union - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word union was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

They had the backing of industry organisations in all States including, in the case of Western Australia, the Farmers’ Union. [More…]
The Post Office is always available for discussion on Union matters. [More…]
There are adequate provisions under State law for prosecution of those who embezzle or misappropriate union funds. [More…]
What power does the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission possess to make a binding order on parties to a demarcation dispute in which the members of I union are covered by a federal award and the other members belong to a State union and are covered by a State award. [More…]
Is he able to say whether under sections 22, 22a and 23 of the Trade Union Act of New South Wales simple procedures are laid down to facilitate the amalgamation of trade unions registered in that State. [More…]
In view of the growing tendency for the smaller federal unions to seek the greater efficiency and industrial strength that sometimes comes to them through amalgamation with another union, is there any merit in amending the Conciliation and Arbitration Act along similar lines to the amalgamation sections of the New South Wales Act. [More…]
Interestingly enough, we understand that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is employing artillery units in hail affected areas to fire these rockets. [More…]
In this case, the claimant sought orders against the members of the Executive Council of the Australian Workers’ Union in relation to a resolution which was carried by it at a meeting held in Sydney in June, 1969. [More…]
It is a fact that the Court was informed in the course of proceedings that the Executive Council of the union was of the view that the opinion which it formed as expressed in the resolution was not well founded. [More…]
Did the Commonwealth Industrial Court recently rule that section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act makes it lawful for a union executive to carry a resolution containing an erroneous expression of legal opinion as to a member’s rights to petition for a controlled election in his union and that the only way of testing the validity of an erroneous interpretation of union rules is for a member to risk defiance of such an interpretation, by gambling his standing or office in a union against his own untested interpretation of the law. [More…]
Does he see any need to alter the law in such a way as to safeguard a union member from being obliged to place his union office or even his membership in jeopardy before being in a position to test the validity of an executive opinion or directive. [More…]
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has failed to comply with a requirement of the Secretary under the last preceding sub-section, the Secretary may, by instrument under his hand, withdraw the approval given in relation to the credit union, but the withdrawal does not take effect until the expiration of six months after the date of the withdrawal. [More…]
The answer is that the penalty of $500 reflects the very serious view that the Government believes should be taken where young people who are saving for a home are led to believe, mistakenly, that the savings they are making with a particular credit union are acceptable for the purposes of the Homes Savings Grant Act. [More…]
Firstly, it requires a credit union whose approval under the Act has been withdrawn to advise each of its members and each prospective member that the approval has been withdrawn. [More…]
Secondly, it prohibits a credit union that has not been approved under the Act or a credit union that has been approved but whose approval has been withdrawn, from directly or indirectly representing or advertising that it is an approved credit union. [More…]
The possibility does exist, however, that some young people could find that they are denied a grant of $500 because they have discovered too late that they had held their savings with a credit union that they had been led to believe was approved under the Act but in fact was not an approved credit union. [More…]
I understand that many Australian employers arrange for union subscriptions of their employees to be forwarded to the union concerned. [More…]
For example, as the honourable member will no doubt be aware, the Australian Workers Union is party to many agreements containing such provisions. [More…]
Does he see any merit in the United States law which decrees that no union member whose dues have been withheld by his employer shall be declared ineligible to vote or be a candidate for office by reason of alleged delay or default in the payment of dues. [More…]
Slott recently berthed at Port Kembla with New Guineans in its crew and the Seamen’s Union considered that living conditions were not satisfactory. [More…]
In view of ‘ the Government’s decision to join the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other eastern bloc countries in refusing a temporary entry visa to the Socialist, Dr Ernest Mandel, and the resultant bad publicity, will the Government take the opportunity to consult with Mr Trudeau to find out how democracies protect themselves from the dangers arising out of such S-day visits? [More…]
Which of the guests represented (a) the Federal Government, (b) the Federal Opposition, (c) State Governments, (d) State Oppositions and (e) the trade union movement. [More…]
This will depend onthe rules of the Union. [More…]
If the decision constitutes a breach of the union’s rules, a person affected by this decision can seek redress under section 141. [More…]
Will he give a specific answer as to whether the Commonwealth Industrial Court recently ruled that section 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act makes it lawful for a union executive to carry a resolution containing an erroneous expression of legal opinion as to a members rights to petition for a controlled election in his union and that no remedy would be available under the Act until an implied threat became a reality. [More…]
Is it a breach of union rules for a union executive to carry a resolution which constitutes a breach of section 171 (3.) [More…]
It is also true that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has given some support to Romania. [More…]
I can inform the House that it is the normal policy of the USSR to try to ensure that countries in its immediate vicinity or close to the Russian borders give the kind of help, and according to the conditions, that might be imposed by the Soviet Union itself. [More…]
As I recall his words, the Minister said that I incited the trade unions to place an embargo on the export of merino rams. [More…]
Neither in this place nor outside it have I expressed a view for or against the trade union action taken on this matter. [More…]
Has the Soviet Union tied strings to its help by demanding full military and economic cooperation as the price for flood damage assistance? [More…]
Over the longer term the functions of ASIA will diminish further and it is therefore necessary to have discussions with the union of which the clerks are members. [More…]
I have invited the federal secretary of their union, Mr Riordan, to discuss with me and my officers what measures should be adopted in order to make sure that any diminution in the responsibilities of the organisation and any consequent diminution in the staff should be effected without causing any difficulty for the members of the staff themselves. [More…]
No Union or Students Association fees were payable in that year. [More…]
The correct course of action would be for an appropriate union to institute proceedings before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission claiming conditions of the kind envisaged by the honourable member. [More…]
A second tabled in the General Assembly by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries would have called for the prohibition of the development production and stockpiling of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons and the destruction of such weapons. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noticed reports that Malaysia’s new Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, has called for the neutralisation of South East Asia with guarantees from the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America? [More…]
What validity is there is Australia’s forward defence policy of containing Communism, which is based on the alignment of Malaysia against Communism and therefore against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, especially when Malaysia is seeking guarantees from these 2 Communist powers for its own future? [More…]
In his State of the Union message in September last the President of Mexico announced that only the United States had objected to Mexico’s decision and reserved legal rights in this regard. [More…]
Will the Minister give similar thought to our young men and women who, through conscience, do not wish to join a trade union or to pay a political levy? [More…]
Having given this matter due consideration, will the Minister indicate what approaches can be made to the unions to remedy the situation? [More…]
An annual grant of $200 was made available from 1936 to 1945 to the Australian League of Nations Union. [More…]
In 1945-46 a grant of $2,000 was made available to the United Nations Association, the successor organisation to the League of Nations Union. [More…]
Comparable figures are not available for commitments by other countries including the Soviet Union. [More…]
In how many of these cases have unexplained delays occurred in securing the consent of the Soviet authorities for the nominees to leave the Soviet Union? [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Labour and National Service: Is there a federally registered fire fighters’ union? [More…]
Has it been dented registration in Queensland although it has a growing majority of the fire fighting unionists in that State? [More…]
Has a recent industrial dispute been determined against members of that union by a panel of three, one being a principal party to the dispute and opposed to the unions, and one a representative of the rival union that is the only one recognised by the Queensland Government? [More…]
Branch of the New South Wales Fire Brigade Union that the fire fighting services in the A.C.T. [More…]
If so, will he take steps to investigate the Union claim. [More…]
On how many occasions has a Commissioner or the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission dealt with a demarcation dispute in which the members of one union were covered by a Federal Award and the other members to the dispute belonged to a State union and were covered by a State Award. [More…]
Does such a common rule apply to (a) employees who are not members of the applicant or respondent union and (b) employers who are not otherwise bound by a particular award. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the Commonwealth Industrial Court’s finding that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and regulations permit the division of a registered union into a caste system that can limit office-holding privilege to a relatively small percentage of the union’s total membership. [More…]
If so, is it his intention to retain a law that disqualifies a large percentage of union members from nominating for office in a particular union. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the recent judgment of Mr Justice Sheehy of the New South Wales Industrial Commission in which the learned judge criticised the victimisation of employees for reasons associated with their union activities. [More…]
Is it a fact that the vast majority of cases taken against employers under section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act for the reinstatement of employees allegedly victimised for union activities have been dismissed. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the United States Government has already introduced legislation, and the Canadian Government is considering legislation, for a Bill of Rights for rank and file members of trade unions that guarantees to each member charged with a breach of union rules the right to a fair hearing by an impartial body and to participate fully in union meetings and elections. [More…]
Is he able to say whether’ the Western Australian Farmers’ Union Wool Section Conference has carried by a two-thirds majority, a motion opposing the export of merino rams. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the taxation implications resulting from the purchase by the Australian Council of Trade Unions of Bourke’s Store in Melbourne? [More…]
Will profits from this company be tax free in the hands of Mr Hawke and his union in the same way that the Trades and Labour Council of New South Wales is exempt from tax on the profits of radio station 2KY in Sydney? [More…]
Is the right honourable gentleman aware that the Travelodge motel group has been forced to cancel accommodation booked for the South African Rugby Union team as a consideration to other guests? [More…]
I remember Clarrie Fallon, a great leader of the Australian Workers Union, who wrote a series of articles called, I think, Out of the Night’. [More…]
No credit union has as yet made formal application for approval. [More…]
I would not like to think that the Soviet authorities would impose such a meagre penalty on evildoers in the Soviet Union convicted of a similar crime in relation to our embassy in Moscow. [More…]
In this interesting operation, all sections of the community of the central western area, including local authorities, graziers, business people in the towns affected and the Australian Workers Union have combined to form this survival group. [More…]
I would like to acknowledge for my part the help I have had not only from members of the Opposition and trade union representatives but from the Commonwealth Public Service and other people in the community. [More…]
ls he able to say whether, under the Social Security Act of the United Kingdom, an employee who is unemployed by reason of a strike conducted by his own union, is entitled to receive supplementary social security benefits in respect of a wife and children as well as a rent allowance? [More…]
What is the amount of social services benefit paid in Australia in respect of the wife and children of an employee in Australia who is unemployed by reason of a strike by (a) his own union at his place of employment, (b) another union at his place of employment, (c) his own union at another place of employment and (d) another union at another place of employment? [More…]
Which is the southernmost of the islands over which sovereignty passed to the Soviet Union under the terms of the treaty. [More…]
Can the Minister say how many (a) doctors and (b) hospital beds there are per thousand people in (i) Australia, (ii) New Zealand, (iii) the United Kingdom, (iv) the United States of America, (v) Canada, (vi) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (vii) Common Market countries and (viii) Scandinavian countries. [More…]
It was the second contract that the Meat Board was able to negotiate with the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 believe that a contract was signed with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the supply of a substantial quantity of meat from Australia in 1971. [More…]
(a) The types of fees and charges levied by colleges of advanced education vary from institution to institution; in the college sector the following types of fees are found - teaching; laboratory; excursion; library; materials; examination; residential; student union, associations, and council; general service; sports association; other miscellaneous charges. [More…]
What percentage of this percentage related to (a) wage disputes, (b) managerial policy, (c) union membership, (d) victimisation and (e) other matters. [More…]
The Soviet Union is understood to have interpreted ‘Kurile Islands’ as including Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomais, the last being the most southerly. [More…]
I am informed that my Department’s records show that as at 6th October 1971, there were 23 Federal awards and registered agreements to which the Australian Workers Union is respondent and which are expressed to operate in Queensland. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer for the State of Queensland will this year conduct an election for certain positions in The Australian Workers’ Union and that some of these positions, namely, Delegates to Annual Convention, are to be elected on the basis of one delegate for each 4,000 members or part thereof, of the organisation in the Queensland branch of that organisation. [More…]
If so, is it also a fact that the membership register of the Queensland branch of The Australian Workers’ Union, a federal organisation, includes the names of persons who belong to the State registered union, The Australian Workers’ Union of Employees, Queensland, and that many thousands of these are employed in industries or callings not covered by the Constitution and rules of The Australian Workers’ Union;if not, does each of the organisations keep a separate register of its members. [More…]
If there is no separate membership register for each of these two organisations, how will the Electoral Officer determine the number of Delegates which the Queensland Branch will be entitled to elect to the Annual Convention of The Australian Workers’ Union, and how will he ensure that only those persons who qualify for membership in The Australian Workers’ Union, and who are, in fact, financial members of that organisation, are supplied with ballot papers in the election for positions in the organisation. [More…]
Arbitration Inspectors of my Department have a responsibility for securing observance of the Cattle Station Industry (Northern Territory) Award which covers most classes of employees in the industry but only applies to employees who belong to the North Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
These safety instructions are rigidly adhered to and have full Union support. [More…]
The Inspectorate will draw the employers’ attention to the deficiencies but, for the reasons given in the previous answer, it has no authority to demand that award standards be provided in respect of persons who are not members of the North Australian Workers Union. [More…]
(I am advised that a new log of claims as to proposed terms and conditions of employment in the Northern Territory cattle industry has recently been served by the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia.) [More…]
Can a union registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act participate as a right in judicial proceedings to which it is a party, through an officer of the union. [More…]
As prominent Victorian trade union secretary have suffered loss damage embarrassment and distress by, widespread assumption I am parson you mentioned. [More…]
Will he discuss this matter with the Soviet Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation which is now in Australia? [More…]
I am not aware that Mr Laurie Carmichael is in fact responsible for the proposed amalgamated union. [More…]
The delegation from the Soviet Union has been to Canberra and has been entertained by the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Has Australia expressed a view to Indonesia and Malaysia on the regime in the Strait of Malacca, as the Soviet Union and Japan are reported to have done? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the Australian Union of Students newsletter for November 1971 relating to the Open University. [More…]
organisations whose membership is restricted to members of a particular profession, trade, industry, association or union and the Defence forces, are not eligible for membership of the Association. [More…]
I understand that he is closely connected with the trade union movement. [More…]
The left wing of the trade union movement has some deplorable features. [More…]
It victimises people who speak out against union leadership. [More…]
The way the trade union movement uses its power against individuals to deny them freedom is absolutely and completely deplorable. [More…]
I express the hope that the honourable member for Sturt will apply in bis own union the kind of principles which he has been putting before the House this evening. [More…]
I pose it in the belief that, although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is showing some strategic Interest in the Indian Ocean, there does not appear to be any significant permanently based naval presence from any country in the Indian Ocean at this time. [More…]
One can only ask what will be the position in the Mackay region with respect to the Australian Workers Union and the generation of employment and unemployment when the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) makes- [More…]
Did the Minister state recently that it is for the unions to solve the problem of demarcation disputes? [More…]
Is he aware that it is the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to encourage union amalgamation and that such amalgamation will lessen industrial unrest from demarcation disputes? [More…]
Will the Government therefore give an assurance that taxpayers’ money will not be used in any court action designed to block union amalgamation? [More…]
Will he table the documentary evidence of or from April 1947 which he has used as evidence for his claim that a Labor Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for Social Services then ruled that members of a union that sponsors or supports an industrial dispute are not eligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
The Soviet Union, if you like. [More…]
The proposed amalgamation of the metal trades unions has caused anxiety to many of us, particularly to the peaceful members of trade unions, who cannot in their wildest expectations take any part in running the union because of the fear of victimisation and all the things connected with it. [More…]
Its provisions seem clear enough but I think that I should place on record that it deals with the amalgamation of organisations, and it seems that nothing contained in this amending Bill affects the proposed amalgamation which is now in the process of being agreed to by the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
Does he support the common practice of members of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of refusing to hear a union claim while members of the union concerned are on strike. [More…]
Can he say whether the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act requires tribunals to investigate the merits of a dispute notwithstanding that members of the union concerned are on strike. [More…]
In the event of the compulsory conference in Sydney this afternoon not reaching a decision, will the Minister give urgent consideration to convening immediately a conference of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, together with officials of the union concerned and the Australian National Line, in at attempt to avert a tie-up of all ANL ships which, if it occurs, would have very serious effects on the economic life of the island State of Tasmania? [More…]
No credit union has as yet made formal application for approval. [More…]
I refer to a report that 4 union leaders have gone to Hanoi to find out the exact position regarding the fight for the liberation of the Vietnamese people. [More…]
Is this further evidence of the trend to violence in trade union affairs? [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports that Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union are being forced to pay for their freedom by being charged, on a sliding scale commensurate with their education, for their visas? [More…]
However on several occasions in the United Nations, the last occasion being at the meeting of the General Assembly last year, we have raised our voice and spoken in favour of the free movement of Jews from the Soviet Union in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [More…]
We had received information that in fact the Soviet Union had been relaxing ds restriction upon the movement of Jews from the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ask the PostmasterGeneral: In line with his recent comments on bias by some elements of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will he suggest to the Commission that, in view of the exceedingly generous coverage given to clashes between police and demonstrators on such past occasions as the visit of President johnson, the tour of the South African footballers and, more recently, the removal of the so-called Aboriginal embassy from Canberra, it should also cover such incidents as the attack by communist led militants against a union official supporting a return to work by striking plumbers? [More…]
My understanding is that the honourable member is perhaps referring to incidents related to Mr Ducker of the trade union movement. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Attorney-General been drawn to the series of suspected murders, shootings, bombings and bashings in which members of the Victorian Painters and Dockers Union have been involved recently? [More…]
What percentage of wage and salary earners were members of a trade union during each of the calendar years from and including 1966. [More…]
I was informed first thing this morning that the union members had decided to hold a stopwork meeting at 6 o’clock tomorrow morning. [More…]
No credit union sought to become approved (and hence establish acceptability of its members’ savings) under the conditions provided for in the Homes Savings Grant Act 1970. [More…]
and (3) Following assent to the Homes Savings Grant Act 1972 on 27th September, ,a credit union may become approved if it meets only one condition, namely that not less than 20 per cent of its annual lending is, and continues to be, by way of housing loans. [More…]
The answer to the third question is that suitability will always be the prime consideration in the appointment of any trade union representatives to any of the bodies named. [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman say that notwithstanding the rejection by the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive of the committee of inquiry into all aspects of industrial relations which was announced in the Governor-General’s Speech, that committee will be established? [More…]
Will it be essential that union practices be investigated and union views ascertained? [More…]
Will he provide the proposed committee with powers to compel persons to appear before it; otherwise, how will he ensure that information concerning union views and practices is put? [More…]
It should be remembered that these procedures were agreed against a background of trade union opposition to any form of penal provisions and, as I have already publicly announced, the Government will be removing that disturbing element from the industrial arena. [More…]
This should greatly facilitate the implementation by individual unions and employers of the recommended procedures. [More…]
At this stage the Government’s role will be confined to ensuring that such agreements are well understood and approved by the union members concerned otherwise they will not have the force of an award under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The declaration of credit unions as an approved class of lender follows the liberalisation of the conditions under which they may be accepted as repositories for savings under the homes savings grant scheme and indicates the Government’s support for the credit union movement. [More…]
It is now open for credit unions to apply to the Corporation to become approved lenders and to insure with the Corporation those housing loans which meet its requirements. [More…]
The instrument also caters for co-operative societies other than credit unions which are registered or incorporated under laws relating to co-operative, industrial or provident societies and which lend to their members on mortgage security. [More…]
It follows that asked by the honourable member for Gwydir of the Acting Minister for Overseas Trade and relates to the placing of a ban by the Seamen’s Union on French ships. [More…]
So I ask the Prime Minister: In view of the very serious implications that this ban has on the export of Australian goods, particularly on skins from Australia to France, will he say whether his Government supports the action of the Seamen’s Union and will he say what action he will take against this sort of industrial, political action which is having such serious effects on some of Australia’s industries? [More…]
Does the Government support the Seamen’s Union’s ban on French ships entering and leaving Australian ports as a means of protesting against the French nuclear tests in the Pacific? [More…]
Would the Minister agree that the proposed action by the Seamen’s Union would, in effect, force the sheep farmers and other exporters to pay the price of the Government’s failure to dissuade the French Government from its nuclear testing in the Pacific? [More…]
It is difficult to define what is ‘adequate representation’ unless one knew the number of persons who constituted the various boards, commissions, trusts, etc., but on a board of, say, 3 members, the appointment of one trade union representative may be considered adequate. [More…]
So far as I can ascertain there is at present a very low level of trade union representation on the bodies referred to in (I) above but the government will rectify this situation as vacancies occur. [More…]
I have read that the Seamen’s Union is proposing to take action against French shipping in the light of the French Government’s refusal to abandon nuclear tests in the atmosphere of the South Pacific. [More…]
The same union took the same action last year. [More…]
Will he indicate what the present level of trade union representation is with respect to the organisations listed in part (1). [More…]
It is only where the rules of an organisation do not provide for it that, notwithstanding the omission on the part of the union rules, the vacancy can be filled by the management committee of the union pending another election. [More…]
Actually, it was a fairly large union. [More…]
Yes, it was a large national union. [More…]
There may be other unions like it; I do not know. [More…]
We will ask that there be an examination of union rules to ensure that where there is any relic of this discrimination against a person belonging to a union on the ground of race, the matter is brought to the notice of the union concerned. [More…]
The union will then be given an opportunity to amend its rules to make them comply with the convention to which I am now referring. [More…]
Did he privately tell the telephone switch girls’ union one thing in relation to bans on communications with French enterprises in Australia and did he say the opposite publicly? [More…]
What is his Government’s attitude to the present union bans? [More…]
How many trade union leaders and officials of the Australian Labor Party has the Government appointed to paid positions on boards, commissions, advisory bodies, etc. [More…]
Is the partial demolition of Reid House proceed ing in spite of the union black ban placed on its demolition in 1972. [More…]
I did have a conversation with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Reserve Bank board, last Wednesday night, and in the course of a conversation on many matters he told me that if the Government were able to moderate the rise in prices through the application of such constitutional power as it obtains the trade union movement would fully co-operate in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
Did he receive any undertakings or guarantees from the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that the trade union movement would moderate its claims for wage increases? [More…]
The union body concerned in the ban is aware of the use to which ‘F’ Block of Reid House is to be put and does not oppose its removal, which is currently proceeding. [More…]
Yesterday the Prime Minister told the House that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions had promised him full trade union co-operation in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
Is it the Government’s intention to bring to Australia British trade union specialists in the field of collective bargaining to explain details of the British system to members of the Government and the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
and (3) There has been liaison between the Government and the central bodies of employee organisations, and various union representatives have had access to me. [More…]
I told him that he ought to contact the union and tell it that the operation was most complex. [More…]
445 (Hansard, 31 May 1973, page 3070) seeking a report on the progress of discussions which were initiated in 1972 among relevant departments to examine the need for low-cost accommodation for students in Canberra, will he confer with the Students Union to ascertain if the students agree with the interdepartmental conclusions. [More…]
Is it true, as reported in the ‘Age* last October, that ‘It’s Time’ commercials were screened free of charge in Greater Union theatres throughout Australia prior to the December 1972 elections? [More…]
Is it true that the Greater Union group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a multi-national corporation? [More…]
Is the Minister aware also that the Secretary of the Western Australian branch of the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia, by coercion and intimidation is attempting to compel about 60 female hospital assistants to join that union? [More…]
Will the Minister act immediately to protect these women, who are acting only in accordance with their legal rights, by issuing appropriate directions to prevent the union secretary and other unionists from intimidating these women? [More…]
Will the Minister assure these women that their jobs are secure and that they will not be dismissed if they do not join the union? [More…]
Apart from HMAS ‘Melbourne’ which as flagship of the Fleet is required for operational duties, what source of seagoing strategic mobility is now available to Australia which is not under the direct control of the communist-led Seamen’s Union of Australia? [More…]
Mail to Australian addresses will be surcharged in accordance with our usual practice and international mail will be returned to sender because non-postal stickers on the front of items for overseas are prohibited under the Convention of the Universal Postal Union. [More…]
-I have to inform the House that we have present in the gallery this afternoon a parliamentary delegation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by Mr N. M. Matchanov. [More…]
Is the Minister for Housing and Construction aware of retaliatory action taken by the Building Workers Industrial Union in Brisbane against insurance company buildings in protest against the failure of many insurance companies to meet flood damage claims? [More…]
I have read of the trade union attitude to the insurance companies which have not covered insurers against flood damage in Queensland. [More…]
Is the Minister for Transport aware that the total Australian export shipment of oranges to New Zealand is at risk largely due to the discrimination exercised against Australian seamen by the New Zealand Seamen’s and Waterside Workers Union? [More…]
-Did the Prime Minister announce before the last election that he would legislate to allow for the payment of certain social security benefits to be credited direct to a beneficiary’s credit union savings account? [More…]
What percentage of wage and salary earners were members of a trade union during (a) 1972 and (b) 1973. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of the statement which appeared in the Victorian Teachers Union journal made by the Director-General of the Public Works Department that the Victorian Education Department was wasting money on a crazy school building policy, had panicked and was building too many schools and that the school maintenance program was years behind what it ought to be? [More…]
What are the names of the trade union appointees to the boards of Government organisations who have accepted positions since 2 December 1972. member’s question is as follows: [More…]
Did he intervene in any way in the dispute between the Food Preservers’ Union and the Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
Will he provide a copy of the press statement to which the General Secretary of the Food Preservers’ Union found objection. [More…]
The position is that the Union Steamship Company vessel, the Tarawera’, which has been carrying this trade is about to be pensioned off and it cannot continue to carry the trade without a SO per cent cost increase which is unacceptable to the New Zealand importers. [More…]
It is not true that, as has been claimed by Riv-Sam Pty Ltd, which wrote to the honourable member on 18 March 1974, the ANL has been refused entry into the trade by the New Zealand seamen’s union. [More…]
Will the Minister for Labour inform the House what action, if any, he has taken to avert the threatened close-down of all domestic airlines arising from a demarcation dispute between the Federal Transport Workers Union and the Transport Workers Union of New South Wales? [More…]
Is the Minister running away from a debate and a discussion and vote on this issue, having in mind the fact that the Minister knows that union leadership right throughout Australia is opposed to the provisions in this particular legislation? [More…]
Can the Minister for Labor and Immigration inform the House of any developments that have taken place this morning concerning the industrial dispute involving the Transport Workers Union of Australia, the Professional Musicians Union of Australia, the Australian Journalists Association and the visiting American entertainer Frank Sinatra or, as the Minister may know him, Old Blue Eyes? [More…]
In view of the fact that the Minister is continuing to have discussions with and is continuing to receive information from trade union representatives, can he give the House any further information on the unemployment figures? [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman: Does he agree that a $15 a week rise being asked for toy the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is probably not in excess of a reasonable wage claim? [More…]
If he agrees that it is not in excess of a reasonable wage claim, is it the intention of the Government to give support to the union in its demands for that amount of money to be paid? [More…]
This is a provision that would provide for a reasonable proportion of the people within a union to vote in a ballot for an amalgamation. [More…]
1 ) Has he received a request from the Building Workers’ Industrial Union in Western Australia for the introduction of a new system of tax assessment for workers on overtime or shift work. [More…]
Is there any inter-departmental committee or committees dealing with any aspects of Australia’s trading relations with (a) New Zealand (b) Japan (c) the United States (d) Great Britain (e) the European Economic Community (f) the Soviet Union (g) China (h) India (i) Indonesia and (j ) any other countries. [More…]
If I may just explain to you, Sir, the Minister tabled a letter from one of the unions that I named. [More…]
I want to apologise to that union. [More…]
The International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) was granted $10,000 and the population program of the OECD Development Centre received $17,362. [More…]
Is an indemnity payment one for which the money demanded is for union funds alone? [More…]
I understand that the decision of Justice Gaudron was contested in the proper way, by the Transport Workers’ Union’s lodging an appeal against the decision. [More…]
I repeat the arguments that I put earlier about the assurances that we would have wished to have concerning the trade union movement’s willingness to enter into the necessary bond that would give validity and possibility to this provision. [More…]
In the Act as it now is the power of the union to enrol people who can be enrolled in a trade union has been widened to enable people to be enrolled other than as employees. [More…]
I cannot mention precisely at this time or in this place the countries that I shall be visiting but among them clearly will be the Soviet Union which for some time has been pressing for a visit, particularly since I have already visited the United States of America, Japan, China and Britain. [More…]
Has agreement been reached with the Soviet Union for the conduct of joint research programs with Australia. [More…]
Mr Jim Barry (Victoria), President of the Australian Amateur Gymnastic Union. [More…]
Mi Syd Grange (New South Wales), Vice Chairman of the Australian Olympic Council, Secretary /Treasurer of the Australian Amateur Swimming Union. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne who has just spoken said that I had claimed that the trade unions were opposed to this scheme. [More…]
I have never said that the trade union movement is opposed to this particular scheme. [More…]
It is necessary to have a clear distinction between single permit ships around the Australian coast, which have largely been the subject of alleged Seamen’s Union activities, and the campaign of the International Transport Federation against the flags of convenience ships whose rates of pay for seamen are at unreasonably low levels. [More…]
Has he been told that the Minister for Labor and Immigration is forecasting that unemployment will show a big increase in the next few months and that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is forecasting that 300,000 Australians will be out of work in January? [More…]
For the benefit of all those union members who are and will be unemployed, school leavers and vacation student workers, will he state what level of unemployment has to be reached in Australia before it ceases to be absolutely trivial? [More…]
It is the subject of discussions between the Postmaster-General and union representatives. [More…]
Has this dispute been caused by a black ban placed on the post office by the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia on account of the employment at that post office of 4 persons who refused to join the union? [More…]
In a number of newspapers and I understand on at least one station of the radio network it has been alleged by Mr N. McLean, who apparently comes from Melbourne and is purported to be President of the Australian Union of Students, that I made some remarks- first of all he alleges at a closed meeting. [More…]
What action is proposed by the Government to stabilise the employment levels in the textile and knitted garments industry having regard to the recent announcements by the General Secretary of the Australian Textile Workers Union, Mr W. A. Hughes. [More…]
Does the Minister for Labor and Immigration remember accusing members on this side of the House of being union bashers if we dared even to question his somewhat erratic industrial policies from time to time? [More…]
In view of the remarks of the Prime Minister referring to the unions screwing consumers, will he acknowledge the Prime Minister as the greatest and most unrivalled union basher? [More…]
1 ) What action has the Government taken to assist the 3 million Jewish people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
If no such action has been taken, will he raise this matter when in the Soviet Union, [More…]
Will he also ask the Soviet Union to end its oppression of these people. [More…]
What other action will he take to assist the 3 million Jewish people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the following paper: Report of the Interim Committee of the Australian Council for Trade Union Training 1973-74. [More…]
Proposed section 20a seeks to ensure that the Corporation consults with the appropriate trade union organisation and proposed section 20a (2) gives the Minister the power to give directions to the Corporation as regards consultation. [More…]
(I) Before taking any action that could reasonably be expected to affect the conditions of employment, or the demand for labour, in the wool industry, the Corporation shall consult with, and have regard to the views of, the appropriate trade union organizations. [More…]
1 ) The total cost of Australian Government advertising placed with trade union journals in each of the last 5 years was: [More…]
1 ) What was the total cost of all Government advertising that was placed with trade union journals in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
What was the total cost of Government advertising placed in trade journals, other than trade union journals, in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
Did the delegates from the Soviet Union move at the International Whaling Commission meeting in London, held on 24-28 June 1974, to increase the eligible size of sperm whales to be killed. [More…]
Can he say whether the Union Electric Company in the United States of America is expanding its operation into this field. [More…]
As soon as that issue is resolved, if it is resolved in the negative, I shall move an amendment which will extend the provisions of the clause so that they will include employees in the trade union situation and also employers. [More…]
If so, did the telegram ask him to inquire about the fate of 5 Lithuanians imprisoned in the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the call by Mr Laurie Short, Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association, for a national conference with Federal union leaders so that the Prime Minister can explain his new-found theories on wages and inflation. [More…]
We congratulate the Minister therefore on allowing the national Parliament the opportunity to keep a watching brief on trade union training. [More…]
After sub-clause ( 1 ) insert the following sub-clause: ( lA) A report referred to in sub-section (1) shall include details of the syllabuses and study undertaken at the College and at each of the Trade Union Training Centres. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, unlike the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) it is my intention to speak to the Trade Union Training Authority Bill. [More…]
Leave is also an important aspect of trade union training because if there is to be a confrontation between State governments, industry and other semi-governmental operations against trade union training and if they are to fight all the way down the line against paying their employees to go to these trade union courses, it will be a long uphill battle. [More…]
If so, has he received an assurance from any union to this effect. [More…]
-I present the report of the Australian delegation to the 61st Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference held in Tokyo between 2 and 1 1 October 1974. [More…]
This Committee is no doubt aware of the views of other conservation authorities such as the International Union on Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources which have a wider range of activities. ‘ [More…]
Did the Australian Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission in 1974 vote ‘No’ at the technical committee stage of the proceedings to a quota of 725 on the Antarctic Fin Whale with 6 area divisions, and ‘Yes’ at the same committee to a quota of 1000 with the same area divisions, thus voting the death of another 275 Fin Whales which are classified as an endangered species by the International Union on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
Who were the substitutions and what political or union offices do they hold and what were the reasons for their appointment? [More…]
-The only communication I have seen recently from the Victorian Farmers Union was an invitation to open its annual conference on Tuesday, 1 July. [More…]
I also seek leave to table and incorporate in Hansard copies of telexes of 20 December to the Union Bank of Switzerland and Mr Khemlani containing the necessary details of the Executive Council minute, and also a copy of the Draft Acceptance of 21 December to deal with multiple drawings. [More…]
How many (a) Ministers, (b) Opposition Shadow Ministers, (c) Government backbenchers, (d) Opposition backbenchers, (e) trade union officials and (0 employer representatives appeared on the ABC radio programs (i) ‘AM ‘ and (ii) ‘PM ‘ this year to 1 June 1 975. [More…]
The ratio is a Universal Postal Union standard, established for use throughout the world, and the choice of 1:1.414 (i.e. [More…]
What was the result of the work undertaken by the Scripture Union of Australia, with a grant by the Australian Government, to prepare a report in consultation with youth workers in the drop-out/unattached area. [More…]
In view of the recent union action in regard to the installation and repair of business telephones, will the Minister for Post and Telecommunications advise what action has been taken or can be taken to overcome the serious problem which now exists for the installation and repair of many business telephones, not only within the electorate of Macquarie but also throughout Australia? [More…]
Does the Minister recall an agreement of October last year between the Minister for Labor and Immigration in the previous Government and the Federated Clerks Union that no such dismissals would take place, and that staff would not be retrenched or posted to other States? [More…]
What negotiations on this matter has the present Government had with the Federated Clerks Union? [More…]
Did those changes come into effect last February and do they further restrict the freedoms of the Polish people and make the foreign policy of Poland even more subservient to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
The Queensland secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, Mr Arch Bevis. [More…]
Mr J. Barry, of the Australian Amateur Gymnastic Union and Mr N. Fraser, of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia represented the sporting bodies. [More…]
I want to talk about the collegiate system of voting in union elections. [More…]
I begin by saying that the Australian Labor Party’s platform provides for participatory democracy in union affairs and provides that no financial union member shall be deprived of the right to vote in the election of union committees exercising any powers of management and that no committee man shall be permitted to occupy a full time office unless he is elected by a direct secret vote of the rank and file of his union. [More…]
However, the 1973 Conciliation and Arbitration Act gave unions until mid-November of 1976 to comply with the provisions of the 1973 Act. [More…]
The rules of the more democratic unions had already provided for the direct vote of members for all offices. [More…]
I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a list giving examples of the unions which had full time office bearers elected directly by the membership and those where the election was by the collegiate system. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Defence concerned about the growing presence of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shipping in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
Has his Department officially discussed this proposal with representatives of the trade union movement and representatives of employer organisations to safeguard this important industry. [More…]
Has the Government had any reports of Soviet Union reaction to his foreign policy statement? [More…]
This Party came to power with the direct assistance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Cuba which organised some IS 000 Cuban troops to support the leftist takeover once again from the completely nonoperational Portugal. [More…]
The College is part of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority and is funded through funds appropriated by Parliament to the Authority. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations clarify the current situation concerning secret ballots for union elections, in respect of which legislation was brought down in the last session of Parliament? [More…]
In some of the years between 1961 and 1968 I was an active member of the New South Wales Public Service Association and in the middle of the 1960s, as secretary of a student association, I co-operated with the Federated Clerks Union of New South Wales in actively arranging for the conditions of articled clerks to be changed, much to their benefit in that State. [More…]
I was actively involved in the union at the University of Western Australia, which was called the Salaried Officers Association, of the University of Western Australia Union of Workers. [More…]
During 1975 I was VicePresident of that Union and played a very active role in its affairs. [More…]
I have a proper regard for the role of unions in our economic society. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) said that members on this side of the House had never been actively associated with unions at all. [More…]
In my case I was actively associated with the Federated Clerks Union when I was working on the wharves. [More…]
I was a delegate for the State Service Union when I was at the university and at the Public Curator’s Office in Queensland. [More…]
I was actively working for the Australian Workers Union for many years in far Western Queensland. [More…]
Senator Collard was Secretary of the Combined Railways Union and Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
The Secretary of the Seamen’s Union in Victoria is a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Can he say through what countries the New Zealand rugby union team travelled to and from South Africa. [More…]
The Minister will be aware that the Public Service Arbitrator recently awarded the Miscellaneous Workers Union in the Australian Capital Territory a wage increase of $5.70 a week. [More…]
In what industrial or union organisations do each of the members of the Economic Consultative Group have voluntary or paid positions. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister say whether the Government’s secret postal ballot legislation for trade union elections, proclaimed in August, has gained acceptance by the trade union movement as a whole or by sections of it? [More…]
Is it a fact that on his way to the recent meeting of the InterParliamentary Union a member of this House made a visit to Rhodesia? [More…]
The Government has had discussions with union, employer and consumer representatives about future operations of the Prices Justification Tribunal and has given close consideration to the views expressed. [More…]
Housing and Community Development gave on 21 September (Hansard, page 1211) but which he himself could not give on 7 September (Hansard, page 775) about the countries through which the New Zealand Rugby Union team had travelled to South Africa. [More…]
We have taken note of those things that have been said and of those suggestions that honourable members have amalgamated postal workers union, be brought to the attention of the Minister in another place. [More…]
That the petition presented today by me relating to the treatment of Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics be printed. [More…]
I propose to submit the petition for examination by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence with a request that it explore ways and means of obtaining from the Ambassador of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics some advice as to the policy of his Government on the matters raised in the petition and also in regard to the reality of freedom of religious worship and instruction for the Jewish and other religions in the U.S.S.R. [More…]
-Getting away from politics and on to sport, I draw the attention of the House to the present Australian rugby union tour of France. [More…]
In respect of the navies of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, is he able to provide operative details of the (a) naval personnel strength (b) marine equivalent strength, (c) total number of ships, (d) total ship tonnage, (e) average ship tonnage, (0 average age of ships, (g) proportion of ships which are aged (i) less than 5 years, (ii) more than 5 years but less than 10 years, (iii) 10 years or more but less than 15 years, (iv). [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry been drawn to an article appearing in today’s Press stating that a large tonnage of beef had been sold to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
How many secret ballots for union elections have been conducted under the Government’s new secret ballot legislation? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister consider that this legislation will lead to a reduction in industrial disruptions by minority controlled unions? [More…]
1 ) Can he say which countries issue diplomatic passports to Members of Parliament representing their country at meetings of the (a) United Nations General Assembly, (b) Inter-Parliamentary Union and (c) Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
The Opposition has encouraged a situation which would have helped to persuade the United States not to be involved, not to reinforce its capacities at Diego Garcia, and therefore it has encouraged a situation which would have left the Indian Ocean to the Soviet Union alone. [More…]
If President Carter can be successful in persuading the Soviet Union to take its extensive naval facilities out of the Indian [More…]
Does he support the President’s suggestion to the Soviet Union that the super- powers should agree to demilitarising the Indian Ocean? [More…]
That a full inquiry be undertaken into the use of trade union funds for political elections and that such inquiry should inquire into: [More…]
The circumstances of contributions made by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union to the Australian Labor Party campaign for the 1 972 elections; [More…]
whether an opportunity is given to each individual unionist to decide whether he or she desires that part of his or her union fee shall go to a particular political Party; [More…]
The move towards worldwide establishment of 200-mile off-shore economic zones has been considerably hastened by the recent unilateral declarations by the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the European Economic Community. [More…]
On 23 September 1976 the Prime Minister announced in the Parliament: the Government will be putting down a regulation which will enable the Industrial Registrar to require trade unions to notify the Registrar of their next forthcoming ballot Under these provisions there would be a continuing record held by the Industrial Registrar of ballots for all trade union elections and, therefore, anyone would be able to find out what ballots were to be held in the next few months. [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent statement by the Australian Industries Development Association in which the Association warned the Government not to introduce its proposed industrial relations bureau on the grounds that it may cause massive confrontation with the trade union movement, that it represents unwarranted interference in industry by government, that it would frustrate conciliation and aggravate industrial disputes, that the application of penalties would serve no practical purpose, and that it would adversely affect economic recovery and wage restraint? [More…]
Today, honourable members received parcels of unleavened bread or matzah, as it is known, for forwarding to Jews in the Soviet Union who are unable to get the proper bread for their celebration of the Passover this year. [More…]
This is one of the ways in which the atheistic Soviet Government persecutes all religions and I have here an account of the mean and horrible way in which it has endeavoured to deprive the Jews in the Soviet Union of the ceremonial bread which they need for their celebration of the Passover. [More…]
Assistance has been allocated as follows: $418 to the Amateur Boxing Union of Australia to assist with the administration of its national Senior Championships $508.50 to the Australian Casting Association to assist with the assembly costs of the Australian team for the World Casting Championships in Taree, New South Wales $4,354 to the Australian Volleyball Federation to assist with the administration of national championships; and to assist with the fares for a delegate to attend an international conference. [More…]
The Government’s view of the economic outlook was presented in detail at the consultations with the ACTU and other peak trade union councils in June 1 976. [More…]
Six days ago I drew his attention to reports from the Los Angeles spy trial that the Central Intelligence Agency was engaged in deception against Australia and that secret material involving Australia had been passed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
But the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) said that I made a statement that the trade union movement is the main opposition to the Government in this country. [More…]
1 ) Will he take steps to ensure that members of the Commonwealth Parliament representing their country at meetings of the (a) United Nations General Assembly (b) InterParliamentary Union and (c) Commonwealth Parliamentary Association are issued with diplomatic passports. [More…]
1 ) On what dates and to what extent has the Australian Government assisted the Women’s Trade Union Commission in Sydney, the Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee and the Working Women’s Centres in Adelaide. [More…]
It is a shame that the honourable member for Grayndler does not agree that we are injecting public interest into section 45D, under which secondary boycotts which are an abuse of union power and which affect business will also be subject to the provisions of the Act. [More…]
ACSPA is opposed to any proposal which indicates to the Government that if it wants to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing penal sanctions into the hands of a body which it wishes to designate an Industrial Relations Bureau the union movement would offer no objection. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an industrial relations bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the trade union movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article on page 44 of the Bulletin of 1 2 March 1 977 concerning the treatment of political prisoners in the Soviet Union. [More…]
With the report I also present a document which I have received separately from Mr Michael Gallagher, who is the education research officer of the Australian Union of Students and who was a member of the committee. [More…]
But why cannot the Labor Party tear itself away for once from the tie and domination which it has from the trade union movement and at least concede that the postal workers in Australia, particularly at Redfern, are behaving outrageously? [More…]
All their moderate trade union colleagues with whom I have spoken have told me that the people at Redfern are behaving atrociously, shockingly. [More…]
They are behaving in a fashion which is detrimental to the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry: Has he received a telegram from the Farmers Union of Western Australia (Inc) which clearly demonstrates the hypocrisy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in supporting the ban - [More…]
I am aware of the dispute the honourable gentleman mentions which, as he says, is a demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
It is worth noting that the Australian Council of Trade Unions has policy in two relevant areas of this dispute. [More…]
Firstly, it accepts that it has a responsibility in trying to resolve within the union movement demarcation disputes. [More…]
Secondly, its policy is that in relation to trade with Tasmania the union movement should try to see that disputes are settled with the minimum possible disruption. [More…]
Undoubtedly there is a strong and heavy onus on the two unions concerned and on the ACTU to try to resolve this dispute as quickly as possible. [More…]
However, in view of the honourable member’s question I will get in touch with the ACTU to remind it of its policy in relation to demarcation disputes and Tasmania and to point out that, as I understand it, the actions of about eight men are threatening the trade of a whole State and are putting at risk the jobs of hundreds of their fellow unionists. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and relates to the very serious demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation over the right to moor vessels in the port of Burnie and some other Tasmanian ports. [More…]
Can the Minister tell the House what action he will be taking to end this damaging dispute which is nothing more than a senseless argument between senior officials of the two unions? [More…]
-The Minister for Transport will be aware that development of Norwich Park in Central Queensland by the Utah Development Company has been deferred because of disputes with the Seamen’s Union of Australia and the union’s refusal to handle Utah’s ships into and out of Hay Point. [More…]
Pursuant to section 58 of the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, I present the first annual report of the Trade Union Training Authority 1975-76. [More…]
He will remember that 8 1/2 years ago in that case the Industrial Court stressed that a system of trade union organisation is urgently needed to enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
Will students be able to use the facilities of the Australian Union of Students to undertake travel they had already arranged through the company? [More…]
I refer him to recent Press reports that certain leading figures in the trade union movement are predicting bloodshed in the streets unless demands to hold a referendum on uranium development are acceded to. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Calare (Mr Mackenzie) that the formation of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia was a spontaneous gesture of protest at the way in which the conservative coalition Government has ignored the needs of cattlemen in this country. [More…]
The other thing which should be recollected is that the Cattlemen’s Union recognised fully the way in which the National Country Party has sold itself out to the big, foreign controlled mineral interests in this country. [More…]
I am advised that the Trades Union Congress in Britain has taken decisions in this matter and they certainly are well directed towards a recovery in Britain. [More…]
There are 12 kindergartens in the electorate of Sydney and approximately 520 kindergartens are controlled by the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training. [More…]
The threat to the democratic process and the Australian economy by the actions of trade union leaders, particularly in the building industry. [More…]
The current wave of strikes and abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
What percentage of union members voted in union elections in each of the years from 1 970 to 1 976, inclusive. [More…]
What is the average term of office for which persons are elected in union elections. [More…]
As the legislation makes clear, deregistration of a union is the last step which can be taken in the processes through our industrial system, through the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
It is taken only when the action of a union indicates that its members are no longer entitled to the umbrella of protection which registration gives it. [More…]
It is a very simple and short document which indicates that a donation was made to the Australian Labor Party federal campaign fund from the Amalgamated Metalworkers and Shipwrights Union or the appropriate unions- the amalgamated organisationsof $25,000. [More…]
Everyone knows the influences of the communists in that particular union. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House trade union votes in elections should only have validity when a reasonable pro- . [More…]
I am not the only union official who has spoken highly of and thought highly of Sir John Spicer. [More…]
I can say that I know of no union official in this country, whether he be of the Right, Left or centre, a Maoist or a Moscow liner or an official Aarons liner who has ever said anything other than that Sir John Spicer was one of the finest judges ever to sit on the Commonwealth Industrial Court. [More…]
Reasonable people can however reasonably conclude that the Soviet Union still seeks to expand its influence throughout the world in order to achieve Soviet primacy. [More…]
In the last decade, the Soviet Union has expanded its armed forces by 1 million men. [More…]
It would seem that there is an impression that the present activities of the United States are a reaction to the growing strength of the Soviet Union. [More…]
There would also seem to be the impression in some places that the Government is not aware of the concerns that are aroused as a result of the growing strength of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union’s offensive forces. [More…]
It concerns the case of Moore v. Doyle in which nine years ago the Industrial Court, in a unanimous judgement, stressed that a system of trade union organisation was urgently needed, which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
The essence of that memorandum of understanding is that the union officials will remove all bans imposed against the handling of outside applications for advertised positions of employment officer within the Commonwealth Employment Service in return for the establishment of a review panel such as I outlined to the House in my answer to the question yesterday. [More…]
I understand that executives of the relevant unions will meet today to consider and to endorse the memorandum of understanding with the proposals being put to members in New South Wales and Victoria as soon as possible. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry: Have bans been placed by the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union on the export of livestock, both sheep and cattle, from many Australian ports? [More…]
I am pleased to see that the trade union movement has also accepted that these contracts should be honoured. [More…]
Kurile Islands: The Soviet Union claims, occupies and exercises jurisdiction over the Kurile Islands, which it is understood to interpret as including Kunashiri and Etorofu Islands and Shikotan Island and the Habomai group. [More…]
The United States, The Soviet Union, France, Britain , The Federal Republic of Germany, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, The German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Poland. [More…]
1 ) What is the average landed cost of Australian beef per kilogram in (a) Japan, (b) the United States of America and (c) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
) How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
How many employees belong to each union? [More…]
What has been the outcome of discussions with the States, national employers’ organisations and the trade union [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s commitment to consultation with trade union and employer peak councils, the format and content of proposed regulations is presently being examined by the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
It is perhaps not surprising that the Sydney Morning Herald, in its brief and inadequate report of my criticisms, published the inaccurate smear of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury) that I have not opposed nuclear power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
) How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
-My ruling is that the Bill deals with the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The organisers that are not trained and have had no access to training previously understand the opportunities that the Trade Union Training Authority has provided them for the presentation of their cases and the administration of their branches of the unions. [More…]
They have become delegates at the national level of their trade unions. [More…]
The Bill attacks all the things that trade union training means to these people. [More…]
We condemn the Government for the way in which it has brought them in two and a half years after it expressed its views and after two and a half years of experience of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Authority has displayed an autonomy that has shown it not to be the captive of any of the political parties, of the pressure groups within the trade union movement or of the representatives of industry in this country. [More…]
I am endeavouring to convey the fact that $3m will be spent on trade union training and the people of Australia expect some results from that training. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Hindmarsh originally hoped that some of the problems that we are encountering in Australia at the moment would be overcome by the sensible training of people involved in the trade union movement. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister to use platitudes to talk about the Trade Union Training Authority being better managed by an Executive Board, but he has not demonstrated that to us at all. [More…]
What a nonsense it is for the Minister to stand here on behalf of the Government to tell us that we need an executive board to run the Trade Union Training Authority, which has been operating for 2 te years now under a body which the Minister now finds does not have any executive authority. [More…]
The fact is that under this legislation the Trade Union Training Authority will remain a statutory authority. [More…]
He spoke principally about the definition of trade union training. [More…]
I remind the honourable member that the title of the Authority is the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
) What was the official exchange value of the Australian dollar for the currencies of (a) the United States of America, (b) the United Kingdom, (c) Canada, (d) Japan, (e) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (0 West Germany and (g) the People’s Republic of China (i) in December 1975 and (ii) as at 4 April 1 978. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he is aware that the Prime Minister, when addressing the conference of the Victorian Farmers Union on 6 July 1 977, said: [More…]
That in the opinion of this House the Soviet Union has by its continuing violations of basic human rights revealed itself to be unfit to be the host nation of the 1980 Olympic Games. [More…]
1) Is it a fact that the registered rules of the Australian Workers’ Union require that ballots for the election of Federal and Branch officers shall be held at the same times and places but that, subject to certain criteria, the Executive of each Branch may fix a different opening and closing date for these ballots. [More…]
On the other hand, is it also a fact that the rules specify no opening date for Branch nominations, leaving these dates to be determined by the respective Branch Executives with a requirement that these dates be published in the Union’s official journal but that the opening date and the year in which nominations for Federal offices close are not required to be publicised, and in point of fact the opening and closing dates are not advertised in the Union’s journal. [More…]
If, by reference to the Union’s rules, he is unable to give the information referred to in part (4), is he satisfied that the rules comply with the policy of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act generally and, in particular, paragraph2(f) of that Act. [More…]
The union executive has rejected the proposals. [More…]
Pursuant to section 58 of the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, I present the report of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority for the year ended 30 June 1 977. [More…]
The question of conscientious objection to unionism is one which I think is of concern to the whole Australian community as well as to the union- [More…]
What quarantine, union or other impediments presently restrict exports. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority Act 1 975 established the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
Public Service Arbitrator, Mr R. H. C. Watson, that Mr Aper should be stood down with pay until a decision is handed down on his application for exemption from joining a union on the ground of his conscientious beliefs. [More…]
-Did the Minister for Trade and Resources see recent comments in the Press by a union official suggesting that Australia is in danger of losing its live sheep trade to the Middle East if trade in frozen mutton is not developed? [More…]
How many knighthoods or dameships were awarded to (a) politicians, (b) company directors, (c) charity workers, (d) academics, (e) trade union officials, (f) public servants, (g) clergy, (h) creative artists or performers, (i) armed services personnel and (j) others. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say ( a) what are the proven oil reserves of (i) the Persian Gulf countries, (ii) the United States of America, (iii) the North Sea, (iv) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (v) Eastern Europe, (vi) China and (vii) Australia, and (b) how many years production does each have at 1975 production levels. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority recycles its waste paper through private waste collection agencies or arranges for its collection by charitable organisations. [More…]
If so, has the Government made the strongest possible protest to the Government of the Soviet Union over this deplorable incident? [More…]
He also said that Vietnam went hand in hand with the Soviet Union for the military and otherwise subversive destruction of Asia and all that that threat implies to Australia Where do members of the Labor Party stand? [More…]
1 ) Which overseas markets for Australian rural products are currently the subject of trade union bans or limitations. [More…]
Which Australian rural exports or potential exports are currently the subject of trade union bans or limitations. [More…]
We are not exchanging the model safeguards agreement with the Soviet Union, as the honourable member knows. [More…]
He also knows that the review of relations with the Soviet Union was brought about by discovery of the devices to which I referred and nothing more than that. [More…]
-Somebody else will have to make the arrangements for distribution to members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union. [More…]
The House would be aware that earlier in the year the Opposition was very much opposed to changes that were made to the original Bill that set up the Trade Union Training Authority in this country. [More…]
That this House condemns and censures the procommunist Victorian State ALP for its shameful and disgraceful abrogation of its responsibilities to uphold basic human rights by its failure to deplore the continuing persecution of dissidents within the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Industrial Court frequently invalidated union rules which were deemed to be vague and uncertain. [More…]
The record was evident even theft, and the rape of Hungary stands as a monument to the fulfilment of that threat by the Soviet Union in the fifties- a monumental example of interference, invasion and the rape of another nation’s independence. [More…]
(i) Australia has agreements for scientific and technological cooperation with the Federal Republic of Germany, India, the Soviet Union and the United States of America. [More…]
Within the last few days I have come into possession of certain documents which reveal a serious criminal offence against the Companies Act by certain union officials. [More…]
In a letter that I have received from the President of the Australian Workers Union, Mr Charles Oliver, it is alleged that Squizzy Williams and Frank Mitchell have been guilty of harassing officers of the New South Wales Branch of the Union over their balance sheet, while at the same time being themselves party to what Mr Oliver describes as a form of corporate sharp practice involving the colossal sum of $317,000 of members’ money. [More…]
1 ) No; the work being carried out by the Royal Australasian Ornithologist Union is, I understand, concerned with the migratory pattern of wading birds. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that surveillance work is being carried out at the Royal Australasian Ornithologist Union Bird Observatory, Eyre, WA concerning birds as virus carriers. [More…]
Can he say (a) whether the United States of America has expressed support for the proposal and (b) whether (i) the Soviet Union, (ii) the Peoples Republic of China and (iii) Vietnam have opposed it. [More…]
Human Rights Detainee in Soviet Union: Mr I. Ogurtsov (Question No. [More…]
I present the official report of the Australian Parliamentary Delegation to Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Hungary. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the actual bulk milk carters of Victoria, that is, those who collect the milk from the dairy farms, had no say in the decision made by the leadership of the Transport Workers Union to refuse to collect that milk from 30 March to 2 April 1979 and thus cost the dairy farmers several million dollars in lost income. [More…]
That the House notes the 40th Anniversary of the signing of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov Treaty in Moscow on the night of 23-24 August 1939 as a vital prelude to the commencement of World War II, and recalls with regret that notwithstanding the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 the Soviet Union continues to enjoy the rights guaranteed to it by the said Treaty, involving the enslavement of many independent nations and over 250 million citizens of Central and Eastern Europe. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The Minister for Industrial Relations and I announced on 3 June 1979 that the Government has decided to amend the arrangements for the transition from the 40 pet cent to the 20 per cent phase of the investment allowance, as a safeguard to prevent the use of the approach to the cut-out date for the 40 per cent phase to bring pressure to bear on businesses to yield to union demands. [More…]
Maybe some of the honourable members from Queensland only want to talk about Rugby Union. [More…]
-On 13 September the flamboyant honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) in the adjournment debate delivered a quite unreasonable, dishonest and sordid attack on a trade union - [More…]
-Has the Minister for Special Trade Representations noted the recent announcement by the United States Government that up to 25 million tonnes of grain will be made available by the United States to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that the Queensland branch of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union has closed its books to membership by Vietnamese refugees? [More…]
The second part is to remove unemployment benefit from those members of unions which have gone on strike. [More…]
These measures are to put the responsibility for the support of a strike by a trade union equally on all members of that union. [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian representatives to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development debate of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held in Strasbourg on 9 October 1 979 and to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Seminar on Environment in Europe held in Geneva from 22 to 24 October 1979. [More…]
My Government will introduce legislation immediately to amend the Homes Savings Grant Act 1964-1967 to raise the permissible limit on the value of a house from SI 5,000 to $17,500, to liberalise other aspects of the scheme and to provide that, if a credit union meets the conditions which will be required, savings deposited with that credit union will qualify for the purposes of homes savings grants. [More…]
It has been suggested in the news media that the problem arose out of the Arbitrator’s decision to give to certain classifications of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union a rise of between $1.0 and $91 and also out of the fact that a 6.6% increase which had been given to motor drivers and to certain work areas had not been passed on to this particular group. [More…]
As to the question which the honourable member asked, today there has been consultation between the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, the Public Service Board and representatives of the Post Office. [More…]
It has been agreed that they will endeavour to take this aspect before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and will, at the same time, recommend to the union that normal working be resumed. [More…]
If one looks at the figures and sees the number of professional engineers in the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom and compares them on a pro rata basis with the number of engineers in Australia, one cannot help but realise that we are drifting into a serious and dangerous position, because this is a young and developing country which needs these highly trained professional men more than any other country needs them. [More…]
My only comments on this matter, Sir, were made on the 4th of last month at the annual council meeting of the National Union of Australian University Students at Melbourne University. [More…]
For example, sales of beef and mutton totalling 30.000 tons have been made to the Soviet Union and there is a possibility of further sales being made to that country. [More…]
The Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues has recently renewed its request that savings with credit unions be acceptable for purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Lending by credit unions is still predominantly by way of loans of less than $1,000 for such purposes as the purchase of furniture, household equipment and motor vehicles and meeting the cost of medical and educational expenses and home repairs. [More…]
However, a few credit unions are making loans of $4,000 or more over periods of up to 10 years or even longer to their members to assist them to acquire a home of their own. [More…]
Consistent with this, we have so far made no provision - other than in respect of the initial transitional period that ended on 31st December 1964 - to accept savings with a credit union, because no credit union was close to being able to do this. [More…]
Included in the Bill now before the House are a number of amendments that will permit savings with a credit union to become acceptable, provided the union can satisfy a number of conditions. [More…]
Broadly, they are that a credit union regularly makes a significant number of loans for the construction or purchase of homes, and that these loans are comparable in size, interest terms and repayment periods with loans made for these purposes by banks and building societies. [More…]
The Bill will permit a credit union to be approved for purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
As applicants for the grant are required to hold their savings with institutions that make relatively large and long-term loans for the acquisition of a home, it is reasonable that a credit union, wishing to have savings with it accepted, should have made in its most recent financial year a significant number of such loans. [More…]
One condition of approval of a credit union will therefore be that at least 15% of its total lending in its most recent financial year, that is to say, about three-quarters of the 20% of its lending that must be in loans for the construction or purchase of a home, shall be loans of not less than $7,000 and be repayable over a period of not less than 12 years. [More…]
Needless to say, a credit union seeking approval will be asked to give an undertaking that it will continue to meet these conditions during each subsequent financial year. [More…]
Failure to meet these continuing conditions will mike a credit union liable to have its approval withdrawn. [More…]
The Bill also provides that savings held by an eligible applicant for a home savings grant with an approved credit union shall be acceptable for purposes of the scheme where his prescribed date was not earlier than the first day of the financial year during which the credit union met the conditions necessary for approval. [More…]
Suppose a credit union meets the necessary conditions during the financial year which ends on 30th June 1970 and that the Secretary of the Department of Housing is satisfied shortly after the end of the year that it has met those conditions in its 1969-70 financial year: savings held with this credit union by an eligible applicant for a grant where the applicant’s prescribed date was as far back as 1st July 1969, that is to say, the beginning of the financial year in which the credit union met the conditions for approval, would be acceptable not only at his prescribed date but also at his earlier savings dates. [More…]
These are the conditions on which the Government is willing to accept savings with credit unions for purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
It is appreciated that very few, if any, credit unions are as yet in a position to meet these conditions. [More…]
But once these amendments are approved by Parliament, the door will be open for savings with a credit union to become acceptable if it wishes to make a reasonable effort in lending to its members for the acquisition of homes. [More…]
President Nixon in a recent State of the Union message said: [More…]
I believe it is the duty of our leaders, both religious and political, and the duty of our leaders in industry and commerce - trade union leaders, heads of schools, ex-service organisations and women’s organisations - to throw down this challenge to all with whom they come in contact. [More…]
During the famous pig iron dispute he was very critical of the trade unions. [More…]
As a result the unions placed a black ban on his newspaper. [More…]
As honourable members would be aware, at that time in an industrial and strong union area such as Wollongong-Port Kembla a black ban carried on for any length of time could spell ruin to a newspaper. [More…]
Are Communist union leaders calling strikes wherever possible to prove their militancy and are hundreds of thousands of Australian workers having their traditional loyalties imposed upon in what is only a Communist faction fight? [More…]
Can the Government assist the officers of the genuine unions. [More…]
It is true that Communists occupy positions in the trade union movement of Australia - significant offices very often. [More…]
The method by which they come to these offices is by applying themselves assiduously to the affairs of a union. [More…]
Having attained the positions they then apply themselves, again assiduously, to the affairs of the union to hold their offices. [More…]
Having obtained and held their offices they then not merely pursue the industrial interests of the unions but also use their positions of power and influence to pursue their political or disruptive policies. [More…]
What the Government has done is lo provide, in the conciliation and arbitration legislation, provisions for secret ballots or for members of unions to require an election for offices of unions. [More…]
Apart from the legislation, I can only say, as I have already said today, that I draw the attention of good trade unionists in Australia to the way in which they are so often misused by these people whom they have elected to office believing they would serve their interests but who, in fact, are serving their own political interests. [More…]
I cannot quote exactly, but I remember that in a newspaper article I read that Mr Phil Meehan who at the present time is the Chairman of the Grains Division of the Victorian Farmers Union had said: ‘We are delighted with the Government at this stage for telling us that $1.10 a bushel will be paid for the wheat from the next harvest. [More…]
In the Northern Hemisphere there were crop failures in some countries, principally in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, but today the situation is vastly different. [More…]
The Soviet Union, which was a big importer of wheat is now an exporter. [More…]
How, then, can we blame any union leader who goes to the courts for a higher wage when higher than award wages are actually being paid? [More…]
The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has succumbed to the demands of the union leaders, particularly in respect of the notorious Metal Trades Award. [More…]
Irresponsible left wing union leaders have been allowed to take far too much control of industry. [More…]
These extreme left wing union leaders - many are professed Communists - are not interested in the welfare of the people whom they purport to represent. [More…]
The latest available figures - these are very interesting - show that in 1954 61% of Australian wage and salary earners belonged to any union. [More…]
Today, only 53% of Australian wage and salary earners belong to a union. [More…]
Do not let us kid ourselves that employers would not take advantage of the work force if there was not a strong union movement. [More…]
I believe in and am all for strong unions provided that they are in the hands of the rank and file. [More…]
I would like to see control of unions put back in the hands of the rank and file where it ought to be. [More…]
Today, many union leaders are elected by a minute number of the members of that union or those working in a job represented by that union. [More…]
The control of those unions is in the hands of the extreme left, the pro-Communist minority - the militant few. [More…]
I believe that the Government should have enough courage to act in the present circumstances and to make secret ballots compulsory in all union affairs, under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
Such a step would destroy in one act the control exercised by many left wing extremists over the rank and file of unions. [More…]
No wonder that our friend, Oala Oala-Rarua - who was a leader of the trade union movement in Papua-New Guinea - told the Leader of the Opposition when he was leaving Port Moresby that he had stirred up trouble and that he could pack up and go home. [More…]
I would hope that the union would not resort to direct action when this course is open to it. [More…]
Finally I say to the honourable member that, because I am concerned that these processes should be gone through rather than direct action being taken, I have communicated with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions by telegram and I am hoping, through another indirect contact, that I will be seeing him on Monday of next week. [More…]
The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1957 voted to admit South Vietnam, only to be confronted with the veto of the Soviet Union in the Security Council. [More…]
These people are seeking only what every trade union and professional group is seeking - an unbiased investigation into today’s remuneration structure so that all sections of the community will receive wage and salary justice. [More…]
I have listened with amazement to Government members attacking the ordinary citizens of this great land and in fact, of my electorate, who happen to belong to a trade or labour organisation in the course of earning their living, and their elected representatives, the shop stewards and union officials, who despite whatever political ideology they follow, step forward to present a citizen’s case in a similar manner to a member of Parliament, and are an essential component of the working of an arbitration system, some rising to the ranks of the Arbitration Commission itself. [More…]
Because they hold it the less dangerous element will not do anything to bring on their heads Communist disapproval while the more dangerous element - the ‘activists’ - always make clear by their attitude within Labor’s policy making bodies that they can ‘see the viewpoint’ of the Communist Party which is the patron for their jobs in the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member made an analysis of a Labor Party conference in Victoria and practically everybody there was from a trade union and only a few were from Australian Labor Party branches because that conference was boycotted by ALP branches. [More…]
The trade union movement has its fantastically clever organiser - the Communist Party, which organises the jobs, runs the unity tickets- [More…]
They seem to forget, of course, that federation is a union of the States. [More…]
It is 200 years since Captain Cook placed the Union Jack upon our soil and we became a penal colony of Great Britain. [More…]
I would like to quote from a speech made by the Minister to the Victorian Farmers Union on 20th March 1968 - that is some 2 years ago - and it was not long before in 1965- 1966 that the end of season stocks were some 24 million bushels. [More…]
He has given a lifetime of service to the Australian Labor movement, in particular to his own union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen of which he was general president, and to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
What did he mean when, following 1967 Metal Trades Case, he said that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission had sidestepped its responsibilities and that its decision to grant the union’s claim in that case could be a calamitous conclusion with lasting consequences for the economy. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have reflected on trade union ballots. [More…]
The ban was lifted in defiance of the Australian Senate; it was lifted in defiance of the expressed opinions of Victoria and Western Australia; it was lifted in defiance of the Graziers Association of New South Wales, the Victorian Farmers Union and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association of New South Wales. [More…]
The two New South Wales farmer and grazier organisations and the Victorian Farmers Union can claim to represent 56.6 % of the industry, and they are against lifting the ban. [More…]
The Seamens Union is standing firm. [More…]
Has the Western Australian State School Teachers Union communicated with him regarding an apparent anomaly which exists in Australia’s taxation laws. [More…]
I refer to the recent 24-hour stoppage by the Builders Labourers Union and the reported threatened strike for 1st April if negotiations with employers are unsuccessful. [More…]
I also ask whether there is any provision for the leaders of the union to test the feeling of the 40,000 members by secret ballot. [More…]
The union involved has been concerned in recent times with the drift in its membership to other unions in the building industry and there is little doubt that at present the leadership of the union is trying to be seen to be very militant - trying to increase wages by militancy in order to arrest the movement of its members to other unions. [More…]
The union has not pursued its claim through negotiation with the employers or through arbitration. [More…]
I should like the matter to be resolved by negotiation between the union and the employers or, if necessary, by arbitration. [More…]
In these circumstances is it not understandable that the Australian Council of Trade Unions is under pressure to support strike action as a means of preventing unwarranted and arbitrary increases in prices? [More…]
Tn view of the Government’s failure to take action to control prices will the Treasurer say what alternative is open to the trade union movement other than to resort to strike action as a means of preventing unjustified price increases from further eroding living standards and thus exacerbating the already justifiable cause of industrial discontent? [More…]
The original finance for the organisation came from the trade union movement in South Australia, and the donations for the cannisters and equipment that were necessary for the provision of the meals in those early stages also came from that source. [More…]
For example, legislation is proposed in connection with credit unions and the use of their funds for housing loans. [More…]
The Government says that home seekers now can use credit union funds in connection with the homes savings grants legislation. [More…]
But the Government has forgotten, of course, that under the New South Wales credit union legislation, the maximum loan for housing purposes is $4,000 where as under the Government’s proposed legislation the minimum loan is to be $7,000. [More…]
The same thing applies to the proposed credit union legislation. [More…]
Very few of the 60 or 70 parliaments associated with the InterParliamentary Union are democratic, open, deliberative and consultative assemblies in the way they should be. [More…]
He explicitly recognised that these matters are crucial in achieving a detente between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is it a fact that Commonwealth depart ments will soon facilitate the deduction of union subscriptions direct, from the salaries of those members of the Public Service who sign the necessary authority so to do. [More…]
Deductions of union subscriptions will be made subject to compliance with the conditions of the scheme which have been discussed with union representatives. [More…]
Commonwealth departments will make deductions on behalf of all registered unions and associations. [More…]
The deduction of union subscriptions by Commonwealth instrumentalities is a matter for consideration by the instrumentalities concerned. [More…]
Why did the Government intervene in the recent Joint Bench hearing of a case concerning equal pay for members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union of Australia. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth did intervene in the public interest in the private industry case which was joined to the Public Service Case and was concerned with two applications by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union. [More…]
Is it a fact that a large number of industrial disputes occur as a result of alleged employer victimisation of union shop stewards. [More…]
If so, will he examine the Conciliation and Arbitration Act for the purpose of ascertaining what amendment will be necessary to prohibit the dismissal or demotion of a union representative except in those cases where an employer is able to prove to the satisfaction of a judge of the Commonwealth Industrial Court that such representative has been guilty of grave dereliction of duty incompatible with bis duties to his union and to those members of the union whom he represents at his place of employment. [More…]
Section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1969 already provides protection to union members who are or wish to become officers or delegates of their union, against victimisation on that account. [More…]
At the union’s request, it was confined to award rates. [More…]
replied that it could not accede to some of these claims because they were matters of principle which the union should submit to arbitration, but there were areas for negotiation with regard to other matters. [More…]
The union reply was that it would be satisfied only with an affirmative reply to all claims. [More…]
I am not aware of any such decision by the union. [More…]
If the overall productivity per man has increased to the extent indicated, why has the Coal Industry Tribunal repeatedly refused to grant the union’s claims for reduced working hours. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the combined mining unions have decided to strike immediately any attempt is made to implement the Tribunal’s decision unless the union’s claim for shorter hours is acceded to. [More…]
If not, will he request the Tribunal to reconsider its decision to enable the Commonwealth to make submissions in support of the union’s claim for shorter hours. [More…]
For the interest of honourable members opposite, Australia spends only 0.7% of national income on water research compared with 3i% in the United States, 2% in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and 2% in the United Kingdom. [More…]
In South Australia at any rate the Party has relegated its position to that of the ill-informed antiquated trade union based concept of another decade. [More…]
lt seems apparent that the trade union movement, at the time it imposed the ban, was anxious that there should be an opportunity for discussion in the national Parliament. [More…]
In view of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ recent decision to accept the invitation of the Soviet trade union organisation for the ACTU President to visit the Soviet Union, and in view of the ACTU’s favoring a reciprocal visit by the Russian union leader, can the Prime Minister say whether that person would be given a visa by this Government? [More…]
The person concerned is Alexander Nikolaevich Shelepin, who for 2 years from December 1958 was chief of the Soviet Union secret police and who retired from the position to one of less obvious connection but no less influence with that infamous organisation. [More…]
I wonder what he will say when that militant pro-Communist farmers’ union marches on Canberra. [More…]
Why, I was a trade union official myself before coming to this place and I know that association with Communists in this field is inescapable. [More…]
In the trade union movement, a man cannot dissociate himself from Communist officials when it comes to speaking on various occasions. [More…]
1 spent some time in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 4 years in fact - as an Australian representative. [More…]
On that committee are 2 well known Communists, one called Hugh Hamilton, the treasurer of the committee, and the other one known as Jack Sherrington, a trade union official of the Brisbane Trades Hall. [More…]
We find the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) involved in a committee with Mr Lawrie Carmichael of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and an assorted group of Trotskyites, anarchists and others. [More…]
Then between 1941 and 1945 Vietnam was treated as a mere pawn in the game of big power by the Soviet Union, China, America and Britain. [More…]
Some of us can remember, even if we were not here, the time when the former Prime Minister of Australia, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, said when introducing the Communist Party Dissolution Bill that he had a great list of trade union leaders who were all Communists. [More…]
As I have suggested before, I do not know much about these things because I have never worried about studying what trade union secretaries- [More…]
I have not worried about studying which trade union secretaries are Communists and which are not. [More…]
Has this resulted in the banning of overtime, the restriction of a work to regulations campaign and a call for the resignation of the Public Service Board at a recent mass meeting of union members? [More…]
Has the Minister for Labour and National Service read the reported request by the Victorian trade union leader, Mr Stone, for the honourable member for Lalor to refrain from interfering in trade union matters? [More…]
It is unusual for me to find myself echoing the words of a trade union leader. [More…]
The trade union leader I refer to has a record of responsibility and the statement he made is one that 1 would expect him to make. [More…]
that the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act; [More…]
My second reason for branding this Bill as a thimble and pea act is the proposal to deny the request by the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues for the inclusion of credit unions as approved institutions under the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
The Government had no consultation with the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues prior to the drafting of this legislation, nor did it consider the New South Wales legislation which sets out the conditions under which credit unions may function. [More…]
One condition of approval of a credit union will therefore be that at least 15% of its total lending in its most recent financial year, that is to say, about three-quarters of the 20% of its lending that must be in loans for the construction or purchase of a home, shall be loans of not less than $7,000 and be repayable over a period of not less than 12 years. [More…]
South Wales Government or, for that matter, between the Minister for Housing and the Minister for the Interior in respect of credit union activities? [More…]
The New South Wales Minister who administers credit unions has stated that his Government does not intend to increase the maximum allowable loan of $4,000 by credit unions in the State. [More…]
It mystifies me that a Minister with a department to back her cannot discover the facts relating to the involvement of credit unions in the proposed scheme. [More…]
Why was not the credit union movement consulted? [More…]
I point out that 70% of all credit union assets throughout the Commonwealth are held by credit unions in New South Wales, but the maximum loan allowed in New South Wales is $4,000 and the present proposal is that a loan must be $7,000. [More…]
The Bill will permit a credit union to be approved for purposes of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
This proposal is a further example of a lack of any real understanding of the credit union movement. [More…]
In 1.969 there were 307 credit unions throughout Australia and 234 of them had assets of less than $150,000. [More…]
Does the Government propose to disqualify these 230 credit unions immediately because of the limitation of their assets? [More…]
It is quite possible that these small credit unions have granted more personal loans for housing alterations, housing extensions and to assist in the purchase of blocks of land than some of the larger credit unions. [More…]
I do not believe that the drafters of this legislation have the slightest understanding of what a credit union is or what it stands for. [More…]
A credit union is a group of people who have a common bond, who agree to save regularly together and to lend these savings to one another at the lowest possible rate of interest. [More…]
Members of a credit union have a personal association which brings them into contact with one another and which gives each member a strong sense of responsibility towards the entire group. [More…]
They can be employees of one organisation, members of the same church, union or lodge or residents of a well defined community area. [More…]
But this legislation will not assist credit unions now or in the future if these stringent conditions are maintained. [More…]
I repeat that these restrictive proposals exclude any possibility of the credit union movement being included in the Act. [More…]
Either these restrictive proposals were deliberate or they show a complete lack of understanding of the credit union movement. [More…]
That is why the Labor Party has proposed an amendment to the motion for the second reading to provide that the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act and will move during th3 Committee stage that the clause relating to credit unions be postponed. [More…]
Nobody would deny t hatcredit unions are big business or that they will become even bigger in the near future, but I would reject out of hand the amendment that the Opposition has put forward. [More…]
Now, I believe with the Government’s proposals the door has been opened for credit unions themselves to consider whether they plan to move away from consumer credit finance and into home loans, and to do so significantly. [More…]
State law limits as in New South Wales at the present time, and as the previous speaker so rightly put forward, the most a credit union can lend for any one loan, and not specifically for housing, is $4,000 whereas we have placed limits which clash. [More…]
Quite obviously then, there will be areas of negotiation - if I can put it that way - only if the credit union movement- -and here is the important fact - is prepared to move significantly into the field of prime home financing as would seem to have been the experience overseas. [More…]
I believe we can assume that the local administrators of credit unions are not unaware of overseas trends in their movement and I commend to them the experience of the credit union movement in Canada. [More…]
In the full calendar year of 1968 the credit union movement in Canada is reported in the International Credit Union Year Book - and I gather this is authentic and creditable - as having organised loans amounting to $507.8m and of these 54.1% amounting to $274. [More…]
In the same International Year Book it states that of $ 10,526m loans made in 1968 by credit unions in the United States, something like $865. [More…]
Obviously the credit union movement overseas is not agreed as to which direction it should universally follow and I believe that in its formative years in Australia the credit union movement here must decide whether it is to move into real estate finance with its inbuilt long-term loans or remain in the field of consumer finance where it will be borrowing and lending short - a sound financial principle for all dealers in finance to follow. [More…]
So I suggest that it is not the homes savings grant scheme per se, nor whether the credit union movement is up for criticism or cross-examination. [More…]
Rather, this Bill has shown to the credit union movement that it is a time for them and them alone to determine what their future role in the Australian money market and financial scene is going to be. [More…]
The president of New South Wales Credit Union League Ltd, Mr K. Miller, said in his 13th annual report: [More…]
The League and the Federation is investigating the feasibility and advisability of establishing a credit union bank. [More…]
Whether it is away from consumer credit finance and whether it is starting a credit union saving bank and trading bank throughout Australia is for the movement itself to discover. [More…]
It should be said that we on the Government side make no criticism of the credit union movement. [More…]
In fact, we are concerned to see that all forms of credit are made available to the Australian community and in this pattern we readily admit and welcome the role of credit unions. [More…]
Another matter I wish to raise at this stage concerns credit unions. [More…]
The Labor Party has moved an amendment to widen the scope of credit union participation. [More…]
A letter was writtten to me some weeks ago by a representative of the Queensland Credit Union League Ltd. [More…]
I acknowledged his letter and took the matter up with the Minister for Housing- to find out the Government’s latest policy on credit unions and Homes Savings Grant. [More…]
I believe it only fair that the contents of Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin’s letter should be read into Hansard so that people who might want to evaluate the amount of assistance that is given to credit unions can have a complete and proper understanding of the Government’s attitude in this matter. [More…]
She wrote to Mr Stephens on 9th April 1970, and I believe that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) saw a delegation of representatives from the credit unions. [More…]
Although we have not received any such proposals, I and my colleagues have not forgotten the wish of the credit union movement that savings deposited with individual credit unions be acceptable. [More…]
We therefore decided to provide for this in the amendments now before the Parliament, and to set out clearly the conditions that an individual credit union must satisfy before savings with it may be accepted. [More…]
I have been informed by the Registrars in two States that some credit unions have made housing loans of $5,000, $6,000 and even $10,000 to individual members. [More…]
Savings with these unions may be able to qualify in the near future. [More…]
Only 20% of annual lending by a credit union must be in the form of loans for the acquisition of homes, and only threequarters of this must be loans of not less than $7,000 and for a minimum period of 12 years. [More…]
We are asking Parliament to amend the Homes Savings Grant Act to open the door for savings with a credit union to become acceptable if it wishes to make a reasonable effort in lending to its members for the acquisition of homes. [More…]
Any credit union that wishes the savings held by its members to become acceptable may proceed to do so by making a number of large and long-term bousing loans. [More…]
I shall refer now to credit unions. [More…]
Figures provided by the Australian Federation of Credit Unions suggest that from 15% to 20% of their loans are for land and housing purchases and about 15% for home improvements. [More…]
I have been informed by representatives of 1 credit union in my electorate that a loan of $1,000 a year over 1 year by a credit union may be as cheap as $60 after adjustments are made. [More…]
Such charges as insurance are included free in a credit union loan. [More…]
What is the Government’s policy towards credit unions? [More…]
When homes savings grants were first introduced deposits in credit unions were accepted for homes savings grant purposes. [More…]
Strangely enough credit unions still have not been able to get a reason from the Government as to why their recognition as institutions attracting the homes savings grant has been withdrawn. [More…]
Even the speech read by the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) did not contain any reason as to why credit unions are not accepted. [More…]
In fact - this is the cruel and cynical aspect of it - State government regulations actually prevent credit unions from lending up to this amount. [More…]
In Victoria a limit of $3,000 is set on a credit union loan. [More…]
Furthermore, a credit union must lend up to a total of $50,000 for homes to become eligible under the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
The limitations on the membership of credit unions prevent this from happening. [More…]
Many credit unions simply could not reach this figure. [More…]
70% of credit unions are immediately excluded from the scheme. [More…]
The Government also demands that the maximum interest to be charged by the credit unions must be, according to the Act, 7i% . [More…]
Also, credit unions charge only 10% reducible, and included in the arrangement is free loan protection insurance. [More…]
Therefore the Minister actually has drawn up legislation saying that credit unions will be eligible but then admits quite openly that few credit unions could benefit under the regulations. [More…]
He visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
I doubt whether any credit union located in a country area would have the capacity to develop to the stage where it could comply with the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
So the matter of the autonomy of the credit union or of its branches arises. [More…]
When 1 recall some of- the very caustic statements published in ‘Quest’, the official organ of the credit unions, I wonder whether it would be a good thing for the country if credit unions were to operate collectively because there was certainly a very strong political flavour about some of the expressions in ‘Quest’ prior to the last elections. [More…]
At that time the credit unions, in their efforts to get the Government to act in the interests of their members, adopted the policy of telling their members flatly not to vote for anybody except a member of the Labor Party. [More…]
I wonder whether that policy represented the views of individual members of credit unions. [More…]
I wonder whether a publication such as ‘Quest’ has a right to express a view of that kind on behalf of contributors to credit unions. [More…]
1 would suggest that those who exercise an executive role in credit unions should look at the situation. [More…]
The question of credit unions has been raised. [More…]
I have no objection to credit unions. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid dealt extensively with this aspect and said that in New South Wales credit unions could not lend more than $4,000 for a home, and in the Australian Capital Terri tory more than $2,000. [More…]
What we have to remember is that the credit union system of saving is not designed for homes at all. [More…]
This was never intended by the credit unions. [More…]
These amendments give credit unions an invitation to alter their charter to provide for loans for homes but it would be quite unfair if we permitted credit unions to participate in this scheme . [More…]
The honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie) pointed out that credit unions were set up to provide consumer credit for people. [More…]
It is not necessary to have a credit union for that purpose. [More…]
The Government purports in this Bill to recognise credit unions. [More…]
People belonging to credit unions were led to believe that promises were given in this direction. [More…]
I have a letter dated 6th March from Mr Stephens, the Manager of the Queensland Credit Union League Lid. [More…]
The 17,500 members of the Queensland Credit Union Movement were elated to learn of the Federal Government’s intention to allow savings deposited by members in Credit Unions to qualify under the provisions of the Homes Savings Grant Act. [More…]
The Government while pretending in one respect to recognise credit unions has, on the other hand, laid down conditions, which have been pointed out by previous speakers, that makes it almost impossible for credit unions to make such loans. [More…]
This is certainly impossible in those States where restrictive legislation places upon the credit union movement requirements regarding loans which will mean that no credit union will be in a position to register as an approved saving society. [More…]
I point out that in New South Wales where, as the honourable member for Reid pointed out, credit unions have assets of over $l00m with 70% of those assets available for loan, legislation limits the amount of each loan for housing purposes to $4,000. [More…]
In Victoria the limit on credit union loans is $3,000. [More…]
In South Australia the maximum loan that can be made by credit unions is $2,000. [More…]
I wish to place on record the position of credit unions in Queensland. [More…]
1 refer first to the ABC Queensland Credit Union Ltd. [More…]
This is the point: The credit union movement has played an important part in the provisions of bridging finance and second mortgage loans to cut down on repayments. [More…]
The credit union movement has played an important part by making funds available for bridging finance purposes. [More…]
I come now to the Clerks Credit Union Ltd in Queensland. [More…]
I mention next the Royal Australian Nursing Federation Credit Union Ltd. [More…]
These are all small credit unions. [More…]
In the last financial year, that credit union allowed 1.7 loans for home purchase and home improvement valued at $11,450. [More…]
That is not a large amount when we consider that under this legislation credit unions will be obliged to make available a loan of $7,000 for their applicants to be eligible for this grant. [More…]
In the period 1st July 1969 to 31st December 1969, the Queensland Teachers Credit Union Ltd approved 94 loans for land valued at $160,460, 38 loans for home purchase valued at $60,650 and 29 loans for home renovations valued at $32,100. [More…]
The Postal Technicians Credit Union Ltd in that same period approved 14 loans for houses valued at $17,740, 31 loans for land valued at $37,345, 19 loans for home improvements valued at $14,710 and 4 loans for discharge of second mortgages valued at $4,490. [More…]
The Australian Postal Credit Union (Qld) Ltd during the period from 1st June 1969 to the end of February 1970 granted 38 loans for the purchase of land valued at $52,600, 68 loans valued at $93,360 for the purchase of homes and the discharge of second mortgages, 57 loans for home renovations valued at $67,750 and 103 loans valued at $47,635 for house improvements. [More…]
The University of Queensland (TALSA) Credit Union Ltd since its inception in 1967 has approved 19 loans for land valued at $23,410. [More…]
The maximum loan presently being advanced by credit unions in Queensland is $2,000. [More…]
I think it would be a biased person indeed who would say that the credit union movement is not playing an important part in assisting in the purchase of homes and in saving for homes. [More…]
One of the important points about the credit union movement is that there is personal contact with its members. [More…]
The credit union movement has assisted people to purchase household items. [More…]
I say again that the credit union movement is playing an important part in assisting young home buyers, yet it is excluded from this legislation by what the honourable member for Reid aptly described as a thimble and pea trick. [More…]
I think that the conditions applying to credit unions are fair, just and reasonable. [More…]
At present credit unions are geared to lend smaller amounts than are required by people erecting or purchasing their own homes. [More…]
The provision that credit union loans for housing shall be not less than $7,000 will benefit many people. [More…]
I produce as evidence the well known use of unity tickets in union elections and the co-operation which is evident between members of these 2 parties. [More…]
A certain equilibrium of co-existence has been achieved at this moment with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and 1 believe that further improvement can be made after further testing through diplomatic and perhaps military means. [More…]
I do not object, and the Seamens’ Union does not object, to New Guinean seamen- being employed on ships operating in the Australia-New Guinea trade. [More…]
Let us examine the relationship of the Labor Party with the trade union movement. [More…]
It is well known that but for the Labor Party the Communist Party would control almost every trade union in Australia. [More…]
I wonder how many honourable members opposite have had trade union experience. [More…]
I suggest that before honourable members opposite refer to the trade union movement they should have a little bit of experience within the movement so that they will know what they are talking about. [More…]
I would like to add for myself as President that it should be manifest to the industrial world and also to the representatives of the parties and especially to this particular union that it is impossible for me to set this down for hearing at present. [More…]
It is not the wish of the organised employers or the organised trade unions that the two issues of equal rates for females and males and the abolition of interstate differentials be tested at this particular point of time. [More…]
Indeed it will be clear - and I recommend to the union that it look at the transcript of today’s proceedings before Mr Senior Commissioner Taylor m regard to the forthcoming national wage case, where the representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions made it clear that the A.C.T.U. [More…]
and (4) Commonwealth Hostels Ltd and the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees’ Union of Australia agreed that the phasing-in of equal pay for female workers eligible for equal pay should be in accordance with the decision of the Commission, in the Equal Pay Case, 1969. [More…]
Can he say whether, under the United States Landrum-Griffin Act, embezzlement of union funds is a federal offence and whether it is a function of the United States Department of Labour to conduct investigations when necessary and to launch prosecutions to protect union funds from embezzlement or misappropriation. [More…]
It is no use saying, as was said in the defence statement, that we cannot confront the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that it is to the credit of the Soviet Union that it has made that offer. [More…]
We could never enjoy any real security or even a sense of security if we turned a blind eye to the problems of South East Asia, to the aggressive and subversive policies of the Communist planners and nations, and especially to the recent activities of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is clearly involving itself in the Indian Ocean and the South East Asian area for several reasons. [More…]
The Soviet Union remains the greatest threat to world peace. [More…]
The Soviet Union is extremely conscious of this. [More…]
With a threat from Hitler’s Germany, there was an alliance with the Soviet Union on the eastern side of Germany. [More…]
Today the’ Soviet Union has created a supra-national Communist military force and claims the right to use it to exercise surveillance within Communist countries. [More…]
If the Soviet Union can get rid of the Chinese distraction on its eastern border its possibilities of surveillance over Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania may begin to operate, and then from the forcible consolidation of the Communist bloc the Soviet Union may be well placed to dominate western Europe. [More…]
The embarrassments of the Soviet Union in relation to China exist because China has the intelligence to raise ideological issues about her borders and about Soviet domination of subject nationalities which have put the Soviet Union on the ideological defensive. [More…]
China is in the position of being a revolutionary power vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. [More…]
De Gaulle asked the simple question: ‘If a nuclear attack is made on France will the United States on behalf of France make a nuclear attack on the other power - the Soviet Union, shall we say?’ [More…]
That the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act. [More…]
At the second reading stage we criticised the Government for its treatment of credit unions. [More…]
We accused the Government of being guilty of perpetrating the thimble and pea trick on credit unions. [More…]
Either the Government is ignorant of the operations of credit unions or it has distorted the facts. [More…]
Under this legislation the minimum amount which a credit union may lend for housing purposes is $7,000. [More…]
Of the $100m held by the Australian credit union movement 70% is held by credit unions in New South Wales. [More…]
Under New South Wales legislation the maximum amount which a credit union may lend for any purpose is $4,000. [More…]
In other States although credit unions may not be restricted in their lending by Acts of Parliament, their activities are controlled by ordinances requiring that they obtain permission from a registrar before they may increase the advance. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory the maximum amount that a credit union may lend as a secured loan is $2,000. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with credit union officials. [More…]
No discussions had taken place between the Government and the credit union movement before this legislation was drafted. [More…]
I am referring to the Minister for the ulterior who is responsible for credit unions within the Australian [More…]
Let me read to the Committee what the Credit Union Federation says quite clearly about the matter. [More…]
The credit union movement is not geared to meet the requirements of this Bill. [More…]
One must equate the requirements of the Bill with the amount of money loaned by the credit union movement. [More…]
If we examine the proposal from the credit union movement we note that, in New South Wales, the credit union serving the Electricity Commission of New South Wales spends 14% of its money for loan purposes on homes, alterations to houses, extensions or improvements of one kind or another, or on the purchase of land. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Commission Staffs Association Credit Union devotes 12% of its loan money to this purpose. [More…]
The Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board Employees Credit Union provides 17% of its money for loans for this purpose while the Sydney City Council Employees Credit Union spends 14% of its loan moneys in this direction. [More…]
Some 16% of the loan moneys of the Motor Transport Employees Credit Union is used for this purpose. [More…]
These are some of the percentages regarding credit union loans in New South Wales. [More…]
The Bill under consideration requires that a credit union, to be an approved organisation, must spend some 20% of its assets in the housing field. [More…]
Hansard a table produced by the credit union movement showing the number of credit unions in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 and their assets: [More…]
I feel that the Committee would be remiss if the Minister in charge of this legislation at the table now, the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes), did not take the opportunity to convey publicly the reason why the Government has resisted the overtures made on behalf of the credit union movement. [More…]
At that time, the present Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) was in the other place and was at the helm of the Government parties which were in opposition to the credit union movement. [More…]
Recently, the credit unions of this country, which have reached very large proportions now, held their national conference. [More…]
These are the savings ‘banks, the building societies and the credit unions. [More…]
As my colleague, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), has pointed out the credit union movement is the only one excluded from the operations of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
Do they in fact wish to discourage the expansion and growth of the credit union movement which already is starting to assume significant proportions in this country as it has done already in many other parts of the world? [More…]
Is it just accidental that the credit unions will be excluded or did the Government look at all the difficulties and say: ‘We will create sufficient difficulties to ensure that they just do not get into this scheme at all’. [More…]
Fancy the Minister saying that the purpose of the legislation, amongst other things, is to include credit unions and then saying that it is appreciated that very few, if any, credit unions are in a position to meet these conditions. [More…]
According to the publication Credit Unions and the Economy’ by B. [More…]
B. Dickinson, B.Com., A.A.U.Q., A.B.I.A., an economist with the English, Scottish and Australian Bank Ltd, the credit union movement in this country is very large indeed. [More…]
He then goes on to outline the phenomenal growth of the credit union movement. [More…]
Does he intend to impose conditions that will discourage people from belonging to the credit union movement? [More…]
Is the Government intending to make people - especially young people - realise that there is just no prospect of them receiving assistance for the financing of their homes if they continue to belong to credit unions. [More…]
The credit union was among the first to be accommodated. [More…]
There was a deliberate policy to accommodate credit unions. [More…]
It is most unreasonable to impose financial limitations on the capital they hold because that would be against the basic principles of credit unions. [More…]
One of the important basic purposes of credit unions is to provide democratic processes and practices by which people can have a say in the regulation and deployment of their collective savings. [More…]
To require the credit unions to have a large amount of capital in excess of $50,000 obviously has the effect of defeating the basic democratic purpose of the movement. [More…]
I hope that the Government, and especially the Minister, will not hide behind any ritual of the Committee but will be frank and give the genuine reasons why the Government has so persistently stood against the admittance of the credit union movement to the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party once again puts forward a case for the inclusion of the credit union movement in this scheme. [More…]
My Government will introduce legislation immediately to amend the Home Savings Grant Act … to liberalise other aspects of this scheme and to provide that, if a credit union meets the conditions which will be required, savings deposited with that credit union will qualify for the purposes of home savings grants. [More…]
There has been in this Government right from the very inception of this scheme a prejudice against the credit union movement. [More…]
In the first instance, a time was given for the withdrawal of savings from credit unions by prescribing a period within which savings in credit unions would be recognised; after that date the savings had to be transferred to a home savings account. [More…]
Credit unions have had a number of deputations to the various Ministers for Housing. [More…]
They believed that they were getting somewhere but now they have been shown that once again the gate has been closed to them by the application of conditions which will mean - and quite possibly this is the intention - a restriction of membership of a credit union movement to persons over 35 years of age to whom all these conditions in the home savings scheme mean nothing at all. [More…]
While we have this continuing prejudice against the credit union movement the Opposition would like to see further conferences with the Minister and the Department of Housing by the credit union movement to allow it to make some progress towards meeting the conditions. [More…]
Credit unions are doing quite a lot in the way of bridging finance and this has been stated time and again during this debate. [More…]
Last night I mentioned how the credit union movement or some major credit unions in Queensland have been assisting. [More…]
In the ABC Queensland Credit Union, for instance, 27% of loans for assistance for housing represented 37.2% of the value of all advances. [More…]
In the Clerks Credit Union 18.2% of loans for assistance for housing represented 27% of the value of all advances. [More…]
Percentage wise credit unions are qualifying but not to the extent of the $7,000 or the minimum amount of $50,000 per year. [More…]
These are impossible conditions that are being placed upon the credit union movement, which has done much to reduce the cost of the purchase of a home, firstly, by making available bridging finance at reasonable interest and reasonable rates of repayment, and secondly, by assisting in the purchase of the things that make a house a home - furnishings, home improvements, extensions and the like. [More…]
But there still seems to be prejudice and this will, if carried to the ultimate, mean that persons under 35 years of age are being discouraged by this Government from joining credit unions because when the time comes to purchase a home their savings will not be recognised. [More…]
The amendment that we have put forward was the only method by which we could ask the Minister and the Government to do something worthwhile to recognise that the credit union movement is encouraging young people to save for their homes. [More…]
Various principals of the credit union movement are going to organisations such as guilds, churches and lodges to encourage their members to save more. [More…]
The credit union movement is doing a commendable job in training young people to save and encouraging others who have not previously had an opportunity to save to do so now. [More…]
By placing these restrictions on the credit union movement so that savings with a credit union will not be recognised, the Government is restricting membership of the credit union movement to persons of 35 years and over. [More…]
I rise to speak because the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) made a statement that the Government had made a generous offer to the credit union movement, that it had placed these conditions before the movement and that the credit unions are very fortunate to have these proposals put before them. [More…]
To qualify, a credit union must be making loans to its members for the purpose of acquiring a home. [More…]
At least 20% of the total lending of credit unions in the most recent financial year must have been by way of housing loans. [More…]
The total lending by the credit union in relation to housing loans during the financial year must be not less than $50,000. [More…]
A credit union seeking approval must give an undertaking that it will continue to meet these conditions in each subsequent financial year. [More…]
Does anyone here really say that an Organisation such as a credit union can continue to make loans over a period of not less than 12 years at7% interest? [More…]
How can any organisation, whether it be a [permanent building society or a credit union, hope to get money from the public when organisations such as General Motors Holden’s Pty Ltd are offering 9%. [More…]
The Government is trying to force credit unions into long term lending when in fact this is not the function of the credit unions. [More…]
It has clearly been stated that the permanent building societies were set up for this purpose and not the credit unions. [More…]
But surely the Government and its supporters know that the credit union movement is making a great contribution to those people who desire to acquire a home. [More…]
For instance, if a person own a 2 bedroom home, there is an addition to the family and he wants to add another bedroom for the children, loans are available from the credit unions. [More…]
The credit unions compete with the offsprings of the private banking institutions. [More…]
They have the right to speak on behalf of the bankers, so why can we not speak on behalf of the credit unions? [More…]
Of course, if honourable members opposite want to make this a political issue, I say we support the credit unions because the credit union movement is a collective co-operative movement. [More…]
These spokesmen of the banks, who are in the Government ranks and who are Government supporters, in fact are frustrating the credit union movement. [More…]
The 13th annual report of the New South Wales credit union movement said this about the homes savings grant scheme: [More…]
During the year the Federation made further approaches to the Federal Government seeking recognition of the credit union as an approved savings institution for homes savings grant purposes. [More…]
Emphasis was placed on the rapidly increasing role that credit unions are playing in assisting young couples to establish homes and the providing of second mortgage loans and the finance of other essentials such as home appliances and furniture. [More…]
Of course, the Government’s latest generous proposal is that credit union organisations have to start providing long term loans. [More…]
The fact is that the honourable member does not understand the purpose of the credit union movement. [More…]
A credit union might be established by a group of people working together in a company or in a department. [More…]
For instance, a group of people in the Sydney City Council formed a credit union. [More…]
I pointed out to the honourable member earlier that credit unions in New South Wales control 70% of the assets of the movement. [More…]
It has 234 credit unions with assets of $150,000. [More…]
Many of these lend more money for housing than do the larger credit union organisations but they have been disqualified because, under this legislation, they have to have lent at least $50,000 in their last financial year and to give an undertaking that they will continue to spend $50,000 each year on housing, and housing alone. [More…]
Proposed section 26a relates to the withdrawal of approval of a credit union. [More…]
It provides that a credit union shall, within 14 days after the date of service of the notice of withdrawal, give a prescribed notice to every person who was a member of the credit union at that date or who had applied for membership on or before that date. [More…]
The credit union must be sure that it does not advertise that it is a credit union for purposes of the homes savings grant. [More…]
What will happen to persons who have savings in a credit union whose approval is withdrawn? [More…]
Have they a prescribed time in which to withdraw their money from the credit union and deposit it in a homes savings account? [More…]
I take it that savings with the credit union while it was approved under this legislation will be recognised but there is nothing in the Bill to indicate that such savings will be recognised after approval has been withdrawn. [More…]
What time is allowed a member of a credit union to withdraw his savings from the credit union and deposit them in an approved account? [More…]
Where a notice of the withdrawal of the approval of a credit union for the purposes of this Act has been served on the credit union - [More…]
Firstly, there are the saving banks; secondly, the permanent building societies; and, thirdly, the credit union movement, which is supposed to be included in this legislation as an acceptable form of savings. [More…]
I see a penal clause inserted in respect of the credit union movement. [More…]
The Government has no intention - and it never has been the intention of the Government - to assist the credit union movement. [More…]
It is an accepted fact that the credit union movement in Australia is just on the way up. [More…]
If honourable members go back through the history of the countries on the other side of the world - particularly the history of America - and see the extent to which the credit union movement has grown, they will see the reason why the Government and those v/ho support the Government do not want the credit union movement to grow in Australia. [More…]
its suggestions that it would bring the credit unions into the operations of the scheme. [More…]
The Government really does not want credit unions to flourish. [More…]
The reason is that if credit unions flourish they will be a threat to the other financial institutions which this Government serves. [More…]
The Government has no intention of helping credit unions. [More…]
The main concern of the Government is that the credit union movement is a threat to the fringe banking institutions. [More…]
I am sorry to say that, as an active credit unionist myself, I am more than disappointed with the Government on this issue. [More…]
As an active credit unionist, I would have thought that the Government, realising the benefit of credit unions to our community, would have gone out of its way to assist the credit union movement. [More…]
In fact, the Government has put every obstacle in the way of the credit union movement, even clause 14 which is a penal clause. [More…]
It is pious hypocrisy to come out and to mouth these platitudes about assistance to the credit union movement. [More…]
The Government had no intention of assisting credit unions and I suggest that it will give no assistance in the future. [More…]
Under the guise that th; Government wanted to broaden the proposal to include the credit unions, this penal provision has been inserted, lt is just a lol of hypocrisy because no credit union can in fact meet the conditions. [More…]
If by some miracle some credit union does meet the conditions it will be subject to this penal provision. [More…]
That Government is in the middle of working this out at the moment by way of special committees in association with the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
You will recollect that these and other outrages have since been condemned by many international gatherings including meetings of the Interparliamentary Union of whose Australian group you, Sir, are chairman. [More…]
-The Leader of the Opposition well knows that Australian representation on the Inter-Parliamentary Union consists of members of both sides of the House. [More…]
I think I could reply to the latter part of the honourable member’s question by saying that it is not within my recollection over a period of approximately 36 years in this Parliament that all sections of the Labor Party, many sections of the trade union movement and certainly those who are known to be Communists or to influence the Communist line have lined up in apparent complete agreement. [More…]
I had a chance to discuss this matter some 12 months ago with officials and office bearers of the National Farmers Union in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Of course, if we want to apply ourselves to exercises in farm size, it would not be a bad exercise to study what has happened in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which began with the idea that the biggest farm was the best. [More…]
Throughout its history, the Soviet Union may on occasions have achieved some good production results but they are rare occasions. [More…]
The section states that it shall be an offence for an employer to threaten with dismissal a person who becomes or desires to become a member of a trade union. [More…]
It stood the test of time until one judge, in order to show his superiority over the Parliament which had indicated what its policy was, and in order also to show his superiority over the draftsman - in many cases, judges seem to regard draftsmen with lofty contempt - decide that the law permits the dismissal of a bloke if he joins a union but that an employer must not threaten to sack such a person. [More…]
The judge interpreted the law to mean that an employer can sack a person after he joins a trade union. [More…]
The judge in effect said: ‘If an employer says that he will sack an employee if he joins a union that is a breach of the law. [More…]
But if the employer waits until the man joins a union and then sacks him, that is all right’. [More…]
The most recent available document which surveys the types of social security schemes operating overseas is the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s publication ‘Social Security Programmes Throughout the World 1967’, which gives the principal features of schemes inthe following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, China (Nationalist), China (Communist), Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany (Federal Republic), Germany (East), Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (South), Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (South), Vietnam (North), Yugoslavia, Zambia. [More…]
This morning it was broadcast that the administration of Communist China had criticised the Soviet Union for, in this centenary year of Lenin’s birth, straying from Leninism and preaching Socialism while practising imperialism. [More…]
As well, the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat has long since been abandoned in favour of the idea of the dictatorship of the Communist parties whether they happen to be in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China or any other part of the world where Communism prevails. [More…]
This means that only the United States of America, Japan, China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and India would fill the bill. [More…]
The 2 major circuits are Hoyts Theatres Limited and the Greater Union Organisation Pty Ltd. [More…]
The film was released by British Empire Films Pty Ltd, which is the distribution side of the Greater Union group of companies which is 50% owned by the Rank Organisation of Great Britain. [More…]
It is obvious from what occurred on this occasion that the people who contributed the creative work, who took the greatest risk - that is, the producers of the film - received only $500,000 out of the S3m grossed by the film and were exploited because of the peculiarly advantageous position which was held by British Empire Films with its tie-up through the Greater Union group of companies that are 50% owned by the Rank organisation in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Is the Minister for External Affairs aware of a broadcast made last night over certain commercial broadcasting stations by a Mr Frank Chamberlain in which he inferred that the United States action in respect of Cambodia was no different from the Soviet Union’s actions in regard to Czechoslovakia last year? [More…]
The Government of the Union of Soviet [More…]
What was the value of Australia’s exports to (a) Canada, (b) France, (c) Italy, (d) Japan, (e) The Netherlands, (f) the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (g) the United Kingdom, (h) the United States of America, and (i) West Germany in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Commonwealth Industrial Court has ruled that a union rule cannot lawfully require a member to give written notice of his resignation. [More…]
Did the Government approve of the action of the Public Service Board in appearing as a party in the Joint Bench hearing of the Amalga- mated Postal Workers’ Union’s case for equal pay. [More…]
The Public Service Board’s appearance in this case arose out of it being a respondent to the matters before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission involving the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and other unions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Labour and National Service, upon notice: ls it a fact that the Industrial Registries clearly mark the precise changes “sought in the wording of conditions of eligibility for union membership, or in the description of the industry in connection with which a union is registered; if so, why cannot such ‘ changes be similarly set out in the notice which must be advertised in the Gazette. [More…]
Did Australia support (a) the view of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and France that there would be unavoidable complexities which could mean weakening the Charter, (b) the United States’ view that decisions should not be hasty or (c) Brazil’s view that the fullest deliberations are overdue. [More…]
Every worker has penalties imposed on him if -he does not fulfil the obligations of his employment or his trade union. [More…]
Is the Australian Workers Union politically biased? [More…]
In a direct tilt at the May 8 Vietnam Moratorium, the Australian Workers Union has warned workers to be wary of being used in matters of a purely political nature. [More…]
In a separate report the ‘Worker’ states that the resolution of 12th April of the Mount Isa branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association condemning the issue is regarded in trade union circles in Queensland as a sharp slap at the Trades and Labour Council leftist hierarchy which supports the Moratorium. [More…]
The report states that union opinion, particularly among the rank and file, is hardening that the proposed stoppage in Victoria, and stoppages elsewhere, will not achieve their aim - and they will not, either - as the Vietnam question is a matter for the Australian Government and other allied governments. [More…]
The unionists realise that this issue is not in the best interest of the people whom the Opposition is supposed to represent. [More…]
I am basing my argument not on a political bias but on what the unions are saying. [More…]
The committee represents these unions: Australian Workers Union, Federated Clerks, Queensland State Service, Teachers, Clothing and Allied Trades, Shop Assistants, Commercial Travellers, Royal Australian Nursing Federation, Queensland Railway Salaried Officers, Railway Traffic Station Masters, and Railway Signalmen. [More…]
If he is sincere and if honourable members opposite are sincere in what they say as to their good intent and how they are genuine in their support of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, and in their accusations against this side of the House because we talk about their association with Communists and such like when in fact this is not so, I would feel more im pressed, the Australian Workers Union would be more impressed and other people- [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa said the Australian Workers’ Union did not mention the Moratorium Campaign. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the recent report from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy in Australia referring to the United States of America’s interference in a civil war in Cambodia? [More…]
It is a very melancholy picture, not for the persons who find in the Moratorium deceit by the organisers, but for the organisers because the unions are not responding in anything like the way it was hoped they would. [More…]
Only in Sydney and Melbourne is any real interest being shown, and essentially even in those cities only 4 unions are active - the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia. [More…]
This is not true in Sydney, where the Trades and Labour Council recently had a meeting that was attended by 20 unions which are trying to organise a 2-hour lay down of tools on Friday. [More…]
It looks as though union activity will be confined to the maritime unions. [More…]
So the response of unions makes a melancholy story for the organisers of the Vietnam Moratorium. [More…]
The following record of action taken by the Inter-Parliamentary Union since 2 1st April, 1967, in respect of Greek Parliamentarians and citizens, has been compiled from the agreed minutes of the Union: [More…]
On 11th September, 1967, at its 143rd session held in Geneva, the Executive Committee of the Council of the InterParliamentary Union unanimously adopted the following resolution: The Executive Committee, Having been informed by the Secretary- [More…]
The Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union took note of this resolution on 13th September, 1967, during its 101st Session. [More…]
In his report to the 101st Session of the Council, the Acting President of the Union, Mr Abderrahman Abdennebi (Tunisia) stated that on 16th May, 1967, he had sent a telegram to the Head of the Greek Government requesting that imprisoned members of Parliament be treated in accordance with the principles of humanity, enjoy guarantees for their defence, and be released as soon as possible. [More…]
The Acting President remarked that, upon being informed of this initiative, the Executive Committee had reviewed the possibility of making further demarches on behalf of Greek deputies who found themselves in difficulties and had decided that, should the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union approve this step, the Greek Government should be informed of the fact. [More…]
At its 101st session the Council also unanimously approved the following resolution put forward by Mr Kruczkowski (Poland) - The Inter-Parliamentary Council, Expresses its approval to the Acting President of the Union for the steps taken in connection with the persecution of members of Parliament in Greece and renews its request that practices contrary to the principles of democracy and humanitarianism should cease. [More…]
The Acting President of the Union, Mr Abderraham Abdennebi informed the 102nd session of the Council during a meeting in Dakar on 21st April, 1968, that he had addressed a letter, through the Greek Ambassador in Switzerland, to the Greek authorities, informing them of his intention to go to Greece in order to see from a strictly humanitarian point of view the conditions under which those Greek parliamentarians who were in prison were living. [More…]
It is understood, however, that they dealt with the failure of his efforts to visit Greece and of the Union’s initiatives in respect of Greek Parliamentarians. [More…]
In accordance with a decision of the Union’s Executive Committee, the draft resolution originally submitted by the USSR Parliamentary Group to the Dakar meeting of the Council was considered by the Council’s Committee on Parliamentary and Juridical Affairs, (rather than its Political Committee) at a meeting in Lima on 9th September, 1968. [More…]
In addition to the occupation of public places by its supporters another well known Communist controlled group of patriots - the Seamens Union of Australia - is to go on strike for 24 hours in support of the moratorium. [More…]
At question time today my colleague the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) asked the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden) a question relating to the involvement of the trade union movement in the Moratorium. [More…]
The Minister replied that in his view there was a positive diminution of trade union support and that it appeared now that only the maritime unions were supporting it. [More…]
This is significant, because as all honourable members know the maritime unions without exception are Communist unions. [More…]
He will be speaking on the same platform as Mrs Freda Brown, who claims to have visited North Vietnam recently and who is president of the Union of Australian Women and a publicly declared ticket holding member of the Communist Party. [More…]
They have sought to give the appearance of popular support for their actions by organising mob demonstrations, disrupting schools and universities and, where possible, using the trade union movement to cause industrial disputes and unrest. [More…]
In the last few days we have seen the wisdom of the silent majority within the trade union movement telling those associated with the Moratorium not to use the trade union movement for political purposes. [More…]
The paradox for me is this: I know many members of the Australian Labor Parly and many men particularly in the trade union movement who not only know Communism well but also hate Communism. [More…]
In all this time the supplies were coming from North Vietnam and indirectly from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
He went to court and alleged that a Communist was using a photograph of him to try to gain additional support in a union election. [More…]
Peking and the Soviet Union are right. [More…]
I was informed by the Collie division of the miner’s union in Western Australia that some of its members are single pensioners, widowers and widows, who are in just as tight a financial situation as are family units where there are 2 persons who can benefit under this scheme. [More…]
The medical profession has long been held by some people to be as effective a trade union as has ever existed in this country. [More…]
It now appears however that the medical profession, which is comprised very substantially of men of goodwill and men of hard labour, has not been as cohesive a trade union as in fact we suspected it was. [More…]
It goes on to indicate that Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet Union’s chief delegate to the United Nations, had said that a Geneva conference could bring about a fresh solution and a relaxation of tension in the Indo-China peninsula. [More…]
There seemed to be an indication of a conciliatory attitude on the part of the Soviet Union at that stage. [More…]
I put it to the honourable member for Riverina that he ought to have a word with some of the people he is close to in the trade union movement to see whether they recognise the demands that are being made on industry today for increased wages and improved conditions in the manufacturing sector and put to them that if we are to build up our export industries and if we are to have a better balance in our trade there has to be some effort on the part of the employees if the employer, who after all is the manufacturer, is to meet this stiff competition from other very affluent nations. [More…]
The Commonwealth will not give equal pay to women in its employ because it does not want the wages of women in the Commonwealth Public Service to be used as a lever by the trade union movement to get equal pay for women employed by private enterprise. [More…]
If the people employed by the Commonwealth Government were working for private industry they would all be getting over award payments, because nearly everybody in Australia today who belongs to a union with an ounce of fight in it can now get over award payments. [More…]
I further want to say thai the Chairman of the Grains Division of the Victorian Farmers’ Union, Mr Meehan, said he was delighted that the Federal Government had announced that $1.10 a bushel would be a first payment on the quota wheat next year. [More…]
Although the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has at present long supply lines in different countries, the growing interest indicates to us that it is doing its best to minimise this difficulty. [More…]
Going back into the pas[, 1 remember listening to some of the defence spokesmen for the Opposition, in particular the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) assuring us when he came back from one of his many travels - I think it was through Mongolia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - that Australia could defend itself, that if the Australian militia were recruited it could put men around the periphery of Australia and that it could withstand the might of any attacking force. [More…]
As other honourable members have said, whether we like it or not - I am not suggesting that Australia alone can or should do much about it - the Soviet Union ;s building up its Indian Ocean fleet. [More…]
But the United Kingdom is withdrawing and now the Soviet Union is there. [More…]
The Soviet Union will endeavour to gain bases in countries with which it can establish relationships, it will use the might of the Soviet fleet to bring about trade and diplomatic relations with those countries. [More…]
It can be argued by those people who see no threat at all presented to Australia’s future by the Communists in Moscow and in Peking that the Commonwealth of Australia, in creating a great naval base over a period of a decade in the south western corner of Australia, is making an aggressive act that will encourage the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and mainland China to adopt a public attitude that will identify us with aggression. [More…]
At the time I was a young radical leader of the Wheat Growers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
This organisation subsequently merged with another to form the present Farmers Union of Western Australia. [More…]
The Wheat Growers Union of Western Australia, in which I began my political life, was a breakaway body from the Primary Producers Association of Western Australia. [More…]
Last year there was a circumstance in which a trade union leader was placed in gaol as a result of proceedings for contempt before the Commonwealth Industrial Court. [More…]
Following that the Government, the trade union movement and the employers’ organisations came together for the purpose of discussing the penal clauses. [More…]
My colleagues, the then Minister for Labour and National Service and the then Attorney-General, had discussions with the employers and the unions. [More…]
In early December last year it became apparent that there could be no further discussions on the penal clauses because in the interim period the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress had reached a conclusion that the trade union movement would have nothing to do with penal clauses. [More…]
I expect they will be, because the negotiating team comprised the President, the two Vice-Presidents, and the Secretary of the ACTU, plus another very senior member of the trade union movement, Mr Devereaux of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
At the request of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
I can only hope that these great nations, representing - as they do - 250 million people of the Asian region will be able to bring their influence to bear on other countries, particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, in an attempt to make some contribution towards the defence of freedom and of independence in South East Asia. [More…]
Is he able to say how many engineers there are per head of population in the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and Australia. [More…]
That would be most dangerous not only to a particular union or a particular section of the community but to the Government and our economy as a whole. [More…]
of Advanced Education and with the National Union of Australian University Students. [More…]
In view of the recent agreement between the Commonwealth and registered unions and associations under which Commonwealth Departments will make wage and salary deductions on behalf of members of such bodies who authorise deductions for union or association fees, will he request all Commonwealth instrumentalities to extend similar facilities to organisations whose members are employed by such instrumentalities. [More…]
452 (Hansard, pages 769-770), the deduction of union subscriptions by Commonwealth instrumentalities is a matter for consideration by the instrumentalities concerned. [More…]
If, when you speak of fees you have in mind tuition fees only, and not fees payable for residential accommodation, for student union membership and so on, I think that there will be some saving, but not necessarily from the commencement of the abolition of tuition fees, but eventually. [More…]
As was suggested by the honourable member for Mitchell, 1 did serve in the Soviet Union, from which country I was expelled twice. [More…]
Buka and Bougainville are being pushed towards complete secession -which is what they would probably vote for, union of the British Solomons which might be an intelligent settlement, or federation. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Homes Savings Grant Bill lays down the conditions with which individual credit unions are required to comply if they are to become and remain approved credit unions for the purposes of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
One of these conditions is that not less than 15% of the total amount lent by a credit union in its most recently concluded financial year must have been in the form of prescribed housing loans. [More…]
The request was made by the Senate on a motion by the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) after she had had the opportunity of hearing submissions made in the Senate as well as by representatives of the credit union movement. [More…]
As a smoke screen the Government set out in clause 5 certain proposals under which credit unions may become eligible to seek loans under the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
No negotiations were held with the credit union authorities, there was no discussion with the respective State governments, and there was no discussion between the Department of Housing and the Department of the Interior which controls credit unions in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Canberra has more public servants and a greater percentage of people who are members of credit unions than any other sector of Australia. [More…]
To put the legislation into perspective so that the Department of Housing would have sufficient time to discuss it with the State governments and other departments, the Opposition moved as an amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Bill that the clause relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act. [More…]
We explained that section 7 (d) of the New South Wales legislation covering credit unions permitted a maximum loan of $4,000. [More…]
Seventy per cent of the members of credit unions live in New South Wales. [More…]
Since the legislation was introduced in this House the New South Wales Minister who deals with credit unions has stated clearly and publicly that he will not increase credit union loans beyond $4,000 No further statement has been made to clarify that position. [More…]
This provision for a minimum loan of $5,000 will prevent members of the credit unions from being included. [More…]
As I said, 70% of the members of credit unions live in New South Wales. [More…]
Some 307 credit unions exist in New South Wales, 234 of which have assets of less than $150,000. [More…]
If honourable members look at clause 5 of the Bill they will see that the minimum amount in subsequent years that the credit unions must lend is $50,000. [More…]
We tried to explain to honourable members opposite that the credit unions were not really geared for long term loans or to be forced into repaying them over a period of 12 years. [More…]
It is not fooling those members of credit unions in Canberra who would like to participate in this homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
These credit unions cannot become involved in this scheme. [More…]
This is because, under an ordinance, the Government has said that $2,000 is the maximum amount that may be provided as a secured loan for housing purposes by credit unions in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
So, I hope that in particular members of the credit union organisations study the hypocrisy of the Government after the long and patient negotiations that the credit un on movement has undertaken with the Government, the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) and officials of the Department of Housing. [More…]
No real consideration was given by the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) who represents in this chamber the Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) and the Government to the sincere and practical suggestions which were put forward by representatives of the credit union movement. [More…]
Senator Little suggested ; I will generalise on his remarks and will not quote them directly ; the 3 improvements which had been suggested by the credit union movement. [More…]
What happened was that the credit union movement - and rightly so - made representations to all parties. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party took note of its representations and moved an amendment in the other place to comply with what the desires of the credit union movement were. [More…]
The ideas were initiated by the credit union movement itself in representations to the 3 parties concerned. [More…]
Mr Chairman, the amendment agreed to in the other place has now been returned as a request to this Committee, lt will have absolutely no effect and will provide no benefit at all to the credit union movement at this stage. [More…]
Even if the amendments which the Government has introduced are carried, no credit union in New South Wales could qualify under the legislation - none at all. [More…]
What are the real motives of the Government in ensuring that no credit union can qualify? [More…]
The Government fears the growth of credit unions. [More…]
That is the reason deposits with credit unions are not eligible for the grant now. [More…]
I fully support the comments of the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), who has just resumed his seat, ft is worth noting the very real reasons that the Government has for doing everything that it can to frustrate while pretending to patronise the credit union movement. [More…]
This is precisely what the credit union movement does. [More…]
It is in New South Wales that 80% of the credit union movement operates at the present time, and this is where the funds are. [More…]
The credit union movement can come in and help most effectively by the granting of loans for home improvements and for additions to homes. [More…]
There is every incentive for the average home owner to use the credit unions rather than the orthodox banks. [More…]
That being so, the credit union movement is the only field to which the average worker can have recourse. [More…]
This is true; yet we have an organisation throughout Australia - the credit union movement - which is playing a most important part in helping people in their campaigns of thrift to save money for essential purposes. [More…]
But this Government, which has expressed its concern about growing inflation and says it sees the need to save and to stop wasteful spending, is not prepared to encourage the credit unions to make available the funds which should be made available for home building or for any other purpose. [More…]
I believe that to become a member of a credit union is a badge of good citizenship and something which should be applauded by all honourable members. [More…]
Yet the work of the credit union movement is spurned and disregarded by the Government. [More…]
Instead of marshalling the resources of the credit unions and encouraging this important work of providing homes for the newly marrieds, for migrants coming into this country and for all of the people wanting to build this nation through building houses, as they must, the Government has remained cold and aloof from the human problem. [More…]
But why should the Government close the doors upon organisations like the credit unions which are indeed making a significant contribution to saving funds and providing money which is necessary for the building of homes and establishing people in homes, as has been indicated previously by other honourable members who have spoken in this debate. [More…]
I want to know, and members of credit unions throughout not only New South Wales but the length and breadth of Australia, and in particular in Canberra, want to know from, the Minister in the Committee stage why the Government is adopting this policy. [More…]
Before this legislation was drafted why did nol the Minister or officers of the Department of Housing, or even the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), have some discussion with the credit union people? [More…]
There is a provision in the Bill that if they accept an applicant for a loan credit unions meet these requirements or be liable to a $500 fine. [More…]
There is no understanding of what a credit union is. [More…]
What is a credit union? [More…]
Members of a credit union have a personal association which brings them together and into contact with one another and which gives each member a strong sense of responsibility to the entire group. [More…]
They can be employees of an organisation, members of the same church, union or lodge, or residents of a well-defined community area. [More…]
Why does it insist on credit unions having to spend at least $50,000? [More…]
Some of these small credit unions are groups of people in a firm, a church or a union and in some cases they make available more money for housing per member than do many of the larger credit unions. [More…]
But there is no consideration whatsoever of what the credit unions do. [More…]
I will outline some of the assistance which credit unions give. [More…]
These are the major tasks of credit unions. [More…]
It is not interested in helping the credit unions. [More…]
It stands by the wealthy sector of the community and will not give the credit unions a fair go. [More…]
The Government knows that if it were to help the credit unions the banks would put the brakes on, as they did with regard to the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill. [More…]
In the last couple of years we witnessed the controversy surrounding the prawning industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the trouble caused by the arrival in that area of ships from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The inference was that the South African secret police bad followed him, reported to the Government, from there to the South African Rugby Union Board and from there to the Australian team manager who thought- [More…]
As the changes occur I would expect my departmental officers to be talking to the General Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia which is the union to which the staff belong. [More…]
There was in the Melbourne ‘Age’ on 21st May a report from the Victorian Teachers Union which showed just how severe this crisis would become by the 1970s. [More…]
The union estimates that by 1973 teacher colleges will be about 2,000 teachers down on the numbers who should be in training. [More…]
The union claims the Department needs to start work immediately on at least 4 new teacher colleges to match the expected demand. [More…]
The secretary of the union’s teachers’ college staff branch (Mr B. Costin) said yesterday that teacher college enrolments would have to be boosted by 5,500 - to a total of 18,500 trainees - within the next 5 years. [More…]
Again it is a report from the Victorian Teachers Union. [More…]
The Victorian Teachers Union made a survey of the position of science and mathematics teachers in Victoria. [More…]
Incidentally, the union had been informed by the Victorian Education Department that high schools alone in Victoria were short of 250 mathematics and science teachers this year. [More…]
As to the first part of the question asked by the honourable member, little doubt exists that the armed forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are manning SAM sites in certain parts of the United Arab Republic, mainly concentrated around Cairo and the industrial centres of that country. [More…]
These conclusions are among the findings of a survey of the State’s special education facilities made by the Victorian Teachers’ Union field officer, Mr Barrie Rimmer. [More…]
The research that he undertook on behalf of the Victorian Teachers Union was mentioned by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Mclvor). [More…]
ls he able to say whether any State law requires the State to conduct investigations and, when necessary, to launch prosecutions (o protect union funds from embezzlement or misappropriation. [More…]
If not, will he consider introducing a Federal law similar to the United States LandrumurnGriffin Act under which embezzlement of union funds is a Federal offence and a function of the Department of Labour is to conduct investigations when necessary and to launch prosecutions to protect union funds from embezzlement or misappropriation. [More…]
There are adequate provisions under Slate law for prosecution of those who embezzle or misappropriate union funds. [More…]
It is the position in 18 States of the Ameri can Union. [More…]
It applies for males in 4 States of the American Union and for females in 37 States. [More…]
In 3 States of the American Union consent is not required for males age 19 and in 2 States for females age 19. [More…]
In the Soviet Union, the Attorney-General tells me - and I have always found that anything the honourable gentleman says about the Soviet Union must be consummately sound - consent is not required for marriage after 18. [More…]
Marked reductions in imports into India and Pakistan and also in those by Mainland China and the Soviet Union were the main cause of the decline in world trade in 1963-69. [More…]
The secretary of the union’s grain section, Mr R. C. Edwards, said that black market sales had already affected prices in New South Wales. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry as far back as March 1968 gave some warning when talking to the Victorian Wheat and Woolgrowers Association, which is now the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
This excluded production in the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
World production in 1966-67 was 6,990 million bushels, again excluding China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
This is due to several factors, the first being that the Soviet Union was a big importer in the mid 1960s but today is an exporter. [More…]
There is a lot of money in this country but it is in the wrong places, lt is a great and rich country I have put up a proposition lo a farmer’s union but unfortunately no notice was taken of it. [More…]
Only one course was open to the wool growers who were opposed to the lifting of the ban, and this was to ask the Australian Labor Party for assistance through the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement considered the position and in its wisdom made a judgment that until this matter had been decided by referendum or decided properly in this Parliament action should be taken to prevent the export of merino rams. [More…]
The 2 New South Wales farmer and grazier organisations and the Victorian Farmers Union, claiming to represent 56.6% of the industry have expressed themselves very definitely. [More…]
I have written to the General Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union suggesting an early meeting to discuss this question and have also advised the Secretary of the ACTU of this. [More…]
If a union or an employer breaches an obligation imposed by a clause of an award which says, for example, that the union or employer is not to be party to some form of direct action, it will also be liable for a penalty under section 119. [More…]
Unions and employers will come within the same maximum penalties for breaches of awards. [More…]
The important difference is, however, that if a union or an employer is thought to be in breach of a clause of an award such as I have just referred to, it would not be possible immediately to take action under section 119. [More…]
There will be an obligation to notify a presidential member so that attempts can be made to settle the dispute giving rise to the apparent breach on the part of the union or employer. [More…]
I should also emphasise that the Bill provides that only a presidential member of the Commission will be permitted to deal with an application for the insertion in an award of a clause which would place an obligation on a union or on an employer not to be party to action that would hinder, prevent or discourage the observance of or the performance of work in accordance with the award The ACTU submitted that penalties imposed by the Industrial Court under section 111 of the Act for contempt of orders made by the court were accentuated because on occasions the court imposed fines for each day on which contempt was found to have been committed. [More…]
This meant that unions could be fined up to $1,000 a day. [More…]
These provisions will apply in respect of all types of breaches whether they be committed by a union or by employers. [More…]
If Government, employers and the trade union movement cun find common ground on principles relating to such a fundamental matter, then the process of translating those principles into detailed procedures at plant and industry level should follow. [More…]
During the hearing before Commissioner Winter, the representative of the Company opposed the union approach to having the claim determined by Section 28 notification. [More…]
I hope that the attack contained in the article does not represent the development of a united front between the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 suggest that it would be in the interests of the Soviet Union also to make a constructive effort towards a solution to the problems of the area in the same spirit as thai adopted by those vthc met at Djakarta. [More…]
Would the Commonwealth Government of the day fix the hours of work, pay and conditions of employment’ which, I am told, is the policy of one party, or would the strength of the appropriate trade union be the deciding factor? [More…]
Once the sale was made the Opposition had the audacity to see that the union ban was imposed. [More…]
Yet the Australian Labor Party, through the mass strength of the unions, is defying the law. [More…]
Rumania has had 2 hijackings, the Soviet Union has had 1 and Yugoslavia has had 2. [More…]
A request was made for this person to be handed over to the Soviet Union to be taken back to that country to be tried. [More…]
How long is the public of Australia to be inconvenienced by the go slow tactics and 24 hour stoppages by members of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists? [More…]
Further, did the Minister meet the President and Secretary of the Union at any time last week? [More…]
In answer to the first part of the honourable member’s question I would say that I believe that every member of this House would regret (hat the public is being seriously inconvenienced by the actions of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists in stopping work on the last 2 Saturdays and by the decision of that’ union at its meeting of Saturday last to continue rolling stoppages during this week. [More…]
I know that the Department and the Public Service Board have spent a tremendous amount of time in discussions with all the unions associated with the Post Office. [More…]
I point out that when the Australian Postal Workers Union was appearing before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists sought leave to intervene in order to lodge a claim. [More…]
The Arbitration Commission gave the union permission to produce oral or written evidence. [More…]
This was done and the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission decided against the Union claim for an increase of 6.6%. [More…]
I believe that the Union has had every consideration by the Public Service [More…]
The result has been that since 1st January last year, in the minimum area of wage levels for this union there have been increases of between 12.6% and 17.2% and in the maximum levels, between 12.6% and 14.4%, excluding the 3% derived from the national wage case. [More…]
However, it was put to me by the Secretary and the President of the Union last week that indeed what should now happen is an extension of the hours on Fridays from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., with adjustments in relation to Saturday morning work. [More…]
1 am advised that the United Kingdom Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employer’s Associations 1965-1968 found that trade unions should have immunity from action for tort in respect of torts alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of a trade union iti contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute. [More…]
I am advised that the provision of the United Kingdom Trade Disputes Act 1906 conferring on trade unions immunity in respect of tortious acts has been reproduced in the Queensland Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act and that there is nothing to suggest that a trade union registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act could not rely on the provision in the Queensland Act if sued in that State. [More…]
Did the Government disapprove of the action of the Public Service Board in appearing as a party in the joint Bench hearing of the Australian Postal Workers’ Union’s case for equal pay. [More…]
710 I said: “The Public Service Board’s appearance in this case arose out of it being a respondent to the matters before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission involving the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and other unions.’ [More…]
The union had something to say about that. [More…]
The Government has wrongly accused the Opposition of inciting the trade union movement over the export of merino rams. [More…]
Government supporters are wrong in believing that they can solve their problems by casting innuendoes about people on this side of the House and suggesting that merely by waving the magic wand in front of the Australian Council of Trade Unions the ban on the movement of merino ramswill be lifted and all will be well. [More…]
The fact is that the original appeal to the trade union movement came from certain wool growing interests. [More…]
In the meantime a union officer who, I think, is termed the secretary of the Metal Trades Unions Association in Sydney had responded to the Press report. [More…]
If we accept this myth, which I may say has been propagated with great enthusiasm in certain quarters, we will run into the kind of trouble that was run into in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 20 years ago - in fact, it could be 40 years ago-when that country followed exactly the principle that the bigger is the best. [More…]
Pty Ltd and Union Carbide Aust. [More…]
by leave - It is true, as the honourable member for Newcastle (Mr Charles Jones) has said, that I did have a conference with the Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union and the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on this issue. [More…]
The committee will consist of representatives of the Department of Labour artel National Service, the ASIA, the ACTU and the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The employer representatives and the union representatives at the highest level of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Waterside Workers Federation will meet regularly to discuss the problems. [More…]
Stevedoring Industry Authority is critical of the trade union movement for taking strike action I feel that it should also try to rectify the situation to which I have just referred. [More…]
In a document drawn up after an agreement with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Federated Clerks Union he spoke of a period of 12 months. [More…]
Now that it has been put on a permanent basis we hope that when the new legislation is brought down within the next 2 years everyone in the industry will know where they are going, particularly those people in the Federated Clerks Union who at present are greatly concerned about their future. [More…]
Mr FOSTER (Sturt) [3.91-1 support the Bill and in so doing want to trace somewhat briefly the history of the trade union movement in respect of the waterfront. [More…]
Originally the waterfront unions came into being because of the imposition of shocking conditions in The Rocks area of Sydney in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s when waterfront employees were a disorganised force of people who were traded upon by independent shipowners and were subjected to the most frightful conditions imaginable, as were their counterparts of that day in the United Kingdom. [More…]
The union has indeed been, in the eyes of our political opponents, an extremely boisterous and militant union, because the people now on the Government benches have never endeavoured to understand the waterfront industry and its problems. [More…]
The industry during the course of the mid- 1920s or late 1920s was lorn asunder by industrial strife when one union was set against another. [More…]
From this state of affairs grew the combined action of union men who expressed themselves in a very militant fashion. [More…]
They came up against the system of the masters, the absentee employers, the shipowners, the shipowners’ agents, the stevedoring companies, the shipowners’ imported supervisors and all these other attendant difficulties.. Of course, as soon as the union saw that the labour position in the late 1930s and into the 1940s was such that they were in a better posi-lion industrially, is it any wonder that it resorted to the type of action that it was forced into in a desire to win conditions of no less value than those in industry generally? [More…]
