Word: unionizers
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...Labor no longer talks much about its founding principles. "The struggle of the working class against the excesses, injustices and inequalities of capitalism" doesn't strike much of a chord in a country where there are more self-employed workers than union members and more than 55% of adults own shares. Rudd gave the impression that under him, Labor would be as un-Labor-like as it could be without becoming the Liberal Party. The only revolution he was about to start was an educational one, and it didn't mean overthrowing the teacher class. It meant upgrading trades training...
...Rudd said his team would start work at once on implementing Labor's program. He also vowed to break with party tradition and appoint all ministers himself rather than have them selected in factional horse-trading. But while Labor and the trade unions - which poured more than $30 million into his campaign - are now in Rudd's debt for saving them from oblivion, there are doubts that he'll be able to hold off the factional bosses who run the party's federal Caucus. Laborites who think the unions have too much influence in the Caucus may not be consoled...
...emotional dam breaks. The winner is composed, respectful to the vanquished; everyone is thanked in just the right order. He strikes a balance between maintaining the conservative tone of his campaign and tossing some juicy bones to the true believers. A reference to the "great Australian trade union movement" and a declaration to be "a P.M. for all Australians - a P.M. for indigenous Australians" draw the loudest cheers. Later, as they spill into the mild Brisbane night, people glance at the bronze statue of Wally Lewis - Queensland's greatest rugby league player - whose finest moments occurred at a pre-renovated...
...European Commission on Tuesday addressed the issue head-on when it proposed reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the skein of price supports, export subsidies, and environmental payments that gobbles up 44% of the E.U.'s $187 billion annual budget...
...Dubbed a "health check" for the CAP, the policy review suggests revamping the Union's single biggest policy domain to better address modern challenges like climate change, the boom in biofuels, water management and protecting biodiversity. The Commission floats once heretical ideas such as phasing out milk quotas, scrapping rules on keeping land fallow and guaranteeing minimum cereal prices...