policy was best interpreted as an attempt to entrench a new workplace settlement acceptable to all parties – and I still think [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, collective bargaining, employment rights, Federal election 2007, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, ir legislation, Jeff Lawrence, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, National Press Club address, Rachel Siewert, Rudd government, Senate, Sharan Burrow, Telstra, The Greens, unfair dismissal, unions, workplace relations |
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