During the early 1940s, after the Treasury bench here was vacated by the political opponents of the trade union movement generally, the Stevedoring Industry Commission was set up. [More…]
Also there were representatives of the trade union movement - namely of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
While one does not dispute that there were disputes during the war years - and much criticism flowed to the organisation because it took strike action - at least I was one who was in the field and realised the union’s position. [More…]
However, there were many conditions that the union saw fit to act against, such as men working around the clock continuously - working on the job for scores of hours, almost, at a time. [More…]
The union saw fit to introduce a shift system into the industry. [More…]
After the war years the union had to resort to very strong and firm militant action to win the condition that workers in the industry were not required to stay on the job, not just for 24 hours but for something like double and more. [More…]
There was some difference of opinion between the government of the day and the union about the Stevedoring Industry Commission which led to the removal of the 2 representatives of the Federation. [More…]
During this, period the Federation was engaged in some struggles about conditions that other unionists had enjoyed and, of course, which some unionists had not enjoyed. [More…]
This placed the Federation, very proudly, in the forefront as a condition winner for a number of organisations, a role which it still continues to play very admirably on behalf of the whole trade union movement. [More…]
I hope and trust that the union will continue to do that. [More…]
I would, of course, deplore that in this day and age the union would have to continue to resort to industrial action to achieve those worthwhile gains - worthwhile in the eyes of its membership and the eyes of the leaders of the trade union movement who represent that membership. [More…]
But the union was not able to achieve these simple conditions that had prevailed for many years in other industries throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
Any case put forward by anyone in the industry, be it the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, which was set up in about 1956, the employer organisations, or any direct representation by the Federation through the Australian Council of Trade Unions which is the recognised head of the trade union movement - and these bodies met consistently - was not acceded to. [More…]
The requests of the trade unions were not accepted on such matters as the simple conditions of annual leave, public holidays, guaranteed shifts. [More…]
Many legislative measures moved against the trade union movement in this chamber by the Government were directed against the Federation in the stupid and forlorn hope - the Government was misguided then; I hope that it does not continue to be misguided in the future - that such measures in fact would overcome the problems of an industry fraught with problems. [More…]
I come lo the 1960s When the Waterside Workers Federation and the trade union movement on the waterfront were attacked viciously on disciplinary measures. [More…]
The burden of proof was with the individuals concerned, the trade union organisations and in every direction other than those who were intent on this stupid idea that they would destroy the militant action of waterside workers and would deny to them their rights to set about winning further conditions for themselves, by application of this most vicious system of discipline. [More…]
That legislation provided for and sought to aid and abet any small number of men in ports like Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Brisbane and Hobart who to gather together and to form themselves into a trade union organisation correctly regarded as a scab organisation. [More…]
But, finally, he had to back off because he could not say that some 26,000 members of the trade union movement working on the waterfront are all Communists; nor could he say that all the officials in the trade union movement were Communists. [More…]
They, in association with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, took over the role of the negotiator. [More…]
He was able to convince the Prime Minister that in fact the trade union movement was rallying on the basis that it would not cop this type of legislation. [More…]
Recommendations were sent to stop work meetings from time to time throughout the length and breadth of the country, progress reports of what was taking place at those conferences were presented and finally the vast majority of members of the trade union movement associated with the waterfront accepted from their leaders the concept of permanency on the waterfront, at least at capital ports in the initial stages. [More…]
Section J 1 1 at present provides penalties of $1,000 for a union, $400 or gaol for an official of the union, and $100 for a rank and file member or a shop steward of a union for contempt of such order. [More…]
The only difference is that the matter must first be reported to a presidential member, but after this is done - that is, after the presidential member has looked at it - and a certificate has been issued stating that the matter is one that comes within the requirements of thu Act, the court can then bc called upon to impose a fine of $1,000 on a union official instead of the present $400 maximum fine and of $1,000 on a rank and file member of a union or shop steward instead of the present $100 fine. [More…]
The only exception there will be to this will be in cases where a special provision k written into an award that each day of a dispute shall be treated as a separate dispute, so that if the dispute lasted for only I day the maximum fine for a union or official, shop steward, job representative or rank and file member of a union would be reduced to $500, but if the dispute lasted for S days the maxima would become $2,500 for even a rank and file unionist or shop steward who was in breach of the award or Act. [More…]
Similarly, should the dispute last for a fortnight the maximum fine applicable to a union, union official, shop steward or even a rank and file member would be no less than $5,000 in respect of I dispute. [More…]
To consult with employes through their union officials about, and give as much notice as possible, of the contemplated change.’ [More…]
Unions and employers should notify to each other in writing the names of their duly accredited job representatives who would bc responsible, in the first instance, for dealing wilh matters arising on the job. [More…]
The job representative of the union thus accredited would be the only person entitled lo make representations on behalf of members of his union employed by the employer and the employer representative thus accredited would be responsible for dealing with matters raised by the union job representative: Provided that these arrangements would not restrict an employer or a duly authorised official of an employers organisation or a duly authorised official of a union making representations to each other. [More…]
The accredited union job representative and employer representative should make themselves available for consultation as required under the procedures. [More…]
The accredited union job representative should discuss any matter affecting the employees he represents wilh the foreman or supervisor in charge of the work. [More…]
If the matter is not resolved at this level the union job representative should ask for the matter to be referred to the employer’s representative nominated under (e), above, who shall arrange a conference to discuss the matter. [More…]
Such conference should commence within 24 hours or within such longer or shorter period as is agreed between the accredited representatives of the union and of the employer. [More…]
II the matter is not resolved at (he conference convened under paragraph (h), the union representative shall advise the appropriate local official of the union he represents of the matter in issue and a conference on the matter will be arranged to be attended by such official or officials and the union job representative concerned as the union may decide and by the designated employer’s representative and such other representatives of the employer, including his Association, as the employer may decide. [More…]
If a matter cannot be resolved when the procedures referred to above have been availed of, the employer and the Union should enter into consultation about it at a higher level, on the employer and union sides, as the parties consider appropriate. [More…]
lt appears at first blush thai section 5 gives protection against victimisation, lt certainly appears to bc a section thai gives protection against a boss sacking a man for joining a union. [More…]
He was speaking about the kind of conduct of which the employer was guilty when he sacked a person for joining a union. [More…]
It was admitted by the evidence that the person was sacked because he joined the union. [More…]
For instance because he is a shop steward or a member of the union. [More…]
At least he was consistent enough to say that in his opinion the union which took the complaint against the boss for sacking the person without threatening him and therefore acted in accordance with a legal right of the employer to do this ought to be made to pay the boss’s costs. [More…]
I asked the Minister’s predecessor whether he would do something to alter this section of the Act in such a way that it would no longer be possible for a boss to sack a man for joining a union or for taking part in union activities. [More…]
I now take the case of the Building Workers Industrial Union v. Clements Langford Ltd. A union representative had been dismissed for informing the timekeeper that he was leaving the job for a short time, on the ground that his action was contrary to a company rule that no employee must leave a job without the permission of the foreman. [More…]
The company went on to claim that the union representative had abused the foreman. [More…]
The union told Commissioner Findlay that its representative had been provoked into using bad language by the foreman and that, as a union representative, he had been deliberately victimised by the company. [More…]
In giving his decision the Commissioner stated that as the union representative had absented himself without proper authority his dismissal was justified. [More…]
In the case of Manufacturing Grocers Employees Union of Australia v. Cede! [More…]
Commissioner Matthews, who heard the matter, was told by the union that female employees were not allowed a rest period as prescribed by the award; that uniforms were not provided in accordance with the award; that amenities were not provided in accordance with the award, and that there was no covering on the concrete floor as required under the award. [More…]
This involved a union delegate who had been dismissed by the company on the ground that shortage of work necessitated a retrenchment of 2 ironworkers. [More…]
The delegate’s fellow members on the job claimed that their delegate had been retrenched out of seniority and was being victimised on account of his union activities. [More…]
Commissioner Apsey, after hearing the parties and conferring privately, said that he had no jurisdiction to order the reinstatement of the retrenched union delegate. [More…]
I now refer to the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia v. Harmony Products Pty Ltd. An employee who had been underpaid for annual leave and public holidays and who had been wrongfully stood down for 2 days without pay had complained to the union about the matter and was subsequently dismissed due to insufficient work. [More…]
The union claimed that the dismissal occurred as a result of the employee’s union activities and that as a member of the union she should have received preference of employment when the retrenchment was made. [More…]
The next case is Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union v. Thos. [More…]
The Chairman of the Board of Reference, Mr M. J. Mansini, stated that evidence had established beyond any doubt that the dismissed delegate of the union had completed the correct mini mum number of quarters for the day. [More…]
However, he said that he was guilty of misconduct in leaving his place of work before finishing time, and he considered that there was no foundation for the suggestion that the employer had victimised him because of his union activities in the boning room. [More…]
Always the employer can sieze upon a misdemeanour on the part of a union representative and close his eyes to the same sort of thing happening all round the factory. [More…]
Of course the employees will do things which the employers are pleased to condemn as indiscretions and misconduct, but why should an employer see a union delegate doing these things and not be able to see the other 400 or 500 men who are also doing the same thing? [More…]
A union delegate had been dismissed for allegedly using foul language and refusing to perform his normal duties. [More…]
The true function of a union delegate or shop steward is, of course, a very important one in which he looks after the interests of his fellow members which, if not dealt with satisfactorily, can lead lo serious events. [More…]
The job delegate or shop steward is not a union official; he therefore should refer important matters, or those which he considers are likely to develop into serious matters, to his union for attention. [More…]
Such mailers are properly dealt with by union officials with their wider experience, knowledge and understanding of union policy. [More…]
A stop steward or delegate who understands his functions and their limitations can, as most do, perform very useful work on behalf of his union and its members, and make a valuable contribution to good industrial relations in an establishment. [More…]
In the case of the Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union of Australia v. Clyde Batteries Pty Ltd Commissioner Hood found that there was no justification for suggesting that the retrenchment of the Union’s shop steward was unjust or harsh in any measure even though the purported retrenchment on the ground of economic recession has taken place - that was the excuse given for his dismissal - while other employees with shorter service had been retained. [More…]
In the case of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union v. Amagraze Ltd a union delegate was dismissed and 32 boners who had attended a union meeting to discuss the dismissal were also dismissed and their accrued annual leave credits were cancelled. [More…]
The company finally agreed to restore the leave credits but the Chairman of the Board of Reference, Mr Mansini, told the Union that the concession granted by the company rested entirely in the hands of the company. [More…]
In the case of the Boilermakers’ and Blacksmiths’ Society of Australia v. World Services and Construction Co. Pty Ltd Commissioner Hood, after hearing submissions concerning the dismissal of a union delegate, held that the dismissal had been justified on the established facts of the case. [More…]
In the case of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia v. A. [More…]
A. Ellis & Sutton Pty Ltd 3 girls were dismissed allegedly because of their activities as union delegates. [More…]
He said that there was no evidence to substantiate the charge that the girls were dismissed on account of union activities. [More…]
In the case of the Australian Textile Workers Union v. Stirling Henry Pty Ltd a union delegate with 8 years’ service had been put on to a new job which carried a rate of pay which the delegate considered unsatisfactory. [More…]
The delegate told Commissioner Findlay that the company had asked him to give up his job as union delegate and that he had been victimised because he refused to do so. [More…]
The Commissioner said that, as the union delegate had returned to his old job without authority, his services could be terminated and in the circumstances he was not prepared to do anything about the matter. [More…]
In the case of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) v. Adelaide Steamship Co., a shop steward with 6 years’ service was dismissed on the ground that a slackness of work necessitated retrenchments. [More…]
1 could give many more similar cases of where a commission or a chairman of the Board had pleaded lack of power or indicated lack of inclination to take all steps necessary to prevent victimisation of a union delegate, shop steward or job representative. [More…]
No shop steward or union delegate in the future could be expected to carry out the role required of him under the provisions of the new agreement unless he is guaranteed proper protection from victimisation. [More…]
Laws are much more easily applied by the State to individuals for the settlement of disputes than they are to exercise compulsion over powerful organisations such as a trade union. [More…]
I suggest to the Attorney-General that the deletion of the injunction and contempt provisions of this Act does not mean that there are no other avenues open to the Commission to deal with unions if they feel disposed to deal with them. [More…]
They turn to sections 109 and 111 when they want to discipline the unions. [More…]
Section ]43U )(h) contains provisions for the deregistration of a union under certain conditions. [More…]
In my view, and in the view of reasonable people, the power to deregister should be sufficient in itself to discipline a union if that is regarded as necessary. [More…]
We are here to debate the amendments that the Bill will make to the sanctions provisions of the Act, these provisions which have been the subject of so much controversy in the world of industry and in the trade union movement. [More…]
It would have been much more interesting, I suggest, for the House, for industry and for the trade union movement if we heard a little more from the honourable member as to his Party’s attitude towards the newly proposed sanctions provisions which are substituted for the old contempt provisions which are set out in section 18. [More…]
I doubt whether the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions will be deliriously delighted when he reads of the contributions to the debate made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh and the honourable member for Stirling because we did not hear either of those honourable members come out and make an outright denunciation of the sanctions provisions in any form. [More…]
Of course, that has been the refrain persistently indulged in by certain prominent people in the trade union movement, including the President of the ACTU. [More…]
I can never understand the attitude - I think that most people who would like to be considered as having commonsense can never understand the a Kit tide - which is taken up by prominent people in the trade union movement. [More…]
They are the views of a man who is entitled to the utmost respect having regard to his service to the trade union movement and to his vast experience. [More…]
He can afford to stand flat footed against all demands for wage justice because he knows that arbitration will never order him to grant that which a free trade union movement could obtain by direct action. [More…]
It is inconceivable that early trade union leaders should have been so naive as to trade the right to strike for the kind of arbitration which has since emerged. [More…]
Once the unions forfeited the power to cease work they placed themselves at the mercy of the arbitrator. [More…]
Let us consider the impact that a $1,000 penalty would have on these companies as compared with the same penalty on a shop steward or a union official. [More…]
In case anyone thinks otherwise, union officials, with one or two exceptions, are very poorly paid. [More…]
Indeed, the judges of the Industrial Court, to their eternal discredit, have been known to refuse a union advocate the right to state a case for the mitigation of costs or fines. [More…]
I know that the unions concerned which now owe the $38,000 will not pay the outstanding fines and I know that this Government is determined to cause a stoppage in industry in order to try to collect them. [More…]
The only offence alleged to have been committed by 1 union was that 12 of its members were absent from work on the day in question. [More…]
Let us forget for a moment that boilermakers and I are members of the one union, but at least I know a little bit about shipbuilding. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the maximum loan fixed by the New South Wales Credit Union Act for credit unions is $4,000 whereas the Government’s proposed legislation extending Home Savings Grants to credit unions stipulates that at least15 per cent of total lending by credit unions should be in housing loans of not less than $7,000. [More…]
(2) and (3)- The honourable member will be pleased to know that the maximum amount of a loan that may be made by a credit union in New South Wales has recently been raised to $5,000. [More…]
He will already be aware that, as the result of a Government-sponsored amendment during the passage through the Parliament of the legislation to which he has referred, the minimum amount of a loan by a credit union that may qualify as a prescribed housing loan’ is $5,000, not $7,000 as originally proposed. [More…]
The major trade union organisation in the Republic of Vietnam is the Vietnamese Confederation of Labour (Confederation Vietnamienne de Travail - C.V.T.). [More…]
is comprised of the following trade union federations: [More…]
also includes a number of national unions such as the Vietnamese Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union (1,700 members), the USAID Employees Union (2,000 members) and many smaller unions, including the Commercial Clerical Technical Employees Union, and various dockworkers’ and airline workers’ unions. [More…]
there are other, smaller groups of unions such as the Confederation of Vietnamese Workers’ Unions and the Vietnam Confederation of Industrial and Agricultural Workers. [More…]
Detailed records of arrests and imprisonment of trade unionists since 1956 are not available, although a small number of arrests related to trade union activities were noted in 1968. [More…]
I am not aware of any arrest of trade unionists as such in 1969 or 1970 [More…]
‘Affiliated’ centres which receive grants from State Governments through organisations such as the Kindergarten Union, all of which are affiliated to and accept the standards laid down by the Australian Pre-school Association. [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to proposed visits to Australia by the South African rugby union team in 1971 and the South African cricket team in 1971-72. [More…]
National Union of Australian University Students on 23 April 1970, in which it Ls stated that instructors at Canungra revealed incidents where troops drewlots to determine who would have the pleasure of disposing of 2 wounded Viet Cong discovered after battle, an officer paid his men a dollar for every enemy killed, and other associated attitudes were mentioned. [More…]
In Tasmania, pre-schools are conducted by the Education Department while in all other States they are staffed and administered by a Kindergarten Union or Association or, to varying extents, by local government authorities. [More…]
This simplified structure is identical to that adopted recently by the Universal Postal Union. [More…]
The effect of introducing the simplified Universal Postal Union structure will be to reduce the number of weight steps from 5 to 4, by combining the present steps of 8 oz to 12 oz and 12 oz to 16 oz. [More…]
Other registered newspapers and periodicals, including those published by professional, business, union, commercial, social, recreational and motoring organisations and associations will pay the following rates: [More…]
The Universal Postal Union Convent.on requires such special arrangements to be agreed to by the country of destination. [More…]
Regarding overseas mail, the Tokyo Congress of the Universal Postal Union in 1969 made a number of changes to the categories and tariff structure of the International Post which have been embodied in the attached schedule, including: [More…]
The relativity of the upper weight steps to the basic rates is fixed under the Universal Postal Union Convention. [More…]
Ltd. ex parte Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia (97 C.L.R at page 87) express the view that the system of registration governing the Constitution. [More…]
If sowhatsteps have been taken to amend the law in such a way as to eliminate the faulty effects of the existing law inrelation to the registration of rules of membership eligibility vis-a-vis union certificates of registration. [More…]
If not, has an employee, or a trade union ever been penalised for refusing to work overtime which would result in an employee’s working week exceeding the limit set by the l.L.O. [More…]
What was the number of industrial disputes due to an employer’s alleged victimisation of a union shop steward in each year since 1950. [More…]
On eight occasions on which the information was dismissed or withdrawn the Court awarded costs against informants; in four of these cases the informant was an employee and on four occasions the informant was a union. [More…]
I hope that his remarks in relation to the National Union of Australian University Students, it having made certain submissions to him about scholarships, and his indication that he will consider them later in the year, do. [More…]
I have received representations that a further increase in benefits is desirable, and have studied a detailed report on this matter prepared by the National Union of Australian University Students. [More…]
It is to the credit of all governments in Australia that they have given great support to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and international parliamentary conferences. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the decision of a meeting of members of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia held in Sydney on 28th April 1970 requesting continuity of employment of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority’s staff at prevailing rates of pay and conditions of employment after 1st July 1970. [More…]
Is there no general power in the Commonwealth Industrial Court to (a) restrain conduct that conflicts with the clear policy of the law as expressed in the case of Short v. Wellings against the partisan use of union funds and resources as a means of enabling office-holders to hold office against challenge from the rank and file or (b) restrain conduct that conflicts with section . [More…]
If a defect is apparent is there any merit in amending the Act to provide authority to the Court to restrain the wrongful use of union funds and resources of registered organisations and to restrain the kind of conduct prohibited by section 171 (3.) [More…]
The Opposition is going to oppose the Budget, but the trade union movement has decided that the Opposition is incapable of offering effective opposition and has decided to do so itself by taking direct strike action. [More…]
Before it can develop into a national strike, action will have to be taken by individuals at a personal level and by trade union leaders in individual trade unions. [More…]
How does an employer react when a trade union organiser puts a claim that there will be a stoppage unless the Government does something or unless the Government changes its Budget? [More…]
We have just seen a stoppage by one union because of confused claims as to what happened to a man in Greece. [More…]
The composition of the Senate provides a visible demonstration of the independence and autonomy of the States, together forming an integral part of the federal union. [More…]
1 believe our rights have already been impaired by the policies of the EEC in respect of both predatory dumping and the proliferation of special preferential deals with many other countries not really part of the Common Market or members of its customs union. [More…]
Adherence to the principle, laid down in the GATT, that neither the formation nor the enlargement of a customs union should increase barriers to the trade of third countries. [More…]
A photographer from the scientific branch of the police force was assigned to photograph a union march organised from Garema Place to Parliament House on Tuesday. [More…]
He was assigned to photograph an organised march by the unionists who were campaigning against rising costs. [More…]
1 am delighted to have the opportunity to explain to the honourable gentleman that, as he may not be aware, there are many responsible members of the trade union movement who have been substantially behind the repeated election of governments from this side of the House. [More…]
There are members of the trade union movement who in the past have seen fit to take action through the recognised legal processes of the conciliation and arbitration system in order to negotiate wage adjustments according to the criteria laid down by the Commission. [More…]
The question to which the Prime Minister replied a moment ago from the honourable member for Lilley indicated one field in which, unfortunately, there seems to be some sections of the trade union movement which are quite intent on denying the rights of the individual worker in a way which I am quite sure the responsible members of the trade union movement would abhor. [More…]
It was towards the restoration of responsibility in the trade union movement that my remarks at the Country Party conference at Griffith were directed. [More…]
by leave - I present the report of the Australian delegation to the 57th Interparliamentary Union Conference held in New Delhi from 30th October to 7th November 1969. [More…]
I remember that Professor Ambortsumian, a Russian, at that time was President of the International Astronomy Union. [More…]
Overseas they are unionists, just as Australian printers belong to the trade union movement. [More…]
There has been some extraordinary confusion in the trade union movement, in the Press and among the public as to what was called for. [More…]
There has been confusion among unions, among union leaders and as between the industrial wing of the Labor movement and the political wing of the Labor movement. [More…]
There has, I believe, been very real conflict between leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
My advice to unionists is to attend their union meetings, take responsible decisions and not to allow trade union leaders to use their position of power and influence to further their own political aims instead of the industrial aims of the members of the union. [More…]
The matter has been placed before the permanent members of the United Nations - before the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries. [More…]
They even persuaded a number of union secretaries to write to every member of Parliament. [More…]
One can only reply in this way to union secretaries who have written those letters: lt is rather surprising that men representing workers on rather humble wages because their awards do not provide for particularly high remuneration should say that the thing they wanted most was tax concessions. [More…]
Litters of letters from trade union officials from Mr Hawke down said that. [More…]
I refer to such people as the Secretary-Treasurer of the South Australian Branch of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, the Secretary-Treasurer of the South Australian Branch of the Postal Overseers Union, a couple of mail officers from the Adelaide mail exchange, and also, extremely importantly, the City Engineer and Planner of the City of Adelaide. [More…]
However, no increase would have been of any real or lasting benefit to the pensioner, to the lower income group or to the large family unless the Government was prepared to take strong measures to control the strike-happy, power-drunk Mr Hawke and the militant left wing union leadership who are the real enemies of the pensioner, the superannuitant, the lower income group and particularly the primary producer. [More…]
Alan Reid, perhaps the most experienced and most balanced of all of our political correspondents, drew attention to this gravest of all threats to our freedom in an excellent article in the ‘Sunday Telegraph’ of 16th August last, when he gave the irrefutable facts concerning a direction to the building workers’ union to step up the destruction of private property. [More…]
Alan Reid’s report, and the leading article in the same newspaper, drew attention to the fact that decent trade unionists were being misled and duped by Communist leaders in an attempt to turn unionists into destructive political propagandists, and to incite them to commit offences against the law. [More…]
The Federal Government should have the courage to introduce legislation to compel all trade union elections to be conducted by a compulsory secret ballot under the supervision of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
The strike called by Mr Hawke and the Leader of the Opposition against the Budget would have received very little support if the decision to strike had been made by the rank and file members of the unions. [More…]
A compulsory secret ballot in all union elections would eliminate almost completely the extreme left wing and the Communist dictatorship which have seized power. [More…]
I am a strong believer in trade unions and the need for responsible leadership. [More…]
No-one will ever convince me that many employers would not exploit the employee if he were not protected by a strong union. [More…]
I repeat that I am in support of strong unions representative of the rank and file members. [More…]
But today, because of apathy and disgust with the present leadership of these unions, less than 51% of eligible workers belong to a trade union. [More…]
Any truthful union member will agree that fewer than 10% of financial members ever attend meetings or participate in the election of union leaders. [More…]
No matter who it is - be it the Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) or any other member of this Parliament, the leader of a union or a parson - if he breaks the laws of this country we must take firm action against him. [More…]
The honourable member for Boothby referred to the Government’s defence programme in recent years and to the grave problem of our survival in a hostile environment which bids fair in the next decade or so to become more sensitive to the intrusion of naval forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union is showing concern about the importation of potatoes from New Zealand. [More…]
His prime objective is to destroy this elected government of the people by using every device available - by using Mr Hawke and the left wing of the trade union movement and by using strike action for political purposes. [More…]
I am told that inciting the unions to strike against the Budget cost the workers of this country about $5m. [More…]
It was Lenin’s technique in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The vast majority of people are responsible citizens, as are the average trade unionists. [More…]
We have listened in this place this week to the vilification of one of the best men in the trade union movement. [More…]
All I want to say is that the trade union movement is fortunate that it has as the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions a person of the calibre of Bob Hawke. [More…]
Some people wonder why trade unions are on the move today, why they are agitating and striking for more money. [More…]
The low level of unemployment in what is virtually a full employment economy has created a situation in which the trade union movement can hold the gun at the employers’ heads. [More…]
But I wonder whether or not our definition of what is a just cause is being eroded by examples of irresponsible unionism. [More…]
This is an indication of how at times unions make gains for the members of their organisations at the expense of the general community. [More…]
It is no use employers complaining that the unions are getting the better of them if they are not prepared to stand firm. [More…]
We all realise that just as members of Parliament have to face elections so do union officials. [More…]
But every time that a union wins an unjust increase it is the little man and the pensioners who get screwed right into the ground. [More…]
It is true also that at the time of the ‘Noongah’ inquiry the Merchant Service Guild and the Seamen’s Union of Australia each briefed counsel to appear before the inquiry to act on behalf of members of the Guild and the Seamen’s Union respectively. [More…]
The judgment handed down by his honour Mr Justice Spicer was in the form to which the Leader of the Opposition has referred and in consequence both the Guild and the Seamen’s Union have made application to the Government for a consideration of whether there should be a reimbursement of the costs incurred by both the Guild and the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
It is for these reasons that the Government is giving urgent consideration to the application which was made by the Guild and the Union. [More…]
When I am in a position to make an announcement in reply to both the Guild and the Union I will do so. [More…]
This new source of energy is providing a significant and increasing portion of the energy needs of countries such as Great Britain, the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, France and Germany and also, in our own area, India, Japan and other countries. [More…]
If I make a criticism of the Government it is that, when there is a realistic controller of a union who realises the arguments both for and against industrial action, who is prepared to discuss the problems of his workers or unionists and who suggests that on the penal clauses, for example, or some other issue something needs to be done, there is a tendency in government to say: ‘After all, that is a conservative union; therefore we do not need to worry much about it’. [More…]
It is not until a left wing or militant union comes into the picture and creates a general strike or a stoppage that the Government or the employers find that they can meet the demands or do meet the demands. [More…]
This amounts to only one thing: The conservative unionist receives no support from the rank and file because his workers or his mates say to him: ‘You did not gain it for us; it took the pro-Com, the militant, or whatever it may be, to bring about the desired result’. [More…]
The Seamens’ Union said: ‘Right, we will support you; let us go out on strike’. [More…]
The 3 governments concerned - that is, the Governments of Israel, the United Arab Republic and Jordan - have all agreed with an initiative taken by the United States Government, supported by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, that a cease fire and peace negotiations should be agreed to in the Middle East. [More…]
He has agreed to act to see whether he can achieve the purposes of the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other United Nations countries. [More…]
Is he aware that a deputation from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry is to meet members of the Government and Opposition parties to permit the delegates to submit their views about the treatment of Jews within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
I understand that the subject to be discussed will be discrimination practised against people of a particular religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I would like to refer to the comments made by members of the Australian Labor Party and some trade union leaders - I say some because there were many decent, sensible, intelligent union men who did not go on strike last Tuesday - in support of the strike called by the Australian Council of Trade Unions as a protest against the Budget. [More…]
I hope that, in the broader sphere of our international policy, we will give serious consideration to participation in the Asian Parliamentarians Union. [More…]
I know that a number of conferences are held but the meetings of the Asian Parliamentarians Union are at the parliamentarian level. [More…]
This is the effect of militant trade unionism. [More…]
Every rural industry is in trouble because of the policies pursued by the party to which the honourable member for Riverina belongs and because of militant trade union policy. [More…]
Unions claim that workers in Australia have a right to strike, but strikes create an enormous cost to rural industry. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina belongs to the same party as the honourable member opposite who is interjecting - a party which encourages militancy in the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) - a pretty savage debater; he will probably enter the chamber soon to attack mt verbally - has suddenly become aware of the situation after his long career of interference with the trade unions; a long career of causing trouble in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It is appointed by the Trade Unions Defence Council. [More…]
If we look at the Trade Unions Defence Council we see that it is composed of activists - I think this is what they are called - who run the trade unions from the platform at trade union meetings. [More…]
Laurie Short, who is a pretty good authority, has said that you can run a meeting of a trade union from the platform. [More…]
The Trade Union Defence Council in Victoria, which is made up of Paisleyites - that is a new term - Muscovites and Maoists, can get a special executive elected. [More…]
He referred to the troubles in the rural industries and the high costs which, of course, have resulted from the activities of militant unions which have been striking day after day. [More…]
If a union strikes and gets a wage increase of 10 per cent or I2i per cent then its members are that much better off except for the fact that another union will strike. [More…]
Party and the trade unions themselves are now adopting this mantle. [More…]
Mr Hawke gets tremendous publicity for his trade union meetings which, as I mentioned earlier, are run from the top table. [More…]
The men in the trade union hall and those members who are not present would not vote for this kind of radical militancy because they know that the minute a Labor Government gains power Australia will be in an impossible situation. [More…]
On the other hand he referred to the situation in the trade union movement - more particularly the situation in the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
However, the Opposition, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, and so many others would have the situation the other way. [More…]
It is real evidence that there is no concern on the total front of the Labor Party, and certainly there is no concern on the total front of the trade union movement, for rural industries in their great fight for survival. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that the secretary of Australia’s largest trade union, the Australian Workers Union, has called upon his members not to work the hours recently awarded by an arbitration court decision, nor to accept some rates of pay awarded by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
A meeting of the union took place at the end of July. [More…]
It went further to say that, if any action was taken against any of its members for complying with the instruction of the union, it would declare black the property concerned. [More…]
So, a very real conflict exists between the Commission’s decision which was given as a result of an application made to it by the union and the decision of the union not to accept the decision and therefore instructing its members to act in the way it did and going further to declare a willingness to impose a black ban. [More…]
We would need to wait time to see whether or not the members of the union do do what they are advised to do and, if they do, what would be the response of the employers and then what would happen with the black ban. [More…]
I should mention to the honourable member that, as I remember the decision of the Commission, it pointed out that of approximately 30,000 employees in the industry only about 1,150 - again I test my recollection - are members of the union. [More…]
So, whether or not the activities of the union will be effective remains to be seen. [More…]
In Labor politics, no union is so unnatural that it is impossible. [More…]
The whole conception of doing less work for more pay currently advocated by left wing union leaders eventually will price Australis out of many markets and lead this country away from the great position it could attain, to become a discontented, internationally useless mediocrity. [More…]
He is one of Australia’s most distinguished trade, unionists and a man who has been chosen to lead one of the world’s greatest and most disciplined trade union movements. [More…]
If there is any better demonstration of the solidarity of the trade union movement in Australia than the stoppage of the parliamentary staff, I do not know what it is. [More…]
Yet honourable members opposite try to put across to the nation this nonsense that nobody took any notice of the call by the trade union movement. [More…]
On 21st August when asking the Prime Minister a question regarding the photographing of pensioner deputations by this Government’s secret police, I prefaced my question by reference to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia exactly 2 years previously. [More…]
Union. [More…]
I suggest that it would be better for Australia to follow the example of those American leaders than of the Soviet Union and those countries which give lip service to law and order. [More…]
If Dick is not allowed to come here because he might be, as reported in the Press and as the National Union of University Students has said - whether they are right or wrong, God knows, I do not - coming out here for the Moratorium Cam paign I say that he should be banned. [More…]
As I have only a couple of minutes left I just want to referto the remarks made by the Leader of the Opposition in relation to social conduct, law and order and the trade union movement; these remarks were really conspicuous by their absence. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service and the Treasurer (Mr Bury) have called for restraint by the trade union movement. [More…]
It is quite fatuous for members of the Government to call on the trade union movement for restraint. [More…]
What we need is for the trade union movement to be guaranteed a reasonable and just proportion of any increase in productivity. [More…]
No wonder that Mr Hawke and other leaders of the trade union movement have looked slightly askance at the Productivity Council and its deliberations last week. [More…]
If it wants to interest the trade union movement in this, a very hard look must be had at the question of giving a just proportion of reward to those who supply industry with their labour. [More…]
Firstly, concerning the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, there is ample evidence around the world of aggressive intent to seize an advantage wherever possible, to exert sustained pressures, and amass an even mightier military power. [More…]
Japan’s changing relations with the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and South East Asian countries probably will have dramatic influences before long. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party offered the implausible nuclear-free zone as policy and criticised President Kennedy’s stand against the attempt of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to put missiles on Cuba. [More…]
This is not always the case with some other Western donors,It is certainly not the case with the Soviet Union and the other Communist countries, whose aid announcements are ludicrously short of the actual transfer of resources, short by more than 50 per cent. [More…]
As a union man, I do not wish to have anybody work in what ought to be his or her meal break. [More…]
The great union leader of the past is advocating a system whereby we do not even have meals. [More…]
The stevedoring branch of the North Australian Workers Union has, over a period of time, proceeded with go-slow tactics, limitations on work and, at times, strikes. [More…]
But the attitude to protests and the attitude to dissension ought to be the attitude to these matters of responsible union secretaries such as exist, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh knows, in the Australian Workers Union, for example, in certain States. [More…]
The attitude to strikers by responsible union secretaries consists of several parts. [More…]
We’ve got three Communist parties in Australia and they’ve subverted the trade union movement, churches, universities and, I’m afraid, some of the Press. [More…]
Honourable members opposite stand up in this place and attack the trade union movement. [More…]
I am falling further and further behind as I try to keep up with letters from union secretaries and from people who are interested in the affairs of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
This is because these unfortunate males have not formed themselves into a union or pressure group to get justice and if anything screams for justice it is the situation of these unfortunates who, probably through a desire not to disgrace their children, did not contest the divorce petition, perhaps because they were not in a position to pay the exorbitant legal costs charged in divorce cases. [More…]
Indeed, in the misguided belief that Australia’s defences were best guarded by having American troops held down indefinitely on the Asian mainland, the Australian government has helped to distort America’s own foreign policy, particularly her efforts to achieve a detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The cases were (a) Amalgamated Postal Workers Union ex parte P. P. Lowe and J. W. Downing and (b) the Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) ex parte J. J. [More…]
See the judgment of the High Court in The Queen v. Dunlop Rubber Australia Limited, ex parte Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia (97 C.L.R., 71). [More…]
I am advised that prior to the decision of the High Court referred to in (a) above, a succession of changes to the eligibility and industry rules of the Australian Workers Union produced that effect. [More…]
That is why, at a recent Asian Parliamentarians’ Union meeting in Taipei, which I attended as an observer for Australia, they passed the following resolution: [More…]
Does the Government honestly think that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regrets the presence of American troops in Vietnam? [More…]
There is, of course, a very marked division between the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and the foreign policy of China. [More…]
The Soviet Union now, as a very great power following in every respect and in every detail the foreign policies of the Czars, deals with the respectable nationalist governments - the Nassers and others - and hopes to spread its power. [More…]
I do not believe that any Indian Ocean country has given the Soviet Union bases or any permanent position such as that. [More…]
There is a tacit agreement between the United States and Russia that if the United States does not blockade the port of Haiphong the Soviet Union will not provide certain weapons to the North Vietnamese. [More…]
The purposes of the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia were evil and anti-freedom; but its action was carried through swiftly and effectively, and the minds of men have forgotten it. [More…]
The Soviet Union has made capital from India’s fear of China and the mutual distrust between India and Pakistan. [More…]
The Opposition’s variegated attitude towards foreign affairs is determined by the powerful union bosses who inform members, including the Leader of the Opposition, what the policy will be. [More…]
This week in New South Wales one of the most distinguished members of the rugby union fraternity, Mr Brian Palmer, a former coach of the Australian team, came out in opposition to the tour. [More…]
This is significant because this man is held in high esteem by the rugby union community. [More…]
He is a man in his early 70s and he is a life member of the New South Wales Rugby Union. [More…]
Brian Palmer would be known to anybody who follows rugby union. [More…]
Quite a number of other people who oppose the tour have tried to create dialogue and I understand that the rugby union organisation is calling a special meeting to discuss the matter. [More…]
I played rugby union, cricket, squash, golf and other sports. [More…]
I do not want to see the great game of rugby union spoiled by demonstrations of this nature. [More…]
I feel that the rugby union officials should take the opportunity to talk with those who have expressed opposition. [More…]
More and more rugby union players are expressing their opposition to the tour taking place. [More…]
Rugby union is a game for people who belong to the establishment; it is not a game for the general working class, as is rugby league and that funny game they play in Victoria. [More…]
We have all toured South Africa with a Wallaby rugby union team. [More…]
The President of the Cape Coloured Rugby Union, in 1969 expressed the desire of his nonwhite union to play against Australia. [More…]
What an employer can do in response to a demand by a union in such circumstances I do not know. [More…]
To resort to strike action for political purposes is a gross misuse of industrial power and is contrary to the institutionalised status of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
It concerns a recent dispute in Queensland wherein the Queensland Colliery Employees Union contested the right of the Australian Workers Union to cover workers engaged on a coalfield. [More…]
Is it correct that the Australian Workers Union in Queenland and New South Wales covers many occupations and is constantly under attack by left wing unions in demarcation disputes? [More…]
Will the Minister therefore do all in bis power to preserve the right of workers to be covered by the unions they respect and to ensure that unions do not adopt attitudes designed merely to destroy the Australian Workers Union in certain States, such attitudes having been exemplified over a number of years by the shadow Minister for Labour, the honourable member for Hindmarsh? [More…]
There is a demarcation dispute at present in Queensland in which the members of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union and the Australian Workers Union are concerned. [More…]
Demarcation disputes are the vehicle for a great deal of inter-union internecine struggles but I do not think it would help if I made any comments on it at the moment. [More…]
This matter has to be resolved between the parties and I think that the Australian Workers Union has shown in the past a capacity to look after its own interests notwithstanding what difficulties may be presented to it by the honourable member for Hindmarsh. [More…]
In Eastern Europe - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia - and also in Egypt, Pakistan and India there is perhaps still a market for wool. [More…]
We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of average weekly male earnings, plus supplementary assistance in accordance with Australian Council of Trade Union policy and by so doing give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
I refer to the ‘Australian Worker’, the official organ of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Another trade union journal is the ‘Printing Trades Journal’, which is a monthly publication with a circulation of 41,300. [More…]
The ‘ETU News’, which is the journal of the Electrical Trades Union, is a monthly publication with a total circulation of 58,970. [More…]
The gentlemen of the Press may be interested in the ‘Journalist’, which is the organ of their trade union. [More…]
Why should trade union journals be used to subsidise religious and charitable publications, which attract a much lesser rate? [More…]
It contains details of business, Press, staff and union publications and lists literally thousands of publications that circulate in Austrafia that are of particular interest often to quite small groups but which nevertheless are important as a means of communication in professional, union, cultural and other sorts of bodies. [More…]
Because of the increases in postage charges union subscriptions will increase. [More…]
However, subscriptions paid to unions are allowed as tax deductions and some of the increase therefore is borne by the revenue. [More…]
Let us contemplate what this increase means to the Australian Workers Union, which I have referred to before. [More…]
If this union still intends to publish its journal the cost to it will be another $23,000. [More…]
Last January, President Johnson endorsed that recommendation in his State of the Union message. [More…]
J have found myself completely humilitated when union deputations called on me. [More…]
From discussions with unions associated with the Post Office it seems that all but one support the view that the Postmaster-General’s Department should be divorced from the Public Service Board and made a separate department controlled by a public corporation. [More…]
The union that objects is concerned with its lines of promotion in the Public Service, which is important to that union. [More…]
The other unions consider that if the proposed reform took place there would be better service to the community and industrial relations would improve. [More…]
Every automobile club, every trade union or association, every religious organisation and every sporting body will be hit with increased postal charges on their information books. [More…]
I feel that this would be of advantage to the trade union movement. [More…]
One factor to be considered in this regard is the calling of a conference between trade union leaders, manufacturers, big business interests and the Government. [More…]
The essential value of planning, in contrast with the old or contemporary laissez faire, and in contrast with the envisaged ruling elite of big business managers and big public servants, with a few big trade union leaders in attendance at cocktail parties, is that it can provide a means for small people to have a say in the making of decisions, which either they have never had, or now have lost. [More…]
Are we beginning a year of efficiency when the year 1970 began with predictions of war between employers and unions because the arbitrary system of arbitration has broken down and its ignorance of facts and its edicts will no longer be accepted? [More…]
It is reported that Canada and the Soviet Union are to engage in negotiations later this month in relation to Soviet fishing operations in the high seas adjacent to the west coast of Canada. [More…]
1 do not expect the Union to be dissolved but I do expect that it shall cease to be divided. [More…]
Government members have condemned the Australian Council of Trade Unions and trade unions generally for rises in costs and for the resultant shortcomings in the primary industries but they know as well as I do. [More…]
that the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd board of 5 or 6 men created the higher cost factor for primary industries and not the trade union movement. [More…]
A recent Queensland Teachers Union survey established that 44 per cent of eighth grade classes in that State exceeded 35 pupils. [More…]
However, the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 provided for the government of both Territories in an administrative union with the title of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
America met in Russia the then head of the Soviet Union- [More…]
In the first place Blue Cross and government together are exhorting the individual institutions which take their money ‘to think on a community-wide basis in planning their future’, and the exhortations are backed by an increasing use of legislation which already exists in all 50 States of the Union, giving the civil power the right to approve or prohibit new medical buildings. [More…]
We have seen the union of that philosophy, its application and its leadership with respect to the recent Moratorium. [More…]
It is dependent upon their union and their working towards the same end and at the same time working with the peace movement in Australia. [More…]
The Merchant Service Guild of Australia’, on 18 February 1970, and on 26 March 1970 the Seamen’s Union of Australia an behalf of the following maritime unions: [More…]
Did any discussions take place at the recent conference between the Commonwealth, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the National Employers Policy Committee as to whether an accredited job representative should be granted the necessary time off without loss of pay to (a) attend the enrolment of employees eligible to become members of his union (b) communicate with the full-time officials of his organisation whenever such communication becomes necessary during working hours (c) discuss grievances with fellow employees on the job during working hours and (d) communicate and discuss complaints with management during working hours. [More…]
If so, will he consider amending the Act in such a way as to prohibit the dismissal of an accredited job representative for any reason which may be related to his union position, with the provision that where a dismissal of a job representative takes place, the onus should be on the employer to prove that the dismissal was not directly or indirectly due to his activities as a job representative. [More…]
It is essential that employer and union representatives conduct their relationships with one another in a responsible fashion. [More…]
The sincerity of the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) is notorious not only in this House but also among the factions of his Party and indeed in his own union. [More…]
We now have an Opposition revealed in all its facets - the trade union section some months ago calling for mutiny in the field; its left wing, represented by the honourable member for Lalor, and now its Leader and its Deputy Leader and his heir apparent all united in support of actions giving aid and comfort to our enemies. [More…]
Has the attention of the right hon.urable gentleman been drawn to the resolution which was carried unanimously at a recent meeting of the Asian Parliamentarians Union, at which nearly all the freely elected governments in the vicinity of South Vietnam were represented, opposing any reduction of United States or United Nations defence forces in the Asian and Pacific region unless carried out with prior consultation with the governments concerned and planned so as not to impair regional or national defence capabilities? [More…]
Were they paid for their labours and if so are they members of the appropriate union covering the calling of a model? [More…]
The Universal Postal Union Convention requires that such special arrangements should be agreed to by the country of destination. [More…]
The Secretary of the Building Workers Union in Western Australia has pointed out that up to the end of June 152 tradesmen had either left the industry for other States or were working in other employment. [More…]
Abschol the National Union of University Students, many university people, trade unions, Aboriginal rights organisations and of course many individuals have taken an interest in them. [More…]
the Aboriginals - and then by raising the Union Jack. [More…]
Union leaders in that time have been demanding a greater share of the increased productivity which technological advance has already made possible. [More…]
Many union leaders have in return offered to co-operate with management further to increase productivity, provided labour shares in the benefits. [More…]
Yet not one union barrister has been appointed to a Presidential position on the Commission in the 21 years the Government has held office. [More…]
The Government had no authority from Parliament to oppose the Australian Council of Trade Union’s annual leave case. [More…]
His action caused such apprehension within the trade union movement that the President of the ACTU, Mr Bob Hawke, felt constrained to publicly rebuke the Prime Minister for commenting on cases which were awaiting judgment. [More…]
Provided an agreement has been approved by a secret ballot of the unionists affected by it, no union should be justified in striking against any of its agreed provisions. [More…]
Under a Labor government penalties for strike action against wages and conditions arbitrarily imposed upon unions will be repealed. [More…]
To secure the benefit of such an agreement, employers will be forced to make concessions to unions which would not be available from the Commission. [More…]
A better share of industry’s prosperity will be the union’s inducement to keep the peace. [More…]
The Industrial Court would then have to ensure that union officials and union policy remained under the effective control of the membership. [More…]
We saw a blow-up with the Tramway Employees Union case in which there were mass stoppages throughout Australia against the penal clauses. [More…]
Another aspect which I think is responsible for the unions and the employee organisations losing faith in the system is the fact that in most cases - this happened in the national wage case, in the total wage case and in the oil industry dispute where the profitability of industry came in - we have seen the Federal Government come in on the side of the employers or come in and put forward the same case as is presented by the employers. [More…]
of employees who work in country towns, where possibly union organisations are hot so strong. [More…]
I know from my personal experience that where small groups of employees are working in isolated areas they usually work under far ‘less favourable conditions than those laid down in the award unless they are visited by a union official. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago an official of the Electrical Trades Union of : Australia visited Darwin and on his return he mentioned quite a few of the things that he had found. [More…]
Another matter which is of importance in country areas- is the possibility of intimidation in cases where an employee feels that he would like to join a union. [More…]
I have found on many occasions that an employee has been told that if he joins a union he .will be sacked. [More…]
One dispute which I recall concerned a man who refused to join a union because of his reigious beliefs. [More…]
Although other members of the same religious organisation had joined the union, the dispute was allowed to go on for 3 or 4 weeks, during which time work stopped. [More…]
Because of the attitude of the company to union officials on the job, because it had them escorted from the site and refused to allow them to interview new employees coming on. [More…]
In one dispute my own union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, was fined a few thousand dollars because it refused to revoke a democratic decision to limit overtime to 12 hours. [More…]
Because its members would not exceed 12 hours the union was hauled before the court. [More…]
The Professional Engineers Union did go to a full bench, and that bench made full inquiry, listened to all the arguments and then delivered a decision. [More…]
But I remind him and all honourable members that not a single complaint has been lodged by any union - certainly not by the Australian Council of Trade Unions - about any appointment that has been made. [More…]
A number of unionists have been appointed to the Commission as arbitration commissioners, and I am glad to say that they are very highly respected members of the Commission. [More…]
Is it a fact that the youth in Australia do not appear to be showing an interest in engineering as a career to the same extent as in most other comparable countries, and that male engineers qualifying per year as a percentage of the relevant male age group is (a) Australia 1.6, (b) Japan 3.1 and (c) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 5.6. [More…]
It has also been accepted by the trade union movement in terms of joining the trade union movement. [More…]
The difficulty that anybody has with conscientious objection, whether it be to national service or to union membership, is to establish a means of determining the sincerity with which the belief is held. [More…]
So far as the unions are concerned there is no clear statement of the way it should be determined. [More…]
The unions determine the issue ad hoc on individual occasions. [More…]
Looking at the record it seems that the determination of the unions depends very much on who is making the claim and on that occasion who is to determine the claim. [More…]
There are 3 things which clearly emerge in relation to the attitude of unions to conscientious objection held by a person to joining a union. [More…]
The first is that it differs very greatly from union to union. [More…]
The second thing is that no union accepts a man’s claim to be a conscientious objector merely because he says he has a conscientious objection. [More…]
The unions insist that the issue be tested and they in fact do the testing. [More…]
The third thing which is abundantly clear is that unions do not accept a selective conscientious objection to the joining of any particular union. [More…]
This agreement was negotiated with the Bougainville Mine Workers’ Union which represents the indigenous workers on the Bougainville project. [More…]
In the case of the agreement between Bougainville Copper Ply Ltd and the Bougainville Mine Workers’ Union the parlies were called upon to negotiate under the Ordinance and the resulting agreement is currently under consideration by the Industrial Registrar for registration as an industrial award. [More…]
This question must be judged against the recent background of the activities of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, particularly its naval operations in the seas and oceans of the world, including the Mediterranean Sea; the difficulty that has been experienced with the negotiations amongst the 4 powers over West Berlin; the problems of the conclusion of the strategic arms limitation talks; and now a development which I believe is as bad as any of those, the movement of SAM1, 2 and 3 sites into the Canal zone. [More…]
The truth is, of course, that Communists do get themselves into important union positions in Australia. [More…]
They gel themselves into these positions by assiduously applying themselves to union work, and having attained office they then use their influence, power and position to serve their political purposes, and too often they drag by the nose unsuspecting Australian Labor Party members. [More…]
The Universal Postal Union determines the rate of charge by overseas airlines. [More…]
The Soviet Union, with massive support from the Warsaw Pact, is endeavouring to secure its position in [More…]
The trade union movement and members on this side of the House for years have asked that the cost of travel from home to work should be acceptable as an income tax deduction. [More…]
Essentially, it is a challenge to the professional integrity of Mr J. R. Wilson, a senior lecturer at the Sydney University, who has been appointed to undertake the cost benefit analysis which was announced some months ago and, by inference also, it is a challenge to the integrity and the judgment of the distinguished academics, bankers, industrialists and trade union officials who constitute the membership of the Commonwealth Immigration Planning Council which recommended the study and agreed to Mr Wilson’s appointment. [More…]
I am afraid I do not command the influence which is necessary to give the publicity to the unions’ attitudes to conscientious objectors that the public media give in the other area. [More…]
However, I think it is worth reiterating that the unions do not accept a person’s claim to be a conscientious objector merely because he makes the claim. [More…]
Secondly, the unions do not recognise selective conscientious objection. [More…]
I think I should add that I have heard union spokesmen say that their attitude to conscientious objectors is that if they want to be conscientious objectors they should forgo the benefits which have been achieved by trade unionism. [More…]
Tonight in the South Australian Parliament a censure motion will, I believe, have been moved against the South Australian Labor Government’s Minister for Roads and Transport over departmental letters apparently signed by him threatening dismissal of government employees who refuse to join a union. [More…]
According to the Press Mt Hall said that a departmental letter threatened some Government employees with dismissal if they refused to join an appropriate union. [More…]
What about those who, as a matter of conscience, are unable to join a union? [More…]
Surely to be consistent the Labor Party must make an exception in the case of conscientious objectors to unionism. [More…]
But as we see from the letters reportedly sent out by the Minister in the South Australian Labor Government, such is not the case Surely if exemption is to be granted to people who have a conscientious objection to fighting in a particular war, to be consistent we must agree to the proposition that anyone who has a conscientious objection to joining a union should also be exempt. [More…]
Blackburn, Victoria, who had gone to Wodonga to take a job with Lamson Paragon Printers, was sacked from that job because, due to pressure from the unions on that firm, the firm has adopted a closed shop policy against anyone who is not a union member. [More…]
Peter Hocking had conscientious objection based on religious grounds against joining a union and believed that according to his interpretation the teaching of the scriptures would not allow him to do so. [More…]
When approached by shop stewards, he explained that as a believer in the Lord Jesus and governed by the Word of God he had a conscience about joining the union and being party to its activities and outlook. [More…]
No matter what the honourable member for Sydney thinks about this lad’s religious beliefs it is a fact that he had a genuine conscientious objection to joining a union, based on religious grounds. [More…]
The boy’s father spoke to the Assistant Secretary of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union and got nowhere. [More…]
But on Monday Peter Hocking lost his job for no other reason than his conscientious objection on religious grounds to joining a union. [More…]
How hypocritical does it make the cries of the Opposition for the rights of conscientious objectors against particular laws when they raise no cry of protest for the rights of conscientious objectors to joining a union. [More…]
That a person who is prevented from being a member of a union on the ground of conscientious beliefs be able to be engaged under the Award, and if already employed not to be dismissed, injured in his employment, or deterred in his position by reason of his circumstances relating to his conscience. [More…]
Several weeks ago in Tasmania there was a case of certain men in, I think, Burnie, who for certain reasons, wished not to join a union. [More…]
I believe that Lamson Paragon Printers and the Printing and Kindred Industries Union - I know that members of the Opposition who are interjecting do not like this, Mr Deputy Speaker - stand indicted for their actions. [More…]
The first was a letter to his own Department, the Highways Department, saying that in order to avoid the difficulties of employing non-unionists and in order to avoid the difficulty of direct contact in each instance with people who may or may not be unionists, he would like to arrange to appoint a liaison officer - and I notice that the Leader of the Opposition in South Australia referred to this officer as a political commissar, with some merit, 1 thought - whom unionists can contact should difficulties arise. [More…]
The next sentence is literally, I think, correct, lt is: lt is my intention that such an officer would contact the employee concerned and offer him’ the necessary motivation lo join the union by way of ultimatum. [More…]
The principle of obligatory unionism contrasts strongly with the principle enunciated by the Federal Opposition Leader (Mr Whitlam) when recently he counselled national servicemen to refuse to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
The analogy between compulsory unionism and compulsory military service is close. [More…]
In the unions membership is not only to be mandatory, but once a man is enrolled he is to be tied to union decisions. [More…]
They stand in this chamber and say that a kid who is told by an employer that he must join a union or else, must be considered to have a conscientious belief. [More…]
Yet the honourable member stands in this chamber and speaks against trade unions. [More…]
He is always talking about Communists and labels the particular trade union that he used as a Communist dominated organisation. [More…]
But when it suits his business purposes, the honourable member for Boothby permits the trade union to be used. [More…]
As far as compulsory trade unionism is concerned, there is Government legislation on the books in this House which in fact says that in some industries if a person is not a member of an appropriate trade union that person does not work. [More…]
Did Australia abstain from voting on United Nations resolution 2602A which appeals to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Labour and National Service, concerns a constituent of mine who holds a certificate under section 47 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act saying that he has satisfied the Industrial Registrar that his conscientious beliefs do not allow him to be a member of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, ls the Minister aware that this man has recently been sacked - obviously for not belonging to a union? [More…]
Is it not incongruous that certain people appear to deny the right of a worker to have conscientious beliefs against joining a union but believe that he has every right to hold conscientious beliefs against serving in the military forces of his nation? [More…]
The employer has what is called a closed shop; that is, he will not employ anybody who is not a member of a union. [More…]
In the meantime an officer of my Department had contacted the firm and asked it not to dismiss him, and was able to say to the firm that the Department felt perfectly confident that there would be no industrial dispute because it had had discussions with the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
I think, the union and the employers association - that is, the Printing and Allied Trades Employers Association - the company did decide that it would dismiss him. [More…]
Many of the regulations intrude into the working conditions of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
However, in the implementation of these regulations there is no consultation with this union. [More…]
So far as the Union is concerned, lost licences mean lost time and lost wages. [More…]
They were unanimous in saying that the problem was one of management, of union attitudes and of seasonal and structural problems. [More…]
Bedford Industries was approached initially by the State Secretary of the furniture trade union in South Australia to accept this boy as an apprentice as both the boy’s parents and the trade union had not succeeded in getting him accepted into the furniture trade because of his epilepsy. [More…]
In fact, the Hospital Employees Union has warned on more than one occasion that several buildings at Wolston Park, in fact, are fire traps and could cause a serious tragedy if a fire were to start. [More…]
2 Branch of the Hospitals Employees Union in Victoria was very concerned primarily, I suppose, for the safety of bis own members and also because of the deplorable conditions under which they had to work. [More…]
I think the concern shown by the secretary of the union is to be commended. [More…]
Normally, as the secretary of a trade union he ought to be concerned only with the wages and working conditions of his members, but he and the members of his union have shown, great compassion for people who are quite incapable of coping with the problems of the world around them, people who are incapable of putting a case to this Parliament except through people who are elected to sit here. [More…]
The total of 190 tons is estimated to be very close to the current gold output of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Nations both the United States and the Soviet Union have examined this matter very closely and have suggested a treaty, which has not yet been approved, to control off-shore submarine aggression. [More…]
As the Speaker of the House said at the International Parliamentary Union Symposium on Parliament and the Mass Media: In a democracy, governments should have no fear of the truth’. [More…]
If we look at the position we find that to the end of 1969, outside of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics respecting which we have no complete records, there were 91 reactors with an overall installed capacity of 13,833 megawatts of electric power. [More…]
The third visit involved one person as an instructor in carrier and line transmission at the International Telecommunication Union training school. [More…]
Through arrangements paid for by the International Telecommunication Union Australia has sent technical advisers to Venezuela to implement the programme and to provide back-up information from Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union was showing an interest. [More…]
In the last few weeks the Malaysian Government, in pressing for accommodatios with China - Mainland or Communist, depending on whether or not wheat is being sold to it, as far as the Aus tralian Country Party is concerned - and the neutralisation of South East Asia, guaranteed by the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China, has shown a sanity and a maturity which is sadly lacking in this Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
It is an attitude which has been forced upon it by the trade union movement and particularly by the powerful trade union muscle men who want to see the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission destroyed. [More…]
It is conducive to industrial anarchy because it recognises the strength of union leaders in positions of power and authority in those areas where the withdrawal of goods and services from the community or industry would be extreme for those persons. [More…]
What I mean by industrial muscle men are the union leadern possessed of that power. [More…]
The ALP is both opportunistic and submissive to the power of union officers of whatever Party. [More…]
It is opportunistic because it wants to attract the support of people with voting power in the ALP organisation and in the unions. [More…]
The ALP is submissive because it allows itself to be dominated by trade unions on whom it relies for support. [More…]
It knows full well that the wage drift goes to the powerful unions and that 85 per cent of the community - the clerks, the carpet layers, the architrave builders and these sorts of people - do not have industrial power. [More…]
The major capacity in a money sense as distinct from a real sense would be distributed among the powerful unions. [More…]
But, periodically, we will find that the powerful trade union leader wants to strike the Commission down. [More…]
People on the other side of the House, influenced by the power of trade union leaders, must support them. [More…]
The Opposition is bound by dominant union leaders. [More…]
The dominant union leaders want to go outside that. [More…]
If it is robbed of its probity, it is reasonable for the union leaders to say: ‘We will go direct’. [More…]
What has been happening in this industrial field is that that which the powerful union leaders want to destroy - that is, the Commission - they first rob of its probity. [More…]
In office, the Australian Labor Party would erode the Commission to the benefit of the musclemen and the powerful unions and to the disadvantage of 85 per cent of the workers. [More…]
No Minister will accept that, especially when honourable gentlemen on the other side of the House, trade union leaders and employer’s representatives can say what they want to say from their own points of view. [More…]
The Prime Minister said at the annual dinner of the Chamber of Manufactures that if Australia was to achieve the destiny within its reach there was a heavy responsibility on the Government, trade union leaders and the Arbitration Court. [More…]
Not only is it important to have the evidence of the unions and the employees but it is also essential to have the evidence of the employers because the decision travels down the line and will affect many people. [More…]
One union applied to the court to have a prosperity loading put on the wool industry because wool was then 1 per lb. [More…]
Is there any voice at the moment from the union for this to be reduced because wool is now 20c per lb? [More…]
In this age of television how often do we see a union leader putting forward a case for his union in relation to this subject? [More…]
It is probably the right of a union leader to express his opinion on these matters. [More…]
Is it not also right that other unions should also be permitted to express their opinions and disclose information? [More…]
Clearly, the Soviet Union hopes to match whatever kudos the United States gels from Vietnam intervention if this intervention suggests United Stales protection of South East Asia with a Soviet suggested role as the protector of South East Asia herself. [More…]
Indeed, negotiations are being undertaken by the Soviet Union so that it can come in and lake over the bases. [More…]
I think that the Soviet Union is exerting influence on India at the present time, ft is also exerting influence on Singapore and Malaysia. [More…]
Every Australian should know what most Americans now realise, that the United States nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union in 1961 has now been reversed. [More…]
In the space of 3 years - from 1965 to 1970- the Soviet Union has virtually quadrupled the total megatonnage in its strategic defensive force. [More…]
J remind the House that, even in 1967, the American Security Council reported that the available evidence indicated that the Soviet Union had a goal of strategic superiority designed to win a nuclear war rather than merely deter one. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics now is the most significant power in the Mediterranean and has control of the Suez Canal. [More…]
There are 2 unions representing firemen and competition exists between the two. [More…]
I- think that, when there are disputes as between unions, issues are raised which are very difficult to solve and, very often, somebody wanting to do good only achieves harm. [More…]
That letter came from the Federal President of the Firemen’s Union. [More…]
He went so far as to say that that neutrality should bc protected and preserved and guaranteed - I think that was the word he used - by the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Communist China, lt is not very surprising that the Opposition should over the last few days have seized upon this statement as evidence that there is some sort of collapse in this Government’s defence policy, that there is some sort of basic change in the defence and foreign policies of Malaysia, and that the whole situation politically in South East Asia has changed dramatically and basically. [More…]
Trie Soviet Union wants to penetrate in strength and deeply into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
If honourable members opposite do not like it they should think back to the United Nations statement on Korea when Russia had let its union dues go down the drain. [More…]
This will particularly apply to the views we express about suppression of the rights of the Jewish people in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory has purported to show that in these matters the Aboriginals now living at Wattie Creek and in the adjacent area and the Aboriginals who went on strike in 1966 were manipulated by union organisers, many of them Communists, and that the initiatives that I ascribed to the Aboriginal people in this matter did not, in fact, exist. [More…]
Without doubt the trade union movement would and will say that their increases do not give a complete answer to their membership. [More…]
There was the industrial unrest, caused, I understand, by a dispute between land based unions in Tilbury which rendered this tremendously expensive container terminal completely inoperative for, I think, about 18 months. [More…]
The calculated cost of that industrial dispute, in which the shipowners were not involved, the seamen’s union was not involved and no one in Australia was involved - it was an inter-union dispute on the land at Tilbury in London - was more than Stg3m. [More…]
The honourable member criticises so often and so frequently the trade union movement - he may not have got the message a couple of weeks ago - but it is about time he withdrew the television advertisement on behalf of his firm in Adelaide. [More…]
He used the trade union movement to make that film at the cost of the poor old ship owners, not that I hold any brief for them. [More…]
This is the way in which this Government appreciates co-operation and assistance by the trade union movement. [More…]
The moment that the union members start to get a share of the proceeds brought about by improved technology and other improvements associated with the industry, what is the result? [More…]
It is obvious from the statement that 1 have read which was made by Sir John Williams that there has been maximum co-operation between union and management. [More…]
The Line has had no industrial trouble for 14 years through the special arrangements between it and the Waterside Workers Union, and now a fumbling interfering Minister is going to cause them great concern. [More…]
While the ANL ami the Union Steam Ship Co. operate in conference and wages continue to spiral I cannot see any alternative to rising freights. [More…]
Before leaving the subject of the overseas Liner’ trades, the Commission, the Management and I record our appreciation of the co-operation given to us by the Maritime Union. [More…]
He was not able to give me figures for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or for a number of other countries, but he did provide me with sufficient data to indicate that Australia is not really playing by any means the major role with our nearest neighbour. [More…]
There was a strike on Friday last in Victoria by members of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union - in relation to a claim for a 35-hour working week. [More…]
I know of no claim before the Arbitration Commission for a 35-hour week, although, in answer to an earlier question, 1 referred to a strike last Friday by the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union in Victoria. [More…]
But we live in an atmosphere today which encourages the cost-push inflationary pressure, and the cost-push inflationary pressure is attributable principally to 2 factors - to the increases in award rates granted by the various tribunals in the country and to union pushfulness. [More…]
This is the pushfulness of powerful trade union leaders possessed of great industrial power and using it to force employers, by the use of naked force, to grant them wage increases and increases in conditions which the economy really cannot afford in real terms. [More…]
There are old union members in the Opposition who have come up through experience in unions that have no industrial power. [More…]
If they can sit there and say that it is in the interests of Australia, or of those trade unions to whom they owe their allegiance and loyalty, I am surprised. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable member for Dawson has never been a member of a union or, if he has, it was of a union that possesses little power - of a union that possesses little capacity to influence political events. [More…]
How many of them these days represent solid trade unions which are concerned for egalitarian principles and the protection of the 85 per cent of the Australian work force which depend on not having inflation for the preservation of their conditions? [More…]
As 1 understand it, Australia spends only 0.7 per cent of national income on water research compared with 31 per cent in the United States of America, 2i per cent in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and 2 per cent in the United Kingdom. [More…]
The last point I make in answer to the honourable member’s question is this: But for the veto of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, South Vietnam would have become a member of the United Nations. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills once was only too willing to admit that this was a fact, but lately, obviously under pressure from organisations like the Trade Union Defence Committee, he has become intimidated and no longer has the courage to express his thoughts. [More…]
Has the Minister for the Interior seen a Press report that solicitors from Melbourne intend to challenge the granting of an authority to prospect to the Union Carbide Exploration Corporation in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory? [More…]
While I was at Croker Island the Aboriginals expressed to me their concern that a large tract of land had been granted to Union Carbide under an authority to prospect. [More…]
The facts are that in 1967 Union Carbide was granted an area of 5,680 square miles in which to prospect, lt was, in fact, an application for a renewal of an authority to prospect which was before the Mines Branch in the Northern Territory that was raised with me. [More…]
I sent officers of the Mines Branch out to have discussions with the Aboriginals about the whole matter, particularly the application by Union Carbide for renewal of the authority to prospect. [More…]
The Aboriginals agreed that Union Carbide should have the prospecting authority tenewed. [More…]
This representative of the Trade Union Defence Committee and the junta-ridden body will be sitting as an endorsed candidate on the platform with the Leader of the Opposition tonight. [More…]
That well known social revolutionary, President Nixon, proposed in his State of the Union message: [More…]
In fact, every trade union that has expressed itself on this matter of the problems of the wool industry - and many have done so - has expressed the view that country dwellers equally with city dwellers are entitled to an Australian standard of living and to equal measures of protection and assistance to enable them to maintain that standard of living. [More…]
The Bill does not provide for any trade union representative on the Commission. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the 7th October number of Resist’, a journal purporting to be the journal of the Draft Resisters Union? [More…]
In contrast those men who work on a tarmac and are adjacent to aircraft should be compelled by their employer or union - this applies both ways - to wear protective apparel to prevent permanent damage being occasioned to their hearing. [More…]
I hope that the union concerned and the airlines will co-operate to do something positive about this matter. [More…]
But it is a new trend within the National Union of Australian University Students and within student representative councils. [More…]
I notice that at a meeting at the University of New England late last year at which the National Union of Australian University Students was represented, persons spoke out about this absence of some kind of co-ordination or some kind of clarification of the province of these educational bodies. [More…]
The National Union of University Students has estimated that of the total cost of going to the university, fees represent, in the case of people living at home, about 25 per cent. [More…]
So are 40-odd other states, including the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand. [More…]
by leaveThe Opposition welcomes the adjustments which have been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), butwe have been impressed by the submissions made by the National Union of [More…]
The comments of the National Union of Australian University Students on this question seem to us to be important. [More…]
Referring to an earlier adjustment that was made by the Commonwealth, the Union said: [More…]
The Union conducted a survey of the actual costs incurred by university students. [More…]
The Union has this comment to make - and it seems to us to he quite moderate: [More…]
The Union has gone into the question of typical student charges. [More…]
The Union suggest a change which seems to us to have something to recommend it. [More…]
It is important to remember that when Sir Allen Fairhall made this speech the Government was in full flight under pressure from the Democratic Labor Party from the Freeth doctrine of using a short spoon when supping with the Soviet Union. [More…]
During the time I knew her she retained her active and effective interest in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Women’s International. [More…]
The inter-governmental conferences, which for the purposes of this answer include conferences of an official nature such as those associated with United Nations bodies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, are marked by an asterisk. [More…]
belief, tribal association or trade union affiliation; and to education and training. [More…]
If the person is so employed, has that person ever been employed to (a) photograph unionists attending or voting at, union meetings or (b) take the car registration numbers of motor cars parked in the vicinity of union meetings or protest rallies. [More…]
Ma-ter Plumbers Association of Victoria, Building and Allied Trades Association, Terrazo and Paving Association of Victoria, Victorian Trades Hall Council, Australian Builders Labourers Federation, Building Workers’ Industrial Union. [More…]
Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union. [More…]
Whilst it is claimed that this agreement between Melbourne and metropolitan master builders and the Union is without prejudice, it cannot be assumed to be without prejudice for very long.’ [More…]
Did Mr Justice Gallagher recently grant a 35-hour week to coal miners on the ground, inter alia, that failure to accede to the union’s demand would lead to industrial unrest. [More…]
If so, should evidence or lack of evidence of industrial unrest be taken into account when the Commission is determining union claims for improved wages and conditions of employment. [More…]
The application of the Australian Workers’ Union to vary the hours of work provisions relating to station hands in the Pastoral Industry Award 1965 was dismissed following a lengthy hearing during which the union had opportunity to fully present its case. [More…]
Their Honours concluded, inter alia, that ‘all in all it is our view that present circumstances do not justify granting the union claim’. [More…]
Moreover, a’ presidential member of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission must have issued a certificate before action can be taken under that section to have the Commonwealth Industrial Court impose a penalty because of an award breach by a union. [More…]
And before it can be held that there is such a breach by a union because of its part in a ban or strike the Commission constituted by a presidential member must first have been satisfied that a so-called ‘bans clause’ should be inserted in the award. [More…]
If, despite that, the union resorts to direct industrial action or continues to resort to such action contrary to the award provision, therein lies the justification for the use of the sanctions provisions of the Act. [More…]
Union not only have the right to seek to better the industrial lot of their members. [More…]
ls he able to say whether the annual conference of the Western Australian Farmers’ Union adopted a motion requesting the removal of the nitrogen subsidy. [More…]
That story reminded me of the time when I was a trade union official and I asked a small chap who camefrom central Europe to join my union. [More…]
too, but he is a trade union official so he would have no trouble. [More…]
I never quite understood why I should be related to the Caucasus which as everyone knows is part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
When I have explained to the poor immigration officer who had put the question that I was not really a citizen of the Soviet Union he has said, ‘No, it does not mean that’. [More…]
National Unemployment Workers Union”. [More…]
The Draft Resisters Union wore beards. [More…]
Is he able to say whether Bulgaria, Czecho slovakia, East Germany, Rumania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics each has machinery for measuring, recording and publishing productivity movements in respect of gross production per wage earner in the industrial sector. [More…]
ls he able to say whether Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Poland, Rumania and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics each has machinery for measuring, recording and publishing productivity movements in respect of gross production per person employed or per person in the industrial sector. [More…]
Is he able to say whether Brazil, Cyprus Hungary and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics each has machinery for measuring, recording and publishing productivity movements in respect of gross production per person employed or per employee in factories only. [More…]
in the Queen v. Kelly Ex parte Australian Railways Union (89 CAR 461 at pp. [More…]
I would like to add for myself as President that it should bc manifest to the industrial world and also to the representatives of the parties and especially to this particular union that it is impossible for me to set this down for hearing at present. [More…]
It is not the wish of the organised employers or the organised trade unions that the two issues of equal rates for females and males and the abolition of interstate differentials be tested at this particular point of time. [More…]
Indeed it will be clear - and I recommend to the union that it look at the transcript of today’s proceedings before Mr Senior Commissioner Taylor in regard to the forthcoming national wage case, where the representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions made it clear that the A.C.T.U. [More…]
and (4) Commonwealth Hostels Limited and the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees’ Union of Australia agreed that the phasing-in of equal pay for female workers eligible for equal pay should be in accordance with the decision of the Commission, in the Equal Pay Case, 1969. [More…]
In Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia v. Cocks, 12 F.L.R. [More…]
Is it a fact that on 19th October 1967 he and the Minister for Labour and National Service, together with the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs and the Secretary, Department of Labour and National Service, entered into an informal understanding with the chief officers ot the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, the Australian Postmasters Association and the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists to direct every effort towards reaching agreement on the operation of the 5-day week principle within the Post Office. [More…]
Is it a fact that about 6 months ago the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists asked his Department to make a survey of post office trading on Saturday morning but that the processing of the survey is still unfinished. [More…]
Did the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists offer to agree to an extension of money order services on Fridays and to carry on general services on Friday until 6 p.m. as an alternative to opening post offices on Saturday. [More…]
Did the Union also offer to continue to work on Saturdays in those post offices in which the existing volume of Saturday trading indicated that a 5-day week would cause inconvenience to large numbers of customers and disruption of services due to overloading of staff on Fridays. [More…]
The Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists proposed that trading hours be reduced from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. to 9 a.m.-10 a.m. on Saturdays at post offices where trading figures indicated a strong demand for service. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists has asked his Department to sample public opinion on Friday evening trading in post offices and that nothing has yet been done to accede to the request. [More…]
Say of their stopwork programme next week the Union offered to co-operate in conducting a practical test and survey of public opinion by arranging for money order services to be available from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the Friday and for ordinary trading to be extended from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. with an equivalent time deducted from trading on Saturday morning. [More…]
If so, did Mr N. McDonald, representing the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, tell representatives of the Union that the Department was not geared for such a test even if the Union Was able and willing to carry out such a test of public requirements. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) The Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists did request that public opinion be sampled regarding extension of Friday evening trading in post offices. [More…]
The number who have been prosecuted is a bit over 1,000 but there is another number which is being variously stated by bodies such as the Draft Resisters Union. [More…]
I have no doubt that the honourable member would know all about it and indeed would give as much comfort as he could to members of that union who are encouraging other people to break the law and risk prosecution and imprisonment, and that is not a responsible act of any member of this Parliament. [More…]
There is yet another category of people who in fact do not exist but in relation to whom bodies like the Draft Resisters Union and other unknown persons put in false registration papers. [More…]
Pressure for wage increases and dissatisfaction wilh the arbitration system arise not from union greed or demagoguery but from a well-based belief that employees in this country, far from improving their position in the economy, are actually falling behind. [More…]
I quote from the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD as far back as 1965. [More…]
There is a fallacy to which, I regret to say,too many trade union members and leaders and honourable members on the Opposition benches subscribe. [More…]
The answer to the present problems is that there should be more restaints on wages, and the onus is on tribunals, union leaders, employers, the Government and the community to put restraints on wages to enable restraints to be placed on prices. [More…]
We must use all our powers of persuasion and influence to restrain wages, costs and prices, because the wage earner or union member is not separable from the community as a whole. [More…]
Within the short time I have been in this Parliament 1 have already seen the Government try to bluff the union movement into payment of fines imposed under the penal clauses. [More…]
There is a real responsibility on the wage earner and on the trade union leader. [More…]
know would not work - let in the draught of competition wherever we can and if we do our best to keep prices down and let trade union leaders know that they are not being got at, we would get a feeling of responsibility throughout the workers themselves and their leaders in particular and an acceptance of the fact that they and the employers have to work together to produce a bigger cake. [More…]
The second point I noted was that the Leader of the Opposition showed himself to be the true disciple of the trade union movement. [More…]
I suppose there is no doubt that he will go on and on repeating this, because he fears the censure of the trade union movement far more than the censure and the criticism of this House. [More…]
Let everybody be aware that his political support in the main rests squarely on the trade union movement. [More…]
Tonight the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), as he did on 29th January, blamed the trade union movement for the inflation that exists in this country. [More…]
He suggested also that there was something wrong with the pressure exerted by unions and union leaders that brought about this situation. [More…]
I cannot understand why trade union leaders, housewives, family doctors in small practices, accountants and average people in the community who have made contributions in terms of economic growth, which in turn gives us the wealth that we have to distribute in the community, should not be included. [More…]
If the discussions take place in this forum there is a good indication that the Soviet Union and other countries will participate in the agreement. [More…]
The coal miners in the United States produce twice as many tons per shift - about 14 tons per shift as against 7 tons per shift here and about 1 ton per shift in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some of the great figures in the unions in Queensland, and perhaps more particularly in the Australian Workers Union, learnt their trade the hard way on the canefields of northern and central Queensland. [More…]
Furthermore, we believe that this new arrangement could possibly be even more effective than the old one because there is a likelihood that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries might become members of it. [More…]
I do not think that it would be stretching the long bow to say that honourable members opposite, by their encouragement of certain intransigent and irresponsible elements in the trade union movement, have been contributing materially to this state of affairs. [More…]
The censorship imposed by the Soviet Union on the great novelists of the day is an historical fact of great sadness to all who are interested in the propagation of man’s artistic and creative ability and freedom. [More…]
The chief critic and censor Zhdanov of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics once said: [More…]
The Council has confirmed that the Beekeepers’ Section of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia decided against the acceptance of. [More…]
The Councils National Committee is composed of prominent representatives from industry, commerce, government and employer organisations, and its articles of association provide for representation from the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact, the Australian Council of Trade Unions is presently considering an invitation to nominate representatives. [More…]
Others blamed many other factors including employee attitudes, resistance to change and militant union activity. [More…]
This appeal has been disregarded completely by some Communist union officials. [More…]
So serious do the employers and the meat industry employees union view this matter that they have asked me to raise this problem in the Parliament and to urge the Government to investigate this matter very closely and to take immediate action to curtail the importation of this pet food offal into this country. [More…]
1 might add that the management within the meat industry and the Australian meat industry employees union ‘ are very close on this matter which I have raised. [More…]
Indeed the management and the union have asked me to seek a deputation to the Minister for Primary Industry, which I- hope ‘he will grant. [More…]
Will the Postmaster-General give the House what information he has on the hold-up of cables and mail in Australia and endeavour to get the union or unions to see the damage they are doing to the Aus tralian economy, including the activities of woolbuyers who expect buying orders io be among the cables, and small businessmen who do not have direct Telex communication? [More…]
It has granted franchises to the International Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Western Union International as well as some Canadian companies. [More…]
However, when the Australian Postal Workers Union realised this it declared a black ban. [More…]
It removed that ban and then the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists applied a black ban. [More…]
1 have said also that apart from restraint by unions and trade union leaders in their own interests, so as not to make money increases sheer illusory increases, they should be looking for increased real wages and the way to increase real wages is not to put pressure on the unit cost of production but instead to look for more effective ways of production and to increase productivity. [More…]
Some countries followed advice of that kind but fortunately Australia, helped by the impetus provided by the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party, adopted policies of protection. [More…]
If this were to happen the bargaining power of the trade union movement to obtain wage increases for its members would be reduced. [More…]
It is a much different proposition completely to alter the existing tariff machinery so that Australia is no longer a country of protection, enabling our industries to prosper, but becomes instead a free trade country into which goods may be imported cheaply and, incidentally, very profitably for those involved with their importation, at the same time reducing the bargaining power of the trade union movement. [More…]
When the trade union movement fully appreciates what is occurring I believe there will be a great deal i f unrest in this country. [More…]
The men are members of the Amalgamated Meat Industry Employees Union and they are employed at abattoirs. [More…]
We therefore call upon the Commonwealth Government to increase the base pension rate to 30 per cent of the average weekly male earnings for all States, as ascertained by the Commonwealth Statistician, plus supplementary assistance and allowances in accordance with Australian Council of Trade Union’s policy and adopted as the policy of the Australian Commonwealth Pensioners Federation, and by doing so give a reasonably moderate pension. [More…]
Is the Australian Government aware that the Governments of Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia have appealed to the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which are co-chairmen of the 1962 Geneva Conference on Laos, to take some action to restore peace in Laos? [More…]
The difficulty that is manifest is that unions and union leaders are using their industrial power to force these over award payments in order to receive money increases, forgetting altogether that the money increase turns out to be an illusory increase for it is only a money increase and does not constitute a real increase in purchasing power. [More…]
Of course, as I have pointed out in this place on many occasions, if a union leader burnt the ballot papers so that somebody could not win or if he sent a ballot box off somewhere so that nobody could vote against him, the Government would put him in gaol. [More…]
At the Conference 60 per cent of the votes to elect the Executive come from members of the trade union movement, whether they be right wing, left wing or anything else. [More…]
That Executive is controlled not by a democratic system, not by a system of universal franchise, not by a system of representative government; it is there because 60 per cent of the members are put up by the trade unions. [More…]
No one knows what the political complexion of those trade unions might be. [More…]
Trade unionists will always accept a decision if it is fair because a fair decision is always acceptable to fair people and the trade union movement represents the fairest section of the community. [More…]
This kind of behaviour on the part of the Prime Minister is doing more than any militant union official has ever done to discredit the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Members of the Opposition, as 1 explained a few moments ago, are answerable first of all to Caucus and secondly, increasingly, as far as one can understand the machinations within the organisation of the Australian Labor Party, to the trade union movement. [More…]
Members on this side of the House are conscious frequently of the extent to which Opposition spokesmen find themselves echoes of a voice that has set forth within the trade union movement the policy programme of a particular union. [More…]
Members of the Oppo:sition speak not from the point of view of responsibility to an electorate alone, but through a chain of command which normally ensures that the trade union movement, or an organisation, has their prime allegiance and their electorate comes very much down the line. [More…]
If it attempted responsibility it would tear off massive pieces of the flesh of its support - the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask whether the protest at the office of the Rugby Union organisation in Sydney a short while ago during which people threw bricks through windows and tried to destroy equipment was a non-violent one. [More…]
The Prime Minister is aware, becauseI know that he has spoken to them, that there is in Canberra today a deputation of workers and union officials associated with the aircraft industry in Victoria. [More…]
One is that no union or group of unions can stand above the law. [More…]
A study of the treatment of criminals in the Soviet Union shows how far we are behind in our methods in this country. [More…]
In the Soviet Union attempts are made to reform a criminal, to convert him to be a useful member of society. [More…]
One does not even know whether he was mistaken for his brother Ray who is the Federal Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers Union and a member of the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The meeting was a repetition of the previous occasion when 1 invited members to attend a similar meeting to talk to and to debate with 3 members of the Australian Rugby Union team who have visited South Africa and whohave come out in opposition to the proposed South African tours. [More…]
I also want to point out and emphasise that, as my colleague the Minister for Labour and National Service mentioned yesterday, what is happening in this case is that the trade union movement is being exploited for commercial purposes by Mr Hawke. [More…]
It happens to be an extraordinary and deplorable fact that the great trade union movement of this country, which should have the ideal of protecting the wages structure, particularly that of the lower income earner, should be blatantly used by Mr Hawke for his own purpose, that is, to aggrandise the company he has taken over to compete with others in retail trade. [More…]
First, it should be remembered that if strikes, which are largely due to the operations of the left wing trade union movement supported by Mr Hawke, cause a loss of well over 2 million man days a year, this must affect productivity and it must therefore affect the capacity to pay wages and the standard of living of all but the very strong sections of the Australian community. [More…]
I hope that when the discussions with him have been completed a more sensible attitude will be taken by the trade union movement. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen claims made in the ‘Education Newsletter of the Australian Union of Students’ that Aboriginals suffered from glaring educational inequalities and, in particular, that whereas one person in every 150 non-Aboriginals attended university, only one person in every 14,000 Aboriginals did so? [More…]
In view of the Australian Wool Industry Conference’s clear recommendation to the Australian Government that the Government continue to allow the export of 300 merino rams this year, can the Minister inform me whether or not exporters of merino rams are still being prevented from honouring their sales undertakings by actions of certain unions? [More…]
Will he assure the House that in the future the Government will ensure that Australian sheep breeders will not be unlawfully prevented from honouring their overseas sales by the actions of union dictators not answerable to the Australian public through the ballot box? [More…]
The unions served a log of claims on the companies last December which included the matter of severance pay. [More…]
With the lay offs at General Motors-Holden’s the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union have sought to have the matter brought on as a matter of urgency. [More…]
The students said they would go to any extent, without injuring people, to express their opposition to apartheid and the coming South African rugby union tour of Australia. [More…]
However, the pig committee of the Victorian Farmers Union does not agree with the proposition which is before the House. [More…]
Also, the Australian Primary Producers Union pig committee in Queensland does not agree. [More…]
A delegation from the pig committee of the Victorian Farmers Union saw members of the Opposition and expressed the opinion to us that they would first of all like to see a referendum before legislation for a compulsory levy was introduced in this House. [More…]
The Pig Committee of the Victorian Farmers Union has made it clear to us in writing that its pig producers are not opposed to research or a levy for research purposes. [More…]
I wish to make that clear, because when the Pig Committee of the Victorian Farmers Union first discussed the matter with us I must admit I was quite concerned, as I thought there was widespread opposition to the levy from the commercial pig producers of Australia. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union, whose representatives saw us, has put forward some constructive views on the types of research that are needed and what priorities they should be given. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister seen a statement by the General President of the Western Australian Farmers Union, Sir Basil Embry, in which he states that the Japanese were bidding to take over about 400,000 acres in the eastern States and that an undisclosed foreign company was interested in the Bunbury area? [More…]
With this Bill Labor would abolish country seats, and this is perfectly in line with the philosophy and policies utterly dominated by the big city votes, by Mr Hawke and the left wing union supporters and by the blind urge for power at any price. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is a substantial producer of tin but on balance a net importer, has signed the Agreement for the first time. [More…]
1 know, because 1 was a full time official of the Australian Workers’ Union for more than 10 years. [More…]
During the period that I was secretary and court advocate for the biggest union in South Australia I negotiated scores of industrial agreements for over-award wages and conditions. [More…]
That is a close liaison between the negotiating officials and the rank and file members of the union affected by the agreement. [More…]
Where there is bureaucratic control of a union this requirement is impossible. [More…]
Sometimes these sweetheart agreements are made for the sole purpose of forcing employees at a particular job to join one union rather than another. [More…]
The paper referred to the current agreement between the Seamen’s Union of Australia and Associated Steamships Pty Ltd and went on to say: [More…]
The company gives much of the credit for the successful negotiation to the leadership of the Seamen’s Union, contending that agreement would not have been possible had any other union been involved … [More…]
Much of (he union’s reputation for strictly observing agreements reached, stems from the leadership policy of consulting and informing ils membership al all stages of negotiation, and of never committing its members to policies they have nol previously endorsed. [More…]
While it is true that the general policy of the trade union movement is resolutely opposed to the penal provisions of the Arbitration Act, I know of no trade union official who would not honour an industrial agreement which incorporated benefits not obtainable from the Commission. [More…]
Mr Hawke has publicly declared that the Australian Council of Trade Unions will see that any agreement made under the auspices is honoured. [More…]
Mr Ray Gietzelt, who is Federal Secretary of the third largest union in the country, has always honoured the many agreements that have been made between the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union and the various employers with whom he deals. [More…]
The imposition of agreed penalties for breach of an agreement voluntarily made by a union with the endorsement of its members affected, is an entirely different proposition from a penalty of $500 a day for refusing to accept wage rates arbitrarily imposed upon a union by the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I know that I could bring peace to industry in this country because I know that the trade union movement is not irresponsible or unreasonable. [More…]
But the task of maintaining amity between reasonable employers and reasonable trade unions is made difficult when the Government and unreasonable employers combine to provoke disharmony for the crudest political motives. [More…]
Strikes concerning victimisation, union demarcation, and managerial policy accounted for the loss of 510,000 mandays, and disputes over wages, hours and leave, caused the loss of 666,000 mandays. [More…]
Let me take, for example, the victimisation of unionists and of union delegates which is a cause of such tremendous friction and of such enormous loss of working time. [More…]
My several questions relating to defects in the law affecting union demarcation, have been met by the Treasurer’s usual attitude of lofty indifference to industrial law reform. [More…]
We now have the absurd situation that if a demarcation dispute arises between a State union and a member of the State branch of a federal union, neither the Commonwealth Commission nor the State tribunal has any power to make a binding order for settlement. [More…]
Ever since the Menzies Government amended the Act in 1951, trade unions have complained about the highly legalistic nature of arbi tration procedures. [More…]
But when the Commission refused to be intimidated in the last national wage case by the public utterances of Liberal Party Ministers, Government spokesmen then began to echo the union’s complaint about the excess legalism of the arbitration system; Government spokesmen even went to the point of declaring support for the appointment of non-lawyers to the bench of the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
If we are to allay the Luddite-like fears responsible for some of the union opposition to technological change, we must convince management of the need for prior notice and discussion with the unions concerned, whenever important changes are contemplated in production. [More…]
If there had been proper discussions with the union prior to the introduction of one-man operated double-decker buses in Sydney a few days ago, that dispute may not have occurred. [More…]
It is crass stupidity for management to spend huge sums of money for the introduction of new techniques and to wait until the new machinery is installed before bothering to discuss the matter with the unions concerned. [More…]
It may not be a bad idea for the Department of Labour and National Service to meet the cost of sending union representatives overseas to study the new techniques of other countries, and to discuss these techniques with their union counterparts in those countries before a company commits itself to the cost of very expensive new plant. [More…]
It is just as damaging to good industrial relations for unions to be oblivious of real dangers to working standards as it is for them to foster false fears of disadvantages that may never eventuate. [More…]
It is regrettable that the trade union movement has not involved itself in this and similar actions. [More…]
Many union leaders have in return offered to cooperate with management further to increase productivity provided labour shares in the benefits. [More…]
Union leaders in that time have been demanding a greater share of the increased productivity which technological advance has already made possible. [More…]
But the inference which can be drawn from those remarks of the honourable member for Hindmarsh and from his speech delivered here this afternoon is that the trade union movement and he as spokesman for the Labor Party will not assist in improving productivity in this country. [More…]
He exemplifies, I believe at its worst, that ultra-conservative attitude which many trade union leaders show. [More…]
What the honourable member is doing, as all members of this House know even if those people listening outside do not, is pandering to attitudes of elements with which he is so familiar in the trade union movement and in the Labor Party. [More…]
The type of argument advanced by the Australian Council of Trade Union delegates to the recent hearing on the national wage case - I have some extracts from the transcript in front of me - does not help the educative process to which I have referred. [More…]
People can he encouraged to work well, from both the capitalist side and the union side. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is it not a fact that certain skilled Japanese workers may enter Australia under our immigration laws as they are applied at present, and that the real restrictions to which the Japanese dignitaries refer are industrial limitations imposed by certain sectors of the trade union movement? [More…]
Is Mr Laurie Carmichael, Assistant Federal Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, said to be the inspiration behind this movement which is organised on the basis of shop committees? [More…]
Is strike action by the shop committees in conflict with the policy of the individual trade unions and the trade union movement within Australia? [More…]
What action has the Australian Council of Trade Unions taken to curb this strike programme which could throw many thousands of men out of work? [More…]
Engineering Union. [More…]
I might say that I understand that the movement by the shop stewards is contrary to the official policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the unions concerned and the ACTU will not allow their official policy to be abrogated by strike action of this type. [More…]
If we did not do so we would not trade with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
One dispute involving the Seamens Union of Australia falls, as the honourable member will appreciate, within a State jurisdiction. [More…]
It further lessens the understanding and conciliatory spirit which is being desperately sought by trade unions, reasonable employers and those conciliation bodies working so hard to find a solution to the adjustment of wages to meet soaring living costs. [More…]
I say this as a person who has spent some time as a trade union official. [More…]
This, of course, has an important influence on productivity, particularly the avoidance of zero production through strikes, but there are many other reasons why output per worker is lower than it should be - excessive job changing, poor training, work restrictions and inter-union demarcation absurdities. [More…]
I hope that the de facto Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hawke, will now devote his attention to the elimination of restrictive practices in the trade unions. [More…]
If he can achieve something here, he will raise the prosperity of the community as a whole, including, of course, his union members. [More…]
What is wrong, from a democratic point of view, with the trade union slogan of ‘Let them all enjoy the same benefits’? [More…]
It is time that the Government gave some thought to discussing this matter with representatives of the trade union movement on a completely broad basis. [More…]
The trade union movement does not mind if it sits down with employers and company directors to discuss matters of vital concern to its membership. [More…]
lt is time this Government stopped treating the trade unions of this country as an alien’ force. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in October last year I attended the 58th Annual conference of the InterParliamentary Union held in the Hague. [More…]
There is no doubt that over the years when she suffered a series of crop failures and when there were very critical supply shortages and a low level of world wheat stocks - honourable members will recall it was not only China which had stock failures but also the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and that at the same time there were increasing needs in developing countries - there was developed in the People’s Republic of China a very good and substantial market. [More…]
I think it needs to be recognised that today the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is an exporter instead of a large scale importer. [More…]
If someone wants to be critical of the Soviet Union and say that what the Soviet is doing is not allowing the Jews to emigrate, or someone wants to criticise South Africa for the way it treats its black people and liken those in authority to Hitler by carrying banners to this effect, surely this is insulting. [More…]
The public opinion polls seem to show that most of the Australian people think that power lies with trade union leaders, university students and street demonstrators. [More…]
The truth is that trade union leaders, university students and street demonstrators can do little more than plead aud cry outside the walls where power exists. [More…]
Power lies not with member of Parliament, bishops and professors little more than it lies with trade union leaders, university students or street demonstrators. [More…]
No, all one has to show is that somebody who wants to do something for some political purpose, a protest or a demonstration, interferes with someone who wants to make money or with someone who wants to use a public office for conscription or to work for the war in Vietnam, or with some diplomat working for apartheid or for the Soviet Union. [More…]
We on this side of the House look at the matter from the point of view of the trade union movement. [More…]
From the point of view of the Opposition we are particularly concerned about people demonstrating for their democratic rights in respect of legislation for which there is no mandate, particularly from the trade union movement when demonstrating against injustice. [More…]
Surely the trade union movement is entitled to do this in this modern day and agc where fortunes are being made by a few but the workers are not getting any of the benefits. [More…]
This legislation will only encourage further demonstrations, particularly from the trade union point of view. [More…]
Who are the people who are prepared to use all the power of the law to suppress just union claims? [More…]
It would be possible, under this legislation, for a diplomat from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to be offended if he were present or in the vicinity when the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) or the Leaders of the Democratic Labor Party next make an address at celebrations of ‘Captive Nations Week’. [More…]
But I must say that many of the slogans used previously by Government supporters in favour of this sort of legislation are similar to those used by the authoritarian and totalitarian nations such as those of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Surely we are not trying to imitate the sort of State that exists in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In conclusion I point out that the Vehicle Builders Union still has not had its claim for severance pay heard by Commissioner Taylor. [More…]
I believe the Government should heed the suggestion of the Vehicle Builders Union that a commissioner be assigned specifically and wholly to the vehicle building industry. [More…]
Assessments of credit unions and small loan societies have been referred to Taxation Hoards of Review on several occasions. [More…]
All claims were disallowed by the Boards of Review but, in one case where an appeal to the High Court was lodged by a credit union, it was held that the company concerned was a co-operative company and conseqently entitled to a deduction for dividends paid to its shareholders. [More…]
This case is reported as Revesby Credit Union Co-operative Limited v. F.C. [More…]
A further appeal to the High Court claiming that a credit union is a mutual association is at present awaiting hearing. [More…]
United States of America - a credit union without capital stock and operated for mutual purposes is exempt from tax. [More…]
Union. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - 3.3.69: Hedge burnt at Embassy. [More…]
It appears to me quite apparent that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is impotent to act against the trade union movement which very strongly controls the whole of the activities of the Opposition in this Parliament. [More…]
It is true too that under strong emotional influences he was induced, or he was persuaded, to write to the Foreign Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I note that application forms for this retraining will be available through trade union offices. [More…]
Although the Minister did not mention it, I hope that brochures explaining the scheme also will be available through trade union offices. [More…]
I hope that the approval of the union concerned will be sought. [More…]
It would be a terrible thing if an employer noted for breaches of an award and for victimisation of union members were to be one of the people approved under this scheme. [More…]
I hope also that one of the things that the Department of Labour and National Service will do - this is elementary - is to insist that persons undergoing training become members of the appropriate union. [More…]
Nothing causes more disturbance in an industry than to have working in it people who will not join the appropriate union. [More…]
Close behind the number of man hours lost in that way is the number lost through demarcation disputes and the refusal of people to join unions. [More…]
But if we are to stay in office we cannot appear to be offering a deaf ear altogether to the trade union movement.’ [More…]
In other words, there is an essence in this argument that someone, if I can put it in the vernacular of the Opposition, who is a bludger on his mates, someone who is a scab on a union - whether he be a Tasmanian or the original founder of the Democratic Labor Party of Australia or anything else is beside the point - someone whom the Opposition inherently should distrust should be caught before he, and again to use the vernacular of the Opposition, succeeds in bludging on his mates. [More…]
Our society is split asunder on the issue of the Vietnam debacle and both industry and union leaders are fearful of uncontrolled inflation upon our economy - issues which threaten to strike at the very heart of the Government. [More…]
Indeed, I think that many members of the Labor Party and union representatives are concerned at the direction in which this country is going at the present time in regard to the representation, attitudes and actions of the Opposition. [More…]
There is a way of demonstrating which is wrong and which is resorted to by only a small section of the community with the ultimate aim of engaging in riots - the fun picnic of sticking pins into a policeman’s horse, the fun picnic of throwing marbles under horse’s hooves and throwing rocks at embassies, whether it be the embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the United States of America. [More…]
One might think that notice would have been taken of trade union reaction to the gaoling of a trade union leader; that a lesson would have been learnt from the current difficulties and confrontation taking place as a result of the existing arbitration penal provisions and the confrontation over the collection of fines which has occurred and which will continue to occur under that repressive legislation. [More…]
Perhaps it wants an opportunity to subdue the trade union movement and to create situations in which dissident groups are provoked and then savagely subdued in the name of law and order in order to prevent the constant exposure of bad governmental policies. [More…]
Did the People’s Republic of China come into existence in circumstances similar to those of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
In his reply the Prime Minister stated that under strong emotional influence the late Dr H. V. Evatt was induced to write to the Foreign Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The same sort of approach toward dissent and the rights of a minority characterises the Soviet Union. [More…]
The letter conveyed a series of facts relating to the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
In the 1936 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics section 125 guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, but after the invasion of Czechoslovakia 3 citizens had placards iri the Red Square which were critical of that invasion and they were prosecuted. [More…]
When the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who has just left this House, attends a meeting during Captive Nations Week, as he does each year and good luck to him, I am sure that the sort of statements that will be made by him and others present at the meeting will be offensive and insulting to the protected persons from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to the fact that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has agreed to the stationing of air force elements in Ceylon. [More…]
Barney Williams; Mr John Egerton, one of the most powerful influences in the trade union movement in Queensland; Mr Ray Gietzelt, the general secretary of the third biggest union in Australia; and Mr John Ducker, the assistant secretary of the Labour Council of New South Wales and the State president of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Good industrial relations will be best achieved by agreements initially arrived at between trade unions and employers. [More…]
In the case of a breach by an employer or by a union or by employees at the direction or with the concurrence of the union,$500; such amount shall be recoverable only at the suit of the employer orunion as the case may be in civil proceedings. [More…]
The Union immediately responded and lifted the strike so far as Tasmania and Weipa were concerned. [More…]
The present situation is that the totally irresponsible strike of the Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Union has brought about a position of almost total isolation, by surface transport, of the island of Tasmania. [More…]
Of course, the consideration there was that the Government was dealing with big industrialists, mining syndicates and, of course, the trade union movement which would be prepared to take some direct action if its members were treated in the same way as the poor unfortunate graziers in the flying doctor area are being treated at the present time. [More…]
I am further encouraged by the possibility that the membership of the new Agreement will be somewhat wider than was the case with the IGA which did not include major exporters and importers such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Brazil. [More…]
Australian State and Federal Governments did not give enough financial support for cancer and heart research programmes, the world chairman of the finance committee of the International Union Against Cancer, Sir William Kilpatrick, said in Perth yesterday. [More…]
The Labor Government of West Germany under Herr Brandt has greatly influenced relations between the two Germanies, between West Germany and Eastern Europe and between West Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let me mention the Soviet Union.’ [More…]
It is the Soviet Union that has penetrated into the Middle East with policies that have been highly successful. [More…]
It is the Soviet Union that, the United States charged, had assisted Egypt in breaking the ceasefire in the early days of the ceasefire. [More…]
There is a clear, implicit Soviet objective of a canal reopened, but perhaps reopened for the ships of one navy - the Soviet Union’s navy. [More…]
This would clearly make it much easier for the Soviet Union to maintain and strengthen her naval presence in the Indian Ocean, a presence which must first be established before she can use that presence for political or strategic purposes. [More…]
It may be in 1 year, it may be in 5 or 10 years, but there will be increased tension as a result of Soviet activities in this part of the world, and the Soviet Union will use that tension and its presence to advance its political and strategic purposes, and the shorter time scale may be more relevant than the later. [More…]
Clearly China in history has no cause to love any of the great powers, least of all the Soviet Union which still occupies territories that China regards as her own. [More…]
This Congress, which is the supreme body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, saw the return of Mr Breznhev as Party Secretary and Mr Breznhev is a resolute opponent of any concessions on the border dispute. [More…]
Despite the very great differences between the Soviet Union and China, it would be unwise to hope for any real rapprochement between China and America against Russia. [More…]
In Chinese terms the United States is an Imperialist country; the Soviet Union is Social Imperialist. [More…]
The institutional framework for relations between this country and the Soviet Union is remarkably primitive. [More…]
The Soviet Union does not lack interest in Australia but quite clearly it regards it as an anomaly - a country which cannot be accommodated in its geographical region. [More…]
This puts Australia in a very difficult position to assert its foreign policy to the Soviet Union in a regional context. [More…]
Appeals for military aid were made to a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States of America, India, the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
The aid given by India and the Soviet Union involves, in both cases, the provision of military personnel from those countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has sent pilots with its helicopters and MIG 17 fighter aircraft. [More…]
The Soviet Union will work with you to prevent the Chinese thrust south’. [More…]
thrusting south the Soviet Union would be supporting her. [More…]
The Soviet Union’s objection to China was that China was raising the question of the 600,000 square miles of Chinese territory annexed by the czars after 1858 and was raising the kind of ideological issues which are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, whether Georgians, Ukranians or others would continue or wish to continue to be subordinate to the White Russians in what is a vast colonial empire of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The revolutionary anti-colonialist principles of China are a potential dissolvent of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has 3 million troops along the borders of China. [More…]
De Gaulle realised that if the Soviet Union could get rid of this Chinese distraction nothing would stop her from occupying with the greatest of ease Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania - all Communist countries. [More…]
Whether we like Mao Tse-tung or not, a lot of people who have not the slightest sympathy with his regime would prefer Mao if he is not subordinate to the Soviet Union than Liu Shao-chi if he was prepared to go into unity with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) does not want to watch the South Africans playing rugby union or cricket that is his business, but for heaven’s sake I appeal to him not to use the machinery of his Party or of the trade union organisation to force his views down the throats of other Australians because, come the next elections, he will see what Australians think of such tactics. [More…]
It will be very interesting to hear what he has to say because we can be sure to hear a speech on the cricket tour and the rugby union matches. [More…]
However, in South Africa the most popular sports would be rugby union and cricket. [More…]
The New Zealand Rugby Union weakly acceded to its demands until 1967, when it jacked up, to use a colloquial term, and called off the tour. [More…]
Like my colleague the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) there are very few countries that I would regard as beyond criticism and a considerable number who are on my short list of those who ought to be severely censured - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Pakistan, Ceylon, Nigeria, Greece, Spain, Portugal, United States of America; most of the Arab countries to name a few. [More…]
He sent to me a copy of a letter he forwarded Australian rugby union footballers likely to be selected in the Australian team this year. [More…]
As a Rugby Union footballer likely to be asked to play against the Springboks during their tour of Australia this year, you are in a position to act simply but’ effectively by publicly declaring yourself unavailable for any match against them. [More…]
It determines whether he can vote, join a trade union, use a trowel, compete for an award for playing Beethoven, belong to a political party nominating candidates for parliament; whom he can marry; whose hospitality he can accept; what education he can get, what wage he can be paid, what work he can do; where he can live, get medical treatment, buy a stamp, get his drycleaning done, be buried. [More…]
He made a specific point about Rugby Union which I will not deal with at this stage. [More…]
But there is no doubt in anybody’s mind that we Australians and the Australian Government are opposed to the sort of government which is in existence in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am advised that Qantas invited the union representatives to meet it in Qantas House at 10.30 a.m. At the same time a meeting of the aircrews and the men involved was held at Mascot. [More…]
After the conference at Qantas House had concluded the union officials left the building to travel to Mascot. [More…]
So far as this Government is concerned we have welcomed cultural relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, particularly the Bolshoi Ballet coming to Australia. [More…]
I believe it is astonishing that we, being willing to accept cultural organisations and for that matter sporting organisations of this kind, should now be subject to the unbelievably contrary action by the Australian Labor Party and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The new Minister for Health (Senator Greenwood) enters today into negotiations with Australia’s toughest trade union having conceded in advance that its claims are reasonable and that the Government is powerless in any case to resist those claims even if it felt justified in doing so. [More…]
On 8th April the Treasurer foresaw and deplored a situation in which, he said, ‘a person would have an income which determined his standard of living, based on whether or not he was a member of a powerful union’. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister seen the reports that the United States Government has initiated proposals with the Soviet Union to establish a zone of neutrality in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
As to the first question asked by the honourable member relating to an approach by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic for the neutralisation of the Indian Ocean, I have been informed by telephone from Washington this morning that there is no truth in the statement that such an initiative has been taken by the United States Government. [More…]
We have heard comments from union leaders, even from the coloureds and from some of the top leaders of the natives who have said that they want these tours of the South African sporting teams to Australia to continue because they believe that more harm will be done by stopping them than by allowing them to continue. [More…]
I would have thought more of those rugby union players who object to the tour if they had so objected when they were selected to represent Australia. [More…]
Australia has been asked by the South African trade unions and the Leader of the Opposition in South Africa and by many other people not to try to stop the tour because, they say, it will be worse if we stop it. [More…]
I deplore, as do I think most people in the Australian community, the way that Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions by the use of industrial action have achieved what amounts to a resale price maintenance. [More…]
I believe also that certain radio stations in Australia owned by the Australian Labor Party and trade union organisations do not pay income tax. [More…]
I deplore the unions’ attitude in relation to compulsory unionism, because that is what it amounts to, in the retail trade in Australia. [More…]
I know that at least one large departmental store in Sydney was threatened just before Christmas by the Transport Workers Union with a denial of supplies delivered to and from that store unless compulsory unionism was introduced. [More…]
I am reminded of what happened on Kangaroo Island, in South Australia, 6 months ago, to a farmer who was not prepared to be bludgeoned into using union shearers. [More…]
He could have starved for all the union leaders cared. [More…]
I refer to the Victorian Division of the Australian Farmers Union and to a similar group in Queensland. [More…]
The Pig Division of the Victorian Farmers Union has been seeking a poll of producers and an alteration in the constitution of the Federation to allow for any member group to have the power of veto rather than to allow for decisions to be made by a simple majority. [More…]
The Pig Division of the Victorian Farmers Union has submitted that the introduction of a compulsory levy is premature and, alternatively, that the matter . [More…]
of clause 9 of the Bill would indicate that this denies any right to the Victorian Farmers Union Pig Division or the pig section of the Farmers and Graziers Association of Queensland to be represented on the advisory board which is to be set up under the Bill to advise the Minister. [More…]
However, in general I am aware that the pig section of the Victorian Farmers Union has expressed some concern at 2 aspects of the legislation. [More…]
The February 1969 report of the National Council of the National Union of Australian University Students (now the Australian Union of Students) recognised that where restrictions on enrolments were necessary, Australian universities had a duty to the community to give priority to the education of Australian citizens, but it believed that the presence of substantial numbers of overseas students, particularly students from Asia, had in the past afforded opportunities for broadening of knowledge, interest and tolerance which it regarded as a necessary aspect of tertiary education and suggested that where there was the demand for it, 10 per cent of the total enrolment quota in each faculty in each university would be a minimum acceptable enrolment of overseas students. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a net importer of tin, has signed for the first time and the Federal Republic of Germany has also signed the Agreement for the first time. [More…]
The first is that we must have cooperation from producing countries and, of course, the nigger in the wood pile - if nigger’ is the right colour description in this case- was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
He said that the trade union movement had not been consulted in regard to these tariff policies. [More…]
Our shadow Minister said that surely he should consult the trade union movement on these issues because there are various pressure groups today, including some elements of the Press gallery and some lobbyists - I do noi think I need to mention names - which are very strongly advocating a reduction of tariffs to allow cheap imports, apparently because they have some interest in this. [More…]
In other words, he was going to use the instrument of a reduction in tariffs, particularly in the metal trades sector, as a way of cutting down the power of the trade union movement. [More…]
He was going to do this by reducing the bargaining power of the trade union movement and so reduce wages and employment in that sector of industry. [More…]
I address a question to the Prime Minister who will have seen reports that 3 unions - the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society - jointly agreed at their annual conferences yesterday to seek a work ban on mining operations in the Gove Peninsula. [More…]
In New South Wales this provides for a new college for the Sydney Day Nursery Association and a new wing on the old college of the Kindergarten Union. [More…]
The question at large of social attitudes and social influences in this area can, of course, open up a whole gamut of possibilities between the wholesale creches of the Soviet Union and our hitherto held concept of a young child’s place being in the home with the mother. [More…]
It is to be regretted that the Federation in some branches has also become the vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
In fact that sort of trade runs contrary to the assumptions of what is called the Berne Union. [More…]
The possibility of joining up with the trade union movement as a means of advocating their needs and defending their interests has been only one of the less drastic possibilities among the measures that the men are frequently considering. [More…]
However, on occasions this Government has passed legislation that compels a trade union to account for every cent it has spent. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has the right to demand to examine the balance sheet of a trade union. [More…]
I am glad that Queensland is still a member of the union. [More…]
I refer to the dispute involving the Ship Painters and Dockers Union and the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd at Whyalla ship yards. [More…]
Some time ago, the Ship Painters and Dockers Union was granted certain improvements in award conditions by the Commissioner covering that industry, but the BHP decided to lodge an appeal, and some of the improved conditions were knocked off as a result of the appeal to the Bench. [More…]
This, naturally, was the cause of a great deal of discontent amongst members of this particular union employed at Whyalla. [More…]
There were stoppages of protest on the particular issue, which finally culminated in a total stoppage by members of this Union approximately a fortnight ago and, from the latest information, this stoppage is still going on. [More…]
As a former secretary of a combined unions organisation, I have found that in dealing with industrial enterprises of some size, which have had some concern for the state of their industrial relations, they have been willing to discuss matters over the table with combined union organisations, and in many cases to reach decisions which, because they have been mutually agreed to over the table, are respected by both employer and employee. [More…]
The conference mentioned by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has not taken place but I can inform him that, as a consequence of talks held this morning in Sydney between the unions and the ship owners, the strike committee and the executive of the stewards’ union have agreed to recommend to a meeting of the stewards’ union a resumption of work tomorrow. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the comments of the Acting Premier of Tasmania, Mr Lyons - who* is a supporter of the Minister’s own Party - in today’s issue of the ‘Canberra Times’ in which he praised the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, for his help in attempting to end the marine stewards’ strike in Tasmania? [More…]
page 1665- of Hansard of 20th April .1971, which were made in an attempt to denigrate the ACTU, Mr: Hawke and the trade union movement for ^political advantage? [More…]
The attitude of the Board of Directors, as I understand it, is: ‘We are dealing with a militant union and we really have to teach a lesson in every case. [More…]
In the last few days reports have been produced by the Australian Union of Students demonstrating the total inadequacy of the support for students. [More…]
They could produce nuclear weapons and all the other weaponry possessed bv the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are told that the People’s Republic of China is at least 2 to 3 years behind the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that Japan in its weapons development could outpace such countries as the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
Has the left wing secretary of the Seamen’s Union been given a first class round trip by air to Sweden to inspect this ship before her departure? [More…]
Did the Australian National Line pay for this round first class air trip and is this another example of ship owners pandering to the left wing led maritime unions while they get tough with the more reasonable right wing unions? [More…]
It is true that PAD Australia is paying the return air fare for the secretary of the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
The company issued an invitation to the secretary of the Seamen’s Union in his personal capacity because the ship is a new concept - indeed, a new design, with new methods of cargo handling - and it was felt by the company that, as the ship is to be manned by an Australian crew, it was desirable that the secretary of the Seamen’s Union should see the ship in operation at a very early date. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the recent submission or report of the Australian Union of Students? [More…]
Does he agree with the Union’s contention that the number of university scholarships is inadequate? [More…]
Yes, I have received a submission from the Australian Union of Students on Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]
The submission has been sent to my Department, which is looking at it, and also to the Commonwealth Scholarships Board, which , has agreed to meet representatives of the Australian Union of Students later this month to discuss some aspects of the submission. [More…]
Did I not read today of an extraordinary claim in which one union is seeking to increase the wages of its members by up to $39.40 a week? [More…]
The Government will stand up against a trade union organisation and demand that legislation be passed so that the people have a voice; yet it will not let members of Parliament have a proper voice in this House. [More…]
- Today, yesterday and in weeks and months gone by, we have heard Government members - that is, those who are permitted by the dictatorship that prevails on the other side of the House to speak - saying all along the line that the trade union movement today is responsible for all the evils afflicting this country. [More…]
They are crying out that the Australian Labor Party and the trade union movement are the cause of the ills in our rural industries. [More…]
I second the motion because I believe that it is ludicrous for this Parliament to suggest to people such as those in the trade union movement and the employers who will be subject to the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Bill and who have a very important interest in it - the income tax legislation is another important matter - that this Bill was passed and became law after proper deliberation by this Parliament when we know, the Leader of the House knows and the people who will blindly support him at a later stage know that this Bill will not be discussed properly by the Parliament and will not be given anything like proper consideration. [More…]
The trade union movement has no other access to the forum of the nation or to the legislators than through members of this Parliament. [More…]
I believe it will bring a greater degree of stability and so eliminate many of the strikes which, from a union point of view, were necessary in the past to maintain the wages and conditions of men who worked on the waterfront. [More…]
All the employees now come under the one union, the Waterside Workers’ Federation, which covers the coal handling and the general cargo sections. [More…]
All unions at some time indulge in them because they feel that they are justified in doing so. [More…]
I attended a meeting and listened to the propositions put forward by the responsible union against the shipowners’ intention to make redundant some 100 men. [More…]
Then the union had to take action to preserve the employment of 50 of its members. [More…]
When the Minister condemns and criticises a union for going on strike, he should be clear about the reasons why it went on strike. [More…]
On the question of redundancy, I think it is absolutely stupid and ridiculous to lay off 100 men and expect the other members of that branch of the union to go on working overtime. [More…]
The union knows what is a fair and reasonable level and it was not prepared to accept the number of redundancies that the employers were putting forward. [More…]
If the honourable member for Denison will pay attention for a short time, I will point out to him that members of his Party introduced into this Parliament in which he is sitting now some of the most vicious industrial legislation that has ever been put on the statute book against any trade union in this Commonwealth. [More…]
The intention of that legislation was that the trade union movement should cause more friction and more industrial strife on the waterfront so that the Government could have an election on that score. [More…]
I will not quote further from the second reading speech of the Minister, but I suggest that before the honourable member for Denison criticises the union he should at least acquaint himself with the views of his own Minister. [More…]
The Federation is a trade union which down through the years has held sacrosanct the protection of its members irrespective of whether they be in A, B or C class ports. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Denison that he should perhaps get a copy of the union’s latest publication on this and he will see the ports spelt out. [More…]
The industry still faces many problems because this Government has not taken sufficient notice of the trade union movement within the industry for almost 10 years - if not 10 years, at least 8 years - in regard to the programme it set out for the introduction of containerisation. [More…]
It has meant that fewer jobs are available to the members of the union. [More…]
This is what it should be concerning itself with insofar as the union movement is concerned in this area. [More…]
Slowly but surely over the last few years we have seen not only the trade union movement but others opposed to it in the industry showing real signs of concern. [More…]
At last they have heeded the voice of the trade union movement as to what has been happening almost since the first days of trading in Australia. [More…]
One of the initial points to come from the Woodward Conference was that if there were to be any innovations in mechanical handling, the use of forklift trucks or what have you, before the employers introduced such innovations they should acquaint the local union branch members with them so that, where there was likely to be any difference of opinion, they could get around the conference table and thrash it out. [More…]
At an Interparliamentary Union gathering one will find representatives of a large number of countries which could not be described as democracies by any manner of means but which have their parliamentary systems. [More…]
On the other hand, the Government has supported the formation of a Select Committee of Constitutional Development with members drawn, not from the ranks of Labor Press secretaries or ex-Australian trade union organisers, but from indigenous and expatriate members of the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea; people who live and work in the Territory; people who can speak the lan guage of the Territory and who, presumably, have some knowledge in depth of the customs and mores of the Territorians. [More…]
I think the conditions of wage earners in Papua New Guinea are thoroughly miserable and will remain miserable as long as the Toua Kapenas can leave trade union letters unanswered for over 9 months when they make a claim for wages, when the employers leave their letters unanswered and there is no system of arbitration which can bring the matter to an engagement to see what is really fair. [More…]
Our exports to Japan, the United Kingdom and particularly the Soviet Union are up on the previous year. [More…]
I repeat: Of course we watch this carefully, as we watch the unnecessary intrusion of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic’s fleet into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Court pointed out that it was illegal to threaten to sack a person for being a member of a union but that it was perfectly lawful to sack a person for being a member of a union provided the sacking was not accompanied by a threat. [More…]
The High Court had occasion to draw attention to another defect in the Act concerning the registration of eligibility rules of unions where the eligibility rules which were sought to be registered conflicted with the description of industry for which the union was registered. [More…]
Many years ago the Industrial Court held that it was illegal for a union to include a rule in its rule book which required a member to give written notice of his intention to resign from the union. [More…]
Provided that was done the union had no further claim upon the employee. [More…]
On the question of demarcation the High Court has ruled that as the law now stands there is no power for a State industrial court or the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to settle a dispute arising out of demarcation between the members of a State registered union and members of a State branch of a Federal union. [More…]
What do the unions do now? [More…]
A union that is forced to put in a claim for $200 a week, for a 25-hour week and for other things, such as . [More…]
union was forced to claim in the first instance; otherwise it finds itself out of ambit. [More…]
How can anybody blame the Arbitration Commission if discontent follows when a union is forced to claim $200 a week and a 25- hour or 30-hour week in order to keep within ambit and to avoid finding itself out of court when some change in events takes place? [More…]
When the 40-hour week.. was introduced every union that had a claim for the previous 44-hour week to be continued had to serve the respondents afresh. [More…]
More than 2 years ago there was a famous case, known as the Moore v. Doyle case, in which the Commonwealth Industrial Court held that where a union was properly registered in a State court it could not purport to be a State branch of the Federal union. [More…]
In the case of Moore v. Doyle it was found that what was always believed to be the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union - that is, the Federal union - was not a branch of the Federal union at all but was a separate State union with its own separate personality and corporate status. [More…]
The union, as a consequence, lost the whole of its New South Wales Branch. [More…]
The New South Wales Branch took all the property which had previously been thought to be the property of the Transport Workers Union’s Federal body. [More…]
The Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union is quite clearly now not a member of the Federal body but is a State body with its own standing. [More…]
Unless this matter is settled quickly the whole structure of the trade union movement will collapse, and with it must collapse the arbitration system as. [More…]
Does the Government not care what happens to the structure of the trade union movement? [More…]
I want to read to the House a communication which I have received from a branch of ‘The Farmers’ Union of Western Australia (Inc.)’. [More…]
At a recent meeting of the above branch of the Farmers’ Union the following motion was carried unanimously; [More…]
The Vicorian Farmers Union, the Graziers Association of Victoria and the New South Wales Graziers Association have warned of the dangers of the scheme. [More…]
The President of the Victorian Farmers Union, Mr P. B. Leach, said that his organisation feared that the foreshadowed collapse in land values could attract foreign capital, thereby removing the last major resource in Australia from Australian ownership. [More…]
He said that the Victorian Farmers Union wanted the land to remain in the hands of Australian farmers. [More…]
Should a trade union feel that the company is unnecessarily standing down employees there is ample scope for the union to test its claims under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act [More…]
I do not know what unions they are in, but if I was a union secretary in charge of the staff of Parliament House; I would take the staff out on -strike in protest against the conduct of this Government. [More…]
The best way in’’ which to bring this Government to its senses would be for the unions concerned to declare this kind of conduct black- and to state- that no man or woman would work ‘for the Parliament without a specified- time1 for rest. [More…]
I have to pay great tribute also to Mr Paul Munro, the Secretary of the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, to Mr George Slater, the General Secretary of the Postal Workers Union, to Mr Frank Waters, the Federal President of that body, the honourable member for Perth (Mr Berinson) and to a lot of other people who gave up their time willingly to assist us in this matter. [More…]
I notice, in the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’, that the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the Argentine, Brazil and Mexico already have compensation payable on the basis of 100 per cent rate benefit in their normal wages. [More…]
Let us consider other countries such as; to mention the ones I have already spoken of, Mexico, Argentina, the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. [More…]
I think he said that, there was a number of countries - he mentioned particularly the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - in which compensation was paid on a no loss of income basis. [More…]
His union wrote to his employer, the Commonwealth Railways, on 6th May last year, enclosing a specialist’s report. [More…]
It is one aspect of industrial relations in which all are involved - the individual, the union, and the employer - and one that can be approached in harmony to ensure complete job safety. [More…]
and the New Hebrides, an Anglo-French condominium with no clear demarcation of legislative powers and a foot in both the sterling area and the European Monetary Union. [More…]
The Victorian Teachers Union said last year that there was a shortage of at least 250 qualified mathematics and science teachers in Victoria. [More…]
industrial dispute where members of the same, union are involved in a, dispute (a) in the same’ vicinity and (b) In areas remote from the dispute that has been the cause of the stand down. [More…]
Where a unionis involved in an industrial dispute all its members are parties to the dispute. [More…]
his union he is not. [More…]
The honourable gentleman does, of course, have a great depth of experience in industrial matters, and notwithstanding the mirth which the question has generated in the Opposition benches, it is fair to say that what the honourable gentleman is doing is drawing attention to one of the extreme examples of the excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
I might say to the honourable member for Riverina, who himself has recently also drawn attention to those excesses by public statement, that this is in every way a matter which the honourable gentleman ought to raise in the House and it is a proper matter for concern because the situation, as honourable members on the other side would be well aware, is that Broken Hill is a closed town and indeed is an example of the excess to which union power can run in this country. [More…]
So far as the final point raised by the honourable gentleman in relation to the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is concerned, I am not specifically aware of what the ACTU policy is in relation to Broken Hill but my very clear understanding is that the [More…]
In reply to the question posed by the honourable member for Ballaarat, I would say that there are very many good reasons why trade unions should not continue with the use of the strike weapon for political purposes. [More…]
In the second place those tactics are divisive of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
In the third place they constitute interference with the normal political persuasions of the particular unionists involved, many of whom have views quite inconsistent with those which are dictated to them by those who control their un;on affairs. [More…]
Mr Speaker, trade unions in this country are an accepted part of our democratic fabric and they have a major role to play over the whole of the industrial relations scene. [More…]
But certainly it is time for trade unionists and trade unions at large to stand up on this issue and bring back to the trade union movement the image for which at one time it was distinguished. [More…]
In the second answer the Minister made a complete misinterpretation of my comments on trade union activism in political affairs. [More…]
I made a plea for trade unions and trade unionists to be more politically active, not less so. [More…]
He has stood by helplessly while his authority has been eroded and his bailiwick invaded by Mr Bob Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, another leader who is causing responsible people in the trade union movement a great deal of activity. [More…]
He would give the same answer on this occasion because he cannot decide, as no-one else can decide, who is running the trade union movement. [More…]
It means a socialistic, trade union dominated government, and I would find it hard to imagine a Labor government in which Mr Hawke did not play some part. [More…]
From Universal Postal Union (UPU): [More…]
From International Telecommunication Union (ITU): [More…]
Did consultations take place between officers of his Department and the Public Service Board and/or the Postmaster-General’s Department and/or any other department concerning the appearance of the Public Service Board as a party in the Joint Bench hearing of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union case for equal pay. [More…]
ls it in the public interest that union rules should not be contrary to law or be oppressive, unreasonable or unjust and that all lawful rules of a union should be observed by all persons who are under an obligation to observe those rules. [More…]
Can he say whether the (a) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and (b) People’s Republic of China have any nuclear power reactors. [More…]
PWR - Draftwerk Union, Germany [More…]
Unions and employers are under no obligation to keep me or my Department informed as to the extent or otherwise that they may have given effect to the guidelines. [More…]
However, I am informed that in several major areas of employment there have either been discussions between union and employer representatives towards giving effect to the guidelines or there have been agreements entered into which have been influenced by the guidelines. [More…]
Let us seize the opportunity now to get rational, peaceful and fruitful relations between all the great powers in the Pacific - China and the United States, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I was with a number of members of the Asian Parliamentary Union who went with President Thieu to 3 of the larger towns and cities in the Mekong Delta area. [More…]
I have gone to meetings of the Draft Resisters Union - good solid young men who are struggling with their consciences. [More…]
It is not only a humanitarian question, but it is a provocation towards a war - a provocation towards a war in which both the Soviet Union and Communist China might intervene if it is launched. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that India has signed a treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation with the Soviet Union on 9th August. [More…]
Naturally we are studying this treaty closely to assess its possible implications for the presence of the Soviet Union on the Indian sub-con tinent and in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I do not think it is any use at this stage the American Government wringing its hands about the friendship treaty between the Soviet Union and India. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members who were here at the time when troops from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries invaded Czechoslovakia will recall that on both sides of the House honourable members united to express the concern through this Parliament of all the people of Australia at what was happening in that part of the world at that time. [More…]
In Calcutta literally thousands of Maoists - people belonging to the Peking oriented Communist Party in India - were marching in a trade union demonstration. [More…]
Pressure is applied by the unions through the various industrial agreements they have. [More…]
So far as union relations with the mining companies are concerned, these are fairly well-known. [More…]
If this is what the unions want and demand, naturally the mining companies find that it is healthy to go along with them. [More…]
There are sufficient matters of one sort or another for dispute in Broken Hill and they are not going to waste industrial powder and shot on the unions over a question like this. [More…]
It might be said also that some glimmer of advance has taken place in sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
I noticed a few nights ago that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions was complaining at a big union meeting that no women were present. [More…]
I can see that he would not be wrong about the Barrier Industrial Council itself being responsible as distinct from the unions and members of unions. [More…]
Since January of this year the membership of the Australian Textile Workers Union in the Geelong subdivision has dropped by 900 members. [More…]
Yesterday in the Minister’s reply I detected an inability on his part to weigh up the situation so far as the trade union movement in Australia today is concerned. [More…]
It seems that we can look to a very unhappy relationship between the trade union movement and the employer organisations. [More…]
The Minister demonstrated that he is so inexpert and so ignorant of the trade union movement and of the employee’s side of the industrial scene that he fails to appreciate that Broken Hill would have the least number of man hours lost through illegal strikes, political stoppages and all these things which be and past Ministers have been so happy to relate to the House. [More…]
I draw to his attention also that this is brought about by the fact that, by and large, Broken Hill is almost completely a union town. [More…]
Either just before or just after the Minister accepted the portfolio, this Government bombed certain industrial agreements that were made between employer and trade union organisations. [More…]
This set off a chain reaction within the trade union movement. [More…]
132 add: Constitution of the Universal Postal Union with Final Protocol 10th July 1964;; Additional Protocol to the constitution of the Universal Postal Union 14 November 1969; General Regulations of the Universal Postal Union with Final Protocol 14th November 1969; Universal Postal Convention with Final Protocol and Detailed Regulations 14th November 1969. [More…]
1 would not be so bold as to say that we were so well situated to improve relations with the Soviet Union but I did notice - as a matter of fact when I arrived in Tokyo and was met by my old opponent but good friend, Mr Gordon Freeth - as a crowning irony that the Prime Minister had just said this about the Soviet Union and me: [More…]
The situation technically is that not only is Japan still in a state of war with the Soviet Union but she is still also in a state of war with China. [More…]
Perhaps I should speak briefly on the difficulty between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
She realises that she could not defeat the Soviet Union. [More…]
She is willing to hold o.ut for 20 or 30 years until she is in a position of equality with the Soviet Union before she enters into an equal treaty to ratify those borders. [More…]
Then, when Mr Chou denounced *he Soviet Union for terminating the Sino-Soviet friendship treaty, the Leader of the Opposition said: [More…]
Japan may either go in with China in an economic entente, despite words, or she may go in with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We must re-assess our position with regard to Great Britain, the United States, China, Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
United Arab Republic and, most recently - this is interesting to note - to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition made the interesting comment that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had treated China abominably. [More…]
We had to take those steps because the Soviet Union could not, because of differences that they have that at the present time seem to be irreconcilable. [More…]
But at least the doors must be opened and the goal of US policy must be in the long term, ending the isolation of Mainland China, and a normalisation of our relations with Mainland China because, looking down the road, and let’s just look ahead IS to 20 years, the United States could have a perfectly effective agreement with the Soviet Union for limitation of arms - the danger of any confrontation there - [More…]
He is referring to the Soviet Union - might have been almost totally removed. [More…]
The honourable member further forgets that the one significant strategic difference between the situation that then prevailed and that which is now beginning to emerge is China’s growing fear of the Soviet Union which makes China look outward to see what other relationships she might form and what changes she might be able to make in her connections with other countries. [More…]
At this time Australia is seeking to broaden its relations with the Soviet Union and to normalise its relations wilh the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
Though, as I have said, I have reservations about the effect of this union on world agricultural exports, and hence on ours, if the British are right then we as one of the world’s big traders must be among the biggest beneficiaries. [More…]
It is no wonder that Mr Hawke lately has asserted his leadership of the Labor movement over the Leader of the Opposition, for that leadership is a natural consequence of the domination of the unions over the ALP which lasts to this day. [More…]
Today as much as yesterday, the Labor Party is dominated by outside vested interests, by Party and union bosses who can lay no claim to represent the people of Australia and who will not let the Leader of the Opposition do so either. [More…]
The trade union domination of those outside branches is to the extent of 60 per cent plus. [More…]
In submitting proposals to the Secretary-General regarding the review of the United Nations’ Charter, which are required before 1st July 1972, will the Government give consideration to the need to move for (a) negotiating an international exchange of press space and broadcasting time, (b) representation for China and Tibet separately (as for the Soviet Union, the Ukraine and Byelorussia) to encourage China to accept de facto representation for Taiwan, and separate representation for contending regimes in other divided countries, (c) universal suffrage in developing nations as a step towards democratic representation at the General Assembly or an associated House of Deputies and (d) growing legislative, judicial and executive powers for the United Nations as a pre-requisite for total disarmament, co-ordinated world development and control of the environment, subject to safeguards for national sovereignty in purely national matters? [More…]
A total of 648 police were on duty on or near Manuka Oval on 21st July 1971 during the visit of the South African Rugby Union team. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that the public at large and many good union members are sick to death of strikes in defiance of the arbitration system and that this irresponsible conduct appears to be encouraged and condoned by leaders of the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party, at both the State and the Federal level? [More…]
As the honourable gentleman has mentioned, of course the community at large and I have no doubt the great majority of Australian trade unionists are heartily sick and tired of strikes of all descriptions, particularly political strikes involving, as they do, the manipulation of the workers of this country by a small group of trade union leaders for their own peculiar political purposes. [More…]
Fortunately there are signs that an increasing number of trade unionists are prepared to stand and be counted on this subject. [More…]
I refer to incidents such as the following: Recently in Tasmania some 2,000 workers refused to join in a 24-hour stoppage over dismissals at a plant in Tasmania; secondly, tramway employees in Melbourne rejected moves by their union for a stop work meeting over the gaoling of the Communist official of another union who had been involved in a case of assault; thirdly, waterside workers in a major Australian port recently refused to join in a stop work meeting concerning the National Service Act. [More…]
Of course, what members of the Transport Workers Union did in relation to the Springbok tour is well known. [More…]
They were prepared to accept the dictates of their conscience and not those of the union leaders. [More…]
It is not for me at this time to indicate the direction which the Government is taking, but I indicate that the Government starts with the proposition not that the provisions of the Act should be weakened but in fact that they should be strengthened in the face of increasing trade union militancy in Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labour and National Service a question further to my question last Tuesday on the control by the unions of employment of women in Broken Hill. [More…]
Is it a fact that on 4 separate occasions during the year every unionist in Broken Hill is obliged forcibly to wear his badge? [More…]
Is it a fact that every unionist in Broken Hill is obliged to buy the daily paper published by the Barrier Industrial Council however many unionists may be living under the same roof? [More…]
Will the Minister say further to what extent life and liberties enjoyed by subjects elsewhere in Australia are in Broken Hill subject to union dictatorship? [More…]
Last week I described the role of the Barrier Industrial Council in Broken Hill as one of the extreme examples of the excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
The Council directs that employers give preference to local residents in relation to work opportunities; there is compulsory unionism; every unionist must obey the rules of his union; and, as the honourable gentleman has mentioned, it is in any one year on which all the financial up the picture of the 4 days in Broken Hill in any I year on which all of the financial members of a union are required to wear their badge on a prominent place on their persons so that the badges are conspicuous. [More…]
Will the Minister for Labour and National Service consider requiring the registration with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of Australia’s most powerful trade union, the Australian Medical Association, so that doctors’ fees can be fixed in the same way as the wages of patients whom they treat? [More…]
He was talking about the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) - he gave away in advance every bargaining counter that Australia has in future negotiations with China and in the process gratuitously insulted not only the United States, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines and Cambodia but even the Soviet Union. [More…]
Secondly, he could do something about the trade union embargo on the export of merino rams. [More…]
It is nonsense for him to come into this chamber and talk about selling wheat to China when he knows that the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions - indeed, the Australian Labor Party - deliberately to prevent the export of rams from Australia has resulted in Australia having to rat on its international obligations. [More…]
On Monday night, Mr McMahon said that Mr Whitlam had even spoken contemptuously of the Soviet Union- [More…]
Has he forgotten the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia? [More…]
He spoke of the differences between China and the Soviet Union over their border dispute. [More…]
The Government wants to forget Czechoslovakia and the freedoms that have been crushed in that country, lt even wants to ignore the restrictions on the freedom of the artists and writers in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I was also entertained by the heads of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Domei, Sohyo, the Automobile Workers’ Union and various academics. [More…]
The first matter, which I dealt with in greater detail last Thursday afternoon, is this: There is still no peace between Japan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union were not represented at San Francisco. [More…]
