1. It’s all about production stupid!
While Ark Tribe could go to goal for 6 months for defending the rights of construction workers to remain silent, the MBA, voice of the construction bosses, has responded as to why it is necessary to retain draconian laws for construction workers.
Master Builders Australia chief executive Wilhelm Harnisch is supporting retention of coercive powers over the construction sector, saying it was about productivity. “It’s about providing the best bang for the taxpayers’ buck,” he said. (11/06/09 AAP)
If the concern was for taxpayers bucks one would think abolishing the ABCC would be a good start to saving $33 million per annum.
The only tax payer the MBA is concerned with is the taxpayer bosses in the Building and Construction Industry (if any could be found paying their fair share).
Griffith University Professor David Peetz in a supplementary submission to the Wilcox inquiry states, “While there is scant evidence of a large impact on productivity, of the order claimed by the ABCC, Econtech and the employer bodies, there is more persuasive evidence for suggesting that the ABCC might have been associated with the transfer of income shares from labour to capital.â€
Put pure and simple, more profits for the bosses-less rights and wages for workers.
How crude the bosses have become using a state sponsored industrial police force to improve their profit margins and how exposed some current Federal Labor Politicians are becoming by justifying legal bullying and intimidation as, “keeping a tough cop on the beatâ€.
All this without a care that a worker could be goaled for 6 months for the very basic right enjoyed in any civilized society to remain silent.
John Howard introduced the most draconian industrial relations laws seen in Australia, in the past week Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have declared themselves caretakers for these draconian laws.
From Ark’s tribe
2. The retired Judge Wilcox on ABC radio rationalising his report accepted Cole’s biases: ie forms of collective bargaining should be unlawful eg pattern bargaining; that outside
of the very limited right to strike for enterprise bargaining all strikes are unlawful and to be penalised. Union organisers ought not
have right to entry etc Consequently the draconia ABCC.
Wilcox accepted the fraudulent Cole report.
Wilcox says there is still unlawfulness with industrial action (that Gillard deliberately obscures into criminality) and evidence of so-called unlawfulness has to be uncovered by his
revised coercive investigative powers.
But what was formerly legitimate industrial action, has been made unlawful by Howard’s laws. As can be seen in my posts ABCC the right to strike ought to be protected and strikes not made unlawful. But Labor keeps making in the Fair Work Act making legitimate strikes unlawful and penalisable.
The slogan ‘one law for all’ although correct, is now in the position of being won, but that one law, the Fair Work Act is bad law as it makes the right to strike unlawful and this should not be the case.
And the big lie is the extent of building and construction workers exercising their right to strike in the building industry over 10 years
… 99.7% of working time is not on strike!
There is no real issue…
except Howard’s police state against unionists to be kept by Rudd/Gillard and disgracefully only a few Labor MPs speak up, despite
having got into parliament through the YRAW campaign.
Rights on site campaigns to abolish the ABCC
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