The ACTU has welcomed fast-tracking visa applications by 60,000 overseas skilled workers, but will play hardball on any shake-up of the migration intake.
by almost 60,000 overseas skilled workers, but will play hardball on plans to change the size and composition of the annual migration intake.
“Where it’s clear and true, the union movement has a long and proud history of supporting permanent migration,” she said. “And we need to caution against thinking that migration can be a substitute for some of the other things that we need to do to build a bigger, more productive, better skilled high-wage workforce in this country,” he said.
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