No doubt he, like most of us who have thought about Australia’s future in that part of the world, has been greatly embarrassed by his Prime Minister’s performance during the recent tour by a white South African rugby union team which was presented and welcomed by him as representing the Republic of South Africa. [More…]
I hope honourable members can imagine the shock and horror that greeted the announcement that the Prime Minister was prepared to use Royal Australian Air Force aircraft to fly the Springbok rugby union team around Australia, particularly in view of what appeared to be the very slow reaction to flying aid to Pakistan. [More…]
I do not think any of us doubt the genuineness of his hope that the Australian Government will cancel future tours by South African rugby union and cricket teams as a form of protest against the apartheid policies of the South African Government, but I do believe that a great percentage of the people of Australia are frankly not interested in using the cancellation of these tours as a method of protest. [More…]
For myself, I reject the concept of suppression, whether it be practised in the United States of America, South Africa, China, the Soviet Union oi any other place in the world. [More…]
My colleagues and I were asked during the recent South African rugby union tour of this country: ‘Why do you oppose’ - nonviolently, I hasten to add, because violence defeats its own purpose - ‘this South African rugby tour of this country and at the same time not oppose the visits of the Russian soccer team and the Moscow Circus or other exchanges with totalitarian regimes behind the Iron or Bamboo Curtains?’ [More…]
We have heard on successive days in this House attacks upon the trade union movement by honourable members opposite to which there is no public answer. [More…]
It is futile to talk as the Treasurer does, about confrontations’ which, whether they be between governments and employees or companies and employees or between the arbitration tribunals and employees’ associations, can only add to industrial unrest and industrial loss, lt is futile to hurl insults and abuse at the leader of the trade union movement whose real offence is that he is effective. [More…]
It seems to me to be a travesty of the industrial bargaining process to attempt, as many Government supporters do, to see union claims for increased wages as a case of lions leading donkeys to an annual picnic in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission at public expense. [More…]
It seems to me that insidiously what is being assaulted here is not only the trade union movement but also fundamentally the integrity of the Arbitration Commission itself. [More…]
The trade union movement is prepared to assert this kind of thesis and to say: ‘We have been able to hold what we have as our share of the total national product only by taking the sort of action that we have’. [More…]
It is the boasted policy of the extreme left and the Communists, many of whom control the largest industrial unions in this country - I am not calling them Communists, because they profess that they are Communists - to destroy a democratic society by promoting strikes, unemployment, hunger and misery. [More…]
These people, although they do not represent more than a very minute portion of the trade union movement, have gained power because of the great Australian apathy. [More…]
I am convinced that one of the most urgent matters facing this Government is the introduction of compulsory secret ballots under the supervision of the Commonwealth Electoral Office for the election of all union executives, and the conduct of a compulsory secret ballot of all workers engaged in an industry before a major strike is called on. [More…]
I have seen in my electorate that the people who support me most strongly on this matter are the union members themselves, but they say to me: ‘We are not game to openly support you because we know that we will be victimised’. [More…]
Compulsory secret ballots in union elections would put the control of the unions back into the hands of the rank and file where it ought to be. [More…]
Secret ballots would replace the disruptive dictators who are in control of many unions with men of sound commonsense and moderate views who would be prepared to sit down and discuss matters with management in a sensible manner to the benefit of all concerned. [More…]
It is a statistical fact that in this country fewer than SO per cent of people employed in industry belong to a union of any kind although unionism is compulsory in many areas. [More…]
It is true to say that fewer than 10 per cent of the financial members of unions attend union meetings. [More…]
I am told by many members of unions that this figure is an exaggeration and that it is nearer to 5 per cent but let us leave it at 10 per cent. [More…]
Secondly, it must legislate for compulsory secret ballots in all union elections and provide for a secret ballot for all persons employed in an industry before a strike is called,. [More…]
I suggest that they join a trade union and learn some of the principles involved. [More…]
No doubt the Budget is so poor that Government supporters must spend their time talking about unions. [More…]
If they spent some of their time talking to trade union officials and members they would find that they are human beings who are just looking for a better way of life. [More…]
When he speaks about unions and arbitration it would appear that he is preparing for a confrontation with both these bodies. [More…]
I refer to the lawful organisation of workers in trade unions who in turn make their applications in respect of wages and conditions to a lawfully constituted authority of independent tribunals free from political bias and the interference of Party politics. [More…]
What is the purpose of its continual attacks on the trade union movement which consists of normal, everyday Australian citizens of all political colours? [More…]
The Government also knows full well that rank and file trade unionists will bring pressure to bear on their leaders to rectify the situation. [More…]
If world trends are followed this must eventually happen, even if it is when the trade union movement itself enters this field and offers active and real competition. [More…]
There is the Government’s indecent haste to destroy the trade union leadership and create industrial anarchy. [More…]
Union leadership and arbitration will be bypassed if the Government’s plans, which are shaping towards fruition, so that it may rule by force and fear, are implemented within the next 12 months. [More…]
As I understand it, at an executive meeting of the ACTU Mr Hawke was unable to resolve the differences between one union and another, so I agreed to meet again with him. [More…]
It has become apparent that the other maritime unions do not agree that a safety issue is involved, and I am hopeful that the ‘Echuca’ will sail tomorrow on its job of carting backwards and forwards the important import and export cargo of the beleaguered State of Tasmania. [More…]
I have seen newspaper comments to the effect that the Australian Council of Trade Unions wished to establish consumer credit buying and a number of other things. [More…]
One of the interesting factors in this was the suggestion that the ACTU not only would welcome but also indeed was negotiating for financial aid for these activities from the West German trade union movement and from the Israeli trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement led, I say deliberately, by the arch enemy of Australia, Bob Hawke, is taking advantage of the position and is using the strike weapon to force wages up higher and at the same time to reduce production. [More…]
The trade union movement is going far beyond its charter, which is to improve the conditions of labour in unions. [More…]
The trade union movement is trying to organise control of banking, credit, housing and all these things. [More…]
Since this Bob Hawke became President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 1969 - appointed to the position by the left wing element - trade unions have organised political strikes. [More…]
What has that to do with the trade union movement? [More…]
In July 1971 there was the union ban on the South African rugby tour. [More…]
It is evident from these strikes that the trade union movement has entrenched itself firmly in the political arena and has gone beyond its charter. [More…]
I draw attention to some statements made by trade union leaders because I think these should be quoted in the House. [More…]
The trade union movement must insist on its right to be more than just an industrial body looking after the industrial demands of its members. [More…]
Unions must make it clear that they have a right to interfere in the political movement of the nation. [More…]
It is now perfectly clear that the trade union movement has entered into the field of politics. [More…]
What 1 am trying to say is that the trade union movement has gone far beyond its charter and is now entering the political arena. [More…]
lt is encouraging and condoning the leaders of the left wing unions every time there is a demand for higher wages or a threat to strike. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition obviously is terrorised by the political power of Mr Hawke and the unions. [More…]
But the Arbitration Commission is not really responsible for the present trouble which is caused by the wages drift, overaward payments by employers, either forced by ruthless use of union monopoly power, or by employers competing among themselves for scarce specialised labour. [More…]
Many attacks have been made on the trade union movement. [More…]
Probably its most spectacular member currently is the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We have seen the Government parties building up towards a fight with the trade union movement in this country by making suggestions that if inflation has occurred, it has been caused by the pressures on employers by the trade union movement seeking higher wages, over award payments and the like. [More…]
None of these problems will be solved if the Government is to spend its energies attacking the work of the great trade union movement of this country, because the trade union movement is responding to the demands of its members. [More…]
It is in the interests of all Australians that Australia should continue to have a vigorous trade union movement fighting for the welfare not only of its members, but also of retired people, primary producers and others throughout the country. [More…]
No union official would get the support of his members in an application for a wage rise if the union members did not believe that cost of living increases had reduced the real value of their wage. [More…]
The tough Budget of Billy, Snedden, itself a courageous and wise document, was clearly intended to ‘pull on’ Bob Hawke and his Communist mates in the union movement. [More…]
In the process, it would become clear to union members that any increase in wages would tend to be accompanied by a rise in unemployment. [More…]
Bob Hawke, as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, heads an interstate executive consisting of 17 persons, only one of whom is a recognised member of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
There are 170 trade union organisations affiliated with the ACTU. [More…]
It has been devised after consultation with representatives of secondary industry, primary industry, manufacturers and the trade union movement. [More…]
While the Government pretends to support the arbitration system it does in fact hate to see workers properly organised, unified and properly represented by competent advocates and it does everything it can do and goes as far as it can go to smear, besmirch, belittle and destroy the very people who, by their efforts as union officials, are endeavouring amicably to settie disputes by ensuring that both the employees and the employers receive a fair hearing and a fair result. [More…]
Whilst many employers, perhaps most employers, are happy to discuss and settle their problems and disputes at conferences around their office tables with union representatives, this does not suit the Employers Federation which, a. few years ago, waved a very big stick indeed in no uncertain manner and practically dictated to the employers what they should or should not do. [More…]
The progress which the unions are making is really worrying the Employers Federation. [More…]
It is worried about the growing respect which the unions and individual employers have for each other. [More…]
This Budget is a deliberate attempt to bring about a pool of unemployment and to incite competition among job seekers, such as occurred in the 1930s, just for the purpose of trying to weaken the activities and the support of the unions in their attempts to obtain and retain proper conditions and wage justice for their members. [More…]
The Treasurer has made it clear that the Government intends to use every means at its disposal to prevent any further wage increases being obtained either through normal court channels or union-employer negotiations. [More…]
Firstly, it is strong Government criticism of the members of the Commonwealth Conciliation^ and Arbitration Commission and the employers’ who were convinced of the justice of the union claims and gave them proper recognition. [More…]
These countries still have wage push inflation; that is, those people who are still in employment, through their union bosses, decide that they must get more and more money, having little regard for the end result as to the cost of the commodity and having no regard for the fact that ultimately the goods produced will not be saleable anywhere and certainly will not be saleable overseas. [More…]
In other words, I believe that union bosses have a responsibility and I am saying that they should have, as a government must have, some responsibility for those people who are out of work, those who are in receipt of pensions, the aged, the maimed, the sick and so on. [More…]
The workers there, because of the actions of the union bosses, were on strike for 4 or 5 months last year, lt was the intention of the Ford administration in America to pump $40m into the Dagenham plant in the United Kingdom to make sure it was brought up to date so that it would be able to compete with the French, the Germans and the Japanese. [More…]
It is Mr Hawke and his henchmen - I could not care less - someone in the militant trade union movement. [More…]
It can and does build up this unemployment pool that honourable members opposite talk about, and the union bosses and those in work have no responsibility for the unemployed. [More…]
Industry must look after its own interests and the unions must look after the interests of their workers, but the Government must have a say also because it must have the responsibility of looking after the unemployed, the pensioners, the sick, the maimed and the aged. [More…]
1971, the United States and the Soviet Union presented to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (CCD), a joint draft convention on biological weapons. [More…]
I do not canvass the issue, except to refer in brief to the fact that what is put forward and presented in the editorial is very much out of step with public opinion as interpreted by gallup polls with the opinion of the business sector and also with the opinion of a number of prominent trade union officials who have made comment on this issue in recent months. [More…]
Does the Conciliation and Arbitration Act provide that ballots can be ordered on matters on which the Commission considers the opinion of union members should be obtained? [More…]
Australian Council of Trade Unions, myself and the maritime unions involved met the Professional Radio Employees Institute on this question, and the ACTU and the maritime unions accepted that there was no safety issue involved in the sailing of the ‘Echuca’, which was the basis of the dispute. [More…]
The ACTU carried a resolution instructing the other maritime unions that they were free to sail all ANL ships as well as the ‘Echuca’. [More…]
I feel somewhat disappointed at Mr Hawke’s inability to bring his affiliated union under control in the circumstances. [More…]
If it is true that such is the case, can the Minister explain to the House where in substance this policy differs from the trade union policy of compulsory unionism or preference to unionists? [More…]
The member for Hume, Mr Pettitt, said in Canberra on Thursday that the member for Riverina, Mr A. Grassby, apparently had completely reversed his opinion about trade union activity In politics. [More…]
one of the extreme examples of excess of union power in Australia. [More…]
The best way that any Liberal government can ever see to temper and discipline the trade union movement is to create a pool of unemployed, and that is precisely the objective of what is fundamentally a completely deflationary budget. [More…]
So far as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is concerned, she has made her presence felt in the Mediterranean and in the Mediterranean littoral, in the Middle East and now in India, and she has moved into the Indian Ocean and into South East Asia. [More…]
As to the media personalities, they are younger on the whole, more personable, quicker witted and smarter than members of Parliament but lacking in general in the more substantial abilities of leading members of the Parliament whose experience is rooted in various professional, business and trade union spheres of activity. [More…]
What was the cost of providing police pro- tection during the South African Rugby Union team’s stay in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The cost of providing police protection during the South African Rugby Union team’s stay in the Australian Capital Territory was approximately $43,700. [More…]
To what extent have the departments, authorities and universities complied with the decision of the Full Bench of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Federated Clerks Union of Australia v. Golden Fleece Petroleum Limited and others on 26th March 1968 that when employers are contemplating the introduction of computers and other automatic devices which may have serious effects on employees such as termination of employment or transfer interstate it is essential that both the employees and the union concerned should be informed of and involved in the planning as soon as possible. [More…]
In what unions and branches of unions in each of the past 15 years has the Registrar received a request under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration- Act that a union election De conducted by the Registrar with a view to preventing irregularities. [More…]
How many ballot papers were posted to union members in each of the elections conducted by the Registar. [More…]
What was the total man-hours spent by members of the Registrar’s staff in conducting union elections in each of the past 15 years and what was the estimated cost of this labour. [More…]
My mind turns to a statement made by Mr G. Chance, a member of .the Australian Wool Board and president of the Wool Section of the Farmers’ Union on his return from the International Wool Secretariat meeting in London. [More…]
On sheer grounds of social equity and justice, therefore, the Government cannot allow economic conditions to persist in which union militancy will pay off. [More…]
In the Government’s view union leaders must understand that when they rock the boat too much, everyone gets wet, including themselves. [More…]
Trade union action, was successful in certain instances in increasing the share of certain privileged or closely organised groups such as tally clerks, dock workers and so on. [More…]
The lower paid, the defenceless and the handicapped, despite the declamations of the unions, have not been protected. [More…]
The favourite ploy of unions is to assert that labour must submit to arbitration to increase its price whereas employers are accountable to no-one and can increase their prices unilaterally. [More…]
There may be instances of firms in Australia earning excessive profits but what unions conveniently ignore is that competition, whether domestic or external, generally keeps a tight rein on profit margins. [More…]
One must not be left with the illusion that union militancy contributes to inflation only through excessive wage increases. [More…]
Apart from union militancy, the arbitral tribunals have also played some role in our recent inflationary experience. [More…]
On the other hand when the same set of rules and the same arguments are advanced by the trade union movement to obtain compulsory unionism or preference to unionists in order that all workers in a particular trade or calling equally share the cost of obtaining the best possible wages and conditions Government supporters completely disregard the principle that they have legislated for in the rural sector and raise the hackneyed cry of conscience and the rights of the individual. [More…]
Several speakers have made the point that one of the main objects of the Budget is to create a sizeable pool of unemployment in order to contain consumer demand and at the same time quieten union or worker activity. [More…]
Some 5 months or 6 months ago, 1 could see coming up in the trade union movement a major confrontation between this Government and the trade unions. [More…]
I know how determined were my friends on the other side of the House that the trade union movement was to be challenged. [More…]
1 know the trade union movement well enough to recognise that the people who lead it will not be trampled on. [More…]
We can start with Britain and the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, some of the Scandinavian countries, Sweden, France, Italy, Japan, Australia and Canada. [More…]
They are Australia, Canada perhaps, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America. [More…]
Will he examine the reasons given by Courts for (a) refusing to convict employers for information laid by unions for breach of section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and (b) convictions under the section followed by a refusal to order the reinstatement of a victimised union member. [More…]
Does this case and several others indicate the need for amending the section of the Act in such a way as to make it easier for unions to enforce the policy of the Act against victimisation of union members and union delegates. [More…]
In consultation with national employer and trade union bodies, the Government is currently undertaking a review of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
If other people, particularly the Opposition, sections of the trade union movement and the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, were content to follow our lead I would be a very happy man because I know that the Budget’s objectives would be achieved. [More…]
Is it this union - that is, the Waterside Workers Federation - which has the record achievement of more lost time through strike action than all other unions in Australia combined? [More…]
Is it this union - that is, the Waterside Workers Federation - which has the record achievement of more time lost through strike action than all other unions in Australia combined? [More…]
Of course, the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) says that the pension value is being eroded by the efforts of Bob Hawke and by the trade union movement. [More…]
It sees fit to be critical of the trade union movement. [More…]
Let me say this to honourable members opposite and to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for that matter: If a trade union were to run its organisation in the way that the Parliament has been run for the last couple of weeks the country would indeed be in strife. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service, in one of his hysterical outbursts of union baiting, has highlighted the number of working days lost through strikes. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: In view of his thwarted effort to write directly to the Soviet Premier, Mr Kosygin, does he intend to visit the Soviet Union or extend an invitation to Mr Kosygin to visit Australia in return for the visit of the former Deputy Prime Minister? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labour and National Service: When a senior member of this Parliament tells employers not to confront employees and unions, does it signify that employers should be ready to meet excessive wage demands, which has been the pattern in recent years? [More…]
Are some employers too ready to accede to union demands without recourse to the arbitration system and do they then approach the Tariff Board for additional protection against imports? [More…]
We are fortified by the fact that the largest Post Office union, the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, supports the hiving off of the Post Office from the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Minister went on to point out that certain members of the Opposition and leaders of the trade union movement, while understanding this situation, never express it because they feel that not expressing it brings political advantage to them. [More…]
I believe this to be so and I would hope that as we face perhaps more difficult days to come we will get a more realistic approach to this matter by members of the Opposition, the trade union movement and the community in general. [More…]
Last January, President Johnson endorsed that recommendation in his State of the Union message. [More…]
I have found myself completely humiliated when Union deputations called on me. [More…]
All but one of the unions associated with the Post Office, in discussions, has supported the view that the Postmaster-General’s Department should be divorced from the Public Service Board and should be made a separate department controlled by a public corporation. [More…]
The union that objects is concerned with its lines of promotion in the Public Service, which is important to that union; but that should not be an insurmountable obstacle to any reform. [More…]
The other unions consider that if the proposed reform took place there would be better services to the community and industrial relations would improve. [More…]
It is pretty obvious that it is the trade union movement that the Government intends to use, because the Postmaster-General talks about lack of productivity, wage rises and all these things which have now become legion and about which we have come to expect to hear from the Government. [More…]
They were the words of an avowed Communist who gained control of a union and used it in order to bring down production. [More…]
On no occasion has the Opposition come out strongly against this kind of thing because unfortunately - I know that no member of the Opposition likes to hear this - the Opposition is dependant upon the trade union movement and the left wing in the trade union movement is so considerable that members of the Opposition dare not say what they think. [More…]
But what has been happening in the last 3 or 4 weeks when militant factions in the unions have brought on their confrontations in the building industry, in the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board - which is a government instrumentality and not something which could be accused of making profits - and in the New South Wales railways a couple of days ago? [More…]
The approach of the Government to the affairs of this nation stands in marked contrast, I would submit, to the actions of the Labor Party and its friends and allies of the trade union movement, whose irresponsible and divisive actions have become increasingly apparent since Mr Hawke became President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
One must have a short memory if one forgets what the Russians did in Hungary or Czechoslovakia, or the present persecution of the Jewish people, the Baptists and other minorities in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst I was in South Africa the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), together with other Labor and union leaders, were in Communist China talking to Chou En-lai. [More…]
But what 1 am most concerned with is the increasing threat to the civil liberties of the average Australian posed by the activities of the demonstrators and the unions. [More…]
During the period I was in South Africa I received no mail from my family because the Australian Postal Workers Union refused to handle mail to South Africa. [More…]
I resent very strongly the action of the Postal Union in using this sort of tactic and I wish to register my protest in this democratically elected Parliament. [More…]
The Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) has stated that the cost of police protection in Canberra for the 3-day Springbok Rugby Union tour was $43,700. [More…]
Those quotes are not from radical trade union journals but are the considered opinions of such an august body as the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce as published on the front page of its journal Commerce News’ dated 20th August 1971, and of the President of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales as printed on the front page of ‘Manufacturers’ Bulletin’ dated 20th August 1971. [More…]
The Builders Labourers Union, which was one of those unions attacked in this House today, is very conscious of the safety of its members. [More…]
It is not the only union that is so concerned about its members. [More…]
The great cry recently was the need to hobble the activities of progressive unionists by insisting on secret ballots before workers went on strike. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union have enough explosives to kill and overkill mankind 25 times. [More…]
Before we all pass on 1 should like to hear the honourable member for Reid ask one day that the Soviet Union make available all information about its defences. [More…]
In one phrase he said that my criticism was directed only one way, meaning that I never criticise the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the former Minister for External Affairs and former honourable member for Forrest, Mr Gordon Freeth - the present Ambassador to Japan - introduced his infamous new Government line on the proposed Soviet security treaty in the Indian Ocean, etc., in 1969, I was the first in this Parliament to place on record strong criticism of our linking ourselves in any way in a security treaty with the Soviet Union, just as I criticised our involvement with the United States of America in Vietnam and our involvement with the United Kingdom in the Malaysian-Indonesian crisis. [More…]
I do not consider that I said at any time that the honourable member for Reid supported the Soviet Union. [More…]
I did say that if the honourable member was prepared to obtain from the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China details of their instruments and weapons installations he would be more impressive. [More…]
Mr Klass has said that the Pine Gap base is used to get information about a possible sneak attack by the Soviet Union upon the United States of America, or indeed, upon us - a sneak attack from anywhere. [More…]
If there is one thing more than another which is likely to lead to war it is the belief by the Soviet Union that it could launch a sneak attack and get away with it. [More…]
The one purpose of this base, if one accepts what Mr Klass has sard, is to prevent a sneak attack by the Soviet Union on one of us. [More…]
Since the only information that honourable members of the Opposition had was what Mr Klass had said, they are coming out openly in favour of aggression by the Soviet Union. [More…]
They want to help the Soviet Union to perpetrate aggression. [More…]
The only purpose of the base as set out by Mr Klass is to prevent the Soviet Union from launching a sneak attack upon us or upon the United States. [More…]
In point of fact, whether they know it or not, they have tried to encourage the Soviet Union in aggression. [More…]
The Union itself, the Professional Radio Employees Institute, must also have believed this because radio operators were instructed to return to work. [More…]
This morning I learnt to my complete astonishment that the union representatives had informed Mr Justice Franki that they did not agree that settlement had been reached and that they were instructing the radio operators, on the return of their ships to port, to leave the ships once again. [More…]
They are submarines of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Sovereignty did not pass to the Soviet Union, by the terms of the treaty, in respect of any islands. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister pay no more heed to his Tasmanian colleague’s call for a mini-Budget to boost the economy and counter unemployment than he has paid to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures, the trade union movement and independent economic commentators? [More…]
It is an attitude ably exploited by some ruthless and irresponsible union leaders. [More…]
As a member of a trade union and as an active member of a trade union before I came to this place, all I can say to honourable members is this: From my experience of trade unionism the trade unionist was able to get increased wages and better conditions only if he was prepared to take action and to struggle for them. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Prime Minister, relates to reports of intelligence operations in the United Kingdom by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Whilst our security people are in close, almost daily, contact with the security service of the United Kingdom we have not yet received a full report of the reasons why the 105 citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have been expelled from or prevented from coming back to the United Kingdom. [More…]
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, there is conscription in the army or air force for 2 years and for navy border guards the period is 3 years. [More…]
This can be compared with France, which has 5.2 per cent of military aged men in the armed services, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which has 6.9 per cent, the United States of America which has 8.5 per cent and Canada, which has 2.3 per cent. [More…]
I ask: In the light of the inspired revelations published this morning concerning his correspondence with President Nixon, will the right honourable gentleman now at least send to Mr Kosygin the letter which was drafted personally by him on 20th and 21st July inviting the Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to visit Australia? [More…]
Opposition members seem to think that the men are just coming home from a trade union picnic or something and that the Government can give details of exactly where every units is going to be, how many will be there and at what time they will move out. [More…]
As it is so painstaking in its assistance to conscientious objectors in regard to national service, one would think that the Labor Party would be equally adept and thorough in protecting a person who has a conscientious objection to belonging to a trade union. [More…]
I have been informed by the drivers and by the union concerned that this would in fact require speeds of up to 45 or 50 miles per hour over certain stretches of the road between Sydney and Tumblong. [More…]
But from my recollection of the dockyard in Sydney when I was Minister for Labour and National Service I can say that the greatest degree of obstruction came from such unions as the Ship Painters and Dockers Union under the control of Mr Terry Gordon and honourable members know where his political affiliations lie. [More…]
The particular draft resistors who were present in the union of the University of Melbourne were known to be there. [More…]
If the students had been barricaded in university premises or in union premises there would have been a duty on the responsible authorities in the university, if they could not manage the matter themselves, to call upon the police to deal with that kind of situation. [More…]
So far as the union is concerned, the prerogative of responsibility rests in a board of directors of the union, which is separate from the university administration. [More…]
Honourable members may be interested to know that the union board had written to the Students’ Representative Council and, I understand, also to some students saying that, whatever students and draft resistors might be there at night, they should not be there. [More…]
Therefore, 1 think it is an example of the board of directors of the union meeting its responsibilities. [More…]
If people were barricaded within university premises and the university authorities themselves felt that they could not deal with that situation, I would regard it as the university’s responsibility or, in the case of the union, the responsibility of the board of directors to ask for police assistance. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Navy give the House some indication of the very serious recent decline in the naval strength and sea power of the United States compared with that of the Soviet Union? [More…]
It can be summarised in this way: At the present moment the editors of ‘Janes’ and their advisers consider that, in every department other than aircraft carriers, the United States is steadily - indeed, to quote the Chief of Naval Operations of the United States, alarmingly - falling behind the strength of the Union of Soviet Socialits Republics. [More…]
Moreover, in terms of other matters, the Soviet Union has been equipping its ships with surface to surface missiles. [More…]
At this stage preliminary negotiations have been entered into with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but no final arrangements to purchase wool have been made, nor has any embargo been placed by the Government on such arrangements. [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian Delegation to the 58th conference of the InterParliamentary Union held at The Hague between 1st and 9th October 1970. [More…]
Mr Speaker, as the deputy leader of the Australian delegation at the InterParliamentary Union conference at The Hague and also as one of the Council representatives at the meeting which took place in Monaco in the Australian autumn of last year, I should like to thank those people who assisted the delegation. [More…]
Most delegations from other countries have some continuing representation which enables the members of those delegations to be more fully acquainted with the personnel involved at and the operations of InterParliamentary Union conferences. [More…]
Between 400 and 500 Storemen and Packers’ Union members walked off the job about 8.30 a.m. last Friday, in support of a union claim for a general wage increase of $10 a week for all classifications.’ [More…]
This afternoon I rose in this chamber to speak for perhaps 3 minutes about the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
About 30 of us have had extensive trade union experience. [More…]
The report also quotes the Consumers Union test survey of a number of small vehicles, and had this to say: [More…]
Consumers Union (CU) found the acceleration of the VW bus ‘so lethargic’ that in their estimation it constitutes a safety hazard. [More…]
Mr Maxwell Newton, playing as usual Svengali to the Prime Minister’s Trilby, confirmed in ‘Incentive’ on 22nd September that the Budget was designed to bring more and more pressure on the working classes’, precipitate ‘some very serious strikes’ and thus provide a pretext for repressive legislation with which ‘to split the ranks of the Labor Party and the union movement and bring to the forefront of public thinking the whole issue of industrial anarchy’. [More…]
Its gross national product is now the third largest in the world behind the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the industry in the Geelong area there has been a reduction of nearly 1,000 in the members of the textile workers union. [More…]
They did not just leave the union, they left the industry. [More…]
In other words, we have had credits of more than $4,500m with countries such as Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and East European countries. [More…]
4’, of the National Union of Australian University Students. [More…]
Worse, I believe they will play into the hands of the left wing of the trade union movement and will effectively destroy the system of industrial arbitration in this country, I might be asked why I come to this conclusion. [More…]
The first one, of course, it that it is alleged that the agreements will come into force only if they are approved by the union executive and by the trade union itself.. [More…]
The next point is that in most of these cases - particularly in the case of the left wing unions - there is no doubt whatsoever that it is the union leaders who are responsible for the strikes, not the rank and file. [More…]
If we like to think of the justice of this case, those who are not responsible - the trade union members themselves - will pay the penalty, not the powerful associates of the members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Is my impression correct that the Australian Labor Party’s revised industrial relations policy has been enunciated against a background of continuing efforts in the trade union movement to increase the incidence of compulsory unionism? [More…]
The Government certainly is concerned at the increasing trend in recent years by trade unions to take coercive action, against both employees and employers, in relation to compulsory unionism. [More…]
It is certainly true in respect of a number of recent disputes in which employers have been threatened with intimidatory action simply because they have been supplying goods and services to another employer in dispute with a union over this question of compulsory unionism. [More…]
The first one is the right of any individual, any employee, to determine of his own volition, free from any sense of coercion, whether or not to join a trade union. [More…]
If he is thinking of trade unions he should clearly not see those organisations as coming within the control of myself or my Department. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will see very clearly that in practically every major address that I have made recently, of course, there has been some criticism of the trade union movement, and I believe that criticism to be totally justifiable in the context in which it was made. [More…]
Such strikes usurp the function of government; they tend to be divisive of the trade union movement; and they certainly interfere with the individual political convictions of trade unionists. [More…]
We know, according to well informed reports coming from Government supporters opposite, that the plan of the Government is to provoke some confrontation with the trade union movement, not caring what damage this will cause management, in order that there may be created the kind of political climate which it believes might help it to win an election. [More…]
The President of the Queensland Teachers Union, Mr Gavin Semple, summed up the effects of the Senate’s decision very clearly when he said that the recommendation to raise the matriculation level was deplorable and educationally unacceptable. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students has completed an analysis of costs which revealed this startling fact: A family earning the average Australian income of $4,200 per annum will have to spend in 1972 30 per cent of its income to maintain one student at a university. [More…]
The National Union of Australian University Students says that 10 per cent of all university students struggled to pay fees. [More…]
Strangely enough this announcement of a reduction in the quota was made not in this country but in London by a Mr Hay- ward who formerly held an executive position in the Greater Union movie house chain which is half owned by the Rank Organisation of the United Kingdom, lt was reported that Mr Hayward had been carrying out investigations connected with the film industry on behalf of the Government of New South Wales and had been seen at Greater Unions’ London office. [More…]
The intent of that legislation was to deregister the union involved but it went one vicious step further than that. [More…]
The union was a Commonwealth wide federation and the legislation made provision for one of the State branches of that union to opt out of the federation and shelter itself under the wing of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
I would prevail upon him, having regard to the particular state of that industry at the moment, measured in terms of the number of men required on the waterfront today and the number which may be required in the future, to ensure that his Government does not interfere with the rights of the trade union and the employer to negotiate in a right and proper manner for the interests of the people and the humans in the industry and the interests, of course, of the whole community. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noticed newspaper reports that the President of the United States intends making a visit to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
We were informed through administration sources and the Australian Embassy in Washington that the President had made a decision that he would visit the Soviet Union. [More…]
On what occasions has the Soviet Union evinced hostility to Australia of such a nature as to threaten us with aggression? [More…]
Minister for Defence: Has it been drawn to his attention that a report has appeared in a normally authoritative publication ‘Janes’ indicating that an American station in Australia is being used to spy on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
diligence and initiative of the New South Wales branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and in particular Mr Peter Evans, a State organiser of that Union, these radical changes, which are of great importance to the Post Office and to the community it serves - there I paraphrase the words of the Postmaster-General - would almost have escaped the notice of the staff and the community affected and would almost have escaped the notice of this Parliament. [More…]
The New South Wales branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, through Mr Evans, let the results of the reorganisation of the telecommunication activities of the Post Office be known throughout the areas affected and to the staff of the Post Office. [More…]
I condemn the Minister because he did not know what was proposed in the reorganisation until such time as the New South Wales Branch of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union let it be known not only to members on this side of the House but also to councils in the country areas, to Country Party supporters and to Liberal Party supporters, and it was then- [More…]
Actually Nigeria was a compulsory union of peoples who might individually have been regarded as nations. [More…]
I believe that I am being victimised because of my political beliefs and my past association with the trade union movement in Fiji. [More…]
He has suggested in his letter, and I agree, that he was victimised because as a young boy he took an active interest in the trade union movement in Fiji. [More…]
AsI announced in a statement of 15th July 1971, the provision of Commonwealth accommodation for Queensland police during the visit of the South African rugby union team to Brisbane was made in response to a request by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Consistently with this view Australia has supported moves to bring the matter before the United Nations, which, however, were successfully opposed by the Soviet Union and other supporters of North Viet-Nam. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen 2 publications, one named ‘Family Issue of Tharunka’, the journal of the University of New South Wales Students Union, with a printed copy of an alleged letter of congratulations from Professor Myers, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, and the other a booklet ‘Sex’ with the imprint U.N.S.W. [More…]
Is it a fact that the cost of production of these 2 publications amounted to $930 and was paid for by the funds from the Students Union, which is subsidised by this Government? [More…]
They are in part supported by funds from the Students Union and to the extent that there are compulsory fees attached to membership of the Students [More…]
Union those fees are paid by the Commonwealth for holders of Commonwealth scholarships and so that is the only area in which there could be said to be any Commonwealth support or Commonwealth link in support of those journals. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the offer by the South Australian Branch of the Seamen’s Union of Australia to man ships without pay to transport relief aid to that country? [More…]
As to the offer of the South Australian branch of the Seamen’s Union to man ships free of charge for the carriage of supplies to the affected area, I understand that such a telegram has been sent to my colleague the Minister for Customs and Excise. [More…]
It has the users represented on it as well as the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope it will produce for me some recommendations to assist the people involved in the field as well as the users of railways and the people in the railway unions by producing a separate and distinct study from the sort of studies that the Commonwealth and State departments under ATAC are undertaking. [More…]
The International Parliamentary Union did this recently and made a great statement. [More…]
I think we have seen this manifested by the people who have taken part in the fasting, in the letter writing campaign and, only today, with the public gesture by the Seamen’s Union in South Australia. [More…]
I think something like 50,000 a week have been moved largely by the efforts of the Soviet Union which has put in large passenger aircraft to help transport some of the war victims to the central States of India. [More…]
When we are talking about the Soviet Union Navy sailing its ships up and down the Indian Ocean we get terribly excited. [More…]
You have sent security police into trade union offices, thieving the trade union office books and looking at them. [More…]
The Opposition supports this Bill which arises from the amalgamation of the North Australian Workers Union and the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and for arrangements made, in consequence of that amalgamation, for the Waterside Workers Federation to take over the activities in the Port of Darwin. [More…]
Now that the workers who would formerly have been members of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union are members of the Waterside Workers Federation and are part of the stevedoring industry it has become necessary to make consequential amendments to the Stevedoring Industry Act so that these workers will attract the full benefits of the legislation. [More…]
The Bill, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh stated, does no more than make provision for the waterside workers in Darwin who were previously members of the North Australian Workers Union to become members of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Port of Darwin and every other port of the Commonwealth will be faced with the real problem from the trade union point of view with which they have been faced before. [More…]
It is the thinking of the trade union movement - and it should be the thinking of the Government also - that the days are gone when an employer can just say that a man has reached his cut-off point at a certain age even though he has not reached the age where he could receive social service benefits, and therefore is relegated to an industrial scrapheap. [More…]
I certainly stood at stop work meetings and encouraged the unionists - and I make no apologies for it - to recognise that the shipowners had got more than their pound of flesh from the Australian public down through the years and they continue to get it. [More…]
If it was good enough for them, in the port of Darwin and in other ports, to still charge the Australian public or the shippers - call them what you like - what the traffic would bear, although for a great number of years they had got more than their pound of flesh from the sweat of the men employed in the industry under some of the most deplorable and shocking industrial conditions in the 1930s, it was good enough for a conscientious trade union official from Darwin to Cairns to Carnarvon to stand up before his membership and say: ‘Compulsory redundancy, no. [More…]
The Government was not mindful of the difficulties of the trade union officials or, for that matter, those engaged on the Woodward inquiry at that time. [More…]
I ask the Acting Prime Minister in his capacity as Minister for Trade and Industry whether he has noted the evidence that there is a possibility of vastly increased markets for Australia in China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other Communist countries with which trade has been prevented in the past very largely by the narrow cold war political stance that has been taken by his Government. [More…]
Our trade is growing with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and, as 1 said to this House only a week or so ago, the Soviet Union is now our second largest market for beef. [More…]
We have the representatives of big business on the one hand; we have representatives of the trade union movement on the other hand. [More…]
In 1948 the Amalgamated Engineering Union lodged a log of claims relating to its employees. [More…]
There was the great shearers’ strike of 1902 in the dispute between the Australian Workers Union and the Machine Shearers Union when, as a consequence of the alteration in 1901 to the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act which came into force in February of 1902, the 2 unions sought registration to cover the one field. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union wanted to prove to the shearers that it was more militant than the Machine Shearers Union, which was correctly dubbed by the Australian Worker Union a bosses’ organisation. [More…]
It is my personal belief that union leaders, particularly militant union leaders, take advantage of the lack of cohesion from the point of view of this Government and the State governments. [More…]
(Quorum formed) The militant union leaders, the socialists in Australia, take advantage of the system and endeavour to get for union members the best deal that is possible. [More…]
The interests of workers can best be served by militant union leaders by calling for increasing productivity. [More…]
This has not been the recipe in the past and I cannot see any variation in future by the Minister exhorting union leaders and other people to do more and more whilst the present system permeates our society. [More…]
We have heard the Government talk about amending the Conciliation and Arbitration Act but I believe that all the Minister will do is repaint various sections of the Act and refurnish other parts of it and the union leaders will take advantage of the new sections just as in the past they have taken advantage of the old sections. [More…]
Frankly, I believe that a confrontation must take place between union leaders, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Government itself to bring home not only to the Government but also to the workers and their leaders the real need for workers to produce this larger cake - a larger gross national product - rather than to continue as they are doing and price Australia out of international affairs. [More…]
The real problem is this constant holding up of production - the strikes that are engineered by union leaders against the good will and good thought of most Australians. [More…]
Within 48 hours of a caucus meeting being held the whole line-up of Opposition members capitulated to the trade union movement. [More…]
But all the Government does is to place the blame on Bob Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Yet we would have half as many industrial disputes in this country if the Department of Labour and National Service spent half as much time trying to settle the industrial disputes as it spends in trying to destroy the trade unions. [More…]
In answer to a couple of pre-arranged questions the Minister made a degrading remark about where a trade unionist wore his badge on badge show day and said that Broken Hill was an example of excessive union power, or words to that effect. [More…]
1 will table these documents and advise the Minister that if he wants industrial peace in the nation he should examine them, but if he wants to use the trade union movement only as a smoke screen for a discredited government and wants to breed disruption and hatred in industrial relations, an examination of the statement made by the Barrier Industrial Council in the ‘Barrier Daily Truth* on 20th August will give him some idea of the progress he is making. [More…]
Whether or not one spends time in a trade union movement or in the labour relations area in smearing the Harradines of this world because they are not sufficiently to the Left, the fact is that wages lost in Australian industry in 1970 were of the order of $30m. [More…]
It is not good enough that there is general disinterest in Australia, by general acknowledgement, compared with overseas interests, in productivity in the union area - the area of the workers. [More…]
As late as last Friday the group of building unions in Western Australia sent a telegram to the Acting Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) requesting that he send the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) to Western Australia to inspect the unemployment situation at first hand so that he would be in a position to act properly in this matter and would be able to gauge personally the distress of the people affected. [More…]
The union estimates that the true figure is actually closer to 675 unemployed. [More…]
This does not take into consideration the contractor in the building profession without union affiliation who is likewise affected and who is receiving only part time employment and is fast approaching bankruptcy with the additional burden of the normal Christmas recession in this industry. [More…]
With this Government’s constant rattling of the war drums in its determination to confront the trade union movement, to force strikes upon the family man who can ill afford them, it is in an atmosphere of extreme despair that some of the building workers in Western Australia are considering a strike meeting next week in an attempt to determine what action they can take, such as the banning of overtime or voluntary short time. [More…]
These administrators of industrial peace should have sufficient time available not only to know the industry in Perth but also to know the people involved in employer administration and union administration in all States. [More…]
With national unemployment in excess of 61,848, the Building Workers Union in Western Australia has requested the Federal Government to make a special grant of $5m out of the estimated Budget surplus of $630m to assist the Western Australian building industry. [More…]
Let us not use the trade unions as a whipping boy. [More…]
The fault is laid always at the door of that curse of the non-working class, the trade union movement. [More…]
Most important of all are the indirect effects of trade union irresponsibility on employment opportunities. [More…]
Has the Acting Prime Minister received a communication from the Building Workers Union group in Perth, Western Australia, requesting him to send the Minister for Labour and National Service to Western Australia to investigate unemployment in that State, in particular in the building industry? [More…]
Even when I was in Saigon last December as the Australian observer at a meeting of the Asian Parliamentarians Union, my adviser and I received a number of requests from the Cambodian delegation. [More…]
In February of this year Qantas was chasing labour overseas, which was likely to lead to a dispute with the union. [More…]
Under the 1962 Foreign Assistance Act - there is no foreign assistance for Australia but a lot of the countries were receiving assistance - the Americans define the following countries as Communist: Albania, Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Korea, North Vietnam, Outer Mongolia, the Polish Peoples Republic, Rumania, Tibet, Yugoslavia, Cuba and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Twice daily when Parliament is sitting I pass the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
On 14th April, 1971, the Industrial Registrar decided that a request from the Executive Council of The Australian Workers Union that the election for Queensland Branch delegates to the 1972 Convention of the Organisation be conducted under section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act had been duly made. [More…]
I am advised that the Queensland Branch of The Australian Workers Union keeps only one register of members of the Branch and of The Australian Workers Union of Employees. [More…]
In response to a direction the Queensland Branch Secretary of The Australian Workers Union informed the Commonwealth Electoral Officer that the number of financial members engaged in industries or callings which fall within the ambit of Rule 6 of the Constitution and General Rules of The Australian Workers Union, as at 31 May. [More…]
I am further advised that the Commonwealth Electoral Officer as a result of a direction to the Branch Secretary of the Union is receiving ticket butts covering current membership which are endorsed where applicable to show that the member named is in an industry or calling covered by rule 6 of the rules of the organisation. [More…]
Ballot papers will only be issued to those financial members of the union as shownby endorsement on the ticket butt to be covered by rule 6. [More…]
They are prepared, apparently, to condone and ignore the irresponsibility of many trade union leaders. [More…]
Indeed, the possibility of aggressive trade union action leading to inflation and the need for organised labour to behave responsibily was emphasised by those who formulated the policy of full employment some 26 years ago, and I would commend to the Opposition a reading of the White Paper titled ‘Full Employment in Australia’, which was brought down by the Chifley Government and which now would add greatly to the knowledge and understanding of the honourable member for Stirling of the particular problem which he has brought to this House. [More…]
Industrial unrest, whether the result of union militancy or failures of management, is also an important element in our current inflationary experience. [More…]
On 18th June 1971, the House of Assembly made the National Identity Ordinance 1971 which provides, among other things, for the name of the administrative union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea to be known as Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
As the name for the administrative union is provided for under the Papua and New Guinea Act the National Identity Ordinance, in so far as it purports to alter the name, could be invalid. [More…]
I know that the honourable member visited the Soviet Union on his trip. [More…]
Perhaps if the Prime Minister had gone to the Soviet Union or to Peking the honourable member would have been on his feet applauding him and saying what a good thing it was. [More…]
Cb) and (c) Since 1949 the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea have been governed in an administrative union to the extent and in the manner provided by or in pursuance of the Papua and New Guinea Act. [More…]
Has he yet found, or had drawn to his attention, a telegram from the Building Workers Union group which was sent on 29th October 1971 requesting him to take action on unemployment in Western Australia? [More…]
A reply was sent back to the union on 26th October to the effect that there was no evidence of lack of finance in the State for building and that the present situation resulted fundamentally from an extremely high level of construction in recent years leading to a situation of temporary over building. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labour and National Service: Does the Government have to stand by whilst an inter-union row holds up ships in Melbourne? [More…]
How many ships are lying stagnant at the wharves and in the bay simply because of this union strike? [More…]
This is a sphere in which I think undoubtedly the West has fallen behind the Soviet Union in thought and in evolution because it has stuck very largely to surface to air weapons, which are not especially designed to meet our purposes. [More…]
I say this because in a world environment which is changing throughout the 1970s - this may be a cause of alarm to my friend from Wills (Mr Bryant) - we will have a situation where, by 1990, the greatest naval power on this earth will be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
One of the countries in which he spent a considerable time was the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he says there is no dissent, perhaps he should ask the Jewish people and those people who have moved out of the Soviet Union and the areas over which the Soviet Union has control. [More…]
Whenever he has been to the Soviet Union there has been a revival within months of that visit. [More…]
I have heard it said that there is no threat to Australia from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us also remember that the Soviet Union has some perfectly legitimate interests in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Furthermore, the Russians have no bases in the Indian Ocean, even in Indian ports, and India is the country which has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Only last week Mr Gandhi told a meeting of the Royal Institute of International Affairs that India had no intention of offering military bases to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am reinforced in pushing this forward because at the recent InterParliamentary Union conference in Paris there was a resolution dealing with communication satellites and their use for educational and other purposes between countries. [More…]
I think this is another matter for inquiry, together with this general outline of the future of the Postmaster-General’s Department, and could well be included in such a White Paper instead of just becoming the subject of a pious resolution passed by well-meaning parliamentarians from several countries at an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. [More…]
The city is the junction for the Denver, Rio Grande, Western Union Pacific and Western Pacific railroads, lt is the capital of Utah and is similarly situated to Alice Springs. [More…]
In the meantime the employers and the union representatives sit down and talk about the strike but the country does not suffer a loss. [More…]
We just cannot compete with that sort of attitude, and until there is a realisation of this difficulty by a great number of union leaders the problem will not be overcome. [More…]
A working document has been circulated to the trade union movement, ship owners and many other interested bodies seeking their support for a working over of the Navigation Act. [More…]
So that review is thoroughly under way with the co-operation of the trade union movement and the ship owners. [More…]
The conglomerate situation must be viewed in the context of India’s favourable relationship with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Pakistan’s ties with the United States of America and China. [More…]
The major offender in relation to unpaid contributions is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a foundation member of the United Nations, a member of the Security Council and one of the great powers of the world. [More…]
Many, Australians refer to their fast-growing country as the ’51st State’ of our Union! [More…]
I believe that no Australian thinks of our country as being the 51st state of the American Union. [More…]
Imagine the Labor Party dropping 50,000 letters to the trade union movement to seek guidance. [More…]
The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. [More…]
In Czechoslovakia in August 1968 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics gave a clear indication of its enormous military power and its ability with that military power to control internal policy within Czechoslovakia. [More…]
The threats against Israel have been constant over a long period of time and they have been supported, to a degree which cannot be challenged in this chamber, and greatly augmented by the power of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The other countries from which they would get aid and information and deal with in terms of buying arms and so on would be the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America and Japan, all of which are much further away than we are. [More…]
One of the problems which the honourable member raised concerned the external role of the United States of America and, I take it, of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of China also. [More…]
I ask: As trade union success in obtaining wage increases outside the arbitration system is most pronounced in those areas where employers bask in considerable tariff protection, would the Prime Minister give consideration to the introduction of a system of automatic tariff reductions for the products of those manufacturers who do not resist arbitral pressure for wags increases? [More…]
Will he consider also whether such a system would give pause to union leaders in that it would threaten security of employment in those areas of activity endeavouring to take advantage of our outdated tariff structure? [More…]
5 years ago the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic.–, hair no warships in the Indian Ocean, but today there are a score of surface ships alone, and these is no telling how many Soviet submarines are in the area. [More…]
A new balance is emerging which includes the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the European community, including Britain. [More…]
China and the Soviet Union in North Asia. [More…]
As I said before, at the Australian Labor Party Federal Conference, the Party’s rural spokesman was utterly repudiated under the weight of city-based trade union leadership. [More…]
The Prime Minister had pointed out the need for a relationship between the United States the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, Japan and Europe that would enhance the security of medium and small powers, of which, of course, Australia is one, medium and small countries that may be small in size and in material resources but which are nevertheless significant. [More…]
It was from Mr H. R. Fletcher, Assistant Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
At that time it affected bricklayers, but now, as is indicated in that letter, it is affecting all workers in the building industry, so much so that the secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union has asked the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to send the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) to Western Australia to investigate unemployment in the building trade on the spot. [More…]
The union has also asked for $30m to stimulate the building industry. [More…]
Mr Rosjadi visited Australia from 19th September to 3rd October, to acquaint himself with the Australian parliamentary system, the organisation of Australian political parties and the trade union movement, and Australian views on international relations in SouthEast Asia. [More…]
There are, for example, proposals for the support of a union application .for a 35-hour working week, the introduction of so-called equal pay and the extension of long service leave to casual workers. [More…]
I have just returned from my electorate where I obtained the latest statistics and the latest reports from the trade union movement and the men themselves on the true position in the City of Greater Wollongong. [More…]
If the Minister for Labour and National Service were to come with me and meet the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the rest of the major trade unions in the area; if he were to come along and see the management of Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd, the management of Mount Keira colliery, and the management of Scarborough colliery; if he were to see the tally clerks at Port Kembla and the 16,000 tons of Japanese steel that is being landed there; if he were to come along to John Lysaght (Aust) Ltd and M. M. Pty Ltd, the copper wire and tube mill people, and ask them how many men they propose to retrench; if he were to make similar inquiries at Stewarts and Lloyds (Aust) Pty Ltd, at David Brothers Pty Ltd, at B. [More…]
The union moves to save men’s jobs. [More…]
The Metal Trades Employers Association has already served notice on the rest of the employers that it is no longer willing to fight the trade unions on behalf of the Federal Government and other employers to the last dollar. [More…]
It is also time that the Federal Government took the trade union movement into its confidence and into its counsels and sat down with them and the employers to discuss the situation. [More…]
It cannot be achieved by bashing, blackguarding and dragooning the trade union movement, the people who bend their backs in sweat so that this country can survive, develop and expand. [More…]
Then there is the ritual incantation about wages - union bashing. [More…]
But surely we can expect that the organised trade union leaders of Australia would be prepared to sit down with the organised leaders of industry, and with the Government, and try to work out a system or an agreement which could be seen to be fair to all whereby they would say: ‘Because it is to our benefit - we trade unionists being affected by rising prices perhaps more than are other sections of the community - we will therefore, confine our requests for wage increases, for arguments sake, to the increases that can be shown to have occurred in the cost of living. [More…]
ft is true, as an honourable member opposite mentioned, thai in speaking to this subject in Brisbane I did say that we cannot expect the unionists, even if they agree with the diagnosis that f have given here, to alone accept a self-denying ordinance but that v/e should sit. [More…]
Is anybody in this House prepared to say that if that could be brought about it would not be to the benefit of everybody in Australia and not just those whom the unions and the Opposition claim to represent, namely, the employees? [More…]
By wildcat strikes I mean strikes which are called by shop stewards or a section of a union at a time when some large project which involves the pouring of much concrete is half completed. [More…]
I believe that the unions, the Government, the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party should be at one in seeing that that type of strike is not successful. [More…]
On the broad union side, althoughI think sanctions are required as an ultimate resource,I should hope that with common sense and a realisation of common interest such sanctions as were retained would be in the background as a very last resort for use when everything else has failed and not until then. [More…]
The decision by a trade union to put forward a wage demand could result in fears being expressed of the likelihood of industrial unrest. [More…]
Is he also aware that the Australian Workers Union has declared black the wool shorn by these men if they are not members of the Union, which means that the settlers affected are facing grievous financial problems? [More…]
Does the Minister realise that this kind of cruel and vindictive action on the pari of the Union makes the name of unionism hated throughout the countryside when it ought to be respected? [More…]
If I understood the question correctly, the honourable member is informing me that the Australian Workers Union is placing a ban on shearers who are not members of that Union. [More…]
As Minister for Shipping and Transport I have been involved in difficulties over shipping strikes when certain executives of the trade unions have held the people of Tasmania to ransom, and in Sydney at the present time we are seeing a similar example of the irresponsible attitude of one of two union executives. [More…]
The honourable member can rest assured that I will keep very closely in mind any difficulties that are created by the irresponsible attitude of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The Victorian Teachers Union recently published a booklet titled The SI 30m Problem’, lt is a guide to Melbourne’s inner suburban schools. [More…]
The Baptist Union of Australia [More…]
Congregational Union of Australia [More…]
But beyond the indescribable sufferings facing millions of people in the subcontinent, it is essential that the great powers, particularly the Soviet Union, the Peoples Republic of China and the United States, do not become further and directly involved. [More…]
We have become used to taking for granted that if the United States and the Soviet Union were determined to prevent or confine a war, their will would prevail. [More…]
Equally significant about the new period and relationships is the fact that the first time China has acted in the Security Council she has aligned herself with the United States and Japan in opposition to the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the field of industrial relations it must be recognised that employer organisations and trade unions will always have different interests to protect. [More…]
These stem from the desire of the worker as expressed through his trade union to obtain improved conditions of employment and higher rewards for the commodity he has to sell - his labour - and of employers to manage and operate their businesses in the most efficient and profitable manner and thus maximise returns to the owners. [More…]
Trade union action was successful in certain instances in increasing the share of certain privileged or closely organised groups such as tally clerks, dock workers and so on. [More…]
The lower paid, the defenceless and the handicapped, despite the declamation of the unions, have not been protected. [More…]
Employers could learn from the generally quite marked solidarity of the unions. [More…]
This does not mean that employers should automatically reject union demands. [More…]
During the recently concluded National Tripartite Conference discussions on the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, representatives of both the National Employers Policy Committee and the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the other union associations represented at the discussions supported the retention of the system. [More…]
In passing let me remind the House that the Australian trade union movement has benefited greatly from the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the protection it has given unions and their members. [More…]
The concept of the basic wage and more recently the minimum wage has ensured that he cannot be exploited no matter how weak his union representation is or in what industry he works. [More…]
Because of the benefits conferred on unions under the legislation the Government is concerned at the increasing degree to which some trade unions are resorting to coercive methods against both employees and employers in order to make union membership compulsory. [More…]
Some firms and authorities are threatened with black bans because they supply goods and services to an employer in dispute with unions over union membership. [More…]
The Government says it will strengthen the law protecting employees and unionists against victimisation. [More…]
This is a law that has been crying out for attention for years, ever since the 1959 Gietzelt case in which the Miscellaneous Workers Union was involved. [More…]
The Government says it will alter the law to enable unions to register rules requiring union members to give written notice of resignation. [More…]
The Government will stipulate that a challenge to an election conducted under union rules shall be made within a specified time. [More…]
Then it proposes also to give protection to ticket dodgers by the deregistration of unions which force those who benefit from union activity to pay their share of the cost and to fine an employer who seeks to prevent or to settle a dispute by dismissing a free rider and to allow non-unionists access to the award making process of the Commission. [More…]
The Government itself says that nobody is entitled to get the benefit of medical benefit funds or health funds unless he joins a medical benefit fund; and yet here it says that a person can get the benefits of trade unionism without paying anything at all. [More…]
I can see that people who work as labourers in a winery will be entitled to join either the Australian Workers Union, the Liquor and Allied Trades Union, the Miscellaneous Workers Union or perhaps even the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
We could have people joining all sorts of unions which they are now not entitled to join. [More…]
Section 32a will be amended to make it mandatory for a presidential member of the Commission to issue a prosecution certificate against any union that refuses to call off a strike, no matter how justified the strike may be. [More…]
He has to arbitrate, and if the union says that it intends to stay on strike, he will be obliged by the mandatory provisions of the Act immediately to issue a prosecution certificate and the matter would then go to the Industrial Court for prosecution . [More…]
There is an innuendo in the Ministers speech that in future whenever penalties are imposed the unions concerned will be given no more than 14 days in which to pay those penalties. [More…]
I said at the time they were first proposed, that they would not work and the reason they will not work is that there is not proper protection against the victimisation of shop stewards and union delegates on the job. [More…]
Rising prices, are the prime cause of union demands for a wage rate that will enable employees to prevent a catastrophic decline in their living standards. [More…]
A Government that has nothing better to offer than a continuation of industrial strife and which then tries to blame unions for inflation, deserves to be thrown out of office, and that will surely be the fate of this Government no matter when the election is held. [More…]
Union pressure, says the Minister. [More…]
Well, yes, of course, union pressure, otherwise they would get nothing. [More…]
But what motivates union pressure? [More…]
The motivation almost invariably comes from the factory floor rather than from the union office; and it springs from the outcome of the hopeless task of the ordinary worker trying to live decently on a fixed wage, while prices and taxation are constantly rising. [More…]
Dr Ian Sharp, the Industrial Registrar, and perhaps the most knowledgeable man this country has produced in the field of industrial relations, recently told an industrial seminar at Armidale that he was convinced that strikes are rarely inspired by union secretaries, but are nearly always the result of pressures from the mcn at the work site. [More…]
1 was secretary of the biggest union in South Australia and I can speak from personal experience when 1 say that I agree entirely wilh what Dr Sharp says. [More…]
It is simply not true to say that union secretaries can force unionists to take on a fight-to-the-finish strike unless there is first of all a deep feeling of grievance at the floor level. [More…]
Does it not realise that the existing rules of the Bus Employees Union allow members to demand a vote of all members whenever it is asked for? [More…]
Does it not realise that, in fact, this is exactly what happened on 29th November when, in response to a petition of only a handful of members for a vote in order to test the wishes of the rest of the union, the unions members voted 3,440 to 12 in, favour of refusing to operate one-man buses. [More…]
Plenty of unions have conducted secret ballots to decide whether their members are in favour of strikes. [More…]
The Vehicle Builders Union recently had a secret ballot and the union members overwhelmingly supported a strike. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Birrell), a former secretary of the Vehicle Builders Union, can verify what I say as being correct. [More…]
They want to strike and they say it is the union officials who are stopping them. [More…]
If the decision to strike or not to strike is to be decided by ballot of the rank and file members of unions there will be more strikes, not fewer. [More…]
The very need to strike is deplored most of all by union officials and by rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
If the Arbitration Commission could be prevailed upon to include these requirements in Federal awards, and given an efficient inspectorate acting in co-operation with trade union officials to police and enforce such awards, the safety standards of many States would be upgraded so as to drastically reduce the present high accident rate in Australian industry. [More…]
1 wonder what would happen if a union sought an order under section 33a in order to include in an award a clause banning or prohibiting an employer from dismissing surplus staff; I wonder whether it could get a certificate under section 32a in order to have the employer prosecuted before the Commonwealth Industrial Court if he attempted to dismiss surplus staff. [More…]
Their final decision, once approved by the union members affected should, when registered, be honoured by both sides and should carry the force of an award so that the wages and conditions of the agreement could be recoverable at law. [More…]
It will use the moral sanctions of the whole trade union movement against a union that tries to repudiate a freely-negotiated industrial agreement. [More…]
In this way it will be able to guarantee the kind of industrial stability that unions and employers alike have been looking for. [More…]
But it acknowledges that members of a particular union have the right to make their own agreements and these may include penalties. [More…]
This will leave unions free to accept - with the agreement of their members - penalty clauses in voluntary agreements if they believe this will win them better wages and conditions. [More…]
Many unions have already done this. [More…]
There would be no statutory compulsion to force a union to make an agreement and no compulsion to force a union to register one. [More…]
Unions and employers have a moral obligation to abide by their agreements and I can see no reason why parties acting in good faith will object to agreements being legally enforceable. [More…]
I can truthfully say that I know of no union official in the Commonwealth who will attempt to justify the repudiation of an agreement. [More…]
On the contrary, of the 14 union officials attending the Launceston Conference, each and every one of them authorised me to make the public declaration on their behalf that they would honour any agreement they made under Labor’s proposal. [More…]
Knowing this, many employees will refuse to negotiate reasonably, as they will know that as long as they can hold off a settlement the Commission will have to start the processing leading to penal action against unions involved in any dispute. [More…]
Thus a union may have a complaint against an obstinate employer - a complaint which the Commission would consider just. [More…]
Combine this with the other change, and it means that a union which is forced into industrial action by an unjust employer will be liable to the type of penalty that is envisaged by section 119 of the Act. [More…]
He obviously wants a confrontation with the unions and is dragging out this relic of the past for that end and that end only. [More…]
If the Government thinks that industrial peace can only come about through antiunion action it is wrong. [More…]
The Minister has announced in vague terms that the ‘voluntary nature’ of unions will be emphasised in the Arbitration Act. [More…]
What he clearly has in mind is preventing unions and employers reaching voluntary agreements to ensure that all employees in business belong to a union. [More…]
For the unions, this type of agreement has its undeniable validity in the fact that it wins benefits in wages and conditions for all employees and that it is reasonable that anyone who receives these benefits should be a member, unless he has compelling conscientious reasons for not doing so. [More…]
The Minister’s proposal supports the right of employees to take all the benefits of union action involving financial and personal sacrifice to its members without having to contribute to that cost. [More…]
No union could exist if all employees could gain its benefits without paying union dues. [More…]
The dedicated members would remain within their unions, but if deregistration is to be applied lo all unions that will refuse to carry free riders, no union of any substance will remain within the arbitration system longer than the end of next year. [More…]
The arbitration system would collapse if the major unions were forced to deregister. [More…]
A weak union will always have the guarantee of the national minima fixed by arbitration, while stronger unions will be able to bargain for standards above those minima. [More…]
lt is idle to suggest that all employers are unreasonable or that the unions are never al fault. [More…]
Has the Treasurer’s attention been drawn to a recommendation by the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce that there should be a meeting of top businessmen and union leaders with the Government not only to study a prices-incomes policy but also to explore other alternatives to boost the economy? [More…]
I think that it has become the official policy of the National Union of Australian University Students. [More…]
The Union wants to have a major and substantial change in the basis of assisting students at tertiary institutions, speaking I think specifically of universities. [More…]
These avenues are all open to the unions so that they can represent the best interests of the working man. [More…]
But I think the honourable gentleman, having the interests of the lower paid workers at heart, would know that these days, with the great power of the big unions, particularly unions like the Amalgamated Engineering Union - [More…]
I want particularly to refer to the Minister’s aspersion on the trade union movement of this country. [More…]
In 1958 he was the Secretary of the Australian delegation which attended the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference held in Rio de Janeiro. [More…]
For many years now Mr Turner has taken a keen interest in the activities of the Interparliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and has represented this Parliament at many conferences of these bodies. [More…]
He can also look back on his work in revising the Standing Orders, in the Inter-Parliamentary Union conferences, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meetings and conferences of presiding officers and clerks. [More…]
But that will not worry us because most of us have been brought up in the hard school of union politics, and plans which appear to be clever to the present Government will not appear to be clever to the future Government. [More…]
Even a trade union organiser said that the union wanted a hotel so that the workers in the mine could have their families there. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (including its captive constituent Republics). [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Has he considered the suggestion made by the Industrial Registrar, Dr Ian Sharp, that a commission of inquiry constituted on a CommonwealthState basis and including management, unions, lawyers, economists, academics and representatives of both Commonwealth and State Governments be instituted to consider such matters as trade union law, over-award payments, penal sanctions, the need for constitutional amendments and other problems that have arisen in recent years. [More…]
These include migrants from Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Roumania, Switzerland, Turkey, the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia. [More…]
If it had a wages policy it would find itself in conflict with the trade unions of Australia, particularly the powerful trade unions, and more particularly with the powerful trade union leaders of this country. [More…]
Yet the McMahon Government offers no objection whatever to a 5.3 per cent increase in steel prices at the same time as it uses all its powers to keep wages and salaries frozen and attacks and vilifies trade union leaders and the unions themselves. [More…]
Unions can sometimes win wage increases and that may have the effect of increasing prices, but they cannot do so without control and restraint. [More…]
As long as the big corporations are free to get in for their cut in hundreds of millions whenever they choose to do so, without any real Government objection or restraint, no government can expect any restraint from wage and salary earners or from any union. [More…]
Thirdly, I will charge that it is the Opposition which is in fact being inconsistent - by professing on the one band to deplore inflation and yet on the other hand doing nothing to discourage some of the most important causes of this inflation such as union militancy, industrial unrest and unreasonable demands on employers. [More…]
Direct industrial action by sections of the trade union movement could jeopardise the jobs of thousands of workers and make it difficult for those people already out of work to find suitable employment. [More…]
If no cognisance is taken of the problems that are confronting this country, if the trade union movement is prepared to continue to demand wage rises which are beyond the increase in gross national production, if in support of those demands the trade union movement is prepared to continue to advocate and assist in conducting long strikes which affect the national economy, and if the people on the other side - and I want to balance this - are not prepared to keep their profits within reasonable limits and pass benefits on to the consumers thereby keeping the prices of goods at a level which allows for a reasonable margin of profit, we will not be able to overcome the problems which unemployment and inflation create. [More…]
The Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), in typical humanitarian style, said that no members of the 23 unions involved in the dispute would be eligible for the unemployment benefit. [More…]
One of the unions concerned had about 12 members involved in the dispute and about 3,000 members out of work in other States. [More…]
They will not get a penny because they are members of the unions’. [More…]
Their crime was membership of a union. [More…]
All honourable members know of the hatred the Minister has displayed for unions over many years in this Parliament. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a valued customer for Australian primary products and non-strategic goods generally, having consistently purchased large quantities of wool from Australia and, at various times, of wheat and meat. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Soviet Union is never likely to be a threat to the integrity of Australia whereas Communist China might pose such a threat twenty or more years hence, will he do everything possible to encourage peaceful relations in trade, tourism, culture, medicine, literature and science with the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
As for our relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, it is the Government’s policy to work progressively for the establishment of normal working relations with the Soviet Government, in all fields where it is in Australia’s interests to do so. [More…]
If any interest or person - I do not care whether it is a company, trade union or private citizen - chooses to write a letter to a Prime Minister, whether he be a Liberal Prime Minister or a Labor Prime Minister, is it in the public interest that the whole of that letter from that company, trade union or private citizen necessarily should be laid on the table? [More…]
Since white settlement the Australian Aborigines have suffered one injustice after another, and they have gone from one disability or another, but it would be tragic if for the first time they are to be used for political motives and purposes by Communist elements and left-wing union leaders. [More…]
What is the (a) nature of the agreed penalties in each agreement and (b) union bound by each agreement. [More…]
Container Industry Agreement - Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia, Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australasia, Transport Workers Union of Australia, Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union of Australia. [More…]
BWWD-FCU Container Agreement 1970 - Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia. [More…]
I am informed that in several major areas of employment there have either’ been discussions between union and employer representatives towards giving effect to the guidelines or there have been agreements entered into which have been influenced by the guidelines’. [More…]
Consequently I do not agree with the implication in the question, namely that we should be thinking of the Seamen’s Union and seeing that its members get a lush passage to Bangla Desh and return. [More…]
Since tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of the Commonwealth Industrial Court’s epoch making judgment in Moore and Doyle, I ask why no Bill has been introduced or no ministerial statements have been made on the Court’s recommendation for urgent action - the word ‘urgent’ is the Court’s word of 3 years ago - to establish a system of trade, union organisations which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration system. [More…]
While you are on that, just keep quiet about the trade union movement until you are in the Party room and have sufficient courage to say What you want to say next Tuesday night on the opposite side of this building. [More…]
You can get up in this House after Tuesday night and say what you like about the trade union movement in the light of where your courage might be and in respect of what action you may take next Tuesday evening in your combined Party room. [More…]
Is anybody on the other side of the House going to continue in the manner in which honourable members opposite have been speaking for the last couple of years anyway by blazing away every time they hear the trade union movement mention a 35-hour week? [More…]
They wilfully disregard what is considered to be the real approach of the trade union movement to a 35-hour week. [More…]
What was the cause of the last strike of the waterfront union, which my distinguished friend from [More…]
Underground work at the Western Mining Corporation’s 3 nickle shafts at Kambalda has stopped … A union official declined to say what had caused the strike. [More…]
In another blatantly political strike, the Seamen’s Union yesterday brought needless inconvenience to passengers arriving from England in the liner ‘Canberra’. [More…]
The ostensible reason for yesterday s budden boycott was that ‘many’ of the union’s Irish members came ‘asking us what we were going to do* to protest at the shootings in Londonderry last Sunday. [More…]
But the unions had decided to strike. [More…]
Here is a quotation from a newspaper of 11th February 1972 under the headline ‘Union row may cost 900 jobs’: [More…]
A union demarcation dispute involving 15 men could cost 900 others their jobs at the Lysaght’s Westernport steelworks. [More…]
In my opinion, one of the things that has happened in Victoria after the recent State Electricity Commission power strike is that when factories were closed down, not because the employees were members of the union but because the blackout of industry, many employers decided that they would take the opportunity to get rid of those employees who had not been very efficient. [More…]
Anybody listening to honourable members opposite speaking in this debate would think that there were no problems in the industrial area, that the Labor Party was satisfied with the industrial field and that it was satisfied that industry could continue under the conditions of wild cat strikes held throughout the year with or without the condonation of the various unions. [More…]
This cannot be brought about by political action or by trying to gain kudos and advantage to elect a government which is more likely, if it were elected, to be controlled by the trade union movement and the radical wing of it than it is by the Parliament. [More…]
For such conditions are conducive to the exercise of unbridled industrial strength by powerful union groups; to the rapid passing on of cost increases - and sometimes more - in higher prices; to bottlenecks and delivery delays and all the other signs which, each in its small way, point to a falling away of overall standards of efficiency and real productivity. [More…]
On how many occasions during the past 10 years has a union breached an industrial agreement. [More…]
Can a union whose rules provide for contributions to be paid only yearly in advance prevent a member from resigning at the end of his membership year unless he pays another 12 months contributions in advance. [More…]
If so, how can such a rule operate within the provisions of section 145 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which gives to union members a statutory right to resign at 3 months’ notice. [More…]
In how many unsuccessful cases launched by union members under sections 140 and 141 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act did the applicants receive financial assistance from the Industrial Registrar under regulation 138. [More…]
In which awards made by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is provision made for preference of employment to the applicant or respondent union. [More…]
awards which, although not making specific provision within them for preference, never theless contain provision for a system of engagement which operates to give preference of employment to union members; [More…]
I would have thought that such a state is not reached by promising to spend money every time a group in the community makes a demand or that such a state is not reached by advocating on every occasion less work and more pay, as do the Labor Opposition and many trade union officials. [More…]
That is why it is so evil for members of the Labor Party and trade union officials to encourage men into a ‘class war’ level of thinking creating disruption, lower incomes and dissatisfaction on the part of people both with their work and the part it plays in thenlives. [More…]
Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, is fond of suggesting price control and making invalid comparisons with wages paid. [More…]
He asserts that the earnings of trade union members are controlled by awards and that those of business are not. [More…]
He complained about inter-union disputes, but the very thing that will prevent inter-union disputes, and in some industries perhaps the only thing that will prevent inter-union disputes, is the amalgamation of unions so that there will be no need for unions to argue over which person does what job. [More…]
Every member of the union will be available to do any job, and the employer in the industry concerned will not be plagued with demarcation disputes. [More…]
They would prevent this worthwhile, sensible reform within the trade union movement. [More…]
Do not tell me that unions will not honour industrial agreements. [More…]
Do not tell me that when the unions make an industrial agreement they will not honour it. [More…]
No union secretary 1 know of has ever said that a union has the right to make an industrial agreement for over award payments and then repudiate that agreement at will. [More…]
That is why the Labor Party’s policy on industrial agreements envisages the concept of ratification of the agreement at the factory floor level after it has been recommended to the factory floor by the executive of the union, and not until it is ratified at that level shall the agreement be signed, nor can it be ‘ ‘cred till then. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has recognised the need to honour industrial agreements. [More…]
It has said in clear and unequivocal terms that any union that makes an agreement under the auspices of the ACTU will be expected to carry it out and the ACTU will use the full moral sanctions of the entire trade union movement against any union official who seeks to break or repudiate an agreement made under the auspices of the ACTU. [More…]
That is a far more effective sanction than anything that can be written into any Act of Parliament, and it leaves only one way in which the agreements can be repudiated and that is if, at the level of the factory floor, the men themselves decide to repudiate the agreement in defiance of the ACTU and of the union secretaries who signed the agreement. [More…]
When thai is done - when they act in defiance of an agreement which they themselves have ratified, there is nothing wrong with the union writing into the agreement penalties for repudiation of it. [More…]
Unions already have agreements with penalties written into them. [More…]
It is true that the ACTU can prevent penalties from being written into agreements made under its auspices but it cannot, and neither can any government prevent a union from writing in penalties provided that it has the sanction of its members to do so. [More…]
There is in the community, I believe, at the present time a strong sentiment, to which I for my part subscribe with firm conviction, that it just is not correct to place all or nearly all of the blame for cost-push inflation on the activities of the trade union movement under the leadership of Mr Hawke. [More…]
That approach to the trade union movement is, I believe, over-simplistic, and I believe that we on this side of politics have got to avoid it. [More…]
I do not adhere for one moment to any proposition that a degree of militancy in the trade union movement is not in some measure responsible for the cost-push inflation that we have today. [More…]
It will do no good to any political party in the context of present day politics for the Government to criticise the Opposition because the Opposition stands for a strong trade union movement; so should any good Liberal government, and so does the present Government. [More…]
It is of no use for the Government to say that it is all the trade unions’ fault or for the Opposition to say that it is all the employers’ fault. [More…]
Let us realise, because I am sure this is a great truth, that in this country there is a large reservoir of intellectual talent on both sides of politics, inside and outside the trade union movement and inside and outside industry, that would -wish to grapple with these basic problems. [More…]
Of course, the Government is not averse to appearing before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to coerce the judiciary there into denying the trade union movement of Australia what is its just economic due. [More…]
In a recent discussion at the Inter-parliamentary Union Conference the subject of the changing function of the mass media of radio and television was raised and debated for a considerable time. [More…]
I suppose that if we ran across the boards we would have Canada, the United States, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in that bracket. [More…]
1 would have thought that industry, the trade union movement and the workers whose interest in this is vital would want a clear and unequivocal expression of policy from the alternative government. [More…]
Let any sector of manufacturing industry or any responsible trade union that is looking for stability and growth in manufacturing and trade union relations buy the so-called policies of the Australian Labor Party at their own peril. [More…]
I hear continual criticism of the trade union movement by honourable members opposite who, as Ministers and supporters of the Government, act with less responsibility than any trade union officers I ha*# ever met - and I have met plenty. [More…]
This is what he told a trade union congress in the Brisbane Trades Hall on 28th July last year: [More…]
Our flag, depicting the Union Jack and the Southern Cross, clearly illustrates that our nation was founded by British people in the southern hemisphere. [More…]
The training scheme was introduced with the endorsement of and after discussion with the National Labour Advisory Council which, of course, includes union and employer representatives. [More…]
In turn, an advisory committee was established, again with employer and union representatives. [More…]
I suggest that these comments by a committee which includes representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions are in marked contrast to the rather intemperate language used by the honourable member for Kingston. [More…]
One branch of the Victorian Farmers Union has advised me that a transport operator from a small area had contracts for 4 months to cart across the border. [More…]
I remind honourable members that there was no great argument with the unions on this aspect. [More…]
The attitude of honourable members opposite, particularly supporters of the Australian Country Party, towards the amalgamation of trade unions is one which is not really understood by clear thinking people who have some knowledge of the trade union movement. [More…]
One could almost say that the Act has been, since it was first introduced, with its so-called constitutional rights to certain union organisations, responsible for the type of situation with which Australia has been confronted for many years and which is still in existence. [More…]
I also thought that there were some rather disparaging remarks made in regard to the Seamens’ Union of Australia because of the fact that they had made some offer to take aid to Pakistan prior to the war without a request for wages but the same offer was not made later by the Union. [More…]
I think it should be explained that it was not made because it was recognised by the Union - I think this ought to be put forward - that there was a complete change of circumstances insofar as that at the the fact that they had made some offer the country was without government but such was not the case later when they were protesting against the use of a Japanese vessel. [More…]
It so happens though that both arise out of demarcation issues, that is, areas of dispute between unions rather than between management and unions. [More…]
This is the current situation in that union at the moment. [More…]
Another group, the members of what was the former Amalgamated Engineering Union, the coppersmiths and fitters, was informed that there would be no pay if they did not continue normal duties. [More…]
The contrast between its union bashing and its meek surrender to the doctors is singularly dramatic in the way in which it exposes its prejudices and preferences. [More…]
is prepared to union bash, to assial the 5.5 million blue and white collar wage and salary earners in the community, lecturing them on the need for wage restraint, intervening in wage claim cases to oppose these wage and salary earners claims, and imposing harsh penalties for those who break the rules. [More…]
By the terms of the Bill, if an industrial situation occurs or is threatened, a Minister, the Public Service Board, a Commonwealth instrumentality or a union may notify that situation to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
Honourable members will be well aware, for example, of the many interruptions to the work of the Post Office, resulting in inconvenience to the public, that have taken place as a result of strikes, bans and limitations on the performance of work by such bodies as the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union and the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
The system of the Public Service Arbitration Act, as it stands, envisages that in circumstances in which a union is not satisfied with the response of management (in the form of the Public Service Board or a department or an instrumentality) it will take its claims to the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
Most unions with employees in the Public Service do, in fact, follow this course of action but there are some with members employed in key areas of Commonwealth activity which reject the proper processes open to them under this Act and resort to intimidatory tactics by way of strikes or bans on work. [More…]
When an employer and a union are engaged in a dispute with which there may also be associated a strike or ban on work, that dispute can be notified to the Commission under section 28 of the Act. [More…]
This means that officers and employees will carry out only those duties determined by them or by their trade union. [More…]
He told the Teachers’ Union of Western Australia recently: [More…]
A document recently prepared by the Teachers Union in Victoria stated, and it has not been refuted, that in Victoria $130m is required to correct the very bad situation that exists in the inner suburban schools in Melbourne. [More…]
We find that the Australian Labor Party is organisationally tied to its outside union controllers. [More…]
This morning I received a request to see a deputation of representatives of Post Office unions while they are in Canberra this week. [More…]
The letter which came to me inviting me to do so suggested that the deputation would represent 6 Post Office unions. [More…]
I am informed that 3 of the most important unions in the Post Office - the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, the Postal Telecommunication Technicians Association and the Australian Postmasters Association - have dissociated themselves from the deputation to me and to honourable members during this week. [More…]
The 3 unions I have named represent approximately 70,000 members of the staff of the Australian Post Office, so I think it will be seen that the representations are in fact coming to honourable members from a comparatively small area of Post Office unions, and not the broad area. [More…]
In relation to the first 3 matters I have mentioned, the union that is most prominently represented in the deputation - the Union ot Postal Clerks and Telegraphists - has, I understand, no members employed. [More…]
It is therefore a little strange to me that that union should be sending representatives in a deputation to discuss these matters. [More…]
Indeed, I am given to understand that that union has been substantially responsible for encouraging the number of petitions which are circulating in the community at present. [More…]
There are now 5 major power groupings: The United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the European Community. [More…]
It considers that they are not really the right sort of people, that they are not carried away by the Union Jack and the Queen to quite the extent which the Government believes people ought to be carried away. [More…]
The Minister will be aware of a current visit to Australia by representatives of a West German trade union delegation who are here, among other things, to discuss housing finance proposals by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I am naturally aware of the visit of a German trade union delegation to Australia to discuss forms of housing- finance which have been proposed for a number of years by the ACTU and its leader. [More…]
I am intrigued that at last this trade union delegation has come to Australia because this form of finance - ‘the entry of the ACTU into the field of housing - was first proposed by the present President of the ACTU in 1969, I am anxious for the proposal to be born and I would like to view it when it is born. [More…]
I am glad that the Minister is so tender towards the union movement. [More…]
We find that disciplinary action is being taken against New South Wales teachers under a similar provision of the New South Wales Act and Regulations because teachers are refusing,and rightly refusing, to work additional periods imposed upon them not only because it is part of the policy of the union to which they belong but because out of conscience they believe that to work those extra periods under those circumstances is unconscionable and bad for the profession they represent and belong to and bad for the students that they exist to serve. [More…]
After we had had serious fights with the Victorian Department of Education about the requirements of that Department in that teachers had to come to Australia for an interview - one of them was teaching in Ethiopia - the Victorian Teachers Union doubted the applicants’ qualifications; then we had our final tussle with that remarkable revolutionary, the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
To determine your eligibility for unemployment benefits under the Social Services Act in respect of the claim you lodged during the recent Victorian power dispute, it will be necessary to know the name of the trade union or association (if any) to which you belong. [More…]
Were you a member of a trade union or association on 2 February 1972? [More…]
In accordance with the policy which was laid down by the then Prime Minister, the AttorneyGeneral, and the Minister for Social Services in April 1947, applicants for unemployment benefit who are members of a union that sponsors or supports an industrial dispute are not entitled to unemployment benefit-‘ [More…]
Mr HOLLOWAY ; Persons who are members of any union represented on the Combined Mining Unions Council and are employed in the mining industry are not eligible to receive unemployment benefit in respect of the period of the strike. [More…]
What we did was this: We ignored the strike as far as 3 categories of people were concerned and we paid them with full continuity irrespective of the strike and irrespective of the union to which they belonged. [More…]
They are now looking forward, through their contacts with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union movement, to other strikes of this character being fomented and brought forward. [More…]
What they are worried about is what they are plotting for the future and what they know the trade union movement is plotting for the future. [More…]
Such visit is objectionable not only because of the treatment of political prisoners by the Soviet Union but also because it may precipitate violence similar to that experienced during the South African Rugby Tour. [More…]
This petition of Main Officer members of the Amalgamated Postal Workers’ Union (S.A. [More…]
He is happy to go to such meetings to rant about the Labor Party and the Soviet Union but be is not prepared to send a substitute. [More…]
I refer to an article headed Lynch Broke Word Say Public Service Union Leaders’ which appeared in (he Australian’ of 10th March 1972. [More…]
The unions must first place their claims before the Public Service Board and, failing agreement, then before the Public Service Arbitrator. [More…]
It is no wonder that there is grave discontent in every union associated with the Post Office. [More…]
have found myself completely humiliated when union deputations called on me. [More…]
There could be a Gilbert and Sullivan situation when the postal workers are on strike and it is decided to send a telegram to the secretary of the Australian Postal Workers Union to come into conference but because of the strike the telegram is not delivered. [More…]
Increased militancy on the part of some unions and the use of certain tactics have been the cause of a great deal of loss within this nation in the last few years, but particularly within the last 2 years. [More…]
I want to refer to the impact that union action has had on the operation of the Australian Post Office. [More…]
Some unions, of course, have been reasonable in their attitude but others have been extreme in their approach, to the point of causing a great deal of inconvenience and loss to themselves, but at the same time causing very extreme inconvenience and loss of revenue to the public. [More…]
It points up the attitude that has been developed and encouraged by certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
A more recent example of the guerrilla type tactics of unions is to be seen by looking at the record of disputes at the Sydney Mail Exchange. [More…]
The honourable member for Stirling said that the trade union movement was opposed to this approach. [More…]
I want to quote from a letter written by the General Secretary of the Australian Postal Workers Union to the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs on 12th August last year. [More…]
It has always been the case, and should be the case, in the opinion of this union, that if satisfactory agreement cannot be reached between the central administration of the Department and the Federal Executive of the Union on industrial matters, then the next logical step is to seek to have the Public Service Arbitrator apply his good offices. [More…]
Government, and yet the Opposition in no way wants to support that union in its contention that this kind of approach would be desirable. [More…]
This is far from the experience of the actions of the unions in recent disputes. [More…]
The unions have thumbed their noses at such processes and no appeals were made to the arbiter at all. [More…]
In so doing he and his friends will deny those members of the unions who want to see an improvement in the system the right to see that improvement introduced. [More…]
They will fail, of course, because the House will pass the legislation and this will be a breath of fresh air in the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
It will be a breath of fresh air for those honest members of the unions who want to see and experience an improvement in the relationships that have existed in recent times. [More…]
I refer to those members of the unions who through their diligence have worked hard and have sought to gain the kind of recognition and status within their unions and within the Commonwealth Public Service to which they are entitled and which they want to enjoy in the years ahead but which they see crumbling away because of mistrust, misguidance and misadventure on the part of some leaders of some unions. [More…]
Anybody who has had any experience in union activity knows full well the variety of situations which can arise in any work place whether it involves postal or railway employees or employees in any of the other Commonwealth departments and instrumentalities mentioned by the Minister. [More…]
As a former union official having worked on the floor level I know of my own experiences in such situations. [More…]
For example the question of safety on a particular job may arise and if there is any doubt whatsoever any union official worth his salt would advise his members not to touch the work in question. [More…]
Situations such as these are quite common in many work places and are usually resolved to everyone’s satisfaction by a commonsense approach by union and management in 99 cases out of 100. [More…]
Recently, some honourable members on this side of the House had an opportunity to have discussions with officers of a number of unions concerning employees in the Post Office. [More…]
One of the main complaints put up by these union officers was the amount of trouble they had in getting to see the top industrial people in that organisation and in the Public Service Board to discuss their problems. [More…]
My own experience as a union official covering employees in a Commonwealth instrumentality has convinced me that the best kind of arrangement in establishing better working conditions and rates of pay is for these matters to be thrashed out over a conference table where it is possible to discuss fully any points or differences. [More…]
Whilst some improvements have been made on this point following discussions between the union involved and, in this case, the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner, undue delays still occur. [More…]
The able members of one kind or another of the Postal Workers Union who had come to see us, and persuasively so, in the last day or two, no longer thought it necessary to s’ay. [More…]
Perhaps this is an appropriate time, although I have not spent a lot of time on the factory floor, to mention to the honourable member for Sturt, among others, that I am a life member of my former union. [More…]
Let me instance the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union bans imposed in November 1971. [More…]
Almost certainly the imposition of those bans resulted in substantial delays in the settlement of the union claims. [More…]
In part the Arbitrator said: it was unfortunate that members of the union should mistakenly have thought it desirable or necessary, to engage in industrial action in an attempt to force compliance with their wishes. [More…]
Be that as it may, it is not unimportant that the union’s applicaion was not lodged here until after 15th February 1972 and it could have been soon after it became clear that negotiations had broken down. [More…]
To take just one other example of the sort of thing I am talking about, the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists imposed bans in January 1972. [More…]
After some lapse of time and following various actions a position was reached which I summarise as follows: Despite a quite intensive campaign of industrial action which extended over a period of more than one month and which certainly inconvenienced the Postal Department in its daily operations and certainly inconvenienced countless members of the public - 1 am sure that honourable members will be aware of that situation in detail - the union had achieved nothing in the way of salary increases. [More…]
Throughout the early stages of the campaign the New South Wales Branch exhibited an unwillingness to enforce a number of union’s federal executive’s proposals for action. [More…]
The strike still went on; delays still occurred; and there was still inconvenience not only to the public but also to the members of the union themselves. [More…]
All that this Bill is doing is making an attempt at union bashing. [More…]
I believe that his family should bring a charge against the secretary of the union which caused this dispute in Victoria. [More…]
We are looking after the interests of those who are upset and discontented because of militant activities by certain union bosses. [More…]
In fact I say that the stage has been reached in Australia - I could use this slogan - when we see union bosses versus the people. [More…]
Why do we not have a look - I thought the honourable member for Melbourne Ports would have had a look - at the increased costs which have resulted because of militant union action throughout Australia in recent years. [More…]
Yet we saw the spectacle in recent weeks of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union taking direct action, limiting the activities of its members and upsetting thousands and thousands of people in Australia? [More…]
I am on the side of the pensioners and the superannuitants because they are obtaining nothing from the militant activity of trade unions. [More…]
They do not want to be pushed around by somebody in a union office. [More…]
That is why the ordinary unionist does not even go to union meetings. [More…]
A disturbance could continue for 5 weeks or 6 weeks and, in the meantime, nobody is having switchboards installed, nobody receives telegrams and somebody may not receive his telephone account because some union boss in an office says: ‘This is what we will do and I expect the workers to follow the line’. [More…]
There will be civil action if some of these union bosses keep pushing their barrow as hard as they have pushed it in the past. [More…]
There are moderate union people who feel that other unionists are pushing them around. [More…]
Therefore, they will confront these militant unionists unless they do something about it and pull in their horns. [More…]
This activity by the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union on the limitation of work was just another factor in this situation. [More…]
We must get rid of this concept of the union boss versus the people. [More…]
I believe that we all should bring a little sweet reason to the problems associated with unionists and, if you like, with bosses, because they need sweet reason too. [More…]
This is not an attempt by the Commonwealth Public Service Board to stand over the APWU or any other union associated with the Public Service. [More…]
The employee will not be able to protest, for if he takes some action to refuse he faces trial without witness, without union representation or legal representation. [More…]
I suspect that if closer consideration were given to union submissions and association submissions, startling changes and results would follow. [More…]
Most trade union officials, most employee association officials, want to lead a normal life but often they have to negotiate in an atmosphere of frustration and directions subsequently given to them by ordinary citizens who are their employers in order to reach a reasonable conclusion or have to take direct action as a result of recommendations made at a meeting. [More…]
The Board knows, the Government knows and, tragically, so often the union knows that the only recourse under statute is to apply to go before the Public Service Arbitrator to get a decision. [More…]
The unions, the Government, the Public Service Board and anybody who has any knowledge of the trade union movement - I had 14 years experience of it, particularly in the Public Service sector - know that the Arbitrator has power to fix only minimum rates, not maximum rates. [More…]
This leaves unions and associations within the Commonwealth Public Service with only one recourse - industrial action. [More…]
As a consequence, unions have been forced to fight on 2 fronts over recent years. [More…]
Beyond question it is the Commonwealth Government which should be indicted in respect of this piece of legislation, not the unions or the associations representing the vast body of public servants. [More…]
If one reads the Minister’s second reading speech and recalls ministerial and Government utterances over the last month, it seems that the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union has been singled out to get a first class side blast. [More…]
Briefly, the position is this: Industrial action by the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union has been embarked upon only after prolonged discussions for improved conditions have been conducted with the PostmasterGeneral’s Department and the Commonwealth Public Service Board. [More…]
The activities of the Public Service Board, particularly in the review of salary claims and allowances submitted by the Union over many years, have resulted in protracted delays and an inability to accept standards and conditions applicable under outside awards. [More…]
The Union has a right to condemn the Public Service Board for its negative and unrealistic approach to providing a reasonable standard for its employees. [More…]
The Union has pointed out that the Board is entirely responsible for the industrial action that has resulted. [More…]
On every ocassion that the Union has embarked upon industrial action for salary increases following a rejection of its claim by the Public Service Board, the [More…]
Public Service Arbitrator or the Full Bench of the Arbitration Commission has upheld the Union’s application in full. [More…]
In the January 1968 disputation involving the motor transport drivers employed by the Postmaster-General’s Department, after 5 months delay the Public Service Board rejected the Union’s application. [More…]
50 of 1972 concerning an industry allowance of $4.50 a week and associated matters in favour of the Union. [More…]
On 17th March 1972 the Deputy Public Service Arbitrator, Mr Wilson, granted the Union the $6 metal trades award flow-on retrospective to the beginning of the first pay period commencing in or after the first calendar week in February 1972, including the standard provision regarding extraneous payments. [More…]
In respect of both the foregoing claims, the Union met with strong opposition from the Public Service Board which refused to comply with the Union’s application. [More…]
It can be fairly demonstrated that every time there are negotiations with the Public Service Board we get this invariable reply no’, even if the Union’s claim is based on comparable rates of pay outside or on what is the accepted norm in the federal jurisdiction. [More…]
Therefore it is the Government, not the unions, which stands indicted in relation to this legislation because of its failure to engage in reasonable and responsible conciliation and conference. [More…]
No doubt we all recall that the Board was instrumental in disrupting Australia-wide telecommunications for 2 months as a result of its negative approach to Union demands from 7th [More…]
The formula for providing a good relationship between the union and the Public Service Board is to prevent an industrial situation by adjusting salaries and conditions appropriate to technological change and economic need before a disputation commences, not afterwards. [More…]
The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) was bang on when he said that the blame for the unrest and the trouble which the Government blames on the unions should be laid right at the door of the Government. [More…]
I heard one Government speaker saying that it was the fault of the union bosses. [More…]
I do not know what honourable members opposite think of unions when they use terms like this. [More…]
It is almost as though they are suggesting that a very large proportion of the Australian population is mindless and that the unions do not consist of the great mass of the people of Australia. [More…]
Surely the position comes to this: Unions exist to further the interests of their members, particularly their working conditions, to increase wages and to chase and match rising prices. [More…]
Although this is not really the occasion to talk about what causes rising prices, we cannot get away from it because this Bill is really a Bill about unionism. [More…]
It is a Bill dealing with what brings into being unionism and the efforts of unions to further the interests of their members. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) give other examples of the same sort, but the Government is never prepared to look into its own system and methods and the methods of its supporters, lt always comes up with the simple cry: lt is the unions.’ [More…]
So it blames someone called a union boss. [More…]
Union bosses are elected by their rank and file to carry out the wishes of the membership of a union. [More…]
Yet the Government, instead of trying to re-activate and re-invigorate itself and introduce some kind of reforms, simply says that misguided agitators and misguided union bosses are causing all the trouble. [More…]
There was some reference by honourable members on the Opposition side to the fact that this measure was brought on without prior consultations with : the various union groups. [More…]
It regards it as a measure warranting immediate action, particularly in the light of recent disputes in the Post Office during which vital communication services were interfered with by union activities and in which there was a refusal to take union claims to arbitration. [More…]
In any event, the contents of the Public Service Arbitration Bill do not relate to the submissions which were made to me by the union bodies last year. [More…]
At the meeting on 9th March I also expressed a willingness to hear the detailed comments of these various trade union bodies on the Bill before the House. [More…]
I also will consult on this matter with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Indeed, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), who is an honourable member for whom I have high regard, used the phrase ‘union bashing’. [More…]
It was lifted in defiance of the Woolgrowers Association of New South Wales, the Victorian Farmers Union and the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association of New South Wales. [More…]
The 2 New South Wales farmer and grazier organisations and the Victorian Farmers Union could claim to represent 56.6 per cent of the industry. [More…]
Despite what the honourable member for Corangamite has said in regard to South Africa, the Soviet Union or any other country, when fine wools are required the buyers of the world come to Australia. [More…]
There are a lot of big breeders who are finding the going very tough indeed, but there are many more very small breeders who have started off with 50 ewes, increased the number to 150, 200 and 500 and then found in some cases that their progress has been inhibited by this kind of union action. [More…]
Because the settlers have had to employ the sons of neighbours to shear their sheep, the union organisations have declared them black. [More…]
There should not be this kind of ill feeling between the union organisation and the rest of the community. [More…]
The United States of America maintains its global balance with the Soviet Union and it has a marked superiority in strategic nuclear strength vis-a-vis China. [More…]
The United States, the Soviet Union, China and Japan are exploring each other’s attitudes and examining the effect of initiatives taken. [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of the North Vietnamese throughout IndoChina, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
To lay stress on dangerous contingencies against which Australian defence efforts must steadily prepare over the longer term is not inconsistent wi.h the hopes entertained by the President of the United States of progressively negotiating understandings which will reduce tensions among the 4 great powers: The Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, the United States and Japan - and particularly among the 3 great military powers in this group. [More…]
The following countries have resident missions in Cyprus headed by an Ambassador, High Commissioner or Charge d’Affaires: Britain, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, West Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Romania, Syria, Turkey, Soviet Union, United States, Yugoslavia. [More…]
TheBoard shall also consist of a representative of the union and a representative of the Commonwealth Teaching Service who could well be somebody from the authority itself - somebody who has direct concern with the school situation. [More…]
The Wool and Basil Workers Union has expressed grave concern about the motives for the takeover bid for a company which those in the industry describe as efficient by world standards. [More…]
Of course, he was very closely allied to a union that might be said to be a next door neighbour of the union represented by the honourable member for Sturt as a shop steward. [More…]
In this case a letter was written to the local newspaper setting out a series of contentions by a member of this union. [More…]
At that time the Minister came out with a statement that people who were members of a union which was involved in an industrial dispute would be debarred from receiving the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Nothing is more typical of the union baiting and the arrogance ot this Minister than his statement in reply to the honourable member for Corio, which is recorded on page 1060 of Hansard of 22nd March as follows: [More…]
What he is doing is trying to ensure that any person who is in any way associated with a union involved in an industrial dispute shall be punished. [More…]
But of greater importance is the fact that it was very difficult for him to implement his policy because it was very difficult to decide who was a member of a union which was involved in an industrial dispute. [More…]
The question now is: How docs the Minister find out who is a member of a union which is involved in an industrial dispute? [More…]
The Department says: ‘We do not know which union this person belonged to, but it is probable he was in one of those unions. [More…]
In one of the items of correspondence that I have received from the Department of Social Services we find a statement that a person was rejected because he was considered - no evidence was given as to the basis on which he was considered - to be a member of a union involved in an industrial dispute. [More…]
It demands information as to whether the person concerned was a member of a trade union or association on 2nd February 1972 and, if so, which one it was. [More…]
This indicates quite clearly that the Department simply did not know in the first place whether the people it had rejected were or were not members of the appropriate trade unions. [More…]
1 repeat that I believe this has been a very discriminatory policy pursued against certain people purely on the ground that they were members of a trade union. [More…]
I want to point this out to the Minister: When he goes crazy as he usually does about industrial disputes, unions holding the nation to ransom, left-wingers and all that, let him come back to a little human reality and recognise that the people with whom we are dealing in the case of cities such as Bendigo or Castlemaine are receiving $50 or $60 a week. [More…]
I informed the deputation that no hard and fast rule should be laid down to cover cases where a strike of key worker unionists in one industry threw out of work members of the same Union in another industry but that all the circumstances would have to be taken into account, e.g., conduct of the Union and its executives. [More…]
The broad principle must be applied that if the sponsorship by a Union of a Key Worker strike causes unemployment the Union and its members whether in the same or another industry must accept responsibility for the natural and foreseeable consequences of their sponsorship. [More…]
Only recently on 21st March I received a letter from Mr L. Carmichael, who is the Commonwealth Assistant Secretary - that is how he signs himself - of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and who is, of course, a Communist of long standing and therefore an enemy of Australia. [More…]
Nothing is more typical of the union baiting and the arrogance of this Minister- [More…]
In the present situation of uncertainty about the intentions of China and the Soviet Union, and the aggressive militancy of North Vietnamese throughout Indo-China, and widespread insurgency in our northern neighbourhood, a positive Australian policy founded on an adequate defence effort and on defence arrangements or understandings with our neighbours may contribute to confidence and stability in the region in which we live. [More…]
Have pilots of Ansett Airlines of Australia refused to fly with several other pilots unless they join the Air Pilots Federation, although these pilots are already members of the Pilots Guild which is a registered union. [More…]
Of course the North Vietnamese are using tanks, but the problem is to get the supplies of the Soviet Union out of the place and to get the American advisers out and bring the war to an end. [More…]
They put out feelers for a regional arrangement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said we should not be the followers of big powers, whether it be the Soviet Union, the United States or Great Britain. [More…]
Since I have been involved in the trade union movement, parliamentary affairs and trades and labour councils, I have never heard such a shocking speech and such shocking references as have been made by the Minister. [More…]
They are not disputes between employers and employees or between employees and government; they are, of course, essentially disputes between trade union and trade union. [More…]
I believe it is intolerable that the community, and the business sector in particular, should be the victims of disputes of this type which, quite clearly, lie within the responsibility of the trade union movement itself to solve. [More…]
In recent days in Sydney the Australian Council of Trade Unions, in conjunction with the federal bodies of a large number of trade unions in Australia, has met to consider this particular question. [More…]
For example, there were only 6 members of the Vehicle Builders Union employed at Yallourn on the maintenance of trucks and motor cars, etc., owned by the State Electricity Commission and naturally they were on strike with the other workers. [More…]
The broad principle must be applied that if the sponsorship by a Union of a Key Worker strike causes unemployment the Union and its members whether in the same or another industry - and these are the words I emphasise - [More…]
The abattoir, while not being in my electorate, employs a great number of people from the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union and other unions who live in my electorate. [More…]
But I think we have a different situation where people in entirely different industries have been denied unemployment benefits although they are members of entirely different industries and in some cases are members of a union which was very marginally involved in the dispute and played no key role in the manufacture of power. [More…]
If all unions had gone on strike in the La Trobe Valley then there would have been a case for denying these people unemployment benefits. [More…]
Prior to the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in September 1961 much of the radioactive debris from earlier tests had been deposited. [More…]
The extensive test programmes by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1961 and 1962, and by United States of America in 1962, injected more radioactive debris into the atmosphere than had all previous tests. [More…]
The fact is that what the honourable gentleman displays is a complete lack of appreciation of the need for adequate membership control in the trade unions of this country. [More…]
This Government has always stood for a strong trade union movement, but I might add that it has stood not only for a strong trade union movement but also for a responsible one and one which is responsive to. [More…]
the needs of the members who constitute those trade unions. [More…]
Therefore the answer to the second part of the honourable gentleman’s question about the Government’s capacity to fund challenges to various developments which concern trade unions is that of course there must be opportunities for making those facilities available unless the unions are to continue to be controlled by their officials. [More…]
In other words, in relation to union affairs, [More…]
The general question of amalgamation is a matter that touches the legislation which I will be shortly bringing into this House, and therefore properly I do not comment on it in advance except to indicate that, as was also outlined in a Press statement, which probably the honourable gentleman has not bothered to read, the legislation will certainly take into account questions of trade union amalgamation. [More…]
The thrust of the honourable gentleman’s question - ‘thrust’ is perhaps not an appropriate word to use in relation to the honourable gentleman - concerning demarcation disputes is a question that he might more properly refer to the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The first comment I could make is that the guesses that have been made by people like the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the trade union movement, Mr Bob Hawke, have turned out to be amazingly wrong, thank heavens. [More…]
We could and should be representing to the Soviet Union that her massive and continuing support for North Vietnam is a massive contribution to a continuation of the war, to upgrading the level of violence of the war and the continuation of the bloodshed. [More…]
Nothing has characterised the hypocrisy of this Government over Vietnam more than its silence and its acquiescence on the role of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The tanks, the surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs, all the sophisticated weaponry there now - the things that have made what was a guerrilla war into a massive war between 2 of the largest and best equipped armies of the world today - have been brought about not by China but by the Soviet Union and by the United States. [More…]
What I repudiate is any view which does not record our objection to and rejection of any action, by either side - not just by the Vietnamese but by all the powers, namely, the United States, the Soviet Union and China, who in pursuit of utterly mistaken ideas of national interest have hurled Indo-China into this crucible of blood - which prolongs the sacrifice and suffering of the people of Vietnam. [More…]
Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the House what evidence his Department has been able to discover as to the amount of supplies being given to the North Vietnamese by the Soviet Union? [More…]
With the qualification that one cannot guarantee the accuracy of the figures, I can say that the evidence at the moment points to the “fact that the Soviet Union would have supplied aid to North Vietnam to the extent of SI, 000m in the past year whereas the People’s Republic of China would have provided aid to the extent of about $300m in that time. [More…]
He is an ex-prisoner of war and he is an exrugby union international. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a statement made by Mr George Meaney, the President of America’s major union organisation, the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations, that he is disenchanted with Strikes and that his organisation has appointed a committee to search for an alternative weapon to strikes? [More…]
Mr George Meaney, of course, would be well known to honourable members in this House as the President of AFL CIO, which is a union organisation in the United States of America. [More…]
lt is the largest and most powerful trade union organisation in that country. [More…]
The fact is that he has been pointing to the enormous loss in that country to trade unionists because of strikes, and he appears to be completely disenchanted with the situation which the United States is approaching at the present time. [More…]
That, I believe, would be anathema to the workers concerned and to the trade union movement because of its impact upon the economy, as we have seen in a recently negotiated agreement on the waterfront. [More…]
I preface my remarks by saying that Labor as a whole has more sympathy than the Government has for independence movements, whether they be independence movements in Ireland, in Scotland, in Yugoslavia or in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The second reason is to impress the allies of North Vietnam - ‘the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China - of its capacity to strike at this time and to involve them, particularly at a time when the United States President is visiting the capitals of those 2 countries. [More…]
In the House on 18th April 1972 in an earlier debate recorded on page 1694 of Hansard the Leader of the Opposition berated the Government for its silence and acquiescence on the role of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlan) recently criticised the massive commitment of the Soviet Union and, of course, the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The people of the Soviet Union who supply to the’ forces of North Vietnam arms such as the rockets that rain on to Saigon, and the pilots of the B52 bombers which are raining bombs on Hanoi and Haiphong, are killing ordinary people. [More…]
But the Labor Party, in government as in opposition, would strive to work through every diplomatic avenue possible, through the United Nations and through our influence with the United States and the Soviet Union to bring about a peaceful solution to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Wills not know that many members on his side have recently been in the Soviet Union and are continuing to go to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Are they to speak in this debate about the great influence that they had in the Soviet Union? [More…]
I attend an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in the Cameroons, which was formerly French Equatorial Africa. [More…]
They were concerned that the North Vietnamese, with the support of the Soviet Union and with sophisticated weaponry, were moving throughout South Vietnam in an endeavour to take the provincial cities. [More…]
The sophisticated weapons have all come from the Soviet Union. [More…]
The United States of America now knows that the Soviet Union has not the slightest reason for regret at United States involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
The Soviet Union fights the US by giving the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong weapons. [More…]
The reason for this is that the US is trying to exploit the divisions between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
General de Gaulle believed that a ‘union des patries’, a united Europe, would be possible because the Soviet Union was distracted on her eastern border by China. [More…]
In my experience the Seamen’s Union in Australia enjoys a tremendously advantageous position. [More…]
The Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Ltd, which Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd bought out, increased its freight rates. [More…]
The legislation is concerned also with the activities of union and employer organisations in relation to their members and the activities of members within those organisations. [More…]
Union and employer bodies exist primarily to protect and advance the interests of their members. [More…]
This wage-induced inflation derives from industrial unrest brought about by union militancy and by employers who are unable or not prepared to resist union tactics and claims. [More…]
But further, to leave it to the trade union movement alone to protest is only compounding the folly. [More…]
The only people other than Labor members of Parliament who have raised their voices in protest publicly have been the maritime unions who are concerned about Australian trade, and the Australian workers affected. [More…]
They have expressed their alarm to such a degree that it has led to the support of their attitude by the Australian Council Of Trade Unions which, in February this year, passed a resolution which is far reaching and comprehensive in its condemnation of all of the malpractices associated with this section of the industry. [More…]
I believe that the Seamen’s Union of Australia is asking for an award or an agreement whereby its members in this category will work 26 weeks a year and have 26 weeks holiday. [More…]
Secondly, we would have an additional advantage in that the Seamen’s Union and those people who man the ships would not so easily be able to bold the whole system to ransom. [More…]
It would be much more difficult for the union concerned to hold the Australian economy, and particularly the Tasmanian economy, to ransom. [More…]
It was wrecked by the left wing unions - the seamen’s union and the waterside workers union - which by a series of disruptions and industrial strikes ended up smashing the whole of our shipping industry. [More…]
But these people would get to north Queensland and there would be a strike between the Stewards union and probably the seamen’s union and they would have to return by train. [More…]
This booklet was forwarded to unions, shipowners and educationists all of whom are studying it as are members of my own Department. [More…]
I should like the honourable member for Newcastle to know that it will not be an easy task to convince the trade union movement that it should accept a modern approach to training of this type. [More…]
But this was caused by the demands made by the Seamen’s Union and the Waterside Workers Federation who tied up the ships in port. [More…]
Should the United States be pre-empted in a nuclear attack the aircraft of that unit of the United States Air Force are targeted on places in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries. [More…]
It arises from an article which is being circulated around both chambers and which has been published by the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
As most honest members of this House will know, the debates which took place last night were a contrived and crude political stunt mounted by the Left wing of the Australian Labor Party, aided and abetted by the Australian Union of Students and, I believe, by ‘This Day Tonight’ [More…]
It is the union which exploits a boom situation, probably encouraged by the honourable member for Cunningham and the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson). [More…]
By what means was his Department able to determine whether persons were ineligible for unemployment benefit on the ground that, in the case of the State Electricity Commission industrial dispute in Victoria during February 1972, they were members of a Union participating in or sponsoring an industrial dispute. [More…]
3,981 claims were rejected on the grounds that the applicants were members of a Union participating in or sponsoring a strike which resulted in their unemployment and 473 claims were rejected on other grounds. [More…]
How many persons who applied for unemployment benefits during the recent Victorian power dispute were sent special questionnaires in February and March 1972 requiring details of their union membership. [More…]
On what (a) occasions and (b) dates have special questionnaires being used since April 1947 to seek details relating to an applicant’s union membership similar to those used during and after the recent Victorian power dispute. [More…]
Has the Minister received any questions or representations with respect to the attitude of the Australian Labour Party or the Australian trade union movement concerning the testing of atomic weapons by the People’s Republic of China? [More…]
We are now brought to the appalling situation where a mistake, a rash reaction, could bring the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of war. [More…]
And now, 18 years later, a million or more lives later, the United Stales and the Soviet Union confront each other across the minefields of Haiphong Harbour. [More…]
Canada in the Pacific and Herr Brandt in the Atlantic community have been true friends of the United States because they have eased the United States’ path to sane relations, in the one case with China and in the other case with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anything which can prevent a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union here must be tried and Australians are the people incomparably well placed to try it. [More…]
It is a sum of $25,900 - small by comparison with the lower migration costs I have just cited - incurred with the visit of the South African Rugby Union team. [More…]
More than 4 years ago I asked the then Minister for Labour and National Service to direct his attention to the defects of section 5 of the Act and to bring down amendments that would guarantee full protection against victimisation of union officials, job representatives and union members. [More…]
The amendments now proposed to this section scarcely scratch the surface of what is needed to give unionists the protection that is necessary if our industrial system is to operate properly. [More…]
It is quite obvious to me that the Government has not the foggiest idea of the relationship that exists between trade union officialdom and trade union membership. [More…]
The Minister seems to imagine that all strikes are initiated in the union office and that movements for amalgamation always come from union officials for whom amalgamation could mean the loss of their jobs. [More…]
His proposals for strike ballots merely give the Commission powers which, under the rules of almost every union, already reside with the membership. [More…]
Once a vote has been taken and has gone in favour of strike action, the resulting stoppage may delay a settlement by restricting union leaders’ freedom of action. [More…]
We think it preferable that trade union leaders should bear, and be seen to bear, the responsibility of deciding when to call a strike and when to call it off. [More…]
He talked with union leaders in the United Kingdom, including Mr Vic Fethers. [More…]
A paper prepared by the officers of the Department of Labour and National Service - I wish the Minister would pay more attention to what the officers tell him and less to what people in Cabinet, who know absolutely nothing about industrial relations, try to impose upon him - pointed out the problems of conducting a ballot on a national scale, the delays of settling a strike which necessitated the holding of another secret ballot and the conflict that would arise in imposing strike penalties if unionists voted in favour of a strike. [More…]
When a union’s rules gives its membership a free right to demand a strike ballot at any time, there can be no moral justification for this kind of legislation. [More…]
The best union official with whom to have dealings is the one who knows and faithfully reflects the attitudes of those whom he represents. [More…]
That is the kind of leadership that comes from union rules that guarantee participatory democracy. [More…]
Similarly, it is in management’s interest to have effective, responsible union stewards who understand the issues at stake, who can present a case logically and reasonably, and report back to their members clearly and persuasively. [More…]
Union delegates who are in the manager’s pocket, or who are thought to be in the manager’s pocket, soon cease to be effective representatives of or to carry any weight with their members. [More…]
I believe that before a steward is dismissed, the employer should be required to notify the secretary of his union and, at the time of the dismissal, the employer should be required to give the employee written reasons for his action. [More…]
Always, the onus must be upon the employer to prove that punitive action against a steward was unrelated to any action that was compatible with the steward’s union duties and that the action taken was for a just cause and devoid of capriciousness. [More…]
Greater managerial expertise and greater union organisation at the plant level will be needed to deal with on-site grievances if the growing incidence of unofficial stoppages is to be avoided. [More…]
Full-time experienced union officials cannot be everywhere at the same time. [More…]
It would help officials if they could enter the workshop during working hours and hold union meetings on the job. [More…]
In this way full-time officials would be able to enforce the observance of safety regulations, clear up misinterpretations of awards, smooth-out demarcation differences, interview non-unionists, detect symptoms of potential unrest, and smooth-out abrasive managerial policies. [More…]
I have never been able to understand why so many companies do so much to impede the on-site activities of full-paid officials and then blame the union when its shop stewards find themselves with an avoidable dispute on their hands. [More…]
More often than not full-time trade union officials are treated like the fire brigade and only get called in when things have already gone wrong. [More…]
Once again, however, I must make the point that no matter whether it be a full-time official or a job representative, the person who speaks for the union must not have the reputation of being a ‘boss’s man’. [More…]
A Labor Government will act to make our system more functional by providing full protection against victimisation and wrongful dismissal, supplemented by the right of entry to accredited union officials during working hours. [More…]
A Labor Government will create an efficient inspectorate acting in co-operation with trade union officials to police and enforce federal industrial Acts, awards and safety regulations. [More…]
The Act will be amended so that proceedings for the recovery of award entitlements will be carried out by the new inspectorate thus relieving union officials of the time and expense which they now spend in the recovery of award entitlements. [More…]
While these injustices exist you are merely hissing into the wind by blaming communists and union officials for industrial unrest. [More…]
Even Professor Laski agreed with that in 1949 when he lectured the trade union leaders of America. [More…]
The Minister calls upon the unions to resolve their demarcation disputes without disruption to industry and yet when they seek to overcome their problems by amalgmation this Government places every possible impediment in their way. [More…]
All experts on industrial relations agree that with the constantly changing techniques associated with modern technology demarcation disputes will each year become more prevalent unless we can find a simple, expeditious and inexpensive procedure for bringing about union amalgamations. [More…]
Demarcation disputes are always the most difficult ones to solve for both unions and employers. [More…]
And yet, seeing the enormous disruption which overlapping union jurisdiction can cause, the Minister has announced a scheme under which amalgamations will become so costly, so complex and so cumbersome that no union will even bother to consider the matter. [More…]
Recent figures show that we have a total of 305 unions in this country, 298 of which have less than 10,000 members and of this number 198 have less than 2,000 members. [More…]
Something has to be done to enable these unions to go out of existence and to become instead larger and more efficient bodies. [More…]
The paper read by the Minister to that conference drew attention to the fact that one of his friends had sat around a table with 15 different union secretaries to settle a dispute that should have concerned one or two at the most. [More…]
In West Germany, which has a population of 61 million, practically all unionists are covered by 19 unions and that includes 2 or 3 unions not inside the Federation of Labour. [More…]
Three of the largest unions enjoy memberships of 552,000, 718,000 and 969,000, and the Metal Workers Union has the grand total of 2,070,000 members, nearly as many as have all 305 unions in Australia put together. [More…]
Small unions have not the financial resources for research, education, organisation and administration that is needed for the 1970s. [More…]
A contributing factor is the ridiculously low rate of union dues that applies in Australia. [More…]
Some unions are still charging less than the minimum yearly rate of $20 a year recommended by the ACTU about a decade ago. [More…]
Unions cannot function on shoestring budgets. [More…]
Just as a person who is seriously ill does not shop around for the cheapest doctor, trade unionists who want the backing of an efficient and powerful trade union movement cannot afford cheap unionism. [More…]
On the present average weekly earnings in Australia, most American unionists would be paying union dues of from $80 to $100 a year. [More…]
Unions must improve the range and quality of their services to members through the recruitment and training of more full-time officers, and more specialist officers, and improvements in the training and servicing of shop stewards and other shop floor representatives. [More…]
Most of the big unions are doing it now. [More…]
At the same time, there must be a continued and growing willingness to overhaul union structures, extend the internal representation of membership interests, and to press on with rationalisation by amalgamation, inter-union agreements, point servicing and so on. [More…]
The problems of trade union organisation today arise not from their strength, but from their weakness. [More…]
More effective trade unionism will come through stronger trade unionism. [More…]
A Labor Government will replace the proposed amendments on amalgamations with a new law that will facilitate a speedy method of amalgamation of unions. [More…]
I agree that no amalgamating union should lose its separate identity without a plebiscite of its members, but I see no special merit in stipulating how many members must vote in a plebiscite. [More…]
At the same time, there have been cases in which the return has been well under the 50 per cent which this Bill requires before an amalgamation ballot can be made binding on a union. [More…]
Contrary to the impression given by the Minister for Labour and National Service, who seems to have come under the influence of the Prime Minister in recent months, union officials are not given to the repudiation of freely negotiated voluntary agreements. [More…]
Given the kind of atmosphere which the repeal of strike penalties would create, there would be no doubt in my mind that unions and their members would honour their agreements to the letter. [More…]
It will give every support possible to the Australian Council of Trade Unions in carrying out its declared policy to secure the observance of all agreements made under its auspices. [More…]
Agreements made outside the auspices of the ACTU can include their own built-in enforcement provisions in those cases where such provisions are recommended by a union’s executive and ratified by the membership affected by the agreement. [More…]
Industrial Registrar have been realistic enough to see that the vast majority of strikes originate at the floor level and not in the offices of union officials, this Government has proven itself stupid enough to believe that it can prevent strikes by merely conducting a secret ballot among those whose pressure for a fair go are seeing the strike weapon as the only resort open to them under a system that has become bogged down with legal technicalities and Government interference. [More…]
We are slowly but surely coming to grips with the problem, but we cannot come to grips with it unless we find a different atmosphere in both the Labor Party and the trade union movement - an atmosphere that is favourable to moderation and an atmosphere that is favourable to giving a fair go to each and every worker in the community. [More…]
We have sought to give every opportunity to a. union to resile from strike action and to avoid a penalty being imposed on it. [More…]
However, as the Minister for Labour and National Service pointed out in his second reading speech, if that opportunity is not taken a union must face the consequences under the law, [More…]
As part of our total planning in our fight against inflation we are strengthening also provisions of the Act to deal with irresponsibilities of trade union power. [More…]
We are convinced that certain powerful elements in the trade union movement have exercised their strength on too many occasions in a totally irresponsible fashion. [More…]
I must stress here and now that we have long held the view that it is important to the community that there be a strong trade union movement. [More…]
We do not wish to see a weak trade union movement but, by the same token, we have to see a balance of power between employers and unions in the settlement of industrial disputes. [More…]
We firmly believe that unions and employer bodies should not be the playthings of those who sit upon executives. [More…]
If the Opposition is going to argue against these provisions, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh did, then all any reasonable person can say is that they are merely the spokesmen of those union bosses who must have something to fear by these provisions being brought into law. [More…]
It was very nice to hear the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), that lifelong trade unionist leading a party of lifelong supporters of the trade union movement - I noticed them fumbling in their pockets for their union tickets - giving us a dissertation on what trade unionism is and how trade unionists think and behave. [More…]
For a long time we have heard from this Government that the trade union movement and, in particular, wages were responsible for the whole of the evils of inflation. [More…]
But, of course, if the Government fails to pin full responsibility for inflation on to the trade union movement and on to wages it will have lost the next election. [More…]
Now he wants to pull on the trade union movement and the people of Australia. [More…]
The Commission chose to give the trade union movement on an average $2 per week, a matter of about 2.3 per cent increase. [More…]
The Government was warned off the course by the more responsible manufacturers, who said in no uncertain terms that the Government would not get financial, physical or moral support from the manufacturers, because they know, just as well as the responsible leaders of the trade union movement, the true situation: They want to see production continue; they want to see jobs available; and they are prepared to pay reasonable wages. [More…]
One of the main concerns of the Government today is to dominate the trade union movement and to force it utterly and completely into a system of arbitration. [More…]
I feel it my duty to report my strong opinion, based on my experience as a Judge of the old Court and as President of this Commission for its first IS years, that in the long term a reduction in strikes can only be brought about by an improvement in industrial relationships, and that this is far more likely to arise from changed attitudes of the organised employers on the one hand and the organised trade union movement on the other hand than from mere changes in Acts of Parliament [More…]
If honourable members want to know just how far the Government feels balked of its prey and how determined it is to stir up trouble and incense the trade union movement, I can do no better than quote the words of the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) from his second reading speech on this Bill. [More…]
The Government is getting more and more frantic because when it sees the trade union movement settling its differences with employers sensibly and fairly at the conference table, it wants to upset and to destroy any such private agreements and to push the whole of the trade union movement into a system of rigid and vicious controls. [More…]
A more proper description of that part of the Act would be not the amalgamation of unions but the prevention of the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
It wants weak unions. [More…]
The Government is afraid of strong unions. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are union baiters and union haters. [More…]
What union is going to accept restraint on wages in a situation where the Government will do nothing about prices or incomes other than wages? [More…]
What does the future hold for trade unions? [More…]
In the world of the future the trade union movement will have its own economists and accountants and it will have its own research departments, because when they are dealing with big business, big companies, they need to be able to go in and mix it with them. [More…]
It is no coincidence that it is also the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
In September 1971 the ACTU Congress adopted a resolution instructing its Executive ‘to work out ways and means of ensuring that industrial agreements are honoured by the trade union movement’. [More…]
Unions should be immune for actions in common law against private or civil wrongs alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of a trade union in furtherance of a trade dispute. [More…]
In other words, the Federal Executive has considered a future Labor Government placing union officers above the law. [More…]
They would be free from civil liability for such industrial actions as damage to property, assault, trespass and conspiracy, provided only that they could claim to be acting on behalf of a trade union. [More…]
Not only does the ALP believe unions unions should be immune from penalties under industrial law; it believes that unions should be immune from the law altogether. [More…]
No attempt is made to improve the Act in line with the thinking of the trade union movement and the more advanced employers. [More…]
The aim of this amendment is to stop a union and an employer reaching agreement .so that everything will be controlled by the arbitrator. [More…]
When I was a trade union secretary my job was to try to prevent them. [More…]
Minister would find that most trade union secretaries do try to prevent stoppages. [More…]
The honourable member for Stirling mentioned that last year the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the employers got together and were able to thrash out a number of their problems but, unfortunately, there was, it appeared, Government interference and what could have been the establishment of guidelines for a decent industrial policy in Australia was not permitted. [More…]
A number of boilermakers employed by Mort’s Dock in Sydney, not under any instruction from their union, decided to take up a collection for members of another union who were carrying on an industrial dispute. [More…]
The union was ordered by the then Arbitration Court to instruct its members to stop taking up the collection. [More…]
The union said it could not, with a fair conscience, instruct its members to do such a thing. [More…]
As a result the union was fined 500 or, in today’s currency, $1,000. [More…]
The union was not prepared to accept this and with legal assistance the matter was taken to the High Court. [More…]
If I may refer to a particular case concerning the firm of C. A. Parsons and Sons in Whyalla, the members of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society who worked at this establishment carried out what was at that time union policy, namely, a 12-hour limit on overtime. [More…]
The union placed a 12-hour limit on overtime to cut out not only the individual greedy member but also to prevent the exploitation of the ordinary employee. [More…]
The union wanted to cut out excessive overtime. [More…]
The union considered that 12 hours overtime a week was enough. [More…]
The firm took the matter to the Commission and the result of this action was that because the union members refused to exceed the 12-hour limit on overtime the union was fined a total of $2,000. [More…]
I think that we are all pretty well aware, particularly those members on this side of the House who have had anything at all to do with the trade union movement, of the whole history of the use of penal clauses in the past. [More…]
I mention these cases to illustrate the way in which unions have run foul of the Commission and the unfair manner in which they have been treated at times. [More…]
In this case members of a union were in dispute. [More…]
Again these members belonged to the union to which I belong, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society. [More…]
They take place before a union official knows anything about them. [More…]
The Union official does not know what it is all about until he gets onto the job, so what the devil is he going to do in this sort of situation? [More…]
Disputes take place for various reasons, including the sacking of a union official or because of unsafe working conditions. [More…]
The union official does not find out about it until afterwards. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) in his second reading speech said that ‘union employer bodies exist primarily to protect and advance the interests of their members. [More…]
It is a gross interference in the rights of unions if they have to tell the Commission where they keep every cent. [More…]
It will certainly make it easier for the Government to pick up the money when a union is fined if it knows where all the money is kept. [More…]
Finally I would like to deal with the subject of amalgamation of unions. [More…]
I am a former official of that union. [More…]
I was involved for a number of years in discussions that took place at branch level dealing with that union’s amalgamation. [More…]
I know the strong feeling that exists in these unions in regard to what has happened concerning amalgamations. [More…]
Firstly, in deciding to amalgamate, the unions were giving effect to the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The unions held conferences a number of years ago and altered their rules to ensure that the amalgamations could be made. [More…]
The matter was given all the publicity in the world by the 3 unions concerned - the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, the Sheet Metalworkers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
The amalgamation has been given wide publicity, including publicity in the journals of the unions involved. [More…]
I know from my own experience that from the word go everything that was done was done according to the rules of the union; and it was never challenged. [More…]
The Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metalworkers Union were to go out of existence, and the rules of the Amalgamated Engineering Union were broadened to cover various new classifications. [More…]
The unions were advised by the Industrial Registrar that in order to bring about the amalgamation, the two smaller unions, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheet Metalworkers Union, would have to deregister. [More…]
Despite what the Minister for Labour and National Service said in a statement on 2nd March, we are now to have a situation where it will be practically impossible to bring about an amalgamation of unions because of the percentage of votes required in favour of such a move. [More…]
That is a gross interference with the rights of unions. [More…]
The ballot in respect of this amalgamation in my own union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, was 3 to 1 in favour of amalgamation. [More…]
I refer to the President and Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It is quite obvious from the speech delivered by the honourble member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), because he spent 15 minutes at least on shop stewards, that his riding instructions had to concern the union movement itself and not the legislation before this chamber. [More…]
The real reason is that this legislation must be considered against a background of wage induced inflation, union strife, union unrest and the tremendous cost of these things not only to the people of Australia but to unionists themselves. [More…]
The stage has been reached, in my mind, where we can say today the situation is: Union bosses versus the people. [More…]
I will use this slogan if I have to during the election campaign because those who belong to militant unions have overrun their real responsibility to the unions concerned and to Australia. [More…]
I believe that some union bosses believe in the cargo cult - something for nothing; that it is possible once they pull out their workers on strike that somebody will move to give them more money, better conditions, or to give them something. [More…]
That is where the civil action would have taken place, with unionists versus unionists, if something had not been done to settle the strike. [More…]
The trouble with the union movement is that it feels that its members can go on strike, demand more money and conditions and that somebody else, not them, will pay. [More…]
He has no militant union boss to tell him when to go on strike, because nobody pays him extra money anyway. [More…]
I feel that the militant unions will continue their so-called struggle for more money and better conditions despite the effect that their activities have on the balance of the community. [More…]
The arrogant union bosses flout the law - that is the conciliation and arbitration law - even though it is set up to protect their members and other people in Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union has been a socialist country for 55 years. [More…]
I heard a lot of talk about inflation, but I do not know whether the Minister is aware of the sorts of costs which will be involved to members of unions and employers in having every decision within an industry, which would normally have been made by a commissioner, go to the Full Bench. [More…]
I do not know whether he thinks that the coffers of the trade union are bottomless, but the fact of the matter is that huge sums of money are going to be paid to lawyers purely to satisfy the Government’s supposed political need to slow down the arbitration process and to make sure that the Arbitration Commission cannot deal with disputes expeditiously. [More…]
The union officials did not call them out; the people on the job went on strike. [More…]
There normally seem to be 3 major parties - the unions, the employers and the public. [More…]
Sometimes one might be tempted to think that there are 4 - the union leaders, the unionists they lead, the. [More…]
They failed in that effort because the forces of union leadership were too much for them as likewise were the forces of the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
I would blame certain union leaders. [More…]
He tried - it appeared valiantly - for a while to suggest that when in Government the ALP would take away the penal provisions of the Act and would replace those provisions by an inclination to fine individual unionists at the rate of $20 a day for going on strike in breach of negotiated agreements. [More…]
Not very far, because it immediately drew the fire of union leaders of some sort or another, such as Mr Carr of the miscellaneous collection of 26 Victorian so called rebel unions. [More…]
As well as union dissatisfaction, Messrs Whitlam and Cameron faced the politically humiliating experience of having their proposals rejected by the Parliamentary Labor Party within 2 days of their delivery of this new package of apparently and hopefully enlightened industrial thinking by the ALP. [More…]
In fact, the projected legislation has been amended in certain respects, after the Minister has had several consultations with a large number of union representatives and has given them the opportunity to make their representation. [More…]
For one reason or another a union advocate or an employer’s advocate might want to commence proceedings and run them on for a little while to see how they are getting on, but then they will put their heads together or adopt a suggestion from the conciliator, after which a deal is struck between them and the whole matter is amicably settled. [More…]
The Government, having a bankruptcy of ideas for solving the problems of this country, and knowing that the Labor Party is associated with the trade union movement, and quite rightly so, hopes that it will be able to frighten the people off, and that in some way it will draw a red nerring across the path of the people of Australia. [More…]
I would like to make this suggestion: I believe that a commission, perhaps a royal commission, of the highest possible competence, spread right across the board, representative of employer organisations, the trade union movement and all interests should be established to examine the whole structure of conciliation and arbitration in Australia. [More…]
This Government has a long history of legislation aimed entirely at repressing the trade union movement. [More…]
Let us examine what happened after the 1965 legislation the purpose of which was the same as that which the Government must be accused of pursuing today - the enacting of legislation in the hope that the trade unions would over-react and the Government would win an election on that issue. [More…]
Shortly after the legislation was passed in this House the waterfront unions proceeded with a system of discussion with employers which resulted in collective bargaining. [More…]
Speaking as a trade union officer of some years’ experience, on most occasions on which T had to go to employers’ doors it was to prevent a dispute rather than to say that we were going to pull one on. [More…]
But the Minister for Labour and National Service and previous Ministers for Labour and National Service have gone along to various levels of employer organisations to persuade them not to do this because they were fearful that the unions might come to some form of agreement with the employers and that the Government would lose another stick to use in an election campaign. [More…]
The amalgamation would bring about a large communist-dominated union possessing excessive power; [More…]
There is no provision in the legislation for officially conducted ballots to be held in respect of union deregistration. [More…]
This belief is based on the proposition that union leaders, when they call strikes, do not have the support of their union members. [More…]
But one must always remember that if a union, by a secret ballot, votes for a strike, the settlement of that strike will be made more difficult, because presumably there will have to be another ballot before the settlement can be approved. [More…]
The average Australian is sick and tired of the Government blaming the trade union movement for the critical situation in which the Australian economy is placed and not mentioning the unjustified price rises and price induced inflation or pricepush inflation. [More…]
The Minister has indicated in the Bill that he endorses this double standard by informing the House that in future all fines against the unions will be collected, and as a means to achieving this end all union organisations will be asked to notify the Commission where their finance is banked. [More…]
Instead, he attempts to force the trade union movement to accept a worsening of its industrial conditions by placing more penalties on union activities. [More…]
Government wants to see a balance of power between unions and employers because his bias is shown by the statement that industrial power has moved strongly in favour of the trade unions. [More…]
He went on to say that the Government did not want to see a weak trade union movement. [More…]
These contradictory statements will only accentuate the concern felt by the unions that the real purpose of these proposals is deliberately to reduce the power of the unions. [More…]
He mentioned members of the community as a whole and said that they are the people who are most affected by labour disputes and irresponsible union attitudes. [More…]
The unions and the employers come to an agreement and as a result the community has to pay. [More…]
Why should not the rank and file of a union have some say in regard to the policies of the executive of the union? [More…]
The story put forward by the honourable member is designed to continue dictatorship in militant unions, to further industrial lawlessness and to promote industrial unemployment. [More…]
He is also one of the controlling men in the Amalgamated Engineering Union which is involved in the union amalgamation proposal. [More…]
Mr Clancy, I think, also a noted communist and a prominent trade union official, is another. [More…]
Now, on the question of militancy in the unions. [More…]
Now, is that what you’re working for in your day to day work in the union? [More…]
How would you like to change that union structure? [More…]
The union brought all its tramway drivers on strike, but one man, who was a migrant, went back to work and for doing so was persecuted by the union. [More…]
In other words, he was a resister of union law, of union rules. [More…]
What is the unions’ attitude to Commonwealth parliamentary laws, to the laws of our national service? [More…]
They will persecute a resister who does not conform to their views of unionism. [More…]
The unions are so concerned about liberty and the right to do this and to do that that they should be concerned also about the right to work. [More…]
This legislation will make the militant unions more militant and more inclined to demand action outside the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The weaker unions will be forced to follow suit, because the desperate, despairing rank and file membership will demand action. [More…]
But because of the legislative mumbo jumbo that is being imposed by this Government on the unions it will be impossible for unions to take the action demanded by its members. [More…]
More work will be created for the overworked union officials, who very often work twice the hours that the members who they represent do, and for less pay. [More…]
Their problems are being compounded by this legislation, which makes amalgamation of unions even more difficult. [More…]
Its aim appears to be to ensure that the system of a multitude of minor, understaffed and undercapitalised unions continues to exist, thus ensuring that the constantly festering sore of constant industrial disputation continues to divert attention from the Government’s own failure to control the economy. [More…]
So the taxpayer pays for the Government’s politicking in union affairs. [More…]
If the union member does not pay as a taxpayer he will pay as a union member. [More…]
Either the union member or the taxpayer will pick up the bill of many thousands of dollars. [More…]
The results of the ballots showed that almost 86 per cent of those voting in the AEU ballot favoured amalgamation, 73 per cent in the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and almost 70 per cent in the Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The percentage of total membership of the union of those voting were 9 per cent AEU, 40 per cent Boiler Makers and Blacksmiths and 36 per cent Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Thus, it makes provision for what are commonly called court controlled ballots for office bearers when requested by the committee for management of a union or by a specific number of its members. [More…]
However, these are not mandatory and the great majority of union elections are conducted by the unions themselves. [More…]
This is relevant to the suggestion which has been made that there is a history of ‘ballot rigging’ in these 3 unions. [More…]
The record does not bear this out and it is supported, 1 believe, by the fact that there has not been a request from the membership of any of the 3 unions for a ‘court controlled ballot’ for a considerable number of years. [More…]
But this is not so in the case of the union or employee whose only source of income is restricted. [More…]
One of the worst features of this legislation is that it discriminates against the smaller weaker union which does not have the background to support itself against the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
