Forums:

Politics

500, 000 people to rally against workplace changes in australia

Subscription

Search Topic

Author

Message

Pages: 1 2 · >>

nothinsnew

Deleted

The Coast, Australia

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:06:45

it seems that tomorrow in australia half a million people will stop work and take part in the biggest rally ever seen in australia.
John Howard's workplace changes arent going down that well 8)

El_Tino

booyaka!

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:09:39

what are the changes?

thomo

Hull, United Kingdom

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:14:30

didn't realize that any aussies worked

nothinsnew

Deleted

The Coast, Australia

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:15:32

well i dont know them all and i do have a bit of a biased view but the biggest one is that all employees will have to negotiate a contract with their employer rather than be protected by an award wage and award conditions. the employer is well within his/her rights to tell the employee or potential employee that they "arent what they want" if they dont agree to the conditions in the contract.

El_Tino

booyaka!

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:20:20

@nothinsnew Said
well i dont know them all and i do have a bit of a biased view but the biggest one is that all employees will have to negotiate a contract with their employer rather than be protected by an award wage and award conditions. the employer is well within his/her rights to tell the employee or potential employee that they "arent what they want" if they dont agree to the conditions in the contract.

woah that sounds pretty sketchy

reiko

Deleted

New York, New York

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:22:33

Those jerks! how did they get these changes passed?

thomo

Hull, United Kingdom

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:23:18

employees need to be protected by the law otherwise your employers have too much power over you. Strike on my aussie chums..

nothinsnew

Deleted

The Coast, Australia

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:25:52

the government has control of the senate. every law they want to put through will get through as they have a majority in the senate

thomo

Hull, United Kingdom

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:31:03

Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike
Strike

reiko

Deleted

New York, New York

#10

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:33:39

These crazy changes will backfire on them.

thomo

Hull, United Kingdom

#11

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:39:58

if you want i'll strike with you lol

kebab_boy

Bristol, United Kingdom

#12

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:47:39

So the law won't protect employey's anymore? I don't see the point of making it like that at all. What's the government's reasoning behind it?

garfunkel

my beautiful rescue

Deleted

Sydney, Australia

#13

Nov 13, 2005 @ 21:57:52

@kebab_boy Said
So the law won't protect employey's anymore? I don't see the point of making it like that at all. What's the government's reasoning behind it?

apparently its good for the economy and it'll be easier to have to industrial relations under one system which is supposedly the best thing for the workers of Australia

cobber

Deleted
Banned

Rockhampton, Australia

#14

Nov 13, 2005 @ 22:04:20

These new Industrial Relations Laws will allow the employers to import unskilled labour and place them in positions such as Apprenticeships and train them. Most likely, after they get their training, they will return to their nation leaving Australia even more worse off than it is right now.

They won't train Australian's. The government encourages the use of overseas labour instead of using unemployed people who live here. An act of being a Traitor!

garfunkel

my beautiful rescue

Deleted

Sydney, Australia

#15

Nov 13, 2005 @ 22:05:58

@cobber Said
These new Industrial Relations Laws will allow the employers to import unskilled labour and place them in positions such as Apprenticeships and train them. Most likely, after they get their training, they will return to their nation leaving Australia even more worse off than it is right now.

They won't train Australian's. The government encourages the use of overseas labour instead of using unemployed people who live here. An act of being a Traitor!

yes, that pisses me off when i see aussie jobs going overseas when there are plenty of aussies still unemployed

<< Previous Topic | Next Topic >>

Pages: 1 2 · >>

1 browsing (0 members - 1 guest)

Similar Topics
	Forum	Topic	Last Post	Replies	Views
	Random	Our great animals you have to meet here in australia.... lol	Fri Jul 13, 2012 @ 14:15	7	1293
	News & Current Events	Biggest Workplace Pet Peeves	Fri Feb 24, 2012 @ 19:59	5	506
	Rants & Raves	People who dont use the "status" feature of msn	Wed Jun 25, 2008 @ 15:06	46	4302
	Politics	Take day off work sick - you owe $200 to employer - Australia	Mon Jul 03, 2006 @ 15:13	15	1209
	Random	Rules for living in australia (dont eat me mazzy and all u other ozzies)	Thu May 11, 2006 @ 01:19	3	582