The gecko troll is still totally confused and doing his silly dumb copy and Xing out drongo thingy.
Gosh the gloom and doom of BlackDay is catching on in the unions who have decided to BAN casual employment!!!!!
There can be no doubt that the Chinese are paying the unions to force Australian businesses to go bankrupt and close so the Chinese can come in and buy up their bankrupt businesses and then employ ONLY Chinese workers!!!!!!
This is just what they are trying to do to the fruit picking - send the growers bankrupt so China can buy up their farms.Australian Council of Trade Unions launches cynical campaign against casual employmentBy Oscar Grenfell 4 January 2018
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), the national union umbrella organisation, has said it will campaign in 2018 for changes to industrial legislation, with the purported aim of reversing the dramatic growth of casual employment.This campaign, announced last month, forms part of a broader strategy, initiated by ACTU secretary Sally McManus, to present the unions as opponents of social inequality, corporate tax cuts and mounting poverty.
Confronted by rising social and class tensions, the ACTU’s posturing is aimed at channeling the widespread disaffection among workers and young people back behind the unions and the Labor Party, of which McManus is a prominent member. It is also an attempt to head-off a deepening crisis of the unions, whose membership in the private sector is estimated to have fallen to a record low of 10 percent of the workforce.
Announcing the campaign, McManus cited official figures indicating that at least 2.5 million workers are employed on a casual basis, without the rights or entitlements of permanent workers. She declared that the unions were seeking to include a definition of casual employment in the Fair Work Australia industrial legislation that would entitle casuals who work regular full-time shifts to gain permanency.
The ACTU campaign is an exercise in utter hypocrisy. McManus was silent on the fact that the last Labor government introduced the draconian Fair Work Australia regime, with the full support of the unions.
The Fair Work laws ban virtually all industrial action outside proscribed “enterprise bargaining” periods, and include numerous mechanisms that major companies have exploited to slash jobs and wages, and erode conditions, including through the expansion of casual employment.
The Fair Work legislation is the continuation of a three-and-a-half decade offensive against the social rights of the working class, spearheaded by successive Labor governments and the trade unions.
The dramatic increase in casual employment began under the federal Labor governments of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, in office from 1983 to 1996.
In those years, Labor and the unions took their nationalist and pro-capitalist program to its logical conclusion. Amid the rise of globally-mobile capital, they dispensed with seeking limited reforms, and became the chief proponents of ensuring that their “own” national industries remained “internationally competitive,” through the continuous lowering of real wages and working conditions.
The Hawke and Keating governments, and the ACTU, struck a series of pro-business Accords with the major corporations, aimed at dismantling national economic regulations. These resulted in not just dramatic falls in wages and conditions, but also the destruction of entire sections of industry considered insufficiently profitable by the wealthiest shareholders. Hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs were destroyed, including in major industries such as car manufacturing, steel production, telecommunications and mining.
The job cuts went hand in hand with a dramatic increase in part-time, casual and precarious work.
The Keating government, with the full collaboration of the ACTU and all its affiliates, also introduced the “enterprise bargaining” system in the early 1990s, under which agreements are signed by the unions and the employers at individual workplaces. This was aimed at atomising workers, and creating the conditions for regressive company-union deals.
According to modelling by academic Barbara Pocock, casual employment grew by 4.7 percent under Hawke and 5.3 percent under Keating. Casual work as a proportion of total employment grew from a relatively static 13 percent before 1983, to over 22 percent in 1996, when Labor was ousted from office. The increase continued under John Howard’s Liberal-National Coalition government, and the Labor governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard, reaching 25 percent by 2011.
Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, the statistics likely understate the shift to “precarious” work, because they do not include illegal “cash in hand” employment, which is not reported to the authorities.
Read the rest of this corrupt Commo union insanity herehttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/04/actu-j04.html