Here is one for you.. (My comments in brackets) Swan announces today - Building Australia's Future Workforce — Productivity Education and Training Fund — revised arrangements
The Government will adopt revised implementation arrangements for the $20.0 million Productivity Education and Training Fund (the Fund) established in the 2011 12 Budget. The Fund was established to drive a focus on productivity improvement through enterprise bargaining under the Fair Work framework.
Under the revised arrangements, the Fund will be targeted at peak organisations to develop and implement flexible, longer term initiatives that promote productivity growth within the workforce. Grants of $5.0 million will be provided to the Australian Industry Group and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and $10.0 million to the Union Education Foundation over two years from 2011 12 to achieve the objectives of the Fund.
The cost of this measure will be met from within the existing resources of the Fund.
(So $20mil for what? The terms of the Union Education Foundation are - and I quote "TUEF aims to give the positive profile of unions and unionism. It aims to answer and counter anti-union prejudices and ideologies")
$20,000,000 to improve the profile of unions? May take a lot more than that re the HSU!!!
