An unprecedented union campaign for workplace rights was a critical factor in changing Australia’s government last November, according to analysts from every side of politics.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
New weapons in the workplace revolution - National - theage.com.au
Twelve months ago, the Howard Government radically altered the industrial relations landscape. Michael Bachelard and Meaghan Shaw investigate the fallout.Read March 26 2007 Article
Multinational Monitor - No Choices: Australia's Unions Confront Labor Law "Reform"
Passed through Parliament on December 2, 2005 and proclaimed as law on March 27, Work Choices is an amendment to the Workplace Relations Act (WRA), a package of industrial “reforms” passed by the Australian federal Liberal-National (conservative) Coalition government in 1996. Like Work Choices, that original package aimed at restricting workers’ rights and weakening the power of unions. It is part of the ongoing effort by Australian governments — Labor and Liberal — over the last 25 years, to increase profitability by lowering the cost of labor. Read full article at the Multinational Monitor
Burned by IR, Howard's battlers exact revenge - Federal Election 2007 News
THE phrase "working families" was created in the last week of March in 2005, after 65 battlers in eight focus groups were asked how they would describe themselves.Read the full article
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