Let us face the facts: The more difficult the Act, the greater is the collusion to defeat its provisions between the larger unions in the interests of their members and the employers with whom they are dealing, who co-operate in the interests of common sense and the welfare of their employees, who are associated with the unions. [More…]
The Government claims that it wants strong unions, yet it is doing all that is possible to defeat this. [More…]
The sooner it is realised that strike decisions are made not by the union officials but by workers frustrated at the lack of results, the sooner we will be able to do something to genuinely speed up the processes of conciliation by workers real representation at workshop level. [More…]
We need it to protect weak unions against strong unions. [More…]
We need it particularly to protect the community against the excesses of irresponsible action by or the overwhelming strength of the strong unions. [More…]
I was glad to hear the honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Barnes) use the illustration of the waterside agreement, because it shows how the community is being clobbered and is being asked to pay the extra cost brought about by what I would call an irresponsible union. [More…]
The crocodile tears shed by some about the fate of the low paid workers, the unemployed, the sick, and the old, are surely disingenuous, lt is trade union action which, through wage induced price movements, has created the basic problem. [More…]
If productivity is the key, we as a community must realise that every strike and every effort to do the boss in the eye does not do the boss in the eye and that the person who is done in the eye is the weekly wage earner, the chap who does not want to join a militant union or take part in bitter strike action. [More…]
If we got to the stage where the community accepted that as inevitable and union leadership accepted it as inevitable we would go immediately along an easier road towards getting what we all want, that is, a bigger slice of the cake for the workers. [More…]
Going back again to community attitudes, one of the things we are told by the unions is that they would be more responsible if we could hold prices down. [More…]
Employers’ representatives told me that they have not given their blessing to this Bill and neither has the trade union movement. [More…]
I act as a courier between the honourable gentleman and a very great friend of mine, Mr Edgar Williams of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It could be an industrial advocate or it could be a trade union leader of high standing. [More…]
If a man from the trade union movement is appointed a Deputy President, with his background in the trade union movement he will want to stand high in the eyes of the trade union movement. [More…]
For argument’s sake, the person presiding over matters which deal with the vehicle building union could have been the chairman or on the board of directors of Chrysler Australia Ltd, General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd or some other company. [More…]
Where do the workers and the industrial unions get off with that type of representation? [More…]
I contend that this particular clause is designed specifically to put the bar on the legal high jump so high that no leader in the trade union movement could ever qualify for appointment as a deputy president; hence the use of the words ‘high level’. [More…]
I can envisage many trade union officials, many of whom I know and count amongst my friends - I act for them professionally and they are people who have come up the hard way, after serving about 40 years in their positions - who in my view would qualify, but they do not hold a university degree. [More…]
Can it be suggested that it would not be appropriate for the Deputy President to be a man of acute, high and long-standing experience within the trade union movement? [More…]
Similarly, with the planning of the Government to inject these economic considerations and major, broad and quasipolitical considerations into the functions of the Commission, there is more than ever before a need for men there who can speak positively and with certainty and experience for the trade union movement, the little people, the people who will be affected and who will study the real impact. [More…]
But if we want to have both sides of a case heard, we must make certain that by the definitions in this clause trade unionists are not to be excluded. [More…]
You stand in this chamber, Mr Minister, and justify that 37 per cent increase and in doing so try to tell the trade union leaders and everybody else that they do not have a damned right to go into a court and argue a case this year, in conformity with the lousy Press statement which you gave out only a few days ago. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler should not assume that this is a matter of irrelevance to the union movement because in fact the strongest representations have been put forward. [More…]
Members on this side of the House will be most anxious indeed to send to those Public Service trade union groups the full text of Hansard which will indicate quite clearly where honourable members opposite stand on this issue. [More…]
The honourable member uses that phrase against trade union officials who now occupy the position of Commissioner. [More…]
come out of the trade union movement’ as has been said to some of the conciliators and so forth, what are you going to pay them? [More…]
The statistics for the period covered by the last wage judgment constitute the outrage of which the whole trade union movement today complains. [More…]
How does a trade union satisfy the whims of the Minister, of the Prime Minister and of the Government? [More…]
I ask the Government who it thinks the trade unionists and their families are? [More…]
Supposing a union decided to appeal to the Full Bench against his refusal to certify. [More…]
We have heard Government supporter after Government supporter speak about the difficulties that are brought into the community by trade union members taking all sorts of actions. [More…]
The legislation provides for a conciliatory situation where members of a trade union sit down with somebody who allegedly is independent to resolve a dispute. [More…]
I have heard the Minister say - and I commend him for saying it although it is seldom I commend him for something - that there are too many trade unions in Australia. [More…]
It is agreed that the trade union movement would be so much stronger if there were more amalgamations and unions came together in this way. [More…]
The trade union movement in Australia is a matter of some concern to the Minister. [More…]
I believe that the reason for this concern is that the trade union movement is the only organised body of people in this country prepared to challenge situations that are bad. [More…]
Instead of the Minister trying to destroy the trade union movement he ought to be trying to foster it. [More…]
I had a meeting with the postmasters’ union. [More…]
In other words, there is a place now for this kind of goup - for a situation where the union leaders and the men who know the work, such as the safety officers in the mines, can work with management and get better results. [More…]
The honourable member for Macarthur, who insisted upon calling me the honourable member for Wakefield not once but on at least 4 occasions, was just as far astray of the facts when he purported to give to the Parliament an account of what he claimed to have been an expulsion of myself by the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The resolution purporting to expel me as a member of the AWU was declared by the court to be null and void and not authorised by the rules of the union. [More…]
The court went on to declare that the order was that ‘the applicant, Clyde Robert Cameron, is and has at all times since the purported decision to expel him been a member of the Australian Workers Union and that Clyde Robert Cameron is, and has at all relevant times since the purported expulsion, been a vice-president of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The very nature and the effects of the amendments contained in the Bill make it patently clear that either the Government has no knowledge or appreciation of what is required to improve employer and union relationships or it has deliberately set a course that not only will further aggravate the existing position but also will bring about a situation in which it will be well nigh impossible for unions and employers working in concert to prevent minor issues from becoming major stoppages. [More…]
It is in these areas of inefficiency that the main discontent occurs, mainly because the management not only is inefficient in organising the proper operation of the business but also is incapable of recognising its own shortcomings in relation to general work conditions and wage justice and is incapable of entering into any worthwhile or effective negotiations with employees or the union concerned. [More…]
The employers federation, from my knowledge of the way in which it acted during my time in union affairs, was a past master in the tactics of delay. [More…]
This in itself quite often made it very difficult for union officials to prevail upon the work force and the members of their unions to continue working while negotiations were taking place. [More…]
On several occasions I have been involved in such situations where the union, having failed to reach a satisfactory agreement with the employer, has served a log of claims which in turn has been passed on to the employers’ federation, as the employers’ representative, to handle. [More…]
Yet when, despite that provocation, such an action occurs, it is people such as honourable members on the Government side who are the first to condemn the workers and the union officials and accuse them of trying to incite strike action. [More…]
The Bill that we are now discussing could worsen the situation in relation to delays because it will force the union to go before the Arbitration Commission and argue its case regarding wages and so on even though agreement has been reached between the employer and the union on the matter in question. [More…]
It will make a mockery of the employer and union discussions. [More…]
While on the other hand genuine and fair employers, knowing full well that what has been agreed upon with the union is only fair and just, could see it completely changed by the Commission and as a result be involved in industrial unrest and discontent. [More…]
More and more employers of large numbers of workers in substantial industries are becoming more and more inclined and find it more successful and more valuable in the long run, in the interests of all concerned, to discuss and settle their problems and disputes at conferences with union representatives and officials around the office table. [More…]
Government members accuse Opposition members of taking their instructions from the trade union movement. [More…]
The Treasurer made it clear that the Government would use every avenue at its disposal to prevent any further increases in wages either as a result of court action or from union and employer negotiation and agreement. [More…]
Just how he was able to arrive at that decision, particularly in relation to union-employer agreements in farflung places such as the north and north-west of Western Australia, for instance, I just cannot understand Of course, the Treasurer made no attempt to substantiate his remarks. [More…]
This port virtually is controlled by the Northern Australian Workers’ Union of which there is a waterside workers section. [More…]
Once again, this is related to the control of the waterside workers section under the North Australian Workers’ Union. [More…]
This country has never come to the brink of a revolution as has happened in the countries of Latin America where the trade union movement was oppressed and practically wiped out. [More…]
I had the privilege of visiting the Latin American countries in 1962 when they were on the fringe of a revolution because the trade union movement was oppressed and not allowed to function. [More…]
We should be grateful that this has not happened, and the only reason why it has not happened is because we have had a strong and effective trade union movement in Australia that is backed wholly and solely by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Not so long ago we were entertained to the public spectacle of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) stating that a Labor government would not be the unquestioning mouthpiece of union officialdom. [More…]
Yet can any member of this House recall during this debate any significant criticism of any of the trade unions of Australia or of any of their officials? [More…]
We have been critical of employers, and we are, but where is the criticism from the other side of this table of the trade union movement of Australia? [More…]
Is it a belief that the trade unions not only are happy beyond the law but are beyond criticism? [More…]
One thinks back some months ago to the time when the honourable gentleman and the Leader of the Opposition were proposing fines on individual unionists. [More…]
Where is the strength that a Labor government would bring to bear against the might of the trade union movement? [More…]
Those provisions are designed, and properly so, to ensure effective membership control of the trade unions. [More…]
Is it that the Opposition is in fact controlled by officials of the trade union movement? [More…]
Or are these suspicions generated from a realisation that the Opposition must obey the dictates of the industrial wing of the trade union movement? [More…]
No-one in this House can say that the Opposition has any effective policy to bring to bear to the might and power of the trade union movement at the present time. [More…]
Would the Minister explain why the normal procedure was not adopted regarding a ship’s deserter from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
Was it correctly reported that the Minister recently granted political asylum to a ship’s deserter from the Soviet Union because he did not want to return to his nagging wife? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that his actions were in the best interests of diplomatic relations between this country and the Soviet Union? [More…]
On the other hand, he says to the employers: ‘If you expect to resist the unions’ claim for a 10 per cent shift allowance for night work, let me tell you now that I am going to grant it. [More…]
What about the unions dropping their claim for 3 weeks sick leave and the employer facing up to the fact that if he does not give the 10 per cent allowance for the night shift, 1 will have no alternative but to award it?’ [More…]
The union may prefer not to have what I will give >.nd take instead what the employer will give. [More…]
I tried to get reimbursement from the union for the money I had spent on drinks but could not, so I did not feel very happy either. [More…]
At the same time if one side, for example the trade union side, felt that no good could be achieved by this, what is the point of attending the conference? [More…]
But if he refuses to attend because the members of his union have said that there is no point in trying to achieve a compromise on a particular issue that person - the trade union secretary or a representative of the union - would immediately be penalised $1,000. [More…]
The provisions in this proposed new section amount to a threat against the unions as this Government likes to do on the question of arbitration, without any point whatsoever. [More…]
If you accept the principle of having compulsory conferences and giving to a conciliation commissioner the power to call a compulsory conference, surely we must give the commissioner the right to say: ‘I want such and such an organisation here or the representative who has been intimately concerned with this matter and I want Mr So-and-so who is the president or the secretary of a particular union.’ [More…]
Proceedings were held in a court in Adelaide and at that time one prominent trade union official from one of the metal unions was very ill. [More…]
I ask the Minister to check out what 1 have had to say in regard to this case which involved the Vehicle Builders Union although it did not involve a Vehicle Builders Union official. [More…]
It strikes me that the Government and everyone else is arguing, and we are supporting, that in arbitration and conciliation there should be as much democracy as possible in relation to unions. [More…]
Recently in an extended series of strikes and subsequent proceedings before the Commission in relation to the Atlantean bus dispute in Sydney, union officials were given strict instructions by union members that the members would not drive Atlantean buses on a one-man basis. [More…]
I cannot see the point in forcing the secretary of that union to go to court merely to repeat that his members had instructed him not to conciliate on the matter. [More…]
No union and few employers will bother to certify agreements or register agreements when they discover that before this can be done the whole agreement, having been hammered out by negotiation and conciliation between the parties, must go before the Full Bench of the Commission for approval. [More…]
Dunphy and Mr Justice Morgan, with the Chief Justice dissenting, that a rule of the union that gives a union executive power to expel a member for misconduct, when the executive is merely of the opinion that the person is guilty of misconduct, is an invalid rule because it is too vague, imprecise and uncertain as to its meaning, and therefore must be struck down and removed from the union rule book. [More…]
If that set of principles, deemed to be invalid for the purpose of union rule, is now to be enshrined as part of the statute, what a mockery that makes of the decision of the Industrial Court in Cameron v. AWU. [More…]
Proposed sections 31, 34 and 35 and also the proposed amendment in clause 16 together constitute an economic, industrial and legal straitjacket for the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have said that they have been caused through savage attacks on employers by unions and unionists. [More…]
In order to overcome this economic problem which it does not understand, the Government has resorted to union bashing. [More…]
Further, it means that individual unions have been engaged in collective bargaining with individual employers to obtain better rates of pay and, in the case of the waterside workers and other unions as well, better working conditions. [More…]
I mention the waterside workers because their union has reached agreement with their employers for a shorter working week. [More…]
As a result it has introduced proposed new section 31 in which it will not be possible for individual unions to make individual gains from individual employers. [More…]
I will mention a few of the people who are connected with services which are rendered in the public interest: pilots, first and second officers, flight engineers, flight stewards and hostesses of Qantas Airways Ltd, Trans-Australia Airlines, and Ansett Airlines of Australia; ships engineers, ferry and dock boat captains, private bank officers, newspaper journalists, members of Actors Equity, members of the musicians Union, white collar workers, prison warders - the prisoners offered to walk out in sympathy with warders - members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, members of the Australasian Society of Engineers, ironworkers, sheet metal workers, waterside workers, transport workers, boiler makers, plumbers, ships painters and dockers, liquor trade employees, glass workers, milk industry employees, meat workers, jockeys, members of the Australian Workers Union, clerks, miscellaneous workers and many others. [More…]
Nobody from the trade union movement ever agreed that section 28 was of any value, yet the Government now. [More…]
in a blatant attempt at union bashing, proposes to introduce to that bad section of the parent Act provisions which do not improve the Act at all but in fact make it worse. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton said that a conciliation commissioner could decide, on what he is told by the 2 parties - the union and the employer - that a matter is not of any interest to the public, and other factors may not be considered. [More…]
We negotiated with the companies concerned, and eventually agreed that if the Privy Council upheld the union’s case that the States’ legislation was valid, the companies concerned would apply the same terms and conditions to the people working under exactly the same award in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
We return to the old story that we are dealing with human beings on the employer side and on the union side. [More…]
If we leave employers and unions to negotiate their troubles betwen them we will find that we will have better industrial relation concepts in Australia. [More…]
I remember in the early days when I used to appear in court on behalf of the locomotive engine drivers’ union. [More…]
If it was wanted to stop unions from getting something, public interest did not come into it. [More…]
1 believe that the existing law made a previously bad law a little better, but it is still unacceptable to the trade union movement and ought to be unacceptable to anybody with any regard for the public interest. [More…]
It was not generally realised by unions writing into their awards and agreements these procedures for settlement of disputes that the procedures were in fact a bans clause and that anybody in breach of the procedures for settlement of disputes were just as liable to penalties stipulated under section 119 of the Act as they would have been had they been working under an award containing a normal bans clause put into that award by the Commission itself. [More…]
It becomes an offence for an employee’s representative or a union representative to incite people to strike or for him to advocate a strike, and is punishable under section 138 of the Act. [More…]
Now the union officials and the union have to carry the responsibility which we find we cannot carry. [More…]
Nothing could be more unjust than that a union whose members are carrying on a strike against the union’s wishes, a strike which the management committee does not support, should be liable to prosecution and should be punished to the extent that proposed new section 119 entitles the court to impose punishment. [More…]
We could forget, who would try to forget, who would dare to forget the splendid occasion when the honourable member for Hindmarsh suggested that the one swift, sure, certain way in our miserable existence by which to cure all industrial unrest and disturbance was to fine every striking unionist $20 a day. [More…]
I went back to Brisbane and spoke to a trade union leader. [More…]
I have told the Committee and the House that I enjoy - I hope command - the friendship and the acquaintance of many trade union leaders. [More…]
I am speaking now of Mr Edgar Williams of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
And if any union did this without the consent of their members they deserve to run into the chastisement that certain prominent politicians are running into today. [More…]
To issue injunctions on any union official who appeared before it and treated with contempt its injunctions. [More…]
A private agreement was struck between the company and the union. [More…]
The company refused point blank to negotiate with the employees concerned and insisted on union representation. [More…]
The union officials found when they arrived on the ship that it was unseaworthy. [More…]
If they are put into effect what would it mean to the trade union movement in this regard? [More…]
It is bad in the eyes of the trade union movement, the Labor Party and the people of this country. [More…]
There is not a trade union official in this country who would not tell us how restrictive and how bludgeoning were sections 109 and 111 of the Con ciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
In the metal trades case which went to the High Court of Australia and which is reported in volume 82 of the Commonwealth Law Reports at page 208, the High Court, in considering bans clauses and the then state of the Act, considered an order that the union concerned should cause its members to work overtime, and in other judgments pointed out that this was far beyond any provision in the award or any Act at that time, and that the only requirement to be found in the award was that the organisation should not be a party to a ban. [More…]
The Meat Industry Employees Union already has those kinds of enforcement provisions written into its agreements. [More…]
There are very few strikes now in this most turbulent of all industries because the unions officials are honouring their compact. [More…]
Union officials are not people who repudiate freely negotiated voluntary agreements. [More…]
It is an absolute lie and a distortion of the facts for anybody to say that union officials repudiate their agreements. [More…]
His union makes agreements of that kind every year and the honourable member for Moreton knows it. [More…]
If a ballot is carried by the members of the unions the strike is on and the ballot has the effect of legalising the strike. [More…]
The strike in fact would be taken out of the hands of union officials. [More…]
This Bill does not leave any room for manoeuvre on the part of union officials. [More…]
But these ballots were held on the initiative of the unions concerned. [More…]
Once a vote has been taken and has gone in favour of strike action, the resulting stoppage may delay a settlement by restricting union leaders’ freedom of action. [More…]
We think it preferable that trade union leaders should bear, and be seen to bear, the responsibility of deciding when to call a strike and when to call it off. [More…]
Occasions may of course arise when union leaders would themselves wish to hold such a ballot or are required to do so by their rules. [More…]
The decision on such a matter should continue to rest with the unions. [More…]
This supports what we have always said: It is not the union officials who cause strikes; the union officials merely react to the demands that come from the people at the factory floor level for strike action when those people feel that so-called constitutional means have failed them. [More…]
He says that once we pass this law we will pass the control of the trade union movement and policies on strikes over to the militant shop stewards and to other people who are closer to the ear of the rank and file than are the union officials. [More…]
He said that the Chamber would rather see legislation which confined the election of union officials to no more than 3 years. [More…]
Then the rank and file could vote out union officials who made decisions with which they were dissatisfied. [More…]
If union officials, as the Minister seems to think, impose their will upon a reluctant rank and file and force them to go on strike when they do not want to go on strike the rank and file will most certainly throw them out. [More…]
I have been a union official as have some other honourable members. [More…]
It dealt with the union opposition to secret ballots for strikes and the way that union officials see the position. [More…]
Let us have a look at the position which a union official holds. [More…]
A union official is elected by his members to act for them for 3 years, the same as this Government was elected by the people to act for 3 years. [More…]
Once elected, union officials have as much right as has the Government during that 3- year period to make judgments and decisions on behalf of the members they represent in the way they see representation to be properly applied. [More…]
Once the first ballot of the rank and file decided in favour of the strike, what right would the union officials have, according to the Government’s own argument and reasoning, to order them back to work once they had decided by secret ballot that they would not go to work. [More…]
The legislators in NSW, who ,are expected to be followed by their counterparts in Queensland and Victoria, are suspected of basing their belief in the effectiveness of the secret ballot on one or more of a number of assumptions (hat’ are not proven: That compulsory ballots would lead to fewer strikes, that the union rank, and file is less militant than the leadership, and that union officials often try to lead their members up the garden path of politics or planned disruption. [More…]
The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) lays claim also to the same fame that we have in our time been full time union officials. [More…]
Time and time again union officials find themselves compelled to advise their members to go back to work, against the wishes of the members. [More…]
One alternative would be to make it a condition for the registration of a union that its constitution provide that certain strikes may not be undertaken without the consent of a committee of management that would include the executive of the union and representatives of defined districts or segments of the union. [More…]
Most union rules already provide that whenever the members want to have a plebiscite as to whether they will remain on strike or go on strike they may do so by following the normal, simple processes of the rules. [More…]
Union rules that do not contain these provisions should have them. [More…]
Surely what we are trying to do is to protect the men against the tyranny of the union machine. [More…]
The members of the unions are terrified by the use of the concerted union machinery to create anarchy in the community as a whole. [More…]
They want the Government to provide them with some protection against trade union tyranny. [More…]
union officials. [More…]
It is concerned with maintaining the coherence of the trade union machine which can become - it is not always so - a tyranny over its members. [More…]
The members of the unions are naturally looking to the Government to protect them against the tyranny of trade union officials, and that is what this Bill is all about. [More…]
Primarily it was to overcome the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle decision in which it was held that some members of a State union were not eligible to be members of the State branch of a federal union which was regarded as the same body. [More…]
Does the person have to be a member of the union? [More…]
It appears to me that if anybody can intervene in these proceedings, unions can be up for a lot of money because of outsiders intervening just for the purpose of breaking a particular union. [More…]
The interveners could cause that union a lot of legal expense especially as their legal expenses are covered by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
If individuals or organisations - an organisation is a trade union, an employers organisation such as the Metal Trades Industry Association Qf Australia or anything else - do not put before the Registrar where they bank, they are exposed to a penalty. [More…]
The second one is this: Assume there is a dispute and union X is opposed by organisation A and the matter is before the court. [More…]
It is obvious that there will be a row, so the president of the union says: AH right, here is a cheque, go over and clean out the bank account. [More…]
Section 92 refers to democratic control of their own organisation by unionists, assisted where appropriate by secret ballots and supervised where necessary by the industrial court. [More…]
If any person tells me, with their cerebral processes normal, that this legislation gives democratic control of their own organisation by unionists, then I will be prepared to argue the point. [More…]
It does not satisfy the viciousness of the Government to impose the penal clauses upon the trade union movement; the Government wants to make sure that it humiliates the trade unions to the utmost because for many years when it has come to the real crunch and the Government has gone to the point of imposing a penalty and seeking to collect it, there is generally some good fairy who comes to life and pays the money. [More…]
In many cases the good fairy is very obviously some employer or some business interest who realises that as a matter of stark common sense it is better to pay the money into court than to suffer the disruption, dislocation and loss of business that would result from the ultimate collection of the penalty from the assets of the union involved. [More…]
The amendment also proposes that the regulations may provide that the official union journals shall give equitable opportunity for the publication of views against the amalgamation. [More…]
This did not suit the Democratic Labor Party which gets most of its trade union support from the Clerks Union, a union most difficult to organise and one which compulsory unionism strongly favours. [More…]
He made it most difficult for union amalgamation to take place. [More…]
He pointed out that the reason which had motivated them to form that body were no doubt those that the 3 metal trades unions would put forward in support of their plans to amalgamate. [More…]
The results of the ballots showed that almost 86 per cent of those voting in the AEU ballot favoured amalgamation, 73 per cent in the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and almost 70 per cent in the Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The percentge of total membership of the union of those voting were 9 per cent AEU, 40 per cent Boilermakers and Blacksmiths and 36 per cent Sheet Metal Workers Union. [More…]
In addition the percentage varies substantially as between different unions and from election to election in the same union. [More…]
In the Australian Railways Union the figures vary from 20 per cent to 70 per cent. [More…]
In the Federated Clerks Union 40 per cent to 75 per cent. [More…]
The Minister wiped off the point that the amalgamation will provide a large communist dominated organisation by saying that there was a minority of communists on the federal council of the amalgamated union. [More…]
The Minister has admitted that it would be better if there were fewer smaller unions and the smaller unions were to amalgamate. [More…]
It would be better in regard to industrial relations and it would be better in the interests of the unions themselves because there are too many small unions at the present time. [More…]
Each union has to have a secretary, typing facilities and an office. [More…]
If unions could amalgamate and there was a bigger body of unions of similar types they could have specialists, they could have an officer dealing with industrial matters and they could have a man dealing with compensation, apart from the administration of those matters which are very necessary. [More…]
I believe that this amendment unduly interferes with the freedom of trade unions. [More…]
It was prepared without any consultation with the trade unions. [More…]
As far as trade union ballots are concerned and as far as these provisions are concerned there is no compulsory balloting and one apprehends that this could well be a weakness. [More…]
What would hap pen if there were a union of say 8,000 members of whom 3,000 voted? [More…]
But let us have a look at the way this Government considers it is proper to deal with unions which commit an offence against section 119 of the Act. [More…]
The Government says it is quite all right to impose a penalty of $500 a day upon a union, no matter how much the union tries to prevent a strike. [More…]
Even though the strike is taken against the directions of the union’s executive, that union - not wilful but, on the contrary, doing its best to try to prevent a strike - can be punished by a fine up to $500 a day or $1,000 where the bans clause treats the offence as a single offence. [More…]
The honourable member for Stirling wants to know whether, in the event of the proceedings now before the Industrial Court going against the amalgamated unions and the Court holding that the application was not properly lodged, and that it therefore was a nullity, and that there was in fact no application legally before the Registrar, this clause will not help them. [More…]
I think that paragraph (c) ought to be inserted to the effect that an application for amalgamation between the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the Sheet Metal Workers Union shall be deemed to be an application made in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act. [More…]
Has it been standard practice for some organisations as well as government departments to deduct union membership contributions from salaries and wages, and to hand the dollars to union secretaries? [More…]
We know that the Soviet Union has an arrangement and is using the island of Socotra at the southern end of the Red Sea to carry out naval repair work and so on. [More…]
Undoubtedly, some of the countries in northern Africa will make naval bases available to the Soviet Union which is interested in the area. [More…]
Our continental shelf has an area of over 800,000 square miles and is the fourth largest in the world, after that of the United States of America, the Soviet Union and Canada. [More…]
I ask: Has Australia made any representations to the Soviet Union where, unlike China, we have an embassy, in support of the British representations? [More…]
-I have seen the report in the Press of a survey said to have been done by the Overseas Students Service which operates under the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Then the Treasurer went on to say that I was telling an untruth - he suggested it but I do not think that he would intend that to be inferred - or misleading the Parliament when I said that I had told the conference that it was not possible to provide for representatives of trade unions to be on the boards of Government enterprises, such as the Australian Broadcasting Commission and bodies and commissions of this kind. [More…]
At no stage did I say that the Labor Government could not put union representatives on these boards. [More…]
These young men, aged between 20 and 30, were Canadian nationals who visited Australia as members of the Trojan Rugby Union, playing a series of matches against club and representative sides including the Brisbane Waters Rugby Union Club. [More…]
Indeed, traders should be aware that the whole of the East European area, including the Soviet Union, constitutes a very large market of some 350 million people whose rising incomes and living standards represent a valauble potential market for Australia. [More…]
My Department of Trade and Industry will be ready to assist businessmen in their endeavour to increase trade with the Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Opposition approves of this development, and we note with interest that even in detail it accords with the position taken by the Opposition 5 or 6 years ago in respect of both the need to explore the realities of trade with the central European countries and the Soviet Union and the need to build into such trade the new negotiating principles and advisory bodies to take advantage of the kind of trade that the central European countries and the Soviet Union represent. [More…]
The only regret that the Opposition has is that the initiative was not taken earlier because of an atmosphere of political prejudice, which seems to have prevailed in and around the Government, in which it was difficult for the Government to undertake trade with countries like Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union and still to dispense the kind of foreign policy that it required. [More…]
lt has often been said that Australian government instrumentalities and other similar bodies are not anxious to accept or are not comfortable in accepting tenders from the Soviet Union or from Czechoslovakia because these countries are not experienced in working in the Australian environment. [More…]
The world’s largest democracy is India and India’s relationship may as a minimum be described as an ‘entente cor.diale’ with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The first is India’s abandonment of non-alignment in favour of an accord with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The basis of this detente is that the Soviet Union could destroy China and could destroy the United States. [More…]
Equally, the United States could destroy the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to say to the honourable member for Henty that I think the assessment by his friend that the dispute between China and the Soviet Union is a dispute as to who is to be ‘the boss’ of the communist world is a very serious error in analysis. [More…]
China fears the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union could destroy China. [More…]
Equally, the Soviet Union suspected that Chinese policy over Cuba in 1962 was an attempt to involve the Soviet Union in a war with the United States in which they would both destroy one another, leaving China as the gainer. [More…]
The analysis of the dispute between the Soviet Union and China is not as trivial as the honourable member’s friend says. [More…]
I refer to China’s growing significance as a distraction to the Soviet Union, forcing a Soviet military concentration on the eastern border of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Chinese claims that have been put forward for an abrogation of the unequal treaties imposed by the Czars seriously worry the Soviet Union. [More…]
A less obvious factor is the Soviet fear of a Chinese strategy to disintegrate the Soviet Union. [More…]
Many of the people in the Soviet Union - Ukrainians, Georgians and so forth - in essence are colonial people and ideological comments from China aimed at those people are interpreted by the Soviet Union as an attempt to disintegrate the Soviet Union. [More…]
We were also an ally, willy nilly, of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. [More…]
We did not say: ‘Germany is noncommunist and the Soviet Union is communist*. [More…]
President Nixon is making approaches to the Soviet Union and to China. [More…]
If true peace and national integrity are to be secured on the world scene, the countries constituting the European Communities, the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan and the People’s Republic of China, will need to arrive at some balance. [More…]
It has developed beyond what it started out as - a regional economic and cultural union - into a body that is becoming increasingly concerned with foreign affairs and security issues. [More…]
Both the Soviet Union and the United States have for some years been searching for ways of reducing the tensions between them, particularly those tensions that have buttressed the super power confrontation and have from time to time erupted into serious disputes that exposed the danger of nuclear war. [More…]
Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
We all know that it is primarily a customs union covering trade in all goods. [More…]
It is important to note that this arrangement is designed to lead finally to full political union. [More…]
I think we can all remember that, when the Mao Tse Tung administration took over in Peking at the end of 1949, it was the view of this Government and the United States Government that it was an agent for the Soviet Union and that this was the eastwards thrust of Soviet Communism into China. [More…]
Can 4 among 49 affect the basic union control? [More…]
I believe that the mischief makers of the world at the present time are the international arms suppliers, of which Britain, France and Eastern European countries are the principal ones, and that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are the principal villains. [More…]
Anyone who can imagine the pressure that will be brought to bear on the metal manufacturers - which is one of the main groups that has not been looked at - by the new amalgamated metal workers union in its demands for over-award payments can see the need for this progressive review. [More…]
If it is believed by honourable members opposite, who supposedly represent the trade union movement and supposedly understand the requirements of workmen in the PMG area, that any person can be brought into the Post Office to install telephones, then I would like to assure them that they are very greatly mistaken. [More…]
I was also an organiser of the Australian Railways Union at the time of pre-selection. [More…]
If one assumes that naval warfare between the United States of America and the Soviet Union takes place, and the world has reached that point of disaster, it is quite possible that the war would be nuclear warfare. [More…]
The relative tonnage of cargo handled at the port during the 3 years preceding this rates agreement with the ANL compared very unfavourbly with tonnages of cargo handled over the Seaway terminal by the Union Steamship Company. [More…]
I present the report of the Australian Delegation to the 59th Inter-parliamentary Union conference held in Paris between 21st and 29th September 1971, and I move: [More…]
Inter-parliamentary Union will be of increasing importance in international affairs. [More…]
Recently I have received correspondence from the union representative of the Federated Clerks Union members employed by the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority indicating that these employees are vitally concerned with permanency and redundancy on the waterfront, and just where they fit into the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
I shall shortly give the number of migrants from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which incorporates Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Ukraine. [More…]
Settler arrivals in 1970-71 from such countries as the United States of America, Canada and other countries In the Americas, Switzerland, Portugal and the Union of South Africa were the highest ever recorded. [More…]
An examination of the provisions relating to nominations for election for office in the rules of 70 union organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has disclosed that the rules of The Australian Workers’ Union provide that the General Returning Officer shall submit all nominations for election of executive officers to the Executive Council which ‘shall then decide whether such nominations are in order and if not, in what particular’. [More…]
To undertake an examination of the rules of all registered union organisations and their branches would entail the use of considerable staff time which would not be justified. [More…]
An examination of the provisions relating to qualifications for nomination for office in the rules of 70 union orginisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has disclosed that the rules of The Australian Workers’ Union provide that ‘no person shall be eligibile for nomination for election as an officer unless he has . [More…]
been a member of the Union for at least 5 years immediately preceding such nomination and has been continuously financial for at least 3 years immediately prior to the date of nomination . [More…]
To undertake an examination of the rules ot all registered union organisations and their branches would entail the use of considerable staff time which would not be justified. [More…]
However, I refer the honourable member to the decision of Mr Justice Cook in the case In re Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch (1965) 65 Industrial Arbitration Reports New South Wales pages 474 to 489 in which he held that the obligation imposed by sub-section 3 a applied only to the process of conciliation and not to those of arbitration. [More…]
Instead of presenting matters of this sort to this Parliament, the Opposition should be doing all it can to exercise moderation on trade union leaders, for the brutal fact is that the root cause of the present economic troubles we face is to be found in excessive wage increases of the order of 12 per cent to 13 per cent as against a normal productivity growth of only 2 per cent. [More…]
The general conclusions reached at the conferences, such as those of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations and the International Academy of Wood Science, through the FAO Advisory Committee, have shown that on a world wide basis the production potential of forests is hot greatly in excess of present utilisation rates and in certain areas such as Japan and Europe the wood deficit is increasing steadily. [More…]
In Melbourne on 7th September 1971, Dr R. F. Dusman, senior ecologist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, stated: [More…]
If that were true, one would find oneself as an advocate for a trade union making an application for a wage increase before the court arguing that the managing director or the board of directors should receive an increase first and that only after they received their increases could some attention be paid to those who were at the factory floor level. [More…]
After a great deal of consultation with all the unions involved it emerged that no other union believed that safety of life at sea was imperilled or that ships were endangered in any way by transferring from wireless operators to radio telephonists. [More…]
Finally, the ‘Echuca’ was allowed to sail and the National Line ships put to sea on the condition that there was set up a committee consisting of technicians from the Postmaster-General’s Department and from, I think, Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd, or some other experts in radio, as well as representatives of the unions involved, to study the effect of the use of radio telephony as against wireless operation. [More…]
It has taken us years, of course, to get back into the overseas shipping business and now, by some irresponsible action on the part of one union, we can see the possibility of all the ships of the Australian National Line being tied up. [More…]
I can only hope that he will use his good offices with the President of the ACTU, Mr Hawke, to do something to pull this union into line. [More…]
He ought to do something to pull this union into line. [More…]
I would like to add that the recent announcement of a possible cooperative effort between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has not yet been taken into account in these discussions because, as yet, there is not sufficient information on it. [More…]
No attempt is made to improve the Act in line with the thinking of the trade union movement and the more advanced employers. [More…]
Before the Minister for Labour and National Service brought down the December 1971 statement of intent, meetings had taken place between the employers and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to investigate ways in which the Act might work more smoothly. [More…]
What had been achieved by the unions and the employers was sabotaged by this Government. [More…]
The attitude of the unions was not even considered when that took place. [More…]
It will be remembered that when the debate was taking place here in Committee I raised the question under clause 68 as to whether it affected the amalgamation of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, the Sheet Metalworkers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union which was in process at the time. [More…]
These unions had been working on this amalgamation for a period of about 3i years and had almost completed the necessary procedures. [More…]
Finally, after repeated questioning he admitted that the unions could be disadvantaged depending on the decision of the court on the question of deregistration of some of the unions which was before it at that time. [More…]
This did not stop the Democratic Labor Party, because most of its support in the industrial movement comes from the Federated Clerks Union, which would be a difficult union to organise without compulsory unionsim. [More…]
I am not casting any reflection on that union. [More…]
It has every right to try to keep compulsory unionism and we are pleased that it has been successful. [More…]
So his intention to abolish compulsory unionsim disappeared entirely. [More…]
However, the backdating of the commencement of this proposed new section to 26th May means that other unions which have made considerable progress towards amalgamation will have to start all over again. [More…]
I do not know the names of all the unions which are in the process of arranging amalgamation, but there are several. [More…]
They include the Ironworkers and Chemical Workers Union and the Theatre Managers Association is another. [More…]
Also, the Bacon Employees Union in Queensland is seeking amalgamation with the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union; I know that negotiations in this case have been going on for about 2 years. [More…]
The amalgamation of the metal trades unions as the Minister well knows took about 3 years to complete. [More…]
There are several other unions which under this legislation will have to start their negotiations all over again. [More…]
I would like to quote from an article entitled: ‘Union Law Backdated’. [More…]
This shows that the union was opposed to this measure because it interfered with the steps it had already taken. [More…]
If the Bill had been returned in the form in which it left this chamber - that is, to come into effect on a date to be proclaimed - unions would have been able to commence and complete the amalgamation proceedings. [More…]
What we wanted in our amendment, which I do not have time to quote, was that in circumstances when a union which had membership of less than 5 per cent of the membership of the host union was being absorbed, the host union would not be required to have a ballot. [More…]
Our amendment was a definite proposition, was reasonably clear and in fact left it to the Industrial Registrar, to decide whether he did not want to grant the amalgamation, even though the question that was at issue was only whether the union seeking amalgamation had a membership equal to only 5 per cent of the host union’s, the host union did not have to take a ballot. [More…]
We should bear in mind the fact that only on Tuesday of this week, I believe, Dr Sharp, the Industrial Registrar, finally came to execute all of the instruments necessary for the amalgamation of the metal trades unions. [More…]
There were still some arguments going on in the metal trades unions, particularly in regard to the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, on Friday of last week in regard to several pipelines which are to be laid in Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
Is the Government with one stroke of its pen going to place all of these negotiations and agreements and everything that has been done in jeopardy and require the union to go right back to square one and start again? [More…]
I well remember the honourable member for Stirling, when this Bill was last in this place, asking the Minister at a very early hour in the morning whether this Bill in any way would affect the amalgamation of the 3 metal trades unions. [More…]
Only when finally pressed by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) did the Minister say that there was no guarantee that the effects of this Bill would not be made applicable to these unions that had come within one inch, after having run a distance of many miles, of consummating their amalgamation. [More…]
I wonder whether this Government, which is placing all these impediments upon the amalgamation of trade unions, which it seems to regard as different from every other organisation in the country, would be prepared to introduce into this House as an amendment to the Companies Act, the Trade Practices Act or any other Act, guidelines, rules and regulations to resolve the amalgamation of organisations such as Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd and Ansett Transport Industries Ltd, in respect of which we recently experienced a fiasco. [More…]
Perhaps in the Government’s view - once again, my friend the honourable member for Stirling mentioned this - trade unions’ standing in the community is different from that of other organisations. [More…]
Is this Government really an anti-union government? [More…]
It is well known that the provisions contained in the amendment were asked for by the Federal Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, Mr Laurie Short, who, of course, was ably assisted by the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, whose general president Mr Maynes was seen skulking around the corridors of Parliament House only last week. [More…]
As I see it, this leads to a cynical arithmetical exercise by any union which wishes to amalgamate with another union. [More…]
The amendment provides that if the membership of the host union is not increased by more than 5 per cent in an amalgamation, the union can make an application to be exempted from a ballot. [More…]
A large union could say to a smaller organisation: ‘We will dispense with enough of your membership to leave you with only the required 5 per cent and then we will not need a ballot’. [More…]
The Government would like to have us believe that the amendment will enable small unions, after a plebiscite, to be absorbed into bigger unions. [More…]
A plebiscite would not need to be conducted in the larger union. [More…]
This is a very sorry attempt on the part of the DLP to try to block union amalgamations all along the line. [More…]
The DLP is completely opposed to such amalgamations because it knows that union amalgamation is in the interests of industrial peace and of the advancement generally of the cause of trade unionists and workers. [More…]
Honourable members opposite appear to believe that the amendments now being considered are aimed at inhibiting or preventing union amalgamation. [More…]
I would like to make clear to the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) that the amendment is not designed to interfere with the projected amalgamation of the various metal trade unions. [More…]
As to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the applications for deregistration by the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and by the Sheet Metal Workers Union, the Registrar signed the instruments of deregistration on 30th May, and deregistration will operate 3 months from then, that is on 30th August 1972. [More…]
and (2) The Soviet Union has never asked the British Government to reconvene the Geneva Conference on Vietnam. [More…]
He held several important posts in the Australian Workers Union and was its General President from 1919 to 1923. [More…]
I believe that members of the Australian Labor Party, members of his old union and members of his old electorate will still remember with admiration and affection his services to them. [More…]
Militant left wing unions, including the New South Wales branch of the Builders Labourers Union were planning to become involved. [More…]
Indeed, it was reported that the so-called ‘front line troops’ of the Builders Labourers Union - thugs and bikies - were also planning to participate, lt was against this background that on 26th July I met with representatives of the demonstrators and discussed with them a more dignified permanent presence in the national capital for some truly representative Aboriginal group. [More…]
1 am sure that he would move them on even if they were members of the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor seems to indulge in a number of visits to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Let us hear the honourable member for Lalor and the honourable member for Reid make speeches in the Parliament - where they are paid to be - about the Chinese and Soviet Union atomic tests. [More…]
He challenged me, I took it, to state whether I had ever protested against nuclear tests by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
After several attempts to settle a new award by negotiation the oil companies and the unions went before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission voluntarily to seek a decision on a union log of claims. [More…]
In that Commission in July, Mr Justice Moore granted an interim wage increase to the men and made it clear that provided work continued under normal conditions the unions’ full claims would be heard and determined. [More…]
The employers agreed to this sensible proposal, but the union leadership refused to accept the umpire’s decision. [More…]
In a direct insult to the judge and the laws of the Parliament the union leaders walked out of the Arbitration Commission and pulled their members off the job. [More…]
The vital point which both Mr Hawke and Mr Whitlam somehow failed to make, and which unionists and others throughout Australia need to know about, is that when negotiation and conciliation fail the arbitration system provides an impartial umpire to help find the answer. [More…]
Throughout this period the Government consistently called on the unions to return to work and to let the Arbitration Commission umpire continue hearing their claims, but for weeks the union leadership refused to do this and Mr Hawke refused to direct it to do so. [More…]
One Sunday night the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) announced that the Parliament would be called together if the strike was not over by the end of the week, lt was following that announcement that we saw action by the moderate unions, which sensibly recognised that industrial upheaval faced the nation. [More…]
They quite properly pulled the rug out from under the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hawke and the Communist union leaders. [More…]
Moderate union leaders like Mr Laurie Short of the Federated Ironworkers Association proceeded to dump Mr Hawke and the Leader of the Opposition by coming out and publicly advocating that the men go back to work. [More…]
We welcomed the decision of the membership of the unions to take their dispute back to the proper legal processes. [More…]
It is equally obvious that the procedures indicated by the Opposition can only lead to a situation where a few unscrupulous union bosses can alone decide which men will work and which factory or business will open. [More…]
I have no doubt that the cause of heightened industrial unrest lies in militant unions and political leaders inciting trouble for purely political ends. [More…]
Can he say whether one-party regimes, which suppress trade union activity and criticism of their government, notably South Africa, Spain and Portugal, have sought favoured nation status with the European Economic Community in the event of the United Kingdom, which gives them tariff concessions, entering the Community. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Amalgamated Metal Trades Union could be involved in legal costs of up to $100,000 as a result of challenges, which are being financed by the Commonwealth, to the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society. [More…]
and (2) I assume the honourable member is referring to the proceedings in the Commonwealth Industrial Court involving Drinkwater and Amos and Others and Forbes and Willis and Others, the respondents being officials of the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, respectively. [More…]
On the other side we have a great power - the massive union organisation or worker operations. [More…]
In between we have the people, including the rank and file unionists who have little say in making decisions which, after all, have a great bearing on their well being. [More…]
What is so extraordinary is that the Opposition professes to deplore inflation and yet it does nothing to discourage some of the most important causes of inflation, such as union militancy, industrial unrest and unreasonable demands on employers. [More…]
The advice I have received from these bodies, especially the Australian Union of Students and the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, has been helpful to the Government. [More…]
That may be right or it may be wrong but they are certainly exercising a parental preference which is available to parents under this system in contrast to the system in the Soviet Union where a great proportion of females work and State child-minding centres in which there are children in great numbers, are found in profusion. [More…]
In respect of the last part of the honourable member’s question I must say that I am not sure that the proposition, whatever it may be in detail, would avoid the union trouble that he speaks about because I cannot see the Australian National Line securing a situation where it could avoid the use of seamen and members of seagoing unions which do cause a great deal of trouble in Tasmania. [More…]
I think it is of interest to note that only today the Australian Wheat Board has reported a sale, the largest sale ever, to another Communist country, the Soviet Union, of one million tons of wheat for an approximate sum of $50m, and of course, that sale is for cash. [More…]
In practice, it supports every extravagance of the extreme element of the trade union movement. [More…]
We hear no criticism by the Labor Party of excessive wage rises even though these are disadvantaging those unionists and others who are receiving less than the average wage. [More…]
Just as the Gov ernment has taken measures to stimulate demand, to reduce unemployment and at the same time to decrease the rate of inflation - measures which I took the opportunity to list the other night - it is time, too, for the trade union movement to play its part by recognising the need for a moratorium on wage rises and restraint or even opposition to excessive wage rises as a matter of its policy. [More…]
There has been a substantial record of the degree to which violence has been used in certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
The question asked by the honourable member for Mitchell comes within the ambit of the Minister for Labour and National Service as it relates to the trade union movement. [More…]
In relation to the Builders Labourers Federation, which the Minister has mentioned, will he confirm that that union was forthwith suspended from the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council at the instance of the officials of the Council, who are all members of the Australian Labor Party and that that union was allowed to take part again in the affairs of the Council only on condition that those thugs amongst its members who had disrupted the Council’s proceedings never thereafter were allowed to be officers or delegates of the union? [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will confirm that when members of the Plumbers Union- [More…]
If a relatively small union could successfully mount such an attack, what could be achieved by the more powerful unions with more resources if they acted in a similar way? [More…]
I have spoken with people associated with secondary industry and with delegations of proprietors of factories and of trade union representatives who are very concerned about the intensity of competition from imports, particularly in the footwear, textile, clothing, electronic, metal, heavy engineering and forging industries. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labour and National Service aware of a recent case in South Australia in which a struggling Kangaroo Island soldier settler had judgment given in his favour with costs awarded against a union official who had instigated action to victimise this settler and others by declaring their wool black because it was not shorn by union labour? [More…]
Does the judgment give us any hope that other sections of the Australian community will be protected from similar vicious actions by overweening union power? [More…]
I want to put to rest once and for all the misrepresentations that are being made about Australian Labor Party policy in relation to civil actions for torts committed or alleged to have been committed by members of unions, officers of unions, or by unions themselves in pursuance of industrial disputes or industrial matters. [More…]
It is quite untrue, as Senator Greenwood has been reported as saying, and as the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) almost said - but I think knew enough about the subject to hang back just enough to be on the safe side - that the Labor Party believes that the law should be altered to prevent any civil action against a unionist who commits any breach of the ordinary civil law. [More…]
We certainly abhor recourse to thuggery in pursuance of industrial disputes, either between factions of a union or between unions and employers. [More…]
The decision of the Labor Party’s Federal Conference was that we should alter the Act to provide for participatory democracy in union affairs, including a provision for the immunity of unions from actions for tort in respect of torts alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of a trade union in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute. [More…]
These are the precise words used by the royal commission of Lord Donovan, known as the Donovan Commission, which inquired into the question of trade unions in the United Kingdom. [More…]
In the original Trade Union Act of 1871 the House of Commons gave to the trade unions immunity from actions for torts which the Australian Labor Party says should be applied in this day and age. [More…]
The Trade Disputes Act of 1906 was altered by the House of Commons to restore to the trade union movementof the United Kingdom the immunity from actions for torts which everybody thought until the Taff Vale case it had enjoyed. [More…]
From 1906 the law remained as everyone thought the House of Commons had made it, giving trade unions the immunity to which the Labor Party refers. [More…]
Then in 1964, in the case known as Rookes v. Barnard the courts of England again took the view that the law of 1906 had not given to the unions the immunity which the House of Commons thought it was conferring upon them. [More…]
So the Wilson Government in 1965 altered the law yet again to give to unions complete immunity from civil actions for torts in respect of normal industrial actions or in pursuit of industrial action to bring about a certain industrial result. [More…]
This law, which gives immunity to unions against actions for torts, has remained unaltered in Queensland for the last 15 years, during which Queensland has been governed by a Country Party and Liberal Party coalition. [More…]
If unions are not to be given immunity from actions for torts a situation could arise whereby, for instance, in the 15- working-day dispute in 1964 between the Vehicle Builders Union and the General Motors-Holden’s Ltd the union could be sued for well over $100m. [More…]
So, once General Motors is able to prove liability, to prove that the union is culpable and to prove that it has suffered damage, all that remains to be done is to assess its damages which would amount to more than $100m. [More…]
That was the case of Warana Station v. The Australian Workers Union, Spence and Macdonell. [More…]
They started to use the civil law in order to impose penalties upon unions which used this form of industrial action. [More…]
The honourable gentleman understands full well what I am saying because only a matter of months ago - towards the end of last year - recognising, with his great industrial experience, the need for the trade union movement to be subject to some form of restriction, he proposed what is now known in his own ranks as the infamous industrial fines policy. [More…]
He tried, as my colleague suggested, and he tried hard because he knew in his heart, as he knows now, that one cannot have any system of industrial relations in which the trade unions, as one of the principal parties, are subject to no form of constraint. [More…]
The honourable gentleman’s system, if applied, would be collective bludgeoning because the battalions of which he speaks are the battalions of the trade union movement and they would not be subject to any restriction except the so-called moral restriction and restraint which could be imposed and applied by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Unions should be immune for actions in common law against private or civil wrongs alleged to have been committed on or behalf of a trade union in furtherance of an industrial dispute. [More…]
The honourable gentleman says to this House in all seriousness that he does not want total immunity for the trade union movement. [More…]
All he requires is immunity in the sense that if there is an industrial dispute the trade unions should not be subject to the normal processes of law if in fact any person seeks to bring an appropriate action. [More…]
Executive has committed any future Labor government to placing union officials above the law, in the circumstances I have mentioned, free from civil liability for such familiar industrial actions as damage to property, assault, trespass and conspiracy, provided only that the men committing these actions can claim to have been acting on behalf of the trade union in an industrial dispute. [More…]
As I said in relation to the payment of those costs by the South Australian Government, it is as incredible as it is reprehensible that the Labor Premier of South Australia should seek to nullify a decision of the Supreme Court of that State by paying at least S7.000 costs awarded by the court against a union secretary involved in civil proceedings which were dealt with by the court, and paying it with taxpayers’ money, not money to which the honourable member for Hindmarsh contributed. [More…]
The Premier of South Australia was prepared to use taxpayers’ money to nullify a decision of the court, in the sense that his action rendered a union secretary immune from responsibility to meet payments for an action which had been taken against him. [More…]
It is significant that those costs were awarded against a well known union secretary. [More…]
Presumably the Premier of South Australia believes that that unions and union officials should not be subject to the same law as applies to all other sections of the Australian community in cases of this type. [More…]
But this action is typical of the whole philosophy which permeates the Australian Labor Party in terms of placing the unions beyond the constraints of the law. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) said that 1 had stated that the right of employers to sue unions did not apply in the United States of America. [More…]
What I said was that in the United States it was not possible while an agreement was current for a union to break the agreement but that once the agreement expired it was not within the competence of the employer to sue a union for any breach of contract or for damages. [More…]
On 20th August of last year representations were made on behalf of the wife of a leading radio operator on HMAS ‘Pamula’ The only other representations I can find are by another member of my staff on 12th July last on behalf of the Professional Musicians Union of Australia regarding the use of Royal Australian Navy musicians. [More…]
Credit unions are playing an increasingly important part in helping young people to obtain their own homes. [More…]
For this reason the conditions relating to the approval of credit unions for the purposes of the Act will be eased. [More…]
A credit union needs to be approved so that savings with it by its members can become acceptable savings under the Act, The present conditions for approval of a credit union require that not less than 20 per cent of its annual lending is, and continues to be, in housing loans at a rate of interest not exceeding a prescribed rate; 15 per cent of its annual lending must be in housing loans of at least $5,000 for a minimum period of 12 years; and, it must lend no less than $50,000 in housing loans annually. [More…]
Provided a credit union can show that not less than 20 per cent of the total amount lent to its members in its most recently completed financial year has been in the form of housing loans and provided it undertakes to maintain this proportion in each subsequent financial year, it will be able to become approved for purposes of the Homes Savings Grant Act. [More…]
The principal Act will continue to provide that approval of a credit union is deemed to have taken effect on and from the first day of the credit union financial year in respect of which the approval is granted. [More…]
Savings held with an approved credit union by members who have contracted to buy or build their homes, or commenced to build them as ownerbuilders, on or after the date from which approval is deemed to have effect, will then be acceptable for the purposes of the home savings grant scheme. [More…]
Savings held by credit union members at savings dates during the 2 financial years immediately before the financial year for which the approval is granted also will be acceptable. [More…]
So far, I have not even mentioned the trade union power base. [More…]
They will have to choose whether they are prepared to discard the certainties and realities of Government achievement through parliamentary change for the superficial, slogan-ridden propaganda of the socialists, and underlying them the unreachable power of the union bosses. [More…]
That was carried on through the period when, it will be recalled, in 1961 and 1962 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in 1962 the United States of America exploded a large number of nuclear devices which caused a far greater fall-out throughout the world than has happened since. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in the Australian’ of 19th August headed ‘STD faults put up our Telephone Bills: Thousands pay more, says union’, in which it was stated that postal union officials alleged a number of defects in the subscriber trunk dialling metering system? [More…]
the Soviet Union, we in Australia should be thinking not only of the need to look after country areas everywhere but in particular of the need to look after the country areas in the north - that is, in Queensland and if need be in the Northern Territory and the northern parts of Western Australia. [More…]
That was a fair enough retaliation, I suppose, for my paper which said that we had not had a Minister for Labor and National Service for more than 20 years who had a grass roots knowledge of the trade union movement. [More…]
If we have an attitude of blackmail, which today seems to be prevalent in Australia, with great favour shown in the negotiated agreements which are approved by honourable members opposite, 2 great power groups - the people who control our large industries and our large industrial unions - can come to an agreement to suit themselves their attitude being: ‘Hang the rest of the community who have to pick up the tab’. [More…]
That union came to an agreement with the employers on a 35- hour week, increased wages, 4 weeks annual leave and so on. [More…]
Trade union action was successful in certain instances in increasing the share of certain privileged or closely organised groups, such as tally clerks, dock workers and so on. [More…]
These great power groups - I refer not only to the unions but also to large industrial organisations - for the sake of peace make agreements. [More…]
As a matter of abstract principle, unions are as entitled to amalgamate as companies are to merge, either by takeover or by winding up procedures, but it should be on the same essential condition - that the individual proprietary rights of members are safeguarded. [More…]
Why should the proprietary right of an individual member of the union he contracted to join be made the only right not protected by special provisions by placing that right at the mercy of union officials who conduct their own ballots with their own returning officers? [More…]
The practical truth is that the programme of union amalgamation is not directed, as its protagonists claim, to reducing the number of small, non-viable unions. [More…]
Approximately 65 per cent of Australian unionists are in fact already members of 21 unions. [More…]
The amalgamation programme we have seen recently is aimed at bringing together large and medium sized unions, which are already perfectly viable, into more concentrated bodies for political reasons, even more than for industrial reasons. [More…]
Leaving aside the problem posed by the communists and members of the extreme left in the unions, the building of monoliths, in unions as well as in business, encourages bureaucracy, not efficiency. [More…]
When industrial correspondents quote Britain’s vast Transport and General Workers Union as an example to be followed in Australia, they ignore the severity of troubles generated by its shop committees at the London docks and the airports. [More…]
On the one hand, these arise from a breakdown of administration in the union itself owing to its very size. [More…]
Lance Sharkey, the then National Secretary of the Communist Party, in his book ‘The Trade Unions’, made it clear that the purpose is not primarily to bring about economies of scale and an increase of power in industrial relations, but rather to increase the political power of unions as revolutionary weapons - an objective which ought to be alien to trade unionism and which is essentially political and subversive in character. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions, through Mr Hawke, has done everything it possibly could to prevent arbitration from working. [More…]
It has said: ‘We must have a situation where ever more powerful unions use ever greater blackmail to achieve their purposes’. [More…]
Two trade union leaders went on television and said that it had to stop. [More…]
Evidence has been presented to me that victimisation occurred of at least one person who joined the Australian Workers Union on Kangaroo Island. [More…]
He was told this by one farmer there because he had informed on the non-union shearers so that the union organiser could go and hunt them up. [More…]
Secondly, neither the Labor Party nor any member of it is free to speak on economic matters because the Party is dominated by the interests of its trade union power base and is controlled by the Federal Executive. [More…]
But this is just one example of where it would be driven by trade union dominance. [More…]
They make up the political wing of the greater trade union movement in Australia and are part and parcel of the greater trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
The political wing of the trade union movement in Australia - the Australian Labor Party - speaks with a forked tongue because the trade union movement itself is greatly divided and the political party is greatly divided. [More…]
In 1955 there came the great split which divided the industrial trade union movement and the political wing alike. [More…]
Out of this division came the right wing unions with a bias toward the Australian Democratic Labor Party and the militant wing unions, the left wing, with a bias toward the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Over a number of years during this time there had been a small and growing group within the trade union movement and the ALP known as ‘Communist sympathisers’. [More…]
Communist union leaders made the following public statement several years ago in reference to Yallourn power: [More…]
The oil strike occurred because the unions made every endeavour to bypass arbitration with the decision on the 35-hour week. [More…]
Now let us examine the internal union control during the oil strike. [More…]
We all know that Mr Hawke is President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
His influence and control of the trade union movement in Australia is of a vertical nature from the top down. [More…]
Similarly Mr Opperman used to take Mr Elliott, Secretary of the Seamen’s Union of Australia and a noted communist, to lunch. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party abhors violence whether it be in the trade union movement or in the political wing. [More…]
While these Liberal Governments stand on the sidelines talking ‘Law and Order’, the Trade Union movement acts to uphold it by fighting these small groups of extremists prepared to use intimidation and violence. [More…]
The ACTU Executive expresses concern at the reported violence after a mass meeting of striking members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union held in Sydney on 21st August. [More…]
We strongly condemn the people who seek to introduce into the affairs of the Trade Union meetings such brutality and violence. [More…]
We declare that such action is not in keeping with the principles and standards as set down by the Australian Trade Union Movement and it is completely un-Australian. [More…]
Should affiliated unions decline to take such action, State Branches of the ACTU should consider the question of continued affiliation of the offending union.’ [More…]
notes the concern expressed by affiliated unions at the introduction of intimidation and threats of violence into the conduct of Trade Union affairs in this State. [More…]
The Labor Council endorses the stand taken by the Acting Secretary, John Ducker, when faced with this type of intimidation, and in his subsequent public statements declaring the wholehearted opposition of the Trade Union Movement to this type of behaviour on the part of individuals and minority groups. [More…]
The Labor Council notes with approval the resolution of the ACTU Interstate Executive, which also condemns the people who would seek to introduce violence into the affairs of the Trade Union Movement. [More…]
We join with the ACTU in declaring that such action is not in keeping with the principles and standards set down by the Australian trade union movement, and is completely un-Australian. [More…]
While noting that emotions run high in major industrial disputes and things are said and done by workers that would not be done in normal circumstances, and such an emotional outburst was one factor contained in the situation that took place following the Plumbers return to work meeting, the fact remains that violence is becoming a recurrent feature from among an element in the Trade Union Movement. [More…]
We therefore call on all workers to strongly oppose the philosophy of violence and to strongly defend the right of Union officials and the rank and file of all points of view to speak, without subsequently being subjected to abuse, manhandling, violence, or the threat of violence. [More…]
We regard democratic practice in the Trade Union Movement as essential to build the unity of the workers in their struggle for social progress. [More…]
We call upon all affiliated Unions to take appropriate action in order that any instances of violent behaviour at Trade Union meetings are properly, dealt with, and demonstrate to all concerned that the Trade Union Movement, can carry out ils affairs in a responsible way. [More…]
I venture to say to the honourable gentleman, distinguished as he is and knowledgeable in trade union matters as he is, that were he Premier of New South Wales, he certainly would not be saying the same thing. [More…]
The reason for the dedin; of British trade unionism has not been any original sin among either ordinary or leading British trade unionists. [More…]
In the lower ranks of ‘elected’ union officialdom (delegales to union conferences, shop stewards etc.) [More…]
Anybody sufficiently ambitious to pick up local union power can therefore generally gel it. [More…]
Let me make it clear that what is happening within the unions is an affront to all democratic parties, including the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
On the other hand, I recall that the last Prime Minister to introduce emergency legislation with the sole and specific purpose of gaoling a small group of trade union officials was the late Ben Chifley. [More…]
I am indebted to the Australian Timber Workers Union monthly journal - I am a member of the Australian Timber Workers Union - for the figures I shall quote. [More…]
Therefore the question of industrial safety, because of its nationwide implications, is a problem that can be handled effectively only at the Federal level with the co-operation of the States and the trade union movement. [More…]
However, I have raised the questions in which I have been most interested during my 58 years in the trade union movement and my 52 years in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is a Party in which the policy making conferences are dominated by union officials. [More…]
The Treasurer’s strategy was to create a pool of unemployment in order, as he said, to reduce the number of unfilled job vacancies and to prevent union absenteeism. [More…]
With these ends in view, the Government brought down legislation to deal with those enemies of Australia who, working through the trade union movement, were organising industrial strife and deliberately fostering practices which hold back production. [More…]
I think here of the matter of unemployment, and also of the degree of Communist influence in relation to the trade union movement. [More…]
Is it any wonder that Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd can offer up to S50m to take over Ansett Transport Industries Ltd, that the Union Steam Ship Co. has been taken over and that vast transport monopolies have been built up in this country. [More…]
The Dow chemicals organisation, a supplier for the germicidal and herbicidal war in Vietnam, to its everlasting disgrace, made 44 per cent of its profits overseas; Goodyear 43 per cent; Revlon, a company well known to the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), because it has earmaked certain land on the south coast of New South Wales, 40 per cent; Johnson and Johnson 36 per cent; Otis Elevator 35 per cent; Union Carbide 29 per cent; General Electric 21 per cent; and General Motors, which has a big share of the Australian motor industry, 19 per cent. [More…]
Consequently the demands of some militant sections of the trade union movement for exhorbitant wage increases should be discouraged in the interests of those concerned as well as of all sections of the work force and the community in general. [More…]
The real attitude of the Labor Party towards sanctions imposed against unions and unionists was revealed when the Premier of South Australia, Mr Dunstan, authorised the payment from public funds of more than $7,000 in court costs awarded against a union secretary. [More…]
The costs were legally imposed by the South Australian Supreme Court against the secretary of a union which had imposed a black ban on shipments to and from Kangaroo Island. [More…]
The South Australian Government has taken action in a union’s interest which it would never have dreamed of launching for the sake of a private individual This amounts to using a government position to safeguard union concerns. [More…]
Of course, the honourable member for Hindmarsh has indignantly denied any intention of the Labor Party to put unionists in a special class above the law, but his denial has a very hollow ring in the light of what left wing militants in the union movement have done during the recent industrial disputes that have resulted in turmoil and public concern. [More…]
Unless we are careful, unless rank and file members become interested, the union scene will become reminiscent of the violent roaring twenties in America. [More…]
Mr Ducker said the policy of violence had been advocated in a magazine article by the Secretary of the Builders Labourers Union, Mr Jack Mundey. [More…]
The communist takeover of the Builders Labourers Union could be repeated quite easily in other unions. [More…]
I am not one to kick the communist can but I warn all unionists that communist inspired violence will continue unless they are vigilant. [More…]
In the recent oil strike we saw an example of the influence exerted by Mr Carmichael and Mr’ Halfpenny - 2 wellknown communists - over union affairs. [More…]
The point I want to make is that the concern of the Government and ils supporters has been very great in regard to the important matter of the growing influence of communists in the trade union movement of the country. [More…]
For about 50 years the law in Queensland has provided that no action can be taken against a union, a union official or a union member who causes loss to an employer because of industrial action by either boycott or strike, and any effect of that strike action or boycott which caused somebody else not to be able to fulfil a contract is not actionable in Queensland. [More…]
The only time that an employer in the United States can sue for damages as a consequence of loss caused by strikes is when, during the currency of an agreement, a union or its members repudiate that agreement and, as a consequence of the repudiation, cause the employer to suffer loss. [More…]
If an agreement is entered into and during its currency there is a breach of that agreement or a repudiation of it involving a strike, the union can be sued, as in the United States, for damages to the extent that the employer can prove loss. [More…]
But if the union can show that the executive body of the union had not been culpable in respect of the dispute, that the members of the union who stopped work did so of their own volition and in defiance of a union instruction to the contrary, all that the employer can do is take action against the individual unionists concerned. [More…]
The maximum penalty is $50 for each employee who commits a breach of the agreement in defiance of his own union’s executive. [More…]
There is no doubt that this Government brought about or endeavoured to bring about a confrontation between the oil companies and the trade union movement in the recent oil industry dispute. [More…]
If it were not for the good common sense of Bob Hawke and some of the other union leaders who are maligned by Country Party members every day this House is sitting we would not have petrol and a lot of other things. [More…]
They are the communist strong men in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Union officers shall be immune from legal actions for offences committed in furtherance of a trade dispute. [More…]
(Quorum formed) In the few moments left to me I want to say that there can be no union peace in this country until the grass roots members of the unions are prepared to attend union meetings and to stand up to the muscle men, the communists and fellow travellers. [More…]
Not satisfied with the present bout of wage-cost inflation, many trade union leaders are now seeking to add further to those inflationary pressures through the introduction of a 35-hour working week. [More…]
I want to refer to the events during the course of this week when the question of violence in the trade union movement was properly raised in this House. [More…]
What those events have shown is that the degree of communist influence in certain trade unions in this country is very real and significant, as certain officials of the Labor Council of New South Wales have pointed out. [More…]
In the closing stages of his contribution he made some pious reference to violence in the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a government that supports the regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia and then piously speaks about violence in the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I want to emphasise the point that was made by 2 or 3 of my colleagues earlier this afternoon; that is, this tendency for violence to occur whenever something happens which a left wing union or a communist inspired union or group does not like or which appears to them to be something that will be a disadvantage to them in their desire to take control of and dominate those people over whom they desire to assert authority. [More…]
It is an industry which, nonetheless, is still of tremendous importance to 2 of the major maritime nations of the world, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan. [More…]
Despite large increases in North Sea production, it appears likely that European natural gas imports from the Soviet Union and North Africa will increase and Shell T. and T. Co. estimates that by 1976 imports from these 2 areas will have risen to 2.4 billion cubic feet per day. [More…]
He has also, on other occasions, demonstrated ineffectiveness when, with the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), he announced an industrial policy and on instructions from union leaders abandoned that policy within a day or two. [More…]
To get an increase in wages a wage earner or his union has to ask for an increase. [More…]
I happen to be the President of the North Western Rifle Club Union in Victoria, lt comprises a fine body of men. [More…]
The Union d’Assureurs des Credits Internatlonaux (Berne Union) and, more recently, the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are actively engaged in efforts torationalise credit-giving. [More…]
I have noted that in recent public statements Labor Party and union spokesmen have sought to justify claims for a 35-hour working week on the grounds that it would increase job opportunities, and give more leisure to the work force as a whole. [More…]
Where those relevant facts support a union claim a Labor government would, of course, intervene to give its full support for the claim and it would rest with the Commission to determine what should be done after hearing both sides. [More…]
But whether he is a grey or a white eminence, the simple fact is that the honourable gentleman representing in this House the shadow ministry of labour and national service is certainly not eminent in resisting the demands which have been made by the trade union movement. [More…]
Union demands for a shorter working week cannot be considered in a vacuum as Opposition members have suggested in this debate. [More…]
They must be seen against the background of other union claims, particularly claims for wage increases, and in the setting of the current economic climate. [More…]
But, not satisfied with the current bout of wage-cost inflation, many trade union leaders are now intent on adding further to inflationary pressures by the introduction of a 35-hour working week. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Opposition have, by their actions, stimulated union demands for a reduction in ordinary time working hours. [More…]
In fact, what some of the unions are seeking and what the Opposition is prepared to join in is a simple proposition of more and more for less and less effort. [More…]
In pursuit of a reduction in working hours, unions have engaged in direct action and threats of direct action. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that during May and June members of metal trades unions employed in the oil industry engaged in strikes and other limitations on work particularly in Victoria and Queensland because oil industry employers insisted that their claims for a 35-hour week were properly a matter for consideration by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
In June of this year, metal trades unions employed by contractors engaged in building the Yallourn ‘W power station in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria imposed a 35- hour week limitation on work in support of claims for a new agreement covering wages and conditions including the introduction of a 35-hour week. [More…]
Furthermore, members of the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia and the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia employed in shipbuilding and repair work on the Melbourne waterfront only recently returned to work after a 5-week strike in support of a log of claims which included a claim for a 35-hour working week. [More…]
But I challenge Opposition members to answer in this debate, if they believe that the concept of 35 hours ought not properly to be introduced in certain industries, the following questions: Would they go before the Commission, would they be prepared to fight the great trade unions of this country, would they be prepared to stand firm in resisting trade union pressure? [More…]
During the whole period of this Government, particularly during the course of the past 2 to 3 years, there has not been one occasion on which honourable gentlemen opposite - the honourable member for Riverina, the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster), the shadow Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the shadow Treasurer - have been prepared in this House to be critical of just one proposal which the trade unions have brought forward. [More…]
Of course, the implication of this is a clear one - that is, that a Labor government would take no action whatsoever in these circumstances because in fact the Labor Party is captive to the trade unions outside this chamber. [More…]
I challenge the shadow Treasurer to say something in this debate which his colleague the shadow Minister for Labour has not been prepared to state simply because he knows full well the problems which are created on the Opposition benches when the Opposition is critical of certain aspects of trade union policy. [More…]
The trade unions, supported by the Opposition, are moving on all flanks. [More…]
But the honourable member is prepared to bleed the Australian community dry in simple support of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
He is not prepared in this chamber to speak his mind because he knows full well the type of reaction which would be generated by any criticism of that type by the honourable gentleman against certain areas of the trade union movement. [More…]
There has been a great reluctance on the part of the trade union movement in the past to share in Increased job opportunities among workers in industry by enabling them to get better training. [More…]
It seems that honourable members opposite have been abashed by the claim of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of the Country Party, in his announcement when he was acting Prime Minister on 7th June that the Fedeal Government would seek the help of international firms to oppose union demands for the 35-hour working week. [More…]
If trade union lead?– did this, the Government would put them in gaol, but when a member of the Liberal Party does it. [More…]
Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
Of course, it pivots on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
They talk about people bashing people up at union meetings. [More…]
The Government ought to realise that this is not a dictatorship: this is not a police State; we are not living under a government of Hitlerite Germany; we are not living in the Soviet Union; we are not living in Portugal or Fa.sc.isl Spain. [More…]
I think most honourable members would have seen the interview that took place on ABC television between Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch). [More…]
At that time, Mr Hawke alleged - I believe correctly - that the disputes that were then current between the oil companies and the unions and between Ansett Transport Industries Ltd and the Transport Workers Union were caused by the Government. [More…]
He alleged that the Government put pressure on the employers to stop them from making negotiated agreements with the unions. [More…]
The inter-governmental conferences, which for the purposes of this answer include conferences of an official nature such as those associated with United Nations bodies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, are marked by an asterisk. [More…]
The ALP’s shadow Minister for Labor, Mr Clyde Cameron, has angered white-collar union leaders by proposing a new wage policy which should give higher increases to employees on low incomes . [More…]
I am reminded that back in 1967 when we were discussing the legislation which extended the $2 for $1 subsidy to local government bodies, the Opposition delayed the legislation for more than 6 months because it claimed that it was not specifically spelt out in the legislation that industrial unions could benefit from the $2 for SI subsidy. [More…]
I remember very well that the then Minister pointed out that that was not so, that there was provision for industrial unions to obtain the subsidy. [More…]
It is rather significant that, as far as I can discover, no industrial union has ever applied for a subsidy. [More…]
By its blatant disregard of public opinion and wanton waste of taxpayers’ money in the recent instance of paying a union official’s $7,000 (or will it be $11,000) fine- [More…]
Why was no attempt made to levy union members to pay Mr Dunford’s fine? [More…]
Additional Protocol to the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union and other related Instruments, opened for signature on 14th November 1969. [More…]
It would be now the Budget of 2 weeks ago: and made his offer to drop it while opening the Federal conference of the Miscellaneous Workers Union in Hobart. [More…]
In West Germany, with the co-operation of the various branches of government and the German Union of Sport, a programme of measures designed to advance sport and to make it available to everyone in that society, not just a privileged few, has been drawn up. [More…]
Under the South Australian Labor Government, subservient as it is to elements of the trade union movement and controlled as it is by a handful of people, ] do not suppose we can blame the media for their reluctance to tangle with the controllers of such vast sums of money. [More…]
So the settlers there had not only this problem to deal with but also the problems mentioned by the Minister, problems such as maintaining flock numbers as a result of losses caused by dystocia - I will come back to that in a moment - transport and marketing difficulties and, to please the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) who I can see is fraught with excitement over the whole thing, the problem of union difficulties on the island. [More…]
The unions can if they wish take advantage of the problems I have mentioned. [More…]
I wish to quote to the chamber a comment which was made in Melbourne on 7th September 1971 by Dr R. F. Dusman, senior ecologist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
A further change relates to the easing of requirements in respect of credit union savings. [More…]
As the Minister also indicated, the conditions relating to savings in credit unions being considered for homes savings grants also are liberalised in this Bill. [More…]
This has been done with the complete approval of the leaders of the credit union movement throughout this country. [More…]
It is a recognition of the very useful and valuable role that credit unions are playing in helping young people to acquire their own homes. [More…]
The conditions will be so liberal that just about all credit union savings and lendings will be able to be taken into account under the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
The only requirement will be that not less than 20 per cent of the annual lending of a credit union to its members should be for housing loan purposes. [More…]
It is a move that will encourage credit unions to lend for housing and a move that will not disadvantage young people who put their savings in credit unions. [More…]
I suppose that the growth of the credit union movement in recent years has been one of the most interesting aspects of finance development in this country. [More…]
Right around the country credit unions are performing a valuable service for their members in many fields, including housing. [More…]
I am certain therefore that the action which has been taken in regard to credit unions in this Bill will be very welcome. [More…]
Then the credit unions were adversely affected. [More…]
Savings in credit unions at first were excluded altogether and the unrelenting hostility which the Government has directed to these bodies caused many credit union members to suffer loss of subsidy. [More…]
In regard to credit unions, I again remind the House that there have always been young people who chose to put their savings in a credit union who are penalised by the Government. [More…]
Discrimination is still in evidence against credit unions compared with other lending authorities. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said that savings with credit unions should be recognised as acceptable forms of savings. [More…]
I wish to point out that the Bill provides that savings with a credit union will be regarded as acceptable forms of savings if the credit union concerned is prepared to advance 20 per cent of its annual lending towards home ownership, which is a fair thing. [More…]
1 am particularly pleased and personally pleased with the decision of the McMahon Government to ease conditions applicable to the recognition of savings in credit unions for the purpose of this scheme. [More…]
As we know, the provisions have been changed so that where a credit union can show that not less than 20 per cent of the total amount lent to its members in the most recently completed financial year has been in the form of housing loans and undertakes to maintain this 20 per cent proportion each year, savings with such a credit union will be recognised by the homes savings grant scheme in the same way as savings in banks and building societies. [More…]
It should be stressed in this debate that for the purposes of the Act as it applies to credit unions, a housing loan is defined as a loan to buy land, to buy or build a house, and to pay for associated expenses. [More…]
This represents a significant easing of conditions and brings the homes savings grant scheme fairly and squarely into the important and fast growing credit union movement in Australia. [More…]
Because of my long-standing interest in and association with credit unions, I am particularly pleased with this aspect of the Bill before the House. [More…]
When I took part in the debate in this place on the Homes Savings Grant Bill in 1970 I said that the Government made no criticism of the credit union movement. [More…]
Rather, in showing a concern to see that all forms of credit are available to the Australian community, I then stated that in this pattern the Government readily admits and welcomes the role of credit unions. [More…]
I need hardly add that the decision by the Government now being considered is most certainly a very tangible reaffirmation of the Government’s high regard for the important role of credit unionism in the Australian financial scene. [More…]
Since speaking in the debate in 1970 it has been my privilege to attend 2 annual meetings of the New South Wales Credit Union League Limited as the representative of the Liberal Country Party Government, and this year I was privileged to be the guest speaker of that organisation on 7th April. [More…]
Few honourable members in the present Parliament would be unaware of the remarkable growth that has taken place in the Australian credit union movement. [More…]
Professor Neil Runcie is such a person and I commend his fine book on the subject of credit unions to all who hear or read this speech of mine. [More…]
Credit unions, because of their very self help nature - I wish on this occasion the member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) were in the House - are stable and efficient members of the Australian financial community. [More…]
I am happy that there is an excellent relationship between the Credit Union League and the New South Wales State Liberal Government at least, and that both parties have publicly stated this fact. [More…]
I believe that the New South Wales Credit Union League is continuing its fight for tax relief, but I do not intend to discuss this matter which lies beyond the ambit of the Bill before us. [More…]
As far as the homes savings grant aspect is concerned, certainly the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), who also takes a keen interest in the credit union movement, and I recall the controversy that developed about the relevance of fairness of the conditions which were applied in 1970 to permit acceptance of savings with a credit union then approved for the purposes of the scheme. [More…]
As I mentioned in my speech to the Credit Union League in April of this year, the fact that no credit union had formally sought to be so approved suggested that a lot more negotiation would be the order of the day between the credit union movement and the Government. [More…]
I believe that the credit union movement is very pleased and I would like to quote Mr Dermot Ryan, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues, who was reported in the August 1972 edition of the ‘Credit Union Quest’, when speaking of credit unions, as< follows: [More…]
The conditions now to be deleted made it impossible for any credit union in Australia to qualify. [More…]
We are hopeful that every credit union will now be able to qualify within a reasonable time. [More…]
The credit union movement by its self help nature, brings with it stability and efficiency at local levels which, in turn, bring about low costs of operation and a low incidence of bad debts. [More…]
However, another great philosophical advantage of the credit unions, whose underlying philosophy is the acceptance of the ethic that we are our brother’s keeper, is that each credit union has its own local control and decisionmaking process. [More…]
There is strong evidence that credit unions in country areas are assuming the independent decisionmaking role that branch bank managers enjoyed many years ago. [More…]
This local control, local interest and local concern is a precious element in the credit union movement, and I hope that the extension of the homes savings grant scheme to facilitate the inclusion of credit unions will not see any largescale amalgamation or centralising of authority and decision making. [More…]
I have limited my remarks on the credit union aspect of this Bill. [More…]
The whole subject of credit unionism is one which deserves greater debate in this House, but then so do all financial matters. [More…]
However, I would remind the credit union movement, as I did at the recent opening of the new premises for the ABC Staff Employees Credit Union, that it is no use looking to the Australian Labor Party and thinking that it is going to control qualitatively and quantitatively all other forms of available credit in Australia and leave the credit union movement alone. [More…]
Members of the credit union movement should ponder the thought when the Australian Labor Party makes its rash promises about what it will do for the credit unions - and there was much of this at the opening of the premises that I have referred to - and remember that any government that is big enough to give everything is also big enough to take it away. [More…]
The inclusion in this Bill of provisions related to credit unions will increase the number of marginal cases. [More…]
What happens to a person who in good faith saves with a credit union only to find when he applies for a loan that the credit union is not then or was not for some period qualified under the terms of the Bill? [More…]
Is the individual in that case to be punished because of the failure, as it may well be, of the credit union. [More…]
that the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act. [More…]
He said that the honourable member for Cook had opposed the Opposition’s amendment in 1970 which sought to remove the restrictions on credit unions so far as the homes savings grant scheme is concerned. [More…]
With respect, the honourable member for Sturt was utterly and completely wrong in what be said about that amendment moved in 1970, and he was unjustified in criticising the honourable member for Cook because the amendment moved by the Opposition in 1970 in relation to credit unions was in the following terms: that the clauses of the Bill relating to credit unions should be redrafted to give credit union savings complete and unconditional recognition under the Act; [More…]
If honourable members will look at the Minister’s second reading speech they will see that there are still reasonable and necessary restrictions so far as credit unions are concerned. [More…]
One restriction, if I can use that word, is that a credit union must show that not less than 20 per cent of the total amount lent to its members in the most recently completed financial year has been in the form of housing loans, and it must undertake to maintain that 20 per cent proportion in each subsequent financial year. [More…]
On the one hand, the Opposition put up an amendment that there should be complete and unconditional recognition of credit unions and, on the other hand, the Government has now proposed - it will become law - that 20 per cent of money lent by credit unions must be for housing loans. [More…]
The credit unions themselves have never suggested that they should be completely and unconditionally recognised, as I understand it, and I wonder why they have never suggested it. [More…]
That sometimes arises, too, but the police price is always a lot smaller than that of some trade union leaders who get mixed up in a little graft. [More…]
the immunity of unions from action for tort in respect of torts alleged to have been committed by or on behalf of a trade union in contemplation of furtherance of a trade dispute. [More…]
Now, one exception - and it is a notable exception - is proposed to the law by the Labor Party, and that is in the case of trade unions. [More…]
It is said that trade unions should not be subject to the law and that if a tort is committed by trade union members then the people responsible for it should not have to indemnify those whom they have harmed in the course of breaking the law of torts. [More…]
To take the honourable member’s interjection a little further and to give an example, I ask the honourable member and other honourable members to imagine a building site where work is in progress and some trade union officials decide to visit that site - I use the word ‘visit* in the euphemistic sense - to see what is in progress on the building site. [More…]
To what extent do these crude and brutal louts and larrikins cow and dominate the union movement? [More…]
In the last 2 years, has the relative number of offices held by, and the strength of, the Communist Party within the trade union movement greatly increased and, with that, has the application of bullying and* physical violence increased? [More…]
Have the trade union leaders paid any more than lip service to decrying violence? [More…]
The Komar and Osa class patrol boats used by the Soviet Union have been considered for particular purposes. [More…]
An attempt is being made in Western Australia to legislate that a teacher is a better teacher merely because he is a member of a union. [More…]
The efficiency of any eligible applicant who is a member of the union is superior to the efficiency of any applicant who is not a member of the union. [More…]
Union traditions are in the best Australian tradition but for the Western Australians to claim that a teacher is a better teacher than another teacher because he is a member of a union and the other is not is plain nonsense. [More…]
A conscientious objector to being a member of the union can still be allowed to teach and perhaps be promoted in Western Australia if he pays the equivalent of the union fees direct to the Minister. [More…]
Under the Bill the Minister is immediately entitled to pay those fees to the union. [More…]
All power to the trade unions which are comprised of working men and patriotic Australians. [More…]
Already it has been announced that the Federated Ironworkers Association, the Amalgamated Metal Trade Unions and the Australian Workers Union are prepared to put a ban on handling the overseas made pipes. [More…]
As the honourable member will no doubt know, I received in Parliament House last week a deputation from certain union representatives and employees of Hawker de Havilland. [More…]
I have mentioned in this House the sale of one million tons of Australian wheat to the Soviet Union for cash. [More…]
The trade unions are represented on other boards. [More…]
At least the Liberal Government in New South Wales had the decency to put one trade unionist on the board of the State dockyard in Newcastle. [More…]
Of the 8 board members of Qantas not one represents the trade union movement. [More…]
I instance the dispute and disrepute that Australia was brought into in Fiji in August of this year when Qantas chose, not to negotiate to a successful conclusion with the Fiji Airline Workers Union. [More…]
The industrial negotiators for Qantas threatened to pull out of Fiji if the Fiji union continued with its claims for approximately $40 a week for ground staff - this from our leading international tourist line. [More…]
It is time that the people of Australia knew that, for instance, the Australian Union of Students has condemned the ALP - not the Government - for being more interested in quantity than quality in Australian education. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students made a number of detailed submissions to the Liberal Commonwealth Government with respect to this year’s Budget. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government took those submissions very seriously and acted so as to fulfil the requests of the Australian Union of Students in almost every area where they were concerned. [More…]
Indeed, in a number of areas the Government went further than the Australian Union of Students had suggested. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students has clearly recognised that the Government has made deep and expensive reforms across the whole of Australian education. [More…]
What the Australian Union of Students has to say about the Government’s deficiencies in respect of tertiary education would fill a book by itself. [More…]
One of the parameters which govern the operations of the Australian National Line and its capacity to operate successfully and efficiently is the way in which the unions permit it to operate. [More…]
Regrettably, over the years a number of difficulties created by the trade union movement have inhibited the ANL in operating its service satisfactorily and to the best advantage of Tasmania. [More…]
I am always hopeful, indeed optimistic - my optimism is often knocked on the head - that the unions will be encouraged by the Australian Labor Party to behave a little better and in this way enable a better service to be provided to Tasmania. [More…]
They will know that in argument, in debate and in Press publicity about this question, arising as it does whenever there is an increase in freight rates or an interruption to the service through union activity, the Senate committee’s report on shipping in relation to Tasmania should for the moment be the Bible in the factual sense of this subject. [More…]
I invite the honourable member to read the reports of the debates of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Paris in 1971 when a resolution concerned with the use of communications satellites for an exchange of educational and other material between countries was debated. [More…]
I doubt very much whether it can be achieved by a government telling an industry what its purchasing policy should be, and certainly it should not be achieved by the Australian Labor Party inciting the trade union movement to be the arbitrator by using its power of industrial threat to determine the matter. [More…]
It has to obey dictates, persuasion and pressure from the trade union movement at certain times. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with officials of 3 of the unions involved - the Storemen and Packers Union, the Transport Workers Union and the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The Secretary of one union advised me that he has received assurances from one of the shareholders in Harris Scarfe Industrials - that is the director of IMFC - that there is no intention of reducing the size of the workforce. [More…]
However, one of his union members has told him that shortly after a similar assurance was given at the time of the Colton Palmer and Preston takeover, that union member was retrenched. [More…]
I am sure that if the Government will refer this matter for consideration to the interim body - that is at departmental level - it will have the support of the employees of Clarkson Ltd. On Monday of last week a meeting was convened by Mr Marinoff, Secretary of the Storemen and Packers Union, and Mr Fisher of the Transport Workers Union, at Clarkson Ltd at Beverley. [More…]
At a further meeting at Clarksons on the 20th - that is Wednesday of last week - convened by the Industrial Officer of the Federated Clerks Union, the following resolution was passed: [More…]
This meeting calls on the Federated Clerks Union to express the feeling of clerks to directors and to the Press to let the public be aware of their position. [More…]
However, I have noticed reports today that the vice-president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is offering to conduct Australia’s foreign policy in relation to trade with France. [More…]
The action proposed by the trade union movement is just another attempt by it to usurp the foreign policy function of this Government. [More…]
I personally was impressed with the evidence given by Mr J. S. F. Baker, Secretary of the Postal Clerks and Telegraphists Union, who expressed the anxiety of the members of his union about the disposal of contracts in a number of areas of PMG activity, including the developing PABX telephonic area. [More…]
Do not let us believe that there is not a good deal of union pot stirring in relation to this matter. [More…]
Not many members of this House have not had representations from some of the unions in regard to this matter. [More…]
It was attended by representatives of nations which belong to the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
In the Security Council the frequent use of the veto by the Soviet Union served constantly to paralyse the organisation in matters concerning world security. [More…]
I would like to go on to say that the detente in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States owes nothing to the United Nations General Assembly or to the Security Council. [More…]
In the IndoPakistani war the Security Council did, after much debate, reach a resolution urging a cease fire but only when the war had virtually come to the end desired by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some of its people want to form their own independent nation and others rather favour the idea of union with the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. [More…]
The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is another instance of this double morality, because it is apparently ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
I repeat what I said: The unjust discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union is just another instance of this double morality, because apparently it is ignored by the United Nations. [More…]
I put it to honourable members that we are prepared to sell out some of our views and some of our reasonable propositions vis-a-vis the Soviet Union to get the support of that country. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) has proudly announced that the Soviet Union will support our election to the Security Council. [More…]
This contrasts with the behaviour of some Ministers who proudly parade before migrants from captive countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukraine and parts of Poland and speak of support for them against the Soviet Union. [More…]
We are doing everything we possibly can and are coming to secret agreement with the Soviet Union so as to get the 3 Soviet votes - as honourable members know, the Soviet Union has 3 votes - necessary to enable Australia to be elected to the Security Council. [More…]
One of the ways in which we have been antagonising the Soviet Union up until now has been by accepting its political refugees into Australia. [More…]
It has been alleged that for the next few months - until the vote for the Security Council is taken - the Soviet Union should not be antagonised and that the Department of Foreign Affairs has told the Department of Immigration that it should not be sympathetic to people whom the Soviet Union wants to exclude from membership of any outside nation - people whom it wants to get back into its own clutches. [More…]
There axe allegations that this has been done with respect to a prominent Ukrainian who has escaped fromthe Soviet Union to Vienna. [More…]
I am happy about supporting the right of people to be out of the Soviet Union and in Australia, but we should not be giving them misinformation and pretending we support them while at the same time remaining silent in places where what is said really counts - in the United Nations - and making general statements simply to get support from the Soviet Union on an issue that is not really terribly important to Australia, namely, whether Australia is to be a member of the Security Council next year. [More…]
I use the term ‘superpower’ because the Japanese, the Chinese and the Americans are all operative in this area, as is the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
As a former trade union official I always have been concerned about the wage rates and working conditions of people in industry. [More…]
Despite this very sincere desire and the provisions that have been made for the settlement of disputes and the hearing of claims of unions, we find only too often that unions take matters into their own hands and hold this country to ransom. [More…]
Undoubtedly this is often the result of the activities of left wing socialists and communist union leaders who have little regard for the welfare of the people they represent or the community as a whole. [More…]
It would not be in the race to control the trade unions. [More…]
I do not agree with this idea that it can apply to a particular industry and not flow on to other industries when we look at the record of what union leaders have done to try to get a flow on throughout the whole of their unions of any advantages that may be obtained. [More…]
It is just absurd to say that the unions will not put up a fight. [More…]
It is not the union leaders who have organised it, it is not the members of Parliament who have encouraged this sort of thing, as they sometimes do, but the workers themselves who have been engaged in the strike who are disadvantaged. [More…]
He said that a Labor government would not be the unthinking mouthpiece of trade union officialdom. [More…]
The Opposition has adopted a policy which would place trade unions above the law by rendering trade unions immune from civil action for acts committed by their members during the course of industrial disputes. [More…]
Because I am a socialist who believes that the strength upon which the Labor Party is built lies with the trade union movement and not with middle class voters, Encel had the temerity to describe me as an incompetent larrikin. [More…]
The Government also has said, by inference, that it takes some credit for the fact that there has been an improvement in wool prices, but I might say that the Victorian Farmers Union has been very blunt in its assessment of the situation. [More…]
The summation of the Victorian Farmers Union is that the cycle of events has been completed again to come to a boon peak. [More…]
Anyway, the honourable member for Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick) is a union secretary. [More…]
In an attempt to get on a personal level the honourable member for Wimmera made a statement about trade unionists living in South Australia. [More…]
I am very proud of my connection with the trade union movement in New South Wales, but admittedly, my duties did extend to other States on occasions. [More…]
I was in Rome with the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference when these 2 Bills were introduced into the House. [More…]
Some very good changes will take place in the industry but before I mention them I would like to say that price stability is needed according to the Victorian Farmers Union and the Victorian Graziers Association. [More…]
I suggest that the only reason the Government has introduced this legislation is the action taken in some places across Australia where the Farmers Union and other bodies which have been traditionally supporters of the Australian Country Party have said: ‘Unless you move to bring in acquisition, unless you move to adopt the recommendations of the Australian Wool Industry Conference, we will actively work against the Australian Country Party and Liberal members’. [More…]
I am not suggesting learning anything from the experience of Great Britain after World War II, from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Poland, Yugoslavia, or any other country. [More…]
In August postal unions began criticising overcharging on subscriber trunk dialling calls. [More…]
One critic was Mr J. S. Baker of the Postal Clerks Union. [More…]
However, it is faced with industrial turbulence and irresponsible union attitudes. [More…]
He did not make one reference to what happened in the early part of last week when the company had refused to negotiate with the union on an annual wage adjustment. [More…]
One organisation - Western Union - has done a complete cost analysis of its application. [More…]
As members of the Australian Postal Workers Union, we support public enterprise in the belief that a public authority can serve the public as well if not better than a private firm chasing profits. [More…]
I remind the PostmasterGeneral that several weeks ago, arising out of a Press report of union officials alleging that thousands of telephone subscribers were being overcharged on STD calls because of faults in the mechanism, he said in answer to a question that if these officials gave him details of such faults he would look into them. [More…]
The postal union officials who raised this matter, apparently at a Press conference that was given at the time, gave some details of the various defects which they alleged were apparent and of the reasons why overcharging of individuals was occurring. [More…]
Immediately after the war we had the communist dominated unions - the Seamen’s Union, the Waterside Workers Federation and the railways unions that tied up our transport situation. [More…]
Darwin, north Queensland and other places in the north are being strangled because of the onerous conditions being placed upon water transport by various union regulations. [More…]
Unfortunately, it has not received co-operation from the unions in this operation. [More…]
As we do not receive co-operation from the unions I believe we must throw our coastline open to foreign flags. [More…]
The communist controlled Seamen’s Union and others have tried to impede our efforts in that direction. [More…]
We cannot afford to support this flag line when wc do not receive co-operation from the unions involved. [More…]
The rises imposed by the ANL were quickly followed by the other major shipping firms - the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand and William Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd. On 1st March last year, passenger fares and accompanied vehicle charges were increased by the ANL; passenger charges rose by up to 15 per cent and car charges by about 5 per cent. [More…]
I attended the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Rome and I spoke to representatives of the South East Asian nations. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has recently been to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He made a statement there in which he said that the Soviet Union was welcome in trade matters but he did not want to enter into defence arrangements. [More…]
They are able to put their country in a position that it does not have to fear the might of the Soviet Union on its borders. [More…]
The Soviet Union realises that it could not hope to conquer Sweden without paying an enormous price. [More…]
I would like him to bend his efforts into bringing a bit of responsibility into the waterfront unions. [More…]
I recollect reading in the Press - this is all doubtful, of course - a plea from the Seamens Union of Australia to provide married quarters on new ships which are being constructed. [More…]
I hope to goodness the primary producer boards understand that their problems come not so much from the shipping companies but from the irresponsibility of waterfront unions here in Australia and overseas. [More…]
These people do not have experience in trade unionism. [More…]
They have not taken action against their conditions, where they are unsatisfactory, through trade union action, but they have taken action with their feet: they have walked out of the factories. [More…]
No union facilities or extensions to the engineering school will be possible. [More…]
One of the reasons for this, of course, is the industrial strife and the union demarcation disputes that dog us. [More…]
The arguments are not only between management and men; they are between the unions themselves. [More…]
The honourable member did not say this, but I know that the principal reason for demarcation disputes in the industry is that the men are determined to hold what they have within each individual union because there is no guarantee of continuity of employment. [More…]
The honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Hansen) is a member of a shipbuilding union, the Federated Shipwright’s and Ship Constructors Association of Australia. [More…]
If this Government guaranteed continuity of employment in the shipbuilding industry I am certain that the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the union executives would then be in a position to do something positive such as to say to their members: ‘Look, forget about demarcation. [More…]
Since the amalgamation of the unions representing the boilermakers, the engineers, the sheet metal workers and the blacksmiths has taken place there have been no demarcation disputes in the shipbuilding industry between those 4 trades. [More…]
Carmichael, the communist Assistant Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, and the Australia Party candidate for Mackellar at the coming elections, amongst others, speak and demonstrate outside Manly Court on 27th April last. [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Repairs to Embassy and grounds carried out by Departments of Works and Interior as a consequence of bomb explosion on 17th January 1972; apology made and compensation paid. [More…]
However, it is obvious from a list of Communist countries which have signed the agreements that the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary and countries like that are just as concerned about hijacking as we are. [More…]
There is no doubt about how we should regard the hijacking of planes for the purposes of extorting money or for any of the other purposes that have been raised by honourable members from both sides of the House today; but I can see the proposition that people might try to leave the Soviet Union, East Germany or other countries such as these when there is no legal way in which they can do so. [More…]
If a person who considers himself to be a political refugee has to take the step of hijacking a plane - let us say a plane going from Moscow to Warsaw - because he feels that this is the only way in which he can get out of the Soviet Union, and uses what we would all agree to be extremely unpleasant methods to force the pilot to fly that plane to Bonn, or some other city in West Germany or the nearest airport in a free country, are we prepared to say that that person is to be returned to that country? [More…]
Members of this Branch have been threatened, several have been alleged to have accepted bribes, others intimidated by Union officials, in an effort to have us annihilated. [More…]
Has he received an application from Vladimir Andreyevich Kolesnik and his family, formerly of Kiev, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and now of Vienna, Austria, to enter Australia as permanent immigrants. [More…]
His father, W. J. Riordan, was President of the Australian Workers Union in Queensland from 1916 to 1925. [More…]
In regard to my own personal association with Jack Mortimer as a trade union official and as an official of a sub-branch of the Australian Labor Party, during the period that he was the member for Grey on a number of occasions I raised matters with him and I must say that he treated me with the greatest courtesy. [More…]
He worked for detente with the Soviet Union, for an agreement on the reduction of fissionable materials, on reciprocal civil air flights, on cooperation in space research and on a nonproliferation treaty. [More…]
I repeat that it was written into the determination that no employee would be entitled to the benefit of paid holidays unless he was a member of his appropriate union, but that the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner would be entitled to assume that all employees were members of their respective unions unless the union concerned advised the Commissioner to the contrary. [More…]
Nobody was prevented from joining the Commonwealth Railways by the mere fact that he was not a member of a union, but if he was not a member he was not entitled to share in union benefits. [More…]
In considering the Government’s proposal to introduce an extra week’s annual leave for members of the Commonwealth Public Service who were to be covered by the determination which was about to be made by the Public Service Arbitrator I discussed with Mr Cooley, Chairman of the Public Service Board, the method by which we could determine who were members of a union and who were not. [More…]
Mr Cooley saw some difficulty in applying the rule unless there were some formula by which various departments and the Public Service Board could easily discover which members of the Commonwealth Public Service were members of a union, so I put to him that we ought to adopt the proposal which was adopted by the Public Service Arbitrator in 1947. [More…]
Mr Cooley expressed great relief at not having to go through what he thought would be a cumbersome procedure for discovering who were members of a union and who were not. [More…]
This was a firm and categoric commitment, but it now is to be limited to union members only. [More…]
The Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) has made it plain that government contracts will go to firms that are acceptable to unions. [More…]
This is a situation that could quickly lead to graft and corruption, with unions putting pressure upon companies for political donations before those companies can be awarded any government contracts. [More…]
The other aspect of the matter of labour relations is the intention to make union officials immune from certain aspects of the law and to place them above the average citizen throughout Australia. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese Government has made certain that Australia will become a satellite communist country much the same as Czechoslovakia is to the Soviet Union, much the same as Poland is to the [More…]
Soviet Union, much the same as Bulgaria is to the Soviet Union and so on. [More…]
We have seen the communist trade union group from Hanoi being welcomed and feted by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We have seen them escorted throughout this country by the communist trade union leader, Mr Carmichael. [More…]
These militant trade union leaders obviously realise that in Hanoi, East Berlin and Communist China there are not any strikes, there are no stop work meetings, there are no go slows, there is no discussion about more money or more benefits for the workers simply because in those countries big brother makes the decision and if anyone argues for better conditions in those countries they are shot. [More…]
Legislation was introduced in the last session of Parliament which makes virtually impossible the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Once again it was introduced because of the fears the previous Government held about what would happen if these hybrid monsters, the trade unions, were to come together. [More…]
It horrifies honourable members on the other side of the House and interests that they represent to think of 100,000 men coming together in one union. [More…]
They are afraid that such a union would represent power and would challenge the power that they and their political bosses pretend to wield over the whole community, such power being maintained by the forces of the State. [More…]
That position will be changed, and I should think it will be changed very quickly, so that the amalgamation of unions will be made easier and the efficiency of the working section of the community will be increased. [More…]
It is the sight on television of Australian communists and unionists kissing and embracing communist North Vietnamese union leaders in Australia that the soldier who fought in Vietnam and the family of the soldier who suffered injury or loss of life see as a display of an appalling lack of sensitivity - in fact, almost treachery. [More…]
The congratulations by the Young Labor Association in Western Australia to what it calls the sole and legitimate government of Vietnam - that is, the Hanoi Government - on its great and courageous victory against the American imperialists and the gifts of money that Australian communist union officials are handing to communists for their own use distress many Australians who understand the objectives of communism. [More…]
The Whitlam plan for reshaping Asia with a new pact to include China and Japan, but excluding the United States and the Soviet Union, lost its last possible South East Asian supporter when Malaysia weighed in against the proposal last weekend. [More…]
I have been told that these civilian employees have been advised to join a union. [More…]
I have also been told - my authority is good and if a Minister can deny what I have been told I will be the happiest man in this House - that the officers commanding these bases have been instructed to allow union officials the full facilities of the bases. [More…]
Its introduction has not received more assistance anywhere in the world than it has in Australia from the organised trade union movement. [More…]
Today I listened to the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) say that he regarded as a security risk the fact that civilian employees in defence establishments were being asked to join unions. [More…]
I remind the honourable gentleman that since 1904 judges of Australian arbitration tribunals, both Commonwealth and State, have said that employees who enjoy benefits of union awards should be members of unions. [More…]
It may be, of course - I gather that it is - that some honourable members opposite, including those who have held ministerial office in this area, regard it as wrong to encourage actively persons to become members of unions. [More…]
I remind the Parliament that it is not the trade unions which significantly limit production in this country and it is not the trade unions which determine that food shall not be grown or that only limited amounts of food shall be grown. [More…]
proposition which the honourable gentleman placed before this House, I would say to him on behalf of the Opposition parties: Never assume that the honourable members on this side of the House are anti-trade union or proemployer. [More…]
Of course, we have been critical of trade unions and I will be critical of them in. [More…]
If one looks back over the course of recent years to the pronouncements of Ministers in’ the former administration who have been responsible for industrial relations, it cannot be said as fact that we are anti-union and pro-employer. [More…]
Whereas the honourable member for Phillip brought before this House a plea not to be anti-trade union, let me say this to the Government members opposite in the interests of the people of this country: ‘Do not seek a short term political advantage in terms of satisfying the pressures to which you are subject if, in that process, the national- interest itself goes by default’. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber are not persons who are opposed to preference to trade unionists, as has been mentioned tonight, but we stand here totally opposed to any concept that any member of the Australian work force - male or female, skilled, unskilled or semi-skilled - ought on any basis to be forced to join a trade union against his will. [More…]
I want the Government to know that the Opposition parties in pursuing their policies will fight to the last ditch in the Parliament in opposing the Government’s desire to seek by compulsory unionism to provide some in the Commonwealth Public Service a benefit which it believes might well advantage those concerned but which, of course, completely cuts across the concept of individual freedom and individual liberty. [More…]
I want to tell the Government that there are many Australians in the trade union movement who are asking when their Prime Minister will be prepared to stand, up and be counted. [More…]
A Labor Government would not be the unthinking mouthpiece of trade union officialdom. [More…]
In the area of trade unions and the business community, as I said in the terms of my opening theme in response to the honourable member for Phillip, we join with the Government in seeking in the industrial area a community of interest in which no-one can say there are not faults on one side or on the other side. [More…]
I tell the Government that I have received many representations from trade union members who have asked of me the question which they might well ask of honourable members opposite: ‘When is the Prime Minister of this country prepared to stand up and be counted?’ [More…]
The honourable member discussed for a time the vexed question of compulsory unionism. [More…]
I concede that one can see the arguments against belonging to a trade union and superficially they appear perfectly reasonable. [More…]
After all, why should one be forced to belong to a union? [More…]
But, of course, in real terms the economic welfare of people who do not belong to unions often depends upon the action of trade unionists. [More…]
Such improvements almost invariably depend on some action by the workers themselves who have formed trade unions to attain these improvements. [More…]
Such a move by the workers usually involves not only the financial sacrifice by members of trade unions in just paying their contributions to the unions, but in addition very often the additional sacrifice of going on strike with their fellow unionists. [More…]
I know that superficially it often seems that the trade unions are defeated when they call a strike and then go back to work seemingly with their tail between their legs. [More…]
But it is very interesting to note how often a judgment comes soon after from the Arbitration Court or some decision is made which gives the unions the very things they had been seeking in their industrial action. [More…]
I reiterate my claim that usually improvement in the conditions for people on wages in this country depends upon the action of trade unionists. [More…]
So where does that leave the proposition of a person’s freedom not to belong to a trade union? [More…]
I would be perfectly prepared to accept this proposition on condition that the people on wages who do not wish to belong to the trade union, who do not wish to take part in the trade union activity, who do not wish to go on strike and who in fact do not go on strike, do not accept the increases in pay gained by the unionists when they have been on strike, on condition that they do not accept the increase in holidays gained or the improvement in working conditions. [More…]
If they do not accept these improvements it would be reasonable for them to adhere to their view that they should not belong to a union. [More…]
Some members opposite have been elected to this House from the trade union movement. [More…]
Surely, having led unions, they have some responsibility to the people who elected them and should be able to exercise their influence over members of the unions if they were good enough to be selected to represent them in this national Parliament. [More…]
However one section of the work force - I will not mention the name of the individual concerned because I have not been able to check my information and I could be wrong - is controlled by one shop steward associated with a union allied with the other unions concerned with ICI employees and he pulled out those men. [More…]
lt is interesting to wonder whether, if the People’s Republic of China had not proceeded to establish its own nuclear capacity and if, for example, from the period of Premier Khrushchev onwards there had not been a deterioration in relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China, the present situation would have existed at all. [More…]
A new era in industrial relations will begin with the object of eliminating legislation which is now the cause of friction between employer and employee and between one trade union and another. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the Chinese Government has made certain that Australia will become a satellite communist country much the same as Czechoslovakia is to the Soviet Union, much the same as Poland is to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer in particular to the suggested removal of the Union Jack from the Australian flag. [More…]
Loyal Australians will ever say ‘no’ to any Party, person or government that wants to design a new flag without the Union Jack. [More…]
That is the message that the Union Jack represents, and it has gone out to the four corners of the earth as the bearer of human values, giving great ideas of civilisation and ordered life. [More…]
Then they set about the most prejudiced and biased pursuit of trade union interests at the expense of other groups and the community at large. [More…]
Now, in blindness to personal freedom and individuality, they force by abuse of their economic power compulsory union service for their low purpose of rewarding their political power base. [More…]
Government supporters talked about cooperation with private enterprise, yet they hand out discriminate economic rewards and penalities according to such criterion as capitulation to trade union demands. [More…]
Since 1966 the unions have taken a number of cases to substantially increase the level of that minimum wage. [More…]
But although the Commonwealth Government intervened in those cases, supposedly in the public interest, it did not make any submission of substance in support of those union applications nor did it attempt to assist the Commission in any way by providing background material that would have been helpful to the Commission in its task of setting an adequate minimum wage. [More…]
Whilst on this matter of national wage cases I would like to refer to the claim made earlier in this debate by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) that his Party was not anti-union or pro-employer. [More…]
There were 20 major wage cases involving union claims for general wage increases in the 23 years in which the Liberal and Country Parties were the Government of this country. [More…]
In the light of that performance by the previous Government, we on this side of the House will take a lot of convincing that the Opposition Parties are not anti-union. [More…]
Resort to those clauses by employers cost the trade union movement about $500,000 in fines and costs between the early 1950s and late 1960s. [More…]
I am pleased to be part of a Government which genuinely supports the legitimate aims and aspirations of the trade union movement and which will prove that by its actions in the Arbitration Commission and by abolishing the iniquitous penal clauses. [More…]
Those who see union militancy as its basic cause must explain how unions all over the world suddenly became more militant in the late 1960s. [More…]
They must also explain why inflation is exceptionally high in some countries such as Spain which do not have a strong trade union movement, if they have a trade union movement at all, and in which worker militancy is rare. [More…]
I believe that if people in the work force want to enjoy the benefits that are gained from trade union activities and the work that is put into industry on behalf of workers, they should belong to unions. [More…]
The then Treasurer wanted to tame the militant unions, regardless of the cost in human misery. [More…]
He carries on a tirade of abuse at the drop of a hat, while pleading that he is not really anti-union. [More…]
But he is the same person who before his entry into Parliament must have made a small fortune representing employers in the Commonwealth Industrial Court, kicking the insides out of the unions during the period referred to last night by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) in his maiden speech. [More…]
Accordingly, a great number of their hopes and their aspirations are union-based and union-orientated. [More…]
I am a unionist. [More…]
For many years I have been a trade unionist and trade union official, and my years of experience in the industrial sphere of this country have demonstrated to me that the present welfare system, after deteriorating throughout 23 years of Liberal mismanagement, is now a crumbling, fragmented and socially unjust patchwork offering no real social security. [More…]
Incidentally, that story originally was told, I believe, by an official of the union representing automobile workers in the United. [More…]
enthusiastic about and I do not believe that if there were a development of tension in the world that caused the Soviet Union to attack the North West Cape installation, the United States would necessarily treat that as the casus belli and sentence to death 100 million Americans in retaliation for an attack on that station, lt could, in a certain diplomatic situation, be an area where a warning attack was made which may lead to a change in United States policy. [More…]
The Soviet Union was trying to develop the exquisite advantage of having the control of critical nuclear weapons on somebody else’s soil. [More…]
to the unusually bad seasons in most of the agricultural countries, especially the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The proposals contained in this directive make it abundantly clear that the Government is seeking to destroy the long established practice that contracts should be awarded only on the basis of quality, performance and price, and that in future consideration will be given to the industrial policies of the contractor and his relationship with the trade union movement [More…]
They are a blatant method of seeking to circumvent established procedures laid down by law for obtaining unproved wages and conditions for employees and they are in fact a further attempt to institute policies of compulsory unionism. [More…]
The proposals are a vehicle for the transfer of public funds to the trade union movement and thence, of course, to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
One of the major considerations in the allocation of Government contracts will be the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement. [More…]
Just how susceptible to the pressure of certain unions or how partial or ruthless the Minister will be is yet to be determined. [More…]
However, he is already on record as having said that firms with a ‘bad union record’ will have very little chance of getting a Department of Works contract whilst he is the Minister. [More…]
The Government has established a procedure whereby firms, by virtue of donations or financial inducement to the trade unions involved, will be able to escalate their credit rating. [More…]
Unions in their turn will have the capacity to threaten firms with poor credit ratings in return for special conditions. [More…]
We believe the Government will be forced by powerful unions to award contracts to those firms which for various reasons, are approved by particular unions. [More…]
The main beneficiaries of the new scheme will be those unions which are able to exert the most pressure and which are the most unscrupulous. [More…]
Firms which express public disapproval of unions or the Government or which in the public interest of this country are prepared to stand up to trade unions in circumstances in which they believe the claims of those unions are unjustifiable can expect to have a very poor relationship with the trade union movement and consequently limited opportunity to gain contractual work from the Government no matter how well merited their tender is in commercial terms. [More…]
The Government is seeking, as an agent of the trade union movement, to advantage the trade unions in a most unscrupulous manner, demonstrably inconsistent with any reasonable concept of the public interest. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to examine trade union proposals in a responsible manner then it is vital that we ensure the continued maintenance of an arbitral system which enables unwarranted trade union demands to be effectively and impartially challenged. [More…]
The Opposition strongly opposes the Government’s clear intention to support the trade union movement by the unbridled use of public funds. [More…]
In his public declamation of the Board the Minister is seeking to convert that body - with its long-established history of independence - to a rubber stamp for union demands and to force the Board to become the pacesetter for wages and conditions throughout the community; this, in spite of a very clear interpretation of intention in the Act that the Public Service should not be used for purposes of political patronage by whatever government happens to be in power. [More…]
We now have a concerted operation on 2 fronts, both in the public and private sectors of the community, to advantage the trade unions. [More…]
The dual move is being pursued on a basis of circumvention and abuse of Government authority to provide the trade union movement with a monopoly of interest in a situation where no other groups can appeal or seek redress. [More…]
The Government, in concurrence with its other aims, is seeking, through its approach, and application to advance the concept not of preference to trade unionists but, in fact, of compulsory unionism in this country. [More…]
Every individual has a right to obtain and retain employment irrespective of whether he is a member of a trade union and a right to determine whether he will become or remain a member of a particular union. [More…]
By effectively seeking to assign pre-conditions of union membership in the letting of Government contracts the Government is effectively denying these rights. [More…]
The Labor Party for many years has never advocated compulsory unionism. [More…]
The only time that compulsory unionism was included in the Party’s platform was during the period when the element within the Labor Party which finally broke away to form what is now called the Democratic Labor Party had control of policy making. [More…]
It is true that then, for a few years, there was provision for compulsory unionism in the Party platform, but as soon as the Labor Party cleansed itself of this element in the Party it was decided in 1957 at the first conference held after that very happy event that we would alter the policy of compulsory unionism to one of preference to unionism. [More…]
We do not say to anybody that they will not have a job unless they are a member of a union. [More…]
I do not believe in compulsory unionism. [More…]
The Country Party in Queensland for years had compulsory unionism actually written into its printed platform. [More…]
It has maintained the principle of compulsory unionism ever since it took office in Queensland following the defeat of the Gair Government. [More…]
Let us have no more nonsense about this business of compulsory unionism. [More…]
He says that he wants to make certain that the union relationship is good. [More…]
He wants the right for union officials to be able to enter premises and to inspect the books. [More…]
He wants preference to unionists. [More…]
But what is keen and what comes out of this is that if what he proposes to bring in is brought in you could not any longer be able to question a contract on the grounds of quality and price because his reply would be: ‘Ah, but the trade union movement has good relationships with the contractor. [More…]
But we do say this: When there is introduced into the awarding of contracts a right of an individual Minister to decide not on quality, not on price, not on ability to supply but on his own judgment of whether a union likes a firm or not, then we say that there is created an opportunity for graft, for bribery and for corruption of a kind we have not seen in Australia since the days of the Rum Rebellion. [More…]
We are asked to leave the question of deciding contracts on quality and price and have, amongst other things - and this is the really dangerous thing - a decision by the Minister on whether the contractor’s relationship with the trade union movement is good or not. [More…]
First of all, what is the trade union movement? [More…]
Is it the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
Is it an organiser for a particular union, a secretary of a particular union, a shop steward? [More…]
It is clearly any member of a trade union who does not like a firm, who could go to the Minister and say: ‘This firm is unfair to my union. [More…]
First there is the opportunity for the head of a firm to say to the union organiser with whom he is having some difference of opinion and who might well have said to him: ‘Unless you do what I want I will tell the Minister that our relations are not good and you will not get any more contracts’ - that he- [More…]
Are you, Mr Deputy Speaker, or is anybody else going to say that a head of a firm wanting government contracts now or in the future, threatened in this way by somebody with a position in the trade union movement, will not stop and think and say: ‘Well, it does say that the Minister can decide whether my relationships with the union are good or not. [More…]
The union representative said he will go to the Minister and say that the relationships are bad. [More…]
There is the final chance of a contractor seeking a contract, not quite understanding why he does not get it, going to inquire of the Minister whether the reason why he did not get it was perhaps because somebody had said his relationships with the union were bad. [More…]
What has happened this morning simply demonstrates the antipathy of leading members of the Opposition to the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
Because the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) in another place has indicated that under his administration consideration will be given to those firms which have sensible relations with trade unions we find those leading Opposition members intent on demonstrating their spleen and their hostility. [More…]
94 lays down a criterion which subscribing governments are expected to uphold and comply with to the effect that public contracts should have regard to union conditions? [More…]
So this is a clear case of a Minister implementing an instruction from the outside trade union controlled body. [More…]
the policy of the contractor to trade union labour as against non-union labour . [More…]
the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement. [More…]
What business is it of the national Government to interfere in the relations between a contractor and the trade union movement? [More…]
Further down the line the trade union delegate reporting to Senator Cavanagh can just as easily let it be known that unless he is properly treated by a contractor he will submit an adverse report. [More…]
It is not compulsory unionism. [More…]
Rather is it compulsion to uphold the industrial laws of this country - and who says that is wrong except the most reactionary anti-Labor, anti-trade union voices in this country? [More…]
Another factor to be considered will be the policy to employ union labour as against nonunion labour. [More…]
This is upholding the principle contained in section 5 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which deals with the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable members opposite call themselves the political arm of the trade union movement. [More…]
Another matter I wish to raise concerns compulsory unionism. [More…]
It appears strange that a government or a party that has been so vehemently opposed to compulsory service in the armed Services should advocate compulsion so far as unionism is concerned. [More…]
If an individual feels strongly about having to join a union, I believe the fairest Way of dealing with the matter is that he may donate to charity the contribution he would have made to a union. [More…]
Surely it is a little unreasonable for the Government to pursue a policy of compulsory unionism because, let us face it, in the political situation in which we find ourselves - and I do not object to this - funds from the unions go towards assisting the Labor Party to gain the Treasury bench or to assist the Labor Party in the political field. [More…]
I believe that this judgment should be carefully considered not only by unionists but by all people. [More…]
I think that certain sections within the trade union movement are losing sight of the fact that people work not only for the advantage of their own group but for the advantage of all. [More…]
If this principle is lost and the values of the arbitration system are lost - and there has been some criticism of the arbitration system - then I believe that the Labor movement and the trade union movement will be put back 100 years. [More…]
Surely a benefit should be a benefit for all and not only for a few or perhaps even the strong groups within the trade union movement. [More…]
Others said that we should repudiate the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
In 2 days time an election will be held in South Australia where the South Australian Liberal Party - that is both factions of it - appears hell bent on trying to get into government to force confrontations with the trade unions. [More…]
I think that South Australians should note very carefully the industrial record of the South Australian Labor Government because I think if South Australians voted that Government out of office - I do not think they will however - they would learn to their cost that it is much better to have a policy of co-ordination and close co-operation with the trade union movement than to have one of confrontation. [More…]
It failed, however, to emphasise what we are now told is Labor’s policy, namely, that a Labor Government would show preference to unionists. [More…]
In other words, if public servants want the extra week’s leave they must join a union, whether they like it or not. [More…]
This, of course, is only an extension of the policy of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, who some time ago blackmailed retailers into employing only union labour. [More…]
So, to keep his job, the shop assistant was forced to join a union. [More…]
The Government is in fact saying to the industry: ‘If you upset the unions we will see to it that you will not continue to receive Government contracts’. [More…]
In other words industry must bow to the unions or go bankrupt. [More…]
No firm will dare to stand up to the unions, however unjust the demands made upon it. [More…]
This means in effect that the unions will allocate all Federal Government contracts. [More…]
The allocation of contracts should have absolutely nothing to do with a firm’s attitude to unionism, compulsory or otherwise. [More…]
The electorate was assured that the Party was no longer just a sectional party and that we had nothing to fear from militant unionism. [More…]
The fact is that the Government intends to elevate the trade union movement to a unique position in the community. [More…]
This legislation will provide that unions will be free of sanctions, free from action for tort and free from prosecutions for breaches of contract or conspiracy which may arise in connection with an industrial dispute. [More…]
The dry rot which is evident in the Labor house is the result of a long term sickness in 2 major areas - the trade union movement’s influence on the political wing of the Party and the Party’s attitude to defence and foreign policy. [More…]
I suppose the next step by this Government could well be the removal of the Union Jack from the Australian flag. [More…]
It did so when tests were carried out by Britain, by the United States and by the Soviet Union, and it continues to do so now that it is carried out by China and France alone. [More…]
Australia, through the Export Payments Insurance Corporation, is one of the 23 member countries engaged in export insurance which are members of the Berne union, which is a very specialist institution where all countries involved share their experience of underwriting and public and economic information about all their customers. [More…]
Indeed, he said that there had not been a prosecution against employers under this section for more than 20 years, yet this was the section which the Government always used and supported the use of against unions. [More…]
So it meant that the cost to the union of prosecuting an employer for a breach of an award was far greater than the amount the employer had to meet in the form of a fine, and this had a deterrent effect upon unions pressing their right to prosecute employers who were in breach of awards. [More…]
I have received advice from a source which 1 am at present unable to disclose to you, that you have been a member of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
It appears also to be true that you were admitted to the union on the recommendation of a Communist organiser at a time when the union was in fact under Communist control. [More…]
I am sure that the Parliament would like to hear about your union activities, and I would appreciate your comment on the accuracy of the information I have obtained. [More…]
As you would know, I would not wish to do you an injustice by falsely asserting your membership of a Communist controlled union merely to qualify for a miserable $60 a year. [More…]
I did work briefly as a clerk on a defence project and joined the Clerks Union as a routine matter. [More…]
You will, of course, share my pleasure that the Clerks Unions is no longer under Communist control. [More…]
It is my understanding that Communist control in this Union was maintained very largely because of corrupt ballot practices, and perhaps you can give me some fuller information on this point, which may be similar to points you have raised in relation to the AWU. [More…]
The relevant events in the Clerks Union are said to have occurred at a time when the Clerks Union machine was headed by Mr Jack Hughes.I think my memory is correct that the Hon. [More…]
Les Johnson, who is at present Minister for Housing, was at that time an employee of the Clerks Union and very closely associated with its affairs, but I must make it clear that I have no information which would link him with any corrupt ballot practices. [More…]
Where a union has political affiliations (and particularly when it is under Communist control) should those who disapprove of these affiliations be under any compulsion or financial inducement to join it? [More…]
Should we perhaps consider establishing the principle that where a union does have such political affiliations its existence should be no bar to the registration of another union to cover the same trade and calling? [More…]
In regard to the Federated Clerks Union of Australia the Mr Jack Hughes was, I think, in the Labor movement at the same time. [More…]
This was at a time when the communists and the Australian Labor Party were co-operating very closely in union affairs. [More…]
In regard to the more serious matter, the Minister for Labour has for a long time had the reputation in the trade union movement of being something of a hatchet man. [More…]
He has, it is said, had this ring of informers and pimps, sources which he will not disclose, who have been giving him information about individual unionists whom he dislikes. [More…]
It is a very serious matter when trade union officials and people in this House who have some influence in trade unions maintain this kind of individual terror against trade unionists. [More…]
I am not terrified but it may be that other people who are not so fortunately placed as I am as a member of this House would be terrified of this kind of intimidation and the way in which the trade union leader is now setting himself up as the enemy and dictator of the trade unionists. [More…]
It is a very serious thing when the Minister who is now in charge of trade union affairs in this House - the Minister for Labour - still associates himself with the ring of informers which I am told he has for long maintained in the Australian Workers Union and, in the case of other trade unionists, individual little men who have incurred his displeasure. [More…]
They should have some kind of protection against the dictatorial trade union secretary blackmailer, the bully, the man who maintains the ring of informers and pimps. [More…]
I know that there is dirt in trade union politics. [More…]
I think some of the things he said about dirt in his own union, the AWU, well, they would be very vehement comments and I do not intend to repeat them in this House, but they are things which the Minister himself has said. [More…]
He himself stands as witness to the corruption and dirt in trade union politics. [More…]
My information is that a communist organiser named Frank Graham - would that name ring a bell with the honourable member - was the one who nominated the honourable member to be a member of the Federated Clerks Union which was then under the control of a person whom the honourable gentleman himself described - together with one other whose name I shall give in a moment - as the most dangerous communist that this country has ever seen. [More…]
The honourable member charged the Minister with maintaining a network of informers in the trade union movement, particularly in the Australian Workers Union, tor the purpose of terrifying those people who oppose him. [More…]
It seems to me, as the honourable member for Mackellar said, that it was bad enough, when the Minister was simply the member for Hindmarsh, to have this sort of arrangement in the trade union movement but now that he is the Minister for Labour, which is the portfolio administering industrial matters, he seeks to use his Department to assist him in his strong arm activities. [More…]
1 have had members of trade unions, and others who have not been prepared to join trade unions, visiting mc because they had been muscled, and there was nothing I could do. [More…]
Ii seems to me that the trade union leaders should be protecting people like this. [More…]
I have had visits from people who had been leaned on to join the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union; 1 have had visits from sheet metal workers and drivers to whom pressure had been applied. [More…]
I have had one man to see me upon whom pressure was being put to try to force him to join a cleaners union. [More…]
The policy of the Australian Labor Party, outlined at Townsville in 1971 will, if carried out, seek to place the sort of person who is violent in trade union activities above the law. [More…]
We have had the experience of seeing violence in trade union activities within the last 6 months. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will take no notice of what 1 am saying because they owe their jobs and positions to trade union leaders and bosses. [More…]
But I should like to quote what another trade unionist had to say about this matter on 22nd August last year. [More…]
Mr Ducker warned today of the dangers of communism within the trade union movement. [More…]
I am quoting the words of Mr Ducker, the Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Council who was involved in a union confrontation and physically attacked. [More…]
I am sure that I and two other union officials would have been kicked insensible’….. [More…]
I think it is arrogant of the Minister for Labour to assume that all unionists are automatically supporters of his Party. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that the Liberal Party could not possibly get the support it does if it did not receive support from trade union members. [More…]
About SO men followed Mr Ducker and union organisers, Mr Ken Tyler and Mr Les McMahon, from the meeting and abused them. [More…]
Let’s not be fanciful about what happened yesterday,’ Mr Ducker said….. ‘not only were we abused and kicked by the vigilante group of 50 men but officials of the Plumbers’ Union were told that their cars would be bombed, and that chunks of concrete would be thrown at them if they returned to their jobs’….. ‘unless we are careful, and unless rank and file members become interested, the union scene will became reminiscent of the violent roaring 20s in America’. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers’ Union’s broiler and turkey section has been fighting for 5 years to have enacted a Bill which was introduced in 1968, subsequently redrafted but taken no further. [More…]
At least I do not have to get my instructions from a member of a union, as some of the honourable members on the other side of the House do. [More…]
But when demand is increasing rapidly it creates conditions under which wage demands can be made with the inevitability, because of the industrial strength of the trade union movement, that those demands will be met by industry, thus compounding the problem and all that goes with it. [More…]
He became secretary of SHUMS (Union of Croatian United Youth of the World) which, despite its innocent sounding name, is under the effective control of Srecko 1 Rover and is suspected by the Commonwealth Police of being an extremist front organisation (see letter from J. Davis, Commissioner of Commonwealth Police, to the Attorney-General’s Department dated 8th June 1972). [More…]
I think it is good for us to reflect that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, when resuming tests in 1961 and during subsequent tests by that country and the United States in 1962, injected more radio-active debris into the atmosphere than all previous tests. [More…]
I’m finding it far more expensive to live (food prices have risen astronomically), I had a long weekend ruined because of a petrol strike and I’ve been coerced into joining a union (fees $25). [More…]
The bulk of the people on the other side of the House came up through the trade union movement. [More…]
Another matter of importance in the conduct of this Government during its period in office is the allegiance which it has shown that it has to pay to the trade union movement. [More…]
The first matter was the statement by the Minister for Works (Senator Cavanagh) of the new Government policy that government contracts are to be restricted to firms employing union members and firms which have good relations with the trade union movement. [More…]
So it opens the way to corruption, to trade union pimping and favouritism. [More…]
The second reference was to the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) who tried to get a fourth week’s annual leave given only to those public servants who are trade unionists. [More…]
The fact is that this Government understands that it has an obligation to the trade union movement irrespective of what is right in the Australian national interest and it is engaged in making the pay-offs. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party rests four square on the trade union movement and is afraid to resist excessive demands. [More…]
Indeed even in the reformed Australian Labor Party the trade union movement has some 60 per cent of votes. [More…]
What amount was collected on behalf of each Union. [More…]
The pamphlet goes on to repeat the utter nonsense that has been used to justify a one-sided approach by trade union leaders, particularly by Mr Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Vice-President of the Australian Labor Party - with a mere echo by the Minister for Labor (Mr Clyde Cameron) - the fallacy that maximum wages and salaries are controlled. [More…]
Why do trade union leaders, many in the highest positions in the Labor Party, continually say: ‘We will not go to arbitration.’? [More…]
Only those unions with industrial power can enforce claims. [More…]
What the trade union movement and the Labor Party are acquiescing in is the creation of class distinctions in this community among wage earners, depending on whether as an organised trade union they possess industrial power. [More…]
There is a constant willingness by the Labor Party in government and the trade union movement to ignore the claims of the industrially weak, but on the other hand to pay obeisance to the demands of the industrially strong. [More…]
But I regret to say thai within hours of it becoming known that he proposed this he received an avalanche of hostile telegrams from the trade union movement and other members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Because of the trade union base and the Government’s capitulation to it, we are left with the Government dualism. [More…]
The Government and its trade union supporters believe that existing levels of prices are too high and that wage rises can be absorbed by companies very readily without damage to their investment policies and that price rises are indeed the cause of inflation. [More…]
Clearly the Government has put forward this proposal because it is not prepared to face the criticism and to contest the ambition of leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
Here was the Government in one of its first acts after the election dishonouring an election promise made to Commonwealth employees who were not members of a recognised union or association. [More…]
In that case, the conclusion is inescapable: Either the Prime Minister knowingly and deliberately misled the people of Australia or this so called principle is of recent origin, wantonly introduced by him under union pressure. [More…]
The Government might just as well say to public servants: ‘You can work, but you won’t get paid unless you belong to the XYZ union’, or put a premium on union membership and deprive a worker of some part of his wage if he does not belong. [More…]
In this, the 4-week affair’, the Board first had the principle of union favouritism foisted upon it and then had to face the blatant public attack upon its independence by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) when the Board ruled that the extra week’s leave would be received only by those public servants who were members of a recognised union or association on 1st January this year. [More…]
For the Chairman to have yielded would have put him and the Board in an untenable position in the future when confronted by joint Government-union pressure. [More…]
It was formally approached regarding 4 weeks annual leave for Commonwealth public servants by a joint deputation of the 3 national trade union councils, namely, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Salaried Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, 3 times in its last 7 years in office. [More…]
Mr Gorton did not bother to say what were the ‘existing relevant circumstances’ that made it inappropriate to grant 4 weeks leave at that lime but whatever they were they were apparently still applicable in the previous Government’s view in 1971 when the 3 national trade union bodies lodged claims before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for an additional week’s leave, not just for Commonwealth employees, but for all employees under Commonwealth awards who were not already receiving 4 weeks leave. [More…]
In France legislation in 1968 provided for a minimum of 4 weeks leave for all employees and many employees receive additional days leave, according to a publication from the European Economic Community called Trade Union News, No. [More…]
In the last several sitting days constant attacks have been made on trade union organisations in Australia. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not seem to understand the provisions of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, or its purposes, or what the trade union movement is about. [More…]
They seem to have the opinion - they have expressed the view - that to ask a person to join a union, if that person is an employee of a defence establishment is, to quote one honourable gentleman, a security risk. [More…]
Constantly the proposition has been advanced in the course of recent debates that to give preference to a union member somehow or other involves the disturbance of his civil liberty, and involves also an improper compulsion on citizens to join a union. [More…]
It ill behoves the lunatic fringe to malign in this place under parliamentary privilege the Australian trade union movement which has done more than have any honourable gentlemen opposite or their predecessors put together to lift the standard of living of the Australian community to the level at which it is today. [More…]
I put to this House that it is grossly unfair, to say the least, for honourable members opposite to criticise the trade union movement in this way. [More…]
It would not be putting it too highly to say that it is contrary to the Australian concept of fair play to suggestthat those who choose freely to join a union and to undertake the task of obtaining industrial regulation through the processes of conciliation and arbitration, should carry the whole of the obligations and responsibility involved under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and receive no advantage and no benefit or preference over those who choose to be free riders. [More…]
The objection is put forward in this place and elsewhere by those who know no better, or those who have a vested interest in misquotation and misrepresentation, that it is a breach of so-called principle that there should be any form of compulsion or any form of active encouragement for non-unionists to join a registered trade union organisation. [More…]
But there is no objection - none at all - raised by the same people to the compulsion of those who do join a union to carry out the obligations imposed on them by legislation adopted by this Parliament. [More…]
Nor is there any complaint about the compulsion in requiring all of the employees in an industry, whether they be members of a union or not, to accept the benefits and perhaps the disadvantages associated with awards that are made by arbitration tribunals. [More…]
There is no consistency in this approach, and if honourable gentlemen opposite, or those few who have spoken in this quite irresponsible manner, are sincere in their approach let them be heard to say that they really favour industrial anarchy, because that is the course and the principle which lie behind their foolish and irresponsible advocacy of no encouragement and no preference to union members over those who choose not to join a union. [More…]
Without the existence of strong, vigorous and responsible trade unions in this country the concept of conciliation and arbitration cannot exist, industrial tribunals in Australia throughout this century and authorities on industrial regulation throughout the free world have recognised that there cannot be a system of responsible and legitimate industrial regulation unless there exist responsible, vigorous, strong and representative trade union organisations. [More…]
But if the allegations or the suggestions in Mr Craig’s letter are correct, that is, that the WWF and the Australian Council of Trade Unions also have supported the actions that have been taken by Mr Craig as the Executive Director of the AEWL and by that Association, it is a strange alliance indeed when we find the main sections of the trade union movement involved denying any responsibility for the smaller numbers of branch members in decentralised ports and when we find the Minister for Labour apparently unwilling or unable to act. [More…]
The latest available Trade Union Statistics published by the Commonwealth Statistician show the following proportion of total wage and salary earners in Australia who were members of a trade union: [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of the close historical links between Australia and Israel, particularly in relation to the United Nations recognition of Israel and the current close links between Histradut, the Israeli Trade Union Federation, and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the mutually beneficial results which have occurred as a result of this? [More…]
Nobody who has visited Israel as often as I have would be unaware of the long-standing links, over more than a quarter of a century, between the reestablished state of Israel and Australia, usually under the Australian Labor Party and the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
A study by the inter-Parliamentary Union in 1968 revealed that of a total of SO countries 29 transmit live or recorded broadcasts of daily debates and 20 transmit live or recorded television of daily debates. [More…]
This statement by the Minister provoked a strong reaction from the Public Service unions and the Australian Council of Trade Unions who then made immediate representations to the Government. [More…]
The predictable outcome of these representations became clear on 6th December when the Minister qualified his earlier announcement by stating that Commonwealth employees would not receive the extra week’s leave until and unless they joined an appropriate union. [More…]
On 20th December the Prime Minister issued a statement saying that the first meeting of the Cabinet had decided that the additional leave provisions would apply only to members of recognised unions and associations involved in work within the service; departments, however, would assume that all staff were members unless advised otherwise by a union: provision would be made for conscientious objectors to unionism to obtain this new leave entitlement on payment of union dues to a nominated charity; and the new provision would apply to all public servants whose annual leave was accruing on or after 1st January 1973. [More…]
On 20th February the Public Service Board announced that it had dispatched to Commonwealth departments a circular stating that only public servants who had joined a union before 1st January would receive 4 weeks annual leave this year. [More…]
The Minister’s public and accusatory declamation of the Board was at the behest of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Public Service unions which had again made representations to and put pressure on him. [More…]
