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The coalition’s costly obsession with individual workplace agreements : Comments

By Luke Williams, published 7/9/2012

On Industrial relations, three is the magic number – Abbott is absent on detail and big on the verbigeration of bland three-pronged slogans.

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Any government, Labour or Liberal could end unemployment caused by discrimination
against the aged tomorrow. All they have to do is divide 30% of full- time government jobs
up into part-time jobs shared by those over 50 or 60years. They don’t do that do they,
Why? Because they, like every other private employer are just as reluctant to employee the
aged.

Campbell Newman is busy cutting 20,000 government jobs in Queensland. He has included
Nurses in the job losses. Just looking at some of the nurses protesting on TV the other night
I noticed quite a few aged nurses, I bet they are the ones in Campbell Newman’s firing line,
not the young ones. It is the way of nature to abandon the old and the sick, the human species
Is no different.

The Liberal Party only ever has two policies over all the decades I have observed them in power. That is, cut services like Doctors and every other service they possibly can in the guise of balancing the budget , and the second policy is always to try to shift as much income from the workers back to the employers. Hence work choices.

The Labour Party always wants to save the rest of the world with their Utopian Hippy ideological crap that they learn at University and gladly hand out billions to people in other countries whilst not caring two hoots about people suffering in Australia. The labour party however, is still a better friend to the Australian Working people than the Liberals will ever be.
Posted by CHERFUL, Saturday, 8 September 2012 4:24:47 PM
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There is one reality - the Fair Work Act and Fair Work Australia are nothing short of a joke, a ridiculous, flawed, inept joke, and yet Labor is sticking to these like flies on rotten cheese. The Coalition had a workable (though imperfect) system in Work Choices, and when and if they regain government they will at least have the guts to make the necessary, and pressing, required changes to our IR system.

Whether some observers like it or not, an effective business environment means more and better jobs, lower unemployment, greater security of employment, and a better quality of life for the whole of our society. Bight business, and you shoot yourself in the foot. And, business means investment, and investment requires a return to remain viable. Workplace Relations then means conciliation, compromise and fairness in the interests of all concerned. FWA is however biased, as well as fundamentally inept, and as long as it remains all will suffer the consequences.

Abbott may play his cards close to his chest, but before the next election he and the Coalition may be relied upon to put their proposals for IR reform to the electorate, and it will then be up to the electorate to either give them the mandate, or to choose to suffer more IR debacle and job losses from the Union-driven Labor mismanagers.
Posted by Saltpetre, Sunday, 9 September 2012 2:35:50 AM
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The only ones who are deeply opposed to a work choices style of IR are poor workers, or, those busy bodies who can't stay out of another's business.

Cause let's face it, when there are plenty of jobs on offer, as there were pre FWA, a good worker did not work for peanuts.

Now we all felt that the GFC was goimg to surface, yet, despite the warnings, labor still took an axe to IR leading into this period of uncertainty, something that simply should not have happened, as uncertain times call for more flexibility in IR, rather than less.

Then, once the main hit from the GFC was over, labor decided it was time to reward all those workers, who had endured tough times, with pay rises.

Forget about the many bosses who either increased borrowing, sold assetts, or both, simply to stay afloat.

No, these workers had suffered enough they said.

Then came the loss in confidence, again, the warnings were ignored.

You see people will only spend money liberally, when they know they can replace it.

Job security is ome such example, and now, thanks to labor, that's gone, as even the wheels of mining sector are starting to wobble, something that was unheard of three years ago.

Well done labor, you got your wish, so now what.
Posted by rehctub, Sunday, 9 September 2012 7:02:27 AM
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The downturn is a comeback to reality. It's a long stick to blame Labor for what goes on in China. Abbott wants a return to the Golden Years as he calls it, and work choices are very much part of that.
Posted by 579, Sunday, 9 September 2012 7:21:45 AM
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......and work choices are very much part of that.

And the country boomed!
Posted by rehctub, Sunday, 9 September 2012 9:03:49 AM
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The country boomed for all the wrong reasons,
Mr Abbott has woman issues going back years, and won't admit it.
Religious overtones, and suppressive agenda. Mr Abbott would not govern; for all people.
CN in QLD is an example of a suppressant, says one thing before an election and does something different after. It's all to do with power.
Keep the people under powered, and you can do what you like.
The noalition have one spokesperson, sounds familiar doesn't it.
Posted by 579, Sunday, 9 September 2012 11:31:25 AM
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