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...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 time for a popular government that has won four elections since March 1996. The economy is in its 15th year of growth...
...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 A lot of cumbersome and outdated administration will be junked, and unfair-dismissal laws will be made more sensible.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...
...about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections - soothing words that seek to hide the darker side of a deregulated labor market and that obscure the true scale of the risks and opportunities of globalization...
...public appears not to be buying the government's line. In a Newspoll published last week, 50% of respondents said Labor was better than the government at handling industrial relations; only 26% thought the government was better. To be sure, a preemptive ad campaign by unions tapped into concerns about job "casualization," long hours and weekend work and the resulting stress on families, and unscrupulous employers. Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, is one of several church leaders who worry that the proposed reforms could lead to a nation of robots. Further, Australian workers, no matter how well they...
...response to your editorial “Don’t Increase the ‘Living Wage’” (Oct. 13), I’d like to propose a modest alternative. The wage labor system itself (i.e., capitalism) should be abolished, and everyone guaranteed an ample livelihood, free from material anxiety, with a drastically reduced working week in a democratically-run workplace, where all managers would be elected and recallable. Yes, friends, I’m talking about the ‘s’ word: socialism...