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Living standards ?

By: Doug (Registered ) on 22-10-2007 13:45

An interesting point about our living standards. 
 
I personally would be happy to accept a lower and more sustainable living standard. We seem to be in a constant search for more luxury items and more things to surround ourselves with. I feel this is unfair unreasonable and unsustainable.

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Anti-Union Ads

By: Sympneology (Registered ) on 22-10-2007 16:18

What, only 70%? The Australian Labor Party was born from the union movement. A Labor cabinet should have 100% union members. But of course Costello is not talking about union members, he is talking about those mythical creaures, the dreaded "Union Bosses" who are all "Anti-Business". The fact is that the only unions to have bosses are the bosses' unions, the unions representing the workers only have democratically elected leaders. And these leaders are not anti-business, how could they be when it is the businesses that provide their members with employment? 
What Costello really means by anti-business is anti-conservative, he knows that the unions stand in the way of his conservative supporters in the business community being able to maximise profits by cost cutting at the expense of their employees, in health and safety, in overtime, in leave loadings, in redundancy payments, and all the other benefits that the labour movement has had to struggle for over more than a century. It is just another shot fired in the long-running war against the unions, aimed at leaving the workers defenceless against the predations of greedy corporate bosses.

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News from the front

By: Doug (Registered ) on 23-10-2007 00:02

The extent of the Howard Government's plans to take the IR laws further is 
frightening. 
 
Yesterday billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey said a "second tier" of foreign 
workers should be created in Australia, paid fifty percent less than local 
workers, undercutting local wages and conditions.  
 
According to Mr Harvey, Mr Howard and the Liberal party are in total 
agreement with him. "You won't get politicians saying what I'm saying, but 
privately they know this sort of thing is a reality in the future."

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