5 years ago
LIBERALS SILENT ON EMPLOYER FWA BREACH
BRENDAN O’CONNOR MP
The company the Liberals relied on to promote its undemocratic Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), has been deemed to have broken the law by preventing two union officials from accessing a Perth building site.
If this judgement was directed at the union movement, you can be sure this Liberal Government would mount its typical vehement attack against unions and working people.
Instead, the construction company Minister Cash stood next to when they were promoting the return of the ABCC has broken the law by contravening the Fair Work Act, and yet this government is silent.
This government has one rule for employers and another for unions and workers. It should call out law breaking whenever it occurs.
The ABCC is unfair, undemocratic and unjustified.
Labor believes in one set of laws for all workers in this country. It is fundamentally unfair that builders and construction workers have fewer rights than other Australians.
Instead of attacking workers, the Liberals should focus on keeping people safe at work.
The ABCC, like the Registered Organisations Commission, is nothing more than politicised regulator designed purely to attack the Liberals’ political opponents and should be abolished.
If this judgement was directed at the union movement, you can be sure this Liberal Government would mount its typical vehement attack against unions and working people.
Instead, the construction company Minister Cash stood next to when they were promoting the return of the ABCC has broken the law by contravening the Fair Work Act, and yet this government is silent.
This government has one rule for employers and another for unions and workers. It should call out law breaking whenever it occurs.
The ABCC is unfair, undemocratic and unjustified.
Labor believes in one set of laws for all workers in this country. It is fundamentally unfair that builders and construction workers have fewer rights than other Australians.
Instead of attacking workers, the Liberals should focus on keeping people safe at work.
The ABCC, like the Registered Organisations Commission, is nothing more than politicised regulator designed purely to attack the Liberals’ political opponents and should be abolished.