The Fair Work Bill is not a fair collective bargaining system when the repressive WorkChoices restrictions on the right to strike remain. Repression of the right to strike remains If ever the accusation is true that the FWB is ‘Workchoices lite’ it is in the regime repressing industrial action. The COIL process was watertight in [...]
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FWB: Unions downgraded
I argue that the Fair Work Bill downgrades legally the status of unions.Professor Harry Glasbeek argued (2008): ‘During the long reign of compulsory conciliation and arbitration, trade unions had become legitimate political participants. They had won the right to represent workers in an industry or occupation before a formally and functionally independent tribunal (the AIRC [...]
FWB: Hang the lawyers
I am concerned that the Fair Work bill before the Senate continues the juridification of industrial relations, where lawyers dominate. The Howard government’s ‘ 1984 spin’ had many believing WorkChoices was de-regulation – where the opposite was the case. Employers’ interests had previous labour law social justice rules removed. But rather than no regulation to [...]
MPs pattern bargain but not workers
In the Financial Review yesterday, DPM Gillard remains tough in Labor’s crack-down on pattern bargaining. Pattern bargaining – industry-wide industrial action in pursuit of an industry agreement or identical enterprise agreements – is like workChoices specifically prohibited by her Bill (sections 412 and 422). Her “Fair” Work Bill retains all of the WorkChoices repressive regime [...]
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices: The Defeat of Your Rights At Work
Rudderless in a Sea of Choices The Defeat of Your Rights At Work—Analysis and a Possible Response by Harry Glasbeek The Federal government has laid out its proposals to revamp the federal industrial relations regime. We have been told how the ALP will make good on the explicit and implicit promises it had made during [...]
Labor keeps WorkChoices restrictions on the right to strike
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 [...]
Canberra protest ABCC rally 26 November
From Kim Sattler Secretary Unions ACT There is a rally on Wednesday 26 November outside Parliament House at 12noon to protest against the unfair ABCC legislation which affects all construction workers. A petition will be handed over to the Parliament asking for the abolition of the Australian Building & Construction Commission. See my posts in [...]
In the national parliament wednesday october 15th 08
I admit to watching question time on TV in the National Parliament from time to time. Today, the PM’s immediate action with this package to the threat to growth by the international capitalist financial crisis is prudent. Turnbull was unsure. The opposition weak. Every Labor Minister was in fine dominant form. The PM attacked extreme [...]
Repressive IR laws against building and construction workers have to go now
I have read many legal cases where the conduct of Howard’s industrial policeforce the the ABCC is in question. The latest on friday is the acting chief justice of the Federal Court Justice Jeffery Spencer accusing the ABCC of bias in pursuing an unfounded coercion case against the plumbing union and its leader while ignoring [...]
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