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Issue No. 328 | 13 October 2006 |
Straw Men
Interview: Australia�s Most Wanted Industrial: The Fox and the Contractor Unions: Industrial Wasteland International: Two Bob's Worth Economics: National Interest Environment: The Real Dinosaur History: Only In Spain? Review: Clerk Off
Classifieds the New IR Attack Dog States Keep Stakes in IR Blueprint Meatworkers Boned by WorkChoices Democracy Overboard in Bass Strait Unionist Targeted for Deportation Taxpayers Taken to the Cleaners Workers Lose Right to Choose Lawyers
Legends The Soapbox Obituary Fiction
The Unpromised Land
Labor Council of NSW |
News States Keep Stakes in IR Blueprint
The Industrial Relations Legislation policy, the centrepiece of the union effort to rebuild workers rights under a Labor Government, has been circulated ahead of the October 23 gathering of the movement's policy-making body,
It lays out a comprehensive plan based on ten principles to make the system relevant to the 21st century. 1. consistency of rights across forms of employment, including contractors 2. a secure safety net underpinning the labour market 3. the democratic right to collectively bargain 4. prohibition of individual arrangement designed to undermine the safety net 5. transitional arrangements to protect workers currently on AWAs 6. an independent tribunal to maintain and improve the award safety net, oversee bargaining and guarantee fair treatment in the workplace 7. rights of union membership and registration 8. workers protection from arbitrary and capricious decision making thro8ugh grievance procedures 9. rights to a safe, healthy workplace free of discrimination and a harassment 10. statutory protection for workplace delegates. Unions NSW secretary John Robinson has endorsed the blueprint as one that sets out a national vision while retaining an important role for state systems. "Contrary to some media reports, this model actually strengthens the state system and gives workers the opportunity to return to the state jurisdiction,": Robertson says. "But it does so with in a broader framework of harmonisation - something Unions NSW has long advocated for. "This policy is a good, sensible outcome that recognises the benefits in having competing state systems in a dynamic national economy "It supports cooperative federalism not Jackboot Johnnie's view of a nation controlled by Canberra."
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