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Friday, October 14, 2005

Workers Online - Issue 285

Editorial: Howard's Secret War
There are two wars being waged against Australian workers right now.The first one is the blatant assault on the rights at work - it is being played out on the national political stage between the Howard Government with the backing of the big business lobby and the Australian community. It is rightly dominating the news as the government ducks and weaves around its economic agenda - to drive Australian wages down.

But in the shadow is a separate, more insidious attack - on an institution that has been integral to Australian way of life for thepast 120 years - the trade union movement.

There have been whispers in the press - 'crackdown on union power' was one headline in the Murdoch press, using all the subtleties of language that have given us 'tax relief'' and 'the war on terror '. But the
violence in the attack on unions is only becoming apparent as the detail of the government proposals come to light.

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http://workers.labor.net.au/285/editorial_editorial.html


 
 

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