Identifying the adoption of AWA's in New Zealand with changes in productivity growth is hardly a statistically significant relationship. As anyone with the most basic understanding of economics knows, there is a lot more to productivity than the type of contract people will sign.

What the socialists want everyone to think is that under work choices collective bargaining will be gone, it won’t. What is clear is that if Labour wins the next election, workers will lose the flexibility, and the ability to negotiate their own employment agreements that AWA's provide. Even though the troglodytes don't think so, work choices is exactly what it says it is, it provides choices.