Three weeks ago, a group of senior Qantas executives found themselves stuck on a Zoom call being grilled by One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts about what some may consider to be vaccine conspiracies.
“They had a thousand pilots who could not pass their medicals because of the injections. Have you had any similar problems, and what have you done about it? Have you changed medical testing?” Why? Because it will need One Nation’s support in the Senate in a year or so when the government’s labour hire changes are put to a vote.So, the flunkeys in all this is were the businesses and industry groups that were forced to appear as props in a political charade, a point the Minerals Council of Australia’s Tania Constable made. More so given the same groups were already locked in confidential negotiations with the government over its own labour hire plans.
“The government asked us to engage in those consultations confidentially. Being hauled before this inquiry is heavy-handed.”“It’s not Albanese we’re worried about, it’s who’s pulling his strings,” was a common pre-election refrain.when the business leaders realised they were there for little other purpose than to give legitimacy to a preordained industrial relations agenda.
Labor had a clear election mandate to abolish the building industry watchdog, the Australian Building and Construction Commission, which is part of the bill, butor the changes to rostering that empower workers to demand more flexible arrangements. It argues its mandate lies in its pre-election pledge to “get wages moving again”.
Fing Labor and their unions.
Business hasn’t been ‘outfoxed’, they are simply not in charge, and are being ignored
Anything about intended consequences for workers? The BCA has ridden on the coat tails of LNP non policy for a decade. Quite happy not to do workers or the country any favours.
Labor has always been hostile to business.
The ALP and its union masters are always hostile to business with an extra strong hostility to small business.