Sharan, workers are concerned about reality, not fiction.
Monday, 08 March 2010 12:42
The ACTU’s expensive advertising campaign, featuring a fictional character with a made up story about a yet to be announced policy, has absolutely no credibility.
It beggars belief that the ACTU could spend hundreds of thousands of its membership funds on an advertising campaign attacking the Coalition’s yet to be announced workplace relations policy.
The ACTU is living in a fantasy world so let’s examine the reality.
Workchoices is dead but Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd said that under their new industrial relations laws, “no worker would be worse off”, yet reports today state that tens of thousands of workers in NSW alone face pay cuts of up to $370 a week under Labor’s ACTU endorsed scheme.
Truck drivers, funeral workers, bar staff, aged care nurses and clerks are the latest in a long list of Australian workers who are discovering how unfair Labor’s so called ‘Fair Work’ scheme really is when they stand to lose hundreds of dollars a week in pay and entitlements.
The irony is that as the ACTU launches a campaign attacking the Coalition’s yet to be announced policy, they can’t bring themselves to campaign against Labor’s new industrial framework which is exploiting workers, ripping them off through cuts to pay and conditions.
Obviously Sharan Burrow mustn’t talk to her own Vice President Linda White who is demanding an immediate review of Labor’s workplace relations and warns that Labor’s award modernisation process has been “soul destroying”, particularly for women in the Australian workforce.
That’s the reality Ms Burrow and no amount of fictitious spin and fear mongering can disguise the fact that the ACTU is once again attempting to bankroll its Labor comrades with a negative campaign targeting the Coalition in the lead up to the next election.
