Innes Willox
Revisionism is the latest strategy of the union movement to bolster their power in workplaces and to increase union membership. The ACTU is calling for sweeping changes to the Fair Work Act on the false premise that it took away union rights and treated workers unfairly.
The changes that the unions are seeking include increased rights to strike, less power for the Fair Work Commission to make decisions that benefit employers, less options for employers in the bargaining process, and a raft of new entitlements for employees and unions.
The unions’ attempts to re-imagine the past cannot be allowed to prevail. There is too much at stake. Their false account of history would not surv…
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