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23 June 2000 |
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Tool ShedSteve Harrison - Labor Rat
Since exiting the trade union movement, Steve Harrison has been roaming the countryside spruiking AWAs and bosses unions. He's not just a labour rat - he's also our Tool of the Week.
Long-term union watchers will remember Harrison from his days at the helm of FIME when, he fought a futile battle to wrest power away from the state branches during the organisation's amalgamation into the AWU. When he failed he left the movement to set up his own company 'Australian Independent Contractors Agency Pty Ltd' - basically a operation to assist employers avoiding award obligations. In the past few years he's made attempts to set up a bosses union under Reith's laws at ICI Botany, actively promoted Australian Workplace Agreement and - this week - lobbied the cross bench MPs to block Jeff Shaw's latest industrial reform package (see news story). If there were any doubts about Harrison's modus operandi, an interesting little document that has fallen into Workers Online puts his 'labour rat' credentials to rest. The document contains a scheduled showing how much employers can save in labour costs per hour by moving their workforce onto AWAs. This came into our hands as part of the lobbying plan for the bill. After being removed from the union movement - is this payback for ambitions frustrated or just his natural inclinations coming to the surface? Either way we have one word for his behaviour. TOOL.
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