The ACTU want the Albanese government’s jobs summit to endorse rights that allow workers to strike across multiple employers to lift pay.
Unions will push for the jobs summit to endorse sector-wide bargaining rights that allow workers to strike across multiple employers to lift pay, in a proposal previously attacked by business as a return to 1970s-style bargaining.
“The idea that a childcare worker at one childcare centre can negotiate with their employer to get better wages is fanciful and it’s not happening,” she said. Coles Group chief executive Steven Cain said on Wednesday that fixing the enterprise bargaining system and simplifying awards would be key to lifting wages.
But Ms McManus said many employers were “crying out” for sector-wide bargaining because it would provide conditions that made sense to their sector and that were not provided by the award. Sector-wide bargaining exists in other countries, such as Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and is currently being proposed in New Zealand where unions would need to represent 10 per cent of a sector to bargain across employers.
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