The Acting DPM has brushed aside union threats to mount a case against her workplace reforms in the world’s top labour forum the ILO, when she knows her Fair Work Bill is in breach of minimum labour standards. The PM in his sppech in Parliament in 2005 attacked the breaches of the ILO with WorkChoices as did other ALP members, but then without any merit, continues the breach. The DPM does not engage the debate on merit. One issue is denying unions a choice of bargaining, such as pattern bargaining. ‘Ms Gillard also renewed her guarantee to business, which is jittery about the potential of the new Fair Work laws to revive pattern bargaining, that the practice would remain banned.’ The ALP used to decrying the outlawing of pattern bargaining. As stated in these posts there is a reasonable argument for pattern bargaining and the right to strike that occurs all over the world.
The hypocrisy is that MPs, and CEOs pattern bargain but not only deny this freedom to unions, but want to punish unions making it unlawful.
This is not the repeal of WorkChoices and the ‘spin’ of a fair balance is a cruel joke against YRAW activists.
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