The Opposition’s objectives in disallowing the Public Service Arbitrator’s determinations were, firstly, to make it clear to the Australian public that an election promise made by the Australian Labor Party was being dishonoured on its election to government and, secondly, to object to the nature of the policy which the Government sought to implement - a policy which was discriminatory, unfair and lacking in merit and substance; a policy which in application would have created a division in the Commonwealth Public Service which was contrary to the interests of this country; a policy which sought to create a group of second-class and under-privileged citizens within the Public Service; and a policy which sought to implement union demands for compulsory unionism within the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
remain a member of a union. [More…]
We further believe that the individual has a right to obtain and retain employment, irrespective of whether he is a member of a union. [More…]
This is the test to which members of the Government and the Australian trade union movement must direct their minds. [More…]
If they believe in and support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, they cannot in conscience condone the philosophy of compulsory unionism. [More…]
In recent months we have heard from various members of the Government Party a series of conflicting views on compulsory unionism. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) and other speakers in this debate from the Government side surely have an obligation to state precisely what their policy is in relation to the question of compulsory unionism. [More…]
I challenge the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan) who, 1 understand, will follow me in this debate, to state precisely what is the policy of the Government relating to compulsory unionism and put down once and for all a clear statement of Government policy which the Government, so far, has failed to clarify. [More…]
The effect of the Government’s actions prior to the disallowance of the determination in the Senate was clearly to establish this concept of compulsory unionism, in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
There can be no suggestion that the Government is seeking to introduce any concept of preference to unionists, because non-unionists clearly were to be totally excluded from this and other industrial benefits. [More…]
One can very easily, by stealth or by overt action, seek the application of compulsory unionism from an extension of the process of preference to members of the trade union movement. [More…]
At the time, the office of the Minister for Labour issued instructions to those who inquired that anyone with a conscientious objection to being a member of a trade union was required to apply to the Deputy Industrial Registrar for an exemption certificate. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) stated that departments would assume that all staff were members of unions unless otherwise advised by a trade union. [More…]
This would, of course, have opened the way for vigilante groups of unionists to hunt down non-union members of each Commonwealth department and to report their names to the appropriate government authority. [More…]
The only reason which compelled the Government to avoid legislating for an additional week’s leave was the desire to introduce the concept of compulsory unionism by stealth. [More…]
The most damaging criticism that can be made of the Government’s policy of preference to members of unions for an extra week’s leave is that the decision to grant the extra leave was not made by an industrial tribunal but by the country’s political masters. [More…]
Labor was not elected to power to single out for privileged treatment the members of the unions which support it and traditionally contribute to election funds. [More…]
The provision that people who are declared exempt from joining a union for reasons of conscientious beliefs must pay to consolidated revenue a sum equivalent to the union dues they would otherwise pay is likewise highly questionable. [More…]
It could lead directly to another absurd situation which is anathema to the whole of the trade union body in Australia, namely that of creating a pool of cheaply paid labour the employers could exploit to their advantage. [More…]
Another end result of a policy of statutory preference to unionists is to create a state of industrial conscription that is just as objectionable as some of the features of the policy of conscription for Vietnam which the previous Government introduced and to which the unions objected so vociferously: the rush of new members who enrolled in unions in recent weeks was not prompted by a conscientious belief in the validity of the trade union principle but by the desire for gain. [More…]
This is not something of which genuine trade unionists can be proud. [More…]
lt remains that trade unions are a necessary part of our society and that workers who benefit from their activities have a moral obligation to join and support them. [More…]
It does not follow ‘hat unions should be given the right to coerce people into membership. [More…]
The onus of recruiting members is on the unions themselves and if about half of the workers of Australia do not belong to unions this may be due to their apathy, ignorance, selfishness, or lack of public spirit, but there must also be something wrong with the unions themselves. [More…]
The Government’s desires to use the Public Service Board as a rubber stamp for union demands and the policy of the Australian Labor Party are contrary to the clear intention of the Act that the Public Service should not be used for the political purposes of governments. [More…]
We now have a concerted operation on 2 fronts to advantage the trade union movement, both in the public and private sectors. [More…]
He is on record as saying that it was desirable in the public interest that trade union officials and those who aspire to trade union office should be able to attend schools and courses of training in order to fit them for their task in industrial relations. [More…]
One would not find it in the most reactionary halls of the most radical anti-union employer. [More…]
Because the Government wants to give a benefit to union members the honourable member thinks this is blackmail. [More…]
In fact the Public Service Arbitration Act - I will come to this shortly in a little more detail - specifically precludes benefits flowing from an application by a union from applying to any but the members of that union unless by special act the Public Service Arbitrator provides for this by making a common rule, in which case certain steps must be followed, or alternatively the Public Service Board uses its powers under Regulation 74 (b) to extend the provision of those benefits to non-unionists. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that the Declaration provides that people may not be compelled to join a trade union. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition had a lot of say about the Government’s policy on preference to unionists. [More…]
The policy that union membership was to be encouraged has been set out in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act since 1904. [More…]
The Opposition preaches to the unions to abide by the decisions made by conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Members of the Opposition, with their anti-union prejudice, are not fooling anybody. [More…]
A similar expression should be incorporated in this Bill as the words are very relevant so far as union membership is concerned. [More…]
I believe in organisation and that the unions in Australia can play a large part in improving conditions, especially in those instances where there is a need for negotiations between the employer and employees, perhaps involving even the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
This is an integral part of the whole union system, but there cannot be compulsion. [More…]
The unions must win their own way into attracting membership to the unions. [More…]
If union membership is compulsory the whole credibility of unions will start to disappear. [More…]
Only by attracting membership and doing those things which need to be done will the unions and their leaders be able to illustrate that they are capable of taking responsibility and doing the things that need to be done. [More…]
Only in this way will they be able to show that we can have sound union organisations in Australia. [More…]
I would oppose measures of the kind that the Government endeavoured to implement by which it was proposed to discriminate between union and non-union members of the Public Service. [More…]
The Senate - or the other place, as it is called in this House - for reasons best known to itself decided to make this a political issue, rejected the Commonwealth Public Service Arbitrator’s determination which granted 4 weeks leave to Commonwealth public servants which, in accordance with the Act, restricted the additional week’s leave to members of the unions who had applied for it. [More…]
‘Membership of a union’ were the key words. [More…]
Owing to the political machinations of the Opposition in the Senate, most ably backed by its representatives in this House, the Senate disallowed that arbitral determination and it then led us into a situation in which, to protect something that the employees had got by arbitration, this Government was forced to introduce legislation in this House to protect the interests of union members and to protect the interests of all members of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
The Government also made a decision and letters were sent last Thursday night to every shipyard in Australia advising them that 25 per cent subsidy would be paid on 2 roll-on roll-off ships of about 12,000 gross tons for the Union [More…]
The same thing applied to the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand’s vessel when the hon ourable member was the Minister. [More…]
Of course, the former Minister for Shipping and Transport puffs and blows on the other side of the table, but is it a crime to consult industry and the trade union movement to ascertain what they believe should be incorporated in a policy? [More…]
The vessel is also built to the requirements of the Australian Seamen’s Union as regards accommodation and amenities. [More…]
It was designed specifically to meet the requirements of the Australian Seamen’s Union in regard to accommodation and amenities. [More…]
If the Labor Government believes that it can do something meaningful about the preservation of shipbuilding it should turn its attention to its allies, to the unions on which it relies for support and which it claims to represent here. [More…]
If the Labor Government does represent the union movement and if it is true as Mr Knevitt suggests, that there has been this very high order of loss of output because of industrial stoppages, it will be quite impossible, irrespective of any policy that the Government introduces in relation to tariffs or anything else, for that company to continue in operation. [More…]
One was for a 4,000-ton vessel which was ordered by the Union Steam Ship Co. of Australia and New Zealand, part of the bulk ships group. [More…]
I myself have had personal contact with Sir Peter Abeles, the Chairman of the Union Steam Ship Co.; with Sir Edward Cohen, the Chairman of the Electrolytic Zinc Co.; and with Sir Ian McLennan, the Chairman of the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. [More…]
For those who like to seek comfort in blaming the unions, as did the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party, let me say that my experience with the unions concerned with Adelaide Ship Construction could leave these accusers of the unions absolutely clotheless. [More…]
My remarks apply both to the Adelaide union secretaries concerned and to the shop stewards at the Adelaide Ship Construction yard. [More…]
No-one in the unions or in management makes the claim that everything has been perfect in the Adelaide Ship Construction shipyard or indeed in other ship yards in Australia. [More…]
1 would like to think that with the establishment of this Committee we will be able to achieve that union of co-operation between the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson), one who is so well versed in the problems of the north - the questions of development and the economy, rural and otherwise - the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) and the Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Enderby) so that each may play his part in building up the north in an effective way so that it will be able to make a contribution of outstanding dimension to the development of this nation. [More…]
I say again that rightly or wrongly the trade union movement in Australia believes that wages are regulated. [More…]
But the minimum condition of getting agreement on the introduction of such a policy is that the trade union movement be willing to accept it. [More…]
The trade union movement believes that the first condition for any acceptance on its part of such a move is that something should be done about fixing prices. [More…]
It is no help for employers, insurance companies, union secretaries or anyone else saying it is not possible to reduce the incidence of industrial accidents and disease. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union is a union about which I do not know very much. [More…]
No longer will we be able to point to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and say that these are the countries that are leading the world in workers compensation. [More…]
The visit to Australia in March by the Soviet Trade Minister, Mr N. Patolichev, has confirmed the importance of Australia’s trade with the Soviet Union and has added scope for development of our trade. [More…]
I have no doubt that trade unions and other pressure groups in the community, such as employer pressure groups, which sometimes can be as irresponsible and selfish as any trade union pressure group, have got to him. [More…]
Last Monday the Federated Storemen and Packers Union placed a ban on the export of wool from Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
Federated Storemen and Packers Union and other people employed in the wool market. [More…]
The fact that no union representative was included on the Woo] Corporation is witness to the callous approach to the problems associated with this situation. [More…]
There is no question that the adjustment will cost a lot of money because it is now too late to carry out the gradual transition which could have been achieved if consultations with the trade union movement had taken place three or four years ago. [More…]
by Union Oil Development Corp.; [More…]
The attitude of the Australian Government is, as I think the attitude of the previous Australian Government was, that France should accede to the nuclear treaty to which the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Britain have acceded. [More…]
by leave- I present the report of the Australian delegation to the 60th Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference held in Rome from 21st September to 29th September 1972. [More…]
I report to the Parliament that the Conference approved of an application from East Germany for membership of the Union. [More…]
By the courtesy of the Organisation of American States the meeting was held in the Pan American Union Building. [More…]
It will examine the needs of .trade union and employer organisations in Australia, the need for amalgamations, for trade union education and for closer consultation between unions, employers and government. [More…]
The central position of power occupied by the tribunals, however, could never have been attained or maintained without popular approval and especially without the support of the trade union movement. [More…]
In recent years, however, many large employers as well as the great mass of union members have become impatient with the penal aspects of the federal system. [More…]
As unions and employers become better organised, as their research facilities grow and as they become more aware of the advantages of negotiation and the disadvantages of remaining passive clients of an arbitration commission, so will the acceptability of the Commission’s penal powers diminish and the area of its influence as a arbitral body contract. [More…]
They are: The removal of existing barriers to trade union amalgamation; the protection of organisations and their members from civil actions for tort in connection with industrial disputes; the removal of the Commission’s authority to ban strikes and the removal of all penal sanctions upon strikers; procedures to ensure that certain types of agreement are acceptable to members of organisations affected by them; provision for democratic control of unions and the fullest participation by union members in the affairs of their organisations; provision to enable action to be taken for the recovery of wages at law within a period of 6 years instead of the 12 months’ limitation that now applies; the removal of the various defects which have been shown to exist in the 1972 legislation; elimination of the power to award costs in proceedings before the courts, the Registrar or the Commission; and provision to overcome some of the problems created by the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
Union Amalgamation [More…]
Both the Government and the people need the organised strength of the working people gathered together in strong, effective and responsible trade unions. [More…]
We plan, therefore, to encourage the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Honourable members will be interested to recall figures supplied by the Commonwealth Statistician through the then Minister for Labour and National Service regarding the size of trade unions in Australia at the end of December 1970. [More…]
He reported that there were 305 separate trade unions in Australia. [More…]
Of the 305 unions, 152 had less than 1,000 members; another 96 had between 1,000 and 5,000 members; 34 between 5,000 and 20,000; 19 between 20,000 and 50,000; and only 14 with a membership of over 50,000. [More…]
In West Germany, with a population much larger than Australia - 61 million to be precise - there is a total of only 16 unions, one of which, the Metal Workers Union, has a total membership of 2,070,000. [More…]
Salaries paid to officials of great energy, dedication and talent are low and unattractive, and discourage men of quality from making the sacrifices that a career as a trade union official often involves. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
Too much time is lost through disputes over which unions should handle a certain job. [More…]
The mobility of trade union officials from office to office is sometimes restricted by rules which require officials to be drawn from among longstanding union members only. [More…]
A strengthening of the resources of the working people in amalgamated trade unions which are possessed of strong, well-trained and well-equipped leaders will redress the present imbalance. [More…]
Negotiation and conciliation will become more effective in resolving disputes as union leaders become better informed and better trained. [More…]
We are, therefore, wholly in favour of amalgamation of unions of the working people. [More…]
The usefulness of the present provisions will be tested by the simple question - do they help or do they hinder the unification of the trade unions into more powerful institutions to represent and uphold the interests of the employees? [More…]
For an amalgamation proposal now to be adopted by a union, it will be necessary merely for a majority of those voting to approve of the proposal. [More…]
The Bill provides that the unions themselves will have the power to conduct amalgamation ballots. [More…]
Amalgamation ballots will be conducted by the Commonwealth when requested by the unions concerned. [More…]
These ballots will not be open to challenge, although the Court will have power to investigate ballots conducted by the union itself. [More…]
The provisions protecting union officials from tortuous actions stem basically from the Goverment’s belief that the right to strike is a fundamental right which every employee must have. [More…]
Altogether now, 6 cases have been taken in recent times which involved the use of civil proceedings to obtain damages against unions and union members involved in industrial actions. [More…]
There is a renewed fear among trade unionists that employers with the aid of the civil courts, will re-introduce a weapon which will turn the history of this country back just as the working people are coming out into the light. [More…]
Six Dorchester labourers, in 1834, who took a union oath at Tolpuddle, who merely spoke short words amongst themselves testifying to their mutual loyalty and did nothing else, were deported to Australia for 7 years. [More…]
The judges in that period regarded union organisation as criminal conspiracy. [More…]
In the case of Hornby v. Close in 1867, a union which sought to prosecute an official who had embezzled funds failed in the prosecution for want of lawful status for the union’s rules. [More…]
Union rules in Australia are no longer illegal or unenforceable. [More…]
Union rules, once registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, carry the full force of the law. [More…]
In 1901, a union in the United Kingdom placed a picket on the premises of an employer where a strike was taking place. [More…]
The employer sought an injunction to restrain the men from preventing labour from entering his premises but the union argued that since it did not exist in law, it could not be enjoined or sued for damages. [More…]
The argument failed, the injunction was granted, and the union ultimately fell liable for a very large sum of damages. [More…]
The great trade union agitation which followed the Taff Vale decision finally forced the House of Commons, in 1906, to pass legislation to set aside that piece of judge-made law. [More…]
The immunity from actions for tort that was granted to British unions by the House of Commons in 1906, is now extended by this Bill to officials and members of Australian trade unions. [More…]
It is based upon the principles of the British Trade Disputes Act of 1906 which granted unions and union officials in that country exemption from tortious actions committed in furtherance of industrial disputes. [More…]
As promised in the Prime Minister’s policy speech, the Bill provides for the removal from the Act of all provisions under which a penalty might be imposed upon a trade union or member, because a union is involved in, or threatens a strike, ban or limitation on work. [More…]
If unions wish to submit to the inclusion in an agreement of a bans clause they may do so, but that agreement cannot be certified by the Commission. [More…]
It is the view, not only of the Government, but also the trade union movement, and I believe, the majority of employer organisations that this procedure is preferable to having conditions arbitrarily imposed on employers and employees. [More…]
The platform of the Australian Labor Party calls upon the Government to ensure a system of democratic control of all unions, allowing fullest participation by members in their affairs. [More…]
The Bill provides that no officer elected by the rank and file may be dismissed during his period of office unless he is guilty of misappropriation of union funds, a grave breach of rules or gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
I do not have to enlarge on the sense of injustice suffered by the individual candidate and the distortion of fair control of a trade union which can arise in a case of the type now provided against. [More…]
We do not wish to see men tempted to resort to direct force to defeat a rival in a union conflict. [More…]
There is, of course, some statutory provisions which are available to assist rank and file unionists who wish to bring cases to the Industrial Court. [More…]
Furthermore, it does not cover assistance where such a union member is required to defend in the High Court a decision given in his favour by the Industrial Court. [More…]
The union executive against which I was taking my action for justice - it was an action for justice because in both cases I won - was able to draw upon the funds of the union, but I was a private individual with no money except my own personal possessions. [More…]
Over recent months, there have been a number of disputes between 2 groups of transport workers in New South Wales concerning the legal status of transport workers belonging to the respective State and Federal Transport Workers Unions. [More…]
The Federal union is an organisation registered under the Commonwealth Act, and the State union is a separate union registered under New South Wales law. [More…]
For some 40 years after the adoption of a scheme designed to achieve the amalgamation of a New South Wales State Trade and Industrial union with a federal organisation registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the State trade union continued to conduct its affairs in accordance with its own rules and State industrial law and pursued with vigour benefits available to a State trade union under State law. [More…]
During such a period, members of the State trade unions became members of the New South Wales branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
The State trade union, inter alia, assumed the name of and rendered accounts and accepted obligations as the New South Wales branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
The scheme of amalgamation was assumed by its authors and actors to have achieved the continued existence of the State trade union and, at the same time, its establishment as a branch of the federal organisation. [More…]
It was held, in the circumstances of the case to which I just made reference, that the State trade union had not ceased to exist, and that it was not a branch of the Federal organisation. [More…]
The result of this decision was that the Commonwealth Industrial Court was unable to issue orders against an officer of the State union for his compliance with federally registered rules. [More…]
Commonwealth Arbitration Commission has no power to make an award, or certify an agreement, binding on the State union. [More…]
It is an irritation to most unions; an intractable problem for some. [More…]
Cases referred to earlier in this judgment are further illustrations of the web of problems and technicalities which have developed in the system of trade union organisation in Australia . [More…]
The system as required to exist by State and Federal legislation and as it has evolved under that legislation in practice is technical, productive of artificialism and in urgent need of the attention of the law reformer … A system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems and it should be possible for federal and state authorities to examine the question whether organisations and trade unions can be provided with such a system … we have decided to refer our judgment in this matter and these remarks to the AttorneyGeneral for the Commonwealth in the hope that it may be possible, after consultation between the Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General, the trade unions both federal and state, and other interested government authorities to arrange for the important organisational matters to which we have referred. [More…]
In a later case subsequent to the Moore v. Doyle case, namely, the case of Steuart v. Oliver, it was held, in respect of the Australian Workers Union, that a substantial number of persons were legitimate members of a body known as the Australian Workers’ Union of Queensland, a State union, but were not entitled to be members of the Australian Workers’ Union created by the Commonwealth Act. [More…]
It was held in that case that there were 2 separate unions. [More…]
The 2 unions were funded and administered for all practical purposes as if they were one. [More…]
Membership of the one did not entitle a person to vote in the elections of the other, although that had always been the practice of the 2 unions for nearly 60 years. [More…]
This will enable the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia to include as members, owner-drivers in New South Wales and other States. [More…]
This is by no means the complete answer to the difficulties that have caused the current dispute among transport workers and it does not even touch difficulties affecting other unions. [More…]
Whilst there has been provision in the Act for a union or an employer to seek an interpretation of an award or agreement, delayed hearings and heavy costs have discouraged parties from making use of this provision. [More…]
Provision has also been made in the Bill to give an extended right to union officials to enter at any time during working hours at establishments covered by Federal awards. [More…]
In this way full time officials will be better able to enforce the observance of safety regulations, clear up misinterpretations of awards, smooth out demarcation differences, interview non-unionists, detect symptoms of potential unrest, and smooth out abrasive managerial policies. [More…]
I have never been able to understand why so many employers do so much to impede the on-site activities of full time officials and then blame the union when its shop stewards find themselves with an avoidable dispute on their hands. [More…]
More often than not full-time trade union officials are treated like the fire brigade and only get called in when things have already gone wrong. [More…]
The Government’s policy is clearly conducive to a situation where gains in wages and working conditions are to be dependent on a union’s industrial strength rather than upon the merits of its particular case. [More…]
This is a philosophy which will disadvantage small unions and small employers, fixed income earners and pensioners - in fact, all those sections in the community which have no access to monopoly power. [More…]
It is a matter which commands the attention of the Minister for Labour because he knows that the Waterside Workers Federation has become a vehicle, along with certain other maritime unions, whereby minority elements within the trade union movement have sought to convert industrial power into political action. [More…]
In many instances strike action has been taken on a unilateral basis without the sanction of the Australian Council of Trade Unions or the Trades and Labour Councils. [More…]
Hie Australian Union of Students has looked at the matter. [More…]
The third aspect of this matter - and let the honourable member for Franklin answer it - is that, although the action was not proceeded with, the Postal Workers’ Union said that it would refuse to deliver mail to Opposition senators, because the senators did not do something that the postal workers wanted or had done something with which the postal workers disagreed. [More…]
Associated with this delay was the question of whether the federally-registered Transport Workers’ Union of Australia or the state-registered Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch, was entitled to represent transport workers covered by the award in New South Wales. [More…]
The Government was also in close consultation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions throughout the stoppage and as the honourable member will be aware the ACTU played a significant part in resolving the dispute. [More…]
The Government considered it more appropriate to invite the ACTU to nominate a member of the Commission, since union membership includes a great many potential or current consumers of welfare services. [More…]
Further, on 4th April the Minister said that Evans Deakin would be given an opportunity to tender for the construction of two 12,500 ton roll-on roll-off ships for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand. [More…]
In relation to the Union Steamship Co. and the proposal to build 2 roll-on roll-off vessels for the trans-Tasman trade, it is perfectly true that in the discussion of a matter of public importance raised by the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) on 4th April I did not state that the Government would only pay a 25 per cent subsidy. [More…]
The Press release I issued stated that the Australian Government had instigated a comprehensive review of the industry and offered a 25 per cent subsidy to the Union Steamship Co. to build 2 roll-on roll-off vessels in Australia for the transTasman trade. [More…]
The ships were for a foreign company, admittedly owned on a 50-50 basis by Thomas Nationwide Transport and the Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand. [More…]
Offered 25 per cent subsidy to Union Steamship to build 2 roll-on/roll-off vessels in Australia for the trans-Tasman trade. [More…]
I certainly would agree with that statement because, as the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) himself knows full well, that his Government has been sadly discredited by the sordid repercussions of what I could call the Murphy affair, the manner in which the Prime Minister has destroyed the reservoir of good will with the United States of America built up over a quarter of a century by the former Government, the failure to control effectively the problem of inflation, the degree to which he has ignored the interests of the rural sector, his lamentable preparedness to advantage the trade union movement by sectional legislation - contrary to public interest - the divisions in his own ranks between Left and Right and his total Prime Ministerial incapacity to control the Left wing of his Party. [More…]
There will also be an incidentals allowance which incidentally will be more than sufficient to pay union fees. [More…]
But the Australian Union of students is still questioning us on the subject of union and student fees, and we have not made a decision to pay such fees. [More…]
However, under the existing scholarships, which will be continuing - the Government will honour the previous Government’s late agreements - existing scholarship holders will continue to have their union fees paid. [More…]
The then National Union of Australian University students in 1969 conducted a very detailed analysis of the minimum costs facing students at tertiary institutions who were living in private accommodation and paying their own fees. [More…]
I might add that fees represented less than one-third of this figure and that those fees were made up of not only the actual course costs but also included additional costs such as union fees, sports union fees and other additional charges made on students. [More…]
However, I would remind honourable members that at present the Commonwealth Department of Education, in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, is carrying out a survey in Victoria and South Australia to determine the reasons for rejection by students of university places. [More…]
Regrettably, in many instances excess expenses are involved for students in that area who are not in a position to have a regular income for charges other than tuition fees such as fees for the membership of the Students Representative Council, the Sports Union and all the other many organisations which are part of university life. [More…]
Such transitional classes could include courses in industrial relations, management, trade union administration and a whole range of other courses. [More…]
Then there is Mr G. F. W. Brown, Chairman of Commissioners of the Victorian Railways, which is a body tremendously involved in technical education and in apprenticeship training; Mr C. O. Dolan, General Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, Federal Council; Mr P. W. I. Fleming, Chief Staff Development Officer, Department of the Public Service Board, South Australia; Mr N. M. Gow, Chairman and Managing Director of R. M. Gow and Co. Ltd, Brisbane; Miss K. E. Holmes, Federal Secretary of the Institute of Personnel Management, Sydney; Dr W. J. Howse, Director of Technical Education in Tasmania; Mr H. King, Assistant to the Director of Technical Education in New South Wales; Mr G. Lees, President of the Technical Teachers Association of Victoria; Mr W. J. Paterson, Director of Technical Education in Western Australia; and Associate Professor E. Richardson from the School of Education at Macquarie University who played a very large part in the development of technical education in the Philippines. [More…]
n small drainage union of land holders on the Shoalhaven flood-plain has already demonstrated the economics of a small vortex pump but it is beyond their ability to raise the capital for a pump for the larger swamps. [More…]
The honourable member for Lyne also suggested in his speech that the Australian Postal Workers Union was guilty of what might be termed wrongdoing in endeavouring to intimidate people in another place to pass legislation by threatening that mail would not be delivered to them. [More…]
No such resolution .was passed by the Postal Workers Union. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Postal Workers Union should be concerned? [More…]
What a changed situation it would be if as a result of that naked aggression, without any attack from New Zealand on the Soviet Navy, the Soviet Union plastered every New Zealand city almost to the stage where they were rubble for years to come, dropped the greatest bomb load in the history of the world and oppressed a small nation which is much less than it in size. [More…]
The Soviet Union and the United States came to fruitful conclusions after entering into the strategic arms limitation talks, and there has been a general movement throughout the world to lessen the impact of strategic arms. [More…]
The Council brings in the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Labour, representatives of industry, the trade union movement and all of the relevancies in this situation. [More…]
In view of his rather slick answer in which he said that his Government would take the same action as his predecessors took relating to the ban placed on French ships by the Seamen’s Union of Australia, I inform the Prime Minister that the previous Government supported protests and condemned the action of the Seamen’s Union to such a point that the union withdrew the ban. [More…]
I now ask the Prime Minister: Do I take it that his Government also condemns the action of the Seamen’s Union and that it will take action similar to that of the previous Government? [More…]
My memory is that the previous Government did nothing about the union bans associated with this matter. [More…]
It is consistent with the development of monopoly union power. [More…]
It represents a total abdication by the Government of its national responsibilities in favour of the demands of the left wing of the trade union movement. [More…]
However, industrial relations under the new Labor Government have been notable for a record increase in the level of industrial unrest, the development of unprecedented inflationary pressures, the blatant abuse of union monopoly powers, Government antagonism towards and confrontation with industry and Government capitulation to every demand placed upon it by the union movement. [More…]
It is a matter of considerable irony to recall statements of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that a Labor Government would not be the unthinking mouthpiece for trade union officialdom and that the first great aim of Labor’s industrial policy would be to reduce government interference and intervention in industrial matters. [More…]
Those statements have been totally discredited by the Government’s unconditional endorsement of union demands in the national wage case, Government support for compulsory unionism, Government backing for industrial concessions in excess of $6,000m per annum, Government manipulation of a labour code and Commonwealth contracts, Government abuse of the Public Service to achieve political objectives, and tacit approval of political strikes directed towards Australian allies. [More…]
The concept of the basic wage and, more recently, the minimum wage has ensured that he cannot be exploited regardless of the weakness of his union representation or the industry in which he is employed. [More…]
The Opposition supports the concept of effective and responsible trade unionism. [More…]
Organised unionism has played a significant role in the achievement of improved wages and conditions. [More…]
However, we believe that the trade union movement must accept that its significantly changed status in the community and the substantial improvements which have been attained, call for an acceptance of duties and responsibilities. [More…]
The union movement is no longer weak or ineffectual; it is one of the most potent vested interests in this country. [More…]
The acceptance of this Bill would set the stage for the introduction of collective bargaining in this country under which gains in wages and working conditions would be commensurate with a union’s industrial strength rather than the merits of the case. [More…]
Under Labor’s industrial policies, those who are suffering most are the pensioners, fixed income earners and those on superannuation benefits, whose assets are constantly eroded by the continuing escalation of prices, and the small unions and the small employers who do not possess monopoly power. [More…]
Trade union action was successful in certain instances in increasing the share of certain privileged or closely organised groups such as tally clerks, dock workers and so on. [More…]
The lower paid, the defenceless and the handicapped, despite the declamation of the unions, have not been protected. [More…]
In fact, the thin veneer of his statement is inadequate disguise for the real thrust of the Government’s legislation, which he knows to be an unprecedented concession to the union movement and a fundamental abrogation of the Government’s national responsibilities. [More…]
The Bill now before the House seeks to remove from the Act all the provisions under which a penalty can be imposed upon a trade union or member of a trade union because the union is involved in or threatens a strike, baa or limitation on work. [More…]
In simple terms, the Government is now proposing that the observance of awards on the part of unions and members of unions will rest solely on the good faith of unions and officials who cannot be called to account if they breach agreements into which they have freely entered. [More…]
The facts belie the assumption that the good faith of union officialdom should be the basis of our industrial system. [More…]
This Bill seeks to provide unions with a carte blanche to engage in political strikes with no prospect of redress for those directly affected. [More…]
The Bill before the House is a testament of that repudiation and a reflection of the Government’s complete and hapless inability to withstand the pressure of the more militant sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
But this Government is now prepared to divest itself of that type of industrial responsibility which characterised the Chifleys, the Evatts and the Cahills Federal and State Labor leaders who were not prepared to subordinate the national interest to the demands of the union movement. [More…]
The Opposition vehemently rejects the provisions of this Bill which confer civil immunity on trade unions members and their officials. [More…]
The Minister has unconscionably described this proposal as a protective measure for union members. [More…]
In doing so he gave this House a facile history of how an immunity for trade union members from actions for tort was obtained in England. [More…]
He ignored any logical or practical justification for granting to union members an immunity from the consequences of wrongdoing causing loss to others; and he ignored the fundamental fact that members of other great corporations and associations do not enjoy any such immunity. [More…]
Civil immunity would apply to every union and to every official and member of a union. [More…]
It removes from persons injured by union action a right of redress which they currently have and which they will continue to possess against all other persons who act unlawfully. [More…]
When placed in the Australian context, the proposal amounts to giving to unions and to their members an almost completely open go in the actions which they can take to achieve industrial objectives. [More…]
It amounts to conferring upon unions and union members the ability to break contracts or agreements; to picket premises; to boycott employers and anyone engaged in business; to engage in conspiracies to prevent contracts being performed; to generally harm or interfere in a manner that is intended to injure another person’s trade, business or employment; and at the same time to suffer none of the ordinary civil consequences for such actions. [More…]
When examined in the light of the proposal to remove penalties for strikes, bans or limitations on work, it will mean that there will be no hindrance to a union taking whatever action will cause loss to an employer in its pursuit of industrial objectives. [More…]
The immense power of the union movement - backed by the concept of the solidarity of all unions which the ACTU can promote - will ensure that in the so-called direct negotiations for agreements the union movement will be allpowerful and subject to no restraint. [More…]
The Bill contains several provisions to facilitate the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
The amalgamation of unions and of employer organisations is a characteristic of industrialised society in the western world. [More…]
Furthermore, it can be argued that further amalgamation within the trade union movement may assist in a reduction in the incidence of industrial disputes which arise as a result of demarcation issues. [More…]
But we believe that the general community has reasons for considerable concern about the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Amalgamation concentrates major power in the hands of a few officials and there are a number of officials in Australia today who are clearly using their office for political objectives, as is the case with the major left wing trade unions. [More…]
The Government’s clear intention to cause the rapid concentration of union power we believe to be misconceived. [More…]
The resultant numerical and financial power of giant unions may become too great for employer organisations, the ACTU or even the Government to deal with effectively. [More…]
The effects could be of vital national importance where the unions concerned have members in critical sectors of the economy. [More…]
Other industrial countries are now finding that the restraint of union power is a most intractable problem and one which has not been satisfactorily resolved. [More…]
Yet this Bill clearly foreshadows a considerable increase in the monopoly and coercive power of the labour unions. [More…]
The Minister adverted to the fact that, at the end of December 1970, there were 305 separate trade unions in Australia. [More…]
However, his figures ignore the fact that approximately 65 per cent of unionists are members of 21 trade unions. [More…]
In addition, it is demonstrable that the current drive towards amalgamation is not directed at absorbing the small and inefficient unions but rather towards the bringing together of large and medium sized unions to a more concentrated body. [More…]
The present moves for amalgamation are taking place at the apex of the pyramid of unionism and not in fact at its base. [More…]
The assertion, loosely made, that amalgamation necessarily produces economies of scale and provides better services for members at less cost is weakened by the experience of the most recent major amalgamation which resulted in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The secretary of that body forecast, at its recent Queensland State Conference, that union dues would have to be almost doubled to provide service in the amalgamated trade union. [More…]
History clearly demonstrates the need to have measures in the legislation to protect the democratic rights of union members. [More…]
We believe that this is entirely contrary to the Minister’s public posture that unions should be democratically controlled and that rank and file members should be provided with the maximum opportunity to express their views. [More…]
This proposal is consistent with the Government’s jaundiced approach in respect of law enforcement where unions are involved - but not, of course, in relation to employers. [More…]
The proposal means that any union will be able to absolve itself from its obligations under the law merely by deregistering to amalgamate with another trade union. [More…]
This proposal must be examined with the Bill’s intention to require that a commissioner, before certifying an agreement, must have produced to him a statutory declaration by an officer of each union affected declaring that the committee of management has approved of its terms and is of the opinion, after consulting with the members of the unions, that the terms are acceptable to a majority of the members. [More…]
The Minister justified this proposal in terms of the preservation of democratic participation in the affairs of unions. [More…]
It is, however, completely impractical and denies the right of properly elected union officials to negotiate responsibly on behalf of union members who have entrusted them with that authority and responsibility. [More…]
The Bill proposes to give a trade union official the right to enter premises where work is being undertaken under an award binding the organisation at any time during working hours for the purpose of ensuring the observance of the award and to inspect any work, books or documents and to interview any employee. [More…]
There is no reason why union officials should be permitted to enter any place of work purely on their volition and for motives which may not be legitimate. [More…]
It provides that union officials may interview on the premises persons who are not members of their organisation or, indeed, of any organisation at all. [More…]
Officials would be able to harass non-unionists at will, to enter premises for the purpose of inciting employees to strike, to procure the names of persons who were working when the union had attempted to call a strike and to cause disruption by interviewing employees who might be strategically involved on a production line which would be required to cease operations while the interview took place. [More…]
It is a stopgap arrangement more pertinent to the problems created by the power struggles within the Transport Workers Union than to the central difficulties created by the judgment in Moore v Doyle. [More…]
The Government proposes to permit union officials, including shop stewards, to undertake any function in a place of work providing it can be related to union interests and is not an offence in criminal or civil law, other than a breach in their contracts of employment. [More…]
In fact, the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, in his 8th, 9th and 10th annual reports, emphasised the value of Part X and urged employers and unions to make wider use of it for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes - especially in respect of over award payments. [More…]
We should recognise as a fact of life that trade union militancy has increased and will continue to do so irrespective of the political colour or flavour of the Australian Government. [More…]
Secondly, the employee has far more resources, and his unions are bigger and stronger. [More…]
They provided that either a union or the individual employees could be fined. [More…]
It is nonsense in this democratic society, this free economy, to suggest that workers who participate in a stoppage of work because little Mary Jones has been sacked out of turn are engaging in a conspiracy, and that a jam company for which she worked should be able to sue the workers individually and collectively through their union for damages. [More…]
Is it suggested that 2 or 3 members of a furnishing trades union who are employed by a corporation such as General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd or the Ford Motor Co. of Australia Ltd who go on strike because of a safety issue, should face the prospect of being sued for conspiracy by that poor little corporation? [More…]
It was amongst the earliest in the world to organise trade unions. [More…]
We have one of the highest rates of trade union organisation to be found anywhere in the free world. [More…]
Trade unions in Australia have always been relatively free. [More…]
The concept and spirit of trade unionism will continue. [More…]
There have been strikes from the earliest days of trade union organisation. [More…]
When we speak of union power we speak about something which is irrelevant alongside the economic giants which have been developed in recent years. [More…]
If the largest corporation in Australia refuses tomorrow morning to employ a man because he is a union member, that corporation faces the prospect of a fine of $400. [More…]
If, in retaliation for that act, 10 men decide to withhold their labour from that giant corporation, they, through their union, face a fine of $1,000 a day until they offer for work. [More…]
But a little union of 100 men could be fined $1,000 a day. [More…]
They included a significant range of sanctions to be applied against trade unionists. [More…]
He then, of course, was a trade union official. [More…]
The first area of concern is the whole question of union leadership itself and the second is the degree to which the left wing of the trade union movement is wagging the right wing tail in order to ensure that the changes will bring greater and greater power to people outside the Australian parliamentary system. [More…]
We are told that the purpose of the amendment is to exempt trade union leaders from facing ballots in the transitional period of up to 3 years following union amalgamations; that is, the time between the legal clearance of an amalgamation and its final consummation. [More…]
This is a further step towards strengthening the position of the trade union leadership and a further step towards eroding the real responsibility that the trade union leadership should have for the men it is supposed to represent. [More…]
Of all the diabolical conclusions that the Minister for Labour has reached in his implementation of these changes, I think there is none more so than his desire to increase the status of the trade union leadership and to destroy the relationship between the people it represents and the conclusions it reaches in negotiations into which it enters. [More…]
The protection which the envisaged amendment reflects and many of the individual changes proposed by the Bill are designed to improve and to strengthen certainly the position of shop stewards but also union leadership in general. [More…]
They are designed to protect that leadership from the whole of the procedures of law which were designed to ensure that union membership was protected; for example, in the field of amalgamation, that union membership had an adequate opportunity to express its point of view and that the public at large - the producers, those persons on fixed incomes and those persons outside the ambit of the provisions of this measure - also had its interest taken into account. [More…]
Generally, in terms of industrial relations I see this Bill as effecting a significant and adverse deterioration of procedures which are available for the protection of trade unionists and members of our community. [More…]
On the other hand, this Bill is designed to remove the wage adjustment procedures from the protective device which conciliation and arbitration has afforded, for example, by deleting sanctions which are designed to remove the restraint on the trade union movement and on trade union officials in particular and to ensure that they act responsibly. [More…]
It is designed to give to the trade union leadership significantly greater bargaining power than it has had before without the legal responsibility which sanctions enforce upon it. [More…]
Of course, in making adjustments, the Bill continues the restraints which applied to employers and removes only those sanctions which are applicable to trade union leadership. [More…]
There is no doubt that tha reality of the circumstances has changed because of the dominance of the left wing of the Labor Party and the degree to which the Labor Party sees itself as subservient to the present leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Labor Party seeks to assert an increased role for trade union leaders and shop stewards and to achieve a complete destruction of private enterprise in our community. [More…]
I find it quite fascinating to see Mr Bob Hawke in his newfound role in the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I suppose he is looking after the rights and the role of the trade unionists. [More…]
We on our side are sympathetic to meaningful adjustments to wages and salaries to the advantage of the trade unionists. [More…]
We believe that the trade union movement has served Australia well. [More…]
We believe also that by acting responsibly the trade union movement and the employers and employers’ organisations can continually advance our living standards and provide opportunities for the betterment of the lot of the individual. [More…]
We believe there is no justification for the removal of the sanctions provisions or for the civil immunity which is to be accorded to trade union officials and to members of trade unions. [More…]
We believe that the changes proposed in the field of amalgamation could weaken the role of the trade union member and destroy the opportunity of people outside the trade union movement to have their interests taken into account. [More…]
We see in this significant range of proposals many things which are not in any way directed to the betterment of the lot of the trade union member or to giving the worker a better role in the future. [More…]
This important Bill has 2 key facets for the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
I refer first to the aim of simpler amalgamation of unions and second to the provisions of the Bill dealing with the abolition of the penal sections of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
That amalgamation of unions is to be made earlier will be of great benefit not only to trade unions but also to society generally. [More…]
It is certainly important to the trade unions because, by being able to amalgamate into larger union bodies, they can operate much more efficiently and effectively than as a group of small unions. [More…]
Where unions have amalgamated it has been notable that they have established research facilities. [More…]
Such facilities have been appallingly absent in the trade union move ment until the last decade or so. [More…]
Amalgamation has enabled unions to establish effective research sections which, in turn have enabled them to operate much more effectively for their members. [More…]
I do not wish to list all the advantages gained by unions through amalgamation, but it is clear that the greater size of union bodies makes them more efficient in their operations. [More…]
Society as a whole also has a vested interest in larger unions because of the obvious likelihood of reductions in the numbers of demarcation disputes. [More…]
Demarcation disputes have aptly been described as the cancer of the trade union movement. [More…]
Certainly it is desirable that everything possible be done to eliminate them and the best way to eliminate them is to have larger trade union bodies. [More…]
The aim of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is to establish industrial unions. [More…]
Where industrial unions have been established in other countries there has been a marked reduction in demarcation disputes. [More…]
The author explains that in West Germany one of the reasons for the tremendously high productivity there is the small number of unions. [More…]
There are 16 industrial unions who organise 7 million workers on the principle of one plant - one union only, so demarcation disputes which are frequent in England for instance are completely unknown in Germany. [More…]
By enabling simpler amalgamation of unions this measure will help in the establishment of industrial unionism. [More…]
These provisions have been tremendously important to the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
In that period 788 fines totalling $280,210 were imposed on trade unions. [More…]
Using that rough procedure this means that from 1957 to 1968 the trade union movement was fined by the Commonwealth Industrial Court, in contempt of court proceedings, well over $500,000. [More…]
Certainly it is one which caused a tremendous reaction within the trade union movement. [More…]
Of course, it is obvious that once enormous sums like this are imposed on trade unions there must come about not the settlement of industrial disputes but the exacerbation of industrial disputation. [More…]
Nevertheless, the unions had been fined $19,000. [More…]
It is totally objectionable to the trade union movement that this sort of thing can happen. [More…]
But despite this fact the Industrial Court has imposed heavy fines on unions. [More…]
This is a totally objectionable procedure and obviously one which favours the employers rather than the trade union movement. [More…]
It involved the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board which tried to introduce one-man buses on certain routes in Melbourne and refused to negotiate with the unions about the matter. [More…]
The unions asked the Commission to put in the award a clause which would require the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board to negotiate with the unions on this matter. [More…]
The Tramways Board went to the High Court 4 times to try to stop the Commissioner inserting such a clause in the award because it said that this was a management prerogative and that the unions just had to cop it. [More…]
While the Tramways Board, by going to the High Court, was frustrating the desire of the Commissioner in his attempts to settle this dispute the union was involved in a number of stoppages over the issue in protest against the action of the Tramways Board. [More…]
But while the Tramways Board claimed in the Arbitration Commission that the Commission did not have a right to arbitrate in the matter it was quite prepared to have fines imposed by the industrial court on the union in respect of this same dispute - again a totally objectionable procedure. [More…]
This provision has not been used extensively but it was used in the late 1950s and in 1960 in a couple of quite famous cases, the most famous being the Mclvor case which involved a Queensland meat industry union organiser who advised a fellow member of the union to leave a place of employment. [More…]
Another case involved a Mr Taylor who was also a meat industry unionist. [More…]
Every member of this House will remember that, prior to the elections, the then Leader of the Opposition met the members of the executive of the metal trades union and agreed with them that, if there were a $25,000 grant to the compaign funds of the Australian Labor Party, he would ensure that fines would not be imposed on the unions and that the bans clause in the Act would be abolished - in other words, to some extent reducing the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Industrial Court and the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
However, I have to go further and say that because of his continued hostility to arbitration, the present Minister for Labour is being ever so much more drastic than we would have contemplated from our knowledge of what occurred at the meeting between the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the executive of the metal trades unions concerned. [More…]
In effect, it says that if a person happens to be a job delegate or a member of a trade union who holds any official position, he can virtually disobey the law of contract that exists between his employer and himself. [More…]
It is proposed to amend section 5 (1) of the principal Act by inserting a new paragraph (f) to provide that an employer shall not dismiss an employee or in any day affect or prejudice him because he has done or proposes to do an act or thing in an industrial establishment or elsewhere - not only in the industrial establishment - for the purpose of protecting the union’s industrial interests providing only that he feels he has directly or indirectly some authority from the union. [More…]
It permits him the opportunity to walk around the factory and other places in order to decide whether the union’s interests are being furthered without the risk of being dismissed. [More…]
It gives these union officials and others the right .to defy the law and an agreement for employment and virtually to have carte blanche to do whatever they want to do providing that they think that what is done is in the interests of the union concerned, no matter what the consequences may be to the other employees. [More…]
Under section 138 a union official was, in fact, prohibited from inciting a union member not to comply with an award, to go slow, to refuse to offer himself for work or to take any other action which was not consistent with an award. [More…]
The present Bill provides for this to be repealed, supporting the action that has been taken already in clause 5 and giving the union representatives power to do virtually whatever they want to do. [More…]
But anyone with a knowledge of English and the changing definitions of English will know that the interpretations previously given by the courts on such matters as the constituents of a conspiracy or whether picketing would, in effect, be legal or whether there was a civil status in law for a trade union organisation are no longer valid. [More…]
Now it is said that no action for tort will lie if contrary action is taken by a union official. [More…]
What he then promised - the pay-off - is shown in proposed new section 46a which, taken in conjunction with proposed new section 119, takes away effectively the right to put a bans clause into an award and, if a bans clause is broken, the right to insist that there should be some penalty or sanction on the union concerned. [More…]
For the benefit of those who have not had a long experience in industrial matters, a bans clause is one which, under the provisions of the Act, can be inserted into an award because there has been a consistent line, of action and policy by a trade union of defying the provisions of the Act and award and causing industrial disputation, lack of production and, therefore, a failure in productivity despite the benefits that increased productivity can bring to the Australian people. [More…]
That supports what I have said, namely, that the trade unions are now put in an ever so much stronger position than before. [More…]
The balance of strength as between the trade unions, the employers, the Government and the Arbitration Commission is changed so seriously that no longer can one think that influences other than the predominance of trade union power can play an important part in ensuring the public interest in the way in which the former governments since the time of Sir Robert Menzies have incorporated this concept in the Act; in other words, to further the objectives of inducing co-operation between unions and employers and trying to engender a far better feeling throughout the whole complex of industrial relations and to establish the Arbitration Commission as a body that can respect the public interest, bring the parties together and bring about an award that we all hope will be for the benefit of the country rather than for the destruction of arbitration itself. [More…]
The attitude of the Opposition has been one of the destruction of the trade union movement. [More…]
When the Parties opposite were in a position to wield power they worked very hard to bring in legislation which was designed entirely to destroy the powers of the trade union movement and the effective organisation of working men into bodies that could take a role in the whole field of the betterment of society. [More…]
I could give the example of the waterfront where there has been industrial peace in regard to all of the stevedoring agreements around Australia since the trade unions in that area have entered into agreements with employers rather than being thrust into the position where a third party would inflict its will upon them. [More…]
The Metal Trades Union, which comes under most attack from members of the Opposition, has had far less warfare since there has been agreement in the trade unions than was the case when the situation was thrust upon them by arbitration. [More…]
The whole question of trying to fine, to prosecute and to gaol trade union people when such penalties do not apply against other sections of the community does not stand the test of logic. [More…]
I have some doubts about its future in the other place because one of the members there is a union member and an ex-trade union secretary who now sails under false colours. [More…]
There is no provision in the present Act to protect trade union officials from the iniquitous charge of conspiracy in a civil court. [More…]
I say to the people of Australia that it is not a fair situation and that the officials and members of unions should be protected from the second barrel of the employer’s gun. [More…]
The previous Government made it very difficult for trade unions to amalgamate. [More…]
They were afraid of the trade unions becoming large enough to challenge the interests of the employing class. [More…]
The whole attitude of the Australian Labor Party, especially in government but also out of government, is that the trade unions should be encouraged to amalgamate so that many questions that can arise on a job - questions of disputation over who does which job - will not arise because the people concerned are members of the same union. [More…]
No-one on this side of the House denies the need for trade unions in Australia, nor does anyone on this side of the House deny the right of working men and women to organise themselves into trade unions. [More…]
I was interested to hear the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) say that no one on this side of the House had any right to speak about the subject because none of us had ever been a member of a trade union. [More…]
I cannot claim to be a member of a trade union but I have had a long association with trade unions and I am grateful to those trade unions in Western Australia which have shown their confidence in me because whilst they have known what my politics are they have given me plenty of work to do for them. [More…]
I find it a healthy sign that I can walk into the office of Jack Garland of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, sit down in his chair and have a talk to him about trade unionism. [More…]
In the same way, I am grateful that I can walk into the office of the Australian Workers Union in Sydney and have a long talk to Frank Mitchell about trade unionism there. [More…]
The result of this Bill must be for the trade union movement to move further and further away from both conciliation and arbitration - certainly by those major unions formed by amalgamation. [More…]
Shorn of all the trappings of the Minister’s hour-long speech, what the Bill does is to remove all constraints upon a union to conciliate or go to arbitration. [More…]
Negotiated agreements cannot contain an anti-strike clause, so unions are free to overturn an agreement at any time. [More…]
A union cannot be disregistered. [More…]
At the same time, unions are given immunity from civil action. [More…]
It is ironic that at a time when the United Kingdom has just repealed laws passed in 1906 giving civil immunity to unions, the Minister is aiming to introduce those same laws into Australia. [More…]
An individual or employer economically hurt by calculated industrial attacks launched by unions intending to harm or destroy by strike, boycott, picketing and sundry other sophisticated techniques of industrial coercion, is to be prevented from suing for compensation in a civil court. [More…]
But a man may suffer a financial death when his business is destroyed by boycott, or he loses his job because he will not join a union, or his truck will not run without petrol which the union has refused to supply. [More…]
One need not speak here, in justification of the Bill, of the likes of General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd; one can think also of the small businessman who can equally be the subject of union action. [More…]
This is what this Bill aims at giving to unions for not even the Government, acting in the public interest, is to be allowed any right to control unions when they use their industrial strength. [More…]
Is union monopoly any different in quality? [More…]
No power or privilege - private, business or union - within a community should be allowed to go unchecked. [More…]
The past history of the Australian arbitration system can be seen as an expression of an acceptable wages policy for unions, employers and Government. [More…]
This Bill, on the other hand, can be seen to be the implementation of the wages policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a policy designed to shift union action from achieving its wage claims inside the confines of the arbitration system to breaking those confines and moving outside arbitration. [More…]
I was thankful to hear the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) refer to the General Motors-Holden’s case in 1964 and confirm my own conclusions for me, because he put it clearly, in what he referred to as a non-arbitral area of over-award claims, that when the unions went on strike in support of their over-award claims they opposed the attempt by employers to have the penal powers exercised against them. [More…]
It also interested me to hear him say this because I had the unique experience in 1969 of presenting a pay claim for the metal trades unions in Western Australia based on the capacity of Western Mining Corporation to pay an industry allowance, being in effect the same as an over-award payment. [More…]
Congress declares over-award payments negotiated or obtained by collective bargaining where practicable incorporated in voluntary agreements to be an essential part of Trade Union wages policy. [More…]
The authority of the organised Trade Union Movement should not be impeded in the performance of responsible traditional functions which must include the right to withhold labour or impose limitation of performance of work- otherwise the minimum wage and conditions of work awarded by tribunals become the maximum and inhibit the possibilities of improvements. [More…]
Congress declares over-award payments negotiated or obtained by collective bargaining where practicable incorporated in volutary agreements to be an essential part of Trade Union wages policy. [More…]
Congress calls upon the ACTU Executive to consult with State Branches, ACSPA and CCPSO in order to develop a strong campaign by the whole of the Trade Union Movement in support of our wages policy, and in particular to combat the utterly false propaganda of Federal Government spokesmen and employer interests that the Unions’ claims for proper wage rates are inflationary. [More…]
For the purpose of conducting this campaign Congress requests affiliated unions to make their research facilities available to the ACTU and would welcome the co-operation of the entire research and campaigning facilities of affiliated unions. [More…]
That a pamphlet on wages/prices be prepared and circulated to the affiliated unions. [More…]
That statement shows a complete failure to understand trade union policy and an apparent failure to appreciate the economic significance of his Government’s own legislation. [More…]
It had its genesis in the absorption struggles of the trade union movement in 1967-68 over the 1967 metal trades work value inquiry. [More…]
The trade union movement then won a complete victory over the Commission which sought absorption and the employers who also sought it and who tried to use the penal powers to uphold it. [More…]
The centre point of that change, as it has been so euphemistically expressed by Mr Hawke himself, is the concentration of union energy away from arbitration and into bargaining. [More…]
The complete immunity of unions from strike action, either within the arbitration system or within the civil courts, marks the completion of the change. [More…]
Within the life of this Parliament the Government will have its own confrontation with the trade union movement because it will be obliged to introduce a prices and incomes policy to contain inflation of its own creation. [More…]
Of necessity the policy will need to control wages, and of further necessity will require some control over the right of trade unions to strike. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour stated in his second reading speech, the Bill examines the need of trade unions and employer organisations for amalgamation, trade union education and closer consultation between unions, employers and the Government. [More…]
They have failed to such an extent that even the previous Government had to recognise that they had failed by altering the manner of their operation following the confrontation in 1969 with the tramways union. [More…]
The ordinary trade unionist on the job would harden his attitude after seeing his union dragged before the Commonwealth Industrial Court. [More…]
Another important aim of the Bill relates to the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
The honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch), the previous Minister dealing with industrial matters, stated in his speech that honourable members on his side of the House do not oppose union amalgamation in general. [More…]
Last year we saw efforts to stop the amalgamation of the metal unions, something the unions involved had been working towards for years. [More…]
As a member of one of the amalgamated metal unions I have personal knowledge of the discussions to achieve amalgamation that took place over many years, not only between the officials of the unions involved but also right down to the level of the member on the shop floor. [More…]
Those who voted in the ballot on the amalgamations were overwhelmingly in support of what was proposed, namely, the amalgamation of the 3 metal unions. [More…]
But after many years of negotiation between the unions involved, legal moves were made to throw a spanner in the works - moves that were supported by the honourable members opposite and their allies in the Senate. [More…]
Fortunately the legal moves failed and the amalgamation of those unions came about. [More…]
The Opposition is using the matter of union amalgamations as a big bogy in an effort to frighten the Australian people. [More…]
But as the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) mentioned in his speech, in other countries many fewer unions than there are in Australia cover work forces much larger than ours. [More…]
His special reference, of course, was to West Germany where, I think he said, the number of industrial unions is 16. [More…]
My own experience as a member of one of the amalgamated metal unions showed me the wastefulness of unions fighting unions over which has jurisdiction over a certain class of work. [More…]
Most of these disputes finished up with hard feelings existing between the unions involved. [More…]
The problem of demarcation disputes in the metal industry became a thing of the past following the amalgamation of those unions. [More…]
Mention was made also by the honourable member for Gellibrand of union research and the greater use of unions resources in setting up research centres etc. [More…]
The existing combined research centre operating in Sydney was set up by a couple of unions of the amalgamated trade unions prior to their amalgamation and certainly is an example of what can be achieved when union resources are pooled for the benefit of the members of those unions. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition also mentioned the inclusion in the Bill of provisions to give greater rights of entry to union officials. [More…]
Here again, if one takes an antiunion stand, some employers would see dangers in this, but the employer who is interested in maintaining good industrial relations would not raise any serious objection to such a provision. [More…]
It also is important that in many matters facing a trade union official, investigations must take place while normal work is being carried out. [More…]
For example, if it were felt by the employees that a certain operation was a safety hazard, would it be unreasonable to have the union official make an inspection or investigation on the job, while work was being performed? [More…]
Refusal to allow right of entry on the job to a union official has often been the cause of a dispute. [More…]
I know of a number of occasions when a union official has been refused entry and the employees, of their own choosing, have decided that if the official could not come and see them, they would go and see him and, as a result, they walked off the job. [More…]
The provisions in this Bill give effect to that platform as they refer to the rights and safeguards of the individual member of a union. [More…]
Not one piece of that legislation sought to confer civil immunity on trade unions. [More…]
Certainly not one piece of legislation sought to build into the trade union movement the vested interest which it undoubtedly will acquire under the terms of the legislation now proposed. [More…]
It is in direct contrast with the dictatorial and muddling policies of the previous Government, The great difference in this Government’s administration is that the Ministers and the members of the Labor Government possess a wealth of knowledge of the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not speak in this debate as a theorist but as a person who was a trade union official for 14 years. [More…]
I have knowledge of how industrial law operates and of how it has operated to the detriment of the work force and trade unionists in Australia and of how it has been responsible for a lot of industrial unrest in Australia. [More…]
Their policy was to rely on the big stick and to wield it against members of the trade union movement in an attempt to bludgeon them into submission. [More…]
Many employer organisations prefer to negotiate with trade union representatives. [More…]
1 refer now to the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
An honourable member opposite - I think it was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) - mentioned earlier that two out of 1,000 members of a union could bring about a situation where amalgamation of unions could result. [More…]
One could apply the same, sort of theory, I suppose, to the election of trade union officials; two out of 1,000 members could also elect a general secretary or any other officer. [More…]
As all Australians know, this occurred about June last year when the Acting Prime Minister, now the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), called on the assistance of several international firms to oppose union demands for a 35 hour working week. [More…]
On the question of amalgamation, contrary to the claims by Opposition speakers, fewer unions will mean fewer disputes, better understanding and a higher standard of union management. [More…]
Surely a better system will develop with fewer unions being responsible for award matters. [More…]
The present Government’s intention to facilitate union amalgamations shows a desire to permit unions whose members seek amalgamation to make a decision and thereby to run their own affairs. [More…]
I repeat that fewer unions and a higher standard of representation of unionists will result in better industrial relations in this country. [More…]
As a former trade union official, I know that penalties imposed on unions do nothing to prevent disputes. [More…]
The Government in this legislation has introduced measures concerning the amalgamation of various unions. [More…]
The legislation now before the Parliament indicates to me that amalgamation of unions will be able to take place with very little interest being taken by the members themselves. [More…]
I appreciate the point that it is up to the union members to take an interest in their own affairs. [More…]
I also appreciate that any major change involving the amalgamation of unions should take place on a more democratic basis than is proposed under the Bill that we are considering. [More…]
I do not believe the proposal that an amalgamation can take place with a majority of those voting - which could be very few indeed in the case of some unions - is in the best interests of the union movement. [More…]
No [ doubt there are far too many unions in Australia Iia at the moment - I think that in all there are more than 300 unions - but I do not believe that this piece of legislation now before the House is the right way to achieve amalgamations in relation to those unions. [More…]
Inflation does harm the person who is a member of a union without great industrial power. [More…]
Even the trade unions will not support the Government if it stands by and not only allows the inflationary pressures to rise but also contributes to them by such actions as arguing in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that there should be an $11.50 flat rise. [More…]
Indeed, Mr Jolly, the Australian Council of Trade Unions advocate, said that he thought the rise should be about $5. [More…]
When that action is taken to protect the economy the Government will enter into a deflationary period in which people will be thrown out of work and there emphasise that I am talking about powerful groups like the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union which is a combination of what were formerly the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, the Sheetmetal Workers Union, and the. [More…]
Amalgamated Engineering Union and has about 180.000 members - have immense political and economic power. [More…]
The fact that it disadvantages the workforce in a community - fellow workers - and that it makes life intolerable for those people who rely on electricity, transport, power or bread and children who enjoy drinks and ice cream, matters not when a political strike is called for the trade unions’ purposes. [More…]
This Bill builds up the strength of unions. [More…]
But it dare not do so because the base of the Labor Party’s political support lies in the trade unions and the trade unions are totally unwilling to accept that wage increases increase costs and that costs increase prices. [More…]
The unions will not permit the Labor Party to take action on this matter. [More…]
This Bill is a way of giving to the trade union movement - the powerful sections of the trade union movement - tangible thanks for the support that was given to the Labor Party to get it into office. [More…]
They surely could not have been prepared to have legislation introduced in the House which would put the unions in such a privileged position. [More…]
The Government talks about socialist philosophy, about a classless society, but by this legislation they are creating a class society in which the dominant class comprises the officials of powerful trade unions. [More…]
The Government will provide for union domination on national events. [More…]
The unions’ views will be the dominant views of this Government - and by this legislation the Government will strengthen the unions. [More…]
I am not talking about small unions but about the powerful agglomerations of unions that the Government wants to see become even more powerful in amalgamation. [More…]
Trade unions today - when I use the term ‘trade unions’ I [More…]
What is really meant is the absence of any penalties, but the absence of penalties, of course, is related entirely to the absence of penalties on unions. [More…]
If this Bill is passed, a union may strike with impunity. [More…]
In future the unions will be able to do exactly as they wish. [More…]
But the situation still exists that if a trade union leader takes his union members and pickets a particular factory, prevents goods coming in or going out and prevents workmen going to work, the employer suffers immense damage. [More…]
To give this sort of immunity to a trade union officer and to put him above the law as distinct from any other citizen in the Commonwealth is quite clearly a retrograde action. [More…]
It would prevent also fellow-employees, intimated by a union or union officers, from suing the intimidator to obtain relief from that intimidation. [More…]
In conjunction with the abolition of sanctions, it will grant to the unions and union officers positions of privilege not enjoyed by other sections of the community. [More…]
The third point about which I wish to speak concerns the amalgamations of unions. [More…]
Under the present law, before unions can amalgamate there must be a ballot. [More…]
It is to be just a matter of the union itself deciding how it will conduct the ballot. [More…]
What will happen is that the ballot will be decided in any way that the union chooses to have it decided. [More…]
This is not really a fair go for the Australian people, who are very greatly affected by what happens in amalgamations of unions, the putting together of very powerful groups in the community. [More…]
I understand that there are just over 300 unions in Australia today. [More…]
There are a number of people who say that amalgamations would be a good thing because there would be fewer unions to deal with but the amalgamations of which we are speaking are not the amalgamations of the small unions to make them more efficient and to take away the need to negotiate with several unions. [More…]
It is not the small unions that are affected by the amalgamation clause. [More…]
There is in fact very little impetus for small unions to amalgamate. [More…]
The major force for amalgamation is in the big and powerful unions. [More…]
One instance of this, as I said at the outset, is the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union, which now comprises 180,000 unionists who were formerly members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society and the Sheetmetal Workers Union. [More…]
There is a great deal of talk about a proposed amalgamation of unions in the transport complex. [More…]
Negotiations are taking place between the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association of Australasia. [More…]
I understand that enticement is being put out to the Seamen’s Union of Australia and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia to join in this transport complex. [More…]
Can the House imagine the power that would be brought to bear on the public when these 2 amalgamated union groups get together or future amalgamated groups get together? [More…]
No rules say when the ballot is to be open to union members or state the period of time during which ballot papers have to go out or during which any argument can be put for and against amalgamation. [More…]
The union management executive alone could have a vote and that could result in amalgamation proposals. [More…]
I believe that to take away any statutory provision relating to amalgamation is simply to turn over to the powerful officials at the top of the trade unions a tremendous accretion to their power. [More…]
The Minister for Labour will have the problem of dealing with them, and everybody knows that when he has been confronted in the past with trade union power he has buckled. [More…]
That is what will happen in the future because he will be confronted with even greater unions power. [More…]
From his own personal experiences the Minister has come to hate his own union and to be in opposition to it. [More…]
Yet as a member of the Australian Labor Party he is perennially dedicated to the proposition that the unions are above the law and that the unions should make the law. [More…]
On the one hand the power of shop stewards is to be exalted and this will make for disruption in a sense directed against the central powers of their own unions. [More…]
On the other hand, the unions as a whole are to be put above the law and are to be made free of any responsibility for what they do. [More…]
This division of purposes probably illustrates the influences of people in the unions who are out not to help the members of their own unions but to cause disruption as a settled policy. [More…]
The unions under our present system, and even more so under the proposals before us, have become law making bodies. [More…]
Too often a union is able to impose a sanction on its own members. [More…]
The impression has gained currency too often in the community that union law is in some way superior to the law of the Australian nation. [More…]
This means that if there is a union in the field, dissatisfied members who dislike the union, for example, like the Minister who disliked the Australian Workers Union in his time, will be able and will have the right under this Convention which is binding on Australia to establish another union. [More…]
All sorts of people could join the one union. [More…]
Girls working in hospitals could all join that same union. [More…]
If the honourable member had his way presumably they would have the right to go to the Registrar and to say: ‘Look, here is a wonderful union. [More…]
The honourable member will know, if he has any knowledge of the industrial world, that on occasions more than one union covers much the same field. [More…]
If the honourable member cares to examine this matter he will see that the very thing about which he and his colleagues screamed for so long when they were in government in regard 10 loss of production, loss of man hours, industrial disputes and other kinds of terrible practices, on occasions was caused by more than one union operating in the same field. [More…]
Apart from the honourable gentleman’s speciality in being associated with one trade union I have probably had far more to do with the trade union movement than has the honourable member who interjects, and I can assure him that this has been not with tame cat unions. [More…]
I am sorry that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) chose to speak disparagingly of my colleague, the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan), because he should realise that the honourable gentleman, until he came into this Parliament, was easily one of the most eminent trade union officials in Australia. [More…]
He had been a prominent trade union official for all his working life. [More…]
He came into the trade union movement as the State Secretary of the Federal Clerks Union of Australia when he was only 22 years of age, and he is regarded by all sections of the trade union movement - whether they are communists, supporters of the Democratic Labor Party, Labor Party people, right, left or centre - as the most competent and one of the most capable men in the business. [More…]
This Bill is merely to give effect to what employers organisations and companies, trade union organisations, trade unions and members of the Arbitration Commission have found to be a very convenient and very useful method of performing the work of settling disputes. [More…]
I have never heard anyone in the trade union movement complain about the attitude that if you can get a sound conciliator he is the man who can achieve a great deal in this field. [More…]
Mine has been but a humble pursuit, but I have dealt with some rather rugged trade union leaders. [More…]
They were respected by the trade union movement and had tremendous capacity to resolve industrial disputes. [More…]
If his Government looks at it in total - not as representing the trade union movement alone - it will come to the conclusion that this clause is contrary to the best interests of the nation and contrary to the system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) must appreciate that one of the emerging problems which has caused concern to governments around the world in relation to the trade union movement has been the increasing power of the shop steward. [More…]
This movement has seen the breakdown of the structure of the senior union body. [More…]
I invite Government supporters to address themselves to this problem because it poses considerable difficulty for the entire area of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The proposal before the Committee would allow, for example, a shop steward to refuse to undertake any work on the ground that he must pursue his union activities full time. [More…]
I would have thought that the first thing that the Minister would have sought to do with this legislation would have been to protect elected union officers at the senior levels from the grass fires that can take place because of unwarranted and unjustifiable direct action by persons such as shop stewards taking the affairs of particular disputes into their own hands. [More…]
The lesson has been a marked increase in industrial unrest; a rash of strikes and, for the first time in the last quarter of a century, strikes which have been officially blessed by the Government, and honourable members know the examples of this in recent times; the rapid escalation in inflationary pressures; the build up of union monopoly power. [More…]
He seems to overlook the fact - if he had had any practical experience of this he would know - that in all industrial matters the people on the job, the union members, will express their point of view, in fact have expressed their point of view, and their elected officials, whether shop stewards or full time officials of the union are there to do the bidding of the members. [More…]
Take the case of a shearing shed involving the Australian Workers Union, although I do not think that Mr Edgar Williams would bend over backwards to arrange a meeting for the [More…]
Union rules provide for this. [More…]
The relevant Act provides a procedure by which the people who represent the members of the union are elected in a proper way. [More…]
The shop stewards and union officers have an integral part to play. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) raised the case in which union members might attend a meeting addressed by the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
If they were brought out to listen to the Minister speaking in defence of individuals like the honourable member for Moreton, it would be legitimate for people to defend their own rights in considering what they had to consider in terms of legitimate union business. [More…]
These are governments that at the drop of a hat have discriminated against union representatives such as shop stewards when they have legitimately gone about their business. [More…]
Unions are responsible bodies of people and if people step out of line and do not act in accordance with the rules of unions, the unions will certainly deal with them. [More…]
What is in fact happening here is that legitimate protection is being given for properly and duly elected officers of unions. [More…]
It does not protect individuals who step out of the bounds of the rules of unions which were set out when the union concerned was first formed. [More…]
I believe, as I said this morning, that this clause has to be read alongside section 138 of the Act which at present prohibits a boycott or action being taken by a member or officer of a union which is designed to prevent a person complying with the award or with his contract of employment. [More…]
In other words, this clause, if it becomes law, will permit a shop steward or official of a union to incite people to break awards. [More…]
We find that it applies to any action which he might take either on the shop floor, within the industry or anywhere else, as is clearly set out, provided only that the employee believes that it is for the purpose of protecting the industrial interests of the union. [More…]
I can take action to ensure that anything that I believe is in the interests of the union or its industrial interests I can in fact do’. [More…]
In this Bill is a clause which shows a preference for a particular type of official or person in a union. [More…]
The way that the clause will work - and let us not get stirred up about it - is that the employee or union official who has been victimised, to use a word that paraphrases the complaints or the offences in the provision, is required to lay a charge, launch a prosecution and prove the facts. [More…]
So it is quite clear that the section as amended by the Bill will still place the onus upon the employee or the union official to prove all the facts and to prove all the circumstances constituting the alleged offence, and when that is done the Bill, not the Act as it now stands, gives the employer for the very first time another defence. [More…]
The whole purpose of this clause of the Bill, as has been adequately explained, except obviously to the understanding of the Opposition, is to provide protection for employees who are engaged in legitimate union business. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) spoke about great difficulties being experienced in Britain, and he attributed those difficulties to the unions in Britain. [More…]
It seems that the trade unions have resented the oppressiveness of the Conservative Government in Britain and quite naturally have reacted against that oppression. [More…]
The lesson to be learned in Australia is that the oppression of trade unions will bring about exactly that sort of situation. [More…]
The organisation in this case is the union. [More…]
They can only act within the limits of authority expressly or impliedly conferred on them by their unions. [More…]
Let us show the trade union movement and the 5i million people who work in this country to provide the other 8 million people with the goods and services they need, exactly who stands where when it comes to the protection of the employees and the privilege to be retained by die employing class. [More…]
Some suggestion has been made that the total proposal to amend section 5 is in some way a move to give improper power to shop stewards to build up union monopoly power, as I think the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) put it. [More…]
There is no case, nor is there any need for a case, under section 5 where there is strong union organisation. [More…]
Where there is union power, to use the words of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, this provision is not required and it certainly is never used. [More…]
If an employer in a strongly organised shop attempts to intimidate or victimise a union delegate another action occurs. [More…]
Victimisation simply does not occur where there is adequate union organisation, where there are properly regulated industrial relations. [More…]
Most responsible employers I know are very sensitive to the charge that they may be victimising a union delegate. [More…]
The provision is necessary to protect a union delegate in a poorly organised plant or establishment conducted by a fly by night or reactionary employer. [More…]
There are still some such employers who would seek to prevent union organisation in their establishments. [More…]
To speak of the whole problem of shop stewards and the finish of negotiation in the trade union movement is to draw a read herring across the trail. [More…]
There will be defiance of union leadership and objectives. [More…]
The Minister has reported to the Parliament his proposal to establish schools and training procedures for union delegates, shop stewards and the like. [More…]
I repeat that where there is a strong organisation - where there is union power, as the Opposition puts it - whether monopoly or otherwise, there is no need for statutory protection of shop stewards, because they have it in a much more effective way. [More…]
The honourable member might say ‘Shame’ but where do the officials of the union fit in here? [More…]
They are clothed with authority within the organisation to manage its affairs, and generally within the rules of an organisation they are clothed with authority to conduct negotiations and to make references to the Commission and to act for the organisation in the place of, for example, the 180,000 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
This can be and is an eroding and weakening of the authority of official management of unions. [More…]
I know that so often the management of a union, in order to get out of difficulties - may be it is in order to get out of an agreement it does not want to enter into - will go back to the men and, if the word goes around in the right way, of course the men will not agree. [More…]
Really, what kind of union organisation does the Minister want? [More…]
We who have been brought up in the trade union movement - and on this side of the House there are about 20 who have spent a lot of their working lives as trade union officials - know perfectly well that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink and that you can make an agreement but you cannot make the members accept it. [More…]
Making an agreement in a board room with the employers’ representatives is one thing, but getting the members to honour the agreement outside is another thing, as union officials and management have often learned to their dismay. [More…]
If we want the rank and file of a union, who are covered by an agreement or, if you like, a consent award, to honour that agreement or consent award they ought to be consulted because it is their labour that is being bargained and sold. [More…]
The union representative is their agent and he has, in my view, every obligation to consult his principals on the kind of agreement that he ought to make on their behalf. [More…]
lt is not good enough to say that in respect of the negotiation of agreements the unions’ chief officers or their management committees stand in the shoes of the membership. [More…]
When the agreement is put to the membership and the membership has an opportunity of considering it, if the agreement is accepted by the membership, who are bound by it after they have had it explained to them, the agreement becomes the agreement of the members - of the union in its real sense - and it is binding and should be honoured and carried out by those members. [More…]
Of course, it is by union officials. [More…]
When I was the Secretary of the Australian Workers Union we used to negotiate agreements with the- [More…]
The imposition of a fine on a union when a group of workers is defying the union leadership is useless. [More…]
A problem with workers in defiance of a union is not resolved, by fining the union. [More…]
In fact, Mr Dougherty would have been very quick to remind me that I got the position of secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia in much the same way. [More…]
However, unions sometimes do not anticipate this sort of exigency and therefore there may be something to be said for the proposal. [More…]
As the Committee is well aware, the Bill seeks to remove from the Act all of the provisions under which a penalty can be imposed on a trade union, or a member of a trade union, because the union is involved in or threatens a strike, ban or limitation of work. [More…]
In simple terms, the Government now is proposing that the observance of awards on the part of unions and members of unions in the future will rest, should this legislation be passed - I would not, of course, predict that for one moment - solely on the good faith of unions and officials who cannot be called to account if they breach agreements into which they have freely entered. [More…]
I believe that the increase has taken place against a realisation by the trade union movement that now it has in power a government prepared to support its strike activity and which, in respect of the enforcement of awards, will take no effective action against the unions but certainly will take strong action against the employers. [More…]
We are vigorously opposed to their abolition because we believe it will lead to a further promise of industrial anarchy and union irresponsibility, not just at the present time but in the period ahead. [More…]
He is not entitled to strike benefits from his union because there are very few unions in Australia today with sufficient funds to afford to pay strike pay. [More…]
The richest union in Australia today could not afford to pay strike pay for any more than 10 days if the whole of its membership went out on strike and needed strike pay. [More…]
The richest union by far would finish up insolvent after 10 days. [More…]
Trade union leaders, particularly those at the factory floor level, are sensible enough people to understand when the facts are put to them what is fair and what is unfair. [More…]
My experience has taught me - since I have been a Minister I have had further exemplification of it - that when a person puts the facts fairly to the union leadership they will accept them. [More…]
Even though the facts spell out some change that is detrimental to the union they will accept those changes if people will but take the trouble to confer with them. [More…]
People should consult fairly, honestly and meaningfully with union and labour leaders. [More…]
They related to the operation of the law of torts as it applies to members of unions and to the privileged position in which it puts trade unionists who state that they are acting in the interests of the union either on the factory floor or in any other place. [More…]
No one can deny that today the position of the trade unionist has changed dramatically as compared with the position in the 18th or 19th century. [More…]
They are not directed specifically to the problems of strikes which can take place outside of an award, for a political purpose or because the unionists are incited to strike by those trade union leaders who usually are of socialist left persuasion. [More…]
I dealt with very many redoubtable trade union leaders in that time, particularly the late Mr Jim Healy. [More…]
In the few years subsequent to the threat of bringing down legislation for the imposition of penalties, sanctions and deterrents against the union unless it adhered to the existing awards, we had the greatest period of industrial peace that I believe we have known in postwar years. [More…]
It provides that no longer will it be possible to put into an award that is duly made a bans clause to prevent certain types of action by members of the trade union movement. [More…]
In the minute and a half remaining to me I want to point out that we know that today the power of the trade unions is infinitely greater than the powers of management. [More…]
The whole trend and thrust of the Bill now before the committee is to reduce the capacity and power of the Government and of the Arbitration Commission and to give greater power to the trade union movement, to make it a law unto itself. [More…]
I believe that the Bill will give to the trade union movement a power that can not only gradually change social conditions in this country but can also create the elements, the basis upon which inflation will become permanently part and parcel of our economic and social life. [More…]
No longer are the unions in a defensive position as they could have been considered to be then; they are now in an offensive position, and there is overwhelming contemporary evidence to show that on occasions they are willing and ready to abuse the balance of power they now hold. [More…]
So the Government is cynically prepared to run the risk of lockouts because it feels, probably with some justification, that union power is such as to make lockouts in fact very unlikely. [More…]
which states that the rules of an organisation may provide that in certain circumstances at certain elections for officers those eligible to vote are only a certain number or section of a union. [More…]
The only other matter is this: The Minister has pointed out that in certain circumstances a union position may be vacant for some time. [More…]
In many cases the union rules provide specifically that when this sort of situation occurs an appointment may be made under the union rules to fill that vacancy for an interim period. [More…]
The Minister made the point that where the union rules do not provide that an appointment may be made, this amendment allows that to be done. [More…]
What about the situation of a union which may have had an unfortunate experience of an official being appointed under its rules as they were and then saying: By golly, we are not going to get caught like that again. [More…]
I ask the Minister to consider whether there may be yet another drafting amendment which could take account of a union which did not omit this possibility by oversight; it omitted it deliberately because of some previous experience. [More…]
One of the amendments proposed by clause 50 of the Bill concerns the situation where 2 candidates submit nominations for a position in a union and one dies before the poll is held. [More…]
This distressed my friend no end when he was placed in that circumstance and became the State secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia. [More…]
I am sure that if the Minister really wants fair elections in unions this provision will commend itself to him. [More…]
All he will be doing will be to say: If a scrutineer at an election thinks that there has been any misdemeanour in regard to that election, and if he makes as he can under the Act an official complaint to the Industrial Registrar, the rules of the union shall provide, that all information and documents within the control of the union and every one of its officers shall be made available to the Industrial Registrar for examination. [More…]
Clause 55, which is included in this group of clauses, provides for the insertion of a new section 146a which is intended to grant what has been briefly described as civil immunity to unions and to union officials from any harm that is done to other persons by industrial action, except in certain specific cases mentioned in the section, namely, death or physical injury, physical damage to property or threats of that kind, or defamation. [More…]
This is something about which I spoke at the second reading stage but clearly it is tied in with the intention of the Government to give unions immunity not only from civil action but also from any penalty in the face of strikes, whether they be strikes against awards or strikes against agreements. [More…]
It is easy for the Minister to say: ‘Why should unions be subject to any civil action when they have and ought to have a right to strike?’ [More…]
But we are in the 20th century and we have come a long way since the battles were fought for the right of workers to organise into trade unions. [More…]
As I said in my second reading speech, a person can suffer financial death at the hands of a union, a group of union officials or of union members, just as easily as a person can suffer financial death from the direct action of individuals who are not unionists or officials of a union. [More…]
So why, in one case, should a person who is not a unionist or an official of a union be liable in the courts of law and, in the other case, a union official or union member not be liable? [More…]
These provisions, no doubt, are designed to avoid, for example, the situation in which unions found themselves in the United King- dom where a union sought to deprive a man of his employment because he would not join that union. [More…]
As the honourable member for Moreton points out, that was the celebrated case of Rookes v. Barnard where the tort of intimidation was acknowledged to be available against a union. [More…]
In that case the individual - the employee, the person for whom the Minister spoke most highly this morning and in great indignation because he thought it was his exclusive preserve to speak in favour of individuals who are employees - was fortunate enough to find that the agreement that the union had entered into with the British Overseas Airways Corporation contained a nostrike clause. [More…]
That means that in Australia a person who is deprived of his livelihood because of direct union action would have no remedy available to him. [More…]
It can be said that we on this side are the ones who, in this case, are seeking to uphold the rights of individuals, be they members of a union, be they employees, be they any other members of the community. [More…]
It must be understood that what we are really proposing here is that we should not permit the provision for monetary penalties for strike actions to be taken out of the Act and another provision put in its place - in fact we do not need to put anything in the Act; we need only let the law stand as it is - that will be far more severe than the mere imposition of monetary penalties upon a union or a corporate body. [More…]
What this clause proposes is to prevent the replacement of monetary penalties upon a union with a law that allows individual penalties of imprisonment upon officials of unions because the simple process - to follow the interjection of the honourable member for Stirling who knows the law so well - is to make an application for an injunction, having first of all established liability for torts, and then if the person does not refrain from the action which the injunction seeks to restrain him from continuing he is arrested and taken to prison. [More…]
The only thing that unions can do in these circumstances is to have somebody take the place of the man who is gaoled and for him to give the instruction for the boycott to continue, and as each person who gives the fresh instruction is prosecuted, tried, issued with an injunction and gaoled, somebody else will take his place until the gaols are full of honest, decent hard working men who have never committed a crime in their lives but who find themselves standing side by side with murderers, common thieves, pickpockets and prostitutes. [More…]
That is what will happen if the law of torts is to be applied to union officials in respect of industrial actions. [More…]
As I have pointed out the effectiveness of the organised working people to protect and advance their conditions of life is based to a significant degree on the power of their unions to organise a withdrawal of labour as the last resort. [More…]
Suddenly, without any change in the officials of the union concerned, there was a strike involving some 8,000 men. [More…]
Union officials and strike leaders should not be penalised for inherent defects in our system of industrial relations when industrial action has been taken for the purpose of furthering the strikers’ legitimate interests. [More…]
A fear - a genuine fear - is held by trade unionists that employers will, with the aid of the civil courts, introduce a new weapon which will turn the history of this country back just as the working people are coming out into the light. [More…]
The judges of that time regarded union organisation as criminal conspiracy. [More…]
In the case of Rookes v. Barnard, to which I have just referred and which was decided in 1964, the plaintiff claimed that he was dismissed from his employment because his fellow employees, who belonged to s. union from which he had resigned, had intimidated the employer into making a decision to dismiss the plaintiff by threatening a strike which was in breach of their contracts of employment. [More…]
The protection it is now :oUght to afford to union officials and others for actions in tort is part of the general scheme to dismantle the Act. [More…]
The clause with which we are now dealing seeks to make an employer even more helpless in the face of irresponsible union action. [More…]
No one denies that right, but I think the Minister would buy an argument from honourable members on this side of the House on whether most strikes are responsible or whether the union leaders who call their people out on strike are acting for legitimate reasons. [More…]
We expect leadership from the Government, which the Minister says is promoting harmonious relations by the protection given in this measure to union representatives. [More…]
A union shop steward may go to an employer and say that unless a particular employee is sacked the factory will go out on strike. [More…]
A union representative may say to an employer: ‘Unless you force every one of your people in this shop to become members of a particular union we will take all the workers out on strike. [More…]
Union representatives will be able to picket private individuals’ homes, to parade up and down the street intimidating wives and families, throwing stones on the roof. [More…]
The Minister may find that the protection which he hopes to give to some of his colleagues and pals in the union movement does not exist. [More…]
A union on the other hand, may break the award immediately after it has been made. [More…]
A union can breach it with complete impunity. [More…]
A union may breach it by simply refusing to work under it or by bringing illegal pressure to bear by some tortious action on a customer or other person involved with the employer at the time. [More…]
These are the features from which the Minister for Labour is seeking to exempt the unions, so as to give them a completely free hand. [More…]
An employer will be left absolutely helpless at the mercy of some irresponsible unions. [More…]
The honourable member for Eden-Monaro claimed, firstly, that the present industrial dispute within wool stores followed a deliberately engineered plan by the government to displace men employed in wool stores from their jobs; secondly, that there was no consultation between the Australian Wool Corporation and the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and other people employed in the woo] market on potential marketing changes which would lead to greater marketing efficiencies; thirdly, that wages paid to storemen in wool stores are the lowest within the award and that there is a high turnover of labour as a result; and, fourthly, that the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers and Dalgety Australia Ltd, through Mr William Vines, dictated wool policy to the Australian Country Party. [More…]
Does the honourable member know that the union has been kept fully briefed of the situation regarding the development of these techniques and that on 22nd March union officials, together with broker representatives, went to a Wool Corporation store in Sydney to examine the progress of the Corporation’s jumbo bale development? [More…]
The Victorian section of the union dissented as they required direct industrial action. [More…]
Did the Minister for Labour see the report in this morning’s ‘Australian’ to the effect that major union leaders are putting heavy pressure on the Government over clause 50 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill? [More…]
Has the Minister written to the Australian Council of Trade Unions for its opinion? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that he will stand by his announced commitment to ensure a system of democratic control of all unions allowing fullest participation by members in their affairs? [More…]
The protests are against clause 50 of the Bill which prohibits future registration of any union rule which would have the effect of depriving the rank and file of that union of a direct vote in the election of the members of the union’s management committee. [More…]
But another basis of the opposition is the cost of having a rank and file ballot of the whole of a union’s Australian membership. [More…]
Elections can be asked for, which will cost the unions nothing, but I dare say that part of the opposition to the collegiate system will disappear when the position is understood. [More…]
Clause 50 does not apply to existing union rules which permit the collegiate system for the election of federal secretaries. [More…]
But we can prevent and we intend in the Bill to prevent any future registration of union rules that would have the effect of depriving rank and file members of a direct vote for their officials. [More…]
I have not written to the Australian Council of Trade Unions but I have kept in touch with the ACTU for several weeks. [More…]
I must congratulate the 3 union officials who took the main brunt of organising the telegrams for the response they have managed to bring about because the campaign did not seem to get off the ground until yesterday morning and already 35 of the 41 telegrams that can be expected have come in. [More…]
He will be disappointed to learn that the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, the Seamen’s Union of Australia and the Miners Federation also have not yet sent me telegrams of protest. [More…]
The honourable member will be surprised or, perhaps, pleased to learn that none of the trade union officials who normally support the Democratic Labor Party point of view has sent me a telegram but there has been a fairly broad spectrum of points of view represented in the telegrams that I have received. [More…]
Some of them are from unions that are not even affiliated with the Australian Labor Party, but that does not matter. [More…]
There are 4.5 million working people in this country, 2.5 million of whom are rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
The views of the union most directly involved - the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation - deserve consideration. [More…]
We are taking very seriously the views of unions which point out the possible dangers of fallout from French atomic tests to unborn Australian children - a danger by radiation. [More…]
It is one of the possibilities which has caused the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions to organise a world boycott of France. [More…]
The nurses’ organisation is the union concerned and it points out the known consequences in nervous breakdown to nurses who are called on to repudiate the fundamental motive which led them into the profession - the motive to save life. [More…]
In this regard I believe that the Authority should have avails able to it the widest panels of advisory groups, including trade unions. [More…]
We have a trade union representative in the advisory committee. [More…]
Beyond the advisory committee which in itself is a bureaucratic sort of structure we may need to get a wider conspectus of opinion from trade union groups, employers, consumers, retailers, industrialists, educationists, housewives’ groups, youth advisory groups and sporting, cultural and recreational groups. [More…]
For instance, ILO’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations in each year since 1959 has been requesting the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to provide the texts of the labour codes in force for the republics of the Union. [More…]
Although we must be concerned with social justice in this context, we must recognise also that trade union movements have become more concerned with immediate industrial objectives. [More…]
It is within the memory of every member of this House that when sporting representatives from a country that is notorious for selecting its teams on a racial basis came to Australia the people of this country, including of course trade union officials and members, raised great protest at the flaunting in the face of the Australian people of the policy of such a decadent regime as that of South Africa. [More…]
So those who stood in this House at that time and criticised and condemned the trade unions for their progressive thinking and their willingness to take action on a social question, must of course now stand condemned themselves, because the ILO states that the action taken by the unions is exactly what should have happened anyhow. [More…]
It was the Government of the day that was at fault not the trade unions which took action. [More…]
I must come back to the point that the ILO is not just some super trade union movement but that in fact it concerns itself with all matters that affect people and their associations with one another, such abhorrent matters as apartheid, and seeing that those nations which have dependencies make every effort to ensure that the workmen who work in those dependencies and thereby create the wealth are not denied any share of that wealth. [More…]
The previous Government of this country was notorious for the way in which it endeavoured to break the organised trade union movement in this country, the only voice with which many people in this country could speak. [More…]
As a former union official in the stevedoring industry, he cannot be expected adequately to evaluate and report on arrangements for the future rationalisation of the industry which would necessarily take into account the interests of all parties, of course including the general public. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation, the Graziers Association and the Wool Industry Conference - none of them want a referendum on this issue. [More…]
It will certainly be much more with the feather-bedding that is going on at the present time by the minority government which is a sedulous and obsequious servant of the union bosses, because it is aware the unions will not re-endorse it for the next election. [More…]
Mr Speaker, last year there were quite a number of trade union boycotts on trade with France. [More…]
This does not mean that there is no scope at all for union action against French nuclear tests. [More…]
One other point I would like to make is that, in line with the Labor policy of jobs for the boys, provision is to be made for a trade union representative to be one of the 5 members of the Authority. [More…]
He will be appointed not because of his knowledge of the pipeline business or because of his great skill and ability in particular fields of business but to represent the trade unions. [More…]
But what unionists will the appointee represent? [More…]
Very few people will be working on the pipeline after it is completed; so why have a trade union representative? [More…]
The Government does not even say which union this appointee will represent. [More…]
Japan and the United States are combining to develop Siberian oil and gas in their own long term interest and, one assumes, that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
There is also in the Bill reference to a union member. [More…]
Of those 3, one is to be a trade union representative and one is to be the secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
It must rank the defeat of inflation above the soothing of the unions’ industrial desires and the smoothing of their feathers. [More…]
It is counter-productive to express concern about inflation and to support union demands for higher wages, shorter hours of work and longer holidays. [More…]
This means that the Commonwealth will have to face up to its obligations by recognising the effects on inflation of wages and incomes and not be frightened and dictated to by trade union pressures and accept that this matter can be overlooked and is of no importance. [More…]
The natural scope for the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the central role of the Australian Council of Trade Unions within the union movement tend to accelerate the rate at which money wage increases in industries achieving rapid improvements in productivity spread to industries achieving more modest gains. [More…]
The other serious factors that will push inflation to the roof are, of course, the Government’s support of union claims for a 35-hour week, which looks like coming into effect over the next year or two, costing not only the employers but also the Australian people an additional $3,000m annually. [More…]
If trade union militancy is supposed to be the cause of inflation it is remarkable how it increased apparently - if that thesis is right - in all the developed countries of the western world at more or less the same time. [More…]
Quite clearly Mr Congdon, having analysed inflation in the United Kingdom in particular, in that article has rejected the whole concept of trade union militancy as the cause of inflation. [More…]
Now if it is the case that the current inflation may be explained in the terms set out in this article it follows at once that explanations that look to purely domestic causes of inflation - I am thinking here in particular of those explanations that centre of tradeunion militancy - are quite simply too parochial in outlook and confuse the description of inflation with the analysis of its causes. [More…]
Certainly there is ample room within the explanation I have advanced for trade unions to demand large increase in morey wages in a period in which large increases in prices are anticipated, and for employers to be willing to concede to such increases. [More…]
I know of no evidence, however, that would compel disbelief in the assertions of trade union leaders that their ‘militancy’ in recent years has been the result of their desire to protect their members living standard against erosion by an inflationary process neither of their creation nor under their control. [More…]
These articles all reject the union militancy hypothesis and point instead to the upsurge of world inflation initiated in the United States in the mid-1960s and being transmitted to countries all over the developed capitalist world by way of demand effects through the balance of payments and by way of direct and indirect price effects through imports particularly but also through exports. [More…]
Secondly, in a situation of world inflation, the use of such draconian measures as penal clauses and unemployment to hamstring unions and control wages will not stop inflation because union militancy is not the uderlying cause of inflation. [More…]
They do not see it as something that has a union jack in the corner and is therefore something of which they should be ashamed. [More…]
Mr Mundey is Secretary of that union, as we all know. [More…]
On 21st August 1972 the Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales State Labor Council was threatened and kicked by left wing members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia in what he called one of the worst displays of union violence he had seen. [More…]
The Government is a sectional party - it describes itself as the political arm of the trade union movement - and it is prepared to submerge the interests of the community as a whole before the sectional interests of its members. [More…]
There has been no reference to it because the Labor Party is based four square on the trade union movement. [More…]
Whatever the truth of the matter was, he said in that speech that large numbers of people in the trade union movement believe that their wages are controlled. [More…]
The State committees will be organised on a tripartite basis with an independent chairman, 2 government representatives, and one trade union and one employer representative. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that the Government’s decision to spend $188m for teacher education in the next 2i years has aroused the wrath of the Victorian Teachers Union? [More…]
The Union claims that the amount offered to Victoria is $3 3m less than the amount established by the 1969 needs survey. [More…]
The Victorian Secondary Teachers’ Association expressed the opinion that the Victorian Government would not be able to spend the money and the Victorian Teachers’ Union has come in with a different opinion. [More…]
The first thing I would like to say about the statement of the Victorian Teachers’ Union is that that body is comparing unlike. [More…]
It is also quite a misrepresentation to suggest that the needs survey - and this is a persistent habit of some of these unions - stated that all the money to be found for education in Australia in 5 years was to come from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The Victorian Teachers’ Union also has made comments about what we are going to do about student allowances. [More…]
Until then, apparently the previous Government wanted to threaten people with deportation, as it had previously done when it threatened trade union leaders with deportation because they were involved in what the Government liked to call ‘illegal strikes’ which meant, of course, every strike in this country. [More…]
Following ratification by the tenth signatory State, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the convention came into force on 28 January 1973. [More…]
The Commission informs me that on one occasion the presentation of an interview for “This Day Tonight’ with the Secretary, of the Postal Clerks’ and Telegraphists’ Union was delayed because a representative of the Post Office was not available to reply to certain statements about the Post Office. [More…]
However, I am advised that statements by the Union Secretary, Mr Baker, similar to those made in the ‘This Day Tonight’ program, were shown on the ABC TV news. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) will be interested to know that in granting this maternity leave we are catching up with the eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, East Germany, West Germany and in fact some of the western European countries. [More…]
There was one man whose position gave him unique power to achieve these changes and I here gratefully acknowledge the pivotal role played by President Nixon in ushering in a new and saner phase in our relations with China; in clearing the way for more intensive commercial, scientific, technical and cultural exchanges between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, and thereby achieving a successful first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and ending foreign intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
Similarly, we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, Australia will no longer maintain restraints different from those applied to any other country. [More…]
In March this year we welcomed to Australia the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Mr Patolichev, and a high-level Australian trade delegation led by the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has just completed a successful visit to China. [More…]
Similarly we have decided that on commercial trade with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China, . [More…]
It is expected that the film of the activities of the Festival will have wide distribution following the Festival and that the video cable equipment provided for the closed circuit television hookup between the Festival and the township will be used by the Australian Union of Students on many subsequent occasions. [More…]
A distinguished former office-bearer of the Timber Workers Union, who has lived all his life in East Gippsland, told the meeting: [More…]
The very structure of modern society with giant firms on the one hand and, on the other, big unions (and if the Government’s legislation fostering union amalgamation goes through, there will be still bigger unions) and with neither side necessarily or primarily concerned with the public welfare - this very structure of modern society makes government oversight of the economy and government intervention in the economy in some measure essential. [More…]
I recall, when I was a specialist on wool physics, sitting in the union building of the University of Leeds and wondering why I could not talk to the attractive girls around the union building, until one told me that she was not in the least interested in the plasticity of wool which at that stage was my only interest and my only topic of discussion. [More…]
The Labor Government proposes to abolish sanctions against unions in the industrial system and to erode the authority of the Arbitration Commission to settle strikes and to protect the public interest. [More…]
Cost-push inflation would be encouraged by the adoption of collective bargaining based -on union strength rather than on the merits of a case. [More…]
In fact it deliberately encourages wage increases and union ‘ pressures. [More…]
I will not embark on an exercise of union baiting, but I do say that the lack of responsibility in some sections of our unions, particularly the all-powerful ones, does limit productivity in a way which I think is quite alarming. [More…]
It is trade union action which, through wage-induced price movements, has created the basic problem. [More…]
Let us look at what can happen when there is unwise union pressure. [More…]
This is an example of union power gone mad. [More…]
We used to think that unions were necessary in order to protect - I guess they were - the small man against the big employer, but if we are not careful we will run into a different situation which will overwhelm us. [More…]
I am talking about the power of combined unions which can - I do not say that they always do - stand a country up. [More…]
The important part about this is that it does show that there is a power in the union system that can be used to pick off one section of an industry after another. [More…]
Unless we introduce a greater sense of responsibility in some sections of the union’s system we will run into this kind of economic blood bath, which I can see ahead of us, where there will be this inevitable pressure on prices. [More…]
I think that within the union system there is a kind of assumption - a toogeneral assumption - that incentive payments are automatically bad. [More…]
I was attracted by what the Minister for Labour said that he has in the back of his fertile mind in regard to paying some of the educational expenses incurred by union officials. [More…]
I think we definitely need a much more responsible union leadership in many cases. [More…]
I am not saying for one moment that all the fault is on the union side. [More…]
Recently in South Australia there was a report which advocated more union involvement in the running of companies. [More…]
Maybe it is more difficult in great big units but I can see a lot of sense in a different attitude between union leadership and management in this regard. [More…]
We have to have responsible union leadership. [More…]
The Norwegian Convocation of Bishops have unanimously adopted the following strong and clear statement on the suppression of dissidents in the Soviet Union and other Iron Curtain countries. [More…]
To what extent is consideration given to the factors (a) the degree of day labour employed by the contractor as against the degree of sub-contract workers employed, (b) the policy of the contractor to employ union labour as against non-union labour, (c) the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement and (d) the quota of apprentices the contractor by established awards is entitled to employ and the number employed. [More…]
How does the Minister specifically determine in each case (a) the degree of day labour employed by the contractor as against the degree of sub-contract workers employed, (b) the policy of the contractor to employ union labour as against non-union labour, (c) the relationship of the contractor with the trade union movement and (d) the quota of apprentices the contractor by established awards is entitled to employ and the number employed. [More…]
I have before me a log of claims put out by the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
It sets out the way in which the union expects to be treated. [More…]
The union is asking that an employee should be paid weekly by his employer for all time occupied by the employee in travelling to and from work, and that all fares for travel be paid in addition. [More…]
The Union claims that an employee should without loss of pay be allowed by his employer compassionate leave of 7 consecutive days in connection with the death of a husband, wife, next of kin, or any other relatives. [More…]
The Union is asking that a female employee who becomes pregnant be given 6 months’ leave, 3 months before and 3 months after the birth. [More…]
But Service personnel have no union to represent their interests and it is my firm opinion that any future amendments that are made or, in fact, the drafting of a new Act after the old one is repealed, should not proceed until Service representatives have been consulted and invited to assist in the drafting. [More…]
Some honourable members may have seen the appearance of the television program Federal File’ last Sunday of a Mr Hartley - he is a senior member of the Labor organisation - who quite openly boasted that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Government here would be compelled to do the things which the trade union officials, unelected by anybody except their members, told them to do and that they would decide matters of the foreign policy of Australia. [More…]
As far as the appointment of Mr Egerton is concerned, he is one of the most experienced trade unionists in Australia today. [More…]
Any man who has been in the trade union movement for the last 30 years as an official will have something of major consequence to contribute to the Qantas board, and Lord only knows it needs some trade union assistance because if ever a board has had trouble industrially it has been the Qantas board. [More…]
I know that he with his experience on that Board will bring great credit to the trade, union movement. [More…]
When it comes to the appointment of trade unionists, have a look at the same man, Mr Egerton. [More…]
On the same program, the General Secretary of the Union for Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, Mr John Baker, stated: [More…]
We have seen no resilience or resistance to counter the union demands for higher wages, shorter working hours and better conditions. [More…]
This is the union that is running away from the name of the Country Party. [More…]
It will be a great union. [More…]
There are many factors which made the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Europe and India the major actors on the world stage. [More…]
On the contrary, what we have done is solidly based on a clear appreciation of the gradual but nevertheless real shift in international affairs which has been going on for years and which can be summed up as a change from the bipolar world which characterised the years of the Cold War to the multipolar world which emerged from such events as the split between the Soviet Union and China, the integration of Europe through the European Common Market, the emergence of Japan as a major power and the Nixon Doctrine of greater self reliance in defence preparedness. [More…]
It is true that we are opening up normal diplomatic relations with China, North Vietnam, East Germany and Poland and normal trading relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam and China. [More…]
In the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union has no naval bases; the ships it positions there are drawn from the Pacific and Atlantic Fleets. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730531_reps_28_hor84/#subdebate-59-6)
However, the Government has taken steps to ensure adequate trade union representation on Government created bodies. [More…]
With the General Secretary, Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union of Australia on 26 March. [More…]
With representatives of the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union in company with representatives of the Department of Primary Industry on 1 9 April. [More…]
With representatives of the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union on 27 April. [More…]
In addition, there have been several discussions on the subject between senior officers of the Corporation and individual State officials of the Storemen and Packers’ Union. [More…]
1 ) Will he investigate whether any non-government schools in South Australia are preventing representatives of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia from entering their schools properties for the purpose of recruiting members. [More…]
The ability of the 2 super powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, to destroy each other by nuclear exchange has placed substantial restraint on direct military confrontation. [More…]
They have found that it reduces absenteeism, and much more importantly it reduces the accident rate in industry I believe that the Minister is considering measures designed to encourage industries to play a more active role in this direction, and I am sure that he will have the support of the trade union movement and responsible employers in his efforts, and he certainly has and deserves the support of members on this side of the House and, I hope, on the other side. [More…]
The incidentals allowance is designed to assist students in meeting the cost of fees such as student representative council, union and sports fees. [More…]
I would like to digress here to deal specifically with the issue of student union and similar fees on which I have listened to various arguments since the Government indicated that these charges did not come within the proposed fee abolition arrangements. [More…]
I accept that a complex situation exists and that there are considerable inconsistencies in the present union fee situation. [More…]
There is furthermore a wide diversity in the facilities which are provided under the auspices of the unions. [More…]
The provision of a meanstested incidentals allowance from which student union and similar fees may be paid will ensure that those in need receive assistance to pay the fees. [More…]
I confessed with a sense of no shame last evening the effect that the disintegration of the old Commonwealth had had upon me; the fact that I had looked with a measure of anxiety, a measure of unfeigned hope, for the Commonwealth to be given a role between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. [More…]
and (2) Appointments to boards, commissions, advisory bodies and the like have been drawn from many areas, including the judiciary, commerce, industry, primary industry, education, science and the arts a.> well as from trade unions and employers’ organisations, on the basis of the experience and expertise of the persons concerned. [More…]
No comprehensive records are kept of political affiliations or of whether appointees are union officials or officials in business or professional associations. [More…]
While appreciating the expediency of making this provision with a view to ‘selling’ the tariff cut proposal to the Australian Labor Party’s trade union controllers, I ask: Is not unemployment benefit at this rate highly discriminatory as compared with the $23 a week standard rate and $40.50 a week married rate established by Act No. [More…]
We know that already nuclear weapons are in the hands of the United States of America, the Soviet Union, Communist China, Great Brittain and France. [More…]
The Johnson theory of inflation can be shown to” apply directly to Australia and was so shown in the union’s submission during the national wage case of 1972. [More…]
Representatives have been received from the Victorian Farmers’ Union concerning the increasing cost of meat meal. [More…]
1 have said further that in my view the minimum condition of getting such a policy in a workable form is that there should be trustful co-operation between employer and employee groups with the Government holding the ring, not taking one side or the other as did the previous Government, and that the minimum condition of being able to begin such talks between employer and employee groups is that the trade union movement should believe that something systematic is being done about prices just as it believes that there is systematic regulation of wages. [More…]
It is now fair to ask the following questions: Did the Government engage in this deception because of union pressure since it announced the royal commission? [More…]
This Government has proved beyond all doubt that in presenting this Budget, this cities Budget, it was carrying out the commands of its city-based trade union bosses and that it has no intention at all of assisting the development of the rural section of the community. [More…]
That Bill also contained provision to remove the existing barriers to trade union amalgamation. [More…]
I have never been able to work out where the Opposition stands on trade union amalgamation. [More…]
The more erudite members of the Opposition support moves to make it possible to get rid of a lot of the multitude of unions presently in Australia. [More…]
I think that the Opposition spokesmen who are more responsible than their fellows realise that a proliferation of unions is not good. [More…]
He is the innocent victim because it has nothing to do with an employer when a strike occurs because 2 unions are at loggerheads over which union members should do which job. [More…]
They see no merit in having 305 unions in Australia when in Germany, with 61 million people, they have only 16 unions. [More…]
In the statement I saw he had the good sense to see some merit in giving responsible trade union officials a seat on government-created boards. [More…]
What about the disputes between the New South Wales Transport Workers Union and the Federal Transport Workers Union, which disrupted the oil industry? [More…]
The alternative procedure, which the Government has decided to adopt, is to remove from the Bill it presents on this occasion those sections which the Opposition regards as controversial, namely, the provisions eliminating sanctions against unions and their members who go on strike and the provisions to give protection to organisations and their members from civil actions in tort in connection with industrial disputes. [More…]
There should be, therefore, now, no reason why the Opposition should not readily agree to the reforms which are now contained in this Bill - reforms which are urgently required and which undoubtedly have the support of most organisations, employer and trade union alike, which have the major interest in the effective operation of the conciliation and arbitration machinery. [More…]
Provision will be made to strengthen further the democratic processes in relation to union elections by providing that all full time federal officers in an organisation must be elected by direct vote of the members of the organisation and that the only federal officers who can be elected by the collegiate system shall be part time officers of an organisation’s federal management committee, provided that the officers of the management committee itself are elected by direct vote of the rank and file. [More…]
In particular, I believe that honourable members will approve of the power to determine financial assistance to union members being taken out of the political arena and being given back to an independent statutory authority in the person of the Indus trial Registrar. [More…]
This will ensure that irrespective of the political complexion of the Australian Government the determination whether financial assistance shall be made available to a person who wishes to test the validity of a union rule or to obtain an order for the observance of the rules shall be made without any consideration of the particular political philosophy of that person. [More…]
It continues to illustrate the anti-country prejudice of a trade union based party which cannot understand the interaction between rural and metropolitan economic activity. [More…]
The past Government engaged in union bashing and now we see the Opposition parties trying to construct a myth that we are engaged in farmer bashing. [More…]
It talks about the benefits of a government allied to the trade union movement, but industrial unrest this year is considerably up on last year’s level. [More…]
Already union leaders are stating that they will not be taken in by the ‘money illusion’ and will expect wage increases to cover rises in both consumer prices and productivity and to pick up the backlog. [More…]
I refer to the written promise by the present Prime Minister as given to the Australian Federation of Credit Unions in a letter dated 24 October 1972 which stated that a Labor government would (1) grant exemption from taxation on credit union incomes and (2) allow child endowment, social service and repatriation payments to be credited to the savings accounts of members of credit unions. [More…]
On the domestic front it soon became apparent that the Labor Government was committed to advance the policies of the trade union movement at the expense of the community at large. [More…]
In fact a new element of violence has emerged in union affairs - coincidentally, I suppose, with the introduction in this House of a Bill to remove penal clauses from the arbitration legislation and to exempt unionists from any form of legal punishment for civil wrongs. [More…]
The Government has demonstrated over and over again this year that it has neither the power nor the will to restrain its union cronies. [More…]
Indeed, the United Nations, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and many other international associations are recognising those countries as this Government sensibly has done. [More…]
Did he give an unequivocal commitment to the Federated Clerk’s Union of Australia that equal pay would be introduced into the Australian airline industry from 1 January 1973 on the basis requested by the union. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Public Service itself suffered over 20 years of neglect by the previous Government and welcomes these moves as evidenced by what was said by one of its union leaders on the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s AM’ program this morning? [More…]
Even though we are now out of Vietnam, even though the Republican President of the United States has forged a new detente with China and with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and even though there is not a country within 1,000 miles of Australia that appears to be remotely aggressive or expansionist - unless of course one thinks that New Zealand, since it went socialist, is a threat to Australia - clearly the Liberals would have spent some hundreds of millions of dollars more on defence. [More…]
It becomes more than obviously discriminatory when we learn that in the proposed category ratings of newspapers trade union publications will be the only ones still to receive the old concessional postage rates. [More…]
This Government has openly said that it will not try to control at any level union demands, within the private or public sectors, for increased wages and salaries or for increased working conditions which inflate costs. [More…]
The Government continued to support and indeed encourage union demands for increased wages at high levels and for additional substantial working benefits such as the introduction of the 35-hour week and extra leave. [More…]
One can well understand a Labor government which relies so heavily on the trade union movement for finance and support refusing to take any steps to control wages. [More…]
Dr Hilgers and Dr Shearin, of America’s Mayo Clinic, in their evidence to the Minnesota State Legislature, demonstrated that legalising abortion had no effect on the illegal abortion rate in Hungary, Czechoslavakia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Poland, Britain, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Rebublics and the American State of Colorado, while in Yugoslavia and East Germany there was an actual increase in illegal abortions despite legalisation. [More…]
It was alleged and apparently proved to the satisfaction of the American courts that they had given atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, which was about to make this development in nuclear technology in any event. [More…]
The Soviet Union pays certain copyright duties to the Australian producers of Australian films which go to the Soviet Union and similarly persons who show Soviet produced films in Australia are obligated to pay the copyright to the Soviet producers. [More…]
I do not believe that any honourable member would support the illegal showing of an illegal film on which copyright duties have not been paid when the Soviet Union correctly meets its copyright duties on Australian films shown in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This evening I have been reliably informed by Mr Murnane that he has been told that the story is being circulated in the Newcastle district that his copy of ‘Swan Lake’, legally and properly obtained through Quality Films whose head Mr Alison purchased it from the Soviet Union, is 20 minutes shorter than the pirate film being exhibited by Harry M. Miller. [More…]
But let me say these things on the matter of principle: I think it is only quite recently that the Soviet Union adhered to copyright. [More…]
In a sense the Soviet Union does not come into this country with clean hands in this matter because of its own past history. [More…]
Obviously the Russian Ballet has some kind of copyright on its own performance, but has the Soviet Union paid copyright to the originators or has it, in accordance with its practice, pirated the copyright of the originators? [More…]
It is quite pathetic that the art forms of the Soviet Union all relate to the past. [More…]
The Soviet Union seems incapable of producing significant new work. [More…]
I address a question to the Prime Minister who in answer to an earlier question by me about the undertaking or guarantee from the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said that it occurred during a conversation last Wednesday night and that it was part of many items raised in the conversation. [More…]
Was there any discussion of the way in which the ACTU President would ensure by sanctions applied through the trade union movement that there would be restraints on wages? [More…]
It has endorsed union claims whenever and wherever possible, both through traditional channels such as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and through such new and threatening avenues as the use of Government contracts. [More…]
But there has been a strong reaction too from trade union groups. [More…]
The previous Government did not give way to trade union demands; it did not surrender the future of the postal and telecommunications services to militant pressure. [More…]
Union demands were met, business needs were thrown overboard and now we see great cost rises, reduced services and a grim prospect for the future. [More…]
Would he replace this complex with a costly, labour intensive operation and shoot up the costs still further rather than take control of that operation and see to it that the union pressure which has prevented it from doing its job is curbed and controlled as it ought to be? [More…]
He does not want to upset his union friends. [More…]
Being interested, as I have said, in all sections of the community, I would like to speak for and on behalf of the unions of Australia. [More…]
In particular, I would like to speak on behalf of the Australian Workers Union since no one from the other side of the House has risen to defend its position; and speaking on its behalf, I speak also on behalf of all organisations like it I would like to quote extensively from the editorial published in the ‘Australian Worker’ of Wednesday, 29 August, because of the deep concern which this union has shown over these measures. [More…]
In one fell swoop the Federal Treasurer cleared the decks, as he put it, to initiate Labor’s great welfare program and at the same time he put the kiss of death on every Union journal in Australia. [More…]
There is no Union in this country which can afford the absolutely intolerable postal charges amounting to at least a SOO per cent increase over the next three years that were announced in the Federal Budget. [More…]
The Government’s decision is nothing less than a stab in the back to the Trade Union Movement which spawned at least some of those in Canberra who helped to make this decision. [More…]
By destroying the Trade Union Press - and that is what the removal of this postal concession means - the Labor Party has lost one of its most loyal partners and the only real avenue the Party had to get unslanted political news to its supporters. [More…]
If those who have set out to destroy the Trade Union Press think for one minute that the general media will tell the story as it truly is, simply because Labor is presently the Government, then they ate stupidly naive. [More…]
He, or she, must depend upon their Union publications to be informed on their Award conditions and proper rates of pay, as well as myriad of other industrial matters. [More…]
This Union has contended at the Post Office Inquiry that there should be no feelings of alarm over the postal service suffering a financial loss as shown in the balance sheet The fact is that most of the losses shown by the postal service are directly attributable to paper debts and interest payments to the Treasury. [More…]
We warned at the Post Office Inquiry that if any further postal charge imposts were visited upon the Trade Union Press it would finish off those that have not already ceased publication as a result of the 125 per cent increases already loaded onto us by the Coalition Governments. [More…]
I bring this quite seriously to the notice of the House because of the effect that this decision is having on the union publications and on all the other publications that I mentioned earlier. [More…]
I hope that the Government will take notice of this powerful union and the last sentence in that article: [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) talk about the Australian Workers Union’s journal. [More…]
It is true that that would be the increase next year and this in itself is a special concession to a trade union but by 1976- [More…]
When the rate of postage on a trade union newspaper can increase by 528 per cent one would think that members of the Labor Party would be a little concerned, but they are like mutes saying nothing and allowing their own organisations to be persecuted along with country people. [More…]
Is he game to say to the trade union movement that he wants a freeze on incomes and prices? [More…]
In speaking last week of the prices referendum the Prime Minister made it clear that he relied upon guarantees and undertakings given by Mr Hawke that there would be cooperation of the trade union movement in restraining wages, incomes and prices. [More…]
Trade union power is preventing inflation control because it refuses to let the Labor Government have an incomes policy. [More…]
The Labor Government should be seen as wishing to appear to the public as sincere but be known by the trade unions to be supine. [More…]
The trade union move ment, which is the movement that supports the Australian Labor Party and which that Party supports- [More…]
The trade union movement believes that for nearly 65 years it has had to justify the wage arbitration system in this country. [More…]
The trade union movement asks why, if its members’ wages have to be justified before some tribunal, the price makers also should not have to go through some justification process. [More…]
I say this, and I will continue to say it: The minimum condition in Australia of achieving a prices and incomes policy - honourable members opposite can put this on record because it is not the first time I have said it - is not primarily the passing of laws; the minimum condition is as the trade union movement believes, that if wages must be justified something systematic must be done about prices. [More…]
Last night, on television, we had the secretary of one of the big Amalgamated Metalworkers’ Union, Mr [More…]
Halfpenny, saying that there was not the slightest chance that his union would go soft on wages demands. [More…]
It will provide an avenue for the trade union movement, working through the Australian Labor Party caucus, to make private sector profits the scapegoat for Australia’s inflationary problem. [More…]
This Bill represents a singular defeat for the Prime Minister and a victory for the Labor caucus - solidly backed by the weight of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Bill before the House, far from seeking union endorsement for a balanced and equitable approach to the determinants of inflation, effectively denies any comprehension by the Government of the role which wage and salary increases play in the inflationary spiral in this country. [More…]
The Prime Minister himself has sought to purvey a public impression that he has a guarantee from Mr Hawke that if the Government asserts measures to control prices the Australian Council of Trade Unions will accept wage restraints. [More…]
How a passing reference can be translated, even in the machinations of the Prime Minister’s mind, into some form of guarantee by the trade union movement is beyond comprehension. [More…]
If this Government is given the power to control prices and as a consequence of union pressure throughout this country imposes controls, the result must be obvious. [More…]
Through their organisation, usually a trade union or a professional association, they lodge a log of claims which cannot just be put up and accepted. [More…]
So there are built-in safeguards, firstly, for the employers who do not want to give it unless it has to be given; secondly, of course the machinery that exists to resolve a dispute that occurs when the employer or group of employers cannot settle their differences with the trade unions. [More…]
Whenever a union or a group of unions goes before an arbitration tribunal it says: ‘Prices have gone up, allow us to put our wages up’. [More…]
Let me briefly refer to the alleged gap between the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Obviously, no representative of the trade union movement would buy a pig in a poke. [More…]
Mr Hawke had told him that ‘if the Government were able to moderate the rise in prices through the application of such constitutional powers as is obtains, the trade union movement would fully co-operate in restraining wages and incomes’. [More…]
The important Supreme Court case of Pollard’s lessee v. Hagan in 1845 established that States entering the Union subsequent to the original federation were admitted on an equal footing and therefore acquired the same sovereign and proprietary rights in tidal lands and submerged lands under internal waters. [More…]
Both were admitted to the Union after its formation and both were admitted- on the customary ‘equal footing’. [More…]
Of the 37 States that have joined the Union subsequent to its formation, Texas was alone an independent nation immediately prior to statehood and did not first pass through territorial status. [More…]
It invoked the ‘equal footing* clause against Texas by holding that irrespective of its pre-admission status upon admission to the Union its rights in adjacent maritime areas were no greater than those of any other coastal State. [More…]
That case may be summed up in this way: This litigation arose first because of a unilateral boundary extension by Texas and, secondly, because of the unique independent republican status of Texas prior to admission to the Union. [More…]
I refer to the strike by employees of the Hospital Employees Union in Queensland at the Challenor Centre and Wolston Park hospital situated in the electorate of Oxley, represented in this House by the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), and at Baillie Henderson Hospital in Toowoomba. [More…]
Their devotion to duty and application to the task at hand have been matched by the generosity of volunteers who have cared for the patients at Baillie Henderson during the period of the strike - a strike which had its beginning in petty union jealousy. [More…]
These volunteers, old and young, experienced and inexperienced, answered the call of charity and looked after those unfortunate people when they were left to their own initiative by members of the Hospital Employees Union. [More…]
There was a demarcation issue between the Hospital Employees Union and the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, all members of which are employed under the Mental Hospital Employees State Award. [More…]
When confronted with rabid socialist unions he becomes a toy rabbit in front of a greyhound. [More…]
But the Hospital Employees Union was aggrieved when a female employee of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation was appointed as a charge nurse. [More…]
Of course, the example was set by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in a speech to the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress - a congress incidentally which he treated with contempt by arriving 6 hours late. [More…]
He said that the necessity to have demarcation disputes was imposed because the law demanded that each union be a separate legal entity. [More…]
I can offer only the following logical solution: Notwithstanding the fact that the above mentioned position was discussed for some months, it was not until Mr Ringlestein, the secretary of the Hospital Employees Union, went on holidays that the simmering kettle boiled. [More…]
The kettle had been kept simmering by Mr John Francis Daley, an official of the Hospital Employees Union. [More…]
The Australian people will not accept irresponsible strikes initiated by a communist in a sneaky way, a strike caused by an internecine union jealousy, a jealousy which would not allow a woman to be given a position of responsibility. [More…]
I am perturbed at the Government of Australia having an involvement with this type of trade union official. [More…]
He is condoning the action of irresponsible trade unionism - trade unionism that stirs up trouble. [More…]
When Mr Ringlestein, a solid trade union official, was away, behind his back- [More…]
It is a pity that the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) used the opportunity of the adjournment debate tonight to make such vicious attack on the members of the trade union movement currently engaged in an industrial dispute in the special hospitals in Brisbane. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member for Darling Downs that not one member of the union involved in the dispute is earning money while he is out on strike. [More…]
I know that the House is about to be treated to a speech by the second of the terrible twins with the great union background or from wherever they may come, who will stand up and tell us what this new Government is doing. [More…]
Visits by Overseas Trade Union Specialists: Discussions on Collective Bargaining (Question No. [More…]
The program of visits by trade union officials in 1973-74 is now being finalised. [More…]
Already Mr Donald MacDonald, President of the Canadian Labour Congress and President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, has visited Australia under this arrangement. [More…]
I have also invited Mr Len Murray, the recently appointed General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, to come to Australia and I hope that he will be able to do so in the first half of next year. [More…]
One of the objects of this program is to give the widest possible range of people and groups concerned with labour matters in Australia the chance of talking to overseas trade union leaders. [More…]
Royal Australian Ornithologists Union (unspecified) [More…]
My colleagues and I who have a knowledge of the workings of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and of the trade union movement itself, with great modesty and retraint - [More…]
I hope that some Australian Workers Union men will be appointed, but let me tell the Committee about the history of this proposition of Ministers appointing arbitration inspectors. [More…]
This is an important clause by which the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) seeks to give much greater protection to officers of a union who are employees of a particular company. [More…]
I pointed to the kinds of circumstances which could be involved in which an official of a union as an employee of a company would be given what the Opposition believes to be unreasonable protection and where an unreasonable burden of proof is placed upon an employer. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that in the Act there is already a protection for employees of a company who are union officials. [More…]
But if we went as far as the Minister would wish by his clause 6, with the onus of proof being put upon employers and with the impact that the words in some of the subsections would have, if the Government were ever to muster the numbers to remove the tort provisions from the Act we would have a situation in which some union officials in certain places would be given a protection which would be quite unreasonable and quite unnecessary for the performance of their responsibilities as union officials. [More…]
The wording may appear to be insignificant, but when we introduce the expression ‘which is lawful’ into legislation on industrial disputes any act that may be done by a shop steward or an organiser or a union official, is brought into consideration. [More…]
It confers on a trade union led irresponsibly the right to indulge in political strikes without any sanction being imposed upon it. [More…]
Let us not forget that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act with which we are dealing acknowledges the existence of trade unions and their functions. [More…]
The Opposition seeks to truncate and emasculate the trade union movement by an amendment which would provide for penalties to be laid at the feet of people who are organising their fellows. [More…]
Unions have a great responsibility to act within their constitutions. [More…]
The words imply that trade union people go around acting unlawfully. [More…]
Trade unions are honourable organisations and those who belong to them are honourable gentlemen. [More…]
It is a great shame that there are not more people from the trade union movement sitting in this Parliament. [More…]
It is most interesting that the 2 honourable members I have just mentioned took great exception to the suggestion that a union officer, delegate or member should act lawfully. [More…]
But it would be strictly, according to the proposal that the Opposition wishes to fasten on to the trade union movement, an unlawful act for a union official to enter a place of employment and say. [More…]
If a person was found committing an act of sabotage or found stealing or misbehaving himself in a way that was not compatible with his position as a member or officer of the union the employer could dismiss him. [More…]
The Minister and the honourable members who sit behind him know full well that this proposal by the Government will permit union officials, including shop stewards, to undertake any function in a place of work providing it can be related to union interests and it will not be an offence in criminal or civil law other than a breach in their contract of employment. [More…]
The total impact of this proposal will be to place shop stewards and certain other union officials in permanent employment regardless of how detrimental their actions may be to their employers. [More…]
As the Minister knows, but would not be prepared to admit to the Committee, this will undermine the position of the elected officers of the particular trade union concerned. [More…]
If this Minister is prepared to build up the activities and the force and the strength of the shop stewards in this country he will do so at the expense of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Apparently the Government has chosen to persist with that provision in spite of the very detrimental impact and effect that it will have on the industrial jurisdiction and particularly on relations not simply between employers and employees in the industrial jurisdiction but more especially, in terms of the interest which the Minister seeks to serve, between employees and shop stewards and union officials, particularly member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Any person who has had any experience at all of industrial affairs will know that the insertion of the words ‘which is lawful’ into a section of an industrial Act takes away the right of union officials to exercise their proper capacity of entering premises or going on to a job and looking after the interests of the people whom they represent. [More…]
Opposition member’s seem to believe that every move by this Government and by Labor people on behalf of trade unions is made with some ulterior motive and to gain some advantage. [More…]
They forget that a little more than 12 months ago a very prominent member of the then Government suggested that that Government might call in foreign companies to try to act against the trade union movement in this country as a means of depriving unions of the 35-hour week that they sought. [More…]
It is always intriguing to hear repeated over and over again from the benches opposite the claim that the honourable members there are the only ones who have any concern for the union movement, union officials or union members. [More…]
I have not heard from the honourable member for Melbourne, who also is the President of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party and an ex-member of the Electrical Trades Union, what mischief is intended to be remedied by this amendment. [More…]
As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) has pointed out, one aspect that we on this side of the chamber criticise very strongly is that, under the Minister’s proposal, even if a union officer, delegate or member breaks his contract of employment that person cannot be dismissed from his employment. [More…]
Apparently the Minister, in all his historical understanding of the union movement, has not heard of Henry Dournes Higgins. [More…]
One thing that Mr Justice Higgins, as he became, asserted quite clearly on behalf of the union movement was that if there is a right to strike certainly it is a right to strike over a safety issue. [More…]
For the last 70-odd years not one union in the land has not asserted that right with equal force, and it has always been upheld. [More…]
Nothing that has been said has shown that what the Opposition proposes is an attack upon unions or an attack upon officials of unions or members of unions. [More…]
These are powerful arguments and are clearly the key to the overwhelming support given to the system by the union movement. [More…]
Certainly a number of unions have moved in the same direction. [More…]
First, we would support in general terms the Minister’s proposals for trade union education. [More…]
Therefore we suggest that industrial officers and unionists should, in part at least, undergo their training in one place and not separately as the Minister proposes. [More…]
Fifth, if we are looking for substantial changes in management we have the right to expect also that the union movement will submit itself to a searching examination. [More…]
Is the craft union background and philosophy of Australian unions really the best for Australia or could we do better with industry unions? [More…]
He repeated the substance of that to his favourite union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, on 11 May. [More…]
To that was added a further proposal to make union officials immune from actions in tort. [More…]
I suggest that a very large part of the responsible union movement does not support the Minister and recognises that penalties for breach of an agreement or award must flow both ways. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s own record in this particular matter it was a mark of the degree to which the left wing unions can direct the Minister that his earlier proposals forbade the certification of such freely negotiated arrangements. [More…]
Furthermore, some of the provisions of clause 6 would have a powerful and harmful effect if the Government were later able to muster a majority for its proposals concerning tort, to give union officials immunity from certain aspects of the civil law. [More…]
It would add enormously to the power of shop stewards and I had thought that it was the Minister’s intention to strengthen the hands of fulltime union officials rather than those of shop stewards. [More…]
If that is the Minister’s object, this Bill does not achieve it because some of his proposals concerning union democracy would seriously weaken the negotiating power of such officials in industrial disputes. [More…]
One such circumstance would be the closing down of his works or the laying off of staff as a result of lost production through union bans in support of higher wages or better working conditions. [More…]
In such a case the employer would have the onus of establish ing to the satisfaction of a court that in dismissing employees he was activated by the economic circumstances rather than by the union bans which had brought on the economic circumstances. [More…]
The next example is where he dismisses or in some other way disciplines employees who without proper authority of management and in breach of a contract of employment have absented themselves from duty to attend union demonstrations or meetings in support of claims of other workers in establishments unconnected with the employer’s work place. [More…]
It will be noted that there is no limit to the area or place in which the officer, delegate or union member may perform his action as this may be done in an industrial establishment or elsewhere. [More…]
There is also no limitation on the authority which may expressly or impliedly be conferred on any delegate or member by the union. [More…]
The practical effect of the proposed amendments would seem to be that provided the employee stops short of committing offences such as assault or damage to property and does not commit torts such as defamation he may absent himself from work or indulge in any bans whatsoever with impunity provided that there is some connection between the absence or ban and an industrial claim by members of the same union. [More…]
The Minister is well aware of the changing power relationship between management and unions. [More…]
If agreements concerning standard hours of work, for altering rates of wages on grounds fundamentally related to the national economy, for altering minimum wages and annual leave, do not have to go to the Full Bench for certification then clearly unions will tend to prefer agreements to awards. [More…]
While the Government is weakening the arbitral functions of the Commission by these 2 inter-related changes it is also weakening the capacity of union officials to negotiate. [More…]
He had certain experiences with a particular union. [More…]
Union officials would have no negotiating capacity and we do not believe that to be good for unions or for industrial peace. [More…]
This, I think, would be particularly relevant to the Minister’s own old union because it would not be possible with the far flung membership of the Australian Workers Union to get the kind of agreement spelt out in detail by the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected - democratically elected - by their unions. [More…]
There is another area where the Minister is, we believe, quite wrongly reducing rights and opportunities of unionists, employers and of affected third parties. [More…]
With this section abolished there will be possibilities of all sorts of abuses and of denying union members the right to vote. [More…]
There are other alterations to rules which can significantly affect the rights of individual unionists and the section ought not to be limited as the Minister would want. [More…]
also seeking to allow amalgamations to take place by election under union rules. [More…]
I want to emphasise that while the principle of amalgamation has been accepted because of the large number of unions in Australia, 65 per cent of all unionists are already in 21 unions and amalgamation has, in the past, seemed to take place between the large and not between the smaller unions. [More…]
Furthermore, demarcation disputes, the existence of which has often been given in favour of amalgamation between unions, represents only a small percentage of strikes and of lost time. [More…]
Only an average of 3 or 4 per cent of all lost time in the years from 1966 to 1970, and under 10 per cent of all strikers are over trade unionism matters. [More…]
The Minister is seeking statutory recognition of the right of entry of properly accredited union officials to places of work. [More…]
This provision gives blanket protection to shop stewards or individual union activity on the shop floor. [More…]
The objections lodged by the Opposition in the last debate have been either disregarded or ignored because of the great outcry militant unionists would create should the provision be excluded from this Bill. [More…]
Surely the whole potage of industrial relations would be better for a tidy-up of relations and powers between shop stewards and union representation. [More…]
One of the greatest bugbears of the industrial system in Australia and one of the most telling factors in the weakening of the arbitration and conciliation powers has been the growth of shop steward power by way of comparison with the master union. [More…]
Simply put, the shop steward system which is one of the less desirable imports from the United Kingdom, has prostituted the trade union movement, and the Minister would be better put tackling the total problem rather than giving such bludgeoning power to the shop stewards. [More…]
The right of entry provision in clause 27 gives unheard of and unreasonable powers to trade union officials in the carrying out of their functions. [More…]
The right for the proper representative of unionists in a factory to do his job of protecting his own unionists is not challengeable, but what is challengeable is the terms sought by the Minister for such inspection. [More…]
Surely it is hardly proper for a union official to have the right to lobby workers of another union during working hours. [More…]
I would have thought that in large part many unionists would resist such a right. [More…]
Doubtless the Minister would argue that this is an extension of the democratic rights of the ordinary unionist. [More…]
I suspect that the Minister must have had some personal disagreement with his union bosses on settlements in his early days in the shearing shed. [More…]
Of course he was put down very nicely and politely by Mr Eric Witts, the Industrial Relations Director at Ford who explained that what was at issue was an industrial agreement so beloved by the Minister being broken by a union leader in response to a minority mob. [More…]
That fact is something that unions will be fully aware of in the months ahead. [More…]
I think we will see within the short months ahead a much more significant degree of union activity outside the arbitration system in order to ensure that the wages of union members match the inflationary trends operating within the community. [More…]
We are likely also to see leadership in this field taken over by white collar unions rather than blue collar unions. [More…]
They ought to be equally well aware of the fact that those policies are no longer adequate to satisfy the union movement. [More…]
The Labour relations code that I referred to should be regarded as a charter of employees’ rights in 2 respects - the rights of unionists vis-a-vis their own unions and the rights of employees vis-a-vis their employers. [More…]
I believe this is an urgent task and it is not enough for the Minister, who has had many years within the union movement, merely to embark upon a scissors and paste job on the existing Act. [More…]
Those provisions were the removal of sanctions against unionists and the exemption of unionists from the provisions of the civil law. [More…]
Those provisions were sought in the original Bill as a specific pay-off to the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
The Opposition parties support the concept of effective and responsible trade unionism and we support Australia’s statutory process of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Secondly, a government must necessarily be concerned with the wellbeing of people in all sections of the community, of which employers and members of the trade union movement form but a part. [More…]
I refer to such matters as stoppages over political issues and inter-union rivalry in relation to the demarcation of work. [More…]
Fourthly, in genuine industrial disputes between unions and employers there comes a time when the parties, in the public interest, cannot be left to fight out to the bitter end a war of industrial attrition which could easily seriously undermine the workings of the economy and national stability. [More…]
Indeed, it was the result of a disastrous confrontation between unions and employers in the 1890s that led to the eventual establishment of statutory conciliation and arbitration systems in this country. [More…]
In 1949 the economic disruption caused by coal miners forced the then Labor Government to protect the Australian community by the passage of an Act which had the effect of putting the irresponsible union leaders involved in gaol. [More…]
The Opposition believes there is a real need for employers and trade unions to face up to the responsibilities demanded of them in a full employment society. [More…]
The use of direct action by unions to coerce employers to accede to unreasonable union demand is, of course, not a measure of responsibility. [More…]
By the same token, employers who make a practice of automatically rejecting union demands, irrespective of their intrinsic merits, or grant unreasonable claims in the expectation that the costs involved can be passed on to the general community in the form of price rises, cannot be said to be acting responsibly. [More…]
The Minister would be aware that there was a classic case at the Ford factory of union democracy being debased and dishonoured by union officials. [More…]
I think 47 per cent of Australians work under the jurisdiction of State awards and 13 per cent do not belong to any union at all. [More…]
I do not claim to know all the ins and outs but it is possible that if some unions were amalgamated into a more united force many disputes would not occur. [More…]
Handling and manufacturing techniques are altering and obviously difficulties will arise within the unions operating in those areas. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that it is reasonable that he, union representatives and others concerned endeavour to assess the situation before the changes take place. [More…]
They arc really the most difficult disputes to solve because of the internal relationships between the unions. [More…]
I accept that the Minister has had a lot of experience in union affairs. [More…]
