Joyce makes enemies with long memories
The Gillard Government has been accused of siding with Qantas to the disadvantage of the unions. This has been argued in relation to Government’s support for the termination of industrial action by Fair Work Australia. But there is more than [...]
Why Adam Bandt is (largely) wrong about the Qantas dispute
There’s been a fair bit of discussion around the traps about Adam Bandt’s statement yesterday about what the government should have done, or left undone, with regard to the Qantas dispute. Some of Bandt’s post seems to echo criticism from [...]
Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Labour market myth busting
As we all slouch back towards work in the new year, a hardy perennial has been dominating the business pages and the Bosses’ Bible, the Australian Financial Review. Spurred on, this time, by the release of 1980 Cabinet papers (resources [...]
Coalition shows it doesn't care about equal pay for women
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Fair Pay Commission still a misnomer
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 [...]
Malcolm Turnbull's WorkChoices
As I write, Malcolm Turnbull is on the telly stealing Paul Keating’s lines, ranting and raving about stuff that happened in 1989, and jabbering about neo-liberalism and Hugo Chavez. It certainly appears that Malcolm couldn’t resist taking the bait laid [...]
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