IR Reforms
Queensland senator-elect Barnaby Joyce looks for publicity prior to taking his seat in the Senate. Might I also add, prior to his being told, in mono-syllabic terms, just how government works.
The ABC are besides themselves with glee as a conservative politician disagrees with Howard and News.com headlines scream ” Coalition Mutiny over IR Reforms”.
No, it’s government in action.
Barnaby-Joyce is definitely against;
“…. allowing the middle management of a big company to go out and sack (someone) without giving that person a reason why, or allowing the person to put their case.”What has that statement to do with the IR Reforms Howard is talking about? And from Strewth in the Australian;
EMPLOYMENT Minister Kevin Andrews had fun in parliament yesterday recounting an ABC interview last Friday where people expressed their concerns about the Government’s industrial relations reforms. Among them was one Fran Tierney, who lamented that her wage of $16 an hour would be cut to between $5 and $6. Andrews said Tierney had obviously not read the package, which guarantees the minimum rates would not be reduced. He also noted she had not disclosed she was the NSW deputy president of the Australian Services Union and the president of the Community and Social Services sector. Or that as a councillor for the Lane Cove Council she supplements her working wage to the tune of $1000 a month. Gotcha.Tell any lie and tell it often. The States are positioning themselves for a fight as Howard talks of centralizing IR. State Conservatives and Labor alike, it’s either an ideolical or power grab to them. As the battle develops we will hear a lot of lies and emotive, union-speak arguements from the Union movement but in the end the people will be able see that it is power that the unions leaders fight for, and not necessarily the welfare of their members.
Facebook
Twitter
Barnaby Joyce isn’t the only one to object to the IR reforms. Lawrence Springborg said that “I’m absolutely opposed to the unitary industrial relations system. I think it’s stupid [and] I think what it does is set up a booby trap for the future.” He went to say that if Beazley became PM and Martin Ferguson became the IR mininster, “you can imagine the disaster of actually then handing these particular powers to the Commonwealth government”.
Conservatives used to believe in state’s rights – not in centralising all the powers in the Federal government – whether it be education, health, ports, IR reforms, etc.
Yeah. I know Springborg is opposing it thus …The States are positioning themselves for a fight. Others will as well as the debate continues. The IR reforms as given today today are not necessarily the end result. The temp of the water has to be tested first.
I agree with you about state rights and conservatives but that doesn’t make it holy writ. What worked then may not work now and at the very least it needs debating. Maybe some State Ed Departments and Health Departments (Qld for example) could do with some central direction in this global world and I would suggest the old duplicious Federal/State service provisions could do with a hard look.
Let’s see how the debate develops – it could be a completely different ball game by July.
I’ve got a feeling that the nationals are simply positioning themselves for the big Telstra giveaway. An awful lot of their constituency are small-business owners after all. I doubt you’ll see them making a big deal about this anywhere else except the party room. They just want to be bought off when it comes to Telstra.