The purpose of the Jobs and Skills Summit is to bring unions, business and the government together to plan a tripartite assault on wages, conditions and social spending.
To defend their health, lives and basic social rights, workers must take matters into their own hands and form rank-and-file committees in every workplace independent of the trade unions which function as industrial police for government and big business.
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Sally McManus, head of Australia’s union apparatus, is incapable of speaking directly to even a few dozen workers because she represents a bureaucracy that has nothing to offer but sell-outs and defeats.
Australian union chief warns of workers’ pent-up discontent
Australia’s top trade union bureaucrat this week anxiously warned governments and the corporate elite that unrest among workers could break out of control this year, after more than twelve months of job destruction, wage freezes and pay cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) secretary Sally McManus was featured in a prominent interview in the Murdoch media’s
Australian newspaper yesterday to alert the rest of the ruling class to the growing danger of a working-class eruption.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus [Credit: actu.org.au]
“I don’t think people will accept ongoing wage suppression in this country,” McManus told the