‘Simmering anger’: McManus wants industry-wide wage deals to tackle shrinking incomes

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ACTU chief Sally McManus wants unions to negotiate wage deals across entire sectors such as aged care and childcare, dramatically extending the current workplace regime. auspol

The union movement will seek a new deal on wages for millions of workers at next week’s jobs and skills summit with a bold plan to allow entire industries to negotiate the same pay and conditions despite business fears about the cost of the change.

The ACTU’s new plan makes it clear to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the political and business leaders at next week’s summit that any discussion on migration must accept that lifting wages is the priority if Australia is to fill the labour shortages.

“Now, productivity isn’t about working harder for less. It’s about working smarter, adding better value, all of those things. “So I don’t think it’s at all surprising that your average person is saying: ‘hang on a minute, the priority has got to be to get wages moving’. McManus is seeking to build on those talks at the jobs and skills summit by making a renewed attempt to overhaul the enterprise bargaining rules so unions could negotiate pay and conditions across industries with small employers.

 

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Of course he does. Honestly, this bloke.

How about sticking up for your no jab no job members.

Why should they? They only represent about 15% of all workers. They have descended into irrelevancy.

Hear hear 👍

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