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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
According to the report, if workers’ share of GDP had remained at the levels recorded in 1970 then total wages would have been $200 billion higher in 2019 and workers would have received on average $15,000 in additional income.
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