WorkChoices unfair restrictions on the right to strike is retained in the ‘Fair’ Work Bill. The analysis I presented posted under the heading of ‘right to strike’ applies, see feature ‘Government to deny the right to strike’. This is at a time politically when strikes are at their lowest historically and not an issue. The bargaining power of corporations in difficult economic times is even stronger and that means a lawful ability to withdraw labour ought to be even more essential for workers and their unions in a collective bargaining system.
ACTU policy is not achieved. Indeed the most unfair prohibition of industrial actiion for pattern bargaining is stricter!
Corporate lawyers have the ability to frustrate the limited enterprise bargaining right to strike and then the same as in WorkChoices have many ways to stop protected action, thus denying the effectiveness of the right to strike.
Any industrial action in response to harsh or unfair management is not protected and can be ordered to stop, and the union penalised, a denial of the human right to strike.
ILO minimum standards are deliberately breached despite the PM’s supposed committment to abide by international law. Some minor changes were made.
Australia continues to have one of the most repressive penal powers in the world against workers’ freedom to withdraw our labour power without being penalised.
Despite minimalist gains, a collective bargaining system that makes industrial action unlawful is hardly fair.
Hardly recognition of the Your Rights at Work campaign! More later…
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