Remember Joe McDonald? He’s the WA CFMEU official who Kevie demanded be drummed out of the Labor Party for swearing on a building site. At a boss, no less .
Anyway Joe refused to go, and then he got acquitted by a bunch of magistrates of doing anything wrong, and there was an election and […]

Professor Ian Harper is the part-time chair of the Fair Pay Commission, the body which increased minimum wages by a derisory amount last year (a whole $5.32 a week for those privileged bastards on $700 a week).
It turns out he got a pay rise himself last year which was a bit more than the amounts […]

Today’s decision by the alternative government to abandon WorkChoices and all who sail in her has created obvious problems for Doctor Nelson’s gallant crew, in both the short and long term. However, it also presents Labor with some difficulties that are not so obvious.
For team Nelson the immediate damage is enormous. They bayed for 20 […]

It’s a bit hard to fathom the justification for long service leave. Originally it was conceived as a reward for employees who had worked for the same employer for more than 20 years. If you were good enough to stick it out for that length of time both parties deserved a break from each other, […]

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While we’re being frightened out of our wits on prime-time TV, in the leadup to the election, by ads featuring scary Unions (Ooga-booga!) we might do well to think of the outcome of monday’s rockfall at the Lihir Ballarat gold mine. The miners survival was in large part due to safety measures such as […]

Deregulation of the labour market has arguably made a substantial contribution to improving the efficiency and productivity of the Australian economy. This has created great benefits to the current generation of Australians, evidenced most obviously during the last 15 years or so during which the per capita production of wealth in Australia has risen steadily.
The […]

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UPDATE 2: Working again….
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Industrial relations is one of the biggest issues in the current election campaign, right? And one of the main reasons why Labor is performing strongly is supposed to be that it will undo all those dreadful IR changes implemented by WorkChoices. And indeed the ALP tells everyone, every chance it gets, that it’s going to […]

Here’s a neat little story that doesn’t seem to have got much attention in the MSM.
WorkChoices, or to be more correct the Workplace Relations Act, is administered by Joe Hockey’s department, Employment and Workplace Relations. The previous minister was Kevin Andrews.
Back in 2005, unions organised a national day of protest against WorkChoices and many public […]