Let’s be very clear: when treasurer Joe Hockey announced “the end of the age of entitlement” amidst the threatened closure of the SPC cannery in Shepparton, the withdrawal of Toyota from Australian manufacturing and the planned shutdown of Holden in South Australia, he was not talking about the expectations of corporate Australia. He was declaring an end only to a working-class expectation of basic job security.
The 'end of the age of entitlement' doesn't apply to Murdoch's empire
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...f-entitlement-doesnt-apply-to-murdochs-empire
Wages increased in 2013 by less than inflation did, which suggests that real wages actually fell last year. The last time this has happened was during the GFC.
And as for the manufacturing workers unions acting like it is boom time, the data gives that line a bit of a smack as well. In the manufacturing sector the growth in wages under enterprise agreements is at its lowest since 1994
It’s fine for employer groups, the government and media outlets such as the Australian and the Australian Financial Review to argue for more flexibility in our IR system. But people who look at the past four years and still utter the phrase “wages boom” are just the economic equivalent of climate-change deniers.
The article rips the heart out off Abbott's BS.
Real wages actually fell last year, so if we’re about to have a pay rise explosion, someone better hurry up and light the fuse
http://www.theguardian.com/business...ts-economic-equivalent-climate-change-deniers
So we're ok now, no more job loses due to being uncompetitive, thanks IFocus.
I'll ring my kids in the mines and tell them all's good.lol
Oh by the way talking about BS, wasn't it funny that Qantas had a $300million loss that included a carbon tax of $100million.
Would that qualify as Gillard BS that cost jobs at Qantas.lol
Or the fact we are shutting down low cost coal generators at Kwinana to install gas units.lol
Senator Abetz confirmed, when asked about the changes, that they would allow workers to trade off penalty rates for family time.
He stressed it would be employees who decided if this trade-off suited them, and not employers dictating that penalty rates be signed away. ''If the worker is better off overall as determined by the worker, why should some collective agreement seek to deny the individual that right?''
''This is a blatant attempt to cut pay and conditions … despite all the pre-election promises,'' she said. ''Minister Abetz talks about imaginary workers that want to give up penalty rates for nothing. We're yet to find a worker that thinks this is a good deal.''
So we're ok now, no more job loses due to being uncompetitive, thanks IFocus.
I'll ring my kids in the mines and tell them all's good.lol
Looks like work-non choices is going to get a re-run soon I think I believe the bottom opinion rather the Abetz
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...r-work-laws-20140220-334db.html#ixzz2tuE0bs5t
Just tell your kids its all Labor's fault and that your mate Tony is going to cut their pay and conditions......all good.
I actually think its all heading in the wrong direction and yet to see any hope this government is going to do any thing other than redistribute wealth to their top end mates (like the US 17% from the middle class to the top .5%)
It's class war on steroids.
It will end badly unless workers and business get into a profit sharing model. Where pay rises are linked to improved profits.
Sounds easy, but it will be just about imposible to implement.
The nickel mining company my son works for, asked everyone to take a pay cut over 12 months ago.
The guys agreed to it, or the mine was going to shut down.
The article rips the heart out off Abbott's BS.
Real wages actually fell last year, so if we’re about to have a pay rise explosion, someone better hurry up and light the fuse
http://www.theguardian.com/business...ts-economic-equivalent-climate-change-deniers
AWU boss Paul Howes recently said that workers were pricing themselves out of the market.
Do you agree or disagree with him?
AWU boss Paul Howes recently said that workers were pricing themselves out of the market.
Do you agree or disagree with him?
This sort of thinking, where facts bend like light through a prism to suit political necessity, are a commonplace.
Did outrageous award conditions put SPC Ardmona in a hard place? Yes, say the politicians. No, says the company.
Same story at Toyota. And Holden.
Did the carbon tax play a leading hand in the Alcoa smelter decision? No, says Alcoa. Yes, says government. Is Australian business enduring a wages boom that tears at the heart of business and erodes slim profitability? Yes, says government. No, says the Australian Bureau of Statistics: "The growth in wages over the last year of 2.6 per cent seasonally adjusted was the smallest through the year rise since the series commenced in 1997."
If this piece of industrial relations is successful I can see some excellent job opportunities for security guards on all the government MPS.
On a much happier note, how thrilling that Lord Downer has so graciously agreed to be our man in London, Australia's high commissioner to the Court of St James.
It is a splendid posting, infinitely well merited. In his distinguished career as foreign affairs minister, Downer was a pivotal figure in the Coalition of the Willing's triumphant victory in the Iraq War, doing so much to bring about the peace, democracy and security flowering in the Middle East today. And all that as we sold wheat to Saddam Hussein and deftly shovelled hundreds of millions of dollars into the tyrant's bank account for the privilege.
It's fitting, too, that Downer will be following in the footsteps of his father, Sir Alec, also a former Liberal cabinet minister, and high commissioner from 1963 to 1972. Although the Labour government of Harold Wilson held office for most of those years, Downer snr famously spent much of his time brown-nosing the High Tory establishment in energetic but sadly fruitless pursuit of a peerage.
''While Downer had certain merits, he had not been a success as high commissioner,'' wrote Sir Paul Hasluck, then the Liberal foreign minister and later governor-general. ''He was too easily charmed by being recognised by some member of the nobility, and felt he had done great service to Australia if he were on speaking terms with some member of the royal family. He knew too many of the nice people and scarcely any of the bastards.''
An alcohol harm reduction body has accused the federal government of an ''appalling level of transparency'' after it refused to release documents explaining why it axed the nation's drug and alcohol body after almost 50 years of operation.
The Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education had its freedom of information request denied on the grounds it was ''not in the public interest''.
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