Where to now for unions and 'change the rules'?
- Written by Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
Very few people saw the Coalition’s win coming. If it was, as opposition leader Bill Shorten contended, “a referendum on wages” then it follows that Australians were content with sluggish wage growth and didn’t want a more substantial pay rise.
But that would be a great oversimplification. Labor had a more ambitious program...