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It should come as no surprise that high profile union leader Paul Howes and his Australian Workers’ Union have decided to back the carbon tax, despite the threat it carries to Australian jobs and businesses.
AWU supports carbon tax, tries to guilt trip businesses
July 18, 2011
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Greens and unions team up to attack Aussie success stories
February 17, 2011By The Editor
In most parts of the world, success is something to be celebrated. Not in certain sections of Australian society though, it seems.
Recent evidence suggests the tall poppy syndrome is alive and well among its usual cohort, the trade union movement and the Greens.
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CFMEU is the best advertisement for the preservation of the ABCC
May 26, 2010By Alexandra Marriott
The Age has reported today that:
“The new $290 million wholesale fruit and vegetable market at Epping remains in limbo after a union again defied a court order to end its nearly week-long blockade of the site. About six workers manned the entrance to the project yesterday as part of a dispute over which union will represent workers on the project.”
This dispute closely resembles the demarcation dispute over the Westgate bridge, which was an indictment of the lawlessness to which union activists have stooped to in the construction industry in pursuit of political goals.
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“A Country That Makes Things” – envisioning a way forward for the manufacturing sector
October 27, 2009By Alexandra Marriott
The AMWU and the AWU have formed a manufacturing alliance and will co-host a conference in Canberra on Wednesday 28 October. The intention of the conference is to deliver a paper titled A Country That Makes Things, written by the AMWU’s Dave Oliver and the AWU’s Paul Howes.
The paper proposes a seven-strand framework to facilitate ongoing productivity, and labour force participation, in the manufacturing sector.
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