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What is good economic management? : Comments
By Chris Monnox, published 22/6/2006Is it really madness to abolish AWAs? Kim Beazley doesn't think so and the figures support him.
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According to Kenneth Davidson in The Age the latest OECD research indicates that full employment can be achieved through collective bargaining and creating an equitable society.
The dangers of creating a class of working poor is that birth rates will decline as they did in Australia in the 1930s so the spectre of an aged population looms larger. as some one who worked in an unregulated industry, IT, where long hours were demanded my personal experience was that long hours caused personal relationships to suffer and made women choose between career or children. It was impossible to find part time work and women were under the gun to get the kids to childcare and then to work on time.
We all seem to forget that the biggest losers out of workchoices will be those workers who rely on a union to wage bargain for them. Twice as many public sector workers are union members than workers in the private sector. Thus the real advantage of the government introducing workchoices is the opportunity to slash the public sector wages bill. So public servants if you want a decent standard of living you better stand up for your rights next Wednesday.