union bashing, page-26

Where did you get that bit of BS, uncle?
No unions at Snowy?
Will the Libs ever tell the truth?


http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=289
Academy Symposium, November 1999
The Snowy Mountains Scheme and Multicultural Australia

Dr James Jupp FASSA
Director, Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University

"...Two-thirds of those who worked on the Snowy between 1949 and 1974 were born overseas.

Many others, both Australian and overseas-born, had no obligations to the Commonwealth and chose freely to come to the Snowy, mainly because of the HIGH WAGES which were paid. This seems to have been the case for most Croatians, as they did not come to the Scheme until the DP program was drawing to a close.

As part of the post-war reconstruction settlement, the Labor government AGREED with the ACTU that all migrant workers would be paid at award rates and would work under award conditions, joining an appropriate union. In the Snowy this was usually the AWU (Australian Workers' Union,) then the largest in Australia...."


Get that uncle? HIGH WAGES and an AGREEMENT with the largest union at the time.