Union pushes for business to be bound by multi-employer deals

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The head of the biggest blue-collar union in the country has argued employers must not be able to opt out of multi-employer deals if there is worker support.

The head of the biggest blue-collar union in the country says multi-employer bargaining should be used to bolster pay and conditions in the fresh food supply chain and employers should not be able to opt out of such deals if there is worker support.

United Workers Union national secretary Tim Kennedy was the lead author of the paper on multi-employer bargaining.The paper, which specifically targets supermarket supply chains, provides insight into the key issues unions will seek to push to transform multi-employer bargaining under the Albanese government.

, along with UWU strategic power director Ben Redford and RMIT University academics Renee Burns and Anthony Forsyth. Professor Forsyth spoke on multi-employer bargaining at the government’s Jobs and Skills Summit. “These include the collective action rights and organisational rights at the workplace level that will best enable workers to win outcomes across industries, supply chains and other business configurations,” the paper says.

 

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