A report backed by major trade unions is urging the movement to shift from its singular focus of electing a federal Labor government to putting state governments at the centre of industrial relations reform. paulsakkal reports unions tradeshall ausp...
A report backed by major trade unions is urging the movement to shift from its singular focus of electing a federal Labor government to putting state governments at the centre of industrial relations reform.
With Coalition governments holding power in Canberra for all but two terms since 1996, a new John Curtin Research Centre paper argues popular Labor governments in Victoria, Queensland and West Australia should leverage billions of dollars in contracts to boost wages and punish dodgy employers.
Although industrial relations laws are the responsibility of federal governments, report authors Lawrence Ben of the US retail workers’ union and Alistar Sage of the AWU, believe state governments have a unique ability to influence working conditions because they fund many operations including TAFEs, stadiums, convention centres and jails.
The private companies involved in these operations, and companies building state infrastructure, should be required to encourage unionism and have their contracts torn up if they do not abide by labour laws, the report argues.“Linking labour standards to public investment will help address the increasingly prevalent issues ... which plague the Australian labour market: stagnant wages [and] growing job insecurity,” the report states.
Victorian Trades Hall secretary Luke Hilakari said reforms won by unions since the Andrews government was elected served as a template for the union movement in other states. Victorian Labor has
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