Thursday 6 August 2015

Labor now has a scare campaign right to the election

Yes, here it comes folks. Thanks to the Abbott gov restricting it's "no changes to industrial relations" to end at the election (they're hoping for a second term you know, believe it or not) Labor can now run hard on what it's best at. Fighting for the workers. This is Labor's home turf. 

I would imagine also the union movement itself will launch it's own campaign, just like the devastating one they ran about WorkChoices that saw Howard not only lose the election but his own seat in parliament.
The PC report will spark a scare campaign by Labor and the unions that will run until the next federal election which is expected in 2016. 

It will be a political version of hide-and-seek, or maybe whack-a-mole. 

This will involve the Coalition saying as little as possible while the labour movement talks up the dangers. The Coalition will have to bite their lip because they want to make changes to the IR system – as does their business support base – but they don’t want to startle the horses and lose the next election. 

Perhaps the strangest aspects of the PC’s report is that it criticises the Fair Work Commission by being weighed down by the history of Australia’s unique IR system, looking backwards rather than forward. 

Yet, in another disconnect, the Productivity Commission’s report makes no mention of the “sharing economy” of the future. As The Australian Financial Review has noted, there is no mention of Uber, airbnb, or other peer-to-peer businesses. 

Finally, there is the underlying political reality for the Abbott government. Around four million employed people – more than one in three in the workforce – work at least a Saturday or Sunday each week. 

And nearly all of these weekend workers are voters. more  



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