‘Throwback to the 70s’: Dutton slams union push for new wages deal
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has derided the union movement’s push for sector-wide enterprise bargaining rules, condemning it as a throwback to the 1970s-era of industrial relations that would subject employers to crippling strike action.ahead of next week’s job summit, Dutton characterised it as an attack on small businesses and put pressure on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to rule it out.
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar dismissed it as a “one size fits all” approach that businesses had rejected in the past. “We have to reinvigorate the bargaining process, restoring the Hawke and Keating system that gives workers and their employer the chance to sit down together, solve problems, produce more and find innovative ways to work, creating the conditions for safer, better jobs and higher wages and conditions,” she said.
McManus said there was “simmering anger and a growing resentment” among working people who would not accept a bigger intake of foreign workers when salaries were falling in real terms.Currently, only about 14 per cent of workers is covered by enterprise bargaining agreements because the system is mainly used by big employers. The ACTU proposal would dramatically extend the system to smaller employers by allowing them to negotiate together as a single industry.
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