30-09-2015, 03:10 AM
ALP support for the worker? Well its recent past was to slip to the right with neo liberality under the Hawke/Keating Govts which probably explains the decline in union membership which started in 1992.
Recently however, union membership has steadied and/or climbed according to the stats over the last decade.
You have to ask yourself where is the support for the worker? If any?
Certainly not from employers; you only have to look at the 7/11 debacle as one example of exploitation.
Certainly not from conservative Govt; look at workchoices and its various offshoot attempts including attacking penalty rates.
Happily, the current ALP has thwarted attempts by conservative Govts to disadvantage workers which resulted in community support followed by an unpopular conservative Govt knifing its leader so I can't agree with the suggestion that ALP support for the worker has gone. Not yet anyway.
Recently however, union membership has steadied and/or climbed according to the stats over the last decade.
You have to ask yourself where is the support for the worker? If any?
Certainly not from employers; you only have to look at the 7/11 debacle as one example of exploitation.
Certainly not from conservative Govt; look at workchoices and its various offshoot attempts including attacking penalty rates.
Happily, the current ALP has thwarted attempts by conservative Govts to disadvantage workers which resulted in community support followed by an unpopular conservative Govt knifing its leader so I can't agree with the suggestion that ALP support for the worker has gone. Not yet anyway.