The Australian Council of Trade Unions is calling for the significant pay boost to be applied to awards in largely feminised occupations.
The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.
The union movement has thrown its support behind Labor slashing super-rich corporate donors,but it says the funding caps shouldn’t extend to its trades halls.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says sensible changes should be made to awards “that finally bring them into the reality of 2024”.
The Fair Work Commission is looking at whether working-from-home protections can be applied to millions of workers. But unions say there’s more than one way to offer flexibility.
Union delegates would have the right to approach colleagues to recruit them rather than just represent their interests if an ACTU submission to the Fair Work Commission is adopted.
Whether it is Scottish castle libraries,plunge pools,executive trips to Henley regattas or the latest comparison between the obscene amount of money spent by a few private schools on capital works and entire state school funding,it is clear that the current funding model is failing students.
Days after accusing Dubai without evidence of trying to bully the government into intervening in the wage dispute,Sally McManus appeared in a video to talk about human rights.
The Victorian treasurer argues in a letter to the workplace minister that the “no less favourable test” in the new IR bill will lead to protracted disputes.
The ACTU’s Sally McManus said Dubai’s royal family wanted to pressure the federal government not to stand by working people in the dispute on Australia’s ports.
Sources say one option put forward by the Safe Work Australia report,expected to be released on Friday,is an all-out ban of the product.