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Repeal Federal and State Anti-union legislation
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The repeal of all Federal and State anti-union legislation passed over
the past several years, beginning with the Federal 1996 Workplace
Relations Act, and Western Australia's Industrial Relations Reform Act
of 1997.
These two union-busting Acts are an undisguised attempt to annihilate
the living standards of working people. As the CEC has continuously
exposed, the union-busting campaign that produced these Acts has been
run top-down by the British Crown, through its chief economic warfare
unit, the Mont Pelerin Society, and the Queen of England's personal
mining company, Rio Tinto. A Rio Tinto executive, Mike Angwin, actually
wrote Peter Reith's Workplace Relations Act, and it is the H.R. Nicholls
Society, one of the front groups of the Mont Pelerin Society, which has
led the union busting campaign in Australia for the past two decades.
What will these Acts be replaced with? The traditional award system
involved quarterly adjusted industry awards set by the arbitration
court. This was based on two broad labor principles: an arbitration
system to settle disputes, and the principle of the "living wage" handed
down by Justice Higgins in the famous Sunshine Harvester case of 1907.
This said that a worker should be able to be paid, such that he could
provide for a family of two parents and two children. Those principles,
taken in their broadest contexts, would be the basis of an industrial
policy, and a CEC government would dialogue with the relevant interested
parties, to design the fairest possible industrial relations system.
The repeal of all Federal and State anti-union legislation passed over
the past several years, beginning with the Federal 1996 Workplace
Relations Act, and Western Australia's Industrial Relations Reform Act
of 1997.
These two union-busting Acts are an undisguised attempt to annihilate
the living standards of working people. As the CEC has continuously
exposed, the union-busting campaign that produced these Acts has been
run top-down by the British Crown, through its chief economic warfare
unit, the Mont Pelerin Society, and the Queen of England's personal
mining company, Rio Tinto. A Rio Tinto executive, Mike Angwin, actually
wrote Peter Reith's Workplace Relations Act, and it is the H.R. Nicholls
Society, one of the front groups of the Mont Pelerin Society, which has
led the union busting campaign in Australia for the past two decades.
What will these Acts be replaced with? The traditional award system
involved quarterly adjusted industry awards set by the arbitration
court. This was based on two broad labor principles: an arbitration
system to settle disputes, and the principle of the "living wage" handed
down by Justice Higgins in the famous Sunshine Harvester case of 1907.
This said that a worker should be able to be paid, such that he could
provide for a family of two parents and two children. Those principles,
taken in their broadest contexts, would be the basis of an industrial
policy, and a CEC government would dialogue with the relevant interested
parties, to design the fairest possible industrial relations system.
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