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22 October 1999 |
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NewsCombet Steps Up To The Plate
Greg Combet has delivered his first major speech as ACTU secretary, releasing details of a new Living Wage claim to increase minimum wages by $24 per week.
Combet told an SDA conference that the ACTU would lodge the next Living Wage Claim before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in November. "The ACTU believes that a claim of $24 is both reasonable and economically responsible," Combet says. "Low paid people in the community must not be left behind. They deserve to share in the nation's wealth." Combet says with economic growth remains strong, inflation is well within the limits sought by the Reserve Bank and productivity growth has been sustained meaning the claim will not cost jobs. Combet, who officially takes the reins in February says the Howard Government had in just a few years created a country where there are clear winners and losers. 'We are now a country where the national government has no commitment to creating a fairer society, where one group is favoured over another group. "It is a country where the values of the market place have become universal values intruding into every corner of Australian life - witness the proposed higher education fees'. "Rather than protecting or helping people who have been hurt by economic change the government has attacked awards, eroded job security, imposed an unfair new tax, and attacked the protection that unions can provide." He says his most immediate organisational priority will be the establishment of the ACTU Organising Centre, which was foreshadowed in the recently released report unions@work.
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