The architects of enterprise bargaining, Bill Kelty and Paul Keating, have blamed the “silly” no-worse-off tests of the Fair Work Commission and Julia Gillard’s industrial relations laws for undermining productivity and overall wages growth.
The government wants to create some faux consensus for a return to 1970s-style industrial relations. Business should make it clear that it will fight this hard.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, social conflict inside the country was not put on hold: any illusion that its defence needs might produce a truce in the class struggle soon vanished, reports Dick Nichols.
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