Sometimes there is the monopoly power of a big industry group opposed by the monopoly power of a big union group. [More…]
The only hope I have - it is a poor hope - for a solution is to recall the words of Nye Bevan, the left wing socialist leader in Britain who was asked one day by a questioner why it was with such a large proportion of the British electorate being unionists, the Labour Party did not win every election. [More…]
He said “ sourly that at each election the British unionist votes in condemnation of his own anarchy. [More…]
The Minister for Labour has a real responsibility, with his experience in the union field and knowing that he has the support of this side of the House, to have a deeper look at the industrial front. [More…]
Some are industry unions, but not all of them. [More…]
In our country I do not suppose we will ever get industry unions except in isolated cases, such as the Australian Workers Union in the pastoral industry, although even in that case it is not an industry union because wool classers are covered by another union. [More…]
But the success of the Swedish system does not rest entirely on the fact that it has industry unions. [More…]
Its success rests mainly on the fact that it has fewer unions that are more efficient and the employers do not have the bugbear they have to put up with here of having to become the unfortunate witnesses of industrial disputes over demarcation issues and being absolutely helpless to do anything about it. [More…]
The unions fight over which union shall cover a particular job, and the poor unfortunate employer has to stand on the sidelines and watch his business go down the drain simply because we have too many unions trying to cover the various industrial areas. [More…]
We read in the newspapers - I cannot confirm what I am about to say, but I believe it to be correct - that militant trade union officials were castigated on at least 2 occasions by Ministers of the Government of Papua New Guinea for interfering in union matters in that country. [More…]
I believe that the Government of that country should make independent decisions regarding its airlines and its trade union relations with management and the like. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for External Territories (Mr Morrison), who has had a lifetime career in the service of our country overseas and who has had many experiences not only in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Asia but also in other countries, will be prepared to accept the fact that humanity may not react in quite the ordered way that one would hope it would react once the first experience of self government is appreciated within the Territory. [More…]
Does it mean that the Commmon.wealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission will no longer have a role in fixing national minimum wages and that it will be done by the Prime Minister and a Cabinet subject to the suzerainty of the Caucus and of the trade union movement? [More…]
I did have a conversation with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Reserve Bank board, last Wednesday night, and in the course of a conversation on many matters he told me that if the Government were able to moderate the rise in prices through the application of such constitutional power as it obtains the trade union movement would fully co-operate in restraining wages and incomes. [More…]
The trade union movement, the employees of Australia and the wage and salary earners have nothing to fear from any action that this Government will take. [More…]
The attitude of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is abundantly clear. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister sought to mislead the Australian public by saying that the trade union movement would co-operate fully in the restraint of wages and incomes if the Government were able to moderate price increases through the application of additional constitutional powers. [More…]
But Mr Hawke went on to put, as a major consideration in any union decision to opt for such restraint- that is, wage restraint - the condition that the Federal Government had to come up with a plan to ‘actively redistribute’ income within the community. [More…]
Thus the quid pro quo for Caucus and union endorsement of this Bill and the referendum which it entails is clearly that income control instruments are to be used in a redistributive manner rather than in an anti-inflationary fashion. [More…]
Now, whatever disagreements there might be about the validity of theories, no economist of any persuasion, whether in the United States or the Soviet Union, Brazil or Australia, disagrees with what Robertson had to say about the wide significance of the word ‘price’. [More…]
We can see from the name of this Bill that the Government is not really concerned either with those very significant elements within the trade union movement which are concerned at the implications of an incomes policy- [More…]
The claims of the power unions were put to the New South Wales Industrial Commission which reported some considerable time later, after an exhaustive examination, that there was no cause to reduce the period of the working week from 40 hours to 35 hours. [More…]
A large number of unions were involved - over 20, including the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen’s Association of Australasia, the Municipal Officers Association of Australia, the Public Service Association and a number of others. [More…]
Even though the unions concerned knew last Thursday that there was going to be a report very early this week, there were black-outs and shortages of power over the weekend. [More…]
I am informed that the power unions have spoken to the Minister requiring his support for this action. [More…]
I am informed, as I have said already, that the instruction had the effect of ensuring that the Council conformed to the dictates of the power unions and conformed to their particular requirements. [More…]
Unless the Minister can answer these charges in clear and precise terms it is plain that he has revealed in the starkest sense the power of certain unions over this Government and the power of certain unions over this Minister. [More…]
We are reminded of a meeting that the Prime Minister had with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union last year before the election. [More…]
Whatever the result, the situation of having the 2 most powerful men in the union movement and the Labor movement pulling him in 2 different directions is not an entirely happy one for the Prime Minister. [More…]
The Press has taken the Press statements apart by the time we receive them and on many occasions the Minister’s statements have been reversed by Caucus or the trade union movement and they are no longer any indication of the current policy of the Government. [More…]
Looking at the Minister for Labour reminds me of an occasion last session when a report was released of what had happened in Caucus about the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill in respect of the election of union officials. [More…]
This information has been conveyed to a union leader in Launceston in a letter dated 10 September 1973, File No. [More…]
Mr Langford, who is Secretary of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, sent me a telegram two or three days ago which stated: [More…]
As proposal not discussed with union demand immediate halt to proposal until such time as discussions held with unions concerned. [More…]
That question simply is this: What were the union requests or demands that Mr Douglas, the Chief Operational Engineer of the Snowy Mountains Council, conveyed to him last Saturday? [More…]
The union demands did not matter in the overall context of the balancing of the output, or I should say, the release of water. [More…]
Consequently, employers fear that involvement could cause disputes with unions^ 1 am one member who has been as critical as anyone in this House of trade unions, but I would dispute the point that any responsible trade union would register any kind of. [More…]
Surely discussion between employers and trade unions could result in a solution of this objection [More…]
The honourable gentleman also made a point about trade unions. [More…]
He seemed to me to be saying that the trade unions would raise, did raise or are raising some objection to the employment of the handicapped. [More…]
With the greatest of respect to the honourable gentleman and to his well-known liberal views, I do not think that there is any trade union in this country that would be happy to know that one of its members, after having been injured in an accident, was sitting at home receiving a pittance as a payment in the form of workers compensation when he was able to and would perform certain tasks but for the fact that industry - by that I mean those who employ - would not employ a disabled worker. [More…]
Sir Robert Askin was told by the union leaders that if the Industrial Commission had examined the case of the power generating employees as a separate issue it would have been a different story. [More…]
Now these militant union leaders will not accept the ruling of the umpire for the second time. [More…]
On 27 September this House understood for the first time that the emergency meeting of the Snowy Mountains Council held on Sunday, 23 September, was held because of industrial union demands. [More…]
He said, in answer to questions later, that the union demands did not matter. [More…]
But the directive only mentioned union demands. [More…]
So during question time on 27 September we learned for the first time of the union demands that had been conveyed to the Minister some days before by Mr Douglas and we learned that the Minister would do what he wanted irrespective of the decision of the Snowy Mountains Council. [More…]
Also, we learned that the Minister thought the unions’ demands were reasonable. [More…]
And that, if the unions were not to operate the power stations, professional engineers would. [More…]
But a reading of the directive of 27 September proved that what the Minister had said was false and proved that the directive had been given because of the union demands and not because of flooding. [More…]
On Sunday morning, 23 September, I received a telephone message from Mr Hunter, a departmental officer and a deputy member of the Council, who told me of further union demands. [More…]
Two union demands had been met before I had any knowledge of them. [More…]
For some time the Electrical Trades Union members employed by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales have been limiting power output to attempt to force on the New South Wales Government their demands for a 35-hour week. [More…]
No one is really sure whether the members of the Electrical Trades Union, in seeking a 35-hour week, are seeking more leisure, more overtime pay or just to disrupt the community and undermine our industrial production. [More…]
This man is the secretary of the Electricity Commission Combined Union Delegates Organisation. [More…]
Still the power situation in New South Wales was not sufficiently bad to bring about the severe blackouts which the Electrical Trades Union needed. [More…]
Electricity Commission Combined Union Delegates Organisation was able to achieve what it had set out to do. [More…]
It begins with simple trade union demands for control of hiring and firing, tea breaks, hours, speed of work, allocation of jobs, and so on. [More…]
In other words a communist trade union leader when he professes to be working for better conditions is really double crossing his own union and double crossing his own men. [More…]
They professed to believe that they should not disrupt the normal trade union leadership. [More…]
business enterprises and represent new moves to enmesh the trade union movement in the capitalist framework. [More…]
Does he regard the Soviet Union as having a legitimate interest in a community involving the Asian region. [More…]
I am told that there may be some resolution of the dispute tonight although, at the same time, there seems to be some parallel dispute which has broken out in the Australian Broadcasting Commission and I am not too sure of the permanence of the agreement that has been reached between management and the union concerned. [More…]
I do not claim to be a good industrial man, but I learned something many years ago in my experience in trade union affairs. [More…]
Any experienced trade unionist knows that the less one says about a dispute, the easier it is to fix it up. [More…]
It may be of interest to honourable members to know that there has hardly been a day gone by in the time since that strike started that officers of the Department of Civil Aviation have not telephoned me or I have not telephoned them - invariably they rang me - to give a progress report on discussions which have taken place between themselves, the people involved in the dispute, the people associated with it, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, the representatives from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and representatives of the PREI. [More…]
I would suggest that this sort of action will itself be manifest within the Department of Civil Aviation and every other Commonwealth department within the life of this Parliament as long as we have a Labor Party Government which will surrender itself to the trade union movement, particularly to the left wing unions. [More…]
some of these things because he has a trade union background in New South Wales. [More…]
I make the point that the largest delegation from any union was composed of Australian Metal Workers Union members headed by Laurie Carmichael. [More…]
I wish to place on record the composition of this committee because it includes delegates from the Australian Metal Workers Union, the Builders Labourers Federation- [More…]
Jack Mundey is hardly a moderate in the trade union movement. [More…]
The Victorian President of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, Mr Pat Kirley said that his union would oppose the moves for declassification, and rightly so, but the unions also must be prepared perhaps to relax many of the rules and regulations of employment as they apply to official post offices in small centres. [More…]
As Mr Kirley of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union said: ‘It doesn’t matter how small a community is, it has a right to full Post Office facilities.’ [More…]
Perhaps the unions ought to look at whether these can be operated by one instead of three persons. [More…]
This is a matter for the unions. [More…]
The union concerned is not his. [More…]
It is the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
I have talked to union officers about the matter and they say: ‘Why can we not get some other business?’ [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties arising out of demarcation issues and has repeatedly stressed its support for the principle of amalgamation of unions - a move which would eliminate many of the problems which cause disputes of this kind. [More…]
As the honourable member will know, the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, reintroduced into the House by the Government on 30 August, provides for the removal of existing barriers to trade union amalgamations. [More…]
Visits by Overseas Trade Union Specialists: Discussions on Collective Bargaining (Question No. [More…]
The trade union officials referred to in my answer to the honourable member’s question No. [More…]
Discussions were held with the Technical Teachers Association, the Victorian Teachers Union and the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
The second argument by the Opposition is that the war in the Middle East will affect Australia’s security because it will disturb the global balance between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on which our security basically rests. [More…]
Of course, a deterioration in relations between the US and the Soviet Union could be a consequence of the Middle East fighting. [More…]
Present indications strongly support the expectation that the stability of relations between the US and the Soviet Union will not be seriously affected by the Middle East hostilities. [More…]
In big power terms and stating the position baldly, I expect the next few years to be marked by a fairly stable equilibrium between the 3 major nuclear powers - the United States of America, the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
ENI was successful in obtaining oil supplies from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics thereby breaking the American consortiums’ hold over Italy. [More…]
The latest Middle East crisis between Israel and the Arab States has produced an even more important crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union, and between the United States and the Communist Government of China. [More…]
The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’, they said, ‘have a special responsibility to do everything in their power so that conflicts on situations will not arise which would increase international tensions. [More…]
Yakob Malik of the Soviet Union not only supported the military activities of Egypt and Syria against Israel, but criticsed the United Nations Security Council for even raising the question at the United Nations. [More…]
And this is the main point - the information coming here to the United Nations was that the Soviet Union, while committed to reduce tensions under the Nixon-Brezhnev agreement, was actually urging Algeria, Lebanon and particularly the King of Jordan to get into the war against Israel. [More…]
The answer is because the trade unions make contributions to the Labor Party and not only are contributions to trade union funds tax deductible but trade union funds themselves are totally tax free. [More…]
However, we will be proposing at least one amendment to the legislation when it is introduced, and that is that donations or subscriptions to party funds should be tax deductible - as are the union dues which help finance the Labor Party. [More…]
At a time when it is government policy to expend enormous sums of money in the development of its instrumentalities and at a time also when we are being told about the decline in the proportion of gross domestic product going to wage earners, I thought I would like to bring before the House some data which came to my hand a few days ago regarding the claims of the unions which will be involved in the construction of the pipeline from Moomba to Sydney. [More…]
So I give the facts, that is, the claim of the relevant unions, namely, the Australian Workers Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
There is a battle going on between the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Australian Workers Union about demarcation. [More…]
We have a Government in office whose political foundation is the trade union movement. [More…]
It says to the unions: All right, go ahead, demand what you like. [More…]
The ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ had an editorial condemning the gulf that has widened between this Government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
But we heard the honourable member for Bradfield say tonight that there is almost complete union. [More…]
The Minister for Labour, of course, has built up a sturdy reputation in Australian Workers Union politics. [More…]
Even today at question time reference was made to a $25,000 contribution by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union to the Labor Party, provided sanctions were not applied under the industrial legislation. [More…]
Farmers’ Union are all bodies representing the grass roots of the countryside. [More…]
This is one reason why the Australian Farmers Federation, the United Farmers and Woolgrowers Association, the Victorian Farmers Union and all of these grass roots bodies in the community support the legislation which is presently before the Parliament and which incidentally is supported by the overwhelming majority of the members of the Parliament. [More…]
This proposed new bureaucracy with power to follow its own initiatives, power to restrict the authority of Cabinet and to restrict the opportunity for quick action to be .taken by the Government, really resembles the central planning authority which is a feature of the socialist systems in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the People’s Republic of China and some other countries. [More…]
This intolerable situation exists under a socialist Government which claims a special relationship with the trade union movement; which claims to be the friend of the workers. [More…]
Rather, it was not the Government that acted; it was the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions who with one hat supports the Prime Minister but with the other opposes him vigorously and strongly. [More…]
That view is held by significant parts of the trade union movement in New South Wales. [More…]
It would pose significant problems for many unions in relation to the employment of their own employees and would be quite impossible of application in the Minister’s own old union, the Australian Workers Union, in relation to the approval of agreements. [More…]
It cannot grant power to settle disputes caused by issues like union membership, demarcation disputes and managerial policy. [More…]
Of the 38 per cent of strikes that occur under Federal awards, more than half are due to disputes over union membership, demarcation disputes or matters concerning managerial policy. [More…]
Disputes over union membership have declined rapidly since the Commission’s decision to grant preference to unionists in the clerks’ case, which is a feather in the cap of the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan), because employers now know that it is better to accept preference to unionists than to have compulsory unionism forced upon them by job action. [More…]
The Government has a clear mandate to amend the Act to give full-time union officials easier right of entry than is now possible. [More…]
The Opposition should not talk about wildcat strikes and the trouble that is caused by shop committees if at the same time it prevents full-time union officials from having ready access to jobs during any part of the day. [More…]
You will never get the rank and file of any union to honour a sweetheart agreement that sells them short. [More…]
My experience as a union official - as secretary of a union and as a court advocate - has always been that you can win if you can say to the rank and file: ‘This is not my agreement I am asking you to honour until the 2 year or 3 year period, whatever the duration of the agreement might be, expires. [More…]
I am telling the honourable member that as a union official of long experience my experience has always shown me what happens if you can go to a factory site and talk to a meeting of men and say: ‘Comrades, I am not asking you to honour my agreement, something that I made behind closed doors; I am asking you to honour your own agreement’. [More…]
When you talk like that and when you can truthfully say that to a group of men, that is what gives a union official his power to implement and honour an agreement. [More…]
The introduction of quarterly adjustment could enable a trade union to concern itself with increasing real wages and thereby creating a climate suitable to encourage productivity bargaining within industry if the parties to it want that kind of bargaining. [More…]
The accepted version of this is that the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics alone no longer dictate the pattern of events, and that China, the European Economic Community and Japan are now significant in the ordering of world affairs. [More…]
Both the United States and the Soviet Union are not as concerned today if smaller countries formerly in their orbit in the 1950s and 1960s move to non-alignment, neutrality or even to other coalitions mainly because military technology has limited the need for forward bases, not only for strategic deterrents but also for combat and reconnaisance. [More…]
This chamber could be a central gathering place for groups that come from all round Australia, whether they be national groups, employers’ groups, industrial groups, trade union groups, professional groups or what-have-you. [More…]
I refer to the dispute between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Chinese Vice-Premier’s reply was that the Chinese are prepared to discon tinue their nuclear testing but only in the context of all nations, including the United States of America and the Soviet Union, dismantling their own nuclear arsenals. [More…]
They believe that they cannot reasonably be expected to stop their nuclear testing while nothing is done to reduce the nuclear capacity of the Soviet Union - which is their next door neighbour and which they believe is threatening their security - and of the United States. [More…]
I do not believe that one can justify developing nuclear weapons just because the United States, and the Soviet Union already have nuclear weapons. [More…]
The overwhelming impression given to our parliamentary delegation in China, as far as the foreign policy of the Chinese is concerned, was that their great fear is of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, they maintain that the Soviet Union is demanding territory beyond even that which was conceded to it under these unequal treaties. [More…]
The Chinese also claim that the Soviet Union has maintained and does maintain one million troops on the Sino-Soviet border to enforce its claims on what it believes is Chinese territory. [More…]
These talks are supposed to be about arms limitation - that is, disarmiment Yet I wonder how many people realise that at the most recent round of SALT talks the United States and the Soviet Union mutually agreed on the Soviet Union increasing its numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. [More…]
The Soviet Union - one of the 2 parties to the talks - will actually increase its numbers of ICBMs. [More…]
I believe that it is no longer sufficient for the representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union to make agreements behind closed doors on the size of their nuclear arsenals. [More…]
The current rapprochement between the United States and the Soviet Union indicates that both these countries wish to avoid a war between them. [More…]
The next country on the list is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Now it seems that actual fighting might cease, not because of the United Nations but because the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America both want it to cease. [More…]
I believe too that the only way in which these goals can be achieved in the short and middle term is for the United States and the Soviet Union to give such guarantees and to mean them; to refuse to arm and to train countries in the area to the extent that they could be posed as a threat to any other country, and to make it so clear that they are believed that if any future aggression does take place from any direction, they will act in concert to defeat it at once. [More…]
Is there anybody who does not believe that the United States and the Soviet Union, acting in concert, could do that? [More…]
But he raised the possibility of joint enforcement by the United States of America and the Soviet Union in respect of difficulties in the Middle East. [More…]
There is no doubt that the United States and the Soviet Union have been acting as policemen in the Middle East. [More…]
I would have thought that over the last few days there was some earnest of intention on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to act in a joint manner to resolve the difficulties in the Middle East. [More…]
The members are Afghanistan; Bulgaria - both those countries are military dictatorships; Chile; Czechoslovakia, which is a satellite of the Soviet Union; Congo Brazzaville; Communist China - I do not suppose that Communist China could ever claim to be anything but a country that discriminates against Tibetans; Ethiopia- [More…]
I want to say just one thing more about this, and I hope that it is something that will be read by those who sit on the arbitration bench, by the unions and by the employers. [More…]
I remember very well when I was the secretary of a union that we had a very difficult dispute at Iron Knob. [More…]
I want to have incorporated in Hansard pages 34 to 38 of the minutes of 2 June 1972 of the Commonwealth Council of Amalgamated Organisations, which consists of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the blacksmiths, boilermakers and sheet metal workers, which records the visit by the Prime Minister to that organisation, the taking of the $25,000 and the pledges which he gave to the communists at that time. [More…]
It is for that reason, instead of trying to summarise the document myself, that I asked for the permission of the House to incorporate in Hansard the trade union minutes which record what actually happened. [More…]
I certainly cannot withdraw the trade union minutes; I did not write them. [More…]
Of course that makes one think of leaders of the trade union movement and perhaps they should play a role in it as well. [More…]
On another occasion when the union drew attention to the fact that one of the rails on the South Coast line was un safe, that in some cases it had sagged below the ground and in others was protruding above the ground, and asked the Railways Commissioner to check the safety of the South Coast line the Government deliberately closed the line altogether although the union had indicated that it was willing to operate on one of the 2 tracks until the other could be checked. [More…]
On Friday of last week I had a conference with officials of the union based in Melbourne and officials based in Western Australia. [More…]
The problem is that there are some 60 members of the staff who take all the advantages that accrue to the staff because of union activity and union sacrifices and they will not join the union. [More…]
They do not have to join the union. [More…]
They are not being forced to join the union. [More…]
But we have made facilities available to enable union officials to speak to them. [More…]
There happens to be a core of people there who refuse to join the union. [More…]
I have explained to the union that I believe it is the job of the union to persuade them to join and that we would make every facility available to enable the union to have access to the people who are involved in this case. [More…]
But I must make it quite clear that unionism is fundamental to the way in which we conduct our operations in industrial matters. [More…]
I believe quite firmly that those people who are part of a work force and who take advantage of all the things that accrue as a result of union activity are morally and ethically bound to join a union. [More…]
Therefore, as they cannot qualify for the living allowance, they will be worse off because under the old arrangements the payment of fees included the payment of sports fees and union fees. [More…]
The Government will not pay sports fees and union fees as part of the normal process of an abolition of fees but it will give living allowance holders $100 in ancillary or auxiliary allowances out of which sports fees, union fees and incidentals of that kind can be covered. [More…]
It is that, while at the moment part time students who have a Commonwealth scholarship not only have their tuition fees, examination fees, matriculation fees and degree fees paid but they also have other compulsory fees such as, union fees, library fees, sports fees and nonrefundable laboratory fees paid. [More…]
I also firmly believe that more emphasis should be given to such subjects as industrial management, personnel management courses, trade union administration courses and industrial relations. [More…]
In 1971 the Australian Union of Students estimated that in 1972 a family on an average income of $4,200 would spend 30 per cent of this in sending one child to university. [More…]
To most part timers the abolition of the fees and the creation of further facilities will be much more important than saving the small amount which would result from the abolition of union fees and such like. [More…]
It has come about very largely because the trade union movement has fallen, in some regards, into extremist hands. [More…]
I know that many members, even of the Government, are today worried at the extent of the advances of extremism in the trade union movement. [More…]
These leftist leaders are not really trying to help members of their unions. [More…]
But although they know that they are wrong, these weak people in the Australian Labor Party are unwilling or unable to withstand trade union pressures, and they go along with the Left. [More…]
I know that there are communists in the trade union movement. [More…]
It ignores our recognition of countries such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Yugoslavia and the initiatives with a country such as Poland. [More…]
I believe, in particular, that he has opposed communists in the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
There was a very great need for him to do so because the Clerks Union’s ballot machinery was corrupted by communists. [More…]
He has had experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
There would be no doubt that if we were setting off with such objectivity we would readily consult the trade union movement and similarly we would consult the Master Builders Association and all interested groups, because the success of such a venture would depend on their co-operation. [More…]
Members on the other side of the Parliament have commended the trade union officials who have been appointed to certain boards. [More…]
My experience has been that whether a person who has been appointed to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or to any other industrial tribunal was appointed by a Labor government, whether he had a trade union background or an employer background, it made no difference. [More…]
Indeed, some of those whom I regard as being the most favourable to the trade union cause came from employer circles. [More…]
That would include for certain the North Australian Workers Union and it may well include the branches of other unions which are operated inside the Territories. [More…]
I must say on behalf of the Government that it is a bitter disappointment to me that the Senate saw fit to reject the 6 clauses dealing with amalgamation because one of the things that is plaguing industrial relations today is the demarcation dispute which arises as a result of having too many unions and which cause employers to be the innocent sufferers and bystanders in these stupid, inane disputes over which union shall cover which particular occupation. [More…]
This tragedy - and it is nothing less than a tragedy in industrial relations - will never be resolved until the Parliament alters the Act in such a way as to make it easier for unions to amalgamate and thereby to reduce the number of unions. [More…]
We have 303 unions for 13 million people. [More…]
In West Germany there are 16 unions for 61 million people. [More…]
When there is a dispute or an attempt to repudiate an agreement union officials ought to go to the meeting, talk to the strikers and say: [More…]
Whenever a union official walks into a strike meeting with that trump card in his hand he will win every argument. [More…]
I hope very much indeed, in common with the people who are listening to this debate, that this Government will be prepared to stand up and be counted and to bring a sense of dialogue into the industrial relations area and not to take a prejudicial view, a pro union view or an anti-employer view. [More…]
Then he expressed concern, as he has done outside the House publicly, at the fact that demarcation disputes have nothing to do with an employer, and it is a great pity that an employer is put to the loss of production, the loss of working time and all the disturbance to his business that comes from a demarcation dispute which is solely the concern of the unions involved. [More…]
What I would have thought the Minister, who is so acutely aware of the way in which industrial problems can be solved in Australia, would have done to solve this problem of demarcation disputes is to have passed legislation - I am sure Opposition members would agree to it and give it a quick passage - which would require solely inter-union demarcation disputes to go to arbitration so that strikes over demarcation disputes should not be allowed, so that employers would not be harmed as the Minister does not want to see employers harmed. [More…]
Again his concern for the workers is intriguing, because what he was proposing by his legislation was to exert legislative coercion upon union officials to compel them to do what one would expect they ought to do in any event. [More…]
I would have thought that a good union official would always take to the members affected by the proposed agreement the terms of that agreement, and that that would then maintain the responsibility upon union officials which is at the heart of the union movement. [More…]
I presume that by shaking his head he means that when he was a union official he never consulted the membership. [More…]
Naturally I am concerned at the continuing tension between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
It is also supported by influential elements of the trade union movement and by the more advanced spokesmen of employer organisations. [More…]
There is an urgent need for better communication between management and labour and for the removal of the persecution complex which has descended upon the trade union movement via the whole penal provisions of the existing Act. [More…]
The Government is equally concerned over the nonsensical disputes that revolve around issues like union membership and demarcation disputes.. [More…]
That as a means of eliminating demarcation disputes and disputes over union membership, the parties take such steps as are necessary to facilitate union amalgamation and to introduce preference to unionists. [More…]
There are bodies whose responsibility is to decide whether permits for buildings will be issued, it is not a job for any individual union to do that. [More…]
There is not a union meeting which the Minister for Labour could address which would welcome him, because everything he says is totally contradictory to what they stand for. [More…]
But I do detect very clear similarities in some of the matters that were put down as terms of reference to ways of avoiding strike situations which were worked out between employer organisations and union organisations in the National Labour Advisory Council 3 years ago when I was Minister for Labour. [More…]
They were agreed to by the parties concerned but they failed to win the support of the trade union movement, notwithstanding the fact that representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions had been the negotiators of them in the National Labour Advisory Council. [More…]
In the debate in this House on the removal of the penal clauses and immunity from tort for union officers it was made quite clear by members on this side of the House that if there is to be an arbitration system, which we strongly believe in and support, it necessarily follows that some sanction should apply to the awards of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Mr Johnson No I’m not handling the unionists on the job at all, if there’s any action, and there hasn’t been any action taken by the trade union members in respect of Government contractors, or contracts, if there had been, it would be the job of the contractors, to take the unions through the arbitration system. [More…]
When government projects were held up - for example the Mail Exchange at South Sydney - by building union extremists, the Minister did nothing. [More…]
Before he was elected to this chamber he was a paid official of a communist union which was run by Jackie Hughes. [More…]
I think that the common sense of the Australian people will assert itself and that even the workers in the building industry will see that the union leaders have been misleading them and organising them to operate against their own real interests. [More…]
I hope these desperate men are not being misled by their union leaders. [More…]
If union leaders are irresponsible enough to flout genuine decisions, then I would sack them. [More…]
I also would stop the union leaders’ pay for the duration of the strike. [More…]
I am sure that if union leaders’ pockets were as empty as the workers’ pockets are whenever a strike occurs there would be fewer strikes. [More…]
So let me assume that the union leaders in this strike do not fall into that category. [More…]
Did the Minister say: ‘Industrial unrest cannot be solved by union leaders, employers and politicians sitting around a table of champagne and cigars, making grand and meaningless declarations and gestures on labour relations’? [More…]
What I have said was that we cannot expect employees to honour an industrial agreement about which they have never been consulted but which has been worked out behind closed doors with employers and union secretaries sitting around tables with champagne and cigars, or something like that. [More…]
I commend to honourable members a recent Inter Parliamentary Union report called, I think, ‘Press and Parliament’ which dealt with this matter. [More…]
I know that the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) is a new member in this professional ring and we do not want to hit him too hard but he delivered a speech prepared by the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
He even should have freedom to organise in a union, subject, of course, to not violating a determination of the umpire, the Commission. [More…]
I suggest that there should be this freedom to organise in unions and it should be maintained, subject to the arbitration authority and, of course, to emergencies which could be created by sudden withdrawal of labour in an organised fashion where the government must intervene. [More…]
This, of course, would be subject to the good will of both sides, and that good will cannot be guaranteed if on the trade union side there are officials who are not trying to help their men, such as by getting them better conditions, but are trying to organise disruption as a plan for some kind of incipient revolution. [More…]
Therefore, I make this final suggestion: Where there has been a strike in contravention of the industrial arbitration authority or in contravention of government intervention, a small percentage of the members of the union concerned should be entitled to call for a ballot for the election of the officers of their union. [More…]
There should be the right of recall when union officials have engaged in an unnecessary and illegal strike. [More…]
That right of recall does not mean that the union would not have the opportunity to re-elect whatever officer it thought fit; but it would serve as a salutary brake on the excesses of certain union officers. [More…]
I believe that this right of recall in the hands of trade unionists- [More…]
What I am saying is that the right of recall in the hands of members of the union, where there has been an industrial disturbance and a loss of wages might operate to alleviate industrial disputes. [More…]
Yesterday, at his Press conference, the Prime Minister was asked about his concept of a broad regional grouping for Asia and whether he would consider the United States of America and the Soviet Union as possible members. [More…]
Also, in answer to a question on notice on 3 October, did the Prime Minister not say that he saw no restrictions on individual membership, and this applied to the great powers, including the Soviet Union? [More…]
While accepting that the Government is flexible on the timing, structure and membership of any arrangements, will the Prime Minister say whether he sees any objections to China and the Soviet Union being included in the sort of Asia-Pacific arrangement which he has in fact already suggested? [More…]
I do not urge that the United States or the Soviet Union should be in such an organisation. [More…]
I am surprised that the Minister for Labour accepts this interference, for I am quite certain that in the days when he was having one or two friendly discussions with the Australian Workers Union he would not have allowed anyone to get in his path for more than a moment of two. [More…]
The Minister was willing, as we know, to use the Commonwealth Industrial Court legislation - which I think he voted against in this House - in order to win against his own union. [More…]
It ought to be noted that a significant Minister of the Government has - in fact 3 Ministers have - supported this union in its activities against orderly progress in New South Wales. [More…]
A situation has been reached in which the State Labour Council - ‘again according to the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ - caused itself to be dissociated from the tactics employed by the Builders Labourers Federation, Surely that indicates a pretty extreme situation in relation to this one union. [More…]
As a result there has been a bid to deregister that union. [More…]
It has been pointed out that unions quite clearly have a mandate to look after the industrial interests of their members but not to act as a conservation foundation at large. [More…]
Yes, he has praised the union for what it is doing. [More…]
It is my view that 3 Ministers have supported the leaders of this union at a time when the tide was starting to run against them. [More…]
The Minister for Housing in particular, _the Minister for the Environment and Conservation, and the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) on an earlier occasion, sought to bolster the fortunes of this union. [More…]
When he was asked whether he would act against unions which were holding up Commonwealth projects, he said no, that it would be for the contractors to do that through the conciliation and arbitration procedures. [More…]
As far as the Government is concerned, the unions can hold up Commonwealth contracts and involve themselves in a wastage of Commonwealth funds and the Government will do nothing about it. [More…]
The Government will act against employers with all the force of law that it can muster, but if there is any suggestion that a union or some union leaders have held up a particular project, the Government will do nothing; it will say that it is for the employers to act. [More…]
Industrial unrest cannot be solved by union leaders, employers and politicians sitting around a table of champagne and cigars making grand and meaningless declarations and gestures on labour relations. [More…]
He made a very worthwhile suggestion which I shall note and which / I intend - I say this quite seriously - to put J to the industrial peace conference, namely that when an application is made for a new award the union will not be penalised for being patient enough to wait until the judgment is finally given. [More…]
The fact is that every employer organisation in Australia has said that the amendments the Senate made to the Bill tried to bring a balanced view to a totally biased trade union organisational style piece of legislation. [More…]
Tradesmen, such as members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union, the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, have never been on strike, and they have been locked out. [More…]
Recently many trade union leaders have expressed the view that labour’s share has fallen over the past quarter of a century. [More…]
It is a worn out cliche, just as the cliche about communism which the former Government employed for 20-odd years has now become worn out because President Nixon has gone to China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
To make it even worse, if that is possible, it follows the occasion last month when the Prime Minister trenchantly criticised the United States Administration for sending arms to Israel, arms that were forwarded subsequent to the massive re-supply by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Arabs. [More…]
The low profile strategy was somewhat distorted by the presence in Apia harbour oi HMAS ‘Vampire’ and the Fiji Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, manoeuvred an internal dispute over Fiji unionism into a regional crisis involving Australian trade union interference in Fiji affairs. [More…]
He stresses his concern not only at the situation in the Middle East but also at the deteriorating situation between the Soviet Union and China and their constant border confrontations, with 67 divisions from each force facing one another across the boundary between the 2 countries. [More…]
Will the inspectors act not on their own initiative but on a request of a union or of an employee who has a complaint and goes to the Department of Labour? [More…]
If they are not to act on their own initiative but are to wait until a union or an employee or someone else has brought a matter to their notice, will it be the inspectorate which will prosecute? [More…]
Why will it not toe left to the unions, which already have the authority to institute proceedings? [More…]
In my experience in Western Australia, unions have been very active under both State and Federal awards in looking after the interests of their members and in bringing prosecutions where that has been thought necessary. [More…]
Does the Minister for Labour consider that the unions have not been doing their job, have not been looking after the interests of their members, have been falling down on the job and that because of this he must establish a new bureaucracy in order to do what the unions have failed to do? [More…]
As I have said, in my experience the unions have done their job and have done it very well. [More…]
A situation in Western Australia has come to my notice where, for example, a union and an employer by agreement have conducted affairs in the employer’s establishment not exactly in terms of the award. [More…]
He has done so and the Industrial Court has been obliged to find the employer guilty, when he could have protested his innocence because of the agreement between him and the union. [More…]
Will it disregard custom and practice within an industry, agreements between employers and unions, by which the establishment has conducted itself? [More…]
A separate occasion, I might say - last month when the Prime Minister trenchantly criticised the United States Administration for sending arms to Israel, arms that were forwarded subsequent to the massive re-supply by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the Arabs. [More…]
The Commonwealth, however, is not constituted merely by a union of States; it is something more than that; it is also a union of people. [More…]
My point is that even then, under no real threat, the founding fathers provided for a majority of the States in a referendum as a sensible way to provide for democratic dealings between what would be regarded as equal members in a partnership who had decided for certain important and overriding reasons to come together to form a federal union but for other purposes to retain their separate existence. [More…]
There is indeed much more magic in the proposition that there ought to be a majority of States that would assent to anything that is as basic to a constitution as are the powers between and among the several States of the union. [More…]
Recently many trade union leaders have expressed the view that labour’s share has fallen over the past quarter’ of a century. [More…]
Recently many trade union leaders have expressed the view- [More…]
I punctuate this to observe that the Minister for Labour has occupied significant trade union leadership positions in the past; we all freely acknowledge that, and we join with the honourable gentleman in at least equating our assessment of his own opinion in that field - that labour’s share has fallen over the past quarter of a century. [More…]
They have claimed that despite the increasing organisation and development of the trade union movement and despite the increasing proportion of wage and salary earners in the labour force workers have been receiving a diminishing- proportion of the national cake. [More…]
As proof of the sincerity of my opposition to this objectionable innovation, I desire to place before the House the following extract from my presidential report to the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia at its 1955 Annual Conference. [More…]
Prior to the ballots being held a special meeting of the Executive was called to determine Union Policy. [More…]
The Executive decided that as there was only one growers’ organisation in this State, The Farmers’ Union, and as the Farmers’ Union embraced virtually 100 per cent of the growers, then the ballot was in effect a ballot of members of the Farmers’ Union. [More…]
The general criticism of the present Minister for Primary Industry has not been supported by, among other farming organisation leaders, Mr Heffernan, the President of the Victorian Farmers Union. [More…]
The only sense of realism in this matter has been injected by the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union who pointed out that unionists are likely to withdraw their labour because they take the view that an industry which is potentially dangerous to the health of people, or could have a deleterious effect on the environment should not be established until an environmental impact statement has been prepared and published so that the community can see it and comment on it. [More…]
Supreme Court agreed to by the union and the Director-General. [More…]
One is aware also of the industrial trouble caused by so many of those who have become shop stewards and agitators on the industrial front in Australia, and who unfortunately have had a base in the trade union movement in the United Kingdom and seem to have brought to Australia prejudices which are not part of the Australian tradition. [More…]
Has the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Robert Hawke, been an embarrassment to this country in presuming to undertake discussions between Israel and the Soviet Union as a sort of roving, self-appointed diplomat? [More…]
Mr Hawke has recently and in earlier years visited both Israel and the Soviet Union and had conversations with both the Prime Minister of Israel, Mrs Golda Meir, and with the trade union leader in the Soviet Union, Mr Shelepin. [More…]
I believe that any contacts which can be established between Israel and the Soviet Union are valuable. [More…]
I would hope that Israel and the Soviet Union can restore diplomatic relations as Egypt and the United States have re-established diplomatic relations. [More…]
It is disturbing to read in the editorial of the most recent issue of the Victorian Teachers Union Journal’ the following statement: [More…]
Salary and expenses for credit union trainees, $22,000. [More…]
With reference to the recent strong protests by world and Australian Trade Unions and prominent citizens to Spanish authorities over the gaoling of Spanish trade union officials and the alleged torture of prominent Spanish citizens imprisoned for suspected political activity, can the Minister say whether these protests have brought about any change in the treatment and trial of trade unionists and political activists in Spain. [More…]
It is not possible to know definitely whether the international protests which have been voiced against the gaoling of Spanish trade union officials and other political activists have had any significant effect. [More…]
The honourable member may be aware that trade union activitities in Spain have been of concern to the ILO over the years and that Australia has followed these matters closely whenever they have been considered. [More…]
It is true that the ‘Age’, which I shall quote in detail in a moment, reported the honourable gentleman under the heading Fraser backs bid for union peace’. [More…]
It ought to be supplying 20 per cent as that is the world average figure, excluding the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
The Government - indeed the Minister himself -subsequently, under union pressure, withdrew its requirements in relation to industrial negotiations. [More…]
This is a report prepared by a former trade union official with no recognised economic expertise. [More…]
It may well be that obtaining control over prices is the first step that is necessary towards what is called a prices and incomes policy, because the minimum condition - I have said this also on several occasions in this House - of getting co-operation on this great question between employer and employee groups in Australia is that the trade union movement should believe that something is being done systematically about prices. [More…]
It is courage that honourable members opposite need- courage to offend some of their vested interests, some of the people in the trade union movement who want to use ordinary trade union people to exploit political advantage for themselves. [More…]
Does the militant trade union leadership care a fig about them? [More…]
We have a treaty with the Soviet Union signed, I believe, by the former Government to which the honourable member for Mackellar belonged. [More…]
Is there Union opposition to the proposal. [More…]
Is it a fact, as claimed by the Union, that 80 men will be affected. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that this proposal would be a grievous blow to the people in my electorate and that it is also concerning the Union of Postal Clerks and the Australian Postmasters Association? [More…]
Did he say that he saw Australia moving towards the pattern in England and the Soviet Union where only a few well-off people use private doctors? [More…]
It has applied to the Soviet Union under a government of one colour - and indeed under governments of one colour in other parts of the world. [More…]
I therefore said that I cannot foresee the day in this country when private practice will fall to a proportion as low as 10 per cent, which is the estimate in Britain and the Soviet Union. [More…]
He has said that we will go in the direction of Britain and the Soviet Union in that area. [More…]
Further, the friendly societies and small union or industry based funds provide for their members personal and prompt service which a government department certainly could not match. [More…]
Will this action overcome industrial confrontations over union membership. [More…]
If a person is a member of a powerful union which by its actions can pull out trains, pull out trams, pull out a means of supplying power, pull out bread baking or, specifically, the Transport Workers’ Union pulling out those who supply fuel, or if one is a member of any of the other powerful trade union organisations in our community, that person can protect himself against inflation. [More…]
But if one is an ordinary person - say, a clerk, a member of the Public Service, a carpet layer or a curtain hanger; just one of the ordinary people engaged in tertiary industry in Australia - one does not have that power because one is not in the special privileged class of belonging to a powerful trade union. [More…]
There has been merely an ad hoc approach to the economy dictated by union pressures, by a philosophy of socialism and by a power drunk government which cannot see where it is going. [More…]
He has just recorded in Hansard, at my invitation, the fact that in his view it is not only inevitable but also desirable that in the future 80 per cent of Australians will attend for their medical care at a government run clinic where they will get their services free, where there will be no doctor-patient relationship, and that only 20 per cent, the very wealthy, will reserve the right to receive private treatment, as happens in the Soviet Union and other countries. [More…]
If a person belongs to a well organised labour union in the United States that insures its members on a capitation system under a health maintenance organisation arrangement, he is in a sound position. [More…]
The reason for this is the rather unwise attitude adopted by members of a Post Office union who feel that their jobs are in jeopardy because $20 postal orders have been issued and they would much rather have people buy money orders. [More…]
Can he say whether there is union support for this proposal. [More…]
I undestand that a deputation led by the Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union met with the Western Australian Minister for Traffic Safety, Mr C. J. Jamieson, to discuss this matter. [More…]
, (3), (4) and (5) It is indicative of the significance of the term ‘Zimbabwe’ to Africans in Southern Rhodesia that the three most important African nationalist political movements in the country - the African National Council of Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union - have incorporated the word ‘Zimbabwe’ into their names. [More…]
One trade union man was even prevented from returning to Mount Isa to visit his wife and children. [More…]
When I was in the Soviet Union in 1962 I was told that a Soviet geologist had done some research in Australia, with the authority of the Australian Government, and he had said there must be petroleum products off-shore and in the land mass of Australia. [More…]
In those days it was regarded as politically traitorous to talk about the achievements of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It has never been said in this House yet but I take the risk of saying - it is my own personal view - that if I thought something serious would happen to the Australian nation as a result of these people with the know-how - the multi-national corporations which are well equipped to search for oil - leaving us out in the cold in the search for oil, I would urge my Party to confer with the Soviet Union with a view to using its geologists, its equipment and its know-how to search for petroleum products and natural gas on the Australian land mass or in the offshore regions of the Australian continent. [More…]
The Soviet Union offered to drill for petroleum on behalf of those countries and said it would not lay any claim to the petroleum it found. [More…]
As a result of this offer by the Soviet Union the international petroleum company supplying petroleum products to India and Pakistan reduced the price of its products so that those countries would not show interest in the Soviet Union carrying out further searches for oil. [More…]
If the international consortiums are going to leave us out in the cold they should be told that there are members of the Australian Parliament who are prepared to ask the Government to reconsider its attitude on asking the Soviet Union to search for petroleum in our region. [More…]
The Ukrainian community in Australia, and indeed throughout the world, is greatly alarmed at the continuous flagrant breaches of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the regime of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It prevents emigration of Jews and other people from the Soviet Union. [More…]
If it wants to condemn a lack of freedom in South Africa, for example, let it also condemn the far more flagrant and vicious violations of freedom which are still taking place in the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
If we are worried about some hundreds of people killed at Sharpeville why are we not worried about the millions of victims murdered in the campaign of genocide by the Soviet Union in the Ukrainian Socialist Republic? [More…]
Even though the evictions did not take place, the company’s threats naturally created considerable reaction in trade union circles and further industrial repercussions would have resulted had not the situation been resolved. [More…]
According to the report the firm which conducted the course asked the Students Representative Council for permission to run reading courses in the Union Building. [More…]
will it be consulting with interested bodies such as the Australian Union of Students, and [More…]
This could include consultation with interested bodies such as the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
tourism), the union representing most of the employees has tended to endeavour to force Qantas into the position of pacesetter in wages and terms and conditions of employment in Fiji. [More…]
At the Conference of South Pacific Labour Ministers in October/ November 1973 was concern expressed at the effect of some trade union activities in the maritime industry in the South Pacific region. [More…]
There was considerable discussion of developments in industrial relations in the maritime industry and the Conference expressed concern at the effect of some trade union activities in this industry in the region. [More…]
The Conference concluded that there was an urgent need to create greater awareness among international trade union organisations (in particular the International Transport Workers Federation) and among trade union officials in the region, of the real problems and circumstances of the island communities in order to obtain their cooperation in working towards fair and reasonable conditions for those employed in the maritime services which will be consistent with the economic and social position of the peoples of the region’. [More…]
Legislation will be introduced to establish a National Committee for Trade Union Training and a National Trade Union College. [More…]
But the Postmaster-General is much more culpable in these particular matters than the general Australian public realises because it was the Postmaster-General himself who, on 2 October last year, led a march of the Amal gamated Postal Workers Union. [More…]
He then ran into conflict with a one-time Senate candidate for the Australian Labor Party and various postal unions. [More…]
The record is a record of mismanagement, humbug and ultimately of a reversion to his attitudes on 2 October 1973 involving a complete and cowardly capitulation to unreasonable union demands. [More…]
Even the Melbourne ‘Age’ was prepared to say that the unions, in some respects, have been outrageously arrogant in these matters. [More…]
These 2 events - the Labor Day march and the sweetheart deal with the postmen - opened the door to 2 other unions, namely, the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists and the Australian Postmasters’ Association. [More…]
As the Postmaster-General expected and as he would have known, both unions walked right through that door and ended Saturday post office services in the official Post Offices. [More…]
Because Labor will have the confidence of the union movement it will be able to reduce the incidence of strikes. [More…]
If some of the views expressed by officials of the postal unions are true, it is quite clear that they do not have a great deal of confidence in the Postmaster-General. [More…]
We had the situation on 18 February when the Postmaster-General said that he was seeking the co-operation of the Australian Postal Workers Union and accused the other 2 unions of spite against the APWU. [More…]
Where is all this great business of confidence, co-operation and consultation with the union movement and the union movement being involved in decisions of government with respect to matters that affect employees and employers jointly? [More…]
A UPCT officer, Wal Rowlings, accused the Minister of introducing scab labour and shortly afterwards that union called for the Minister’s resignation on the ground of his anti-Labor and anti-union attitudes in these particular matters. [More…]
How much does this say for the Prime Minister’s claim to be close to the union movement? [More…]
The Postmaster-General could not be further from the union movement and the dispute that has come about was promoted initially by the Minister’s participation in that Labor Day march which had specific industrial objectives which would clearly downgrade services to the Australian public. [More…]
If the Minister has had trouble with the unions he has brought it on himself by his own initial encouragement of those particular objectives. [More…]
It was one that clearly could not work in the atmosphere that had been created by the Minister with the unions concerned. [More…]
Later, when he apparently realised that there was a public to be served, he started to attack the unions and said that he was trying to keep services going on Saturdays. [More…]
As a result we have the UPCT saying that the PostmasterGeneral should resign because of his anti-Labor and anti-union attitudes and the Secretary of the APWU, Mr Slater, resigning from the Labor Party Senate team. [More…]
I spoke to the postal clerks union about a streamlining of the money order system which we wanted to put in and which can come in if there is some ready co-operation in looking at it from the point of view of the public service. [More…]
There have been questions raised in this House about why a union is boycotting a $20 postal order. [More…]
This all relates to the fact that one union does not want another union to sell postal orders. [More…]
If someone wants to sell a money order that person has to be in one union but if he wants to sell a postal order he has to be in another union. [More…]
If that person wants to sort mail he has to be in another union still, and if he is a postmaster he has to be in a fourth union. [More…]
There has been consultation after consultation and the unions now say that they think the scheme will work. [More…]
Yes, it is a powerful union but if I do not resign it might be because I have a case. [More…]
The Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists is the appropriate union. [More…]
On that basis I saw the 2 representatives of the union and I said: ‘Why is it that you are taking such an attitude?’ [More…]
In the past year union demands for concessions which have been met have cost millions of dollars. [More…]
The Government has sold out to militant unionists to the disadvantage of union members and of the general public. [More…]
What we are suffering today is the backlash of under the counter deals between the unions and the Government which have now ended up in a pretty unhappy situation. [More…]
What he has done is to engage in a subterfuge of dilly-dally talk about what he said to the unions and what they said to him. [More…]
This evidently is a further stage in the step by step wrecking of the Post Office which the unions want. [More…]
Would he be game to say in this House what he said this afternoon if he did not feel that he had some union support for saying it? [More…]
It was just an escape route for the Minister personally at the very delicate stage at which he found himself in his relationships with the union. [More…]
If we go through every facet of the operation of the Post Office step by step, we see that in 15 months it virtually has been white-anted by what the PostmasterGeneral this afternoon admitted was a pally situation between himself and the union. [More…]
He thought that he had satisfied the unions and that he had achieved for them in 15 months something that they had aimed to achieve for years. [More…]
That backlash was the dissatisfaction of two other unions led by that very militant man, Slater, who was determined to get into politics and at that stage suffered a disappointment. [More…]
We have the circumstance where the strongest union has made a demand on the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
Therefore, it is obvious that service will not be reinstated, that the existing disability within the postal service will endure, that the Government will take no action to remedy it whatsoever and that all the Government will do now is to allow the unions to run over the top of the Government and increase the $3 5m loss that has been forecast. [More…]
On the one hand, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), said that the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) should be condemned because of his incompetence in incurring the hostility of the unions. [More…]
In the very next breath he said that the Postmaster-General is guilty of a complete and cowardly capitulation to union demands. [More…]
Then the honourable member for Cowper (Mr Ian Robinson) said that the PostmasterGeneral had sold out to militant unions. [More…]
Which of the accusations does the Opposition really mean, that he has incurred the hostility of some unions because he has not agreed to every claim, or the other charge made against him that he has meekly laid down in front of every claim that was made irrespective of its merits? [More…]
It was displayed when the honourable member for Wannon criticised the Postmaster-General, indeed I think almost condemned him, because he was invited by the Australian Postal Workers Union to march with the unionists in the last Sydney Labour Day procession - a great honour indeed. [More…]
The Postmaster-General is not a member of that union. [More…]
For example, under the present POSt.masterGeneral a deal of confidence is displayed between the trade unionists who work in the Post Office and himself. [More…]
It might have been made by Mr Slater from the union. [More…]
What did the great Amalagmated Postal Workers Union do? [More…]
Yet today we hear members of the Opposition state, on the basis of a confidential communication that passed between the Postmaster-General and the Secretary of the Australian Postal Workers Union which suggested that it may be necessary in certain circumstances to increase postal charges, that it is the intention of the Government to raise them. [More…]
The industrial problems related to Saturday morning closing with which the Post Office is concerned at the moment are the outcome of a union principle that has operated for some years. [More…]
The continued application of the ‘pace-setter’ principle for public sector wages and salaries, the endorsement of excessive union claims and the decision to seek quarterly cost of living adjustments must have an inevitable accelerative effect on costs throughout the private sector. [More…]
They told me that on the Saturday they had organised working parties to go out and assist members of their union who were affected by the floods. [More…]
I might say that apparently this is not a demarcation dispute as it appears that the matter is within one particular union and it does appear to be a union black ban designed to eliminate efficiencies that have already been created in the Post Office. [More…]
This action by certain vested interests within the Sydney Mail Exchange is designed to entrench the position of the employees of this particular union in the Sydney Mail Exchange. [More…]
Certain allegations have been made by the unionists involved at the Sydney Mail Exchange which concerned, firstly, a complaint that the work practices in the banned zone were not up to the normal post office standards. [More…]
More recently it has been reported that the representatives of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union have suggested that their members at the suburban centres were doing work and taking in work that they were not qualified to do. [More…]
Also, the facilities themselves were initially approved by the union. [More…]
It appears that the people at Parramatta and the people in these other 6 areas are being used as a tool by the unionists at the Sydney Mail Exchange to bring about, a less efficient system, to break a system that is working efficiently and which has worked successfully for some 7 months. [More…]
It is only in the last 2 weeks that the union officers concerned have complained about this. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a need for the Government to intervene strongly in this area to get the mails moving in areas such as Parramatta and the other areas that I mentioned and to ensure that people are not put to such dislocation as has occurred as a result of these particular events simply because the unions object to a more efficient system of working within the Post Office. [More…]
Their staffs belong to the same union. [More…]
I am not at all certain that the union itself will be able to solve the problem. [More…]
On this occasion, though, I will be able to tell them that I want them to return to work on the basis that any matters they feel cannot be dealt with on an industrial basis should be dealt with through their union, or through the union and myself together if that is how they like it. [More…]
There Mr Solzhenitsyn and other people find themselves amenable to quite drastic penalties because they have written something which offends the Soviet Union; in fact, they have engaged in what is known as anti-communist propaganda. [More…]
Over the years we have had the co-operation of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in trade criteria testing. [More…]
In fact only 17 countries have been assessed adequately by professional trade union and employer missions. [More…]
Certainly I am hopeful of the continued cooperation of the trade union and professional organisations and the employers which we have received in the past. [More…]
Before the Federal elections, I did undertake that the Government would allow the payment of repatriation and social service benefits to be made to credit union savings accounts in the same way, of course, as they have been able to be paid to bank accounts for very many years past. [More…]
It is expected that the necessary legislation will be introduced in the present sessional period to permit this method of payment to credit union accounts. [More…]
Discussions about the administrative arrangements have been held between Australian Government officials and the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues Limited. [More…]
The Federation was invited to attend the discussions as it could represent the great majority of credit unions and credit union members. [More…]
Following these discussions, the stage has been reached where, subject to the passage of the legislation in this period of Parliament, the first payment direct to credit union savings accounts will be of child endowment and they are planned to commence in July. [More…]
It is proposed in the near future to advise all credit unions throughout Australia about the new payment facility and the administrative procedures associated with it. [More…]
Suitable publicity will be arranged to inform departmental clients that their benefits may be paid to credit union savings accounts. [More…]
It was attended by some 210 delegates and secretaries representing 87 branches of the Association with a total membership of over 8,000 parliamentarians, and by some 7 observers from the Congress of the United States, the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland, the European Parliament, the European Economic Commission, the Council of Europe, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Foundation. [More…]
In Australia the power brokers in the trade union movement are active, ruthless men who would seize upon the opportunity of an unsettled world to catch this country off guard and create an atmosphere of dissent and dissatisfaction which will only lead to crises in Australia. [More…]
Encouraged and spurred on by this Government the union bosses are taking Australia deeper into the depth of industrial chaos. [More…]
I pointed out when a matter of public importance was being debated in the House that in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which members of the Government are fond of citing opens its post offices on Saturdays and Sundays to give a 7-day week service to its clients. [More…]
I do not think that any of these people are members of a trade union or that they are necessarily members of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I am quite sure that with one or two exceptions, several of whom I can see looking at me now, the honourable members on the Government side will not object if 1 say that this Government is an inventive government of old, tired-out trade union hacks who are talking off the top of their heads and who are swayed entirely by the left wing of the Labor movement. [More…]
On Tuesday, 26 February, behind the cloak of parliamentary privilege in the South Australian House of Assembly, Mr R. Hall, M.P., who heads the Liberal Movement there, made allegations concerning the standard of auditing of recent financial statements of the Storemen and Packers Union, South Australian Branch, conducted by my firm, C. J. Hurford and Co., Chartered Accountants. [More…]
His language was so outrageous as to include the words ‘deliberately covered up the facts of the misappropriation of money that took place in that union’s affairs’, and ‘the firm of C. J. Hurford and Co. should be delicensed’. [More…]
My firm was called in as auditors of the Storemen and Packers Union, South Australian Branch, in August 1972 - not in May 1972 as alleged by Mr Hall in his inaccurate statement. [More…]
The Federal Secretary of the Union, Mr Jack Petrie, had carried out a thorough personal examination in May 1972, and had reported his judgments. [More…]
Balance sheets had not previously been prepared for this branch of this union, nor are they required by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
From the day C. J. Hurford and Co. became auditors of this South Australian branch of this union, we brought to the attention of the branch committee at meetings and the members of the union in the published audit reports distributed at the annual meeting and posted on notice boards at every major work centre the inadequacies and irregularities in the accounts and records. [More…]
We have not conducted an audit of the union’s assets and liabilities, nor members’ records and do not report thereon. [More…]
Internal control procedures covering cash payments, as laid down, have not been carried out, viz., that certain withdrawals of union funds have not been correctly authorised or supervised, nor is there sufficient documentary evidence to substantiate some of the expenditure. [More…]
We were unable to satisfy ourselves that all receipts and payments of the union for the period July-December 1972 have been correctly recorded. [More…]
None of us associated with this audit are prepared to join Mr Hall in his unsubstantiated and thus irresponsible claims that there has been ‘embezzlement and misappropriation of funds in that union’. [More…]
Whether a felony had been committed or whether the problem was due to inexperience and a lack of administrative training and ability had to be left to the judgment of those to whom the auditors report, namely the union members and their representatives on the branch management committee. [More…]
If Mr Hall had confined his remarks to the need for union administrative training facilities and for possible alterations to Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Acts to bring their financial requirements in line with the Companies Acts, he would have been following me and my Labor colleagues in what we have been seeking to achieve. [More…]
I personally, have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours of my spare time in promoting the Workers Educational Authority of South Australia, which has done much pioneering work in trade union education. [More…]
I and my accounting colleagues have spent hundreds and hundreds of non-chargeable hours in improving the accounts and records of trade unions. [More…]
Labor Party in Federal and State spheres has made giant strides in the last few years in appropriating funds to improve trade union education facilities so that the working man may be helped, not hindered, and industrial peace may be facilitated. [More…]
It does not seem to me that this was entirely ethical on the part of an auditor who seemed to me in this case to be much more concerned with defending his own reputation than in endeavouring to further the interests of the client union. [More…]
I have no doubt that what he said about the Storemen and Packers Union is right. [More…]
There may have been a felony - he used the word - in the union; I do not know. [More…]
I do not know anything about this union, but I do know the kind of things which go on with union accounts, and I am not surprised that he had a hell of ‘ a mess to clean up. [More…]
It was a statement by Mr J. H. Doyle supplementary to that made by the honourable member for Adelaide concerning charges made by Mr R. Steele Hall, M.P., relating to the trade union audit of the Storemen and Packers Union in South Australia. [More…]
In his statement about the audit of the Storemen and Packers’ Union, South Australian Branch, Mr Hall attributed to me (a) that I had indicated that there was no misappropriation and that debts were due to the overspending of union funds, (b) that I had given the advice ‘You can’t call the police in’, but that I had retracted this and had used the words to Mr Jack Petrie, Federal Secretary of the Storemen and Packers’ Union, “There’s no doubt someone is tickling the peter and we both know who it is’, and (c) that later I had advised that the former secretary of the South Australian Branch of the Union should be dealt with severely but this should be done without police intervention. [More…]
It is a pity that his tradition in helping to establish a bi-partisan approach to this matter could not have been continued because it was Arthur Calwell - it was probably only a member of the Labor Party who could do it - who gained trade union support for a large and continuing immigration program. [More…]
Now, partly from grandstanding and partly from belief and a search for publicity that general trade union support for a continuing immigration program looks like being threatened. [More…]
The important point in this proposal is that it runs the risk, as has become most evident in the last few days, of jeopardising continuing trade union support for a substantial immigration program that Australia needs. [More…]
If the obvious pressure that would come in such circumstances were to be accepted by an Australian government or by the management of any particular concern, and they said that they did have a special obligation, they would probably put off people belonging to the Vehicle Builders Federation or other Australian unions. [More…]
Quite clearly that is the circumstance about which people in the trade union movement are concerned. [More…]
It is a situation that would seriously jeopardise the continuing support of the trade unions for an immigration program. [More…]
Again, the Minister for Immigration and particularly the Prime Minister are culpable for having established the circumstances in which aspirations which will not be fulfilled have been aroused in the Philippines and in which fears have been aroused in the trade union movement for the first time since Arthur Calwell, to his continuing and lasting credit, sold an immigration program to the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
Such policy initiatives, which the Minister claims to have introduced, as the development of new and expanded welfare services, the schools program, the examination of the problems of over 60 inner city schools in Melbourne, the emergency telephone service, expanded facilities for teaching English, the policy of re-union of families - which was announced in 1968 - and expanded migrant counselling services were all announced before the Minister came to power. [More…]
There is the prospect of the development of a new relationship between the Soviet Union and Japan particularly in the development of Siberia. [More…]
The recent Middle East crisis raised a new element of uncertainty in relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
see that there is some sense in the United States naval presence and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics versus China conflict, or whatever it is, and the fact that the United States in many circumstances in the future can possibly be regarded as a proxy ally of China. [More…]
In this age of tremendous power being vested particularly in the super powers - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the USA which have the capacity to bring about a nuclear holocaust - one cannot have detente unless there is some understanding and some alleviation of tension. [More…]
What of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Government is the creature of the trade union movement and it does not dare to stand up against the trade union movement even when it knows that the trade union movement is wrong. [More…]
In many cases they are intimidated by their union officials into participating in a strike of which they do not approve. [More…]
Funnily enough, both are concerned with the movement of our communist enemies, whether they are overseas or in Australia and working against Australia, or in the unions working against their own members and betraying their own union members. [More…]
He mentioned intimidation by union officials. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister’s attention been drawn to a resolution on the Middle East by the Australian Union of Students which calls for, amongst other things, a denial of Israel’s existence as a state and for support of Palestinian terrorist groups? [More…]
I cannot say that I have followed in detail or closely the text of resolutions on this subject which have been passed by the Australian Union of Students or proposed at meetings of the AUS or at various campi around the country. [More…]
Strikes, go slow tactics, working to regulations, militant trade union intervention and, to a degree, business uncertainty are causing the shortages that we are experiencing in so many sectors of our economy. [More…]
There is a need for a massive incentive program to be evolved by the Government after consultation with unions and employer and producer groups. [More…]
If a program involves profit sharing, productivity bonuses, union representation on boards of management and lowering the income tax scale, let us have it and let us have it quickly for the sake of this country. [More…]
As an alternative I offer the suggestion that unions and employers should be brought together to make them face the explicit and irreconcilable principles that lie behind the present situation of self-defeating wage and price increases. [More…]
Unless union leaders - we know that they are a den of communists - can agree to follow more consistent principles, this must continue as a source of inflation. [More…]
It is time a strong arm was used to stamp out illegal strikes by the imposition and collection of heavy penalties when unions withdraw labour for any reason other than strict union business. [More…]
We want a return to the strong-arm tactics of the Premier of Queensland who declared a state of emergency when the unions used the strike mechanism against a visiting South African football team. [More…]
That is not legitimate union business. [More…]
Union leaders, using instincts not far removed from the animal and savage era, have sought to use the poverty, hardship and inconvenience of the Queensland flood victims to implement a well-defined policy of industrial anarchy. [More…]
They may be pensioners; they may be people trying to live on fixed incomes which are the result of their savings or which come from other sources; they may be unionists who do not like to go out on strike because for them that is not the right way to go about things; or they may be unionists who belong to a union which is not in a position to act in a militant way or at any rate does not think that is the proper behaviour. [More…]
It would not be of any use if we gave the Government all the details of it, because the union dominated Government would not accept the necessity for the measures that have to be taken to control inflation, even if that operated to its advantage. [More…]
Every time it tries to do something to control inflation, and it does not do that often, it backs down because it is not game to face up to the union leaders, who often do not represent the opinion of the people in the unions they are supposed to represent. [More…]
I note that the status of Windorah is not to be changed, so the Government has stood down not because we put up a case so much as it was afraid of union action in relation to the proposal. [More…]
It was very interesting to read about and see photographs in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of approximately three or four weeks ago of 3 Russian trade union delegates to this country. [More…]
They were amazed to learn that the trade union movement in Australia does not go for increased production. [More…]
They said that the trade union movement in Russia went for the full production of all types of consumer and other goods. [More…]
They were amazed to learn that the trade union movement in Australia is dead against the production of goods that are so important to our way of life and to our overseas trade. [More…]
Mrs Child, who was the defeated candidate in the electorate of Henty, has been appointed by the Minister for Overseas Trade as his trade union liaison officer. [More…]
Workers Union in New South Wales. [More…]
In addition to these people on his staff, for whom the taxpayers are paying, the Prime Minister has appointed Mr Mick Young as his trade union liaison officer. [More…]
that Mr Foster had got the job because of his extraordinary experience in the trade union movement and industry. [More…]
A 1,000-word article in the Adelaide ‘Advertiser’ today mentions the various union leaders but not a single mention was made of Mr Foster, the trouble shooter. [More…]
The first thing I plan to do is put a big calendar on the wall and mark on it the date every major trade union award or agreement falls due. [More…]
I put it to the House that Mr Foster has not, so far as I am aware, solved a single trade union dispute. [More…]
This is the opinion of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales (Incorporated). [More…]
The Kindergarten Union of New South Wales is laying the blame at the door of the Federal Government for not fulfilling its promise of assistance for pre-school education. [More…]
The Kindergarten Union is a non-profit making organisation which conducts 70 kindergartens in Sydney and Newcastle. [More…]
The kindergarten union will have to close some kindergartens and possibly sell them to keep the organisation from total failure. [More…]
It will also require the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
But if anyone searches through those statements for matters of real substance and matters that have come to cause concern to a large number of people in the Australian trade union movement and in the general Australian community, he will not find much enlightenment or much help from this Minister for Immigration. [More…]
There is nothing in that document which answers the questions with which I am concerned, with which the Opposition is concerned, with which the Australian trade union movement is concerned, with which the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) ought to be concerned and with which the Australian community is most certainly concerned. [More…]
We have seen the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ expressed concern and the concern of the building unions. [More…]
We have seen the Minister jeopardising union support for a continuing immigration program, which only the Minister for Immigration would be capable of doing. [More…]
Unless the Minister makes quite plain the Government’s intention, the future direction of policy and its consequences for Australia and the composition of the Australian people and unless the Minister is candid in these particular matters he runs the grave risk of losing continued union support for the migrant intake and he runs the grave risk of arousing expectations in Asia, if this has not already been done by himself and the Prime Minister, that will not be fulfilled and which will lead to a worse relationship between Australia and our near neighbours than we had before. [More…]
It brings together employers, the trade union movement and everyone else- involved. [More…]
It is proposed that payment of child endowment be made to the credit of savings accounts with approved credit unions. [More…]
An approved credit union would be one registered under the law of a State or of the Australian Government. [More…]
Although initially it will be possible to pay only child endowment to credit union accounts, eventually the new provisions will extend to other payments under’ the Social Services Act which will include all pensions, supporting mother’s benefit, sheltered employment allowance and rehabilitation allowance. [More…]
At present firms anticipating inflation accelerate the rate of inflation by raising prices, and unions, in their bid for increased wages, anticipate inflation and bid higher for increased wages than a normal responsible union might wish to do. [More…]
Recently the growers sought a quotation from the Union Steam Ship Company for the carriage of fruit in the forthcoming season. [More…]
However, the Union Steam Ship Company offered to carry some of the crop on its roll-on roll-off ships, which would have been at a much lower price. [More…]
Urge intervention to end victimisation of 40 Griffith women thrown out of work as a result of black ban by Food Preservers Union of Victoria on onions peeled by Nugan staff members for delivery to frozen foods and other preservers stop this ban is in defiance of court ruling and victimised women who are trade unionists covered according to the law by the union recognised by the law stop Griffith unemployment has long been matter of concern particularly for women and this is an irresponsible and harmful ban for purely administrative reasons and would urge strongest possible action in defence of women who are my constituents and full trade unionists stop would appreciate your advice on possible action regards.’ [More…]
I have also been in touch by telegram with the Australian Workers’ Union and the Food Preservers’ Union of Victoria. [More…]
A sensible course for someone with the present Government’s philosophy, would have been, I believe, to continue the work of that committee, to broaden the membership of that committee if he liked - I would have had no objection to that at all - to place distinguished members from the trade union movement on that committee and to broaden its scope. [More…]
If the request from the trade union movement is met, the minimum wage could move to $70. [More…]
I have allowed him to travel with me over a journey of my own experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
I have an experience in trade union activity and in labour relations that is almost without parallel in this Parliament and I am sincere in saying that what I am putting here is in my considered opinion quite crucial if we are, to use a term I use repeatedly, to pull ourselves out of the tail spin that we have now got ourselves into. [More…]
If a union -wishes to terminate the agreement before the agreement has been replaced by another satisfactory agreement, the risk that the union takes is one with which it will have to live. [More…]
This is one of the reasons why many unions hesitate to enter into agreements of this character which will bind them in perpetuity to the conditions of the first agreement. [More…]
I desire to inform the House that a union meeting of the staff of the Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms held this morning decided that all members of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union would stop work immediately and would not return to duty until 9 a.m. on Friday, 5 April. [More…]
At 10 a.m. on that day a further meeting of union members will be held to consider a report from union officials. [More…]
This dispute arises out of negotiations that have been taking place since late last year with the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union over an agreement that was sought by that Union to cover wage rates and conditions of employment of casual refreshment rooms staff employed during parliamentary sessions. [More…]
In past months a number of discussions have taken place, some between union representatives and departmental officers and ‘some with the Presiding Officers, and in these a substantial measure of agreement, including new rates of pay for casual employees, was reached. [More…]
The offer of the Presiding Officers was to meet a union request for improved conditions for casual or, as it is referred to, sessional’ staff. [More…]
The Presiding Officers were aware of the problems of obtaining casual labour to meet the exacting and difficult operation of this particular support system of Parliament and the difficulties associated with recruiting staff to work only intermittently with the Parliament and after long discussion either alone or with the union the Presiding Officers decided to offer the union the following: [More…]
However, at the last meeting held on 21 March, the union claimed that the benefits of the new agreement being negotiated, which was expressed to apply to the sessional staff of the Refreshment Rooms only, should be applied to the permanent staff also. [More…]
This morning before the stop work meeting was held, officials of the union were advised that at the invitation of the Presiding Officers the Public Service Board would be ready to discuss these matters with them as soon as a mutually convenient time could be arranged, Thursday or Friday of this week being suggested. [More…]
In the circumstances they believe it is essential that consultation with the Public Service Board must take place before any decision is made on the union request that the pay scales for sessional staff be applied to permanent officers of the Refreshment Rooms. [More…]
The facts as I remember them are these: The wharf labourers* union of New Zealand, in order to support the seamen’s union of New Zealand, has an embargo against the unloading of Australian crewed vessels on the Tasman trade. [More…]
But the Minister for Transport assured me that there were possibilities that negotiations could be successfully concluded so that New Zealand wharfies in their attempt to protect the New Zealand seamen’s union and thus the New Zealand trade could be prevailed upon to accept the prospect of unloading Australian goods carried by ANL ships. [More…]
If there is military significance in any such proposals from the Soviet Union or from anybody else it is most unlikely that the proposals will be accepted. [More…]
Many organisations made submissions on the Bill and my officers and I have had useful and wide ranging discussions with a number of individuals and organisations, including the Australian Finance Conference, the Australian Association of Permanent Building Societies, the Council of Authorised Money Market Dealers, the Accepting Houses Association and the Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues. [More…]
I have recently returned from a credit union conference in Tasmania. [More…]
These employees are all members of the Australian Workers Union, whose representatives have asked my full assistance in seeing that drastic measures are taken to ensure no repetition of such situations. [More…]
Failure to carry out the vast improvements needed can only bring about a situation where the union itself will have to take the necessary action to give its members protection. [More…]
What is the classification for the purposes of registration as periodicals of all (a) trade union journals, (b) employers’ publications and (c) journals of political parties which are so registered. [More…]
Issues four and five were printed by Union Offset Co. Pty Ltd. [More…]
Statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate that the proportion of total wage and salary earners who, at the end of December 1972, were members of a trade union was S3 per cent of persons (58 per cent of males and 43 per cent of females). [More…]
Was concern expressed, at the Conference of South Pacific Labour Ministers in October/November 1973, at the effects of some trade union activities in the maritime industry in the South Pacific region. [More…]
There was considerable discussion of developments in industrial relations in the maritime industry and the Conference expressed concern at the effects of some trade union activities in this industry in the Region. [More…]
The Conference concluded that there was an urgent need to create greater awareness among international trade union organisations (in particular the International Transport Workers Federation) and among trade union officials in the Region, of the real problems and circumstances of the island communities in order to obtain their co-operation in working towards fair and reasonable conditions for those employed in the maritime services which will be consistent with the economic and social position of the peoples of the Region.’ [More…]
Needless to say a great deal of concern has been expressed by members of that section of the trade union movement associated with the Public Service. [More…]
Any person who works in a job which has not a powerful trade union will find the level of his income going down compared with the amount received by persons working in jobs where they are represented by a powerful union. [More…]
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Government’s capitulation to the powerful vested interests of the trade union movement and its attempts to weaken the statutory processes of industrial settlement. [More…]
Where, in fact, is the justification for a government that, as a result of union pressures, is prepared to adopt a form of - economic indexation that favours those with strong bargaining power, but refuses to apply the same form of indexation to those of very real need in the Australian community. [More…]
The morality of the Minister for Housing can be equated only with the partisan, atrocious and utterly outrageous statements that he made during a union dispute in New South Wales when he invoked all the sanctions and all the unreasonable penalties in the world against the Master Builders’ Association, even though the Association had taken action which the Commissioner involved with the case had regarded as reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances. [More…]
The Minister for Labour was persistent until his training program ran foul and now he seems to be unable to persist in that or in a Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, which I understand is not to be debated because the Minister knows that its consequences are opposed by the great body of the union movement throughout Australia. [More…]
The honourable member should not try to teach me how to handle legislation dealing with the trade union movement. [More…]
The day that the honourable gentleman can tell me anything about the trade union movement and what trade union secretaries are thinking will be the day that I am prepared to do anything at all that will make me look as silly as he is. [More…]
It is quite ridiculous for the honourable gentleman to say that all over Australia trade union officials are in opposition to what I have proposed in the legislation. [More…]
I tell the honourable gentleman also that I do not believe he knows what all the trade union officials all over Australia - to use his own words - think about this matter because I doubt whether he has spoken to all the trade union officials all over Australia and therefore he is only guessing. [More…]
I assure the honourable gentleman .that industrial peace rests fairly and squarely upon what the rank and file members of the trade union movement think. [More…]
My legislation was designed to ensure that when agreements which sought to bind the rank and file of the trade union movement were reached- [More…]
Reports have been published in the Press and were broadcast over the radio this morning that there is a threatened stoppage of work involving members of the Federal Transport Workers Union in all of the ports servicing the domestic airlines - Trans-Australia Airlines and Ansett Airlines of Australia. [More…]
The dispute has its origin in a demarcation argument between the Federal Transport Workers Union and the Transport Workers Union of New South Wales, which flows directly from the decision of the Commonwealth Industrial Court, now called the Australian Industrial Court, in the well known case of Moore v. Doyle. [More…]
In that case the Court held that the Transport Workers Union of New South Wales was no longer or never had been a State branch of the Federal Transport Workers Union but by virtue of its registration in the New South Wales Industrial Commission had a legal personality all of its own and a corporate status which was distinct from that of what had been thought to be its parent body. [More…]
Employees of Qantas Airways Ltd who are members of the State union and insist upon remaining in that union are refusing to belong to the Federal union. [More…]
There are reports that the Federal union is planning to retaliate by stopping its members servicing the domestic nights in all the capital cities other than Sydney. [More…]
I have talked with the Federal Secretary of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
The Government repeatedly says that these are the people who are trying to prevent change but it also says in the same breath on other arguments: ‘You may not like the people involved in union discussions but you have to deal with them because they are part of the industry’. [More…]
A major feature of last October’s conflict in the Middle East from our strategic point of view was the manner in which the United States of America and the Soviet Union successfully managed the crisis in their relations and used their influence to limit the conflict. [More…]
The panels consist of representatives of management and unions and sometimes other people. [More…]
I attended one recently for the electronics industry as Minister for Overseas Trade with the Minister for Secondary Industry (Mr Enderby) and I was glad to learn that the panel of the industry, union and workers alike, accepted the decisions that the Government had made about tariff reductions and the provision of subsidies and undertook to work practically to arrive at a way in which those suhsidies could be used to produce the most effective and viable industry that we can have. [More…]
I have to inform the House that I have received advice from the general secretary of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Union that at a meeting of the refreshment rooms staff held this morning it was resolved that all staff would return to duty at the normal hour tomorrow morning. [More…]
The other members of the Committee will be Professor G. N. Blainey, Professor of Economic History, University of Melbourne; Mr R. W. Boswell, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission; Professor D. J. Mulpaney, Professor of Pre-history, School of General Studies, Australian National Unipersity; Dr F. M. Talbot, Director, Australian Museum, Sydney; Dr D. F. Waterhouse, Chief of Division (Entomology) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; Mrs Andrew Clayton, Member of the Executive Board or the National Parks and Wildlife Foundation, and Mr Frank Waters, ex-General President of the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
What political parties exist in Tanzania other than the Tanganyika African National Union and the Afro Shirazi Party. [More…]
If one looks at his record in the Parliamentary Handbook one finds reference to his attendance at conferences of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Inter-Parliamentary Union and parliamentary delegations to South East Asia, East Asia, and elsewhere. [More…]
The Government will encourage and support measures designed to remove tension amongst all states’ and welcomes the moves by the United States and the Soviet Union to stabilise their strategic relationship. [More…]
He came to the Sydney Trades Hall to speak to a meeting of Australian Labor Party branch presidents and secretaries and union officials about the referendum. [More…]
For all his adult life Joe Sexton was a unionist, a union official, a Party official or a member of this Parliament. [More…]
Before being elected as member for Adelaide in 1958, he had been Assistant SecretaryTreasurer of the Building Workers Industrial Union of South Australia in the years 1950 to 1952, then organiser of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
May I say first of all that in the present dispute concerning the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, the union made an application to Mr Justice Ludeke for 4 sets of study leave of about 1 6 weeks each. [More…]
The union was granted 2 sets of study leave, one of 15 weeks and one of 16 weeks, on 75 per cent of the members’ aggregate wage. [More…]
The union has rejected the decision by Mr Justice Ludeke and wants the full amount for the 4 sets. [More…]
It might be interesting to note at this point that when the union made a submission to the Commission which this Government has appointed, it asked only for what Mr Justice Ludeke later gave it. [More…]
In other words, at that time the union asked for on!ly 2 sets of study leave of 16 weeks at 75 per cent of the members’ aggregate wage. [More…]
It would be interesting to know what evidence the union has brought forward in the intervening period to justify the demand for 4 sets of study leave instead of 2 sets. [More…]
I think that the action of the union is most irresponsible. [More…]
The union has no regard for thousands, of men who are being thrown out of employment there or for the hundreds of thousands of people who are being inconvenienced by this dispute. [More…]
I have issued a direction to the Australian National Line not to concede to this demand otherwise it will mean that every time a union goes on strike it will continue the strike and one will have to concede every point that the union demands. [More…]
We are in complete agreement that if the union wants this additional leave it will have to go back to where it came from, namely, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The channels are available for the union to explore. [More…]
We have been in touch with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Since that time the Union Steam Ship Co. has ordered 2 roll-on roll-off ships to be built at Whyalla. [More…]
Because of the actions of the maritime and land-based unions involved in the Tasmanian trade there has been a loss of 100,000 tons of cargo. [More…]
I repeat that this is a most irresponsible act on the part of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers, which up to this point - I have been in contact with it over the years, and I have been in ship building - I have always considered to be a responsible union, but I have had to change my opinion of it. [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk consistently about how we ought to introduce honest ballots into the trade union movement, where now they are mostly to be found anyhow. [More…]
If a trade union leader rigs or fixes a ballot so that his opponents cannot vote or burns the ballot papers so that they cannot be counted he is put in gaol. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports today which suggest that the arrival of more than 130 Spanish migrants in Brisbane has given rise to fears by State Labor Party leaders and trade union leaders that Australia’s immigration policy will aggravate the local employment situation there? [More…]
I have received information from some of the unions involved. [More…]
The Professional Musicians Union did take umbrage at some of the alleged remarks made by Mr Frank Sinatra about female journalists. [More…]
If the remarks were correctly ascribed to him then I can understand the union’s being upset by them. [More…]
The most ruthless example of Tammany Hall methods, the most contemptible modus operandi of the unscrupulous trade union boss and the incredible rules of that beloved Irishman named Rafferty have all been called into play by this panic stricken Government in its manic desire for self destruction. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are very good at criticising the doctors just as they sometimes say of Opposition members that we neglect to consider unions and members of unions and do not treat them as real people when discussing industrial situations. [More…]
Honourable members opposite say that that is an ignorant position because the industrial matters have to be considered with the union members and that without their co-operation the system will not work. [More…]
My colleague told the nation of the strike situation in Queensland where in a series of meatworks there is irresponsible trade unionism. [More…]
I refer to the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union whose members are on strike. [More…]
In another section of the industry we have the members of the Bacon Factory Employees Union who arc not on strike. [More…]
I do so because they are doctors and they have had the courage to defy their union by giving support to the Government’s health Bills and the Government’s health program. [More…]
It requires quite a large measure of courage on the part of a Labor member to defy his union - to scab, as it were, if I may use the picturesque phrase, that labour employs in these matters. [More…]
They have defied their union. [More…]
They have done this not because their union has as yet done anything illegal or anything of that character. [More…]
They realise that the requirements of what they believe to be the national interest - I do not believe it to be the national interest, but they do - should override all trade union obligations. [More…]
What he has done as a private individual defying the union is all the more meritorious because the union so far has done nothing illegal. [More…]
The union is covered by the clause in the Constitution which prevents industrial conscription and the union, if it organises, is of course covered by a clause in the Constitution. [More…]
But what has been done is, in the jargon of the trade union movement, scabbing. [More…]
It goes further than that, because they are supporting the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) who has gone on record recently as either himself encouraging the organisation of a scab union or alternatively encouraging the use of free labour in the medical field where the union itself has some kind of authority. [More…]
I do not think that the union has behaved wrongly, but I think it is a very good thing that members of a union who believe it has behaved wrongly should have the courage of that belief; and they have exhibited high, fine courage in coming out and defying their union when remuneration for work is in question. [More…]
They incur the danger of being named scabs and of being associated with the formation of what could be either a scab union, in the very unfair jargon of the trade union movement, or perhaps the organisation of free labour where the union had decided to withdraw its labour. [More…]
We need more people who, when a union is wrong, when a union is defying the court, when a union is doing something illegal, will, as these 4 people have done, endorse the principle that the national interest is superior to union organisation and that the national interest should take precedence over union organisation. [More…]
We need more people with this kind of courage who, when the union is behaving wrongly as some unions have recently behaved - indeed one union was recently castigated by the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) at this table yesterday - will stand up and say: ‘I will defy the union. [More…]
I believe that my obligations to the nation are superior to my obligations to the union, and if they call me ‘scab’ - to use that horrible word - ‘then I have behind me the great example of these four Government supporters who have endorsed this principle, that a member has a higher obligation than his obligation to the union and that he has a duty now to be a strike breaker’. [More…]
He has a duty to encourage free labour in a calling where, as the Minister for Transport said yesterday, the union is behaving in an outrageous and irresponsible fashion. [More…]
Surely the members of the union to which the Minister referred now have the obligation to show the same guts as our 4 parliamentarians have shown, to defy their union and to work; because as the Minister has said, they are in defiance of the court. [More…]
Let these people whom the Minister describes as workers who are in defiance of the court and who are doing horrible things remember that they have a higher obligation than their obligation to the union. [More…]
I may add that the so-called union, the Australian Medical Association, which has been called the strongest union in Australia, is, as one of my professional colleagues interjected, not registered as a union but as an employer organisation and represents overwhelmingly those who employ other people to assist them in their private enterprise. [More…]
The only point of major confrontation and difference between the Government and this so-called union is in relation to that issue of private enterprise being superior to the sorts of policies that the Australian Labor Government seeks to introduce and which are mainly for the upgrading of the public sector. [More…]
I had handed to me by the Federal President of the Australian Medical Association this afternoon what I would describe as an ultimatum on behalf of most of the private practice doctors in the Australian Capital Territory, not acting as a union on behalf of people who are negotiating conditions of employment but as a body delivering an ultimatum saying that they refuse the right of the elected Government of this country or indeed any authority in the Australian Capital Territory to increase the public sector of health care in this community. [More…]
honourable member for Mackellar can say that I am scabbing on the union. [More…]
I would say that those doctors in private practice who are taking this stand in the Australian Capital Territory are not scabbing on any union; they are scabbing on their own patients who employ them to do something, namely, to perform a professional service which they are committed to do, which as professional people they have undertaken to dp as a service and not as a commercial enterprise. [More…]
One would think that it was within the power of this Government or the alternative Government, which had 23 years to do it, to solve all industrial disputes and to prevent them by somehow going along to the union and saying: ‘Please, will you do what the court says? [More…]
If it were not for strikes, if it were not for union action, if it were not for the enforcement of union discipline, we would have the dark ages upon us today. [More…]
If a person can obtain finance, it is impossible to obtain building materials and tradesmen owing to the shortages brought on by the inability of the building industry to increase productivity in the face of fierce government interference and the inability to plan any type of program in the face of strikes, the names of which are fanned by irresponsible trade union leaders. [More…]
In recent weeks other Ministers and I have had a series of discussions with trade union leaders, including representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and others, as well as leaders of industry and we have examined the unemployment situation very carefully. [More…]
It is also within the context of coping with the effects of structural change that the Government is investigating in collaboration with the peak trade union councils what capacity in government factories can be put to use for viable commercial purposes. [More…]
1 am sorry that the third member of the Committee, Mr Pat Clancy who is the Secretary of the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, is not able to be present to hear his report being tabled. [More…]
He is involved in a court proceeding today in which he is representing his union, and this has made it impossible for him to honour us with his presence. [More…]
These include the development of training in industry under the auspices of the National Training Council; the promotion of apprenticeship through the National Apprenticeship Assistance Scheme; tangible encouragement of trade union training; and in accordance with Government policy, ways will be explored of implementing the ILO Convention on paid educational leave adopted at the 59th International Labour Conference this year. [More…]
That only adds to the sin of not telling the House and the trade union movement how it has been taken care of, because we have a right to know and a right to something more than general broad principles. [More…]
I would like to know what the Minister intends to do to see that more trade unions remove unnecessary bans against the employment of women. [More…]
Where there are unnecessary trade union bans, these involve discrimination. [More…]
In this area, especially in relation to some categories of female clerks, the Minister has not always performed as fully as the trade union movement might have expected. [More…]
The Minister does not tell us what acceptance he has from the trade union movement of adult training and adult apprenticeship, although acceptance by the trade union movement obviously will be important. [More…]
So there is a great deal of research and information that I think we would all want and I am quite certain the trade union movement wants. [More…]
There are many of these areas where the Minister would do this House, the Australian work force and the trade union movement a great service if he made more information available. [More…]
I recall speaking at an InterParliamentary Union conference in Brasilia in 1962 when the subject of extradition arrangments between the countries of the world was open for debate. [More…]
Union regulations which restrict the sorting and delivering of mail on a Saturday morning are the cause of this situation. [More…]
In that question I inquired whether the Minister could do anything to stop the quite futile waste of money and effort for everybody by overcoming the situation in which the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union, in its attempt to protect the New Zealand Seamen’s Union in relation to a whole series of measures, was refusing to unload Australian-staffed ships. [More…]
The problem was this: Because of the action primarily of the New Zealand Waterside Workers Union the freight charges on imports by New Zealand of oranges from South Australia and Victoria - these imports are worth S2m per annum - were due to rise by more than 50 per cent. [More…]
My present concern is whether the Minister and Government supporters with their vast union backgrounds can do anything to try to protect minority sections of the Australian community. [More…]
All other shipping alternatives frustrated by severe union restrictions on Trans Tasman trade but New Zealand can purchase and ship oranges from any other port of the world without these restrictions. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you will appreciate that I am not tying all the fault to the particular trade union concerned. [More…]
Many honourable members opposite have a trade union background and I suggest that some of them should get off their seats and try lo solve these industry problems. [More…]
I have completely omitted reference to the failure of the Government to control rising inflation but it is unquestionable that inflation is responsible for some areas of union disputation today. [More…]
One can hardly blame members of unions for the attitude they adopt. [More…]
When the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd started to blackmail you and screw you, we came to assistance of the growers. [More…]
One of the great promises of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the election before last was that because of the close links of the Australian Labor Party with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, with Mr Hawke and with the union movement generally, the Labor Party would be able to bring to Australia a real degree of industrial peace that had not been seen before. [More…]
It was not lost over unionism or demarcation issues, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) are so fond of saying. [More…]
Mr Justice Joske, presiding member of the Full Bench, said in Melbourne yesterday the union - [More…]
Neither the Minister for Labor and Immigration, nor the Prime Minister, nor any other Minister is prepared to tackle the Builders Labourers Federation or John Halfpenny of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The Government is prepared to tackle the marine engineers who do not belong to one of the great traditional labour unions from which the Government requires support and to which it owes allegiance and a duty and whose orders the Government must obey. [More…]
I say nothing of the attitude of unions. [More…]
I think the Press of Australia would have done a public service if it had printed that story and given it the significance which it has given to decisions of unions who break agreements. [More…]
So there are people in the union movement who understand their responsibility not only to their own members but also to the wider Australian community. [More…]
The Government needs to use its alleged, its claimed, influence in the trade union movement where there is no restraint to argue for restraint. [More…]
The greatest failure of this Government is its failure to show restraint in its own activities, in what it advocates, in its own expenditure and in its own grandiose plans, and its failure to use its claimed influence with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and with Mr Hawke. [More…]
What about this influence of the Prime Minister with the Australian Council of Trade Unions? [More…]
It is time the Government not only practised restraint on its own account through the measures I have mentioned through the course of these remarks and established restraint in other sections of the community but also used its links with the Australian Council of Trade Unions to see that the Builders Labourers Federation cannot get away with its claimed guerilla tactics, to see that the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union will not be successful- [More…]
He talked about the pledge that the Australian Labor Party made in Opposition to use its links with the trade union movement to try to bring about a better industrial climate than was the case under the former Government. [More…]
I mention two of them - the need to facilitate amalgamations of unions so as to obviate the need for the number of demarcation disputes that plague our industrial scene, the need to make and encourage the making of industrial agreements and the need to encourage the observance of industrial agreements. [More…]
I know that it is said that we ought to use our industrial liaison with the trade union movement to bring about this better climate but I cannot understand the logic of the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]
He spent about as much of his time calling upon us to bring about a better understanding with the trade union movement as he did in attacking the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) for attacking Mr Hawke. [More…]
He said that the Prime Minister and Mr Hawke disagreed more often than they agreed, yet in the next breath he said that we are lackeys of the trade union movement. [More…]
The other thing of which one needs to be certain if there are to be automatic cost of living adjustments is that the unions will not try to have their cake and eat it too. [More…]
My proposition is that the unions should be prepared to give a firm undertaking that, in return for automatic quarterly cost of living adjustments to the wages of their members to compensate them for price movements as they occur each quarter, they will desist from making claims for wage increases based upon price movements for which they have already received compensation. [More…]
I do not think that a consensus of opinion will arise from the conference which has been convened by Mr Justice Moore and which has now been brought forward to August because I think that the employers have taken up a fixed position against quarterly cost of living adjustments and I do not believe that the unions are prepared to give the kind of undertaking that I think would be needed for quarterly cost of living adjustments to be introduced across the board. [More…]
Therefore, I would propose that the Commission ought not to make automatic cost of living adjustments applicable to every award but ought to make the granting of quarterly cost of living adjustments conditional upon the applicant, which would mostly or perhaps invariably be a union, giving such an undertaking at the time application is made to incorporate automatic adjustment provisions into an award. [More…]
I make my position perfectly clear: If a union repudiated an undertaking that was required to he given in order to have the indexation clause incorporated into an award, I would ask the Commission to take it out again. [More…]
I believe that the rank and file members of the work force have a healthy enough appreciation of the benefits of quarterly cost of living adjustments to want to keep them and I believe that, if there were any irresponsible attempt either at the factory floor level or in any other part of the union’s mechanism to try to take away from them the enormous benefits of automatic cost of living adjustments, common sense would prevail and they would insist upon the undertaking being observed. [More…]
He put forward this week the outline of a manpower policy and, above all, he has put forward a scheme which is designed to train trade union officials at all levels so that they may exercise their power with responsibility and skill, and with the motive of ensuring that the rights of employees shall be protected and the rights of the community will not be harmed. [More…]
He paints a picture of rampant union activity. [More…]
He tries to misrepresent the picture by saying that unions are irresponsible and that a strike wave is upon us but he ignores the thousands of cases in which disputes are settled before any strike or stoppage occurs. [More…]
I know that my colleague, the Minister for Labor and Immigration, is very anxious that many of the difficulties that have arisen in the past between various unions, because of the multiplicity of them, should be resolved. [More…]
When the Minister for Labor and Immigration brings forward further proposals later this year many of the difficulties that have arisen in the past and could arise in the future will be resolved, simply because we will no longer have the ludicrous situation of one union arguing against another union in relation to work to be done, which is commonly known as a demarcation dispute. [More…]
I am not by any means convinced that the people who sit on the opposite side of the House, or indeed the trade union leaders, always represent or even often represent the opinion of the people who are working in industry. [More…]
They have had occasions when men have been put off and the union has said ‘If you do not reinstate them we will pull the whole port out’. [More…]
The conservationists, in addition, have enlisted the aid of the State executive of the Transport Workers Union to threaten black bans on the establishment of a dry mill at Maryborough for the processing of mineral sands from Fraser Island. [More…]
Indeed, at a protest meeting at Maryborough the Chairman of the Maryborough Branch of the Transport Workers Union was moved to acquaint the meeting of the fact that the Transport Workers Union State Executive decision to apply a black ban had been made without reference to the Maryborough Branch and further that the Maryborough Branch was absolutely opposed to the introduction of such a ban. [More…]
The meeting stressed the impact of trade union actions on the Island economies and expressed the hope that trade unionists in Australia and New Zealand would increasingly take into account the implications of their activities. [More…]
It noted with interest the possibility of involving trade unions in economic and budgetary planning. [More…]
He was President of the Wool Secretariat of the Farmers’ Union of Western Australia from 1962 to 1964. [More…]
Because the question is without notice I do not have with me in the House today the names of the gentlemen who make up the Committee, but they are departmental officers, trade union representatives and also representatives of private industry. [More…]
Basically what the Minister is proposing is not supported by the Australian Council of Trade Unions or by the bulk of union leadership and was not supported by the Industrial Peace Conference, which quite deliberately stated: ‘We want no more changes in these matters. [More…]
Already the 10 largest unions cover 40 per cent of people paid under Federal awards and the 16 largest cover, I think, 64 per cent of those people. [More…]
Therefore, it is beyond doubt that inter-union issues are not the major cause of strikes. [More…]
If the Minister argues that greater peace is achieved by unions joining together, let him look at the record of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which is an amalgamated union. [More…]
Has that union amalgamation really moved towards industrial peace when in the March quarter that union and other metal trades unions were principally responsible for the loss of 2 million work days and $37m in wages with 381,000 men being involved? [More…]
In the same group of unions in [More…]
It is time that the Government took the matter seriously and protected the interests of the great bulk of the trade union movement, who do not approve of these measures, and the general Australian community. [More…]
The union secretary who is involved in that strike has already stated that if all the barges were in use an additional 10 people could be put on to the wharves. [More…]
I suppose that one could go a stage further and get back on to a hobby horse which I hope I have played in low key at any rate before today and say that today in State parliaments and to a lesser extent in the Federal Parliament there are many ex-trade union secretaries. [More…]
It has always eluded me completely why these ex-trade union secretaries having been elected to parliament seem to divorce themselves from any responsibility in industrial relations other than the one they previously had. [More…]
Time and again we see perfectly good trade union secretaries - even though to some of us their accents might seem to be extraordinary - elected to parliament but once they are elected they forget their new responsibilities and still think they are trade union secretaries. [More…]
It is not good enough for these members of Parliament to come into this place unless they alter their thinking and understand that their role and responsibility now is to look after the community and not just the unions from which they came. [More…]
thought that the honourable member for Wannon was of the view that a union was something that happened behind a high school shelter shed after hours. [More…]
The Opposition believes that there is a need for legislation which will prevent union action from impairing competition and seriously damaging the public interest. [More…]
However, it is unlikely that the Government, unable as it is to contain union action causing the spiralling of wages, would take these steps in the public interest. [More…]
My good friend, the honourable member for Wentworth, will concede that in terms of international law, conflict of laws, private international law, call it what you will, Victoria and New South Wales are as foreign as France and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was because of that fact that the Government very early in its life last year set up the Textile and Apparel Industry Advisory Panel to bring the Department of Secondary Industry, as it then was, into closer relationship with the industry both at the management level and at the trade union level so that the Government had the benefit of the advice that the industry could give and the industry would know what the Government was thinking. [More…]
The other new provision that I have introduced into the Bill is that in the case of one organisation wishing to amalgamate with another and the management committee of the other organisation unreasonably refusing to allow its members to have a say in whether the amalgamation should be entertained, by a petition from 20 per cent of the members of the second organisation to the Registrar for an officially conducted ballot on the subject, which will take the form of a plebiscite, the members of the second organisation will be able to have a say over the heads of their management committee on the question of whether their organisation ought to accept the amalgamation offer of the first union. [More…]
The only exception to this provision will be in the case of the amalgamating union having 5 per cent or less members than the host union already has, in which case the host union will have the right to apply to the Registrar to obtain an exemption from the need to hold a plebiscite of its members to determine whether they will accept the amalgamation offered by the amalgamating union. [More…]
If the Shipwrights Union, with less than 5 per cent of the total membership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, sought to amalgamate with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union although it would be compulsory for all the members of the Shipwrights Union to be given the opportunity to vote, the Registrar would be able to say, upon application from the AMWU, that he considered that the sort of work that the shipwrights were doing was so similar to and so much like the work that the AMWU members were doing that there was no need to have a ballot of the members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The principal provisions of the Bill are to ensure that when agreements are made between unions and employers they have the endorsement of the rank and file members of the unions concerned in the agreement. [More…]
After all, an agreement which is made between a union official and an employer does not sell the labour of the union official, but sells the labour of the members of the organisation which the union official represents. [More…]
You could even design the Reserve Bank Board that way if you wanted to so that the trade union movement could appoint members to it. [More…]
It would be just as relevant because the Wool Corporation is just as important to Australia as the Reserve Bank Board, but that has never been done and so far in this Parliament we have never accepted the principle that there are important organisations like the Wool Corporation where, as of right trade unions could appoint the directors. [More…]
It was during my period as the Minister for Trade and Industry that a request was made by the Australian Council of Trade Unions for some trade union representation on the Tariff Board and I brought forward an amendment of the legislation to provide for an additional appointment. [More…]
I accepted a recommendation from the ACTU for the appointment of Mr McBride, who had been an advocate for the trade union movement. [More…]
I am referring to the Australian Workers Union, a union which was the birthplace of the great Australian Labor movement in the early days. [More…]
That is the Labor Treasurer - cleared the decks, as he put it, to initiate Labor’s great welfare program and at the same time he put the kiss of death on every union journal in Australia. [More…]
The Post Office is now being jeopardised by the backlash of deals between the trade unions and the Government. [More…]
Of course, when we look at these very carefully we find that the rank and file union member will in the long run be worse off. [More…]
I think the real truth of the matter was raised by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) when he quoted the real feelings of the producers of trade union journals and others who voiced their strong protest in this matter. [More…]
Trade union officials havebrought to my attention the fact that this is so in relation to a large number of items of clothing and apparel. [More…]
The Government should offer substantial reductions of taxation on overtime earnings based on a minimum of weekly hours of work on the condition that the unions do not make any further claims for shorter working hours for a period of at least 5 years, and that the unions moderate wage demands. [More…]
Every effort should be made to introduce the board-of-management concept in industry with union participation. [More…]
No doubt the proposals that I have put forward will be laughed at by the cynically minded and will be pooh-poohed by the left wing militant trade union leaders who do not want the present economic and social structure of Australia to last. [More…]
I think it is noteworthy that when anything sensible is suggested there is great trade union opposition to it, and there are threats of strikes and black bans. [More…]
I hope that the Prime Minister will make his opposition to this trade union activity very clear. [More…]
I note that in latter days the Minister for Transport, when talking to a trade union group, suggested that the Federal Government should take over bus services throughout the nation. [More…]
A delegation of trade union representatives waited on me and the Deputy Prime Minister only a couple of weeks ago. [More…]
will depend critically on the willingness of the union rank and file to accede to restraint of their wage claims . [More…]
If a trade union had broken the agreement the Opposition would be crying out to bring in the Army or crying out for the union to be taken to court, or something similar. [More…]
The introduction of that second stage is being speeded up because of the force of union pressure. [More…]
This Bill relates to the amalgamation of trade unions and is designed quite clearly to make amalgamations much easier than they are at the moment. [More…]
In moving in this direction, as it has attempted to do in the past, the Government is ignoring the rights and responsibilities it ought to have in mind of the individual members of the trade union movement. [More…]
This legislation is important because it relates to the rights of individual rank and file members of the trade union movement and to the responsibility that the Government ought to accept to ensure that the proper rules for registration under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are designed to maintain and enhance those rights and not to belittle them. [More…]
The general plan that the Minister haslaid down involves committees of management of the unions - the deregistering union and the amalgamating union - making decisions and recommendations to their members. [More…]
But under the provisions that the Minister has introduced there could be elections under the rules of an organisation or, if the committee of management requests, or if 250 people or one-twentieth of the membership of the union, whichever is the lesser, request a ballot controlled by the Commonwealth Electoral Office - a ballot conducted by the Registrar - that ballot could take place. [More…]
I have been advised that a member of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, for example, who wants a secret ballot has to apply for it. [More…]
Some Government supporters seem quite deliberately determined to try to demonstrate that under the present provisions all unions conduct secret postal ballots. [More…]
The Minister has in his Bill a provision which says that in relation to amalgamations ballots will be conducted - even official ballots - in accordance with the rules of the union, the organisation, and that is quite different to the provision in the present Act, which says that there shall be a secret postal ballot. [More…]
I do not know why the Minister and the Government are always frightened of secret postal ballots in union affairs. [More…]
If the Minister were really sincere in wanting the rank and file membership of the union to have their rights protected, he would agree that this is the best possible way of doing that and that it is the best possible way of seeing to it that every member of an organisation can, without fear and without favour, have a view on a particular question and put that view in such a manner that it will count. [More…]
With the introduction of this Bill, that will be so only in the circumstances in which the union, the organisation, has a rule that requires that to occur, because if that is not the way in which an organisation conducts its business, that situation will not occur. [More…]
Again that provision runs in the face of the rights and responsibilities of the rank and file members of the union. [More…]
One of the odd things about the Minister is that when he wants to attack union officials and appeal over their heads to the shop stewards and to the rank and file membership, he is doing everything he can, in his words, to uphold the rights of the rank and file membership. [More…]
There are other grounds for objection, and these other grounds strike in the same direction, namely, the removal of rights from members of unions. [More…]
There can be other rules of a union, an organisation, that certainly affect the rights of individual members of an organisation, and those rules in the case of an amalgamation can be changed in such a way as would affect those rights. [More…]
These things can be done under cover of an amalgamation arrangement, and at the same time the rights of individual members of a union, an organisation, are further reduced because in relation to those unions which have a collegiate system of election, where there is not direct election by the rank and file, the Minister is inserting a provision which states that for 3 years after amalgamation the rank and file members will not get a vote. [More…]
If the Minister is concerned, as he claims, for the rank and file membership of the union movement, especially after an amalgamation - that is the point I am putting - he would want to give them as soon as possible the opportunity to vote for those who control that union, run that union and determine its policy. [More…]
Now under pressure from some unions which no doubt wanted this circumstance, the Minister has agreed that the rank and file will not get a vote in relation to those positions in less than 3 years. [More…]
Even after an amalgamation they would not get a vote in relation to office bearers of a union for up to 3 years. [More…]
Getting back to the point again, if the Minister wishes to do so, not every union has in its rules a necessity for secret postal ballots. [More…]
I have been informed that in those elections in that particular branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, for example, nobody applies. [More…]
The Minister used to claim that demarcation disputes were a major reason for industrial unrest in Australia, a major cause of inter-union disputes, therefore creating a major requirement for amalgamations to prevent those disputes from arising. [More…]
Demarcation disputes occurred within a union sometimes as much as between unions. [More…]
He is now saying that most disputes between unions are demarcation disputes and that therefore we need to have legislation of this kind. [More…]
The statistics from the Commonwealth Statistician in relation to the same matter indicate that .5 per cent of days lost in the March quarter were lost over unionism issues, which include demarcation disputes but not exclusively so. [More…]
So .5 per cent of total time lost, days lost, does not really appear to represent a major reason for introducing legislation that could do a great deal to run over most of the smaller unions in this country. [More…]
Much of the argument and discussion about amalgamation is centred around the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
In the March quarter of this year the AMWU and one or two other unions were involved in the greatest industrial unrest that this country had seen since 1929. [More…]
That amalgamated union had held up to be a great example of how there would be greater responsibility and more industrial peace. [More…]
I believe that if members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union now had a free, secret postal ballot to find out whether they wanted to stay in that amalgamated union under the control of Mr Halfpenny they would vote themselves out and go back to their old situation pretty quickly. [More…]
This kind of activity is certainly not in the interests of members of a union. [More…]
Under the Bill the large unions, such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, could well dominate the smaller unions. [More…]
The Minister has floating around somewhere a proposal that would indicate that any unions with a membership of under 2,000, with very strict exceptions, could not have the privilege of registration under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
This Bill has its thrust in the same direction to establish the circumstances in which a committte of management of a large dominating union, such as the AMWU, can dominate smaller unions and can run ever them irrespective of what their members really want. [More…]
One of the other things about this question is that 33 unions already represent 70 per cent of the membership of trade unions in Australia. [More…]
The amalgamations that have occurred generally have been between large unions and not between large and smaller unions. [More…]
If smaller unions voluntarily wish to come together no doubt they could provide better service to some of their members. [More…]
But there is quite a different thing in having an amalgamation between small unions and having 70 per cent of the membership now in 33 unions banded together in 30, 20, 16 or 10 unions. [More…]
The Minister, in saying that 300 unions is much too many, is putting a gloss on the total situation which is rubbed away when there are 33 unions and not 300 unions representing 70 per cent of the membership. [More…]
He was talking about provisions which would give exemption to a large union making it unnecessary for that union to have a vote if the smaller de-registered union has - I ask the Minister- [More…]
The Minister in has second reading speech says that in the circumstances of one large union and one small union with less than 5 per cent of the membership the Registrar will have to determine the question. [More…]
The Minister then goes on to give an example of the Shipwrights Union and the AMWU clearly implying that they are not dissimilar unions and therefore there would not be any exemption in that case. [More…]
The Minister then says that the Registrar would probably conclude that in these circumstances, because they do different things, they ought not to amalgamate unless a vote were taken of all union members. [More…]
(8), with regard to the circumstances I have mentioned concerning a big union and a very small union, states: the Industrial Registrar shall, upon application by the first-mentioned organisation, exempt that organisation from the requirements. [More…]
The Minister may say that company takeovers are made easy and that we are taking a tougher attitude in relation to union matters than we are to company takeovers. [More…]
There is now very tough restrictive trade practices legislation in this country and it does apply to trade unions. [More…]
If the Minister wants to draw an analogy with company legislation he might find that other people are saying that the provisions of the restrictive trade practices legislation ought not to apply to trade unions. [More…]
The Minister might also say that we have in our policy a statement supporting industry based unions. [More…]
There is all the difference in the world, as the Minister would know, between the amalgamation of craft unions, which spread their tentacles into many industries, and the establishment of a system of industry based unions. [More…]
The latter could be possible only if the trade union movement itself wished to achieve it, if the Australian Council of Trade Unions wished to apply its policy and the Labor Party tried to apply its policy because they all have a similar policy. [More…]
So we oppose the legislation principally because it runs contrary to the interests of rank and file members in the trade union movement. [More…]
It would do much to jeopardise the interests and prerogatives of people in smaller unions and even if in bigger unions they could be more efficient, if they wished to remain in those smaller unions they have a right to do so and that right should not be tramped upon by some proposed law introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon kept telling us about star nights at meetings of the Australian Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I would be delighted if the honourable gentleman would show us his union ticket and let us know which trade union he belongs to or has belonged to and with which one he is currently financial. [More…]
I shall tell honourable members about Coogee and about a recent trade union election in New South Wales in which the Miscellaneous Workers Union was involved. [More…]
A matter occurred there which gave rise to a court hearing and the court found in favour of the union. [More…]
When the ballot papers were sent out by post people arrived at the door of union members when the ballot papers were delivered by postmen and told the unionist: ‘There has been some sort of a mix-up in this. [More…]
One of the alert members of the union thought he would check on that and he talked with the Industrial Registrar and found out that the story he had been told was not true. [More…]
There are elements in this community - their representatives sit on the other side of this chamber - who are out to destroy the trade union movement. [More…]
Nobody is concerned about any sorts of amalgamations except those of trade unions. [More…]
But if one starts talking to members of the Opposition about an amalgamation of 2 trade unions one sees how they go off. [More…]
The proposal that was brought in by the honourable member for Flinders (Mr Lynch) when he was the Minister for Labour and National Service was that in a union amalgamation ballot half of the ballot papers had to be returned and, of those returned, half plus one had to be in favour of the amalgamation if the proposal was to be carried. [More…]
History tells us that a 30 per cent return in a union ballot is a very good result. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon endeavoured to justify that position by saying that 33 of the 303 unions in Australia have comparatively large memberships and represent about 75 per cent of total union membership. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon is not a member of a union and he has never been to a union meeting. [More…]
We find that large unions are able to do the most for their members. [More…]
We find that the small unions have great difficulty in competing in any area in which unions traditionally engage. [More…]
Once again we are looking after the interests of the rank and file unionist. [More…]
We are making sure that he can reach the leadership of the union and have his voice heard. [More…]
We are making sure that if he believes that it is in his interests that there be an amalgamation with another union this will not be almost an impossibility. [More…]
Anyone who has any knowledge of union, affairs - indeed anyone who does not have any particular knowledge of union affairs but has simply read the Act as against the Bill - would know that there is a great deal of difference between a financial member of an organisation and a member of an organisation. [More…]
Why are there too many small unions? [More…]
What is wrong with a small union that represents the particular interests of a small section of the work force, following a particular calling, a particular craft or a particular vocation? [More…]
Why is it wrong for a small group of craftsmen to form their own union when the clerks throughout Australia can form their union because they follow their own particular calling? [More…]
So, what is wrong with having a small union? [More…]
The Minister does not tell us why a large union should be more inefficient than a small union? [More…]
Why should we have fewer unions? [More…]
What he is really asking this House to do is to approve the formation of conglomerate unions within Australia. [More…]
Does he really want the unions of Australia to follow the examples of the conglomerate corporations of the world? [More…]
Is he really calling upon the unions of Australia to embark upon the takeover course undertaken by corporate takeover merchants within Australia? [More…]
If he is asking this House to do that he is asking us to approve the concentration of power within a small number of unions. [More…]
He is not asking us to approve the concentration of power in small unions but the concentration of power in a small number of unions by larger unions gobbling up and submerging the special interests of the group of individual workers who, by reason of their particular craft, calling or vocation, wish to form themselves into a union of their own. [More…]
There is great virtue in smaller unions being allowed to continue and to flourish within the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
There is great virtue in allowing those workers who follow a specific calling to form their own union to look after their own special interests. [More…]
I think that anyone from within the union movement or anyone who has had anything to do with the union movement will know how the special interests of a group of workers can be submerged and forgotten within a larger organisation. [More…]
I know that it exists also in the legislation of Western Australia under which many unions are registered as State unions whilst at the same time their members are part of a Federal union. [More…]
As I said, there is great value in allowing for a diversity of unions which, at the grass roots level, can represent the true interests of the workers who form the membership of those small unions. [More…]
There can be great damage to the union movement in Australia if continued concentrations of power are allowed to develop into ever larger and larger unions. [More…]
We know from recent history that these large unions will seek not only to exercise that power in respect of industrial matters but also will seek to exercise that power for political purposes which are quite alien to the objectives for which those unions are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Although there was a great spate of talk after the amalagamations which brought about the formation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, there has been little subsequent movement towards amalgamation. [More…]
I was rather shocked to hear the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) say that a 30 per cent return on a ballot in a union is a very good result. [More…]
Surely the honourable member for Burke cannot be proud of unionism if a union can achieve only that result. [More…]
I believe that a decision on any union amalgamation should be determined by the voluntary exercise of choice by the members who form the union, because a union is only the creation of the members of that union. [More…]
Therefore, only a majority of that membership should at any time be allowed to alter the basis of organisation of that union. [More…]
As a member of the Opposition, I view the Bill now before the House as an infringement on the rights of individuals and dangerous to the members of unions. [More…]
This will not be cured by the Bill before the House which recommends the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
Suppose all unions wish to amalgamate. [More…]
How can a variety of interests be amalgamated into one union with one voice? [More…]
Because of the diversity of interests and people’s Individual talents it is not possible to have one union for a group of individuals or a group of varying occupations. [More…]
However it is possible to have affiliation of unions and affiliation of ideas too. [More…]
It then emerges that if the body of affiliated unions reaches a decision it carries sufficient authority to speak on behalf of its individual members, having first obtained their consent. [More…]
I believe that the Minister should concern himself not with the amalgamation of unions but with the welfare of unionists. [More…]
He should have a good look at their domestic problems and, as I have said earlier, have a look at the great range of classifications in each category of occupation with a view to eliminating this festering sore which is now very evident in the trade union movement. [More…]
Many union leaders today make unreasonable demands for wage increases in the belief that they can extort what they want. [More…]
If that amendment is agreed to it will delete from the present Bill the provisions which allow ballots to be held merely in accordance with union rules, whether or not there is an opportunity for a secret ballot to be held, and re-insert the provisions contained in the existing Act, which would make it mandatory for the Registrar of the Commonwealth Electoral Office to undertake all ballots and ensure that a secret postal ballot was made available to all members of a union, an organisation, involved in amalgamation. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), I know, is concerned about union democracy. [More…]
The proposed new section again is in the interests of control by the rank and file over union affairs in that it ensures that a reasonable number of people within a union, within an organisation, will have the opportunity to vote. [More…]
Indeed, there will be a requirement upon them to vote if the amalgamation is to take place and if their union is to be taken over. [More…]
If the Minister is really concerned, as he has said he is on a number of occasions, about the place of the rank and file in union affairs and their control over union officials, I think that he will support both of these amendments. [More…]
I refer to the safeguards which are written into the Bill to ensure that where the rules of a union do not provide for a compulsory postal ballot of all members, then the members of that union will have the right to petition the Registrar for a ballot to be conducted by the Registrar or by the Chief Electoral Officer in accordance with the traditional way in which the Chief Electoral Officer has always conducted the ballots. [More…]
I know of only one union the rules of which provide that ballots may be held at the union meeting- [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
The only union, I repeat, which does not have provision in its rules for postal ballots and for a ballot paper to be posted to every single member is the AMWU. [More…]
It is a union with 160,000 members. [More…]
When those 250 signatures have been obtained all of the 160,000 members of that union will be supplied with ballot papers direct from the Chief Electoral Officer and the ballot will be conducted in exactly the same way as any other ballot conducted by the Chief Electoral Officer for union elections. [More…]
But it is only to unions the rules of which do not provide automatically for postal ballots that this provision could ever apply. [More…]
Therefore we say that the unions’ rules shall apply wherever they provide for a postal ballot and where they do not provide for a postal ballot 250 members out of 160,000 AMWU members simply have to sign a petition and a ballot will be conducted in the way that most union ballots are conducted. [More…]
Most union rules that I know of - I only know of one already that does not do so- [More…]
The first amendment moved by the honourable member for Wannon simply puts the obligation on a union to have a fair ballot. [More…]
The Minister, from his own experience, knows that union organisations are frequently crook and he himself has gone into court and maintained the proposition. [More…]
Why does he deny this protection to other unionists? [More…]
Why does he believe that he can get protection and other unionists are not allowed to have it? [More…]
He said that there can be a ballot if 250 miserable unionists - I use his phrase - ask for it. [More…]
He knows the kind of pressure which the left wing communists, the leaders of the union - particularly the Australian Metal Workers Union - can bring to bear on capitalists and trade unionists. [More…]
life may have had the courage to stand up against the tyranny of the unions. [More…]
The Minister used his privilege as a member of this House to protect himself but these 250 miserable unionists will not have that same kind of privilege. [More…]
Does he want to make these 250 miserable unionists the target of black bans, of all the kinds of corrupt pressures which the left wing and the unions can organise against them? [More…]
He knows that the left wing of the unions in Melbourne for example, did not hesitate to stoop to murder in order to intimidate union members. [More…]
Yet here he is coming to this place and abandoning the individual members of the unions to the tyranny of the organised left wing. [More…]
The honourable member for Phillip knows perfectly well the truth of what I am saying because in the Federated Clerks Union a small corrupt communist coterie got control of the balloting machinery and by abuse of that machinery was able to maintain itself in power. [More…]
If it had not been for the dedicated work of people like the honourable member for Phillip, that corrupt communist coterie would be in control of the Clerks Union today, irrespective of the fact that 90 per cent plus of the members of that union would repudiate it. [More…]
He does believe in union democracy. [More…]
He does believe that members of a union should have their right to express their views, whether on a ballot or on an election of officers, free of intimidation and corruption. [More…]
This is not a fair thing to ask, even of 250 miserable unionists. [More…]
I should like to make a final plea to the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) because I really believe that this amendment strikes at everything the Minister believes is important for the rank and file members of the union movement. [More…]
He himself has fought with a union in the past and he used the machinery of the law to assert the rights of an individual member, and he won. [More…]
That was his right under the law and it would have been wrong if the law had been amended to prevent that happening - to prevent the Minister having his victory over a situation in a certain union. [More…]
We know that that has left scars on the Minister and on the union for 30 years. [More…]
However, in his second reading speech the Minister said that the Bill will require that every member of every organisation affected by the proposed amalgamation shall - not may - be supplied with a ballot paper and given the right to vote; not put in a position where he has to go on his knees to vote; not put in a position where he has to mark his name up with 249 other men where their names are known, and vote; not put in a position where he must go along and apply to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union for an absent vote. [More…]
Anyone who votes absent in that union is a marked man and nobody does because he knows that it would indicate him immediately as against the hierarchy and against those in control. [More…]
It is significant that the Minister has said that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which has demonstrated itself to be probably the most powerful union in Australia - certainly one of the most militant; certainly one of those that has visited more harm on its own members because of the money lost through strikes - has gained no more and much less than the waterfront unions have for their members but has used much more militant tactics and done more harm to its own members and enormous harm to the Australian community. [More…]
That is the one union which the Minister, on his own admission tonight has recorded in Hansard, has indicated does not have a secret postal ballot. [More…]
Members of that union have to apply for an absent vote if they want to get a secret vote. [More…]
If 250 men or a committee of management ask for a secret officially conducted ballot under the provisions of the Bill, that ballot must still, as far as practicable and possible, be in accordance with the rules of the union. [More…]
That is not an attack on the union movement; it is comment made against one particular trade union and its management. [More…]
I only wish that when union leaders engage in responsible activities, as they have, the Press would give them as much publicity as the truly irresponsible and damaging actions of other unions. [More…]
The Minister has a responsibility in these matters and if anything that he has said in this chamber or outside it about rank and file control over union affairs means anything at all, he will accept this amendment even if it is only for the sake of one union, even if it concerns only the AMWU, because that union is very much at the forefront in national affairs. [More…]
With the greatest respect, if the Minister is not prepared to accept this amendment - if he is prepared to let the ballot provisions go on as they do in that particular union - we know that we need not believe anything he says about rank and file control or union democracy ever again. [More…]
I did not say that there would be 250 miserable unionists; I said there would be a miserable 250, meaning only a small number of unionists. [More…]
The petition is taken by the Registrar’s officers and the Deputy Registrar takes the petition to the union office and asks for the roll of union members to check the names. [More…]
The Deputy Registrar there ticks off the names of those who signed the petition to ascertain whether they are members of the union in fact or not. [More…]
Indeed, they do not even have to be financial members of the union in order for their names to be accepted on a petition. [More…]
Yet never once did it occur to honourable members opposite when they were in government to make it a compulsory requirement of the Act that all union ballots for the election of officers shall he conducted by an electoral officer. [More…]
The ballots conducted under the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union rules are secret ballots. [More…]
It simply means that a Federal award will not cease to exist just because the union which was the applicant or even the respondent to the award has ceased to exist as a separate entity. [More…]
Last Sunday in the Sydney Domain there was a meeting to support a protest in relation to the treatment that had been accorded to Mr Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The Soviet Union has demonstrated the most utter hypocrisy in regard to human rights and I think it is time that the Government officially associated itself with a protest in the United Nations. [More…]
I ask now that the Government officially bring to the notice of the United Nations the consistent violation of all human rights which the Soviet Union is perpetrating against its .own citizens inside its own borders. [More…]
If we are to make this kind of protest against one nation, let us make it against the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that when these matters are raised the represenatives of the Soviet Union in the United Nations in the past have used the elegant phrase: ‘Let them keep their pig snouts out of our Soviet garden’. [More…]
The third point I make is that the Government should use its resources to see that people in Australia are better informed about factual developments inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Censorship in the Soviet Union even extends sometimes to prohibition of normal Soviet newspapers reaching us in time. [More…]
We have an embassy in Moscow and it should be used to see that proper factual information about what is happening inside the Soviet Union reaches us here in Australia. [More…]
But if we do this we are entitled to ask for equal opportunity for our diplomats and our representatives - whether they be private citizens or government officials - inside the borders of the Soviet Union itself. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen ought to realise that the Transport Workers Union has 2 separate legal identities in New South Wales. [More…]
A system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the federal and State arbitration systems and it should be possible for federal and State authorities to examine the question whether organisations and trade unions can be provided with such a system. [More…]
We have decided to refer our judgment in this matter and these remarks to the Attorney-General for the Commonwealth in the hope that it may be possible, after consultation between Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General, the trade unions, both federal and State, and other interested government authorities to arrange for the examination of the important organisational matters to which we have referred. [More…]
I am sure the Minister for Labor and Immigration is just as well aware as I am that it threw union organisations into serious turmoil. [More…]
After that case there was a bi-partisan attempt to find a solution so that the Moore v Doyle case would not fracture unions. [More…]
As a consequence of that the Minister for Labor set up through the employer bodies - .the national employers policy committee - and the Australian Council of Trade Unions a working party to advise the Commonwealth Government and the State governments how the problem could be overcome. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union is registered as a State union and as a Federal union. [More…]
The problem is that if we do not have qualified teaching staff on the pre-school side there will be an upheaval in every teachers union in every State. [More…]
That kind of consultation with a widespread union is difficult and often impossible. [More…]
The Minister ought to know more about this than he has shown, because his old union, the Australian Workers Union, with its far flung empire, with its shearing sheds in every corner of Australia, would not be able to get to every member about a new award; it would just not be practical; it is not possible. [More…]
If a new venture is being established in a new location, in new circumstances, terms and conditions of employment have to be negotiated by the appropriate union and agreed before the company can start to employ any labour. [More…]
This is the job and responsibility of union leaders and unless they are prepared to take that responsibility they would not get off the ground in these circumstances. [More…]
These provisions would weaken not only the Commission but also union leadership. [More…]
We ought to encourage the circumstances in which the leadership of unions can come to appropriate agreements on behalf of their members and can have the authority to make those agreements stick. [More…]
Under the proposal suggested by the Minister, union leaders would have no authority or incentive to make anything stick. [More…]
Power would be transferred to shop stewards and union leadership would weaken and be encouraged to be irresponsible. [More…]
On the contrary the Opposition parties want to see strong and responsible union leadership. [More…]
But then one day or a week after the agreement was signed the union could say: ‘Here is a matter we have not thought of; it is not covered in the agreement’. [More…]
The Minister says that even if a union wants a bans clause or a penal clause in the agreement to prevent this kind of thing occurring, to require dispute settlement procedures to be followed without inhibiting the performance of work, then the union cannot do it because if it does the Commission will not be able to certify the agreement. [More…]
I understand that this provision, this limitation, is also against Australian Council of Trade Unions policy. [More…]
The Minister is trying quite directly to tell a union that it must not enter into an agreement that has a general observance of the award clause in it. [More…]
The odd thing about this is that this could well deny - and I believe will deny - additional benefits to members of unions, because I would suggest that if a union were prepared to have such a clause in its agreement and if that union had a reputation for keeping and honouring such an agreement, then the employers concerned would take that into account in negotiating the particular terms of the agreement. [More…]
That record would enable that union to gain a better situation for its members. [More…]
It does not make sense for the Minister to establish circumstances in which members of a union could be left without the protection of an agreement or an award as a direct result of this amendment to section 58 and as a result of this amendment to section 28. [More…]
Without reference to his own Industrial Peace Conference and without consultation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions or with employers, the Minister announced further substantial changes that would alter the whole character of the Act in relation to these matters. [More…]
The Minister knows full well that in relation to these provisions the leadership of most unions in Australia takes a point of view contrary to that of the Minister. [More…]
The Minister believes that he can appeal over the heads of union officials to the shop stewards and to the rank and file membership of unions. [More…]
If he believes that setting up a conflict between the officially elected representatives of unions, by appealing over their heads to the rank and file membership, will establish industrial peace in this country his attitude to these problems must be naive indeed. [More…]
I suppose that is no surprise to the Minister because he knows that the trade union movement and the employers oppose the Bill for good and valid reasons. [More…]
I urge the Minister to pay greater heed, as I said, to the Industrial Peace Conference which he himself convened and to the many responsible union leaders throughout Australia who recognise the merits and protection of the system of conciliation and arbitration, the protection that provides for the overwhelming bulk of Australian employees. [More…]
Frequently disputes occur before trade union officials even know of the cause or know that they have occurred. [More…]
One aspect of it is the training of trade union officials, for which the present Minister for Labor and Immigration has carried the torch, as it were. [More…]
It is ludicrous to suggest that a legal requirement which involves the rank and file members of a union in the making of consent awards and industrial agreements is in some way bad for industrial relations. [More…]
trade union in Australia desires to see constant industrial turbulence. [More…]
No trade unionist worth his salt wants to see workers on strike. [More…]
It was rather fascinating to listen to the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan), being one of those persons who has had such ‘a little’ experience in trade union affairs, for him- [More…]
One thing he did say was that training of trade union officials will play a vital part in the future of good industrial relations in Australia. [More…]
With that I agree wholeheartedly, but the training of trade union officials in a vacuum will be the worst kind of training that they could receive. [More…]
I think that any training must be across the board, as it were, so that the officials begin to understand not only their own trade union movement but also the objectives of the business enterprises of Australia and the ideas and attitudes of management. [More…]
Anyone associated with the making of an agreement to settle an industrial dispute hopes that whatever is done by the management of a union will have the endorsement of the rank and file members. [More…]
After all, an agreement which is made between a union official and an employer does not sell the labour of the union officials, but sells the labour of the members of the organisation which the union official represents. [More…]
No doubt the Government is looking at this Bill as an example of what has been called participatory democracy which it seeks to have introduced into the Australian union movement. [More…]
If that is the idea of participatory democracy I suggest that it distorts the very basis of union organisation. [More…]
Under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act a voluntary organisation of employees elects its offi- cials to conduct the affairs of the union and to represent the interests of the employees who make up the organisation. [More…]
It ought not be forgotten - regrettably it is often forgotten by leaders of the trade union movement in Australia and by members on the Government side of the House - that unions owe their existence to the right to be registered by virtue of the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Opposition does not want to see any alteration to the legislation which allows unions to by-pass or to subvert the arbitration system which has been established in Australia in the name of participatory democracy. [More…]
He strongly condemned the assertions from the Opposition side that if this Bill were passed it would take control out of the hands of the management of unions and put it with the rank and file. [More…]
In the course of the debate when talking about the role of the rank and file and their involvement in union affairs Mr Mundey stated: [More…]
We believe that there should be more involvement by the rank and file of the union movement. [More…]
The union movement is too full of bureaucracy, too full of people trying to work themselves into political positions - Joe’s having a go at Parliament, good luck to him, but I mean this is the genre within the union movement. [More…]
and that’s the great movement of the union movement at the moment. [More…]
Yes, well I think what my friend is really espousing is the Communist Party policy of job control of the trade union movement. [More…]
friend is really espousing is the Communist Party policy of job control of the trade union movement. [More…]
This Bill seeks to give to rank and file members the opportunity to overturn decisions of committees of management in the way proposed and this is done in the name of participatory democracy in the union movement. [More…]
It is done in the name of allowing, in the words of the Minister: the endorsement of the rank and file members of the unions concerned in the agreement. [More…]
It is done in the name of involving the rank and file of the union movement. [More…]
It is done in the name of movement, or as Mr Mundey put it: the great movement of the union movement at the moment. [More…]
It is done in the name of job control of the trade union movement. [More…]
There is an interesting parallel between what Mr Mundey sees as happening within the union movement and what we have seen happening within this Parliament to the Labor Party and the Government over the last few days. [More…]
The Government, by analogy, is the committee of management of a union. [More…]
The Caucus, by analogy, is the rank and file of the union movement. [More…]
Once the rank and file members are allowed to rule there will be instability in government, instability of management, and instability within society because the union movement in Australia commands the attention of a great many individual workers - not the majority of the work force in Australia but close to it. [More…]
The unions of Australia at the present time wield tremendous power. [More…]
Yesterday in this House we had a debate on the concentration of power which would come about if the amalgamation of unions that the Minister would like to see are allowed to be pursued through the legislation he introduced. [More…]
The way in which certain union officials like Mr Mundey, Mr Halfpenny and Mr Carmichael are using the rank and file to achieve their own ends is bringing great instability into Australia’s society at the present time. [More…]
It is the weakness that is eating away at the heart of the trade union movement. [More…]
One can compare the instability of the union movement over the last few years with the situation which preceded it for a quarter of a century, perhaps half a century. [More…]
Those conciliation procedures must operate by and through responsible management within the unions. [More…]
To allow the system of collective bargaining to be put into the hands of the rank and file would be to allow a dangerous trend to develop within the trade union movement of Australia with the inevitable result that the conciliation and arbitration system of negotiation, as we have known it in Australia, would be overturned completely. [More…]
That, I believe, is the objective that union leaders like Carmichael, Halfpenny and Mundey are seeking to bring about. [More…]
When we are talking about private health funds we are talking about non-profit groups of individuals who join together in a cooperative, credit union sort of sense to insure themselves against the cost of sickness or injury. [More…]
He has received telegrams from the Waterside Workers Federation - not a union unfriendly to the Minister, nor he to it - which has some sort of friendly society or hospital society which also is caught up in this bind. [More…]
We would like to see a much greater spirit of co-operation between Commonwealth and the States and between the trade union movement and the employers. [More…]
While I concede that he made quite a valid point one might ask him, other members of the trade union movement and the Government to examine the present industrial unrest. [More…]
Some 50 governments around the world recognise Prince Sihanouk’s Royal Government of National Union. [More…]
We should seek to erect a constitutional edifice which shall be a guarantee of liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent and the adjacent islands. [More…]
Deakin stressed ‘union’ and ‘the whole people’. [More…]
He used that phrase not only in his great skill but also in his understanding of the union structure throughout Australia. [More…]
It was the unions which had insisted on that form of words in an amendment with regard to industrial matters. [More…]
The firms that have pulled out of oil search in Australia recently include the Gulf, Continental, City Service, Ocean Venture, Sun OU, Union OU- which was the first company to have a commercial field in Australia although West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd was the first company to discover oU- and Tennico companies. [More…]
The Union Steam Ship Co. in recent months has increased its freight rates on the Melbourne-Sydney run by 27.68 per cent and on the Sydney-Hobart run by 25.5 per cent while Associated Steamships Pty Ltd increased its charges by 33.3 per cent. [More…]
Is the Chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland, Dr Alfred Schaefer, known to the Treasurer or in the Treasury? [More…]
The blame lies with the series of strikes, the union limitations and bans within the industry. [More…]
The Ampol and Amoco refineries in Brisbane were closed because the Australian Workers Union put a ban on deliveries of fuel from those refineries. [More…]
In August 8 unions were involved in industrial action in the oil industry in support of a $50 a week pay rise. [More…]
Then the Transport Workers Union called a national strike, and the fuel shortage was described as the worst since World War II. [More…]
Late in August the Australian Metal Workers Union applied bans in refineries and the Union’s secretary, Mr Halfpenny, said that this would eventually stop all fuel production. [More…]
On 25 August the Transport Workers Union applied an overtime ban on tanker drivers operating out of Brisbane. [More…]
It is beyond dispute that the basic cause of the present crisis is the industrial action of the oil industry unions. [More…]
The government claims to have a special relationship with the unions. [More…]
I hope the Government will make use of that relationship to try to persuade the unions of the urgent need to take greater account of the needs of the nation. [More…]
I wonder whether the strikes would have occurred, and the various kinds of limitations and bans that have been imposed would have occurred, or occurred to such an extent, if the rank and file members of the unions had had a say. [More…]
Very serious considerations ought to be given to the introduction of compulsory secret voting in union affairs. [More…]
The President of the Communist Party of Australia, Mr Mundey, says the call for secret ballots is part of the current popular game of union-bashing. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I do not want to bash the unions. [More…]
I want to see that unionists can express their views and not be bashed for doing so. [More…]
Of course, we can discount the usual union baiting and union hating that is generally associated with speeches that emanate from him and from his Party. [More…]
There is one refinery in Sydney which is notorious for its provocative treatment of the trade union movement. [More…]
We want no more of the general trouble that has existed between the management of that refinery and the trade union movement. [More…]
He is a man who comes second only to the unions, the left-wingers and the communists as being responsible; for the situation we find ourselves in today. [More…]
What is the use of having cheap fuel, what is the use of having plenty of fuel if nobody can get it, if people are exposed to tremendous disadvantages and discomforts over long periods as a result of union action which his Government is not prepared, to do anything about? [More…]
Upon contacting the oil company he was informed that this was the situation, that the driver was one of the top union men and that, literally if the driver said that he would get only a certain amount of petrol, that was the situation. [More…]
Secondly, it places the transport sector in a serious psition because if supplies can be held down to a certain level and if there is a strike the unions have a greater opportunity to hold the public at ransom. [More…]
The words of that distinguished gentleman were that if the left wing of the communist unions obtained control of the power union, the transport union and the supply union it could bring this country to its knees. [More…]
This situation was brought about by stand-over tactics by a union organiser. [More…]
Mr Hawke went on to make this interesting remark: ‘Not only will unemployment get worse, but if unemployment gets to 3 per cent the trade union movement will require the Government to present a supplementary budget. [More…]
