Unions have begun using new unilateral powers to restart collective bargaining as they welcome “a shift” in employers’ attitudes in the face of extreme labour turnover.
Unions have started using new unilateral powers to restart collective bargaining as they welcome “a shift” in employers’ attitudes in the face of extreme labour turnover and a federal Labor government.
However, the union leader said he had also seen a change from some employers at the start of December, such as BP subsidiaries and in the goldfields and iron ore sectors.“Before the Labor government and before the new IR laws I think they would have fought back, have done everything under the sun legally to stop us,” he said.
Electrical Trades Union national secretary Michael Wright agreed that “what would be expected to be quite hostile negotiations have actually been quite good”, attributing a new Labor government as part of the reason for the attitude change. “This in part is due to recent Fair Work Act changes that mean unions no longer require a majority support determination to commence bargaining where EBA’s have expired in the past five years,” he said.
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