WorkChoices: Workers must fight Rudd's push to the Right
Without reference to the upcoming Labor Party Conference Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, publicly announced the industrial relations policy he will bring to the federal elections at the National Press Club on 17 April. This new policy if implemented will continue the direction of John Howards’ year old WorkChoices legislation. The new Labor policy will continue to: • massively restrict the right to strike, • retain restrictions on ‘unfair dismissal’, • maintain prohibitions on industry wide pattern bargaining A key passage in Rudd’s speech included the following. It could have been said by any...