Now THIS IS REASON to avoid Labor like the hideous OGRE it really is.
Labor wants to revive country wide strikes controlled by union insanity which will force the few remaining industries in Australia to leave Australia and throw their workers onto the scrap heap just like Ford and Holden and Toyota did.
charismatic as roadkill and boring as batshit Billy is the useless puppet of the Commo unions AND the sick Extremist Greenies.
It is doubtful if Australia will ever recover from the treasonous traitorous criminally negligent destruction of a Greeny controlled thru the SENATE Labor "Govt".
Employers urge Shorten to abandon 'damaging' industry bargaining plan
By Dana McCauley 19 December 2018 — 11:45pm
The head of peak employer organisation AIG has written to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, imploring him to resist union pressure on industry bargaining after revelations the party has privately committed to the policy.
AI Group chief executive Innes Willox said in the letter that industry-wide bargaining would be "very damaging" to the nation's economy, which had "survived the GFC much better than most other countries ... due to our flexible labour market".
"If this flexibility is lost, the next economic shock will create much greater hardship," Mr Willox said.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is weighing union demands against employer concerns on industry bargaining. CREDIT:ALEX ELLINGHAUSEN
At Labor's national conference this week, the party's industrial relations spokesman Brendan O'Connor reportedly told union delegates that an ALP government would allow workers to pursue pay claims against multiple employers "where enterprise bargaining has failed or is failing".
Mr O'Connor had previously said only that he would "consider" the union proposal, and has not revealed whether industry-wide bargaining could be extended beyond low-paid industries such as childcare, or whether Labor will allow workers to strike across multiple employers.
Currently, the Fair Work Act does not allow unions to launch strikes in pursuit of pay claims across multiple employers, as protected industrial action can only be taken in relation to enterprise agreement negotiations with an employer.
Mr Shorten told hundreds of delegates at Labor's nation conference in Adelaide on Tuesday that the enterprise bargaining system was "simply not doing the job for wages in this country".
“It doesn’t work for funded services. It doesn’t work for people who have little or no bargaining power. It doesn’t work for people at the end or the bottom of the supply chain," he said.
Employers are concerned about how far Labor will go, given that the Australian Council of Trade Unions is pushing for the right to strike and the Transport Workers Union wants to extend industry-wide bargaining beyond low-paid industries to airlines.
Industrial Relations Minister Kelly O'Dwyer accused Labor of hiding a "secret deal" with the unions.
"Let’s be really clear here, the ALP is just the political arm of the union movement," Ms O'Dwyer said on Wednesday.
"If you have industry-wide bargaining you potentially shut down whole industries. It’s not simply about people potentially getting increased wages; you’re talking about people being able to strike for whatever reason."
Mr O'Connor told conference delegates on Tuesday that Australian workers were being "left behind and going backwards" and that the failure of enterprise bargaining was "a key cause ... of wage stagnation and growing job insecurity".
"That’s why a Shorten Labor government will improve multi-employer bargaining, particularly for those workers, so it is an effective pathway for fair outcomes," he said.
Mr Willox said unions were wrong in arguing that industry bargaining would help fix stagnant wage growth.
"Giving unions the power to inflict widespread damage on the Australian community would not increase incomes; rather it would destroy jobs, economic growth and living standards," he said.
"If such a system was ever implemented, it would not be long before the Australian economy was crippled by strikes across the construction, maritime, mining, manufacturing, transport and other industries."
He said if changes to the existing laws were considered necessary, the enterprise bargaining system "could be readily refreshed with a few sensible legislative changes".
"Australia’s enterprise bargaining system continues to play an important role and needs to be preserved," Mr Willox said.
He said Australia's modern award system provided "a very comprehensive set of legally enforceable wage rates and conditions of employment at the industry level".
"There is no country in the world that has both an award system and an industry bargaining system."
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson said politicians "should be trying to fix problems in the enterprise bargaining system, not go back to industry bargaining".
"There should not be a perverse incentive for big unions to prolong bargaining needlessly and manipulate the bargaining process, seeking the reward of arbitration," he said.
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then changed his mind when the rot set in.....and BILL thought gillard would make a better messiah....... and then bugger me...after a few months of utter chaos they put krudd back behind the wheel..to really finish of the WORST GOVT WE HAVE EVER HAD.....WORST PRIMARY VOTE FOR LABOR IN 100 YEARS.... 
even more incapable get in/.... boy I cant wait.....its going to be such fun instead of a surplus they will get a DEBT they cant jump over..something they are not used too......GOOD>....bring it on