What I want to know is this: If that is what the trade union movement is going to do when unemployment reaches 3 per cent of the work force, why does it not require that to be done now? [More…]
Why is there an acknowledgement by the President of the Australian Labor Party, the same man being President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that this Budget will not reduce the level of unemployment; this Budget will increase unemployment; and this Budget will create greater inflation- inflation of at least 20 per cent? [More…]
Too many of those who advocate such a course really want to break the back of the trade union movement. [More…]
What possible basis for national co-operation would there be if we were to indulge in the sort of union bashing which is our opponents’ stock-in-trade? [More…]
It is especially important since there has been complete silence from the Minister for Labor and Immigration for a period of 6 to 8 weeks- silence over a much longer period, possibly over a year, if the allegations of Mr Elliott of the Seamen’s Union are correct. [More…]
Why not trade union officials? [More…]
When they cannot stop their sometimes regressive governments the clarion call goes out to try to get union action. [More…]
The communist parties- there are about 3 in Australia at the moment- have never been so politically insignificant and we believe that the trade union movement has never been in better hands. [More…]
That is why the trade union movement has been active in trying to protect and enhance our National Estate. [More…]
I say without any equivocation that if there were any propriety in this Government, and if the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) were concerned for the name and integrity of his Government, he would widen the terms of reference of the Royal Commission which is investigating alleged indemnity payments involving maritime unions; he would give the Royal Commission an overriding mandate to pursue every aspect of this matter. [More…]
The Royal Commission should be permitted to examine every one of the unions that might be involved so that the good name of the Government and of the overwhelming bulk of the union movement can be cleared from the charges and the smell of the incident created by the alleged activities of Mr Elliott and the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
that so far as I was concerned he has no risk of me taking any action against him, or his union . [More…]
Indemnity payments do not relate only, as you very correctly said, to the maritime unions. [More…]
The point that I was making was that there is significant evidence in Mr Elliott’s statement of the activities of the Seamen’s Union and in other published reports that the Minister had approved indemnity payments not only concerning the Seamen’s Union but also concerning the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Minister there would indicate a knowledge and an approval of what was happening in the Waterside Workers Federation just as Mr Elliott claimed that he had approved what was happening in relation to the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
The letter clearly drew attention to the fact that since April this year the unions led by Mr Elliott had made attempts to disrupt arrangements agreed between the Minister for Transport and the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The letter then describes the activities of the Seamen’s Union, which have been widely reported, and the demands of the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
The first is: 4 Elliott has now made a new demand that the difference in money amount between ITF rates and Australian rates be paid proportionately into the funds of the seafarers union and not to the ship ‘s crew. [More…]
He also stated that the money will not be returned to the ship’s crew, but retained by the unions ‘so as not to undermine the national economy’. [More…]
Again there are words in that Act which would seem to imply that the activities of the Seamens Union have been quite unlawful. [More…]
Quite plainly, on the evidence that has been made available to the Ministers, the Seamens Union has said to the companies concerned that the money is going to come to it. [More…]
The unions and Mr Elliott have exhibited utter callousness in relation to people on low rates of pay and they have conspired and extorted to make sure that those parts of the Navigation Act are in fact broken and not held. [More…]
Much of what the Minister for Labor has done has sought to put above the law certain militant unions- not all, but certain ones which are most concerned to use their strength mercilessly against their own members and the people of Australia. [More…]
I received verbal advice which I believe was of a confidential nature from the ship owners to the effect that they had paid money to the Seamen’s Union, which was then to be paid into the ‘Noonga’ fund. [More…]
It was a matter between the ship owners and the unions. [More…]
I know and honourable members opposite know that for years shipping companies and the unions have been making all sorts of deals. [More…]
I know from my own experience that members of my own union have been given extra time in order to get ships out of the road, and to complete work on them and to get repairs done. [More…]
Those are matters, as far as I am concerned, between the ship owner and the unions. [More…]
The union had insisted on full Australian rates of pay being paid to the crew of this particular ship. [More…]
We were led to believe that by arrangement between the union and the Ampol Company that company had agreed to pay the union one per cent which would go into union funds. [More…]
It was a matter between the union and the company. [More…]
Does a legal basis exist for such a claim by the Seamens union who have so far refused to put their claim in writing? [More…]
In the absence of any response or objection from the ACTU I find it surprising that the action now reported by you should have been taken by the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
There is therefore no legal basis under the Navigation Act to support the demands alleged to have been made by the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
In the circumstances I feel your company is justified in seeking to have the union’s demands documented. [More…]
Whether the union ‘s request is acceded to ( with or without a written claim) is, I believe, a matter for you to decide. [More…]
In the event of an industrial dispute arising the normal arbitration process would involve notification of the dispute to the appropriate industrial tribunal either State or Commonwealth depending on the award under which the union or unions involved are operating. [More…]
On 19 August Refrigerated Express Lines advised me that the ‘Sloman Alstertor’ was subject to industrial dispute prior to sailing and that only after the line had paid a figure of $ 1,074.92 by cheque to the Seamen’s Union had it been allowed to sail. [More…]
Only after paying $1,074.92 by bank cheque to Seamen’s Union account No. [More…]
Furthermore I understand that a similar demand was recently made by the Seamens Union of the Australian Newsprint Mills in respect of a shipment of newsprint on M.V. [More…]
Our agents in Fremantle have received demand from Australian Seamen’s Union representative in Fremantle claiming that he represented head office Seamen’s Union, Sydney, say that because m.v. [More…]
Sloman Alstertor under charter to our company carried a cargo of motor vehicles from Portland, Victoria, to Fremantle, West Australia, this week the vessel will not be permitted to sail with her cargo for the Libyan government from Fremantle until we pay into the seamen’s union in Sydney a sum of money equal to the difference between Australian wages for Australian flag coastal container ships and the German wages on our first class modern fully refrigerated conventional cargo liner. [More…]
No indication has been given concerning the disposal of the funds after they have been received by the seamen ‘s union. [More…]
Does a legal basis exist for such a claim by the seamen’s union who have so far refused to put their claim in writing. [More…]
In the absence of any response or objection from the ACTU I find it surprising that the action now reported by you should have been taken by the seamen’s union. [More…]
There is therefore no legal basis under the Navigation Act to support the demands alleged to have been made by the seamen’s union. [More…]
In the circumstances I feel your company is justified in seeking to have the union ‘s demands documented. [More…]
Whether the union’s request is acceded to (with or without a written claim) is, I believe, a matter for you to decide. [More…]
In the event of an industrial dispute arising the normal arbitration process would involve notification of the dispute to the appropriate industrial tribunal either State or Commonwealth depending on the award under which the union or unions involved are operating. [More…]
I recently spoke to you about representations I received from Mr Peter Dent, Refrigerated Express Lines (Australasia) Pry Ltd, Sydney, regarding demands allegedly made by the Seamen’s Union of Australia in respect of the German registered vessel ‘Sloman Alstertor’ [More…]
Only after payment of $1074.92 had been made to a bank account nominated by the Seamen’s Union was the vessel permitted to sail. [More…]
Officers of my Department have been advised verbally of other demands having been made by the Seamen’s Union under the threat of industrial action. [More…]
In recent weeks payments to the Seamen’s Union have been made by Ampol Petroleum Ltd and Australian Newsprint Mills in respect of coastal voyaging by the ‘Prima Maersk’ and ‘Thunderbird’ respectively which had been issued with single voyage permits for the carriage of interstate coastal cargo. [More…]
In the case of ‘Thunderbird’, the vessel is at present waiting to berth at Melbourne to discharge newsprint from Hobart but, according to the Shipper, the Seamen’s Union has indicated that tug assistance will not be made available until further payment is made. [More…]
In each of the cases which have come to my notice the payment sought by the Union has been related to the difference between the wage rates normally payable to the crew and the rates which would apply if the crew were on Australian Articles. [More…]
Although a receipt is held by Refrigerated Express Lines and Australian Newsprint Mills for the payments made to the Union there is no indication that the crews of the vessels have received any additional remuneration during the period of employment on the Australian coast. [More…]
In relation to the attached representations from Mr Dent, my own view is that he should be guided by his legal advisers on the course of action he should pursue in seeking to recover the payment made to the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
I would propose therefore that we should examine urgently the measures available to the Government to prevent a repetition of the Seamen’s Union demands. [More…]
It is part of the policy of the Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
It is true that I told Charlie Fitzgibbons, who is a personal friend of mine, both being Newcastle men, that there was no risk of any interference by me or any prosecution or action being taken against his union while it was insisting on the crews of foreign ships being paid ITF rates of pay. [More…]
Elliot V. Elliott asked that these payments be paid into a certain bank account of the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
As the honourable member for Wannon rightly pointed out, a letter from the Australian Newsprint Mills Limited goes so far as to name the number of that Seamen’s Union bank account. [More…]
Later on Monday, 29 July, Elliott advised Mr Deane of Hetherington-Kingsbury of a resolution by the Seafarers Unions that the difference in money amount between Australian rates and leave provisions and ITF rates and provisions applicable to crew members of the ‘Thunderbird’ whilst engaged on the Australian coast be paid weekly into account No. [More…]
S09009 1 of the Seamens Union by bank cheque. [More…]
On this occasion the crew of the ‘Thunderbird’ could make such a request and this would lead to double payment by Hetherington-Kingsbury unless all sums paid to the Australian Seamen ‘s Union are recovered. [More…]
In the absence of any written statement or acknowledgment by Elliott the payment to the Seamens Union could be regarded as a bribe, a Christmas present, or whatever they like to call it. [More…]
The fact is that the Seamen’s Union gave $5,000 to the Labor Party’s slush fund. [More…]
The point is that 7 or 8 other unions are involved apart from the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
The other unions are the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers Association of Australasia, the Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association of Australasia, the Federated Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Association of Australia, the Merchant Service Guild of Australiait shocks me to see that union includedthe Professional Radio Employees Institute of Australasia and the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers. [More…]
How much money have those unions been paid? [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions wanted to hold its own inquiry into this matter. [More…]
Why the ACTU was elbowed to one side, the interplay of union rivalries and the dislike for the Minister for Labor and Immigration are all matters which could be brought to the fore and we would be able to obtain a certain amount of information. [More…]
The fact is that a photograph was taken of the representative of the Seamen’s Union handing a cheque to the Australian Labor Party to be used for the last election campaign. [More…]
How much money did the other unions put in? [More…]
Out of justice to a trade union official whom the honourable member for Gippsland implied was involved in this matter- I refer to the Acting Secretary of the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers Association of Australasia- I seek leave to have incorporated his telegram to me dissociating his union from the alleged involvement in the levies and my reply to him of 9 September. [More…]
The executive of marine cooks union of Australia emphatically refute any involvement in levies on foreign ships as per media [More…]
I was pleased to receive your advice that the Executive of your Union refuted the suggestion that it was involved in these levies. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Cameron, today condemned the practice of maritime unions demanding payments to allow the movement of ships around the Australian coast, and then paying the money into union funds rather than to the crew members of the ships involved. [More…]
‘It is contrary to all union principles that anyone should appropriate from a worker any of the money due to him as wages. [More…]
“The gravity of the principle involved is not lessened by the fact that in this case it is not employers, but unions, that are in effect confiscating portion of other workers ‘ earnings. ‘ [More…]
‘No self-respecting Australian unionist would want to benefit from money gained in this way, ‘ Mr Cameron said. [More…]
These investigations had established that some maritime union officials had immobilised the vessel ‘Thunderbird’ in Sydney until a sum of about $17,000 had been paid to the unions. [More…]
The Law Society of Western Australia, trade union leaders, State Opposition members and community leaders are expressing their abhorrence of the proposals which take from citizens the right to trial by jury, which gives the Government the power of summary arrest, and which enable searches of homes without warrant to be carried out at a Minister’s direction. [More…]
A lot of these reductions in the mail service in country areas have been put down to the problems with the railways, the fact that we have union difficulties, that fuel shortages exist and that we have to cut down on the rail services and therefore the postal services. [More…]
Whilst we are aware of the fact that the trade union control within the Department is very profound and very significant, whilst we are aware of the fact that that great Department is absolutely vital to the economy and to the welfare of the Australian nation, and whilst we are absolutely sure that we know that this great Department can be strangled by industrial action, we must admit that over these next 9 months the most likely scene in Australia will be that of further disruption and further effects of the inflationary process upon the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
We are totally opposed to the proposition that a Minister sitting in another place can dismiss summarily people elected by the industry and have them replaced with some second-hand petty trade union official. [More…]
and (3) I asked a large number of professional, academic, industrial, trade union and community organisations to nominate individuals who would be suitable to serve on the Committee in their individual capacities and not as representatives of particular groups. [More…]
My question which is addressed to the Prime Minister follows the comments that he made at the Heavy Engineering Manufacturers Association dinner last evening in which he said, after his reference to the peddling of lies, that one of the most remarkable developments in this field is the collusion between multi-national companies and Australian union officials. [More…]
It was agreed that Mrs Vaughan work from the QCE office, monitoring all programs and arranging participants in the sessions when not only the Labor Government but also the trade union movement came under fire. [More…]
Mr Fred Whitby and other union officials assisted in this counter-attack on our political opponents. [More…]
For some weeks before this meeting Mr Milton Stevens had taken representatives of the union around to these mail centres. [More…]
The union officials came from Melbourne. [More…]
He said they were Marxist union officials. [More…]
The union officials flew from Melbourne to address the meeting. [More…]
The Department can confirm that Mr Milton Stevens had to take the union officials and employees to all area mail centres and that an agreement had been reached but it broke down because the employees wanted it in writing. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the criticisms by the Australian Workers’ Union of the draft regulations that have been framed by the National Health and Medical Research Council concerning health dangers attributable to asbestos; if so, what is his attitude to them. [More…]
Has the Council given sufficient consideration to the Union’s attitudes. [More…]
It is true that the Australian Council of Trade Unions- it has taken a position that is widely understood as being representative of the view of the trade union movement- has submitted to the Government that, in the course of establishing what would be a common policy to deal with the present economic situation, including both inflation and unemployment, in Australia, the Government should consider favourably the introduction of import quotas or the introduction of quotas allowing smaller amounts to come into Australia than exist under quotas already. [More…]
He said they were Marxist union officials. [More…]
-This Budget debate continues in the context of a devaluation to which I will refer later, impending import quotas, conflicting Government statements on monetary policy, suggestions by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) of a further taxation cut, and the failure of the trade union movement to accept the Budget formula for wage restraint. [More…]
Before the Government recognised the de jure incorporation of the 3 republics in the Soviet Union there had been representations by Australia’s representatives to the Soviet Government alone. [More…]
When it has suited them Union leaders have led their members in numbers upon invasions of industrial sites, doing considerable damage there and preventing work taking place and occasioning great hostility and bitterness in industry. [More…]
This was a resolution of the Federal Management Committee of the union on 3 September 1974. [More…]
If this is to be allowed to continue, if the Government is not to act in relation to this matter, everyone in the country, small and large, will know that this Government cares nothing for law and that it is terrified of some sections of the union movement which have all too often told the Government what to do. [More…]
The deregistration of the union, which the Employers Federation supported so strongly and which the Opposition supported at the time it was done, was the act which removed the builders labourers from the jurisdiction of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
So it is of no use the Opposition complaining now that the union is not observing an Act which no longer applies to it. [More…]
Complaints have been made about the union using its industrial muscle. [More…]
After the deregistration of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the Australian Government did agree- I do not know whether this is the gravamen of the complaint of the honourable gent- to the continued appearance of this union at the inquiry. [More…]
It is union policy that a good time to go on a site is during a concrete pour. [More…]
It is clear that there is a policy of creating an image of a union with irresistable power. [More…]
Following the deregistration of the union about which we are speaking the High Court of Australia issued a writ against Her Honour Justice Evatt. [More…]
I think that we must try to analyse why they continue to engage in this House in the exercise of union bashing and try to solve problems which can be solved only in the industrial arena. [More…]
Whenever a militant union emerges, it is always in the areas in which we have the most ruthless employers. [More…]
If honourable members were to look at the history of the mines and the mining unions or of the shipping industry and the maritime unions they would appreciate my point. [More…]
It follows that in areas in Australia in which there have been engaged people such as developers, militant unions will emerge. [More…]
I do not believe- as Henry Lawson would say- that the claptrap which has been put forward by the Opposition this morning is the real reason why it wants to bash the unions, nor do I see its attitudes or its venom being directed towards one union only. [More…]
It has been the historical role of the Liberal-Country Party, unfortunately, to bash every union it can whenever it can and to oppress the working people who are not organised. [More…]
It has not been the function of the Australian Labor Party, even though it knows a great deal more about the subject, to come into this chamber and engage in employer bashing in the manner in which honourable members opposite tend to want to bash those people who have organised themselves into trade unions. [More…]
As was pointed out in the National Estate report, this union, along with many others, has a conscience about what should be happening in this country to our national heritage. [More…]
How has the deregistration of the union affected industrial relations in the building industry? [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has said in this House on thousands of occasions, when governments learn to keep their noses out of industrial relations perhaps the unions and the employers will solve the problems. [More…]
The attempt by the Opposition to paint the Government with the political leanings of the builders’ labourers is a faint attempt to intrude into an area where both the employers and the unions have got to solve the problems. [More…]
I consider that the people listening to this Parliament must be absolutely disillusioned by the activities of the Opposition in continuously taking up the time of the Parliament, not discussing the affairs of the country, not discussing the legislation which comes before the Parliament, but continuing to entertain the idea that this Parliament was instituted for union bashing. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on standing up to very severe pressure from the Australian Union of Students last year when it tried to persuade the Government that university fees with respect to student organisations, sports unions, etc., should be among the fees paid for by this Government. [More…]
I said that at that time the Australian Union of Students was running a strong campaign to force the Federal Government to subsidise compulsory university union, SRC and sports union fees. [More…]
There is less justification for the Federal Government to subsidise the Sydney University Rugby Union Club, say, than a sporting club in one of Sydney ‘s disadvantaged areas. [More…]
There is less reason for the Government to pay students’ union and SRC fees than there is for paying the trades union and registered club subscriptions of low income workers. [More…]
I make these remarks having at one stage been Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Australian University Students and active in university student affairs for a number of years. [More…]
I do not think it is the function of either this Government or university councils to decide that membership of university organisations, such as unions or SRC, should not be compulsory. [More…]
It has been brought to my notice that at La Trobe University this year two of its students were expelled from the annual August conference of the Australian Union of Students because they did not agree with the political beliefs of the people running that union. [More…]
The student can then decide whether he or she wants to pay this money into the rugby union or some specific society of his or her choice. [More…]
I fervently wish for success in seeking the co-operation of the union movement in a program of restraint. [More…]
But when one looks at the tax side it is no wonder that the price that the union movement demands, in effect, so far as one can judge from the last few days, focuses on the tax scale. [More…]
In particular, it is highly comic to imagine that he possesses the nous to give leadership to a conference whose success would depend on the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a complete delusion that union co-operation in what amounts to an incomes policy could be obtained with this sort of lure. [More…]
There are, of course, some people who seem to find comfort in this fragmentation and who fear that more centralised union power will fall into the hands of militants. [More…]
The problem of framing appropriate legislation for protecting the rights of individual unionists while facilitating easier amalgamations has proved to be a vexed one. [More…]
As it stands, however, it has been seen in Britain as a contract between the Trade Union Congress and the Labor Government, but as an unenforceable contract if the Trade Union Congress cannot persuade its members to cooperate. [More…]
The Budget apparently was aimed at winning the support of the unions. [More…]
The Government aroused union expectations the moment it came into office. [More…]
It made the Public Service the pacesetter in wage and salary movements and spoke of such an improvement in general terms and conditions of employment that union leaders would have been thought irresponsible by their members if they had not taken advantage of this benevolent climate. [More…]
My final observation is that when sufficient individual employers and unions give practical application to job re-design programs aimed at bringing the overall quality of working life into line with the quality of life outside the working place, and when more managements recognise that affluence and education have created expectations which cannot be satisfied by traditional systems of work, there will be a better chance of some reduction in the level of wage demand relative to productivity improvement. [More…]
Union leaders would not cease claiming a larger slice of the cake but they would at least be more likely to co-operate in building a larger cake to share. [More…]
We find in today’s Press the headline: ‘Factories shifting to Asia- Union’. [More…]
The article points out that objections are being made by the trade union movement and states: [More…]
Australian companies had set up factories in South-east Asia to make industrial gloves previously made in Newcastle, a Newcastle union official said last night. [More…]
The Newcastle Secretary of the Miscellaneous Workers’ Union (Mr C. Johnson) said only one company in Newcastle did not have its own factory overseas. [More…]
Those figures show that the Spigelman tax accepted by the Prime Minister was part of a spiteful package designed to buy union support for this Budget in return for a degree of wage restraint from the unions. [More…]
The Government’s attitude was that if it hit the rich it would gain the support of the unions for its Budget. [More…]
So there was to be a conference of unions. [More…]
I refer to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke. [More…]
He trumpeted loud and long about how this was to be the most significant union conference of all time- the most significant in Australia’s history following the most significant Budget in Australia’s historybecause it was going to solve the problems of the economy. [More…]
Another resolution was that trade union leaders should not be beyond the law, as demurrage paid by Australia exporters due to political strikes is transferring millions of dollars from Australia’s hands to Greek shipping magnates, and such strikes should be considered illegal or the Government be prepared to compensate for these unnecessary losses. [More…]
A resolution which I think has great significance was that trade union leaders should not be beyond the law. [More…]
The extra tax on unearned income was certainly a piece of peripheral cosmetics introduced into the Budget for union consumption and nothing else. [More…]
Even a trade unionist who invests in his own trade union society can also get the lash. [More…]
The House, and particularly members of the Opposition, should give consideration to the negotiations at present going on between the Government and the trade union movement for a compact of wage restraint. [More…]
What in fact had occurred was a dispute involving a State union which had its own corporate status, its own legal personality and its separate entity, as to whether the State organisation which had always believed itself to be a State branch of the Federal organisation was in fact a separate organisation. [More…]
As I have already pointed out, the Court made it clear that in these 4 States a State branch of a Federal union which becomes registered under the laws of the State concerned in almost all instances acquires a separate legal personality and a separate corporate position of its own. [More…]
For instance, it is almost certain that the rules of most Federal unions which have State branches registered under State laws are invalid. [More…]
It is almost certain that among the rules that are invalid are the eligibility rules of the Federal organisations which have State branches already registered under State industrial laws, whose eligibility rules are different from the eligibility rules of the Federal body and who send delegates to the responsible body of the Federal union which made the alterations to the eligibility rules. [More…]
For instance, when the Australian Workers Union altered its eligibility rules to include all those additions to the eligibility rules that had been made since its first State branch became a registered body, that action undoubtedly was invalid for the reason that a decision taken by a body that is improperly constituted is null and void because a body that is improperly constituted cannot make a valid decision. [More…]
If people who had no right to do so sat on the convention of the Australian Workers Union or on the executive council of the Australian Workers Union which altered the rules, the altered rules would be a nullity if challenged. [More…]
In this legislation we seek not only to correct the problems created by Moore v. Doyle but also to provide machinery for validating all of the rules made and all of the decisions taken by the various federally registered unions that might otherwise be invalid. [More…]
One easy way in which to defeat a decision of the Federal executive of a union is to use the Moore v. Doyle argument, which was repeated in the case of Steuart against the Australian Workers Union, that the decision was null and void because the body taking the decision had sitting on it strangers who had no right to be there. [More…]
They were strangers because their only right lay in the position that they occupied in the State registered union and there was no place on the Federal executive or the Federal convention for a representative of a strange or foreign union. [More…]
We believe that, if the rules of the Federal unions which have State branches registered as separate entities and whose delegates have attended the governing bodies of the Federal organisation were to be contested, most of them would be struck down as being invalid. [More…]
The problem in New South Wales arose from the fact that the State organisation in New South Wales, which, I repeat, believed itself to be the State branch of the Federal organisation, had taken into its membership owner-drivers and taxi drivers who, by virtue of many decisions of the High Court of Australia, were not eligible to be taken into the membership of a federally registered union. [More…]
The High Court has ruled on many occasions that the test that has to be applied as to whether a person is eligible to become a member of a union is whether he is an employee and whether he is engaged in an industrial pursuit. [More…]
So, if the State Transport Workers Union in New South Wales were to affiliate right now with the Federal body it could take into the Federal body all of its members, including the owner-drivers who are not entitled ever to get a Federal award, and its decision could not be struck down on that account. [More…]
B. Sweeney, who led the case for the State Transport Workers Union against the Federal body, and Mr R. J. McGarvie, Q.C., who was senior counsel leading for the other side? [More…]
The cases in both State and Federal jurisdictions and the rules of many organisations and trade unions show that the constitutions of the Federal and the corresponding State body often differ to some extent so that membership of the trade union and the State branch of a Federal organisation, if full use is made of the range of eligibility, must be different. [More…]
The cases also show that the rules of the Federal organisation and the corresponding State trade union each provide for a contribution fee but in all or almost all cases only one fee is collected and this is treated as satisfying the requirements of membership in both the Federal and the corresponding State registered body. [More…]
Very frequently the rules of the Federal organisation and of the trade union on other matters are different from and inconsistent with one another and often the rules require different offices to be filled in the State branch of the Federal organisation and in the trade union. [More…]
In the great majority of cases the trade union and the branch of the Federal organisation are administered as though they were the same body with one set of assets, one system of banking, one set of books, one register of members, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies, and one system of meetings of a committee of management to handle the affairs of the trade union and the State branch of the organisation. [More…]
We are talking about the Federal union when we use the word ‘organisation’. [More…]
Generally one application form is filled in and this sometimes satisfies the provisions of rules of the organisation and the trade union, but often there are different rules as to applications. [More…]
Sometimes, as the cases show, the real and effectively-operating body is the State branch of the Federal organisation with the corresponding trade union existing as a mere fiction and it has occurred that a trade union has been held to be non-existent and liable to be deregistered by the State authorities. [More…]
In other cases it is the trade union which is the living body and the State branch of the Federal organisation may be a shadow or fiction having no real existence. [More…]
In yet other cases the affairs of the State branch of a Federal organisation and of the corresponding trade union are administered under some practicallyevolved set of rules which are an administrative amalgam of the registered rules of the State branch and the trade union but are not the actual rules of either. [More…]
One clause, new section 142a, is the clause designed primarily to deal with demarcation issues between the Federal union, if I may use that term instead of using the word organisation, and the State union, referred to in the Bill as the associated body, because once this . [More…]
This created many problems for the students and, as I understand it, is causing a very great deal of concern within the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The lack of discipline in and the militancy of the Seamen’s Union and the Waterside Workers Federation have caused tremendous disruption, brought about an unreliability in transport and increased costs which have had a crippling effect on every person in Tasmania. [More…]
It is obvious that the present Labor Administration is hog-tied to the powerful trade unions which exist on the mainland. [More…]
Tasmania is left out on a limb without any great trade union influence. [More…]
In addition, there were changed attitudes on the part of unions. [More…]
Up to about 1965 or 1966, during the time of Albert Monk and before Bob Hawke, the trade union movement was extraordinarily sensitive in Australia to very minute changes in the general level of employment. [More…]
Now, the trade union movement knows full well that all governments are committed to full employment, or ought to be, despite what the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) says, and that even if there is significant unemployment the trade union movement can press its demands just as hard as when there are inflation and over-full employment. [More…]
This information comes from the International Union of Official Travel Organisations. [More…]
He will establish his integrity, his standing, and his persuasive ability within the Caucus and the Cabinet and the trade union movement when he achieves his policies and will establish pretty clearly just how far he can commit the Government. [More…]
The Government had called upon the trade unionists for restraint in wage demands. [More…]
It then approached the trade union movement and urged it to restrain its wage and conditions demands. [More…]
As a carrot, it dangled before the unions a specious tax cut, a tax cut so small that by Christmas at the present rate of inflation, the effect and the benefit of the tax cut will have completely and absolutely disappeared. [More…]
The Government well knows that it has given the trade union movement no lead and no incentive for restraint. [More…]
It should not wonder at the reluctance of the unions to embrace indexation and the other proposals which are being suggested to them. [More…]
Everyone knows that a goverment drawn from the other side of the House would use unemployment to bring inflation to an end, would use unemployment to destroy inflationary expectations, would use unemployment to destroy the ability of the trade union movement to bargain effectively for increased wages. [More…]
Our consultations with the trade union movement dispel that notion altogether. [More…]
In fact the trade union representatives have made it very clear to me in conference as late as last Friday that they have not had cause for concern up until now. [More…]
Every time the surf life saving movement holds an art union in Queensland and sends me tickets I have no hesitation in buying an entire book of tickets and sending the money back because I recognise the great job that it is doing. [More…]
There is a program that must be faced by a serious government if it is to deal with the economic crisis and that is the international program that has been recommended by the Chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland. [More…]
The Chairman of the Union Bank of Switzerland went on to say that governments must put their finances in the black primarily by reducing their spending. [More…]
In these circumstances we have a Budget which is designed to enlist the co-operation of the trade union movement through a reassurance to trade union members that they will not lose out by seeking real rather than illusory increases in wages and salaries and will not be asked to contribute more to the fight against inflation than is expected of other sections of the community. [More…]
At their meeting 2 weeks ago in Sydney, the unions responded positively to the Budget with a declaration which, I regret, has not been published in full in any newspaper throughout Australia and which therefore I seek permission to have incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
The trade union movement, neither here nor in these other countries can sensibly be blamed for the endemic problems of the capitalist system. [More…]
Conference declares that co-existent with action by the Government along the above lines, the objective of the trade union movement to secure wage and salary justice would be pursued in the following manner [More…]
Conference believes that the fundamental prerequisite of the co-operation envisaged in this Resolution is full and continuing consultation between the Government and the trade union movement on all matters affecting the level and direction of economic activity and the social welfare of the community. [More…]
The trade union movement stands ready to participate in such consultations with Government and, indeed, with other important sections of the Australian community. [More…]
In putting many proposals for action by Government in the past, the trade union movement has repeatedly come up against the assertion of lack of constitutional po wers. [More…]
Should it appear to Government in consultations with the trade union movement that it is confronted by a lack of appropriate powers which it would wish to exercise to achieve these objectives, the trade union movement will give sympathetic consideration to supporting attempts by the Government to acquire these powers. [More…]
The declaration has come forward from the meeting of unions that was held in Sydney. [More…]
The process of bringing inflation under control by negotiation between the trade union movement and the Government, which other nations might envy, is under way. [More…]
This division is fostered not only by political parties but also by union leaders and by farmer organisations themselves. [More…]
Farmer organisations have a further responsibility to put forward experienced and capable representatives for marketing boards and the like, especially in view of the claim by the current Government that it will choose the best man available, although I am afraid this often merely means a union official rather than a rural producer. [More…]
The original request by the Farmers Union of Western Australia was for an overall investigation, but the Government determined that the inquiry should be limited solely to new land farmers. [More…]
The legislation in these countries is very similar and is based on the 1961 Paris Convention which forms the basis of the Union for Protection of Plant Varieties. [More…]
Austria, Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and some other East European countries also have arrangements in operation for the protection of plant breeders. [More…]
I have very thoroughly reviewed this matter, both before the Government decided to recognise the de jure incorporation of the republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and since. [More…]
It is deluding and deceiving people from those countries who have settled in Australia to give them the impression that any Australian government would promote the detachment of those countries from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I know that for their own temporary domestic purposes members of the Opposition have from time to time suggested that Croatia should be detached from Yugoslavia, that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be liberated from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Since we have recognised the de jure incorporation of the 3 republics in the Soviet Union we have been able to make representations on such state matters as we call them on behalf of people in Australia. [More…]
In fact the 3 countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Of course when the Government showed no restraint a year or so ago what did it expect the trade union movement to do? [More…]
We saw wage demands sought by militant trade unions which used their muscle to hold the nation to ransom. [More…]
Leading Ministers of the Government encouraged militant trade unions in their demands for excess wages without any regard for the nation’s capacity to pay and without any regard for productivity. [More…]
Can anybody forget during the slick campaign of 1972 the then Opposition saying: ‘We have some industrial disturbance within Australia but put us into government; we understand the trade union movement. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party promised a wonderful working relationship with the trade union movement. [More…]
Less than a fortnight ago Mr Hawke conceded that Mainline was a victim of union anarchy. [More…]
Had I said that 2 weeks and 2 days ago I would have been accused of being a union basher yet Mr Hawke had the courage and the guts to come out and indicate some of the problems that unions are creating for Australia. [More…]
A situation has been created wherein a glib tongued union official can convince others that wage fixation institutions are unable to keep abreast of the rampant inflation and that strike and anarchy are the only remedies. [More…]
Adverting to union problems, we now have such people as Mr Arch Bevis, the boss of the transport workers in Queensland, coming out and saying that bombastic union officials who force strikes on members are irresponsible. [More…]
He has decried and deplored the actions of the maritime unions in standing over the shipowners and demanding graft and payments which they have no entitlement to receive. [More…]
He also backed the Queensland ALP President, who is also Federal ALP Vice-President, Mr Jack Egerton, who recently had the courage to condemn the actions of the unions. [More…]
Even in my own electorate of Griffith, where thousands of meat workers employed at the Brisbane abattoirs have suffered as a result of lost wages, he made it clear that he would not apologise for an attack he made last month on Australian Meat Industry Employees Union officials, and in fact described that particular industrial strike as the greatest tragedy of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is time we came to grips with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Liberals did better than the Labor Party but, granted, our handling of the unions left a lot to be desired. [More…]
The present Government’s handling of the unions has been a destructive debacle which has been like putting petrol on the fires of inflation in this country. [More…]
Actions by which trade unions drag into their hands the role of deciding whether Government decisionsLabor or Liberal- are right or wrong are also evil and wrong. [More…]
If it was fair it would come out and say that the trade union movement has been its greatest enemy. [More…]
It is time we did something to bring to heel the trade union movement because we have reached a stage where unionists recognise that there are unionists who are disruptive. [More…]
I conclude my contribution to the Budget debate by saying that the Labor Government has created that serious economic crisis and that there are some people in the trade union movement with political beliefs of a communist philosophy who are exploiting it to the utmost to bring about that quiet revolution and to destroy free enterprise in this country so that a climate is created where ALP socialism will be the only alternative because private enterprise will no longer be. [More…]
Within the context of a supplementary Budget a co-ordinated policy to restrain incomes and prices should be announced following negotiations between the Government, the States, industry and the trade union movement. [More…]
This capitalist system, this free enterprise, private ownership, profit maximisation system, is not my system, it is not the system of the trade union movement, it’s not the system of the Labor Party. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the reported statement of the Federal Vice President of the Transport Workers’ Union, Mr D. Carpenter, in the ‘Canberra Times’ of 7.8.74, referring to a decision of Justice Mary Gaudron of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission as a powder-puff decision by a powder-puff judge. [More…]
When the honourable member refers to die ‘Noongah’ fund, I assume that he is talking about the fund which the Seamen’s Union of Australia was able to establish by collections from its members and money raised by other methods, I understand, from other people. [More…]
In a speech delivered on 14 October to the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) read an extract from a leader which had been published in the ‘Financial Review’ of 10 October. [More…]
It arose, as I think the House knows, out of problems which occured in New South Wales within the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
The problems involve dual registration and incorporation of unions in both the Federal field and in the State field, conflicts which may arise between Federal rules and State rules resulting in people being eligible to join one union but not the other union, a conflict of membership, sometimes a conflict of office bearers and the people who might be constituted properly under the State rules taking decisions in matters that ought to involve Federal rules and therefore the decisions in many cases might well be invalid. [More…]
When the matter arose in the Transport Workers Union, some years ago now, it occured largely because membership of the union was falling off in New South Wales and the Union wished to enrol owner-drivers for a variety of reasons but also to increase its strength and falling membership. [More…]
This action happened to be against the Federal rules of the same Union because at that time in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act there was no allowance for enrolling as a member of a union somebody who was not an employee. [More…]
The conflict involved the now famous, or infamous, Moore and Doyle case in which Mr Justice Sweeney, then Mr Sweeney, Q.C., appeared for some part of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
As a result of the Moore v. Doyle case there was a view that a good deal of the registration, incorporation and acts of unions in a number of States could well be invalid and if they were challenged there could be some significant difficulty for unions and union officials. [More…]
In addition to this, some voluntary acts by unions are required and I would be surprised if any union would be prepared to take the voluntary acts that are necessary. [More…]
If the Minister is arguing that they should, he is arguing that they should voluntarily pay State-induced penalties for breaches of State industrial law, and I would have thought that that was contrary to the Australian Council of Trade Unions policy and to Labor Party policy. [More…]
If the Minister were prepared to take 3, 4 or 5 weeks off to try to get agreement between the States, to get the necessary commitments from his friends in the Builders Labourers Federation and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, maybe he would get them to take the necessary voluntary action which Mr Justice Sweeney says they would need to take before effect could be given to these provisions. [More…]
In terms of the haste which the Minister is exhibiting in pushing this legislation through at the present time, I would suggest that there are few unions that have a real knowledge of the substance of this legislation. [More…]
There are few unions that would understand that if the proposals are to be brought to fulfilment, to become effective, the unions themselves would have to sign good behaviour bonds and lodge those deeds with the Industrial Registrar saying that they would be prepared to pay any fine or penalty imposed by a State jurisdiction. [More…]
I think there would be very few unions who would understand the nature of the Sweeney report, its complication and its implications, and I think there would be few who have a detailed understanding of the complexities that became apparent as a result of the working party report. [More…]
Sections concerning union rules and strikes bear no relation Moore and Doyle issues. [More…]
I have telegrams from Mr Munro, Acting General Secretary of the Queensland State Service Union, Mr Grayden, the Minister for Labour and Industry in Western Australia, Mr Forrester and Mr Hauff of the Clerks Union in Queensland, whose telegram I would also like to read: [More…]
Clerks Union representing 28,000 members protests ACTU guarantees re examination of Sweeney-based industrial legislation prior to parliamentary presentation not honoured. [More…]
Union demands opportunity to pre-examine these important proposals . [More…]
Forrester Clerks Union Secretary (Central and Southern Queensland Branch) Hauff Clerks Union Secretary (North Queensland Branch ). [More…]
The Australian Workers Union attitude in most if not all [More…]
I have been advised that the wide amendment then- I am referring to the part of this amendment which relates to trade unions and not the extension of that part to employer organisations- which virtually made it possible for anyone to be enrolled as a member of a trade union so long as he was involved in the industry, was so wide that it was clearly unconstitutional. [More…]
If that is so, and if that means that each State must have identical or roughly equivalent rules, there is obviously going to be great turmoil within the union movement as a result of the application of this power and of the solution to the problems caused by the Moore and Doyle case. [More…]
This, of course, could be used in a way which would tear the A WU in Western Australia or Queensland to ribbons because in Queensland the AWU represents transport workers, building workers, rubber workers and hotel workers who are not largely represented within the same union in other States. [More…]
If the demarking power was used in such a way as to deny to this union the right to represent such people in Queensland the demarcation disputes which would result would put any of the problems flowing from the Moore and Doyle case in regard to the Transport Workers Union very much into the pale. [More…]
This is the area in which the Minister has an absolute obligation to inform the Parliament of the intentions of the trade union movement. [More…]
Has he spoken to the trade unions about his proposal that they should sign a deed accepting the State’s ability and right to impose penalties for industrial offences? [More…]
So this again is the central hinge and if the unions were not prepared to co-operate the proposal would fall to the ground. [More…]
The way to do this is not to legislate, to throw down the gauntlet and to say that the States have to follow and the unions have to sign this kind of deed but to get agreement beforehand. [More…]
Of course I believe that the Minister is taking this course because he knows full well that he would not get such agreement, and specifically he would not get such agreement from the trade union movement. [More…]
But if the Minister’s past history in the AWU is in fact driving him forward, if it were proved that the power to demark was a valid power to be given to the Commission once it was established, if that power were then used under ministerial nominees, note the Minister is wanting to limit the terms of appointment to the Commission to get the people there that he wants, and if that power were then used in the wrong way, it could be used to dismantle any Federal union around Australia. [More…]
In specific terms it could be used to dismantle and destroy his old enemies in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I would hope that theMinister treats this debate seriously and sensibly and in a way that would demonstrate to us that he has had consultations with the union movement to ascertain whether it is prepared to sign a deed of the kind necessary. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is concerned that the AWU in Queensland, Western Australia and other States as well as other unions in a similar position will be allowed to continue to represent those trades that they have represented up to the present time. [More…]
Contrary to the view of the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who has just spoken, one union view is that employer interests financed the case to break the drive on piece workers in the form of owner-drivers who it was alleged at the time were being encouraged to break down the standards set quite largely by consent agreements between employer and union. [More…]
It amazes me to find suddenly that the Opposition is coming out as a belated champion of the unions after spending almost every sitting day in union bashing. [More…]
Since the disastrous Moore v. Doyle case the most important arm of arbitration in Aus.tralia the trade union structure- has been in constant jeopardy, exposed to the capricious actions of any employer or any person who wished to cause disruption within the arbitration and trade union system. [More…]
The pattern for this frustrating disunity and trade union destructive machinery lies in the requirement to have dual registration and dual independent bodies in a given State. [More…]
However, bearing in mind the importance of a stable trade union and arbitration system in this nation there is an urgent need to attempt to find a solution to our problems. [More…]
An interesting thought which occurs to me is the actual validity in terms of State registration of State unions where union representatives validly enrolled in a federal organisation and not in a State organisation have participated in State union affairs, such as elections, but have not signed the proper application card in that State. [More…]
There are many insecure union registrations, both State and Federal. [More…]
There are many insecurely held union positions. [More…]
The basic problem, of which the case of Moore v. Doyle and other cases provide illustrations, arises from the fact that a State branch of a Federal union and a State union are often administered as if they were the same body, with one set of books, one register of members, one membership fee, one set of officers, one election of officers of both bodies and one system of meetings. [More…]
In some cases the rules of the State union are complied with and the rules of the State branch of the Federal union are ignored and in other cases the position is reversed. [More…]
In further cases the affairs of the State union and the State branch of the Federal union are conducted under an ‘administrative amalgam’ of the rules of each but not pursuant to the rules of either. [More…]
A system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems and it should be possible for Federal and State authorities to examine the question whether organisations and trade unions can be provided with such a system. [More…]
It would irritate Federal and State union officials and confuse the public, which is already finding industrial relations difficult enough to fathom, and accentuate the role of the parliaments and the courts. [More…]
The position in relation to paragraph ( a) of clause 4 is that the New South Wales industrial arbitration legislation specifically allows State registered unions to include in their membership persons who are not employees but who are engaged in work akin to that of employees, for example, owner drivers. [More…]
It was really this difference between the New South Wales State union and the federal union which led to the Moore v. Doyle case where the New South Wales branch, or what was thought to be the New South Wales branch, of the Federal Transport Workers Union took into its membership owner drivers who were not entitled to become members of the Federal employee organisation. [More…]
So the Federal Executive of the Transport Workers Union sought to direct what it thought was its New South Wales branch, which everybody up until the Moore v. Doyle case believed was the New South Wales branch of that union, to desist from enrolling as members of the organisationbelieving as it did that the organisation was inseverable from its branch and vice versa- not only owner drivers of trucks but also taxi drivers who were owner drivers. [More…]
The Moore v. Doyle case made clear that this situation gave rise to the possibility of invalidities in Federal employee organisations where an associated body, that is, the State branch which was also a registered State industrial union, was acting as a branch of the Federal body. [More…]
Another provision in the Australian Workers Union rule was that a member had to include his union tickets for the last 5 years, his nominators had to include their union tickets for the previous 2 years and they had to include on the nomination paper the number of each ticket and the year of each ticket. [More…]
It rectifies a slight defect in last year’s amendment which, taken literally, could have meant that owner-drivers who were employing people could be members of a union. [More…]
The clause makes it clear that owner-drivers can be members of a union provided they are not employing people. [More…]
Clause 5 with which we are dealing seeks to bring together the scattered remnants of the trade union movement State and Federal that now exist, because the trade union movement Federal and State right now is in a state of utter chaos in law though it does not recognise it and though few of its officials realise it. [More…]
The trade union movement, both State and Federal, is in a state of absolute chaos in relation to its property. [More…]
I think the officials of the unions realise that the Moore v. Doyle situation has shown the law to be such that the union movement is in a state of utter chaos. [More…]
The property situation today as between Federal organisations and associated State unions is, as a consequence of this case, extremely confused. [More…]
Some property is in the name of the trustees of State unions and some property is in the name of the trustees of Federal unions. [More…]
These trustees may be and they have been trustees of the Federal union and, at the same time, of the State union. [More…]
In fact in some cases some of the properties of some of the unions are still held by trustees who have long since departed. [More…]
The unions knew this. [More…]
It was because the more knowledgeable union officials realised the predicament into which the unions have got themselves that they went along with the idea as indeed did the employers. [More…]
Let me say here only that there is all the difference in the world between getting the incorporated body, the Federal union, to sign a bond and lodge it with the registrar and have a situation in which - [More…]
The procedures of Mr Justice Sweeney for non-incorporated registration would fall down entirely, as the Minister has admitted, if the trade union movement is not prepared to accept this. [More…]
This is one of the reasons we felt it reasonable to suggest there should be delay until the House could be informed of the decision of the trade ‘union movement and the unions that might be intimately involved in this matter. [More…]
The point I was seeking to make before the interjection was that there is all the difference in the world between a bond which a Federal body of the union must voluntarily lodge with the Registrar. [More…]
The reactions that I have had from a number of unions would indicate that there is all the difference in the world between trade union approach in these particular matters. [More…]
How is that to be divided if a State incorporated union and the Federal branch are both occupying the same building? [More…]
If the rules of unions are in as bad shape as the Minister himself has indicated, I think it might be a very difficult practical problem and a difficult legal problem involving a great deal of friction to determine who actually is the present owner. [More…]
That again is just an argument for letting the unions know what is involved in this particular matter- a quite massive task of rewriting the rules which is beyond anything that has ever touched the union movement since the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was first introduced. [More…]
It is worth noting that in his remarks on this clause the Minister himself pointed to the ignorance of the union movement in a large number of areas related to these subjects. [More…]
That would seem to deny the proposition that he was putting earlier, that the trade union movement had been fully consulted. [More…]
That is why this Bill seeks to remedy many of the problems that he has talked about by allowing for the union rules to be validated subject to the Industrial Registrar being satisfied that they are not undemocratic or contrary to the law or contrary to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in any other way. [More…]
For example, proposed amendment to section 140 of the Act will require union rules to provide for local autonomy of branches. [More…]
-I think we ought immediately to expose one of the statements by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) which he made in discussing this clause, clause S. He repeatedly said that this clause will validate certain situations within organisations and unions in Australia. [More…]
He particularly referred to the situation of the Australian Workers Union as a Federal organisation and the Australian Workers Union as a State union in New South Wales. [More…]
As I understood what he was saying, he was proposing that by virtue of this legislation where there previously had been ownership of property by the State union which had been thought to be the property of the Federal union, this legislation would validate the situation. [More…]
That does not mean to say, for example, that the Australian Workers Union as a Federal organisation can immediately claim the property of the State Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Before the property of the State union could become the property of the Federal union, agreement would have to be reached on the part of the State union to transfer the funds to the Federal union. [More…]
Having some knowledge- perhaps minute compared with that of the Minister for Labor and Immigration who is at the table- of the affairs of the Australian Workers Union and the battle that has gone on over the years between those 2 legal entities, I could not see the State union readily agreeing to transfer its funds to the Federal union; nor would the State union agree to allow itself to be absorbed into the Federal union. [More…]
The reason for that statement is that regrettably there is some antipathy between the State and Federal bodies, the officials of the State union for some reason having a fight with the officials of the Federal union. [More…]
It cannot rectify overnight the situation where a group of workers and a group of unions desire to form themselves into a State union and to maintain themselves as an autonomous body, not part of the Federal organisation. [More…]
Even if this Bill is passed, the Federal organisation could not immediately take over the State union. [More…]
How will there be an amelioration of the situation between the State registered union of the Transport [More…]
Workers Union and the Federal Transport Workers Union? [More…]
We can still have demarcation disputes or, as they ought to be referred to in more practical terms, inter-union rivalry between 2 groups of workers following the same calling but not wanting to be part of the same association. [More…]
I use ‘association’ in the sense in the one term as a union or in the other term as an organisation. [More…]
But the point I make is that clause 5 will not by its own force validate an invalid situation as has existed in the past; nor will it cause property which is presently the property of a State union to be automatically the property of a Federal union. [More…]
I have said that it will validate rules of the organisation with the exception- and the honourable gentleman was clever enough to seize on this- of the only rule that I know of in any union rule book which sets out or purports to decide who owns property. [More…]
If in fact it is the State branch of a Federal union which owns a property, nothing that this Bill can do will alter the ownership of that property. [More…]
Mention is made of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
It is as good a union as any to take as an example or on which to illustrate’ a point. [More…]
That union may be defunct. [More…]
What we have in Queensland is a State branch of the Federal union purporting to cover people like hairdressers, truck drivers and liquor trades employees by virtue of what purports to be a still valid registration in the State industrial field. [More…]
Therefore, what we might have in Queensland is approximately 45,000 members of a State branch of a Federal union and, of that membership, a little more than one’third are validly entitled to belong to the Federal union. [More…]
But I am saying that there may be no State union. [More…]
My preamble is that if in fact there is no legally registered State union, what we have in Queensland, if we have anything at all, is a Queensland branch of a Federal union which has the right to cover cane cutters, construction workers and shearers, to mention the 3 main groups of members in the union concerned that it has the right to cover federally. [More…]
But the union does not have a federal award to cover cane cutters or construction workers. [More…]
So, what we have is’ the State branch of a Federal union, to which some persons have been paying money without any right to union membership. [More…]
Those from whom the money has been taken have the right to become members of the federal union, but there is no federal award to cover them. [More…]
Unless the State union is a viable body and is a living thing right now, those people who think that they are covered by a State award of the Queensland industrial court that applies to the Australian Workers Union of Employees, Queensland are not covered at all. [More…]
They are not members of the State union, because it is defunct. [More…]
They are members of the Federal union, but there is no Federal award applying to them. [More…]
I believe that if the Queensland State AWU is in fact a living State organisation now with its properly elected officers and with its membership in accordance with its registered constitution and eligibility rule, then it follows that Bowman Building and Dunstan House and all of the property in Queensland held in the name of the AWU in that State is the property of the State union, not the property of the federal union. [More…]
It can be finally resolved only by the State union and the organisation reaching agreement as to which body owns what, settling it by a form of amalgamation, and the amalgamation terms would have to be laid out and eventually approved by the Registrar upon amalgamation. [More…]
It will do that because it says ‘Where it is not contrary to the rules of an organisation to do so’ it may participate in the systems of conciliation and arbitration of the States, whether it be by way of a wages board or a system of conciliation and arbitration through a registered union. [More…]
Therefore the only way in which the workers who form the State branch of a federal organisation may participate in a State system is by registering themselves as a State union. [More…]
If the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) looks at the rules of any organisation that has branches registered in a State he will see that the rules of unions already provide that the secretary shall be the person who is authorised to sue or to be sued. [More…]
The rules of every union say that the Federal secretary is the person who may sue or be sued in the name of the organisation and that the branch secretary is the person who may sue or be sued in the name of the branch. [More…]
There are some unions like the Waterside Workers Federation which for reasons that would be obvious to anyone who understands the industry do not operate and would see no point or future in operating in the State systems. [More…]
But apart from that one single occasion when the Waterside Workers Federation sought to enter the State industrial system that union has never sought to take such action. [More…]
An enormous amount would depend on the way in which these things were undertaken and a great deal will depend on whether the rules in each branch of a union have to be identical or whether there can be differing rules between the State branches of the same union to allow for differing membership between the States. [More…]
The other clause to which I would like to refer is clause 11 which seeks to insert new section 142 A giving the Commission power to demark between unions. [More…]
If that is so, this is again something which requires consultation with the trade union movement because if it were used in the wong way, if it were used in the spirit that the membership of unions State by State had to be as nearly the same as possible, if not identical in relation to the trades, callings and jobs which they were representing, clearly the exercise of powers under proposed section 142A coupled with the exercise of the additional powers given to the Registrar in relation to the rules of organisations could lead to a situation in which some unions would have their present position completely decimated. [More…]
The Minister did show some of his old spirit when he was referring to his old union earlier this afternoon. [More…]
At the same time I believe that the arguments adduced in these areas reinforce the general arguments for consultation with the trade union movement, with the patient which is the subject of the debate tonight. [More…]
Quite plainly the fact that consultations were held with the Australian Council of Trade Unions a short while ago is not a substitute for the trade union movement itself understanding what is to happen in relation to this matter. [More…]
I would wonder how many of the trade unions affiliated with the ACTU have seen a Bill, a copy of the report or know what any part of it is about. [More…]
I would not think that any union would agree to such a contention because in a situation where 2 unions have concurrent constitutional coverage over the same calling of workers or within the same industry each is entitled to obtain an award in respect of its own members. [More…]
But by virtue of this proposed amendment, one of those unions would deny the right to represent its own members. [More…]
For example, where a Federal organisation wishes to register the Western Australian branch of that organisation in the Industrial Commission of Western Australia, the Western Australian Commission is denied the opportunity of passing judgment on the rules of the branch within the State where the jurisdiction is to be exercised and where the workers within the State may join the union. [More…]
-For more than 20 years the Liberal-Country Party Government allowed the trade union movement and the industrial relations system of Australia to be perched on the edge of a powder keg. [More…]
How long does it take State governments, State parliaments, trade union bodies and those employer organisations who still have not made up their minds after 20 years of meditation and consideration? [More…]
They referred to there being Federal and State unions operating, as it were, within one entity, legal or otherwise, but in one de facto entity known as a national or Federal union. [More…]
There may be 4 separate State organisations registered under the State trade union Acts and industrial arbitration Acts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia and perhaps 2 other bodies operating in Tasmania and Victoria. [More…]
In many cases the conditions of eligibility of the various organisations operating under the one umbrella of a national organisation would be different and it could be that persons who would be eligible for membership of a State organisation would not be eligible for membership of the Federal union to which they owed their allegiance and with which they were affiliated in every sense except the narrow, legal sense. [More…]
In the great majority of cases the trade union and the branch of the federal organisation are administered as though they were the same body with one set of assets, one system of banking, one set of books, one register of members, one set of officers, one election of officers for both bodies, and one system of meetings of a committee of management to handle the affairs of the trade union and the State branch of the organisation. [More…]
Generally one application form is filled in and this sometimes satisfies the provisions of rules of the organisation &nd the trade union, but often there are different rules as to applications. [More…]
Sometimes, as the cases show, the real and effectivelyoperating body is the State branch of the federal organisation with the corresponding trade union existing as a mere fiction and it has occurred that a trade union has been held to be non-existent and liable to be deregistered by the State authorities. [More…]
In other cases it is the trade union which is the living body and the State branch of the federal organisation may be a shadow or fiction having.no real existence. [More…]
In yet other cases the affairs of the State branch of a federal organisation and of the corresponding trade union are administered under some practically-evolved set of rules which are an administrative amalgam of the registered rules of the State branch and the trade union but are not the actual rules of either. [More…]
The Trade Union and Industrial Arbitration Acts of some of the States appear to proceed upon the basis that the State trade union and/or industrial union is an autonomous body corporate or separate legal entity not under control of bodies outside itself, whereas the State-registered body is usually treated as being part of a federal organisation and is, in fact, subject to control by a federal council or committee of management . [More…]
cases referred to earlier in this judgment are further illustrations of the web of problems and technicalities which have developed in the system of trade union organisation in Australia . [More…]
As the court said, there is a web of problems and technicalities which have developed in the system of trade union organisation in Australia. [More…]
A system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the federal and State arbitration systems and it should be possible for federal and State authorities to examine the question whether organisations and trade unions can be provided with such a system. [More…]
Those who block the passage of this legislation can bear the consequences the next time that a dispute arises over a demarcation on the State and Federal union issue which creates chaos and which cripples industry and commerce. [More…]
He referred to the fact that this first arose in the Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
But the case to which he referred first arose in the middle 1950s, not in 1968, when there was an inner faction argument in the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union as to which candidates had been elected to office, whether they had been elected to office in the branch of the Federal organisation or in the State registered union. [More…]
It arose because owner-drivers were recruited into the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon, who I thought made a reasonably constructive contribution up to a point, had to spoil it all by a cynical sarcastic remark that this was obviously because the union’s membership was dwindling. [More…]
So they were eligible and correctly and properly and ethically enrolled- perhaps I should say continued- in membership in the New South Wales Branch of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
He said that this may be designed or may have the effect of tearing the Australian Workers Union in Queensland to ribbons. [More…]
If the present situation continues without correction the Australian Workers Union in Queensland will be shattered. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union in Queensland is one of those unions. [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union of Australia- the honourable member for Wannon referred to telegrams from 2 branch officials of that union- will also suffer a very serious consequence if similar legislation to this is not adopted. [More…]
I think I know something about the condition of that union. [More…]
This legislation will not destroy any union. [More…]
It will not and cannot inhibit the rights that any union has now. [More…]
The demarcation function is a device or a mechanism designed to allow a Federal union with a wider constitution or conditions of eligibility in particular States, to continue to incorporate those members within that State or States for State purposes and yet allow another organisation or an employer or the Minister to apply to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to restrict the right in the Federal sphere. [More…]
That is to say, the Australian Workers Union, to take the case referred to by the honourable member for Wannon, could represent shop assistants north of Rockhampton in the State arbitration system of Queensland, but it could be demarked and prevented from representing shop assistants in, say, Tasmania, where it has never had any interest and never had any members. [More…]
But in the container demarcation dispute in which the Transport Workers Union was involved in the High Court seemed to me, at any rate, to modify some of the attitudes it had taken many years ago in this area. [More…]
I fail to see that it could be held by the High Court that it is not an industrial dispute within the meaning of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Australian Constitution when 2 unions are seeking to represent the interests of employees and bargain with an employer and there is a stoppage of work and there are counter-demands as between 2 organisations and an employer. [More…]
It will not be a question of the old classical demarcation style issue where it is a question of a union trying to exclude another; it will be a question arising in contemporary terms where both organisations are making claims on employers and it will be for somebody to decide who shall be entitled to represent those employees. [More…]
Since the early days of the Commonwealth, there has been a growth of the Federal union or the Federal organisation. [More…]
So, under the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, if 100 workers get together and desire to form their own union, they may lodge with the Registrar a set of rules having a description of callings or vocations or a description of industry wide enough to comprehend all those workers that they seek to represent. [More…]
The second way in which the Federal union can extend its industrial power is by the awards that it obtains from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
As time has gone on, from the days when an award might simply apply to 2 States in order to give it its interstate character, Federal unions have sought to extend their industrial power by extending the award coverage which they have beyond the original States. [More…]
So, in Western Australia there is the example over many years of Federal unions seeking to intrude into the industrial system of that State either by applying for a completely new award which takes in Western Australia for the first time or by way of what is called a roping in award, extending an existing award to Western Australia. [More…]
Generally speaking, what has happened in this kind of situation is that, when the Federal union seeks to extend its industrial power either by amending its rules and extending the class of worker that it can cover or by extending its award into Western Australia, it inevitably seeks to take away from a State registered union that area of coverage which the State union occupies. [More…]
So, the situation arises that the umbrella might be thrown over a State union by a Federal organisation extending its membership coverage to workers who are already covered by a State union or by extending its award to workers who are already covered by an award of the State industrial commission. [More…]
It is a section with which I am most familiar because I fought many cases on behalf of State unions before the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission seeking to prevent the takeover by a Federal organisation of a State area occupied by a State union. [More…]
One of the strangest aspects which experience shows to one in this field is that one often finds a Federal organisation which has a State union counterpart in Western Australia fighting another Federal union which wants to take over that area of State industrial coverage. [More…]
What the Federal organisation which is trying to withstand the takeover bid by another Federal organisation does is to use its State union as the vehicle for preventing a takeover, the reason being that the State union already has constitutional coverage through its membership rules or award coverage by an award issued out of the State jurisdiction. [More…]
I cannot think of anything worse than a federal award applying in every instance throughout industry in Australia where, because of a dispute in Sydney, the workers of that union must be pulled out on strike in Perth. [More…]
the guiding principle in the regulation of industrial conditions should be that the local workers should be the ones who can organise themselves into their own union if that is what they desire, under laws of the State within which they live, so that they can thereby be truly autonomous. [More…]
The Minister for Labour in Western Australia has made inquiries of unions in that State and I am informed that the overwhelming majority of unions registered with the State Industrial Commission do not want this BUI. [More…]
Now, the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) purports to represent unionism in Australia. [More…]
I suggest that he take his inquiries much further and find out whether the union movement in all parts of Australia really does want this legislation. [More…]
It is nonsense to say that this Bill concentrates power in the hands of federal unions. [More…]
There is nothing in the law as it now stands to prevent the federal executive of a union directing its branch in a particular State to withdraw from the State jurisdiction which has previously covered its members by way of a State award. [More…]
The property of the Australian Workers Union in Sydney- Macdonell House, the Worker Building- the property in Pitt Street near the Hotel Morris is the property of the State union for the reason that it was in 1902 that The- with a capital ‘t’- Australian Workers Union was first registered in New South Wales and the first Secretary of the State union, called The Australian Workers Union, was Mr Donald Macdonell and the first President of The Australian Workers Union, the State union registered in New South Wales in 1902, was Mr W. G. Spence, who purported also to be the General Secretary and Federal President respectively of a federal unincorporated union called the- with a small ‘t’- Australian Workers Union. [More…]
That was three years before the federal union secured registration under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The properties that are owned in New South Wales by The Australian Workers Union are the properties of the State union. [More…]
The Federal union put into its rules a few years ago a provision saying that these properties- the Worker Building, MacDonell House and the property in Pitt Street- are by virtue of the rules the property of the Federal union but this rule is in itself invalid because some of the people who were present at the rule making body were strangers and therefore were not entitled to be present. [More…]
None of the decisions of the Australian Workers Union since 1913 when the A WA amalgamated with it in Queensland are valid rule alterations. [More…]
All of those decisions were taken at either convention level or at executive council level at which representatives of a State union then called ‘The Australian Workers Union of Employees, Queensland ‘ were present. [More…]
Moreover, it can be argued that no people from the New South Wales State union had any right to sit on a federal convention or a federal executive council meeting of the AWU. [More…]
It is said that the unions have not had a chance to study the legislation. [More…]
I do not believe that the AWU has told the honourable gentleman that it opposes the legislation at all because the one union that has the most to gain by the settlement of the present legal situation is the AWU. [More…]
If it is not settled that union will be fragmented and nothing that its Federal council or convention can do will ever stick; nothing that it can decide by way of Federal convention or executive council will have any validity because those bodies are improperly constituted and will remain improperly constituted until their present constitution and rules are validated by this legislation. [More…]
The amalgamation of trade unions without the consent of the majority of their members has been facilitated by a Bill which passed this House today. [More…]
I intend, however, to point out to the House that the amalgamation of unions without the consent of their members is a mixed blessing. [More…]
It may well be, as the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has said in this House, that this will reduce inter-union disputes and legal difficulties. [More…]
It would not matter if communists had not infiltrated these unions and were not manipulating these unions in the interests of the Communist Party and against the interests of all Aus.tralians. [More…]
I want to state chapter and verse of the situation in one union in relation to which amalgamation has already taken place. [More…]
I refer to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I intend to read out, firstly, the names of certain people, secondly, the union positions held by those people, thirdly, their party affiliation, and fourthly, pubtic reference to that. [More…]
They are by no means all the communists in the union. [More…]
Honourable members will be able to learn to some extent from it the degree of penetration by the Communist Party into a particular union. [More…]
I ask the House and the country to consider the extent of communist penetration into this one union. [More…]
I give it as an example of what happens when trade unions are amalgamated and we get these big communist controlled organisations which are not working for their members. [More…]
The communist officials of these unions are betraying their members in the interests of destroying the Australian economy and producing here a kind of communist-socialist dictatorship. [More…]
I think that honourable members will remember that only a few weeks ago the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in this House said that the trade union movement had never been in better hands. [More…]
I have just drawn to the attention of the House a union with which the Prime Minister is well acquainted because on 2 June 1972 he went to the preliminary conference of this union- I have the minutes of” the conference here and they are in Hansard- and begged and got from it $25,000 for his campaign fund. [More…]
He is well aware surely of the communist penetration into this union. [More…]
I think that this is perhaps not the biggest but certainly one of the biggest and one of the most influential unions in Australia. [More…]
Yet that man had the effrontery to stand up in this House and deny there was communist penetration and say that the trade union movement had never been in better hands. [More…]
He must have known when he said this the extent of the communist penetration of this union with which he has a personal and intimate association and to which he went down on his hands and knees and crawled to communists in order to get $25,000 for the Labor Party. [More…]
Yet he got up in this House and he tried to deceive us by telling us: ‘No, there are no communists; the unions have never been in better hands’. [More…]
I have read out some of the hands that the union is in. [More…]
Has the Minister noted the comments made in Melbourne earlier this week by the President of the International Gas Union, Mr Clark, to the effect that using natural gas to fuel power stations, as is proposed by the Victorian Government for the projected Newport power house, is a wasteful practice and justifiable only in the early years of development of a natural gas field? [More…]
Being one who feels very strongly that the trade union movement should, as far as possible, be a separate organisation- a completely separate entity- I think that the Government should have as little power over the trade union movement as possible. [More…]
I refer to the one concerning the legality of the payments or demands and their propriety having regard in particular to Australian trade union principles and ethics. [More…]
Superficially that may be a very simple and reasonable thing to ask a royal commission to decide, but I do not feel that a royal commissioner should decide the ethics and principles of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I have the utmost confidence in the royal commissioner in this respect but I think that it is a wrong precedent to set to leave it to a non-member of a particular organisation somehow to decide fundamentally the principles and ethics of the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
I would also refer the Minister to surveys of married women who are wives of members of the Electrical Trade Union. [More…]
One of the great problems of the Budget allocation for New South Wales was that the New South Wales Government could not afford the salaries of the staff at the few pre-schools it had which had been established by the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales (Inc) and the Sydney Day Nursery and Nursery Schools Association (Inc). [More…]
It did not have any pre-school program and it had to use the money the Australian Government gave it to prop up the programs that had been established by the Kindergarten Union and the Sydney Day Nursery. [More…]
, (3) and (4) On 16 September a meeting was held between representatives of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, the Australian Departments of Agriculture and Overseas Trade, the Western Australian and South Australian Departments of Agriculture, producers and exporters. [More…]
How many (a) women and (b) men have sat as union representatives on selection panels, tribunals and other appeal boards established under the Public Service Act in the last 12 months. [More…]
What acceptance does the retraining scheme have from the trade union movement and industry. [More…]
There is a general acceptance of the need for retraining by both trade union and employer sectors of industry. [More…]
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Question No. [More…]
Has Australia joined the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
If so, what are the aims of the Union, when was it first established, and by whom. [More…]
What action has Australia taken in the Union since joining. [More…]
Yes, Australia is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rhodesia, Rumania, Western Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, South Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
Mr Egerton is, after all, a significant trade union leader. [More…]
I endeavoured at the weekend to ask the trade union movement whether it should be considering whether maybe some people are out of work because those who are in work are being paid more now than will enable industry marginally to take on another man. [More…]
We in the Labor movement believe in the right of trade unions to seek higher wages through proper bargaining processes. [More…]
I am saying that it is easier for some price groups to pass on prices and easier for some sections of the trade union movement to get higher wages than it is for other elements in the economy. [More…]
In times of inflation we know very well that the unions would not have accepted that and the level of industrial disputes, which is always high in a period of inflation, would be doubled if the Opposition were the Government. [More…]
Trade union leaders would be in gaol and industry would be stalled. [More…]
The Treasury approach is based on sound- at least they were sound- Keynesian principles, that is, if we reduce purchasing power we reduce demand and therefore we make it more difficult for employers to raise prices, we make employers resist union demands more and we create unemployment and a bad environment for unions to seek further wage increases. [More…]
This is not to ignore the role of militant union leaders who more and more are coming out into the open in their efforts to foment strikes. [More…]
But it must be remembered that these union leaders can exert the power they wield largely because of the unrest and dissatisfaction which inflation is causing among their members. [More…]
Indexation will mean that the trade union movement will not need to apply to the court for awards based on the increase in the cost of living. [More…]
In other words, because very often those people in the trade union movement do not know when their case will be heard by the court or because they do not know when they will obtain by way of negotiation with the employer their next award, very often they have to try to pre-empt increases in the cost of living. [More…]
Any unemployment is a matter of anguish to a Labor member elected as a representative of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is one of the ways in which the inflationary pressures from the trade union movement could well be reduced. [More…]
I remember going with a deputation of trade union officials to see the Minister at that time. [More…]
On 15 May, he met the representatives of the union at Walkers and promised them that he would give consideration to the proposition. [More…]
I refer to such things as the Ermolenko affair, which was very hard to understand; to the recognition of the incorporation of the Baltic States, de jure, into the Soviet Union, which was almost impossible to understand; to discriminatory help given to certain organisations in Africa which are called liberation movements but which are actually rather communist inclined; to the incident, which I cannot, of course, go into much further because of the security aspects, of the refusal of asylum to a diplomat from the Eastern European communist bloc in Australia only recently. [More…]
Did the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States of America accept the Australian Government’s request in March 1974 that they consult with a view to agreeing to exercise initial restraint in the growth of forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Governments of the United States and of the Soviet Union both agreed to consider the appeal we made to them in March 1 974 to enter into discussions on mutual restraint in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
In March 1974 Australian representatives in Washington and Moscow re- quested the Governments of the United States and te Soviet Union respectively to consult with each other with a view to reaching agreement on mutual restraint in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I can well comprehend how a person who takes pride in the fact that he was a rouseabout, a shearer and an official of the Australian Workers Union in the 1930s can well understand and know of the hardship that was involved in those days in a way that few people sitting behind him can recall or remember or, because of their different backgrounds understand in any sense, shape or form. [More…]
In other words he was saying: ‘We have deliberately and consciously created a pool of unemployed to take the heat off union wage claims because we see them as being the basic cause of inflation’. [More…]
Australia is now a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and subscribes to the principles laid down by that Union for the conservation of wild fauna and flora. [More…]
The speaker who will follow me, the former Minister for Social Services, during a State Electricity Commission strike in Victoria denied unemployment benefit to 6,000 people in my electorate and said that their families could starve as far as he was concerned because one member of their union was involved in a strike over 100 miles away in which they had no say whatsoever. [More…]
Government- the Prime Minister of the countryprepared to be stood over by the president of the trade union movement? [More…]
He then comes out with the novel suggestion that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is standing over me or delivering an ultimatum to me. [More…]
The President of the ACTU is a singularly articulate and effective spokesman for the trade union movement. [More…]
This movement is a very difficult body to lead in Australia because there are about 300 unions in Australia and only about one third of them belongs to the ACTU. [More…]
As I said, he is a very effective and articulate spokesman for the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
The fact is that it is possible for the leaders of the trade union movement in Australia and the leaders of the present Australian Government to have informed, full, frank, friendly and fruitful consultations. [More…]
Another reason for unemployment is union demands for excessive wage rises. [More…]
Union demands for wages must be curtailed. [More…]
It will be recalled that one of the conditions for our acceptance of the construction of the present drilling rig was that all unions concerned would be parties to a registered industrial agreement. [More…]
There has been an almost total absence of stoppages and trade union representatives and members within the shipyard have continued to honour the terms and conditions of the agreement in settling disputes. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union. [More…]
This was a list of people whom the honourable member for Mackellar alleged were members of the Communist Party who hold full time official positions with the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union. [More…]
I wish to inform the House about this union and the part it plays in our community, and the reason we should be careful of our privileges and not bring industrial relations into the House trying to solve problems which can better be solved around the conference table by representatives of employers and employees. [More…]
On several occasions in this House I have condemned the practice of union bashing. [More…]
I do not intend to answer union bashing by becoming an employer basher because I have, throughout my life as a representative of trade unions and of the Labor Party, met many fine people who represent employers. [More…]
In their jobs they are tough, dedicated people- just as tough and just as dedicated as those who take on the role of representing trade unions. [More…]
When the honourable member for Mackellar talks about the Metalworkers Union he is talking about an organisation which throughout Australia has 183,000 members. [More…]
The honourable member read out a list of perhaps 15 to 20 names, but in the union there are 108 full time officials. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metalworkers Union arose out of the amalgamation of the Sheetmetal Workers Union, the Boilermakers Union and the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
In 1972 these unions took a decision to constitute the one amalgamated union. [More…]
The Labor Party has been encouraging union amalgamations in Australia for a long time. [More…]
They do not understand the ramifications of having a multiplicity of unions in the industrial relations field. [More…]
When in 1972 the move was made to amalgamate there were 8 formal objections from other unions of no specific political nature. [More…]
They were unions representing all political philosophiesleft wing, right wing and middle of the road. [More…]
Each of these 3 unions which went to make up the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union in 1972-74 were, of course, substantial organisations in their own right. [More…]
The 1 13 branches of the union throughout Australia meet monthly. [More…]
Each branch of the union can have eight or nine officers. [More…]
A significant feature about all the conferences of the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union is that written into the rules of the union is a provision that the majority of people who attend the conferences must be other than full time officials. [More…]
I hope that honourable members opposite will take time out to read what I am saying so that they will get some understanding of the largest union in Australia. [More…]
A very significant feature of the administration of this union which makes it perhaps the most efficient of all trade unions in Australia- this was news to me when I made inquiries about it- is that every quarter every one of the 183,000 members receives a card from his union which tells him his financial position in the union, his section of the membership in the union, his classification, the time of the next monthly meeting of the union, the name of the branch secretary and also the business which will be conducted at that meeting. [More…]
Every quarter there is a summoned meeting of the union. [More…]
All positions which are to be balloted at any meeting are listed on the card which the member receives every quarter so that every member of the union will receive notification by virtue of the card which is sent to him of what positions are vacant, when nominations will close and when the meeting will be held. [More…]
No other union in Australia to my knowledge carries out such a comprehensive and complex system of involvement of the membership. [More…]
Let us look at the effects of having an efficient organisation like the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union. [More…]
The efficiency of that Union does not stop at the way it passes on information to its members. [More…]
It is estimated that by virtue of common law, apart from negotiations which might be settled outside of the courts, the Metalworkers Union gained in one year alone for its members through the courts $3. [More…]
The influence of the union in the parliaments and the community is there for everybody to see. [More…]
There are conciliation commissioners from the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union. [More…]
There are members of Parliament from the union and there are people appointed to Government advisory panels. [More…]
I want to make one final point about how responsible the Metal Workers Union is. [More…]
Let us look at the union’s negotiations which took place in 1974- a troubled period for the Australian community by virtue of the inflation rate. [More…]
It will be recalled that in December 1973 a claim for $30 a week was submitted to the employers by the union for a pay increase for all its members. [More…]
After only 2 stopwork meetings to hear the results of negotiations with the employers an offer of $15 a week was accepted by the union. [More…]
After acceptance of the $15 a week by the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union the courts, following agreements between employers and employees, reached a decision that would give workers under 118 awards in other industries outside the metal industry amounts of between $24 and $31 a week. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metalworkers Union renegotiated its position and gained a further $9 a week. [More…]
Again members of the union lost only 2 days by virtue of reports to the rank and file by officials. [More…]
It should not be an organisation which is subject to union bashing for political purposes in this House. [More…]
The Prime Minister knows that the trade union movement is against it and that there is a ground swell among workers against it because they feel that their rights are being taken away. [More…]
In the course of such public scrutiny, the legislation should be considered by the trade union movement, insurance companies, members of the legal profession, the States and the other multitude of groups which have been in contact with us in the last few days including the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Guide Dogs for the Blind organisation and medical associations. [More…]
The trade union movement is already beginning to show its sense of apprehension as to the full implications of this measure. [More…]
Time is needed for further response from the trade union movement. [More…]
the man was survived by a child who was a child of the union between that woman and that man and was dependent on that man immediately before his death, then- [More…]
Among those bodies which will be interested mainly are the trade unions. [More…]
Very often the trade unions interfere in matters in which they are not competent and where they have not got authority, but in this Bill the trade unions have a very real function and a very real part. [More…]
The question of compensation for union members is something which is properly dear to the heart of every trade unionist and they have not had adequate consultation as yet. [More…]
The trade unions just have not understood because, in its haste, the Government is rushing this Bill through without adequately considering what is involved in it. [More…]
Anyone would think that a good trade union would be looking after the apprentices, but apparently an apprentice does not come within these provisions unless he is over the age of 18 years or he has a certain income. [More…]
Shipping on the north coast will virtually be put out of business if, because of an amendment to legislation, small ships have to use Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation labour rather than Transport Workers’ Union labour. [More…]
This thinking was introduced again in this place by the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) who seemed to be saying that he wanted the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to make sure that any ships coming into the Port of Darwin would be unloaded by Transport Workers’ Union labour rather than by Australian Waterside Workers’ Federation labour. [More…]
Apparently he believes that members of the Transport Workers’ Union will unload ships at a cheaper rate than members of the Waterside Workers’ Federation will. [More…]
-The Government might have a committee comprising members of the Government, academics and trade union officials, but all I can say is that it has not done very well up to date. [More…]
People outside the Parliament such as the President of the Australian Labor Party and those in the communist organised unions and their fellow travellers, have also played a significant part in damaging private industry and the general economic and manufacturing scene. [More…]
All these Ministers, ALP officials and communist union leaders working in close cooperation have hit industry hard by their inflationary actions. [More…]
There has to be a recognition by the trade union movement and by every worker in Australia that if his particular industry is going to receive some form of protection which will increase the unit price of the article or the goods, then in return he has got to give something back, and that something is an honest day’s work; and furthermore, that the industrial strife which has plagued this nation, particularly during the term of the present Government, has to come to an end. [More…]
It was more or less an invitation to every trade union to get into the box, to ‘get in for what you can, the Government won’t take any action against you and now is the time to go’. [More…]
He should tell that to the Latvians; he should tell that to the Lithuanians; he might also tell it to the Estonians, whose aspirations for independence the Government has denied with the stroke of a pen when recognising the incorporation of those states into the Soviet Union. [More…]
I had the privilege of serving Australia in the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1954 and from 1961 to 1963. [More…]
The very movement of an accredited diplomat into any area of the Soviet Union is in reality an acceptance of the control of that country over the various territories of that country. [More…]
This is all it has said, but the Government has never said that it agreed with the manner in which the Soviet Union brutally took over the Baltic states. [More…]
During the war the Soviet Union had direct control over those territories, and the only way Australia can operate in those territories on behalf of the Baltic people in Australia is through the recognition of that control. [More…]
Sir James Plimsoll, the present Ambassador to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was in fact the first Australian to enter Portuguese Goa after India took it over, but that was not necessarily a total acceptance at that time of the status quo. [More…]
The 2 main parties- the Democratic Union and the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor- have independence as their objective. [More…]
-People have been waiting 25 years for different policies in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and in the People’s Republic of China, but we do not hear much about that. [More…]
Solzhenitsyn spoke out in favour of depressed people in the Soviet Union and lost his citizenship as a result. [More…]
The Minister said that he did not agree with the way the Soviet Union brutally overtook the Baltic States. [More…]
If that was the situation, should we condone the brutal overtaking of those States by now recognising them as part of the Soviet Union? [More…]
By the same token, the Baltic states are under the effective control of the Soviet Union. [More…]
A few days ago the ‘Australian Financial Review’ reported that Australia’s main Public Service union had called for the Federal Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) to be sacked. [More…]
Anyone who has maintained or sought to establish any kind of link with the trade union movement over the last 12 months could only endorse and echo that statement, because the Minister has gone his own way in defiance of recommendations that might have been made by the trade union movement and very often in defiance of recommendations that have been jointly approved by employers and employees. [More…]
I do not know exactly what happens when we let people in from Yugoslavia or Spain or the Soviet Union. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister to use his common sense, and if there is one thing that he has it is certainly common sense, having been involved in Labor Party politics and trade union politics for quite a number of years. [More…]
I should like to know how many thousands of men and perhaps women, because we have found Filipino women who have been exploited in this way, are working in Australia at near slave rates of pay under threat of deportation by their employers who have only to say: ‘Listen, if you are going to kick up a row about it or join the union I will ring the Department of Immigration and tell them where to locate you’. [More…]
One sees in the appropriations for the Department mention made of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the contribution to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ‘s Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [More…]
It refers to 3 incidents: First, to his visit on 2 June 1972 to the preliminary meeting of what was to become the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union council in order to solicit funds for the Australian Labor Party; secondly, to a list of 33 key members of the AMWU organisation who are known communists, as shown in the House on 1 6 October - [More…]
Are representatives of the Hospital and Health Services Commission and the Australian Council of Trade Unions negotiating with the management of the Chevron Hotel in Melbourne for the purchase of that hotel as a trade union centre and a Commonwealth health centre? [More…]
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have failed dismally with their agricultural plans. [More…]
Indeed, it is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which is to a certain degree the villain of the piece at the present time. [More…]
Since 1972 the Soviet Union has been involved in a great grain grab to meet its own deficit. [More…]
I am at this point of time attempting to obtain copies of the exact statement made by yourself in the House of Representatives but in the meantime in order to ensure that no incorrect impression exists in your mind or is allowed to continue without challenge by this Union, I wish to unequivocally advise that no indemnity payment of any character has been sought by the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia in respect of its operations. [More…]
I also wish to make it clear that on no occasion has this Union or any representative of this Union attempted to receive ‘indemnity payments’ either on its behalf or any other organisation’s behalf, nor has it admitted doing so except in the context that wages or other payments in respect of conditions of employment are ‘indemnities’ or ‘compensation’ in return for services given. [More…]
Therefore in saying ‘This Union has not sought nor has received indemnity payments on its behalf or on behalf of any other organisation ‘ we do so in the following context. [More…]
provides for deduction of Union dues to the International Seafarers Section of the ITF. [More…]
So I believe that the issues are separate and separable and that on all the evidence available to me the Waterside Workers Federation position is quite different and separate from the involvement of the Seamen’s Union in the Royal Commission which is presently sitting. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker recently has drawn attention to the fact that the Soviet navy continues to be active in the Indian Ocean and that recent reports from New Zealand suggest that the Soviet Union obviously has a strong intelligence interest in the Australasian region. [More…]
A very senior Army officer, Brigadier Hooton who last year resigned as the head of Army intelligence in protest against cuts in defence expenditure, has pointed out that Japan, China and India, as well as the Soviet Union, have the nuclear capacity to threaten Australia. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister could find funds from his allocation to the trade union training program. [More…]
Last year the Department spent only $55,391 on trade union training and one cannot imagine that this year even the most generous government department could in fact spend $3m, which is the allocation in this Budget. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister for Labor and Immigration give serious thought to transferring part of the $3m allocated for trade union training to industrial safety, because often it is the unionists who need to be made aware of the need for industrial safety. [More…]
It would be a most valuable part of trade union training to teach them an awareness of industrial safety. [More…]
I assume that he is talking about the fund which the Seamen’s Union of Australia was able to establish by collections from its members and money raised by other methods, I understand, from other people. [More…]
Last month, when the official figures revealed that 130,000 Australians were out of work in September, we had estimates by trade union leaders, business leaders and private employment firms that an extra 70,000 people were unemployed and that the true unemployment figure was closer to 200,000. [More…]
That was to win union votes. [More…]
This Government did nothing until the unemployment figures became so bad that the trade unions threatened to withdraw their support from the Party. [More…]
How sickening it is to read in the Press of a trade union secretary saying: ‘Last year we gave $30,000 to Labor Party funds. [More…]
The Government has done nothing until the unions have threatened them. [More…]
At the weekend we were even treated to the spectacle of the Prime Minister of this country going to the home of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
This Minister who claims to have a close liaison with the trade unions and who says that he can manage the trade union movement ought to resign. [More…]
But confidence is not instilled in the community when the Prime Minister, in a most undignified manner, goes down and confers with the head of the trade union movement in Australia, Mr Hawke, to find out what he ought to do. [More…]
It means that a station, a licensee who has functioned quite creditably and quite well and who wants either to obtain a licence or to have a licence renewed, can have appearing before the Authority perhaps Mr Carmichael of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, whose connection with the licensee can be the fact that some fitters and turners or electricians who are engaged under awards concerning his union may work on the station. [More…]
-The opportunity which the Government’s new proposals gives us to break the wage-price spiral requires a more systematic effort in the area of contact and consultation with trade union organisations. [More…]
The other two visitors, representatives of the Students’ Union of the Republic of South Viet-Nam arrived last month on letters authorising their entry issued by the Australian Embassy in Hanoi. [More…]
What of the visit of the Prime Minister to the Soviet Union that will take place in another month’s time? [More…]
When he goes to the Soviet Union what will he tell the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Soviet Union, with its conflict with China and the conflict over borders will be interested in the statement made by the Prime Minister when in China in which he said: [More…]
While there are some other factors relative to those increasing costs, I think the unbiased observer would agree that they have been brought about to a large degree by the domination of this Government by the left wing trade union movement, which has constantly pressed for unrealistic wage increases. [More…]
Quite recently I had an application from a branch of a teachers’ union at Stanthorpe in Queensland asking for the provision of homes for the members of the union employed in Stanthorpe. [More…]
This clique belongs to two of the posh clubs in Sydney- the Royal Sydney Golf Club and the Union Club. [More…]
It is proposed to issue a stamp next year to draw attention to Australia’s role in the international postal community and to coincide with the Illrd Congress of the Asian Oceanic Postal Union which is to be held in Melbourne. [More…]
It grieves me also that we should have seen in recent days the spectacle of the Prime Minister of this country going cap in hand to the leader of the trade union organisation, seeking his advice and reporting for further duty. [More…]
He accepts its support and his silence will serve only to prove the truth of the certain but sinister union which exists between the National Party in Queensland and the national socialist front organisation, the League of Rights. [More…]
The Bill also gives effect to an announcement I made last March that the income tax law would be amended to exempt from tax interest derived by a credit union from loans to its members. [More…]
Credit unions will continue to be taxed on income other than interest on loans to members, e.g., from rents and ‘outside’ investment of funds not immediately required for their normal lending operations. [More…]
I raise this matter as other foreign ships which have called at our ports have had to pay money to the Seamen’s Union and to the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
The Soviet Union is believed to be planning a major expansion of its merchant fleet at a time when western shipping is in a state of uncertainty over the international oil and currency situation. [More…]
The article in question is headed ‘Jones Promises Union Immunity on Hold-ups’. [More…]
My point is that the Minister has given Mr Fitzgibbon and the WWF and other unions the right to hold up ships at the port and to claim indemnity payments. [More…]
It is well known in the trade union movement that Charlie Fitzgibbon has never been at any time associated indirectly or directly with the Communist Party. [More…]
Charlie Fitzgibbon is the Federal Secretary of that union and any inference that he is under the domination and control of the Communist Party is a complete distortion of the facts. [More…]
-The purpose of my visit is to visit the Economic Community, the Soviet Union and the principal countries from which migrants have come and are coming to Australia. [More…]
Campaigning in Queensland at the weekend, Prime Minister Whitlam described the Government’s tax cuts and union acceptance of wage indexation as a ‘compact’. [More…]
For example, it is often stated that some union leaders are more interested in ‘busting the system’ than in strictly industrial objectives. [More…]
But what is less frequently realised is that even if the union leaders were entirely non-political and interested only in pay and conditions, and even if the guidelines were drawn up by the Royal Economic Society the ‘contract’ would still be a delusion. [More…]
As these displaced workers are likely to be reluctant to take other work on inferior terms- and there may be union or other institutional obstacles in their doing so- the net result is an increase in the unemployment total. [More…]
Some ‘monetarist’ economists, while admitting that this is a theoretical possibility, deny that union power has been used in such a way, and claim that British inflation and stop-go episodes can be explained by other means. [More…]
Moreover, even if union power has not been used in the past to push up the sustainable unemployment rate, and therefore to tempt governments into inflationary policies, there is nothing to prevent this from happening now; and this is what many casual observers, without refined statistical techniques, believe is happening before their eyes. [More…]
If the ‘social contract* were merely a pompous way of describing the intention and ability of union leaders to make less use of their monopoly powers, it would therefore be worth having, if it were obtainable at not too extortionate a price. [More…]
The question is best considered from the point of view of a union leader- not necessarily the man at central headquarters but the one who exercises shop-floor power. [More…]
It will therefore usually be in the interest of a particular union group that other trade unionists should show restraint while its own members move ahead. [More…]
Union self-interest is thus likely to lead to the speedy crumbling of voluntary restraint. [More…]
The main result to date has been a stepping up of union demands in the running of national and corporate affairsthe actuality and fear of which has already brought the growth of productivity to a near standstill, to the ultimate detriment of real wages. [More…]
The only reason the Government devalued the Australian currency was to try to muffle the wage increases which it was giving to the trade union movement of the country. [More…]
After wasting 6 months, after inflation has reached at least 20 per cent of or possibly 30 per cent a year he surrendered to Mr Hawke and the trade union movement. [More…]
The office of Prime Minister has never been more demeaned than it was the other day when the Prime Minister went to call upon the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to get his instructions. [More…]
Whether it was originally intended that this barge operation should be able to work with Transport Workers Union labour as opposed to the equivalent of the North Australian Branch of the Waterside Workers Federation labour is perhaps immaterial, but the operation has been working in a certain way for 12 years. [More…]
There has been tension between the Transport Workers Union and the North Australian Branch of the Waterside Workers Federation in the port of Darwin and it would be an unhappy circumstance if the Minister’s amendment was to re-awake that tension and cause industrial difficulties of a kind that have been present in the past as a result of a demarcation dispute largely between 2 unions. [More…]
Again there is the question of the efficiency of that operation because it might be a case only of whether one union can load or unload barges more effectively. [More…]
In addition I hope that the Minister has not forgotten that in recent legislation in which he had the utmost co-operation from the Opposition in this House and in the Senate, legislation that was passed in relation to the Moore v. Doyle situation and which has been dear to his heart, although perhaps it should have been delayed until the Minister had reported back to the House on certain matters, power was given to the Arbitration Commission to demarcate in an industrial dispute between 2 unions. [More…]
He wishes to step in in a situation which is almost certain, because of Government legislative action, to lead to very considerable industrial dispute, not between labour and management but between the Transport Workers Union in the Northern Territory and the Waterside Workers Federation in the Northern Territory, as there has been a very substantial dispute in the past. [More…]
It means that the Opposition is saying in relation to future operations that that loophole ought to be overcome but that the Minister ought not to seek to pass legislation that would have a retrospective effect; that would have an impact on inter-union relations and the operations of a company that has been going forward and making very useful service to many remote settlements in the Northern Territory during the last 12 years. [More…]
In that period, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, all signatories to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, have not carried out any nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Soviet Union have agreed to a nuclear embargo on India. [More…]
He does not seem to be aware of the fact that in countries where there has been a reasonable kind of relationship between the trade union movement and the government, inflation is less than it is elsewhere. [More…]
I know what would happen if the Leader of the Opposition were the Prime Minister and the government were drawn from the other side of the House; there would be a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
We would have trade union leaders in goal. [More…]
It has been suggested that WWF labour working these vessels would be loading at the rate of 0.7 tons an hour as compared with a rate of 7.2 tons an hour by company employees who are members of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
If the Waterside Workers Federation takes over from the Transport Workers Union a major demarcation dispute will occur in relation to small ship operations in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is only recently that this problem of demarcation has come into existence as a result of division between the Waterside Workers’ Federation and the Transport Workers’ Union in Darwin. [More…]
The only effect of it so far as these barge operations are concerned is to open up old wounds- wounds that exist in the Darwin port between the Transport Workers’ Union on the one hand and the Waterside Workers’ Federation on the other. [More…]
No country in the world is more of a trade union country than Israel. [More…]
I forget the exact figure, but I think that SO per cent or 60 per cent of the housing and construction is done by the trade union movement. [More…]
-The only comment I want to make just briefly and quickly about what has been said by the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) is that I think we should all realise that if it were not for political expediency within both the United Nations and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the situation in the Middle East- in Palestine in particular- could be solved within a very short space of time. [More…]
We are each the product of a union of a man and a woman. [More…]
The communist parties- there are about 3 in Australia at the moment- have never been so politically insignificant and we believe that the trade union movement has never been in better hands. [More…]
Mr Anthony’s question related to communist influence in trade unions. [More…]
Subsequently, I and the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) read into Hansard lists of names of open communists in key positions in key unions. [More…]
The unions included the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union of Australia and the maritime unions. [More…]
Those cases involve one in the Senate- the manner of the Senator Gair episode- the matter of communist penetration within the union movement and the famous ‘nervous Nellies’ comment concerning tariff policy which has been shown to be a lie. [More…]
He is a union man and the honourable member for Hunter knows it. [More…]
The Minister is a union lackey, no more and no less. [More…]
I point out that separate consultation took place with the union organisations representing employees within the air transport group. [More…]
We must have an agreement between the Government and its trade union support so that these things will be accepted and understood by the total Labor movement- its industrial wing and its political wing. [More…]
Instead of reflecting general levels of wages and conditions, the Commonwealth Public Service became the pacesetter and it is difficult now for the Government to reduce union expectations. [More…]
Did the Minister say on Monday evening last when addressing the Australian Workers Union that he sees nothing of great appeal in the capitalist or mixed enterprise system in which he asserted we are now living? [More…]
-Yes, I did talk to the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
-I refer next to Ernst Mommsen, the chairman of Krupp in Germany, not a trade union leader, I hope honourable members opposite will notice, who says: [More…]
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Africa, India and Asia food production was below normal and so grain prices, particularly for wheat and rice, rocketed. [More…]
I cannot vouch for its authenticity, but the story was that some union bosses and union shop stewards were under heavy siege. [More…]
After a further half hour of debate the union bosses finally gave way and said: ‘All right, you can have your secret ballot. [More…]
It applies in every trade union, every cricket club, every Hibernian Society and even in that old doddery place where the senators congregate. [More…]
And that is from a government which claims a special relationship with the trade union movement. [More…]
A special understanding is certainly there; that is, that the trade union movement will tell the Government what to do when it chooses to. [More…]
The spectacle of the Prime Minister of this country knocking on the door of the residence of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to get his instructions lowered the dignity of that office immensely. [More…]
According to this morning’s Press the Australian Council of Trade Unions and all union members are concerned about individual industries that have been belted and at unemployment being as high as it has ever been in history. [More…]
No member of a union has a real recollection of a higher level of unemployment. [More…]
That is the single thing it is hoping for and it is hoping that it will thereby get union support. [More…]
We see our defence Services running downhill and the trade unions having a greater influence on Government decisions. [More…]
The members of the Australian Labor Party are nothing more than puppets for the decisions of their trade union leaders. [More…]
If this Government thinks that it can get the support of the trade union movement by such a deceitful means of presenting taxation cuts, it is deluding itself. [More…]
The genuine trade union member today is in the earning bracket over $5,000. [More…]
Both Opposition speakers in this debate made some issue of the way in which this Government is ready to discuss with trade union leaders the important matters of this nation. [More…]
This Government is prepared to discuss with trade union leaders the great economic questions of this nation. [More…]
We have met with Mr Hawke and with other members of the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions as we have met with many other trade union leaders, both formally and informally, during the course of the last 20 months. [More…]
We have included a great many of these trade union leaders in the industrial panels that have made an important contribution to the development and planning of industry during that time. [More…]
It would not meet readily with the trade union leaders. [More…]
There is a big difference between the attitude of members of this side of the House towards the trade union movement and that of members of the other side of the House. [More…]
We represent the trade union movement, among other people, in this Parliament. [More…]
But honourable members opposite have fought the trade union movement, have imprisoned trade union leaders, have frozen wages and have carried out concentrated campaigns of attack upon the trade union movement. [More…]
Various economic studies have been conducted which indicate that this much slower rate of growth of take-home pay has been an important factor in determining unions’ wage claims and also in increasing union militancy, in other words, the determination with which they pursue wage claims. [More…]
The most important of these analyses is an English study which has been produced in the form of a book entitled ‘Do Trade Unions Cause Inflation?’ [More…]
I hasten to say that the book does not conclude that there is a simple answer to that question, but it does strongly conclude that the process of an increasing tax bite has significantly affected union wage claims and union determination to achieve those claims in economic circumstances which would not previously have been associated with union militancy. [More…]
In other words, with conditions of substantial unemployment which are increasingly pervading the industrial world at the moment, unions have continued to pursue wage claims, but with a determination that would not in the past have existed but which now exists because their bargaining powers are being reduced by unemployment. [More…]
The authors of the book I have mentioned believe that the substantial recent increase in the income tax bite in the United Kingdom is the factor which explains this change in union behaviour. [More…]
But if in present circumstances taxes are increased, and if the authors of this book are right, what happens is that the unions will have a tendency to pursue higher wage claims to get the rate of growth in their after-tax pay that they wanted to achieve. [More…]
Whether union wage claims are in some way related to the much slower rate of growth in after-tax pay as compared with gross pay is debatable, but I would think that it is a fact of some importance. [More…]
The growing union demand for tax indexation in line with prices reflects union awareness of and concern about this factor. [More…]
It has amended it to attempt to allay the trade union credit societies and pensioner investors but the Government has not succeeded even in that regard. [More…]
Clause 6 proposes that interest received by credit unions on loans made to its members be exempted from taxation. [More…]
In order to qualify for this exemption a credit union must have as its primary objective, or carry on as its principal business, the raising of moneys from its members and the making of loans out of those moneys. [More…]
A credit union will not qualify for the exemption if it restricts its activities to those which are carried out by a building society. [More…]
Credit unions, of course, are basically agents acting on behalf of their members. [More…]
The borrowing members pay interest on loans made to them by the union. [More…]
The exemption will have the effect of reducing considerably the amount of tax payable by qualifying credit unions. [More…]
Clause 20 of the Bill merely provides that a credit union which qualifies for the above exemption cannot also qualify for the favourable tax treatment which is given to co-operatives. [More…]
He will certainly be remembered by the credit union movement in Australia for the action which is now being taken in this Bill to exempt credit unions from income tax on interest derived from loans to their members. [More…]
This exemption will apply to assessments of credit unions in respect of the income derived during the year of income which commenced on 1 July 1973 and in subsequent income years. [More…]
The liability to tax of credit unions has been a vexed question for many years. [More…]
Credit unions have taken all legal steps possible to have the matter determined. [More…]
In view of the legal decisions in all those cases which went against the credit unions, it has been necessary finally to determine the issue by legislation, and that the Government is now doing. [More…]
On behalf of the credit union movement I would like to convey to the Treasurer the thanks of all credit union members and their appreciation for his taking of this worthwhile step, which will enable credit unions to apply any surplus arising from dealings with their own members for the benefit of their own members. [More…]
The net income of the average wage earner will, of course, be the amount of his wages less union dues. [More…]
He has to answer to his Party, to the trade union movement and to the country for the unemployment which comes about through this personal misjudgment. [More…]
The Minister will recall an announcement by the Minister for Agriculture recently to the effect that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had purchased some 10,000 tons of Australian beef. [More…]
Prior to the recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union as de jure incorporation, there was no extradition treaty in force between Australia and the U.S.S.R. Australian citizens wishing to visit the three Baltic States had to apply to a Soviet Embassy or Consulate for a visa, and a person residing in one of the three Baltic States who wished to enter Australia as a migrant had to comply with the relevant provisions of Soviet law regarding exit permits and had to apply to the Australian Embassy in Moscow for a migrant visa. [More…]
After the Soviet Union seized control of the States, these treaties remained in force in theory, but in practice ceased to have any effect. [More…]
During the period before Australia’s recognition of the incorporation of the area into the U.S.S.R. Australia had no formal governmental relations with the three governments which as members of the Soviet Union were effectively administering the Baltic States. [More…]
There can be only 2 reasons: Vindictiveness, or because the Australian Labor Party wants to stack the Corporation’s board with Party sympathisers, Party hacks or trade union officials. [More…]
Before taking any action that could reasonably be expected to affect the conditions of employment, or the demand for labour, in the wool industry, the Corporation shall consult with, and have regard to the views of, the appropriate trade union organizations. [More…]
It is our intention, accordingly, to move with respect to the first part of proposed new section 20a that appropriate employer organisations also should be consulted in those areas where it is felt that trade union organisations should be consulted. [More…]
The next innovation which is incorporated in this Bill provides for consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
It is very important that if these innovations are to be introduced sensibly into the wool industry the section of the trade union movement which is involved in wool marketing should be brought into harness. [More…]
Before taking any action that could reasonably be expected to affect the conditions of employment, or the demand for labour, in the wool industry, the Corporation shall consult with, and have regard to the view’s of, the appropriate trade union organisations. [More…]
I do not refer to this particular section because of the involvement of the trade union organisations but mention it because it covers the whole spectrum of the wool industry, including the demand for labour in the industry. [More…]
There are wool selling organisations, transport organisations, wool classing, storage facilities, and the people who shear the sheep, the members of the great Australian Workers Union, which spawned such great people as the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and my colleague the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), all products of the AWU. [More…]
There are the research and marketing organisations, and of course the trade unions, which are actively engaged in the industry. [More…]
I remember quite vividly, as though it were only yesterday, my charge that members of the Opposition were union bashers. [More…]
If anything, I am more convinced than ever that their main purpose in life is bashing unions. [More…]
If ever the unhappy day comes when they become the government again the unions will learn to their sorrow just how hard members of the Opposition will bash them. [More…]
There will be no co-operation whatever with the trade union movement under a government led by the honourable member for Wannon or, if he is still there, the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The honourable gentleman referred to the Prime Minister and asked: Is he not the greatest union basher of all time? [More…]
The Prime Minister has to his great record in less than 2 years a string of achievements for the trade union movement which is without parallel in the history of Federation. [More…]
Who was the one responsible for having accepted by the Cabinet the proposal to give to the trade union movement of Australia, for the very first time in history, a trade union training college- something which the trade union movement had been calling out for for years from previous governments without any success? [More…]
The trade union movement remembers that it was the Prime Minister who actively supported me and encouraged me to take the steps necessary to ratify no fewer than 10 International Labour Organisation conventions in the space of 2 years. [More…]
If the honourable member would like me to do so, I will give a complete list of all the achievements that the Prime Minister has to his credit so far as the trade union movement is concerned. [More…]
When the history of this man is written the thing that will stand out greatest of all will be what he has done for the trade union movement. [More…]
Although recommendations to hold further inquiries on technical education, teacher preparation, paid study leave, apprenticeship education, trade union education and financial assistance to adult education may have emerged from a genuine lack of sufficient consideration time, it is also true that the current injection of large sums of money might be poorly spent in the long term if technical education’s scope and directions are to alter radically following completion of the special inquiries. [More…]
It appears the Government has Med to impress such countries as Japan and the European Economic Community areas, in its efforts to dispose of Australia’s meat, and whilst there is some talk going on with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics we could well have lost this market to countries such as the Argentine which, it is reported, has made an agreement to dispose of some 30,000 tonnes per year for a start, building up to 100,000 tonnes annually. [More…]
The Soviet Government has been made aware of the strong feelings in Australia concerning the fundamental human rights of the Jewish people in the Soviet Union to emigrate if they so wish. [More…]
I am considering whether the circumstances would justify my raising this matter when I visit the Soviet Union. [More…]
At first there was union objection to this but that has been modified. [More…]
I am sure that when the interests and needs of the people in the countries we are talking about are taken into account we can expect that Australian unions will understand the situation and will be prepared to co-operate provided there are proper safeguards. [More…]
He went on to say that the trade unions accept that situation. [More…]
However we judge it, whether on the activities of the trade union movement, whether on criticisms of the Government such as those by Cliff Dolan of the Electoral Trade Unions of Australia or on industrial disputes, there is clearly a situation which the trade union movement does not accept and will not accept under the policies of this Government. [More…]
That is a pretty proud record for the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and his Prime Minister whom he was praising so greatly yesterday as having performed so much for the trade union movement. [More…]
The Prime Minister attacked unions for ‘screwing the public’. [More…]
How do honourable members feel, when they know quite well that the trade union movement is desperately concerned for the jobs of people right around Australia, when the next day the Prime Minister attacks members of his own Party, who, within the privacy of Caucus, might have done something to try to protect employment- for bellyaching and for promoting vested interests. [More…]
Was he referring to the former secretary of the Electrical Trades Union supporting what Mr Cliff Dolan had said? [More…]
I hardly think the present Government can blame trade unions in Britain, France, Japan or the United States of America for what the Government has more recently called the unreasonable wage claims of Australian trade unions. [More…]
Surely that is an Australian phenomenon and not something which can be blamed on a union leader in some other country. [More…]
Jews and blacks and teachers and journalists and social workers and politicians and trade union leaders and policemen- and just about everyone else- are given protective coloration on the television screen. [More…]
I would like to quote what the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had to say when he addressed the Building Workers Industrial Union on 5 August last. [More…]
Proposed section 20a (1) makes provision for the Corporation to consult, and have regard to the views of, appropriate trade union organisations before any action is taken with respect to conditions of employment or the demand for labour in the wool industry. [More…]
Changes that will affect the conditions in the industry will be far more fruitful if there is consultation between union organisations and the appropriate employer groups. [More…]
Before taking any action that could resonably be expected to affect the conditions of employment, or the demand for labor, in the wool industry, the Corporation shall consult with, and have regard to the views of, the appropriate trade union organisations. [More…]
I would think that the Opposition, instead of denigrating the trade union movement, would support such a constructive move. [More…]
Apparently the Opposition does not want to consult with the trade unions. [More…]
What this Bill does now is simply ensure that when we are talking about conditions of employment and labour, we are also taking into consideration the views, of the trade union movement. [More…]
But we equally believe that the Corporation should talk with the trade union movement with respect to all these people right along the line. [More…]
As far as I am concerned the farmer deserves a say on the Corporation just as much as representatives of the trade union movement deserve their say. [More…]
We accept that the trade unions should be represented on the Corporation. [More…]
That is in relation to consultations with appropriate trade union organisations but not with anybody else. [More…]
We have no argument with the Corporation having consultations with the trade union organisations. [More…]
If proposed section 20a (2) is allowed to remain and proposed section 20a ( 1 ) stands as printed in the Bill the Minister for Agriculture will be in a position virtually to enforce upon the Corporation Government policy in relation to trade union arrangements and negotiations. [More…]
You have to negotiate with the unions on the basis that you are going to concede these different points. [More…]
Last week, as I informed the House, a senior official from the Soviet Union discussed with me the subjects which we would be raising, and this was one that I mentioned to him. [More…]
They can play rugby league, rugby union, soccer or Aussie Rules. [More…]
For the third time they have rejected our legislation to encourage greater industrial harmony by facilitating industrial agreements and union amalgamations. [More…]
As for a zone of peace, it is perfectly obvious that if there are 2 superpowers, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, in competition with each other and if they both have naval forces in the Indian Ocean the threat to Australia can come from the ripples of competition between those 2 superpowers. [More…]
Is it an indemnity payment if it goes into union funds, but not if it goes to the seamen concerned. [More…]
What has happened to his proposal to establish facilities for trade union training. [More…]
What proposals are currently under consideration for the National Council for Trade Union Training. [More…]
1 ) The Interim Committee of the Australian Council for Trade Union Training was established in November 1973. [More…]
The Committees have been meeting regularly and have developed programmes of trade union training at the national and State levels. [More…]
Trade union training centres are to be established at the national and State levels. [More…]
An Australian Council for Union Training is to be established under the Trade Union Training Authority Bill which it is anticipated will be introduced into the Parliament early in 1975. [More…]
Where these factors apply the Government has intervened and will in the future intervene before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to give its full support to a union claim subject to appropriate provisos. [More…]
27.9.74 Master Builders Federation, Housing Industry Association, National Building and Construction Council, Building Workers Industrial Union and The Treasury. [More…]
1 1 .74 Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
6 ( Hansard, 17 October 1974, page 2582) relating to the number of men and women who have sat as union representatives on promotion appeal panels, when was the survey of the A.C.T. [More…]
Is it considered that the question of union representatives sitting on selection panels or tribunals established under the Public Service Act is worthy of examination. [More…]
Members of the Joint Council Sub-committee on Women, including representatives of the Commonwealth Council of Public Service Organisations and the Amalgamated Postal Workers Union, were informed of the results of the A.C.T. [More…]
In fact, if the unions could not be brought to heel with 400 000 unemployed, honourable members opposite would let unemployment reach 500 000 because that is their way of dealing with trade union militancy. [More…]
It is a little sad to see the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), this once socalled gladiator of the ordinary working man and woman and of the trade union movement acting as an apologist and making excuses for the Government’s appalling policy in allowing 5.2 per cent of Australia’s population to become unemployed. [More…]
Nobody should be more ashamed of having let down the workforce and of having betrayed the trade union movement than the Minister for Labor and Immigration, who is sitting at the table. [More…]
The rank and file members of the Australian Workers Union must be glad that he did not get in charge of them a few years ago. [More…]
It makes speeches from on high, and the trade union movement thumbs its nose at the Government, as it does at the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
One of the things Opposition speakers have said is, of course, that they will sit down with the trade unions- if ever the Opposition comes back to government- to solve the problems. [More…]
I have had a talk with a number of trade union representatives about this proposal. [More…]
There is no significant enthusiasm on behalf of the trade unions to sit down with the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
Members of the Australian Country Party are interjecting, so let us talk about the attitude of the Australian Country Party in any of the Parliaments in Australia and its attitude to any of the conditions which we have tried to improve through the trade union movement or through legislation affecting the lives of working people in country areas. [More…]
I acknowledge also the work of the Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Industries, the employers’ organisation and the Trades and Labour Council representing the trade union movement. [More…]
Between 14 December and 21 January I visited Sri Lanka, Belgium, the headquarters of the European Communities in Brussels, Britain, Ireland, Greece, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, Pakistan and Bangladesh. [More…]
No Australian Prime Minister had visited the Soviet Union in the 33 years since diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of the world’s two superpowersone of the nations whose policies determine the fate of all mankind. [More…]
On 12 January I flew to Leningrad and 2 days later to Moscow where I had wide-ranging discussions with President Podgorny and Prime Minister Kosygin of the Soviet Union, and signed cultural and scientific agreements between the Soviet Union and Australia. [More…]
Joint communiques were issued after my visits to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union which I shall seek leave to table. [More…]
There is a developing competition between China and the Soviet Union for influence in regions adjacent to Australia. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that the Soviet Union is sincere in its wish for detente. [More…]
He also refers to the presence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Indian Ocean- another invasion. [More…]
As a direct result of the visit of the Prime Minister to the Soviet Union a meat contract was entered into involving 40 000 tonnes of meat. [More…]
If we have an opportunity to develop trade with the Soviet Union we should explore it immediately because there is a market there for our products and we ought to do it in the interests of producers both in the primary field and in the secondary field. [More…]
They have to be with Japan and they have to be with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We were told by the Special Minister of State that if the United States of America is able to expand Diego Garcia the Soviet Union will seek access to facilities around the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The move to European union has, temporarily at least, lost its momentum, and the national economic system is facing critical problems of inflation and recession. [More…]
Prior to the Prime Minister’s visit an Australian Prime Minister had never visited Ireland, Italy, the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. [More…]
The point was that the Prime Minister had raised with the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union the question of Jewish emigration and the question of the emigration of Soviet citizens to Australia. [More…]
Can honourable members tell me that any predecessor of the Prime Minister from the other side fo the House would have gone to the Soviet Union and- I will put it in pretty blunt Australian terms- had the guts to raise in that environment the issue that Prime Minister Whitlam raised? [More…]
It is because we can put propositions and we do put propositions- on Diego Garcia, on Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union- that we have rightfully earned the respect of the world powers. [More…]
There are such things as Polaris submarines in the Indian Ocean, so arranged there that they constitute a threat not only to the Soviet Union but also to China. [More…]
We put a very simple proposition to the Soviet Union and to the United States. [More…]
We did not put it just to the Soviet Union and forget about the United States, nor did we put it to the United States and forget the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is a tragedy that in the speech just given to us by the Minister for Science (Mr Morrison) he did not realise the degree to which in seeking the respect of the United States and the Soviet Union, which he asserts his Government has gained, he does not realise the realities of even the visit we are discussing presently. [More…]
It is of interest that in the Soviet Union members of the Press who accompanied the Prime Minister found themselves so critical of KGB surveillance and that the Prime Minister himself found it necessary to take a debugging expert with him to ensure that those conversations which he wanted to have in private were in fact private. [More…]
This matter has been discussed on occasions by this Parliament, in the Press and within the trade union movement. [More…]
There is no doubt that the concern felt by leaders of the trade union movement which the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) mentioned, was echoed widely by the Australian community early in December in the days when the Prime Minister was preparing to depart on his trip. [More…]
It is important to realisethat Mr Brezhnev is the Head of State of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Prime Minister asserts he was able to establish good relations in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, yet the USSR was able to persuade the Prime Minister that it was necessary to avoid any mention of the necessity for recognition of an independent state of Israel in the statement that he released in that country. [More…]
Included in that Bill were provisions designed to remove existing barriers to trade union amalgamations and provisions relating to certified agreements. [More…]
I must say on behalf of the Government that it is a bitter disappointment to me that the Senate saw fit to reject the 6 clauses dealing with amalgamations because one of the things that is plaguing industrial relations today is the demarcation dispute which arises as a result of having too many unions and which cause employers to be the innocent sufferers and by-standers in these stupid inane disputes over which union shall cover which particular occupation. [More…]
This tragedy- and it is nothing less than a tragedy in industrial relations- will never be resolved until the Parliament alters the Act in such a way as to make it easier for the unions to amalgamate and thereby to reduce the number of unions. [More…]
Salaries paid to officials of great energy, dedication and talent are low and unattractive and discourage men of quality from making the sacrifices that a career as a trade union official often involves. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
Too much time is lost through disputes over which unions should handle a certain job. [More…]
The mobility of trade union officials from office to office is sometimes restricted by rules which require officials to be drawn from among longstanding union members only. [More…]
The cost of libraries and research staff- essential for good quality industrial leadership- is frequently beyond the resources of small unions. [More…]
Even the cost of assembling the members and officials in conference is too much for some unions frequently to bear. [More…]
The formation of larger unions will provide a significant part ofthe answer to these problems. [More…]
I recognise that a stage could be reached in the size of a union where possible disadvantages might outweigh any additional benefit. [More…]
I realise that unrestricted growth could eventually result in a situation where a union’s officials cease to have rapport with the union’s members and lose awareness of their needs and aspirations, where the energy and devotion of union officials could become absorbed in the material advancement of their union as an institution to the detriment of its members ‘ welfare. [More…]
We have too many unions with too few members. [More…]
We have too many inefficient unions. [More…]
We need in Australia today fewer and more efficient unions. [More…]
Because your Senator Greenwood, acting on instructions from the National Civic Council and Mr Santamaria, who seems to dominate Senator Greenwood’s thinking on everything, was the one who wanted to prevent the amalgamation of those 3 metal unions. [More…]
But it was able effectively to prevent the amalgamation of the building workers unions, which at that time had both completed secret ballots of their members to arrange for the amalgamation of the plasterers union with the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
The benefits to unions, employees and employers already mentioned that would flow from fewer and larger unions would go a long way towards a more efficient industrial relations system, one which would be conducive to a substantial improvement in industrial relations. [More…]
More specifically, in the longer term a relatively small number of unions could effect a reduction in the number and frequency of wage claims and, I think it is reasonable to suggest, a consequent moderation in the rate of wage increases. [More…]
With nearly 300 unions, our industrial relations area is in a state of constant ferment, with unions making claims, negotiating agreements or undertaking arbitral proceedings to bring their members’ conditions up to parity with or to improve upon wage rates obtained by other unions. [More…]
Wage claims are made in such numbers and with such frequency that it is extremely difficult for union officials or anyone else to know whether a union’s claim will maintain the members’ wage position relative to that ofthe members of other unions or will comprise the initial bid in a new round of wage increases. [More…]
If the nurses union wanted to join the boilermakers union, we would say that the boilermakers should not be forced to accept the nurses as part of their union, to come along to boilermakers’ meetings and to decide how much dirt money a boilmaker should get unless the boilermakers also had a right to say whether they wanted nurses to attend the meetings of the boilermakers. [More…]
They feared that larger unions might also be more militant, using their industrial strength in reprehensible ways. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union is one of the 2 largest unions and few would disagree with its reputation for conducting its industrial affairs in a moderate manner. [More…]
On the other hand, that same fear blinded its holders to the fact that comparatively small unions with members employed in carrying out functions whose continued operation is vital for the economic or social wellbeing of the community can exercise industrial strength out of proportion to their numbers. [More…]
In West Germany there are only 16 unions covering the whole of the unions in a country with 6 1 million people. [More…]
One of them, the Metal Workers Union, has a membership of 2 070 000. [More…]
The 1974 statement on Employment and Industrial Relations Policy endorsed by both the Country Party and the Liberal Party said: the multiplicity of unions and the spread of certain unions through many industries make the task of consultation and negotiation more difficult with problems of one union unnecessarily flowing to others. [More…]
The trade union movement was in its infancy and for many people, including many employees, it was far from respectable. [More…]
Unions are recognised to play essential roles in shaping the economic and social life of the community. [More…]
They draw their members from all walks of life: Scientists, accountants, nurses, engineers and doctors as well as the shearers- I was a shearer before I entered Parliament- seamen and waterside workers who did so much for the development of trade unionism in Australia. [More…]
The attitudes of some union officials need to change also. [More…]
Another example, this time in the field with which we are now particularly concerned- industrial relations -is that unions are asserting, and it is becoming generally accepted, that where capital and labour are co-operating in an enterprise, there are legitimate interests of employees entitling them to a voice in the management of that enterprise at least to the extent that those interests are involved. [More…]
It should, therefore, be readily understandable that rank and file union members are not willing to endorse agreements that union officials have decided are in the best interest of the members but which do not take account of the real needs and desires of members because no one has thought it necessary to try to find out what the members are thinking. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for anyone to think that where such basic matters as wages and other important conditions of employment are concerned, trade unionists will be willing to accept less than they believe to be reasonable and fair. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for anyone to think that trade unionists will abide by fixed-term agreements which they believe, after weighing the pluses and minuses’, provide for less than is justly due to them. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for some trade union officials to continue to assume that the rank and file will abide by decisions in the shaping of which they had little or no part. [More…]
It is quite unrealistic for those trade union officials not to share the process of decision making with the rank and file because of fears that their authority will be usurped by shop stewards: they must have more regard for the views of members at the shop floor level and recognise that shop stewards are an important, even essential element, in the process of identifying and transmitting views and ideas from the rank and file to union management and vice versa. [More…]
It is unrealistic for employers to disregard the obvious fact that an agreement reached with union officials might not be observed if the rank and file have not been involved in the substance of the negotiations and fail to co-operate with union officials in designing procedures which will enable the rank and file to be involved in the negotiating process. [More…]
It is fortunate that there are many trade union officials today who welcome democratic controls and processes. [More…]
One of the purposes of the provisions proposed by this Bill is to encourage those officials to democratise the decision making processes in their unions in relation to proposed agreements concerning the members’ conditions of employment. [More…]
In connection with the first proposal, the last time the provisions of this Bill were before the House it was said that these provisions would weaken union leadership and ‘union leaders would have no authority or incentive to make anything stick’. [More…]
The knowledge that the Commission, if it is not satisfied that the terms of the agreement are acceptable to a majority of the union’s members, may direct that a ballot be held, will be a strong inducement for union officials to ensure that agreements made by them reflect the wishes of the members. [More…]
Union officials would not willingly allow themselves to be caught in a position which revealed a lack of rapport with the members they were elected to represent. [More…]
This will increase their knowledge of day to day union affairs which, in turn, should increase their confidence in their right to act authoritatively in their dealings with others both in and outside the union. [More…]
Having entered into an agreement with the knowledge that it reflects the wishes of the majority of union members, they will be in a very strong position in their dealings with members who may be reluctant to abide by the terms of the agreement. [More…]
The Government desires to encourage such agreements as a means of paving the way for some co-ordination in the presentation of union wage claims and of achieving moderation in wage claims and as a rational alternative to industrial strife. [More…]
We have the occasional markets of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Middle East. [More…]
I refer now to the sale of beef to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern Europe. [More…]
I want to gve special thanks to the union volunteers who gave up their annual leave and made a substantial contribution to the restoration program. [More…]
Do the people of Australia want such a law that will reduce marriage to a purely temporary union with little or no protection for women and children? [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
This clause cuts all ties with the traditional view of marriage as a monogamous union according to law, of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
The Family Law Bill turns marriage into a cheap, temporary union which may be dissolved on the unilateral decision of one party. [More…]
Aristotle saw the village as a union of families and the state as a union of villages. [More…]
In addition, they caused misery to both parties and often led to a de facto union between the spouse who wanted the divorce and a person whom that spouse would have married had divorce been possible. [More…]
The tensions created by such unions are well known as are the legal discriminations which then existed against de facto spouses and the children of de facto unions. [More…]
Merely because there are more parties to broken, farcical, mock marriages who will seek to end their legal union and make their legal and factual status conform does not mean that this Bill will contribute to more broken marriages. [More…]
All our discussions must be based on the proposition that adequate preparation must be given to what marriage is all about: It is a voluntary union of husband and wife for life; it is a permanent arrangement. [More…]
This legislation now explicitly upholds the concept of marriage as a voluntary union and a solemn union based on trust. [More…]
To impose on this union a system of legal compulsion based on arbitrary principles is itself to undermine the basis of marriage. [More…]
When the marriage has broken down, the place of the law should be to extend the principles of common law to provide justice to the parties and to the children of the union. [More…]
The definition of marriage enshrined in Australian law has hitherto been phrased: Marriage, according to law in Australia, is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all ethers, voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
While we have recognised the need to make provision for divorce, such legislation is in no way meant to dimmish the import of the undertaking of marriage as accepted in Australia, as a permanent union to be protected by the State until death. [More…]
Whatever be the exceptions, the generality of marriages rests on the belief and practice of mutuality of contract and permanent union. [More…]
It is, in effect, declaring that henceforth a marriage is a union which can be terminated at any time at the whim of one party, subject to the 12-month procedural delay which the Bill provides. [More…]
If this Bill were to become law its effect would be to educate young people entering marriage in the belief that they were not entering into a permanent union and that they were not undertaking a contract whereby their mutual responsibilities will be safeguarded at law. [More…]
One was from a gentleman in Five Dock, New South Wales, and the other was from the Commonwealth Organiser of the Amalagamated Metal Workers Union, who at least had the decency to state that he was writing on behalf of a number of members of that union, although he did not state the number. [More…]
That act was no different from some of the acts which the previous Government took against trade union members. [More…]
It is good and holy to attack trade unionists- that is all right. [More…]
But take the case of a corporation or a body that is not incorporated, for example, a trade union movement, or, if honourable members like, the Australian Teachers Federation. [More…]
Not one trade union would be at liberty to support the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Not one trade union would be at liberty to wage any point of view on the outcome of an election or of a referendum. [More…]
Mention has been made of United Fruit in Guatamala in the 1950s, Union Miniere in Katanga in the 1960s and the ITT scandal in Chile in the 1970s where $ lm was spent, according to evidence given before the United States Congress, in order to influence an election. [More…]
The Labor Party has a more constant and more reliable source of funds from the trade union movement in this country than have the Liberal Party or the Country Party. [More…]
The ALP, I think, has a relatively small membership, but most of its funds have been available to it from trade unions within which the membership pays dues and in many cases pays into special funds for special purposes. [More…]
Under this Bill no union, no association, no ad hoc group, no organisation can support a political party or a candidate publicly without the authority of the party agent. [More…]
The honourable member’s union or my union, if it chooses to support the political party of its choice- without obtaining the written authority of the agent of the party concerned- by way of advertisement, by way of public advertisement, by way of spending money on television is liable to a penalty of $20,000. [More…]
It should be reiterated that in this election, the trade union movement both financially and physically gave their best performance. [More…]
It is all very well for Labor Party members to cite as examples the United States of America and Canada, but the difference is that in Australia the Government of today, the Australian Labor Party, is built on the foundation of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is shackled to the trade union movement. [More…]
Many members of the Government party have come from the trade union movement and that is the difference. [More…]
In the United States of America the trade union movement can in some years support the Republicans and in other years the Democratic Party. [More…]
In Australia, the trade union movement on the whole supports the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The fact is that if we provide lists of those who in this country have given money to political parties, they could well be the victim of trade union blackmail. [More…]
-One of the difficulties in a debate of this nature obviously is the fact that most members of the Parliament- and I talk of members on both sides of the Parliament- do not understand the relationship between candidate and Party, party and business and /or trade union, and all those elements and the media. [More…]
If the Government and its supporters continue to make these accusations it will be quite fair for us on this side of the House to look at the conscription of trade union funds and to look at some of the friends that this Government has made in communist countries. [More…]
However, we will be proposing at least one amendment to the legislation when it is introduced, and that is that donations or subscriptions to party funds should be tax deductible- as are the union dues which help finance the Labor Party. [More…]
Does it mean that we should carry through its principles to State elections, municipal elections, union elections and all sorts of other elections? [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is quite happy to accept the way the trade union movement carries out its elections but it wants a different set of circumstances to apply when it has strong opposition from parties like the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
When one examines the object of this Bill in clause 43(a)- the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life- one might well expect the remainder of the Bill to carry those objects into effect. [More…]
The Bill in clause 43 professes that the courts should take into account the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
When they were given a definition they then said: ‘Look, you will have to cut out all references to the Holy Spirit but let us have the effects of it which is the permanent union of man and woman for life to the exclusion of all others ‘. [More…]
Let me tell them now that as far as I am concerned the fact that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites, or [More…]
They are opposing the propositions that are being put up in this legislation as being unfair and against the concept of permanent union. [More…]
The next statement I heard from the companyit was not first hand- was that the company claimed to officials of the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union that the agreement with the Government applied only to workers on the production line and not to these tradesmen. [More…]
My weekend statement referred to what was alleged to have been a proposition put by Mr Arch Bevis, the Federal President of the Transport Workers Union of Australia, in which he is alleged to have said that the rate of unemployment benefit should be reduced. [More…]
Particularly he cannot bring himself to recognise that, at the same time as all States are bound by the Constitution into one indissoluble union, that is, into the Australian nation, they also draw legal authority in significant ways directly from the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [More…]
We could find ourselves involved in an agreement, which we do not like, with the United States of America, the Soviet Union or a number of countries. [More…]
I ask the Minister: If his name was Clyde Cameron and he was a Minister for Labour and Immigration and had a union objecting so strongly to the proposals of the Government, would he continue to implement those proposals? [More…]
The basis of the amendments is to enable the rank and file membership of a trade union to have an influence over the affairs of that trade union and to make sure that on substantial matters which involve the future of the trade union each individual member can have an opportunity to influence the decisions that affect the life or death of that trade union. [More…]
The purpose of the amendments is to make sure that those who might be in favour of a change and those who might be opposed to a change would have a free and fair opportunity of stating their case and also to make sure that each indivdual in the trade union would have a free and equal opportunity of casting a vote. [More…]
Under the terms of the legislation that he wants to introduce, if there is to be a ballot and if that ballot is, after request, to be held by the Commonwealth Electoral Officer, it must be held as far as possible in accordance with the union rules- that means in the same way as the union itself would conduct the ballot, the only difference being in the personnel conducting the machinery or the technicalities of the ballot. [More…]
One of the odd things about this legislation is that over the last four or five months significant trade union leaders have been trying to persuade the Minister to alter this legislation. [More…]
He wants to establish the circumstances in which five or seven people out of 10 000 can vote a trade union out of existence and he wants to establish the circumstances in which the proponents of change can state their case but the opponents of change have no equal opportunity of stating their objections. [More…]
He has had a long if atypical history in the trade union movement and he ought to know that it is a precious right to be able to preserve for individual members prerogatives of effecting the affairs and the fortunes of a trade union. [More…]
But he is so committed to the views that he has adopted over the last 30 or 40 years through his own experience in the trade union movement, that he is unable to do so and unable to bow to the pressure from a number of trade union leaders. [More…]
If the Minister were really concerned with industrial democracy, with rank and file control over trade union affairs, he could do nothing other than support these amendments. [More…]
The Bill provides that the union rules must provide for an absentee vote. [More…]
Anyone requesting an absentee vote will be thought by the union officials to be thinking along rather different lines from the recommendations of the union officials. [More…]
We would be most naive if we were to leave room for intimidation and most naive if we were to believe that intimidation would not be used in the future as it has been used in the past, not merely in Australia but in the trade union movement in other Westernstyle democracies. [More…]
This Bill places undue power in the hands of the committee of management of the unions. [More…]
I refer to the safeguards which are written into the Bill to ensure that where the rules of a union do not provide for a compulsory postal ballot of all members, then the members of that union will have the right to petition the Registrar for a ballot to be conducted by the Registrar or by the Chief Electoral Officer in accordance with the traditional way in which the Chief Electoral Officer has always conducted the ballots. [More…]
The only union, I repeat, which does not have provision in its rules for postal ballots and for a ballot paper to be posted to every single member is the AMWU. [More…]
It is a union with 160 000 members. [More…]
When those 2S0 signatures have been obtained all of the 160 000 members of that union will be supplied with ballot papers direct from the Chief Electoral Officer and the ballot will be conducted in exactly the same way as any other ballot conducted by the Chief Electoral Officer for union elections. [More…]
My question is: Why bother to force 250 members to identify themselves and lay themselves open to intimidation when in fact it would be simple, it would be equitable and it would be most just and fair to send all members of the union a ballot paper together with a simple statement for and against the proposed merger so that they could, if they wished, vote in accordance with their own wishes? [More…]
Are we to shirk from passing a law involving the posting of ballot papers to all union members merely because there has been a criminal activity, that is, an interference with the mails? [More…]
The honourable member said that a 30 per cent vote is a good result for a trade union. [More…]
I do not doubt that an employer organisation or a trade union is doing very well when it gets a 30 per cent return. [More…]
Workers Union. [More…]
There is a provision under the rules of the AMWU and of aU unions which are registered under the Act for a secret postal ballot. [More…]
Any individual member of the union has the right to ask for a postal ballot and he has to be given it. [More…]
I know of no case where a registered union has ever refused a member the right to have a vote recorded by secret postal ballot. [More…]
I am sure that it could not have been the honourable member for Balaclava who said that; it must have been the honourable member for Wannon, because the honourable member for Balaclava would have known that when a person signs a petition for an officially conducted ballot, there is no way in which any official of the union can discover the names of the persons who signed the petition for an officially conducted ballot. [More…]
He diverted from talking about an Amalgamated Metal Workers Union controlled ballot, where people have a right to apply for an absent vote, to the question of 250 people having a right to apply to the Industrial Registrar for an Australian Electoral Office controlled ballot. [More…]
Even if the names of the 250 people who apply for an electoral office controlled ballot are kept quiet- I have no doubt that the Registrar would try to do that- when there are 4, 5 or 6 people trying to gather together 250 names, inevitably it becomes known to other people in the union that that is what is happening, and the names of those people are known and those people are subject to victimisation. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the Minister recognises it, or is prepared to admit that that is a fact of life in that union, members of that union know it to be a fact, and they will not appreciate the Minister’s rising in this chamber and denying what happens to be a fact of life. [More…]
Let me point out something that is not all that well known in the union movement. [More…]
At the same time as the then honourable member for East Sydney was growing old, the honourable member for Hindmarsh, the present Minister for Labor and Immigration, was having his own fight with the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
He used the legislation which he had opposed in this chamber- our industrial court legislation- to defeat his own union and to try to defeat Tom Dougherty. [More…]
So much of what the Minister has written or tried to write into law has come from an atypical experience in an atypical union when the Minister just could not stand Tom Dougherty. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union has a great number of members, especially in Queensland. [More…]
If people want to know what this Minister did in internecine union fights they only have to read the document. [More…]
If the Minister had one atom of concern for rank and file control over trade union affairs and less concern for the internecine power struggle within the AWU, his old union, and for trying to pay off past debts, he would let these amendments through and let the rank and file members have an influence, and a real influence, in the affairs of their own unions. [More…]
They will see that the author said that he went to a union meeting and he saw communists sitting around in cliches. [More…]
To say that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union would keep the names of those who applied for postal votes is a dastardly untruth. [More…]
He is now again bringing in legislation concerning the amalgamation of trade unions, and to be debated separately another Bill concerning the certification and cancellation of certified agreements. [More…]
It is my understanding, especially in relation to the amalgamation measure, that a significant proportion of the trade union movement has sought to get the Minister to accept amendments to his own legislation, but the Minister has not accepted those amendments. [More…]
The Bill concerning agreement is designed, in the Minister’s terms, to protect the rank and file members of the trade union movement, to give them a say in industrial agreements and negotiations and an influence over the terms of those agreements that they would not otherwise have. [More…]
But in the legislation concerning amalgamations are provisions which reduce rank and file influence almost to nil and gives major control in the hands of large and powerful unions and significant control in the committees of management of the trade unions themselves. [More…]
Under the provisions of the proposed legislation, unions may conduct ballots in their own way, or 250 members or 5 per cent of the membership, whichever is the lesser, can apply for a Registrarcontrolled ballot. [More…]
But that ballot also has to be conducted in conformity with the rules of the union concerned. [More…]
I suggest again that the Minister ought to read his own legislation because the legislation, as he has introduced it, says quite plainly that if an election is conducted by the Registrar or an electoral officer then it must be conducted as far as practicable in conformity with union rules. [More…]
For example, it will be conducted according to the rules of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which do not provide for free and open secret ballots in the normal sense of the term. [More…]
-The last time we debated this matter the Minister admitted that it was one union which did not have a free and proper secret ballot procedure. [More…]
When we look at what he proposes we find, as I have indicated, that the ballots will be conducted under union rules or by the Registrar but still under union rules. [More…]
It would have been much better if he had accepted the urging of some of his colleagues and supporters in the trade union movement and tried to introduce different provisions from those contained in this legislation. [More…]
Other areas which would have made it possible for objections to be made in relation to changes in the rules are now to be restricted to changes in the rules that affect eligibility for membership of an amalgamated union. [More…]
There are in fact to be many other changes to the rules that can affect individual members and the rights of individual members of a union. [More…]
The objections should not be restricted just to objections that affect the eligibility conditions of trade unions. [More…]
The other provision which indicates that there will be no vote in relation to union matters or no vote in relation to union officials for 3 years after an amalgamation would seem to be an especially unreasonable one simply because there will be no protection for rank and file members of a trade union along the road to amalgamation. [More…]
