Jerk of the Week: ABCC
It’s simple, the Australia Building and Construction Commission is an abomination. It victimises a group of workers unfairly. You can’t have one set of Industrial Laws for the construction industry, and another set for everyone else. Surely, we should all be afforded the same rights in our respective workplaces and be free from the coercive powers of this Commission.
It’s like saying all Business Consultants can only receive 5 day annual leave a year. That wouldn’t wash and neither should it, but that’s effectively what it is doing.
Rudd, et al, you still rely on Unions for your power base. Without the Union movement you would not have been elected. The Union movement also remains your last connection to any form of community engagement.
In the name of the legions of Your Rights at Work volunteers that made sure Rudd el at was elected, abolish the ABCC and don’t put in place a watered down replacement.
For being an oppressive tool of the Howard Government, and showing just how close together the Rudd and Howard Governments are, the ABCC is: Jerk of the Week!
