Business leaders must sink any attempt by the Albanese government to present the goodwill evident at the Jobs and Skills Summit as some fake consensus for a return to sectoral bargaining and strikes across whole industries. There is no consensus for this.
Has business been outlayed by the unions, as it was in 1983? BCA CEO Jennifer Westacott, centre, flanked at the summit by ACTU secretary Sally McManus, left, and ACTU president Michele O’Neil.This is the slippery slope to a rebooted version of 1970s-style industrial protest, totally unsuited to today’s digital-age Australia, which needs to compete in a disrupted global economy and radically transform for a net zero world.
The summit has done some good things in its 36 results. It even agreed to a Coalition idea to let retirees return to part-time work without compromising their pensions.One obvious success was the female participation of 50 per cent against just the lone Susan Ryan at Bob Hawke’s 1983 economic summit. That has already made it feel likeBusiness has been warned it will need to push its case hard, because Labor and the unions are otherwise ready to put theirs in place.
It'd be easier to take businesses' side if the facts shone a positive light on them. but given the growth in wealth inequality and the dramatic growth in CEO pay versus worker pay, their credibility is greatly lacking.
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