A Fair Go For ALL...CFMEU??

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Unions gear up for penalty rate war

Australian Associated Press

9:34AM February 28, 2017

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Unions are gearing up for a serious fight against the Turnbull government over penalty rates.
ACTU president Ged Kearney will be in Canberra on Tuesday urging parliamentarians to stand with working people after the Fair Work Commission ruled Sunday penalty rates for retail, hospitality and fast food workers should be cut.
"Whether it is the prime minister or a backbench MP, no one in parliament can hide from their responsibility to ensure that there is a solution that prevents these hard working people from seeing their pay go backwards," she said in a statement.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has vowed to lead a WorkChoices-style campaign against the Turnbull government, despite its members not being affected by the penalty rates decision, The Australian reports.
National secretary Michael O'Connor said his union would join others on picket lines and rallies across the country to protest cuts to pensions and family supplements and efforts to recover welfare overpayments.
"This war on battlers must end. The war on the fair go must stop," he told the newspaper.
"Where the fightback takes place - wherever there is a picket, a rally, a campaign, whatever it is - you will see us there standing shoulder to shoulder with those under attack."
Labor has conceded its legislative move to overturn the commission's ruling was a threshold decision for the party.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is proposing a bill that would have the the effect of making the ruling inoperable.
"We are guardians of the commission. We are strong supporters of it," Labor's workplace relations spokesman Brendan O'Connor told Sky News.
"We've made this decision and we think it's the right decision."

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ALP hit it out the park today highlighting the contradictions manifested in cuts to penalty rates, company tax cuts with already high profit levels, and ever higher executive pay. it bites because its true. politically, it's a no-brainer to hammer this hard.

I find it interesting here how dominant ideas or economic ideology (promoted mainly be vested interests) are accepted as some form of truth or self-evident principle. They're not. they're ideas or opinions that can be contested. why is it accepted that companies can avoid tax using even basic accounting principles, that they require lower tax rates still further, that we must shower them in cash through loose monetary policy, that we pass them the benefit of no wage growth and wage cuts...curious.