The Rudd government did not know about or develop this proposed labour law, the Fair Work Bill (FWB) as a response to this most severe global capitalist financialcrisis since the great depression. In my Senate submission I first point out that the changed circumstances of the global capitalist financial crisis means the Fair Work Bill [...]
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Outlawing pattern bargaining unfair
By chriswhite on January 30, 2009 in Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, WorkChoices, Workers Rights
The Fair Work Bill is not a fair collective bargaining system when the repressive WorkChoices outlawing on the right to strike for pattern or industry bargaining remain. Outlawing pattern and industry bargaining is still unfair. It does not meet any form of ‘keynesian demand management’ necessary to stimulate the econmy, but the reverse. The incessant [...]
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