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...three decades, John Howard has been on a slow march to end centralized wage-fixing and to break the power of trade unions. In opposition and in government, the Prime Minister has not wavered in his determination to destroy one of the nation's most enduring principles: that wage levels should be set by an independent arbitrator. Talk about a stayer! Australia's industrial relations system has been gradually changing since Labor introduced enterprise bargaining in the early '90s. Now, having taken control of the Senate in July, Howard has a chance to transform it. This should be a good...
...government announced a reform program called WorkChoices and launched a mass message roll-out that might save the bonuses of the nation's advertising sales folk. "Today, as never before," said Howard, "Australia is a workers' market." The new system is designed to let the market set the price of labor. Pay and conditions will be negotiated between workers and their employers; a new Fair Pay Commission will set minimum wages. A lot of cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible. The economic argument is that reform will reduce the cost...
...Howard calls the measures "major but not extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will...
...would Australians opt for the low wages of the Kiwis and America's social dislocation and inequality when their country has outperformed or matched the other two in job creation, economic growth and productivity? Could it be that Australians detect a touch of zealotry in their P.M.? Howard has delivered on his promise to make Australians comfortable and relaxed. Now he is trying to complete the job he set for himself so long ago. Howard seems to be hoping that the line he is about to draw across the country will inspire voters who feel they can be winners...
...says Mathematics Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) Peter Kronheimer. Department administrators do say that they try to be flexible about granting concentration credit for courses taken abroad.“In physics and chemistry, we certainly don’t discourage study abroad,” says Physics DUS Howard Georgi. “We are generally willing to give students concentration credit for courses that they take elsewhere as long as they find a reputable university.”And Biochemical Sciences co-head tutor Richard M. Losick says he often helps his concentrators receive full credit...