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Issue No. 291 | 25 November 2005 |
International Relations
Interview: Public Defender Legal: Craig's Story Unions: Wrong Way, Go Back Industrial: WhatChoice? Politics: Queue Jumping History: Iron Heel Economics: Waging War International: Under Pressure Poetry: Billy Negotiates An AWA Review: A Pertinent Proposition
Senators Back Rorters' Charter Job Cuts Threaten CBA's Bottom Line
The Soapbox The Locker Room Culture Parliament
Name and Shame Unite and Fight The Worker's Best Friend What Choices? Stop the Corporate Rot The Telemarketeers
Labor Council of NSW |
News Barnaby's Choice
Queensland Council of Unions General Secretary, Grace Grace, welcomed the Liberals decision to join with the ALP in an overwhelming, 79 to 7, vote against WorkChoices, in the Queensland Parliament last week. Grace said collective bargaining needed to remain at the centre of any future industrial relations system. Grace congratulated the Labor State Government and the Nationals on their stance and said it was about time sanity prevailed in the industrial relations debate. "The extreme measures the Government is proposing will have immediate impacts on those people in low-skilled and low-waged areas who are already finding it hard to keep their heads above water,' says Grace. "The Government should be sent back to the drawing board on this issue and re-think its radical re-write of Australia's workplace laws. The full motion, supported by the Queensland Parliament, read: "That this house calls on all Queensland Senators to reject the Commonwealth-proposed industrial relations legislation when it comes before the Senate next week to protect the living standards of Queenslanders and their families."
Meanwhile, over 70,000 people have signed a petition in the last three days, calling on Joyce to vote against WorkChoices legislation.
"We urge him not to pass it, not to amend it and not to tinker around the edges but to throw WorkChoices out. When this many people speak up, you have to listen," says Grace.
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