One of the arguments that he and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) have been using over a significant period of time is that since so much of our industrial disputation is concerned with demarcation areas we have to have an amalgamation of trade unions to end the demarcation disputes. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics lists the causes of industrial disputes under wage claims, wage matters, hours of work, leave, pensions, compensation provisions, managerial policy, physical working conditions, trade unionism, which includes disputes concerning the employment of non-unionists, inter-union and intra-union disputesin other words, demarcation disputessympathy stoppages in support of employees in another industry and the recognition of union activities. [More…]
It is under trade unionism that we find that demarcation disputes are listed, along with other things. [More…]
Government as a whole have taken in relation to the trade union movement and in relation to the economy. [More…]
Take the Storeman and Packers Union as an example. [More…]
This union is through industry generally. [More…]
If they did amalgamate with unions such as the Federal Transport Workers or Waterside Workers, they could then use their industrial strength to force their will upon other unions in all sections of industry, and this would lead to more demarcation disputes. [More…]
The unions who would be vulnerable if this happened would be all unions in the metal industries who currently have as members tool storemen, etc. [More…]
That is the view of one prominent trade union official of whom Australia, I believe, will hear a great deal more during the next few years. [More…]
The Minister ought to know- obviously he does know but he chooses to ignore it- that 70 per cent of trade union memberships is already to be found in 33 unions. [More…]
When amalgamations have occurred, they have in fact been between large unions, not between the smaller unions, many of which want to maintain their own identity, even if the Minister thinks that is wrong and even recognising, as I and he would, that being too small means that it is very difficult to supply the secretarial services and the research staff that are necessary for the best service. [More…]
But if unions can be too small, they can also be too large to provide the best service to their members. [More…]
Branches and divisions of a union become cut off from the centralised control and do not know enough of what is happening at State or Federal level. [More…]
It also ought to be noted that in many areas the trade union movement is now more powerful than even the most powerful companies in Australia. [More…]
Under plans already made, one union will have an income of $ 10m to $1 lm by 1976. [More…]
About one-half of that income is necessary to carry on the union’s research secretariat and other union activities, and the rest is free floating money for other activities. [More…]
That shows, I think, the significance of union power in a number of instances, if it is, in fact, misused as it is in a number of significant circumstances. [More…]
I know that the great majority of members of the trade union movement do not behave in that way. [More…]
The Minister would well know, and the President of the Australian Labor Party and of the Australian Council of Trade Unions would well know, that there is a significant minority of members of the trade union movement who do not hold that view. [More…]
Again we have heard almost a psychotic diatribe from the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in attacking the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member, who has just resumed his seat, seems to have almost a passion in his dislike for trade unions. [More…]
If the honourable member had read the Bill, he would have known that for any ballot to be conducted it must be requested by 250 members or 25 per cent of the union membership, whichever is the lesser. [More…]
The honourable member seemed to indicate that that ballot would be conducted by an Australian electoral officer or returning officer in terms of the rules of the union and that officer would ignore all the accepted principles of conducting ballots in this country. [More…]
It provides for advertisements to be placed in union journals where a periodical, journal or other publication of the organisation is issued within one month from the date of the resolution of the committee of management and, in any case, in each State in a metropolitan daily newspaper. [More…]
I am not one who believes that those who are interested in the affairs of their union do not bother to read daily newspapers; nor do I think that the people in the community generally do not bother to read them. [More…]
To pretend that such advertisements and their purpose would remain a great mystery to the people who are members of unions is to do them a disservice and a discredit. [More…]
I return to the question of union ballots. [More…]
The honourable member spoke about the star nights of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. [More…]
If he had as much knowledge about trade unions as he pretends to have he would know that, even though star nights are provided for in the rules, in fact the court controlled ballots were controlled according to normal electoral practices and not according to the Rules of the AEU. [More…]
He also seems to think of separate unions as being some sort of entities in isolation. [More…]
I speak of the trades and labour councils in the various States which, in turn, become the constituent bodies of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Certainly in the annals of trade unionism his name will be forever remembered. [More…]
The honourable member seemed to accuse the Minister of failing to do something about which I know the Minister is very meticulous, that is, consulting the trade unions. [More…]
The Minister spends a great deal of his time consulting the trade unions, among others. [More…]
The Minister has a ready ear and an open door to every trade union in this country. [More…]
The trade unions know this and take advantage of it. [More…]
In this way he has become the best informed person in Australia on the activities within individual unions. [More…]
Nowhere in this Bill is any union forced into amalgamation. [More…]
Nowhere in this Bill is any union or are the members of any union told that it shall amalgamate with another union. [More…]
So, the contention that the provisions of the Bill will cause the smaller unions to lose their identity, which they would want to maintain, is completely without substance. [More…]
But there is provision for the unions to amalgamate if the members so desire. [More…]
The legislation that was brought in by the last Minister for Labour- I think he was called the Minister for Labour and National Service at that time and I am pleased to see that the present Minister refused to accept that dreadful title - and steam-rollered through this House and the Senate contained provisions which made it virtually impossible for trade unions to amalgamate. [More…]
However, there is no existing legislation dealing with trade union ballots as there is dealing with elections conducted in the community generally. [More…]
In other words, there is no compulsory ballot in trade unions. [More…]
I invite them to study what happened in the Miscellaneous Workers Union in New South Wales in 2 cases that subsequently came before the courts. [More…]
There had been interference with ballot papers that had been delivered through the post to members of the union. [More…]
If it is the desire of the honourable member for Wannon to drive members of unions to that position- I sometimes doubt his motives for wanting to do that- it is quite clear from past experience of the manipulation by some unscrupulous people that that will not work. [More…]
The provisions in the Bill are far more acceptable to the trade unions- we must remember that the members of the trade unions are the people who are affected by this legislation- than those which exist at the moment. [More…]
It is because there has been consultation with the unions and an honest endeavour to ensure that each of the unions and the members of the unions have every available right to them to protect themselves and to put their point of view, that the BUI has been drafted. [More…]
Many members of a trade union would be denied any rights at all simply by the apathy of others, simply by a campaign being waged to say ‘Do not return your ballot paper’, or by the ballot papers being intercepted and never reaching the returning officer. [More…]
If the honourable member had taken his spare wool out of his ears and had been listening he would have heard me say what occurred in New South Wales with the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
The point I am trying to make here is that an amalgamation honestly intended and agreed to by the majority of members of a union can be frustrated in a variety of ways. [More…]
I have met a few members of the Australian Workers Union in my area- friends of mine- who spoke of the Minister in very different terms. [More…]
He mentioned the possibility that by stacking the membership a very small percentage of a union ‘s membership could achieve an amalgamation despite the fact that the great majority of its members perhaps did not want that amalgamation. [More…]
One point I wish to raise and which I believe has to be considered relates to union amalgamation. [More…]
Large unions are amalgamating, as I think the honourable member for Wannon said, and the smaller unions are not taking advantage of the conditions which are available to them to amalgamate. [More…]
There are a large number of members in a small percentage of the unions. [More…]
If it is taking place in respect of some unions why can it not take place in respect of others? [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Wannon when he says that there is a need for a union to have sufficient numbers and to have sufficient strength to enable them to operate effectively. [More…]
No one denies the need for and the great value of the trade unions and what they have done for the working people over the years. [More…]
What I do argue though is that one of the faults in the development of the trade union movement has been the tendency for a small militant minority to force their opinions on the great majority of trade unions. [More…]
I am not convinced that the amalgamation of unions will not promote and expand that particular tactic. [More…]
I find it hard to believe that, if unions were keen enough on amalgamation, they could not get 5 1 per cent of their members to record a vote. [More…]
The Minister does not seem to be taking any interest in the discussion, but the Opposition is urging him to look into the ways and means by which he can get an expression of opinion from at least 5 1 per cent of members of a union. [More…]
The Opposition wants to know that the members of the unions have expressed their opinion. [More…]
Why cannot the same system be used in relation to unions? [More…]
Why is the Government so anxious to make conditions for amalgamation to suit the militant minority of the trade unions and trade union leaders? [More…]
If they had greater power through amalgamation of unions they would dominate this Government even more. [More…]
I think that the unions themselves could very carefully examine the benefits and the disadvantages of amalgamation before accepting the Government’s view. [More…]
I do not think amalgamation should be forced on the unions by allowing a few people to have a greater say in the affairs of the unions than they are entitled to. [More…]
I think the unions themselves should look at this matter very carefully before they find themselves in a position where they can be pushed about by big-name union officials. [More…]
They should be aware of the actions of some Ministers and members of Parliament also who are ever ready to dance to the tune of prominent union officials. [More…]
All we want to see is that those union members have a democratic right to say what their trade unions are going to do. [More…]
We do not want to see the members of unions in a position where they can be dominated by a few people in their own unions. [More…]
This Government claimed it would have no real trouble in industrial matters because it was going to look after the trade unions. [More…]
That is the way the present Government has looked after the trade unionists in this country. [More…]
I advise the trade unionists, in the face of this Government’s record in industrial matters, to tread warily when they get advice from it. [More…]
I believe there are circumstances when the amalgamation of unions- I believe there are quite a number of exceptions- would be an advantage. [More…]
I believe that, in the main, when larger trade unions do amalgamate it leads to greater arrogance on the part of the union leaders, who have enough power now. [More…]
There are cases where union leaders have encouraged strikes to the great disadvantage of their own members and to the great disadvantage of the community, resulting in a loss of wages, a loss of production and increased costs which force up the ever-spiralling rate of inflation. [More…]
We do not want that, and I am sure that the union members themselves do not want it either. [More…]
What we want to see is the unionists throughout this country given real freedom of action. [More…]
I say that the rank and file unionist is a responsible citizen, providing he is given that freedom of action to which he is entitled. [More…]
I suggest that those ordinary working people- I use the phrase used by the Minister- may not now be as keen on amalgamated unions as they were. [More…]
This Government’s policy has not benefited the unions that have amalgamated to the extent that was proposed or had been suggested. [More…]
There is no great virtue in the proposals for amalgamation of unions that he brings before the House. [More…]
On the close examination those proposals have been given by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is the shadow Minister for Labor, it is obvious that these proposals ought not to be accepted by either this House or the Senate and it is believed that they do not really meet with the acceptance of the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
What the honourable member did not point out is that there is no requirement that there be sent to all members of the amalgamating unions a case for and against the amalgamation. [More…]
We know that it cannot possibly be sufficient to inform the members of a union simply by publishing a notice, either in the union journal or in a metropolitan daily newspaper, of the fact that there is a scheme for amalgamation. [More…]
It is undemocratic because at the heart of unionism is the concept that it is a voluntary organisation of employees joining together for the common cause of seeking wage advantages for themselves and better conditions of work. [More…]
If it is an organisation of that kind, then one would think that the simple rules of democracy ought to prevail before those members can be amalgamated with another organisation into a new union. [More…]
In those terms, what is at the heart of the existing legislation is the idea that there should be as near as practicable a majority of the members of a union in favour of amalgamation before that should be allowed to come into effect. [More…]
I have yet to understand, let alone hear from the Minister, any good reason why the ordinary rules of democracy should not prevail in this situation, more particularly because so often we hear, and properly so, within the trade union movement in Australia the assertion that unionism is one of the most democratic organisations within Australian society. [More…]
That cannot possibly be so if simply a majority of those members who vote in favour of an amalgamation are allowed to force amalgamation on all the members of the union. [More…]
By allowing just a handful of members of a union to force amalgamation upon the majority of members, seems to me to be a complete misconception of what amounts to the breaking down of barriers. [More…]
It is really, as I have said, a denial of industrial democracy to the whole membership of the union concerned. [More…]
There is one other aspect which I think ought to be brought to the attention of the House, and that is the consequences of allowing the greater concentration of union power into fewer and fewer unions because this is what inevitably will happen if this Bill is passed. [More…]
As has already been pointed out in this debate, 70 per cent of the membership of unions in Australia is within only 33 unions. [More…]
Obviously what will happen if amalgamation becomes easier is that the big unions will amalgamate into even bigger unions and increasingly there will be fewer unions with immense membership and fantastic incomes running into millions of dollars far beyond their ordinary needs for administration and to serve the industrial interests of their members. [More…]
There will then be an even higher degree of monopoly power in unionism in Australia than there is at present. [More…]
When we hear members of this Government, particularly members such as the Minister, making an outcry against monopoly power of corporations within commerce and industry in Australia it is little wonder that the public cannot understand why this Government is not concerned about the increasing monopoly power of unions within Australia. [More…]
In the same way as monopoly corporate power can have anti-social consequences for a community through, for example, restrictive trade practices, price fixing, cartels operating, commercial boycotting of competitors and so on, then the same kind of antisocial practices can derive from monopoly union power. [More…]
There will come the time very shortly when the Australian community will want from this national Parliament effective laws which will control monopoly union power in the same way as it desires effective laws to control monopoly corporate power. [More…]
I think it is high time that debate within Australia on this subject is lifted to a much higher level so that the attention of the community is directed to it, and when proposals are put forward by either party for spreading the umbrella of the law over unions as well as corporations the true social purpose of those proposals can be seen and it will be appreciated that those proposals will be for the benefit of the community as a whole and will not be simply an instrument or a weapon, nor could they be labelled as such, for union bashing. [More…]
The Minister really must try to get into his mind some consistent objective in relation to industrial relations because all he succeeds in doing is confusing not only his own supporters in the Australian Council of Trade Unions but also the great bulk of the union movement. [More…]
That may be one of the reasons why the ACTU said that wage restraint, which would seem at one part to have been an integral part of the Government’s case in relation to wage indexation, was not in its handbook and that it was a matter for the individual unions themselves to determine. [More…]
The white collar unions have told him the same thing. [More…]
One only has to get into any union forum around this country and people will say that the Minister is hard working but they only wish he would talk to them a little more so that he could understand what they have in their minds and there would be some prospect of industrial peace. [More…]
The decision that the ACTU came to in relation to wage indexation, the determination that there could be no restraint on the part of any trade union, the determination of the white collar unions to press forward and to oppose the indexation proposals are all ample evidence of the Minister’s tragic wilfulness and determination to go his own way despite the advice of the ACTU and despite the pre-eminent advice of his own Department. [More…]
He knows quite well that every senior trade union leader throughout Australia, who would also be a member of the Australian Labor Party, would confirm its truth, and that is excluding only a militant minority. [More…]
I only hope that every trade union in the country reads of that contradiction and reads of the impossible position in which the Minister has put himself in relation to these 2 matters. [More…]
One of the central parts of the amendments is that an agreement ought to be referred to the rank and file members of the trade union movement. [More…]
Under the present law the committee of management of a union must sign a statutory declaration that the committee of management approves the principal terms of an agreement, and that, I believe, is a reasonable and proper position. [More…]
It must be given its own way of consulting with the rank and file because unions differ so greatly. [More…]
What is appropriate to the Waterside Workers Federation is not appropriate to the Minister’s old favourite union, the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
But the Minister is now also saying that the principal terms of an agreement must be referred to the financial members, undefined, of a union, that there must be consultation and that the principal terms must be referred. [More…]
The members of this union work together in a number of large centres. [More…]
New agreements are referred to members of this union at those meetings and in these circumstances the system can work. [More…]
But it cannot work for the Australian Workers Union in the shearing sheds. [More…]
Would the union pay for their time to get them there? [More…]
It is one example of the Minister’s intransigence that he seeks to continue with this all-embracing rule for all unions no matter what the particular circumstances of the union might be. [More…]
The union has to do this. [More…]
I would go a little quiet if I were you because I am going to read something in a minute which will demonstrate that I have massive trade union support for what I am saying. [More…]
In the circumstance of new ventures in which conditions have to be determined, the union has to do the best it can to negotiate the circumstances, and then you go out to employ people. [More…]
It would force the circumstance in which people would have to bypass the Commission and it would weaken union leadership because it would force a situation in which people are referred back to that situation. [More…]
I would like to make another point which again shows the Minister’s lack of consultation with trade union leaders, with the ACTU and with employers. [More…]
I can only say that it is a tragedy for industrial relations experience in this country because 2 years ago nobody probably in the history of the Commonwealth or since the introduction of the Arbitration Act might have been better placed than the present Minister to introduce, from his own unique experience and what should have been his own unique contacts with the trade union movement, legislation which would have advanced industrial peace in Australia. [More…]
One wonders why these sorts of things should happen in a country which supposedly is governed by a socialist government which obviously is dictated to by the trade union movement. [More…]
A visit to the Soviet Union by a group of Australian scientists to discuss earth sciences has already taken place. [More…]
There is no doubt that beyond that the support of excessive wage claims by the trade union movement, the failure of the Government to stand up to the trade union movement and the completely irresponsible attitude that this Government has in providing pace-setting conditions through the terms and conditions awarded to the Public Service, all are being passed on through direct and indirect costs to those who are the producers and to the people who principally should be the recipients of whatever benefits there might be in this legislation. [More…]
One wonders why these sorts of things should happen in a country which supposedly is governed by a socialist government which obviously is dictated to by the trade union movement. [More…]
It is also true that one company submitted a tender involving the supply of pumps manufactured in the Soviet Union and motors manufactured in Germany. [More…]
Wales, Queensland, South Australian and Western Australian Attorneys-General to devise a system of trade union organisation which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
There are some 300 registered trade unions in Austrafia- more than in any country in the world. [More…]
Approximately 150 unions are registered with the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; 117 of them have branches registered in one or more or all of the 4 States which have a separate system of registration. [More…]
As the Court said 6 years ago ‘a system of trade union organisation is urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems’. [More…]
As I understand it there are 2 major parties, Fretilin and the UDT, which is the Democratic Union of Timor, which have come together and formed a common program for independence which, in effect, brings the political forces with a following suggested to be as high as 95 per cent of politically concerned Timorese under one leadership. [More…]
Specifically, we have stated that we will abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal which has done positive economic harm and which union and business leaders unanimously agree has not succeeded. [More…]
Most importantly, why does he not beseech his trade union backers to stop taking militant action against building contractors and against jobs, and to stop strikes and let people in the industry get on with the job so that houses can be built and the backlog can be reduced. [More…]
Officially the trade union movement has adopted an accommodating approach to this question, but there must still be some reservations by building workers about what will happen to them if there is a sudden glut of newcomers into the industry and a downturn occurs. [More…]
He was prominent in the trade union movement in Victoria. [More…]
It is signed ‘Edgar Williams, President, Australian Workers Union’. [More…]
If the Parliament accepts the fact that there is a need to preserve and to protect the institution of marriage as a union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, as stated in the Bill at clause 43(a), I contend that divorce made too easy is not the medium by which that objective can be attained. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
It has been argued that the tenor of the Bill is such that people will be encouraged to enter marriage lightly in the knowledge that the union can be dissolved. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
On the other side there is the attitude of some people that marriage can be, and perhaps will be, a temporary union terminable in easy circumstances. [More…]
Indeed, at the present moment 47 per cent of petitions in the divorce courts following a break in the marriage union are on the ground of adultery. [More…]
Clause 43 states that the Family Court shall, in the exercise of its jurisdiction, have regard to such matters as the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
The first sentence of that principle establishes ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others’. [More…]
I believe in that principle, but I think that, to make it accurate, the word ‘voluntary’ should be inserted before the word ‘union’ and that the words ‘voluntarily entered into for life’, which are also contained in the sub-clause, should be omitted. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
When we write a law providing for divorce at the end of 12 months, young people contemplating divorce will freely look at the situation and say: ‘Well, if I am not satisfied then in 12 months time I can break this union’. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
The Parliament is not legislating to change their views; nor should the Parliament legislate to make too difficult the termination of a voluntary union which is no longer desired. [More…]
Apparently it is not as sensitive to the seriousness of the problem as various other people, among whom is Mr E. Williams of the Australian Workers’ Union who, in a letter to Mr Armstrong, said quite clearly: [More…]
I further note in your telegram that Mr G. G. Goding, the Queensland Branch President of the Australian Workers’ Union, has advised full Union support for your proposition. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer: Has the Australian Council of Trade Unions seriously jeopardised the Government’s wage indexation proposal? [More…]
Can he confidently assure this House that the Government’s so-called special relationship with the trade union movement will in fact bring the ACTU into line? [More…]
I would imagine that the relationship we would have if the Opposition happened to be the government would be changed into what I would call the ‘Fraser method of confrontation’- back to the penal powers; trade union leaders in gaol; imposing fines upon trade unions. [More…]
It is the very environment in which the trade unions, which have been a little but only a little reserved in recent days, will see the opportunity to push further their wage claims. [More…]
We now know that their idea relating to indexation has been an abysmal failure because the trade unions will not play the game, as has been made clear by the new general secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union today, and as well by various other union officials. [More…]
There are the private health funds such as the Hospitals Benefits Association of Victoria, in Sydney the Medical Benefit Fund of Australia Ltd, the Hospitals Contributions Fund of Australia or whatever, the health fund which is run by a trade union- there are a great number of those- and there are also the friendly societies and the lodge funds. [More…]
I think it was Mr Ross of the Textile Workers Union, with so many members of his own union unemployed, who in Melbourne threw this back in the Prime Minister’s face and said, as I recall: ‘What Gough is saying is the garbage’. [More…]
In the past they also had their student union fees paid and sports fees paid. [More…]
The institution of marriage is not impaired because bad unions can be ended. [More…]
It can acknowledge, on the evidence of at least one party to the union and the demonstration by one year’s separation, that the marriage is dead and fulfil its official function by virtually issuing a death certificate in respect of the marriage. [More…]
That concept recognises the reality that marriage is not simply an enforceable legal confact and is not only, for those who see it as such, an irrevocable spiritual union. [More…]
Clause 43 (a) of the Bill provides that the family court in the exercise of its jurisdiction shall have regard to the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
Having said that, I still believe that the vast majority of people enter marriage in the expectation that it will be a union for life. [More…]
I believe quite firmly that even though no court can as a general rule decree specific performance of a contract based on personal services, which is the substance of the marriage contract, at the same time marriage can become a complete sham when one or both parties refuse to co-operate with the other to make the marriage a viable and effective union. [More…]
I agree completely with the Minister and with the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) that it is unfortunate that the Bill does not provide that there be some training for marriage or perhaps for some advice to be available to partners of a marriage union during marriage rather than having to wait for the counselling to be provided at the point at which the parties are actually seeking a divorce. [More…]
It seems to me that the essential requirement, if one is to determine whether or not a marriage has broken down, is a judgment of the court in relation to the circumstances of the union. [More…]
I am pleased to introduce to the House a Bill to establish the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Bill sets the seal on one of the Government ‘s major initiatives and aims embodied in its industrial relations policy, the provision of adequate training facilities for trade unionists- both their leaders and their rank and file members. [More…]
It recognises the crucial importance to Australia’s industrial relations system of an efficient and well led trade union movement. [More…]
It now formally accepts its responsibility for ensuring that trade unionists have an opportunity to participate in training programs designed specifically for their needs. [More…]
Australia is one of the most highly unionised countries in the world. [More…]
In fact one of the main aims of our unique conciliation and arbitration machinery is to encourage and protect the development of trade unions as social institutions. [More…]
Some 53 per cent of wage and salary earners in public and private employment belong to unions. [More…]
The total resources available for union training, however, are negligible compared with those available for management training. [More…]
Significant changes have occurred in recent years which have resulted in increased pressures on the union movement, as well as on management. [More…]
Union officials ‘jobs are becoming more complex. [More…]
Technological change, acceleration in the economic growth rate, the changing industrial relations scene with collective bargaining and worker participation in management, and growing complexity of awards and legislation all add to the demands placed upon today’s union official. [More…]
The workforce is now better educated and unions are having an increasing impact on society. [More…]
Fifty years ago, when educational opportunities depended upon a parent’s pocket rather than upon a student’s intelligence, many of those who in today’s circumstances would have become the country’s leading lawyers, scientists, academics or professionals gravitated to leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
The full-time union official is in a unique and unenviable position in that all too often he or she is forced to learn his or her skills on the job. [More…]
By the establishment of the trade union training scheme as detailed in this Bill, they will be instructed in how to analyse the significance of today’s rapid changes, accept new ideas and methods, and perform more effectively their organising and administrative duties within the union movement. [More…]
The training provided will be aimed primarily at promoting trade union competence. [More…]
Such training will go towards bridging the gap between unionists’ and managements’ level of industrial relations knowledge and technique. [More…]
We have too many unions and union fees are too low. [More…]
We need fewer and more efficient unions. [More…]
The internal resources of unions are small. [More…]
Therefore, funds must be obtained by means which will not diminish trade union responsibility. [More…]
I feel sure honourable members will agree that trade union training should not be excluded from the many fields of training and education which a responsible Government supports and assists financially. [More…]
I shall now turn to 2 major factors determining the nature of the trade union training provisions of the Bill. [More…]
The Bill provides for trade union training to be offered by a national college and State centres which are established solely for that purpose. [More…]
The training of unionists in union functions is a specialised task. [More…]
Instructors and lecturers need to understand thoroughly their subject and the objectives and nature of the trade union movement. [More…]
It must be the special responsibility of the union movement to formulate its own training schemes to accord with its own ideas and not to leave them to outside institutions. [More…]
Thus the conduct of courses cannot be a joint responsibility of unions and employers. [More…]
Whilst there are many similar problems facing employer and union bodies there is much that they do not have in common. [More…]
Certainly both unionists and management representatives do attend courses and seminars in industrial relations and associated areas jointly. [More…]
I least of all would support any idea of all training activities for unionists being carried out in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]
However, these activities are not designed specifically to develop the expertise of unionists as officials and members in the union movement itself. [More…]
There has always been a range of government sponsored or assisted management schools, entry to which places no emphasis on participation by the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union training proposals can be seen as balancing Government assistance to management training. [More…]
I can certainly see some possibility in the long term of the proposed Trade Union Training Authority coming together with management education bodies to run joint programs. [More…]
However, its primary objective will be the adequate provision of trade union training. [More…]
The philosophy expressed in this Bill is well recognised in many other countries and their experience has been drawn on in planning the development of trade union training in Australia. [More…]
Most industrialised countries are providing organised education and training for unionists. [More…]
Establishment of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority will provide the means whereby we can catch up with these countries. [More…]
Before I turn to the present union training developments in Australia there is one further issue I wish to raise- paid educational leave. [More…]
The skills being developed by union training should be seen as an integral part of union officials’ work. [More…]
They now need to recognise the similar right of trade unionists. [More…]
The Australian Public Service and the State Public Services in South Australia and Tasmania have taken the lead through the provision of paid educational leave for trade union training. [More…]
For instance, in the vehicle industry there is already provision for paid educational leave for shop stewards attending union training courses. [More…]
Since November 1973 the Government has taken steps to support and expand trade union training activities already in existence, most importantly by setting up an interim committee for trade union training. [More…]
Under the chairmanship of the permanent head of my Department, it comprises 3 representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, one each from the other peak union councils- the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisationsand a representative of each State Labor Council. [More…]
It has done much to plan for a national college of trade union training. [More…]
It centres around a snaring of responsibilities by a national body, the Australian Council for Union Training (ACUT), and 6 State Councils for Union Training. [More…]
The whole will constitute a statutory corporation, which will be known as the Trade Union Training Authority (TUTA). [More…]
The State Councils will be responsible for carrying out programs of union training in the respective States. [More…]
The Australian Council Will control the functioning of the national college, approve funds for trade union training programs, for the carrying out of research into union training. [More…]
The Australian Council will be chaired by the Secretary of the Department of Labor and Immigration or another officer of the Department appointed by the Minister, and it will be constituted by the Director of the Australian Trade Union Training College, 3 representatives of the Australian Council for Trade Unions, one representative from each of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations and one representative each from the 6 State Labor Councils. [More…]
We have sought to give a flexible definition in the Bill of the term ‘trade union training’. [More…]
They are, briefly, to develop, conduct, coordinate and review trade union training in Australia. [More…]
The Bill envisages, in clause 9, that councils for union training may need to be set up in the future in the [More…]
In the meantime, responsibility for union training in those areas will lie with the Australian Council. [More…]
Part V of the Bill deals with the college and State trade union training centres. [More…]
I feel sure honourable members will agree that this Bill is a significant cornerstone of the Government’s responsibilities to trade union training. [More…]
Not only is there a desperate need for the provision of training but unionists have demonstrated a very keen desire to participate and learn in programs which have been offered sporadically up to date. [More…]
The Government will not deny the trade union movement, as it does not deny other groups in the work force, equal training opportunities consistent with needs. [More…]
Our aim is to enable the union movement to perform their duties with greater understanding and with greater efficiency. [More…]
It is based on the proposals of many experts in the union movement, training, education and government. [More…]
It has been carefully framed to meet the needs of unionists under the direction and control of a high level Council which is answerable to Parliament. [More…]
I am sure honourable members will wish to see this work being carried on and further developed to make Australia the forerunner in the provision of trade union training. [More…]
I conclude my remarks by saying that I, like many others- the Miscellaneous Workers Union, among others- have made representations to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on this subject. [More…]
The trade unions, in this case the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and the Australian Railways Union, the main railway unions of Australia, also have been completely cooperative in putting forward their views as to how the system ought to operate in this country. [More…]
There is no doubt about where the unions stand on this issue. [More…]
In this Bill we see that the Commissioner of Commonwealth Railways is to be replaced by a 7-man commission which, I understand, apart from having representatives of the various geographical areas of Australia also will have a member elected from the trade union movement to assist in the conduct of the railway system. [More…]
There already are union representatives on two of the State transport systems. [More…]
There are many precedents for the appointment of a trade union representative on a national commission. [More…]
Of course, one of those commissioners will be a trade union official. [More…]
The Government has appointed members of the trade union movement to a number of commissions and boards which have been set up, and I think that it is a forward step. [More…]
On too many occasions mistakes are made by management but people who have had active experience in the trade union movement and who know the feelings of the employees working in a particular system, are in a position possibly to overcome problems before those problems even arise. [More…]
Having been a Commonwealth Railways employee for 25 years and a union official on the system, there are a few matters that affect the employees in the Commonwealth Railways which I should like to mention. [More…]
Quite recently the unions took up the matter with the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner and also with the Minister, and I certainly hope that the Minister will look into this matter to see whether something can be done about these houses. [More…]
His lack of business experience and acumen is shared by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) himself who, at the Transport Workers Union annual conference in June 1974, said: [More…]
I suppose he argues in a similar vein to those union officials who want to maintain employment at the cost of efficiency and then wonder why road transport is able to operate more efficiently at a lower cost. [More…]
The real problem in relation to railways has been the lack of co-operation of the second arm of the Labor Party- the trade union movement. [More…]
In April 1972, the Union Electric Company in the United States of America entered into an arrangement with the city of St Louis to carry out tests to see if the city’s garbage could be burned efficiently in its pulverized coal fired boilers. [More…]
In February 1974, it was announced that Union Electric would build a $70 million system to burn all the solid waste from metropolitan St Louis, where 2.5 million people live and where 7-8000 tons of garbage a day are produced. [More…]
Does he realise that if these problems had gone to the United Nations there would have been obstruction not from the Australian Government of 1972 and preceding years but from the Soviet Union? [More…]
Has the Government or the Prime Minister used the fact of their friendly relationships with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China and asked either of those nations to stop providing North Vietnamese regular troops in South Vietnam with arms or other forms of support? [More…]
Above all, Australia’s security, as with the peace of the world, rests ultimately upon making the detente between the United States and the Soviet Union a success and upon associating China in a wider detente. [More…]
In this Parliament on more than one occasion he has blamed the South rather than the North, the United States rather than the Soviet Union. [More…]
In those circumstances, who is in breach of the Agreements and why does the Prime Minister seek to blame the United States rather than North Vietnam or the Soviet Union? [More…]
The United States has drawn the attention of the Soviet Union, China and other countries to the actions of North Vietnam. [More…]
But the Prime Minister, as I understand it, has said very little to anyone other than Saigon and the United States and has ignored the actions of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, which are the 2 parties principally responsible for the situation that has developed. [More…]
If the contacts that he has made in many countries- in Hanoi, Peking, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe- are of any account surely his voice is one that could be heard with power and influence. [More…]
The Australian Government should approach the Soviet Union and China to seek observance of the Paris Accords. [More…]
North Vietnam tends to look to the Soviet Union for help, aid and military supplies much more than it does to China. [More…]
With some of the largest armies in the world, it is still likely to be closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
If it could be achieved, if it was a reality, maybe it is an objective worth pursuing, but he ought to know that the Soviet Union has no intention of allowing that to occur, and he also knows quite well that other measures are needed to be taken as a consequence of that. [More…]
The Chinese see the Soviet Union as attempting an encirclement of China, and that will lead to countervailing action and competition on the mainland of South-East Asia and in other parts of South-East Asia. [More…]
Or is it just something which the Soviet Union uses to help disarm the democracies, to help establish the circumstances in which soft spots will develop around the world where it can probe further and further, as I believe it has done in the Middle East and SouthEastAsia? [More…]
What protests have been registered with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China which continue to supply the Government of North Vietnam with arms? [More…]
The folk who put forward that proposition completely ignore the fact that there is probably as much difference between the Soviet Union and the United States as there is between the Soviet Union and Communist China. [More…]
The Khmer Rouge is a national communist group, and although during the period of fighting the North Vietnamese have had to make their accommodations with the Chinese communists and the Soviet Union, the differences are fundamental. [More…]
Article 7- the oneforone replacement provision- has been demontrably breached by North Vietnam, by the People’s Republic of China and by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Indeed, the inclinations of the Government of North Vietnam have been contributed to in an alarming degree by the Government of the Soviet Union and the Government of the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
They never once used the expression ‘Soviet Union’. [More…]
He said that when he was in Peking he was taken underground and saw what was virtually a duplicate city which had been built under Peking against the day when it thought it might be subject to aerial bombardment from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Their preoccupation is with their borders with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government approach the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China to seek observance of the Paris Agreement [More…]
The next thing that Mr Hartley will be recommending is that we revert to the days when in Poland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there was a quota placed on Jews entering universities which was in proportion to their numbers in the community. [More…]
I suggest that this is further evidence of the complete disregard by this union dominated, metropolitan oriented Government, of the rural towns and districts and the people living in them. [More…]
However, marriage must begin with a strong conviction that it is to be a lasting contract and union between 2 people- a contract not to be taken lightly but at the same time a recognition of the understanding and involvement that will be required for success. [More…]
But when a marriage is wrecked by one or both parties failing to observe their vows it is our obligation as parliamentarians to legislate in a manner that will bring the least harm to all concerned, particularly to the children of that union. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
After sub-clause (2), insert the following sub-clause: ‘(2a) It is unlawful for a trade union or any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of a trade union to prevent another person from offering for employment or from continuing in employment by reason of the race, colour, or national or ethnic origin of that other person or of any relative or associate of that other person. ‘ [More…]
The Opposition believes that there is merit in including in clause 15 a proviso making it unlawful for a trade union, or any person acting or purporting to act on behalf of a trade union, to prevent another person offering for employment or continuing in employment by reason of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. [More…]
It is interesting to comment that clause 14 prohibits the rules or other documents constituting or governing the activities of a trade union imposing any kind of hindrance regarding the joining of that union by reason of race or colour. [More…]
We therefore think that the Bill does not complete this process in a logical sequence by making it unlawful for the right of a person to offer and gain employment to be interfered with by a trade union on account of race or ethnic or national origin. [More…]
After his visit to the Soviet Union, was this condition agreed to and a visa issued to a Russian veterinarian. [More…]
It stands condemned, and as the Queensland Secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Bevis, stated - [More…]
Of course, my own view is that the South Australian trade union movement exclusively should be given the licence so it can express a view against the media which every day attack the Labor movement in that State. [More…]
charge of the trade union movement’- as if it is the responsibility of the employers to decide and to elect who will run the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
Those views are rejected unanimously by the trade union movement. [More…]
On 1 4 January this year the ‘Australian Financial Review’ carried a story headed ‘Mr Fraser opts for a trade union confrontation’. [More…]
A headline in the ‘Australian’ of 4 March 1975 was: ‘Lib plan to bring back union fines’. [More…]
The ‘Australian Financial Review’ of 14 February carried the headline: ‘ Fraser ‘s tough union stance’. [More…]
On 2 1 March 1975 the Melbourne ‘Herald’ carried the headline: ‘Unions uneasy about Fraser’. [More…]
On 23 January the ‘West Australian’ carried the headline: ‘Challenge by Fraser to unions’. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser, to move the Opposition’s industrial relations policy towards an uncompromising confrontation against union militancy. [More…]
According to the Liberal program he will set up an industrial inspectorate with extravagant powers- powers to penalise individual employees, powers to penalise and fine individual union leaders and powers to fine and penalise individual employers with or without the consent of the other party. [More…]
We have the spectacle where irrespective of circumstances it will be possible for one of the Liberal-appointed inspectors to seek to fine a union official in the performance of his duty even presumably if that union official is trying to reach a settlement of an industrial dispute because the union is technically in breach of the law. [More…]
There are some who .have had some little experience in this field and they would know that there are many occasions when disputes occur spontaneously on the factory floor and the union officials are the people who have those disputes resolved. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Party want compulsory voting in trade union elections but they throw their hands up in horror when there is any suggestion that there ought to be compulsory membership of unions. [More…]
So we have the spectacle under their proposal of, on the one hand, a person who says that he will not join a trade union, who does not vote, who does not pay anything, who does not take any part in union affairs at all and who has committed no breach, and on the other hand, a person who joins a union on a voluntary basis, who attends every union meeting for a period of 5 years, who pays his union dues and plays an active part in the union but who, because he forgets to vote in a union election, can be fined under this ludicrous and stupid proposal. [More…]
In fact I find it incredible that the Liberal Party in New South Wales in one breath says there shall not be compulsory voting in local government elections and in the next breath turns around and says that there shall be compulsory voting in trade union elections. [More…]
But the assistance to North Vietnam from China and from the Soviet Union continued. [More…]
-Or ‘religion- Anglican ‘-that would be wrong too, I suppose- and add ‘failed the Leaving Certificate, union representative’ and a series of other matters which the electorate is just as entitled to know in formulating a view as to how it will vote. [More…]
Does he believe that the scheme will serve as a useful model for private sector employees, their union organisations and their employers? [More…]
1 export market to New Zealand falling by the board because of a combination of circumstances, many of which involved the trade union movement in New Zealand, both wharf and maritime. [More…]
Further, we saw a situation in which the export of the seasonal crop of navel oranges to New Zealand was thwarted by our own unions. [More…]
The laws of New South Wales and Victoria and Western Australia and Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, to go on without mentioning all of them, are as different from each other for practical and legal purposes as the law of Paraguay is different from the law of the Soviet Union and are treated as such in terms of public international law. [More…]
If they have inherited a $lm pastoral property; if they can say that in addition they were educated at the Melbourne Grammar School and that they finished off at Oxford University; if in addition to that they can say that they have never lived in a city in their lives; if in addition to that they can say that they have never worked in an industry in their lives; if in addition they can say that they have never been bona fide members of a trade union; if they believe in giving category A schools rich handouts as the honourable member gave when he was previously in office; if they believe in savage strike penalties against workers who are trying to get what the market will yield for the goods which they sell in the same way as the seller of commodities goes to the market and extracts the maximum that the market will yield; if they oppose wage indexation; if they believe in allowing foreign investors being permitted to own and control our priceless mineral resources as well as our industrial potential; and if the electorate in addition to all this knows that this person wants to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, then and only then will the electorate vote for the political Parties represented by the present Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
This is the growing authoritarian attitude of some socialist left and autocratic trade unions and the resort to violence and strikes to achieve their industrial purposes. [More…]
At the time of the Tolpuddle prosecutions and the Taff Vale disorders there was good reason to take legislative action to strengthen the trade union movement against the oppression and exploitation of labour by management and the law. [More…]
I do not believe that the average trade unionist wants this malaise to continue. [More…]
After all, trade unionists are the same as most of us in this House. [More…]
I hope that we Liberals and our coalition partners, as soon as we return to the Treasury Benches, will make it our first concern to ensure democratic control through the Arbitration Commission and the Commonwealth Electoral Office of all trade union elections and major administrative decisions before strikes occur or serious restrictive action is taken against the national interest. [More…]
This would be the first step to genuinely assimilate the trade unions into the mainstream of Australian political, economic, social and industrial life. [More…]
We know of its weakness in the face of trade union militancy. [More…]
We would establish close communications with employees and the trade union movement so that there can be a continuing dialogue and discussion, and reestablish in a statutory form the National Labour Advisory Council that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) abolished, thus cutting off proper tripartite communications between government, management and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
We would look for and encourage in the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions- the other Oxford graduate- a leadership role- a role of national responsibility which would be in the best interests of the trade union movement and of Australia. [More…]
Recurring balance of payments crises and the moderation of trade unions maintained adequate restraint by government and in our community at large. [More…]
Some trade union leaders seem to be no longer fearful of large scale and continuing unemployment, even though today some of their actions should give them cause for much fear on this count. [More…]
Members of the Opposition will find that the answer to inflation is not to be found in the union bashing Fraser plan. [More…]
As the honourable member is no doubt aware, Judge Sweeney’s Inquiry has heard evidence of a demand made by the Seamen’s Union for the crew of the vessel ‘Manchester [More…]
Vigour’ to be paid Australian rates of pay, but when the crew, by letter to the Union indicated that they did not want the additional payment, the owners were asked to make the payment to the Noongah Memorial Fund. [More…]
A cheque for $3456 made payable to the Noongah Memorial Fund was handed to the Secretary of the Western Australian Branch of the Seamen’s Union on 15 November 1973. [More…]
That cheque was subsequently paid into the Peace and Progress Fund of the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
If the Government is genuine in the argument it puts forward in support of the reference and appeals provisions in this Bill, it must back the Commission against all union pressures, wherever those pressures come from- from the flight crew officers or anybody else. [More…]
I participated in trade union conferences and congresses of the Australian Council of Trade Unions which unanimously rejected those provisions and opposed them. [More…]
Some of those appeals have been successful and trade unions which vigorously opposed the introduction of appeals were subsequently pleased to use those provisions. [More…]
If we work with the trade union movement- I hope that the Opposition will do its best to assist in this regard- to work out a rational wages POliCY which will continue to improve the real living standards, the real wages of wage and salary earners. [More…]
Another union- the Airline Pilots Guild of Australia- has sought and obtained registration. [More…]
In assessing the industry involved, I think we should also look at the union concerned- the Airline Pilots Federation of Australia- which in some ways is different from other unions but certainly is an industrial body intent upon assisting its members. [More…]
The Federation has something like 99 per cent union membership. [More…]
I do feel that in these matters, which are of vital interest to the trade union movement, the people who are supposed to represent the interests of that group have completely forgotten about two of the items that the honourable member for Corangamite has mentioned, namely, management and the general public. [More…]
The Chinese feel encircled by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If North Vietnam stands aside from that dispute it might be a different matter, but hitherto the North Vietnamese have been closer to the Soviet Union than to China. [More…]
There has been no criticism of Soviet Union bases and refuelling facilities around the Indian Ocean but there has been criticism of the United States, designed to prevent Diego Garcia from being established as a base of any kind. [More…]
Surely we could argue that the tension between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a sign of peace for South-East Asia, for if these two great countries are in conflict how are they going to combine to subvert South-East Asia in a communist campaign? [More…]
I have had many talks with representatives of the Australian Insurance Staffs Federation, which is the union which covers most of the administrative and clerical employees of the private insurance companies. [More…]
-The purpose of the Bill is to establish the Australian Trade Union Training Authority consisting of representatives of the Australian Council for Union Training plus representatives from the 6 State Councils. [More…]
The Opposition supports the principle of trade union training. [More…]
We support the concept of trade union training. [More…]
We support the concept of a National Council for Trade Union Training. [More…]
We would seek to have established in appropriate educational institutions programs specifically designed to meet the needs of trade unionists. [More…]
To assist in that purpose, we support the concept of a National Council of Trade Union Education whose task it would be to develop special relationships with the appropriate educational institutions to see that the content of courses specifically met the needs of trade unions. [More…]
Training would be required in a wide veriety of subjects at different levels to assist unionists in the execution of their official union duties. [More…]
Subjects would include, among other things: the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, its principles and purposes the function and duties of shop stewards the question of union rules how to run an office the relationship of branch and federal offices how to serve a log of claims how to seek variation of an award the provisions of workers compensation [More…]
Trade union education and training should not be shut off from other forms of education. [More…]
Where subject matters overlap, courses should be conducted jointly for unionists and industrial officers. [More…]
House strongly believe that trade union training should not and indeed cannot be isolated from the existing educational institutions, particularly those already involved in industrial relations courses. [More…]
But we accept the necessity of special courses directed specifically towards union officials and potential union officials to train them to cope with the increasing complex demands being made on them. [More…]
It will be seen that even if our amendments are adopted- as I hope they will be- union representatives will maintain a large majority on the Council. [More…]
We accept this as reasonable but equally we believe that a council, constituted in the manner outlined, would be better equipped to develop a balanced and progressive approach to the betterment of industrial relations in Australia in addition to its prime requirements of achieving a more competent body of union officials. [More…]
As I am sure the Minister will acknowledge, there is considerable support within the union movement for a broader based approach to union training. [More…]
There is concern that courses could be used to promote political ideologies rather than produce better union officers. [More…]
The Opposition believes that under no circumstances should public money be used to run courses for single unions. [More…]
Of course, many unions now run their own courses at their own expense and, while the principle of this is perfectly sound, it is unfortunate that some of the courses are largely devoted to ideological indoctrination. [More…]
For those who doubt that statement I quote from an article by an officer of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union on the AMWU training program. [More…]
Still speaking of trade union training programs, he says: it has had, and will continue to have, a radicalising effect on the unions . [More…]
Union training can help widen and deepen the challenge to capitalism. [More…]
If the courses run reflect the rather constricted view put forward in the second reading speech by the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Australia would have lost a golden opportunity to provide a wider vision for union training. [More…]
The Opposition and significant elements in the union movement believe that there should be much more emphasis on overall training and a recognition that basic to aU industrial relations is a knowledge and understanding of human relations. [More…]
These courses are open to aU with a legitimate interest in industrial relations and utilise group discussion techniques as part of the training to enable trade union officials and industrial officers to gain an appreciation and an understanding of each other’s point of view. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will the Authority be allotting some of its funds to enable existing institutions which have demonstrated their ability to run effective courses in union training and industrial relations to continue their valuable work. [More…]
However, in this context there would need to be clarification of the function outlined in clause 5 (c) of the Bill which refers to co-ordination of trade union training in Australia- I draw the attention of the Minister particularly to this aspect of it- ‘including that performed by bodies and institutions other than the colleges’ and trade union training centres. [More…]
While existing institutions would probably find difficulty in incorporating such courses within their existing facilities, we consider that for the reasons given earlier the money which will be spent under this legislation, or at any rate a proportion of it, would be better spent expanding existing institutions to cope with the new responsibilities which they would incur in respect of trade union training. [More…]
With his long experience, both in the union movement and the Parliament, I would have expected a much wider appreciation by the Minister of the issues involved. [More…]
As I said a moment ago, the Opposition recognises that special courses are required to improve the knowledge of union officials and potential union officials’ in areas such as the various industrial Acts, the tribunals -especially the working of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission- the preparation and presentation of cases, the conduct of negotiations, the role of the job delegate, how to run an office, the growing importance of women in the work force with the majority of them being married, and so on. [More…]
However, the Opposition believes that nominations for courses should not be confined only to those coming from the trade union hierarchy. [More…]
Would the Authority be free to fund courses to inform members of organisations who may not be entirely satisfied with the conduct of their organisations on how to seek redress through the rules of their organisation to the stage where they could, say, become legitimate challengers in union elections? [More…]
The ability and competence of trade union officials bears a direct relationship not only to stability on the job but also to the stability of national industrial relations. [More…]
Unless there is evidence of a wider appreciation of all the issues involved there inevitably will be a strong suspicion on the part of employer organisations about the motives of trade union training. [More…]
Most employers and their organisations are on record as supporting the principle of trade union training but, understandably, they have reservations about this legislation. [More…]
In the past there have been occasions when they have co-operated with the union movement by granting leave to employees, sometimes with pay, to attend training courses ostensibly designed to improve thenknowledge and ability in trade union matters, only to find that the participants in these courses had been bombarded with anti-employer propaganda. [More…]
If trade union officials attending these courses come back with this sort of attitude, it will set back the cause of trade union training by years and accentuate, instead of allay, old antagonisms. [More…]
It seems to me that in assessing this legislation, the question which must be asked is: Does this Bill deal in the best way possible with the training of trade union leadership, bearing in mind the needs of the Australian community? [More…]
Trade union leaders are frequent speakers at employer courses and employers or officers of their associations often attend trade union organised activities. [More…]
Trade unionists seeking training will go to the courses run by the national and State councils but fewer will be going to them with a broad base. [More…]
This will inevitably lead to an increasingly introspective attitude in the union movement and who, apart from the left wing militant unions, believe that that will be an improvement. [More…]
I remind him that graduates from this school are just as available to the union movement and to government as they are to private industry. [More…]
We are seeing an encouraging development whereby more and more graduates are taking up positions with the trade union movement. [More…]
That would mean comparing facilities for trade union training with facilities for training officers of employer organisations who are, after all, the opposite numbers of trade unions in the industrial relations area. [More…]
The facts are that the trade unions and trade union confederations now wield tremendous power in the community. [More…]
Many trade unions have greater resources and facilities than employer associations, and in almost aU cases of confrontation between a trade union and an enterprise, it is the community, the public interest, which suffers from any imbalance of power. [More…]
To put it in another way, trade union training and industrial relations educational training generally at institutional level are something from which the whole community should benefit and in the conduct of which the whole community should participate. [More…]
As I have already indicated in this speech, the Opposition strongly supports the principle of trade union training and the establishment of a national authority to ensure that its continuity is properly protected by legislation. [More…]
It should not be difficult in a society such as ours to mount a case for an institution such as the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
But it seems to me though that the Opposition may be primarily concerned to turn out good functionaries as trade union officers. [More…]
It is interested primarily in people who can successfully and efficiently run a union office. [More…]
Trade unions are becoming increasingly involved in welfare services for their members, in credit unions and in travel schemes. [More…]
There is another area where this Authority can make a substantial contribution and that is in the field of raising the consciousness of the rank and file members of the unions. [More…]
I think it is important for the future of the trade union movement that democracy within those organisations sould be extended as far as possible. [More…]
If more and more trade union members were aware of what their unions are doing and what their elected officials are doing, I think the performance of the unions as a whole would improve substantially. [More…]
It would also mean that there would be greater encouragement for potential union leaders and greater encouragement for those people who now play such an important role in an entirely voluntary capacity in union management. [More…]
I think that is wrong, because the only assumption that is being made in this Bill is that there is a useful role and a very important role for trade unions and trade unionists to play in the community. [More…]
It is not intendedindeed, it would be counter-productive- that this authority should become the focal point for militancy within the trade union movement. [More…]
That is not to say that there may not be a role- in fact, I believe that there is a role- for the trade union movement to be involved in militant action, to be involved in challenging the sort of economic structure that exists in this and many other countries. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite mentioned the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the fact that they run their own education courses. [More…]
The other question to which I wish to refer and to which the honourable member for Corangamite paid particular attention is the use of existing facilities to organise a trade union training program. [More…]
The other aspect I wish to point out is that many of the staff at colleges of advanced education and universities have just not been exposed to the sorts of problems that will be the prime object of this Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
In general terms and in theoretical terms they may know about some of the questions involved in industrial relations, but they are quite wrongly placed in terms of trying to get down to the nitty-gritty of the day to day problems that face a trade union official or a rank and file member. [More…]
The trade union training scheme that is already operating draws very heavily on lecturers and tutors and so on from some of these educational institutions, and that is to be applauded and encouraged. [More…]
Time is short, so I will not go on any further except to say that I have spoken as one who has participated in a fledgling trade union training scheme, both as a student and as a participating discussion leader, and I think that the program that has been developed in Western Australia, which began partly because of the encouragement given by the Tonkin Government when it was in office, has been an excellent program. [More…]
Firstly, on the subject of an ideological bias all the member for Corangamite was doing was warning that in the eyes of some people the Trade Union Training Authority might have an ideological bias because some of those trade unions which have been conducting their own programs most clearly have had an ideological bias. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite was also warning the House that the Authority ought not to be used for courses for one trade union. [More…]
We do indeed welcome the definition of ‘trade union training’ in clause 3 of the BUI. [More…]
of that definition states that trade union training means educational, technical and practical training for members of trade unions in any other fields approved by the Australian Council. [More…]
When one thinks of labour economics one thinks of the fact that so many rank and file trade unionists and so many organisers need to understand the workings of the economy.in which they are operating. [More…]
We also need to make sure that fundamental industrial law is taught, that industrial psychology is at least touched upon and introduced and that management principles will enable union secretaries and other officials to run their unions as a business in the interests of thenmembers also will be taught. [More…]
It is important that this Parliament has the opportunity of reviewing annually the syllabus which is in fact operative in the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
We can then see whether it is going far enough for trade union training and whether it has any type of bias. [More…]
I believe that in this fashion there will be non-intervention, noninterference, by the Parliament and there will be the opportunity for the Parliament to see what progress is being made because, amongst other things, whilst trade union training has been adopted overseas, as the Minister well knows the 1974 International Labour Organisation convention embraced a much broader interpretation of paid educational leave than has been so far contemplated in the rest of the Bill.. [More…]
This, indeed, could be contemplated within paragraph (b) of the definition of ‘Trade Union Training’ in clause 3. [More…]
As the Minister well knows as he did attend some of the sessions of the Paid Educational Leave Committee- I had the opportunity of being there for the month of the conference in 1973 and of attending the sessions of that Committee during that time- the concept of paid educational leave and trade union training embraces not merely the presentation of demands but also the acquisition of higher skills. [More…]
It is my hope that in time the Trade Union Training Authority will have a role in retraining and improving the skills of the work force. [More…]
There has been a reluctance on the part of the trade union movement itself to recognise the value of and the need for retraining. [More…]
That goes hand in hand with teaching trade union officials how to gain real improvements in wages and conditions for their members. [More…]
It is not merely enough, as we all know here, for trade unions to be getting increased money amounts in wages. [More…]
They will get those better if the syllabus of the Trade Union Training Authority is wide enough to enable them to have a fundamental grasp of economics and not just a concentrated antipathy and antagonism towards the employers. [More…]
There are those in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and in one or two other areas where the extreme left is in control who want to destroy industry and to destroy the system, but this Bill will certainly apply to the vast majority of rank and file trade unionists who wish to benefit from the system and who wish to improve the quality of life generally. [More…]
It is a fact which we must all deplore that, with the exception of ones like the Administrative Staff College which enable management and trade union representatives to get training in some of these very fundamental areas, most management programs have concentrated on commercial factors and the improvement of the wellbeing of a company from a purely commercial point of view and have neglected, to the cost of the community and the company, the industrial relations program. [More…]
The lower ranks of management- I think particularly of the foremen and the supervisorsmost desperately need the sort of program contemplated by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Management has been to blame in this but so too has the trade union movement, often in not offering suggestions or still more often in resisting changes. [More…]
Sometimes the changes to the system of work are not properly communicated by management, but it is important that for trade union training programs possibilities of job restructuring, possibilities of ideas coming from the work force to management be considered so that much of the job dullness can be eliminated, the unnecessary and undesirable level of job turnover can be eliminated and the number of ‘sickies’ that people take to go fishing because they just cannot stand going to work may be reduced. [More…]
Often there has been on the part of management too much preoccupation with improvements of a computer kind and not enough with technological advances at the place of work, and the trade union movement has not welcomed or encouraged them any more then it has encouraged retraining. [More…]
Too many union secretaries have been concerned with making sure that they did not lose members from their union because of retraining. [More…]
Too many of them also have been concerned to prevent others who had been retrained coming into their work force in case they became unemployed when there was an economic downturn and those union secretaries then had an unemployment problem on their hands which would make more work for them. [More…]
I hope that as a result of some of the trade union training programs under this legislation we will find more rank and file awareness of the shortcomings of some of the paid union officials and that they would at the appropriate time, at the ballot box, show their awareness and change and smarten up some of their trade union leaders so as to overcome some of these prejudices and some of the shortcomings. [More…]
We would be in a catastrophic situation if we found that senior management had gradually increased its awareness of the problem, as had shop stewards and other union persons at the work place, but that those in the middle had been neglected, and this is so often the case. [More…]
I think that we on this side of the House will fully support it because we feel that it does fill a very great need in the Australian community for proper trade union development. [More…]
The unions have never in the past been able to take their proper place in society, but under this Government and as a result of actions taken by the present Minister for Labor and Immigration the unions will certainly get the recognition to which they are entitled in this society. [More…]
The unions themselves are part and parcel of our arbitration system. [More…]
When the first Conciliation and Arbitration Act was passed in 1904, the place of the union was recognised in that Act, and I think that there was a recognition of the need to try to bring unions into the arbitration system and also to encourage people to become members of unions because for our arbitration and conciliation system to function it is essential that people be encouraged to join unions. [More…]
Depite the more liberal approaches of the 2 previous speakers on the Opposition side, the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee) and the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), I cannot say that the Liberal and Country Party record in this field in the past has been one which would give the trade unions much cause to be very pleased with the attitudes adopted by those parties. [More…]
Despite what the 2 honourable members I just mentioned have said, the record of the Liberal-Country Party government, over the years has been one of an anti-working class government and the legislation which was introduced was anti-union legislation. [More…]
In the 1960s we did see the use of the big stick, the imposition of fines and so forth to try to coerce unions into doing something which the rank and file were not prepared to do. [More…]
The unions did resist this and as we are all aware there was quite a lot of industrial disputation at that time, but finally the confrontation did come in 1969 when I think that the then Liberal Government realised that it was going to get nowhere by using the big stick against the unions. [More…]
The unions either accepted what was brought down or they took the consequences. [More…]
I think that more conciliation and collective bargaining calls for a greater degree of skill by the trade union officials and that the improvement of these skills by trade union officials should be one of the benefits derived from this Bill. [More…]
In these days of increased collective bargaining and conciliation it is essential that the trade union official be an extremely competent person and be able to put forward the views of his union members fully so that he can do the job for which they have elected him. [More…]
It is a fact that most trade union officials have learned by experience. [More…]
In Australia we have a history of trade union officials who have come up through the ranks. [More…]
I mentioned that most trade union officials in Australia attain their positions through experience. [More…]
They probably start off as ordinary workmen in industry; they become interested in union affairs; they take a union delegate ‘s job; possibly they move from there to a position of regional delegate or State delegate of the council of their union; then to branch secretary, and so forth, and then into the federal field. [More…]
An honourable member mentioned the small shops a while ago, and we know that in most cases where there is a union delegate most discussions are about matters such as the honourable member mentioned- safety and provision of amenities. [More…]
Most of these discussions are carried out at the job level and by the rank and file unionists; the chaps who work on the job and take on the responsibility of the union work in that particular job. [More…]
With respect to job safety, in my experience I have seen many jobs where, unless there was union activity- and in many cases that meant stoppages of work and so forth- the employer would not care if the employee broke his neck or his leg, or whatever happened to him. [More…]
I think that aU these factors indicate that there is a greater need for union education of the ordinary rank and file members of the union. [More…]
A lot is made of the fact that sometimes unions are controlled by their officials and there is not much rank and file participation. [More…]
I think one of the objectives of this Bill is to increase rank and file participation; to give the man at the grass roots level the chance to further his trade union education and to give him education in a much broader field so that he is a lot more competent to carry out the job for which his members have elected him. [More…]
Although trade union education has been an ideal for quite some time it is only lately, in the last ten or twenty years, that we have seen it carried out to any degree. [More…]
Although it has existed for many years I think it is only in the last 10 years that it has expanded its activities to include trade union courses to instruct trade union officials. [More…]
They were carried out by competent people and were of great help to all those trade union officials who were able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the Workers Education Association. [More…]
Some unions also have been interested in trade union education. [More…]
But there are problems with some unions because, as the Minister mentioned in his second reading speech, there are over 300 unions in Australia and most of them are very small. [More…]
Because they lack the resources they are not in a position to run trade union courses for their own members and, as a result, their members are disadvantaged. [More…]
Of course, there are some larger unions, and I refer to the union that was mentioned in this House a few times today, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Since the amalgamation of the various metal unions the AMWU has become a fairly large union and because it is fairly large it probably has greater resources and can make much more use of those resources. [More…]
But since the amalgamation this union has initiated courses mainly for delegates on the shop floor, the ordinary shop delegate and interested rank and file members. [More…]
The regular schools which are run by this particular union are not confined to the capital cities. [More…]
I know that in the industrial areas I represent this union runs regular courses for its shop delegates and interested trade unionists. [More…]
I took the trouble to find out what some of its courses are about and I mention a few: The history of the trade union movement, organisational structure and how the union is run, decision making process from the shop floor upwards, duties and responsibilities of the officials and members, negotiating techniques and the development of arguments and the presentation of cases, public speaking, relationship between the unions and the community -I think that is a very important matter- workmen ‘s compensation, with emphasis, of course, on the procedures to be adopted in relation to that. [More…]
They are very important in assisting a trade unionist to take a full place in the Australian society. [More…]
However, despite what the AMWU is doing and what the WEA in South Australia is doing, most plans to carry out this trade union education have been restricted by lack of finance. [More…]
Although I know they will still be full participants in trade union education I do feel this Bill will allow them to get away from just one particular union group. [More…]
When I say that I support this Bill I can, I think, speak from experience as a rank and file trade union official and as a shop floor union official. [More…]
As a part time union official I felt these courses were of great assistance to me and to all those people with whom I associated and who shared the same concern for the trade union .movement as I did. [More…]
I mentioned earlier that one of the problems involved if we are to make full use of this educational scheme is the prolific number of unions we have in Australia- over 300 unionswith their small financial resources. [More…]
We would hope that this Bill will allow these people to be catered for in a decent trade union training scheme. [More…]
It is a big advance for Australian trade unionists- one of which I am sure they will take every advantage and one which will allow the trade unions to take their rightful place in Australian society. [More…]
We of the Opposition agree with the proposition that trade union leadership in this country is in urgent need of a course in not only education but also responsibility. [More…]
The leaders of the trade union movement in some instances need a realignment of their policies and a cementing of their attitudes based on a sound knowledge and appreciation of their responsibilities to society. [More…]
Trade union leaders who condone and encourage wildcat strikes have to be made to realise that they should have a conscience. [More…]
We support the need for trade union training as outlined by the Minister on account of the bottomless pit into which leadership of the trade union movement has degenerated. [More…]
1 am making the point that on account of the huge increase in unemployment it is absolutely essential that we educate the trade union leaders in the need to exercise responsibility. [More…]
Here we have a government which has its basis in the trade union movement being unable to exercise authority over its own environment. [More…]
These are shattering figures which are cause for the deepest concern and obviously indicate that the trade union movement is in drastic need of education. [More…]
Quite obviously, the present trade union training has not been good enough. [More…]
I applaud the previous speaker, the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis), who, with some practical experience, was able to indicate to the House the channels through which trade union officials usually emerge to positions of responsibility within their unions. [More…]
He said that no great emphasis has been given to fitting a union official for the job of responsibility and leadership in that union. [More…]
Technoligical change, accelerated economic growth, new concepts of urbanisation and the use of leisure time, worker participation in management, recurrent education and paid study leave, and a work force which contains 40 per cent to 50 per cent women- the majority being married- will all form part of the trade union official’s world in addition to his present responsibilities. [More…]
Does the Minister want to develop great orators who will meddle with the truth and convey the wrong message, or does he want to develop fair dinkum trade union leaders who are alive to their responsibilities, to themselves, to their union and to society as a whole? [More…]
The Minister has also commented that union fees are too low. [More…]
On many occasions I hear utterances that union fees are far too high for the services rendered. [More…]
People object even to having to be members of a union in certain circumstances. [More…]
I ask the Minister to let us know whether it is intended to establish the National College of Trade Union Training in a centre other than Canberra and, similarly, whether the State bodies are to be in areas other than the State capitals. [More…]
One is somewhat dismayed that there has been a lack of co-operation and consultation with the employers in this whole matter of trade union education. [More…]
Too many strikes and disputes are caused by a breakdown in communication between workers and their bosses, between workers and their union, and between unions and the bosses. [More…]
Before he again makes outrageous statements such as those he has made today about the trade union movement in Australia it would do him no harm to associate with some trade union officials. [More…]
In his closing remarks- I point out that only about 3 sentences of his speech related to the Bill- he set himself up as the Caesar or judge to decide what would be good training and what would be bad training for the trade union officials. [More…]
I seriously ask honourable members and those people who may have been listening to him: Could we really rely on this Daniel Boone from Queensland with his muzzle loader at the ready to be the final judge of what ought to be taught and what ought not to be taught to trade union officials? [More…]
Since 1970 the 8-day residential school has been run by the 3 peak union councils- the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations. [More…]
Approximately 140 students have taken part in each of the schools which, more recently, have offered 4 courses for full time and part time officers and officials from a wide range of unions. [More…]
These courses deal with changing factors likely to affect the union movement, techniques of case presentation in arbitration and bargaining, economic policies affecting union objectives, and women in the union movement. [More…]
My own son has had the opportunity to be a participant, and he is a much better trade union official for it. [More…]
The financial resources of the trade unions are severely limited and must, as a first priority, be applied to the solution of the immediate bread and butter issues in which the members are involved. [More…]
Trade unions have come to be regarded as more than just the custodians of wage claims and working conditions of their members. [More…]
By no stretch of the imagination can anybody say that trade unions are unimportant. [More…]
We all know that the actions of trade unions affect the community as much as the organisations already mentioned. [More…]
That is not so in the case of the latter group, the unions. [More…]
Undoubtedly we will hear about the power of the unions being misused. [More…]
The power of the unions will be misused only when there are those who are not given the opportunity to understand what their proper role and function is. [More…]
The Bill before the House, when passed, will establish the facilities to provide that sort of training but, I repeat, that it must be independent training and not at the behest of this Parliament, nor at the behest of the employers, nor at the behest of anybody except those people who already have experience in the trade union movement and who are well aware and have demonstrated that they are aware of the areas in which their members should receive training. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava (Mr MacPhee) said that greater trade union training for the rank and file would mean greater awareness of how the union officials are shaping up, and that the rank and file would then have the opportunity to change the leadership at the ballot box if they are fully aware of what is going on. [More…]
But certainly the honourable member for Darling Downs spent his time in pretending that the rank and file members of the trade unions are stood over by their leaders, are completely unaware of what is going on in their unions and are not very interested. [More…]
Again I would say to the honourable member for the Darling Downs in particular that he should take the time and the trouble- it is not difficult- to walk into any one of the trade halls around the city, to talk to any trade union official and to spend time with the trade unionists. [More…]
In fact, trade union members do keep themselves informed and the unions keep their members informed. [More…]
As the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), who is the shadow Minister for Labor and Immigration, has said, if we were initiating trade union training we would have done it in a somewhat different fashion, in consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Nevertheless, in our own policy we do support the proposal for a national council for trade union training, and we recognise the need for widely based courses at a number of different levels. [More…]
I have no hesitation in admitting that in our time in government- I do not exempt myself from responsibility in this- we should have given more attention to trade union training. [More…]
A great deal of attention was given to the expansion of tertiary institutions, universities and colleges of advanced education, and trade union training was something that should not have been overlooked. [More…]
icy of the Australian Labor Party, but I would like to think that if such proposals had been made by the Labor Party when in Opposition for trade union training in a positive and practical sense that we in government might have picked up those proposals. [More…]
There are 2 different concepts or approaches possible in relation to trade union training. [More…]
The alternative approach would have been to have the national council establish special relationships with bodies such as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, which has always had a close and useful link with the trade union movement. [More…]
There has been a long and continuing and useful link between that organisation and the trade union movement in Victoria. [More…]
Our concept would have been to blend the courses on to bodies such as that or the University of New South Wales so that trade union training could become part of the general educational stream. [More…]
I think it is worth noting that the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia pays the University of New South Wales to run trade union courses for that union. [More…]
That shows that in some unions at least there is no antipathy to having courses run or organised as part of a larger tertiary institution. [More…]
I hope that later other courses may be developed at levels at which people from both management and labour can participate, at least for part of the course, thus bringing the 2 sides together not in a sense of trying to create tame-cat union officials but in trying to create the circumstances in which both management and labour can have an understanding of each other’s problems and a recognition that the true interests of both really revolve around getting to sensible solutions to problems, disputes and difficulties that can so often occur. [More…]
A person might have left school at the age of fifteen and became an apprentice for three or four years- in older days it might have been 5 years- and then at a later time he might become a shop steward or union delegate and might have to participate in the drawing up of a log of claims as well as trying to understand the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, how to run an office, how to maintain properly the union rules, how to understand the relationship between the federal and branch offices, and many other matters of that kind which might appear to be mundane to honourable members in this House. [More…]
I remember speaking to a trade union official. [More…]
The first job he had with his union was to look after compensation cases. [More…]
This person without any training or any real guidance had to do the work on his own account or by using whatever resources his union could make available to him. [More…]
I can understand the difficulties of the sorts of people I have mentioned who might have left school at the age of 15, gone through an apprenticeship, had union responsibility and then at a later time, without any training, found themselves in a negotiating position with people who may have university degrees or who, at least, will have taken their education to a further point. [More…]
At a later level, in trade union training, I think there are very strong arguments for trying to run courses which, at least in part, service the needs both of the trade union movement and of management and industrial officers of companies. [More…]
The Commonwealth and State governments spend large sums in suport of education and training at different levels but they have not spent anything really in suport of trade union training. [More…]
I hope that under these provisions we will be able to catch up with the circumstances which prevail overseas where trade union training is much more advanced than it is in Australia. [More…]
I have mentioned the disadvantage under which trade union officials can be when they are faced with trained representatives of employers. [More…]
I think it needs to be pointed out that some sections of the trade union movement have had some concern about the chosen path which the Minister has taken in introducing trade union training. [More…]
I do not say this involves a majority, but some unions would have preferred that the training be undertaken in the manner which I have indicated would be the preferred choice of the Opposition: But we support in principle what has been done. [More…]
This would leave the control of the curricula clearly in the hands of those who have an intimate knowledge of the needs of trade union training but at the same time would broaden the basis of the council in a way which I believe the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other members of the council will not find offensive. [More…]
It is very difficult, as suggested by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to be dispassionate about a subject which centres on the trade union movement because between 1949 and 1972 the movement fared very badly under legislation presented to the House by the Government formed by the conservative Parties. [More…]
It has been suggested by a number of trade union officials from my State of South Australia- not the least of whom is the secretary of the Minister’s old union, the Australian Workers’ Union, Mr Jim Dumford- that the college should be named after the Minister in order to recognise the role which he has played in establishing these forums throughout Australia. [More…]
I think it is important- this matter was raised by the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee)- that we have a look at the interpretation of trade union training. [More…]
Trading union training, as defined in the Bill, means: [More…]
Obviously that means that the training of trade union officials should take in almost every aspect of Australian life and society. [More…]
Firstly, Australia is one of the most highly unionised countries in the western world. [More…]
Secondly, the trade unions are here to stay and no legislation introduced into this or into any other Parliament is likely to alter that fact. [More…]
Any such move would mean retaliation by the force of the trade union movement which would negate any attempt to put it out of business. [More…]
I for one have always voiced my opposition to government interference in trade unions. [More…]
I think that much of what I have said over the years is exemplified in the industrial relations which exist in countries like Sweden where the government keeps its nose out of union business. [More…]
It seems to me that in that way we may interfere with the proper conduct of the College and with the proper setting of the syllabus for those people who attend the trade union college. [More…]
One can imagine if the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) were placed on the Council as a representative of the Opposition how shocked and horrified he would be if the name Karl Marx appeared on the syllabus to be presented to any class of the trade union college which is to be set up. [More…]
This view is not shared by the trade union movement. [More…]
We are in the infancy of trade union training in Australia. [More…]
A lot of people have done a great deal to assist trade unionists to begin trade union training and much has been done in the running of minor schools throughout the years. [More…]
I think this reflects the views which are held by the trade unionists. [More…]
One of the basic ingredients of trade union training overseas is the first step of reintroducing people who have been in industry and in factories to the mode of study which is necessary in order for them to understand all the subjects that may be placed before them. [More…]
Of course, this is not something which would apply to our opponents or to the opponents of the trade unionists attending these schools. [More…]
So for the time being, and I think it will be permanent so far as the trade unions are concerned, they do not want to attend training or schools with other than trade union or wage and salary representatives. [More…]
Someone has said that perhaps we could build into trade union training the use of some of the colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, that this would be the way in which trade union training ought to be done and it would not be necessary to have a separate college. [More…]
Many facts have been laid before all honourable members in relation to the difficulty of having trade union training built into these institutions. [More…]
For instance, the propositions would completely alter the character and work of the Authority under which the trade union training would be done and would inhibit the volume of its activities. [More…]
Colleges of Advanced Education are demonstrably not engaged in trade union training and have shown no willingness or ability to be so involved in spite of a number of opportunities over the years. [More…]
Could anyone imagine a college of advanced education being interested in the highly interesting industrial case which is being undertaken by the metal workers union in South Australia at the moment? [More…]
This is a case which quite honestly could be put forward as a test case or a case that ought to be studied by any college of trade union training. [More…]
Obviously it is a matter which ought to be specifically directed towards trade union training. [More…]
Their requirements are quite different from those of the one to 8-week courses such as those prepared by trade unions or the Australian Council of Trade Unions education office. [More…]
Those people who are experienced in trade union training are saying that one would have to accept the establishment of a separate institution. [More…]
The point I wish to conclude on, because so many other people want to speak on the subject, is the question of leave, that is, people being paid to attend these trade union courses. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a list of those companies and semi-governmental operations which now pay their employees to attend these trade union courses. [More…]
Companies and government departments mainly in South Australia which have given time off with pay to attend trade ‘union education courses: [More…]
I was particularly interested in the honourable member’s suggestion that members of the Government were opposed to interference in trade union affairs. [More…]
He was speaking in relation to the amendment that has been proposed by the Opposition seeking parliamentary representatives of both the Government and the Opposition on the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
I am somewhat surprised at the honourable member’s opposition to that proposed amendment because it it well known that the Australian Labor Party in its history of involvement with the trade union movement has not been reticent to become involved in that area. [More…]
If it were to become a general principle, I dare say that all honourable members on this side would welcome the withdrawal of the ALP from its position of influence on the trade union movement. [More…]
I would like also to comment on the remarks of the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) who indicated that I had made a rather inane comment by way of interjection when I suggested that worker participation was in fact an involvement by the trade union movement with employers. [More…]
He was not prepared to accept the proposition that the trade union movement could benefit from the employers’ contribution, but is quite prepared to accept the contrary proposition. [More…]
I have been persuaded that it is very desirable to have a trade union training authority. [More…]
I think he put the case very well in 1972 for a trade union college. [More…]
There is dearly a need for something more ambitious in trade union education and that is the establishment of a national trade union college which would be both a teaching and research college offering full-time, in-depth courses to unionists and union officials. [More…]
It should be financed by the Commonwealth Government as a legitimate pan of Australian tertiary education and should, in time, be extended so that there will be several trade union colleges throughout Australia. [More…]
the present and future needs of the trade union movement and industrial relations in Australia; [More…]
The present areas of advanced and tertiary education open to future administrators and business executives are, in the main, not open to trade union officials. [More…]
In the first place, to become a paid official of a union, a man or woman in effect has to change his occupation. [More…]
History of the Australian trade union and labour movement, [More…]
Trade union practices, [More…]
The definition of ‘trade union training’ as contained in clause 3 (b) of the definitions section of the Bill defines it to include: educational, technical and practical training for members of trade unions in any other fields approved by the Australian Council; [More…]
That provision envisages that it is not the State Councils on which there will be representatives of education nominated by the Minister, but in fact the Australian Council, the central Council, which will consider whether trade union training will include educational courses in other fields. [More…]
Paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (0 of clause 14 ( 1 ) provide for the nomination of 1 1 members of the trade union movement to the Australian Council. [More…]
I think it is important that the Council should have the benefit of wider experience if it is to offer more than has ben indicated in the summary which was developed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and which was recorded in the article in the ‘Journal of Industrial Relations’ from which I quoted. [More…]
I make this preamble to what I am about to say because the Bill itself deals with trade union training. [More…]
It is no reflection on trade unionists that I am raising this matter now; I make that point very clearly. [More…]
It was more than interesting for him to confess, as he did, that some attention should have been given to trade union training by the previous LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
His excuse sounded very hollow indeed when he said that no proposal for such trade union training was made by the then Opposition. [More…]
He ignored the fact that a number of individual unions did in fact ask Government representatives at various stages to introduce such a scheme. [More…]
He also supported the proposition that trade union training should be catered for through the normal tertiary education institutions. [More…]
For his information, several other unions do likewise. [More…]
The reason for that is that at the present time there is no alternative, and although they are very valuable courses and have made a very valuable contribution to the education of trade union officials at all levels, they are nonetheless not the most desirable form of trade union training. [More…]
This scheme is designed to provide trade union training at a very desirable level. [More…]
This situation creates difficulties in that an employee, a shop steward, a junior trade union official and even a senior trade union official have to look at 2 sets of statutes, State and national, in order to ascertain the rights and obligations of the union and its members. [More…]
All of this creates great difficulties in understanding, and many trade unionists fail to comprehend what the system is all about. [More…]
In their failure to understand it, they more often than not reject it as a lot of mumbo jumbo which is tied up with legalisms that are designed really to frustrate the best interests and legitimate aspirations of the worker and his union. [More…]
When Opposition members, and perhaps Government members, want to condemn as irresponsible the activities of shop stewards and want to say that such activities are a derogation of union authority- as they clearly are when so-called wild-cat strikes occur- let them understand that some of the responsibility for such activities rests on this Parliament and its members. [More…]
People who come to Australia from the United Kingdom, where the system is such that the shop steward is a power unto himself on the factory floor, fail to understand why some person, whether a trade union official or an employer organisation representative, who is very far removed from the work place, should be able to dictate to them what they should do. [More…]
It is equally essential, hi my view, to have rank and file trade unionists trained in the procedures that this Parliament has laid down over the years. [More…]
Very few of those who have had the benefit of community expenditure on training in the field of industrial relations go into the trade union movement. [More…]
I put it that that course at that institution has no greater value to the community than the trade union college proposed in this legislation would have. [More…]
Our policy always has been that specific and appropriate courses need to be conducted in the existing educational and training institutions to enable trade union education and training to be of the highest level possible and carried out on a parallel basis with all other aspects of education within our community. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) has quite rightly pointed out in his second reading speech that 53 per cent of the wage and salary earners in Australia belong to trade unions. [More…]
There can be no doubt whatsoever that in the national interest it is to the benefit of aU Australians that trade unionists in particular be given every opportunity possible to advance their training in their own specific fields to equip them to carry out a specific role within the trade union movement. [More…]
For that reason, above all else, the Opposition favours any attempt which is made on a sensible basis to improve the standard of education of trade unionists and their training within Australia [More…]
It is worth pointing out also that the present Government, which came to power with the clarion call that it understood the trade union movement and therefore would bring to Australia a greater degree of continuity, less industrial violence and so forth, has been proved in the last 2Vi years to have been speaking absolute rot. [More…]
In this legislation it is being proposed for the first time that the taxpayer- Consolidated Revenue- should pay for trade union training. [More…]
I would like to point out to the House, however, that in other countries- particularly socialist European countries- such as Sweden and Britian as well as Canada and the United States the trend has in fact been for large trade unions to fund their own forms of education. [More…]
The largest trade union in Sweden, the TLO- namely, the Swedish Central Organisation of Salaried Employees- spends almost as much on education programs as does the Swedish Government. [More…]
Other unions that are less influential than the TLO also spend substantial amounts. [More…]
In Great Britain, for example, the Trade Union Congress spends 20 per cent of its annual stg lm budget on education and is erecting its own college at a cost of another stg2m. [More…]
The General and Municipal Workers Union spends over f stg 100,000 on education and has 2 colleges of its own. [More…]
There are three other trade union colleges being built in Great Britain at a cost in excess of stg2.5m, paid for out of union funds, not out of the Exchequer. [More…]
The Canadian Labor Congress also has scholarships to attend such courses offered by Labor unions, industry and governments. [More…]
Scholarships are also made available for poorer unions to send students there, and tuition and other educational expenses at the Centre are paid for by the AFL-CIO. [More…]
In relation to shop steward schools run by the Victorian Branch of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, he said: [More…]
He also stated that union education without doubt had had and will continue to have a radicalising effect on the unions. [More…]
Having made the start, our task is to make sure that it expands and, in particular, that union training can help widen and develop the challenge to capitalism. [More…]
But unfortunately we have people like Mr Ogden who makes it quite clear that he regards trade union training not as a means of improving the standard of education of the members of the union, not as a means of encouraging them to participate in industrial development, but simply as a challenge to capitalism. [More…]
If that requires industrial unrest on a mammoth scale, as we have seen in Australia in the last 12 months- at a record level, in fact- we surely must examine the proposals enunciated in the Trade Union Training Authority Bill specifically in those terms. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that in speaking to a number of Bills that have been before the House, and more recently the Bill today concerning the Trade Union Training Authority, I have made similar suggestions. [More…]
I have asked that in the clauses dealing with the requirement to disclose interests by members of corporations -in this case the Road Safety and Standards Authority and, in the case of the Trade Union Training Authority Bill, the authority that was being established under that Bill- the appropriate persons be required to reveal wider interests than those originally proposed. [More…]
Quite clearly, the decision in relation to that trade was taken simply to featherbed the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
Seamen’s Union of Australia by getting as many ships as possible carrying the Australian flag around the Australian coastline. [More…]
It seems that as a result of a communist victory the Soviet Union probably will establish a naval base in South Vietnam. [More…]
Union head urges dole out. [More…]
Mr Arch Bevis, the State Secretary of the Transport Workers Union in Queensland, had this to say in the article: [More…]
The Queensland State Secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Arch Bevis, in a newspaper article of Friday, 14 February 1975. [More…]
I was interested to receive in the post yesterday the April edition of the Queensland State Service Union newsletter. [More…]
In it the Union drew attention to the hardship caused to the single income family by excessive taxation. [More…]
The Union suggested a number of measures to remove some of the discrimination. [More…]
1 ) to (4) On 23 January I made a statement which read in part: ‘As a result of broad ranging talks which I have held with trade union leaders, I am now convinced that if wage indexation is re-introduced unions will make no future wage demands based on rising prices but will confine their demands to increases based on increased productivity, technological change and related matters. ‘ [More…]
The Government s support for indexation is dependent, in part, on the receipt of acceptable undertakings from the union side, as embodied in undertakings by the ACTU, to comply with the principles of wage fixation laid down by the Australian Government. [More…]
In plain terms the Cabinet has been snowed’ by the support of the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) for union wage claims beyond the wage fixation guidelines set down in the recent national wage decision. [More…]
The Government’s weakness- its failure to take a strong stand in the national interest- has given the green light for the militant trade unions to challenge the authority of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The public will recall that he was the Minister who triggered off Australia’s wage explosion by the deliberate application of the pacesetter principle in respect of public sector salaries and his unrestrained support for each and every major union wage and salary claim. [More…]
The Union’s claim, we believe, must be opposed in the national interest. [More…]
He was in a government which presided over the use of the penal powers of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to imprison trade union leaders and to impose more than half a million dollars worth of fines upon them. [More…]
Indexation would persuade the trade union movement to restrict its wage claims to rises in the consumer price index and national productivity. [More…]
Inquiries made by these people have indicated that sessional pre-schools, particularly of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales, are able to charge $1 a session or $2 per day. [More…]
Is there really much difference between policyholders’ money and money collected from the taxpayers and used to propagate propaganda by the Government or contributions made to the trade union movement by members who do not believe in the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
However, on the one hand the insurance companies refrain from making the contributions; but, on the other hand, the money of both the trade union movement and the taxpayers is used to propagate Government policy. [More…]
Recently we all received a circular letter from The Professional Musicians’ Union of Australia enclosing a fairly bulky paper which contains a comment under the heading of ‘The Power of Television’ with which I agree very much. [More…]
This is the procedure allegedly adopted on environmental matters, on welfare matters and on matters concerning the trade union movement. [More…]
We would have more confidence if there were some acknowledgment of the way in which some trade union officials have used union funds for Party political purposes without the knowledge or approval of rank and file members. [More…]
The Commercial Union Insurance Co. of Australia spent 36c and the QBE Insurance Co. 38c. [More…]
In September the Northumberland Insurance company laid off 40 employees and the Commercial Union Assurance Co. of Australia Ltd laid off260 employees. [More…]
lm in the case of QBE Insurance Group Ltd, from $2.4m to $5.9m in the case of the Commercial Union Assurance Co. of Australia Ltd and from $1.8m to $10m in the case of the Royal Insurance Co. Ltd. [More…]
The Prime Minister goes to an executive meeting of the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union of Australia. [More…]
He gives that union commitments about the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
He tells the union that the provisions of the Act will not be applied, and he collects a cheque for $25,000. [More…]
If one examines the trade figures between Australia and the Soviet Union it will readily become apparent that there is a need to correct the glaring imbalance that operates at present. [More…]
The value of wool exports to the Soviet Union during 1973-74 was $147m. [More…]
The total value of exports to the Soviet Union in 1973-74 was $154m. [More…]
The imports from the Soviet Union to Australia in that year were valued at $5.9m. [More…]
After a rather long and lonely crusade I eventually gathered remnants of support from the trade union movement and from others and eventually it became Government policy, and very good policy it was too. [More…]
The honourable member asked whether unions have to apply. [More…]
The 3.6 per cent increase for the March quarter will go to all unions and will be applied in full to all wages, regardless of level. [More…]
In Western style democracies where a feeling of so-called romantic love is normally the only motivating force that leads to a contract of marriage, unlike Eastern countries and philosophies, and where the wishes, advice and even the dictates of the parents are not only ignored but deplored, situations may arise in which 2 people find after the so-called romantic love attraction has worn off that the union is anathema to both of them. [More…]
I personally believe that marriage is a permanent, mutual, contracted union. [More…]
The second reason why I support the separation period of 2 years rather than one year in a unilateral action is that I think that one year is insufficient time to establish or to maintain the type of psychology in the community by which people expect a marriage to be a lifelong union. [More…]
It is, in effect, declaring that henceforth a marriage is a union which can be terminated at any time at the whim of one party, subject to the 12-month procedural delay which the Bill provides. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of the House to an election in a trade union in Adelaide which will be taking place this week. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the House to circumstances which existed within this particular union in South Australia last November. [More…]
This union is a quite significant union in our State. [More…]
At that time he said his union’s prison officers would not process any union members sent to gaol because of the demonstrations. [More…]
People in that union describe the situation in it at that time as being in turmoil- I am referring to a report in the Press of 22 November 1974- and turmoil really did exist in that union with many staff changes, including the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, several organisers and office staff. [More…]
Once again, this union is having its election of office bearers. [More…]
It seems to me incredible that one of the candidates for the position of organiser in that union, a Mr George Young, is permitted to nominate. [More…]
It seems to me that if these facts are true and it is the same person, then surely the voting members of the Association, which is an important union in South Australia, should know about them. [More…]
Furthermore, it has no right to expect its members to make the charges and expose themselves to possible retaliation, because if the charges are true then the sort of person who would be guilty of them would be the sort of person who would retaliate against a member or members who had sufficient courage to bring the matter up at a union meeting. [More…]
If the union cannot ensure that persons with a record of thuggery and violence are not prevented from controlling the union, it seems to me that the Government should step in. [More…]
I leave that case and turn to the case of the Australian Government Workers’ Association merely to say that neither I nor the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi), who is a previous secretary of that great union in South Australia, knows anything about Mr George Young and his history. [More…]
I am sure that the council of that union would be following the rules of this association which were properly surveyed and examined by many learned people before they were registered at the court. [More…]
I must say that the Building Workers Industrial Union has co-operated well with the Government in its scheme for adult apprenticeship. [More…]
I hope that other unions will come to see the necessity for this sort of thing. [More…]
In the meantime, until other unions see the necessity for adult training, this Government will have no hesitation and no alternative but to recruit skilled tradesmen from overseas to bridge the gap that now exists. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia by persons ordinarily resident in such place, in accordance with the laws of that place, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
As far as this country is concerned, with a person going abroad and entering into what appears to be a polygamous union no great difficulty arises, but I venture to suggest that where a person comes from abroad where polygamous unions are permitted very grave problems can arise, particularly having regard to the fact that in recent years Australia has embarked upon what one may describe- I trust not offensivelyas a pluralistic society in terms of race. [More…]
Yet, this Bill- the Family Law Bill, as it is so delightfully described- provides that a married person may leave Australia, go to a foreign country where customs are different, where the laws are different and where traditions are very much strange and foreign to our own, enter into a union with a spouse and return to Australia with another wife. [More…]
Clause 43 (a) of the Bill states: -the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
In that case the judges espoused the principles of voluntary union between a man and a woman for life to the mutual and complete exclusion of all others. [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act - in other words, for the purposes of family law and matrimonial causes- a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been - [More…]
For the purpose of proceedings under this Act, a union in the nature of a marriage which is, or has at any time been, polygamous, being a union entered into in a place outside Australia, shall be deemed to be a marriage. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
(78a) (Mr McMahon)- In paragraph (a), omit ‘voluntarily entered into for life’, substitute ‘, voluntarily entered into upon the basis that the union is intended to be permanent and should not be dissolved by law unless the marriage relationship has irretrievably broken down’. [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
The origin of the words marriage is a union of a man and a woman voluntarily entered into for life and can be found in an interpretation of the Divorce Act 1865 of the United Kingdom. [More…]
The presiding judge then decided that the word ‘marriage’ in a Christian sense meant a ‘voluntary union entered into for life’. [More…]
Under today’s law there can be no doubt that the proper definition of the word ‘marriage’ is that it is a union intended to be permanent and should not be dissolved by law unless the marriagehere I use the phraseology of clause 48- ‘has irretrievably broken down’. [More…]
It states that the marriage is: the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
But one thing ought to be clear: When people participate in a marriage ceremony, whether it be in a registry office, a church or in some other place, and that ceremony is recognised by law the parties to it should look upon it as a permanent union and one that they will with all sincerity try to maintain permanently for life. [More…]
It proposes to omit the words ‘voluntarily entered into for life’ and to substitute the words ‘voluntarily entered into upon the basis that the union is intended to be for life’- the honourable member uses the word permanent’- ‘and should not be dissolved by law unless the marriage relationship has irretrievably broken down’. [More…]
I want to posit this to him: A woman may be married for 15 or 18 years and the union, for “one reason or another, may break up. [More…]
Amongst other things, the article goes on to make reference to a suggestion that in Australia a group of communist controlled unions had proved that they were stronger than the Australian Council of Trades Union and Federal and State governments. [More…]
Mr Santamaria formed the group known as ‘The Movement’, allegedly to combat communist influence in the trade union movement and in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Let me refer to a union about which I know something and in which I was involved. [More…]
In 1953 Mr Santamaria took time out to organise groups in an endeavour to control the Electrical Trades Union in an effort to defeat communist candidates. [More…]
Two individuals opposing the officers of the union spent about $7,000 in distributing material. [More…]
After communion breakfast they told the workers the commitments they had to the Movement and the steps they should take to ensure that the people with whom they were involved were put into places of some advantage or authority. [More…]
Honourable members come into this chamber projecting exactly the same philosophy and reaching the point where they advocate union bashing, conscription, nuclear defence, snobocracy, phoney money policies, the gerrymandering of electorates and blatant dedication to vested and sectional interests. [More…]
I also ask the Prime Minister whether he has received a number of telegrams in opposition to the reported proposal to lower the wool floor price from, firstly, the Victorian Farmers Union; secondly, the Trades and Labour Council - [More…]
I am also arranging for detailed discussions with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and officers of railway unions to establish methods of consultation and liaison which ensure all railwaymen and women are fully informed on the progress of the transfer. [More…]
Already trade union officials have been involved in the official discussions which led to the agreement to transfer the SAR and TGR. [More…]
These trade union officials made a significant contribution to the transfer discussions through their detailed knowledge of industrial matters. [More…]
The Minister could instruct the Commission to buy only from companies where union membership was total. [More…]
It will be able to force trade union policies, worker participation and policies on Australian ownership. [More…]
What opportunities for union pressure so that the Commission buys not the best but something made in a particular area of Australia or something made in Australia, as a result of which we could finish up getting the Wirraway instead of the Spitfire because the Wirraway was made in someone’s electorate in Melbourne. [More…]
I should have thought that it would have been noted by honourable members of this House and the public that Government spokesmen and trade union and professional associations have made this point publicly. [More…]
If the public’s needs are to be met, it must be the Commissions which run the postal and telecommunication services and not the trade union militants. [More…]
Trade union representation and user representation will also be provided on those Commissions. [More…]
It accepts a principle of a lower retiring age which I understand is the ambition of a number of people including union activists in this country who already are planning a retiring age lower than 60. [More…]
I have said many times that if Mr Hartley, the Australian Union of Students’ Executive, the Friends of Palestine or any other supporter of these causes in Australia wishes to argue for them, their right to do so must be unquestioned. [More…]
Thus Messrs Zananiri and Chaikh who recently toured Australia were not here as PLO members but as members of the General Union of Palestinian Students who just happened to be PLO members and who just happened to discuss nothing other than the PLO line. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
There will be union representation on the Commission. [More…]
The very fact that a union official is to be appointed to the Commission means that the interests of union members will be looked after. [More…]
These problems probably lie at the union level. [More…]
It is one of the great handicaps of a railway system that it must carry the uneconomic lines which in many cases are kept open mainly because of local pressures including local union pressure. [More…]
It indicates that trade union training and the establishment of a college for trade union training are now no longer party political matters. [More…]
Members of Parliament no doubt recently have been approached, as have I, by representatives of the Australian Union of Students who are seeking substantial increases in other areas of university expenditure, particularly in the payment of tertiary allowances. [More…]
Paragraph 1 of the letter that I received from the Australian Union of Students - [More…]
Perhaps- Mr Foster referred to this- there should be a wider union than the Waterside Workers Federation covering the employment on the waterfront. [More…]
Maybe all the unions should be brought into one area. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I ask you: Who really can blame the waterside worker if his union official, who is subjected to the elective system, does his best by the men he represents and strives his utmost to win concessions and conditions? [More…]
It is with some degree of regret that I listened to the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury), a man who is generally respected by all members of the House, giving what I consider to be a one-sided version of life in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that most members of this House would not like to live in the Soviet Union, but for the past 50 years that country has been pioneering another political system against hes, subterfuge and great position from the rest of the world. [More…]
I have been to the Soviet Union on 2 occasions and, like members in this House of all political colours I have enjoyed its hospitality. [More…]
I remember that on my first visit to the Soviet Union I was most anxious to see the kindergartens because I had been brainwashed and led to believe that the children there were taken away from their parents, against the parents’ wishes, and brought up in and brainwashed to the communist system. [More…]
I found that working couples voluntarily allowed their children to go to the kindergartens because those couples placed a high degree of importance on producing essential goods for the Soviet Union. [More…]
During question time the diplomats were asked whether it was true that women worked in all types of professions in the Soviet Union, and whether this was necessary. [More…]
One of the diplomats answered the questions very courteously by saying that more women worked in the Soviet Union that probably in any other country in the world, the reason being that when they were at war as our allies against the tyranny of Nazi Fascism, so many of their men were in the fighting forces that it was necessary for the women to do the men’s jobs. [More…]
Then, the diplomat added in conclusion that women in the Soviet Union worked for the same reasons as women worked in Australia, that is, to get extra money for the household. [More…]
I suppose that he has been a little self-conscious knowing that the Soviet Union for many years has been buying considerable quantities of Australian wool which the people in his electorate produce. [More…]
I believe that we should not refrain from criticising the Soviet Union at times. [More…]
But let us be fair and honest about the Soviet Union. [More…]
We know that in the Stalin era there was a degree of barbarity in the Soviet Union. [More…]
But as I observed the position in the Soviet Union, the Russian people have become adopted to their firm laws. [More…]
I like to hear members of the Parliament make balanced speeches when they talk about the Soviet Union. [More…]
As well as criticising the Soviet Union, they should point out the things that are praiseworthy in that country. [More…]
I regret that a man as respected as the honourable member for Ryan is should give such a one-sided speech in bitter criticism of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I have tried to balance the submissions he made to the Parliament by giving something which is favourable to the Soviet Union and of which I believe the Soviet Union is worthy. [More…]
Having heard the apologia for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James), I would have liked to have made some comments about some of the allegations and suggestions that he made. [More…]
Now that the college for training trade unionists will shortly be in operation, will the Minister make available to all trade union organisations a special information brochure setting out the details of this provision for unionists? [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Sydney for the excellent suggestion that brochures be issued to all trade unions throughout Australia, explaining to their members the facilities that shortly will be available to trade unionists in the line of trade union training. [More…]
An allocation of $3m was made in the last Budget to meet the cost of the Trade Union Training College and the State training centres. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority Bill, which was passed by both Houses of the Parliament, authorises the building of the College. [More…]
When the College is completed we will be able to offer these further facilities to unionists and thus make Australia the most advanced country in the world in the field of trade union training. [More…]
It is true that I sent out many letters to trade unions and to members of the Public Service, telling them that in my view the cost of the scheme would be astronomical if it were applied to everybody in the community. [More…]
My remarks were published at the time in the union journals, most of which attacked me for the views that I held. [More…]
Because of his close relationship with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he promised a reduction in industrial unrest. [More…]
There has been less communication and more abuse between this Prime Minister and the trade union movement or the present Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the trade union movement than I think we have seen in any government in the history of Australia since 1945. [More…]
The Government has known every time it has encouraged trade unions to ask for a higher wage or for a more significant return that because of the impact of the progressive tax scale a larger part of the total income of the country automatically goes into the hands of the Government. [More…]
Therefore the trade unions’ efforts to maintain their position and their standard of living under the impact of the progressive tax scale are essentially self-defeating. [More…]
The Government ought to be explaining that with great force to the trade union movement, but it has not done so. [More…]
It has even been suggested at times- some sections of the trade union movement have suggested it- that this Government should take action to secure contracts for Evans Deakin, but I would not condone that action for one moment and I am sure that even the Opposition would not suggest that that sort of patronising and protectionist attitude should be adopted by this Government. [More…]
I have some figures here which were given to a union deputation which came over from Adelaide on the matter of the Adelaide Ship Construction company. [More…]
If detente is to mean anything, so should the Soviet Union. [More…]
A number of these exemptions relate to such organisations as religious, charitable and hospital groups, trade union and employer organisations and friendly societies. [More…]
I really think, in fact I am sure, that it was the trade union officials- I suspect Mr Hawke and I know Mr Egerton- who had something to say about this because they appreciated the significance of it to trade union officials using the vehicles of their organisations. [More…]
Goodness me, as if applying that charge was not bad enough, apparently the Government now is saying that, in respect of that $3m that apparently it is lending to the Meat Board to offset freight costs for that rather unfortunate sale to the Soviet Union, it will place a levy on the beef producer to pay for that as well. [More…]
Following that meeting, the Minister received representations from the State Council of the Queensland Dairymen’s Organisation, the Victorian Farmers’ Union and the Federation again requesting 4 producer representatives to ensure an adequate and effective representation on the [More…]
The British and United States Governments have on many occasions unsuccessfully urged the Government of the Soviet Union to agree to his release. [More…]
For more than a quarter of a century he played an honoured role in public life, serving his union, his Party, the Parliament and the nation with dedication and distinction. [More…]
He took office with the printing unions in 195 1 and continued to hold office for 17 years. [More…]
During this time he helped bring about the amalgamation of the major printing unions in Australia in 1966 when the Printing and Kindred Industries Union was formed. [More…]
He was the Queensland Secretary of that union and of the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia, as it was known before the amalgamation, from 1954 to 1968. [More…]
He was a vice-president of the federal union from 1951 to 1968. [More…]
He represented Australia as an adviser on trade union matters at the International Labor Organisation Conferences in 1954 and 1964. [More…]
Senator Milliner was an industrial officer and Secretary of the Queensland Branch of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union for 17 years until 1966, a member of the Queensland Apprenticeship Committee during 1965-66, and Chairman of Directors of the Labor Party’s radio station 4KQ, as the Prime Minister also told us. [More…]
He entered the Senate as a prominent member of the Australian Labor Party from Queensland and had a long and active involvement with the trade union movement in that State. [More…]
Prior to becoming a paid officer of the Printing Industry Employees Union he gave many long years of honorary service to that Union, which is now the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
His trade union activities are well known to honourable members. [More…]
I conclude by saying that a great number of his fellow Queenslanders, particularly those in the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party which he served for so many years, will always look back in the knowledge that our lives have benefited in many ways from Senator Milliner’s efforts during his life. [More…]
Because the Executive Council minute was given to Mr Khemlani, to the Union Bank of Switzerland and to the Moscow Narodny Bank, financial institutions were able to state, as the Moscow Narodny Bank did in numerous examples of its correspondence: [More…]
He has, moreover, been a member of the Australian delegation to the annual conference of the InterParliamentary Union at Paris in September 197 1 and a member of the Third International Parliamentary Conference on the Environment in Nairobi in April last year. [More…]
I believe also that many of the people who have been complaining have been anxious to believe the propaganda that has emanated from the Australian Labor Party and, indeed, have been misled by a few of their own trade union leaders. [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government tries to make changes, tries to develop treaty relationships and tries to develop the legal apparatus appropriate for an independent nation- not for 8 different nations; not for New South Wales as a nation and Victoria as a nation, each as different from the other as France is different from the Soviet Union, as the members of the Opposition would sometimes like them to be. [More…]
The Australian contribution was allocated for a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia which was designed to assist women and children under the care of a number of liberation movements, including the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the South-West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the African National Congress (ANC). [More…]
Tax indexation is a non-s:arter despite appeals from both trade union and employer pressure groups. [More…]
I interpose that that is certainly of interest to the Opposition parties, if not to the Labor Party with its great trade union backing. [More…]
Those which do and which are prepared to do so openly are of course immediately open to trade union pressures against their activities. [More…]
Who, for one moment, would think in the present climate of trade union influence and activity in this country that they would hesitate for one minute to exercise that influence in favour of the Labor Party? [More…]
I suppose the Australian Labor Party is in the privileged position of having very large donations made to it by the trade union movement and by business. [More…]
The trade union movement is the Labor Party’s special advantage. [More…]
It can receive a lot of donations in cash and a lot of assistance in kind from shop stewards and trade union leaders. [More…]
Facilities can be made available at election times and several unions can get together and pay for an advertisement without the cash passing through any Labor Party account or that of an honourable member. [More…]
Country Party while they, with their trade union resources, can go on from strength to strength. [More…]
In referring to political donations- coming closer to home- the trade union movement in Australia and its attitude to political parties is entirely different from that of the trade union movement in the United States. [More…]
There is a complete difference in the relationship and political activities of unions in Australia from those which exist in the United States. [More…]
I think it is regrettable, though perhaps it is changing, that the trade unions in the main are strongly on one side of the fence. [More…]
I think the Government’s recent efforts at managing this country have led many blue collar unionists to come to the conclusion that they are better off supporting the Liberal Party. [More…]
The trade unions never hide their contributions. [More…]
In my opinion, every trade union would be included in my proposal and would be barred from making political donations. [More…]
As the system stands at the moment the trade unions are the only organisations which disclose their donations. [More…]
Have a look at the balance sheet of any trade union; political donations are set out therein. [More…]
Obviously trade unions do not provide funds to their traditional opponents, the conservative forces of this country. [More…]
If the Labor Party, the trade union movement and our other supporters are prepared to put on the line where funds donated to the Labor Party come from, why are not honourable members opposite? [More…]
We have just heard from somebody who has been closely connected with the trade union movement. [More…]
I intend to say something about the trade union movement in a moment, but before I do so I want to say that the honourable member’s Party has, according to a statutory declaration, I think, or evidence given by someone in a witness box, received $70,000 from Mr Rupert Murdoch- I think that he is very sorry now that he paid it, but he paid it; I do not know what it was paid for, but that is something which stands on the record. [More…]
The matter has come about in this way: The Australian Labor Party says that it is a trade union party- and so it is in a sense. [More…]
But what is happening in the trade unions is something that is most vile and improper. [More…]
it and being dragooned into giving financial support of millions and millions of dollars to organisers who call themselves union organisers but who are really organisers for the Labor Party. [More…]
They call themselves union organisers but they do only a little organising for their members. [More…]
But it should be remembered that in many callings- indeed in most callings- one cannot work to earn one’s living unless one gives subservience to the trade union movement. [More…]
There are many people in the trade union movement who honestly wish to support the Australian Labor Party, but there is a large number of people in the trade union movement who, understandably and rightly, oppose the Australian Labor Party- they may even dislike and hate the Australian Labor Party- and who have to support with their dues a union machine whose efforts day in and day out- not just at election times and not just with a few hundred thousand dollars but with many millions of dollars every year- are primarily directed towards the support of a political party which those trade unionists themselves oppose. [More…]
The trade union movement has become a fascist movement because it says that a person cannot work and earn a living at his calling unless he is a member of a trade union and if he is a member of a trade union he will be paying his dues- not just the political levies, which are unimportant; they are only on the surface- for a machine which is devoted primarily to opposing what he thinks politically. [More…]
I know that there are many people in the trade union movementperhaps even the majority of them- who honestly wish to support the Labor Party. [More…]
I think that the majority in the trade union movement still wish to do so even at this moment. [More…]
I do know that there are hundreds of thousands- maybe millions- of people in the trade union movement who are opposed to the Labor Party and who have to pay their subscriptions knowing full well that a great deal of their subscriptions is being paid not for industrial purposes and not for the purposes of the union but in order to further the interests of the Aus.tralian Labor Party. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party calls itself the child of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Labor Party is going to live not on its formal organisation but on the trade union organisation whereby money is being extorted for so-called industrial purposes and is being used to maintain a gang of what are virtually Labor officials, Labor organisations. [More…]
Now we have the ultimate impertinence in this Bill because it is drawn in such a way that the trade union official who is virtually a political agent of the Labor Party, who is getting millions of dollars as an agent of the Labor Party and who pretends that he is getting this money for industrial purposes- what nonsense, and everybody knows it is nonsense- is going to escape the meshes of the Bill. [More…]
Honourable members know the kind of propaganda which goes on in trade unions day in, day out, propaganda such as: ‘You must support the Labor Party even if you think it is wrong; we are trade unionists, we must support our Party, the Labor Party’. [More…]
This is the corruption- the political corruption- that occurs in unions that are using union money to further causes to which many unionists are opposed. [More…]
The British trade unions have brought Great Britain to her knees. [More…]
We know that the inflation and the economic ills in Australia, as in Great Britain, stem very largely from the excesses of the trade union movement. [More…]
We know that the capacity of the country to pay high real wages and to have a high standard of living is being impaired by the go-slow, feather-bedding strikes, the disruptions and the other things the trade union movement is sponsoring. [More…]
We have in this Bill an attempt by the Government to fasten this trade union dictatorship not just around the necks of the trade unionists but around the necks of all the Australian people. [More…]
It is now saying: ‘Nobody in the Australian community is to have any resources to organise against the dictatorship of the trade union movement’. [More…]
I remind the House of what happened in June 1972 when the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), then the Leader of the Opposition, went crawling to a communist union in order to get funds. [More…]
What he wanted was the backing of that communist trade union machine for the continuing propaganda of the Labor Party, and the use of millions of dollars, much of them extorted from people who were opposed to the Labor Party. [More…]
In order to get that machine behind him he gave certain pledges which are set down in the union minutes which have already been read into Hansard and which I will not repeat. [More…]
Just as the German people fell for the Nazis and the Hitler lie- the big repeated he- so even the Australian electorate will fall if it gets propaganda only from one side, if it has this incubus always of the trade unions which are able to get money from their opponents and from people who are unionists, who are opposed to the Labor Party but who are not allowed to work at their trade unless they join the union and pay its dues. [More…]
The unions use that money ostensibly for industrial purposes, but actually, as all honourable members know- every honourable member on the other side of the House knows this very well- every year those millions of dollars are being used all the time in a continuous campaign of the big he to distort and to corrupt the views of the Australian people. [More…]
The Government proposes in this Bill, which I hope will be thrown out because it deserves to be thrown out, to still every political voice which would be opposed to the views which it puts forward and which it had the trade union megaphone to din continuously into the ears of the Australian people. [More…]
But let me start off with the basic premise: The honourable member says that trade union officials spend most of their time organising for the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The honourable member takes the view that the trade union movement is made up of officials in a monolithic way, all of whom are members of the Labor Party. [More…]
I know a person who holds a senior office in a trade union with which I used to be closely associated in one form or another and who also holds senior office in the Liberal Party. [More…]
He must be very recreant indeed when he attends Australian Council of Trade Union congresses and various trade union gatherings if he does not uncover this deep seated plot that the honourable member for Mackellar has just found out about. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar, who in every speech that he has ever made about the trade union movement has suggested that it is completely dominated by the communists, has now discovered that it is completely dominated by fascists. [More…]
I ask the House to look at this simple fact: Trade unions in Australia, or at least those trade unions which are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, are severely and strictly regulated by law. [More…]
Each year the trade unions are required to file returns with the Commonwealth Industrial Registrar. [More…]
Any member of the Liberal Party, the National Country Party, the Communist Party, the Labor Party or any member with no Party affiliation has the right to obtain financial assistance to take action in the Industrial Court to prevent any registered union from spending money which is not within the objects of that union. [More…]
The Federal law reports, and previously the Commonwealth arbitration reports, contain numerous cases where individual unionists have successfully challenged the right of a union official to spend money in one form or another. [More…]
I say this to honourable members opposite: You are obsessed with what trade unions can or cannot do. [More…]
All the abuse and smearing of the trade union movement and all the attempts to cloud this issue will fail because there is one simple, single issue. [More…]
The point I want to bring out is that the whole of this concept that the union movement and unionists are dedicated Labor people is the greatest farce of all time. [More…]
I want to refer to the comments of the Australian Union of Students in relation to the appeals tribunals. [More…]
The Students Union had this to say about the appeals tribunals in general: [More…]
Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Labor Party and President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, along with union delegates from other democratic countries, moved an amendment requiring that all those seeking admission to the ILO should agree to abide by the rules and principles of the ILO. [More…]
It ran away from its own trade union movement and from the Australian Labor Party President. [More…]
But since the introduction of this Bill we have received an interim report from the Royal Commission Into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions conducted by Mr Justice Sweeney. [More…]
Contained in its pages are cases not only of theft of union funds but also of blackmail and extortion accompanied by menaces, threats and intimidation. [More…]
It is about a small group of ruthless and dishonest people in the Australian union movement thieving from their workmates and extorting money under threats. [More…]
I am satisfied that the demands made had no relation to any union policy concerning foreign vessels on the Australian coast. [More…]
Tracing the cheque butts revealed that the member concerned was Mr Rawlings, who then claimed that he had used this money for a union trip. [More…]
The loan was not approved by the union or by the Marine Industry Group. [More…]
The payment was not related to any union campaign at all. [More…]
I am of the opinion that the purpose of the demand was to replenish the funds of the maritime industry group and not to further any union policy at all . [More…]
It involves joint action by Mr Rawlings and Mr Elliott of the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
This Bill will make it possible to bring to justice people who commit crimes against their own unions or organisations but who, at the moment, are outside the authority of State jurisdiction. [More…]
The Bill, I believe, is adequate for dealing with persons who have misappropriated union funds, particularly those in authority as officers or members of an organisation upon trust. [More…]
I refer to the unions which are registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
It is for the protection of the property of the unions in this particular case. [More…]
That, of course, will make it a crime for a person to, in effect, steal, take from or convert property belonging to an association- to take from a union. [More…]
The title of the Bill is to achieve the protection of the property of unions and to make it a crime for people to steal from unions. [More…]
They saw the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the threat of the 1950s and the early 1960s. [More…]
Surely nobody in the Parliament will suggest that between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics there is anything but rather unfriendly and arm’s length relations. [More…]
At a time when the super powers- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America- have nuclear arsenals that can destroy the world one hundred times over, a little rational debate about what part a country plays in its own policies about what influence it may have in its own region and about how it may be able to persuade in some small way the actions of the super powers, is extremely important. [More…]
As the last speakers have said, of course there is great friction between the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The threat arises in this way: The Soviet Union and China have great enmity towards each other. [More…]
What is so unusual about that when all the major powers today- Britain, the United States, possibly China and certainly the Soviet Union and Francehave nuclear submarines and submarines with nuclear potential? [More…]
I want to say that again: The Australian Governmentthe Australian Labor Party- in terms of the global balance, the nuclear deterrent- the big league, if you like, of nuclear balance between the Soviet Union and the US- is fundamentally aligned with the US. [More…]
Any other wage or price fixing body in Australia which excluded three of six strata would be laughed out of court, particularly if it involved a trade union arrangement- and quite rightly so. [More…]
Britain and the Soviet Union are 2 countries where people pay a modicum for prescriptions which were formerly free because authorities have not yet evolved a more efficient way of deterring the over-use of drugs. [More…]
They have been negotiated with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government has said to those trade unions whose members are employees of the South Australian Railways: ‘These are the conditions in the South Australian Railways and these are the conditions in the Australian National Railways. [More…]
In my lifetime I have seen many transfers of employees which have involved trade unions as well as rearrangement as a result of amalgamations. [More…]
The Mathews recommendation and the requests of the trade union movement for indexation as part of a wage restraint package have been ignored. [More…]
It is precisely the opposite of the action recommended by an expert committee of inquiry, by the Arbitration Commission and by the trade union movement. [More…]
We would expect the President of the ACTU and the ACTU and the trade union leadership to play a national role in arguing for wage and salary restraint in the interests of both their members and all Australians. [More…]
During all the years in which I have spoken at trade union meetings I have found that when people have claimed the $364 deduction or the $208 deduction, they imagined that $364 or $208 was cut from their taxation. [More…]
There were just postulates of vast confidence in the private sector, and the honourable gentleman had the total cooperation of the trade union movement instantly in wage restraint. [More…]
Secondly, the trade union movement is shaken by high taxation, insecurity and turmoil. [More…]
The rank and file trade unionist is exerting himself to a greater extent against the trade union leadership. [More…]
Mr J. P. Heffernan, State president of the Victorian Farmers’ Union, said the Budget ‘made a mockery of the Industries Assistance Commission recommendations on aid to the rural sector’. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report of a survey conducted in 1973 by the Department of Education in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, entitled: Why Students Reject Tertiary Places. [More…]
Is he worried that he may lose a bit of union support? [More…]
It did not make the information available either to the Union Steam Ship Co., to ANL or to William Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd for that matter. [More…]
Wm Holyman & Sons Pty Ltd is basically owned by the Union Steam Ship Co. [More…]
It is the Union Steam Ship Co. [More…]
There is the Union Steam Ship Co. in New Zealand and the Union Steam Ship Co. in Australia but it is still the Union Steam Ship Co. [More…]
When we talk about the Wanaka we are talking about the Union Steam Ship Co. because it has a major shareholding in Holyman and owns the Wanaka. [More…]
The effect of this increase is that the cost to Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd of the combined Union Steam Ship company’s freight increase which applied from 16 June and the 40 per cent increase of the Australian National Line which has been just announced will be $2. [More…]
It is a pity that the honourable members are not Tasmanians who understand the problem, because the exports of Australian Newsprint Mills are carried by the Union Steam Ship Company in a great percentage of cases. [More…]
In the first place, those who are responsible for unreasonable wage demands are putting themselves in the position of lulling their industry and putting the members of their unions out of work. [More…]
It seems to me that the types of people who lead these unions are not really interested in work at all, they just want trouble. [More…]
With the industry as sick as it will be in the near future, the only way we can get out of it, I believe, is for the trade union leaders in the building industry to use some common sense. [More…]
We appeal to the trade union movement. [More…]
We point out to unions that if they use too much industrial muscle to get pay increases to enable their members to escape the rigours of inflation, this will be done at the expense of those weaker than their members, those young people whom the Aus.tralian Government sets out to protect. [More…]
Throughout the period leading up to the events which have followed the show of force by the Timorese Democratic Union on 10 August the Government has been very much aware of the difficulties which were likely to accompany the decolonisation process in Portuguese Timor. [More…]
Many people believe that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has Supplied arms to the pro-communist Fretilin movement in Portuguese Timor in the hope of obtaining bases in the area if Fretilin is successful. [More…]
We can add to all this the claim made in a union submission that over the last 12 months we have given to the private sector $3,000m in special aid to assist faltering companies from production cutbacks and to maintain employment. [More…]
Would the Minister undertake to say to them that they must not talk about East Timor, that they must not have an attitude to the UDT- the Timor Democratic Union- and Fretilin or in regard to self-determination of East Timor, its incorporation into Indonesia or its remaining a colony of Portugal? [More…]
I would like also to mention Mr Justice Sweeney’s interim report on alleged payments to trade unions because this also is important to Tasmania. [More…]
In his conclusions in the interim report he said first of all that it was certain that union officers had made unilateral and uninformed decisions about interfering with shipping out of Tasmania and into mainland ports. [More…]
Secondly, he said that these union officers had made these decisions completely without regard to their effect on the community These matters are important enough but his third observation was that he was certain that ‘in part’ the decisions were designed to stop the issue of single vessel permits continuing. [More…]
I am afraid I have to deplore the fact that trade unions seem to be coming into these areas, especially when this is considered with the statement of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) that the reason for the increase in ANL freight rates was industrial disputes by maritime unions. [More…]
Inflation was off, wage demands became rampant, and some militant trade unions were using their union muscle to force over-award payments in some cases aided and abetted by Ministers and other members of the Government Party. [More…]
The taxpayers are not fooled and the trade union movement is not fooled. [More…]
Government supporters will find that out to their cost in the next few weeks and months from statements and the industrial unrest that is already starting in the trade union movement. [More…]
By contrast, the features of our present predicament are: Small, even non-existent, growth of 0.4 per cent last year; inflation between 1 6 and 17 per cent and likely to grow in a year rather than to fall as it is doing in the United States of America, West Germany, Japan and Canada, our main trading partners- even now there are some prospects, with trade union co-operation, in the United Kingdom of inflation coming down below 25 per cent; unemployment of an unacceptable kind; and growth in seasonal terms of 0.4 per cent. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister will agree with me on that One of the problems that is facing the people who are trying to organise those who are learning something under the NEAT scheme is that after they have gone to all the trouble of paying an enormous amount of money to have somebody trained they find that in many cases the trade union movement will not accept these people on the job. [More…]
I understand that quite a number of trade union sections- not all of them- will not accept, or have refused to accept, these people as apprentices under the terms of the legislation and will not allow them to start their job. [More…]
To me there seems to be a cross-fire between the Government and its ally the trade union movement. [More…]
After all, the Government has set up this scheme and I would have thought that one of the areas from which it would get co-operation would be the trade union movement. [More…]
There is no doubt that quite a few people have been refused work by sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
I feel that there is a stumbling block which the Government, with co-operation from the trade union movement could overcome. [More…]
The honourable member’s criticism about some union resistance is well made. [More…]
There is some resistance in some craft unions to the retraining of adults. [More…]
The Building Workers Industrial Union has been most co-operative in relation to retraining schemes operating in various parts of the Commonwealth, particularly in respect to bricklayers. [More…]
There was no such stimulation and incentive in the Budget, least of all to the union movement. [More…]
One would have thought that having come under constant attack from the union movement for having created unprecedentedly high unemployment the Government would have made some effort to implement policies on which the unions put high priority. [More…]
Ignoring the unions’ No. [More…]
By rejecting the tax indexation principle, by turning its back on the support of the union movement for this principle, the Government has virtually guaranteed a continuation of inflationary pressures. [More…]
I believe that there is some trade union responsibility left in this country. [More…]
I know that he is committed to the campaign of union bashing being conducted by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
He put union leaders and strike leaders in concentration camps. [More…]
I say further that there is a need for union responsibility. [More…]
In fact, the trade union movement is based on the premise that individual unions will not take strike action without consulting the central trade union body if a proposed strike action would affect the livelihood or the employment of other trade unionists. [More…]
I believe that there is a heavy responsibility on trade union leadership today, more so than at any time in the last decade, to act responsibly in the national interest and in the long term interest of the members of trade unions. [More…]
But we are seeking to convince the trade union movement of the worth of wage indexation. [More…]
The nation is faced with the prospect of half a million unemployed at the end of June next year, a figure suggested by the leader of the trade union movement in this country, Mr Bob Hawke. [More…]
The underlying causes of the situation we find ourselves in are the Government’s economic policies; the establishment of the Prices Justification Tribunal; unemployment schemes like the Regional Employment Development scheme, the Structural Adjustment scheme and the National Employment and Training scheme; increased unemployment benefits and the easing of requirements relating to a person’s refusal to accept a job in a specific category; and inability to control the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement also stands condemned in its attitudes. [More…]
There is another valid criticism of the measures, namely, that they represent a betrayal of the trade union movement, the workers, and are an abrogation of all the assurances given to them by this Government. [More…]
There are 3 reasons why this statement is so much nonsense: First, it is of doubtful validity whether the Government can lay such a condition on the Commission; second, the unions will not accept it; and third, the Commission cannot possibly accept it. [More…]
These Bills arrogantly represent a thumb on the nose attitude to the trade union movement and every worker in Australia. [More…]
There is no way in which the union movement will or should accept such a proposal. [More…]
We fund trade union colleges so why cannot we fund a secretariat to help small businesses? [More…]
We are on the side of helping private enterprise in this respect, just as we agreed to help the leadership of trade union organisations in that way. [More…]
It was commented on recently by the President of the Building Workers Industrial Union when he said that only 16 per cent of wage earners or one in six were able to purchase their home. [More…]
Is he aware of reports that the latter person during the course of his regular program Union News and Commentary has urged people to reject decisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and to disregard attempts to check inflation and has alleged that the Industrial Court was stacked? [More…]
According to a report in the Brisbane Courier Mail of 26 October 1974 the organiser of the Amalgamated Workers Union said that ‘Evans Deakin workers were not satisfied with the Federal Government’s shipbuilding policies’. [More…]
We hear it from the Australian Labor Party, from the unions and from the socialists. [More…]
We would avoid the conflict which seems to be inevitable in so much of the union attitudes of today where all that they are doing is seeking to get more and more for the work force by way of wages. [More…]
-In the short time at my disposal I wish to make a couple of references to the type of hypocrisy which we have just heard from a once parasite on the trade union movement, who made a lot of money in living off the unions and who now talks glibly about private welfare. [More…]
It is worth noting also that this is the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union movement. [More…]
Its self-satisfaction has the same sort of crazy logic as was displayed by Mr Gallagher of the Builders Labourers Federation when he claimed that forcing a major construction company into bankruptcy, thus putting thousands of members of his union out of work, was a great victory for the workers. [More…]
With too many victories like that he will end up with no union at all. [More…]
The Opposition has undertaken to phase in over 3 years the recommendations of the Mathews Committee on indexation of personal income tax, a measure which has the complete support of the trade union movement but which was rejected by the Government when it had an opportunity to implement it. [More…]
Among those supporting indexation are trade union organisations, industry associations (representing rural, commercial, manufacturing, mining and service industries), many large and small companies, professional bodies and Australian and State Government departments or agencies. [More…]
I should like to diverge for a moment to examine a significant address that was made by Solzhenitsyn to the American trade union movement on 30 June this year- the end of our financial year and not theirs. [More…]
We were told that there would be less industrial strife because of the so-called special relationship between the Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
With this destructive combination of record industrial disputation and record unemployment one would have thought the Australian Labor Party would have come up with some constructive ideas, but the one initiative proposed was indexation, and then only on wages- not on personal income tax, although that was recommended by the Government’s own committee, the Mathews Committee, and is supported by the whole union movement. [More…]
What other words can be used to describe a situation where a Minister of the Crown has the effrontery to tell beef producers, who are desperately seeking a market for their stock and who are desperately trying to stay solvent, that if they want to export cattle they should try to make arrangements with the union so that they will be allowed to export their stock. [More…]
That is a brilliant way to get a union outside the system to comply with it. [More…]
Are they seriously suggesting that a union which, in a ballot conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, decided by 25 000 votes to 200 votes that a certain person was to be the general secretary, could be told by the court that they could not have that person? [More…]
They are seeking to deny the very tenet on which the whole system of trade union elections is based. [More…]
Honourable members opposite would seek to push trade unions outside the system of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Our wages policy which the Opposition has attacked and continues to attack has the support of every State government, of every major trade union organisation and of the majority of employers in this country. [More…]
In addition- and quite apart from what may appear to be sloganeering- we have a great deal of detail worked out in terms of major programs for the creation of equal opportunities for work, for removing discrimination in employment, but not by legislation tampering with decisions of the Commission, for training and retraining and for union and management training. [More…]
We have supported most enthusiastically the trade union training programs and we wish to have extensive corresponding management training programs. [More…]
Indeed, that accords with trade union policy. [More…]
For 22 years the trade union movement tried to get the system of quarterly adjustments restored. [More…]
The trade union movement has wanted the system restored ever since. [More…]
Some unions are pressing for wage increases outside indexation guidelines. [More…]
I saw a report in one trade union journal recently saying that a union supported wage indexation but also wanted cost of living adjustments. [More…]
The union concerned was a fairly small union; I do not think it is a typical misconception. [More…]
I think there is a lack of understanding in some areas of the trade union movement about what indexation really means. [More…]
There is also undoubtedly some action by trade unions to get bigger pay increases to increase their share of the cake. [More…]
I think it is this part of trade union activity which is of the greatest concern to this Government. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union, which has key men for the building of the temporary bridge, restoring the Tasman Bridge and construction of a new Risdon punt, has been holding out now for six weeks - [More…]
The union has been told there can be no Court hearing until the men resume work. [More…]
The Opposition could not engage in its usual union bashing because, as I think the honourable member for Gippsland realises, the leadership of the union concerned recommended a return to work but the rank and file voted otherwise. [More…]
The Opposition usually tries to make out that in union affairs the leadership imposes its will on the rank and file. [More…]
Now that the Opposition has had presented to it an example of the recommendations of a union leadership being rejected, rightly or wrongly, I think that the lack of understanding of Opposition members of industrial relations has been shown up. [More…]
They have said: ‘It was not the fault of the leaders of the unions. [More…]
Because they are frightened of some of the trade union elements they stay silent. [More…]
Once again, unfortunately, many members of my union lost their lives in that disaster as a result of engineering bungling brought about by the Victorian Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
No union or private company in this country would tolerate these conditions. [More…]
The Postmaster-General (Senator Bishop) was asked to continue the service and delegates, officers of the postal union, arrived at Parliament House to take up the matter with the Minister. [More…]
Last night the State Executive of the Amalgamated Postal and Telecommunications Union rejected a proposal that sorters at the Sydney Mail Exchange should stop letters going out, in sympathy with the travelling post office. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a socialist republic. [More…]
The red menace, of course, has had a new lease of life recently, but it is hardly appropriate for a Budget debate; so members of the Opposition parties resort to another one of their well worn whipping posts, namely, union bashing. [More…]
Well, I just make the point that the union bashing concept in this particular case takes the form of Public Service bashing. [More…]
He talked about union bashing and zero growth in the Public Service. [More…]
There is now widespread support for wage indexation since the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission adopted it as a result of the initiative of this Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the largest. [More…]
Recently the United States bartered wheat for oil with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The United Farmers and Graziers Association of South Australia and the Farmers Union of Western Australia have both questioned the worth of appearances before the IAC if they are to be totally ignored by the Government. [More…]
I think it would be fitting if in the space over Mr Speaker’s chair we were to have some of the Prime Minister’s immortal words placed before us- phrases like: ‘You are a disgrace to your profession’, or his memorable phrase from the weekend regarding the kickbacks which trade union officials were receiving from solicitors. [More…]
Good Lord, we are having enough trouble now with sections of the trade union movement to convince them of the Tightness of wage indexation. [More…]
Why would the unions want to use arbitration after what the Opposition would have attempted to do twice- throw the Government elected for a 3-year term out of office? [More…]
And the Opposition would then go to the unions and say: ‘Yes, do the right thing’. [More…]
The unions would laugh in the faces of members of the Opposition. [More…]
-On 19 September last, the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage Board of Western Australia informed the Water Supply Union that it intended to retrench 300 employees. [More…]
So, despite the extraordinary commitment of the Australian Government to this massive problem- it has provided $30m over the last 3 years- gratitude is shown by threatening to retrench 300 members of the Water Supply Union unless the Australian Government is prepared to provide more funds. [More…]
However, I do not think we should be surprised at the Western Australian Government’s record of ineptitude, because one only has to look at the extraordinary way in which it carried out its negotiations with the union on this matter. [More…]
On 13 August this year the union wrote to the Board indicating that it had heard rumours that retrenchments may be necessary and indicating that the union was totally opposed to the retrenchments and wanted to know whether there was any truth in the rumours. [More…]
On 1 9 August the Board replied to the union saying that at that stage there was no indications that retrenchments would be necessary. [More…]
Exactly one month later the Board informed the union that retrenchments of the order of 300 employees would be necessary because of the alleged cut-backs in Australian Government funds. [More…]
I should have thought that the trade union movement, which is supposed to represent these coal workers, would have been here in Canberra explaining the situation to the Government and seeing that some decent legislation comes forward, not this piecemeal operation which will not correct the situation for many in the industry. [More…]
The honourable member was not in this place at the time one of the major eastem European countries made an application to the then Attorney-General, the present Chief Justice of the High Court, to extradite to the Soviet Union mass murderer- and I name him again in this place- -Evon Vicks. [More…]
Whether it is Diego Garcia which might be built up by the Americans, or whether it is Somalia or some of the places in the Gulf of Aden which might be built up by the Soviet Union, the attitude is the same towards each. [More…]
Mr Souter has had a long career as a senior trade union official. [More…]
There must be indeed very serious matters that the Government wants to cover up if it is prepared to sacrifice this very loyal servant of the trade union movement. [More…]
People should not suffer by being required to do without shelter because the Labor Party and the trade union movement have severely damaged our national economy. [More…]
By unanimous agreement both Houses of this Parliament have passed a Bill to set up a trade union training authority to set about training trade unionists and to build a college, which the Australian Council for Union Training has appropriately decided ought to be named the Clyde Cameron College, at Wodonga. [More…]
I simply make the point that a substantial cut was made in the funds available for the Australian Council for Union Training and express some regret about it. [More…]
With full-time attention required to keep trade union demands under control, the present Minister for Labor and Immigration (Senator James McClelland) has been no different from his predecessor in apportioning only a fraction of his time to ethnic affairs. [More…]
With no reserve savings to fall back on, with no one in government willing to hear the migrant cause, with trade unions happy to take union dues but contemptuous and insensitive to migrant problems, it is no wonder that ethnic people in Australia are feeling more and more that they have been cheated by this Labor Government, and cheated they have been. [More…]
We would be a lot further advanced if only the trade union movement in Australia would recognise that proposition. [More…]
The Government of the day, whether it be Labor or Liberal, will have difficulties with the old conservative trade unionists who believe that once one has a ticket one is trained for life. [More…]
The Soviet Union, Sweden and other countries have had complete bans on all forms of tobacco advertising but have still suffered from an increase in consumption. [More…]
I believe that there must be restraint by the unions. [More…]
The trade unions must show greater restraint than they are showing. [More…]
It is of no use this Government trying to dissociate itself from the trade union movement. [More…]
It is pandering to the trade union movement and at the moment is in a dreadful bind. [More…]
This Government is synonymous with the trade unions, and we all know the way in which they are ruining this country today. [More…]
He told me that the Soviet Union has recognised that the changing pattern of human behaviour is such that a great deal more attention will need to be paid to the social sciences than we now pay. [More…]
-In Victoria today there has been a strike by members of the Federated Cold Storage Union employed at dairy factories throughout the State. [More…]
The stoppage is in support of union claims for increased wages made on Victorian product manufacturers. [More…]
The situation has obviously varied from factory to factory, depending on the capacity of the farm or factory storage and the attitude of employees at individual factories to the recommendations of their union. [More…]
The union’s claims went before an arbitrator last Wednesday and were denied. [More…]
The Secretary of the Federated Cold Storage Union is Mr Pat Gallagher, the same Mr Gallagher who was appointed by Senator Wriedt to the Australian Dairy Corporation. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that another unionist, Mr Carr of the Furniture Trade Employees Union, was foremost in the recent opposition to an approach by the dairy industry for a product price rise. [More…]
Dairy farmers throughout this nation cannot be expected to tolerate in the membership of their corporation a union representative who is intent upon effecting industrial strife that will affect the livelihood of dairy farmers and their families. [More…]
Further deliberate union action cannot be tolerated. [More…]
This Government must exert some form of control over the union’s leaders who must show restraint. [More…]
The withdrawal of the search subsidy, the ban on overseas investment, the atmosphere of uncertainty, the dictatorial refusal to have meaningful dialogue with the industry at any level, including union leaders by the way, have lost Australia nearly 3 years of effective minerals and oil exploration activity. [More…]
We hope and expect that this change will be especially welcome to trade union leaders and the members of their unions. [More…]
Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Spain, South Korea, Uganda, Argentina and Brazil are among the countries with long records of violations of human rights. [More…]
The best marchers were the anti-communist clerks union. [More…]
Finally, does the Government see wage indexation as a means of preventing union bashing? [More…]
In respect of union bashing, let me briefly refer to 2 points, Mr Speaker. [More…]
He made a plea that the Liberal Party should get away from indiscriminate- I emphasise the word ‘indiscriminate’- union bashing. [More…]
He is the advocate for selective union bashing. [More…]
If those in the Teaching Service Uke to continue to call themselves the Commonwealth Teachers Union or the Commonwealth teaching profession, that is their affair, but the name that has been chosen by the Government for the reasons that I have set out is Australian Teaching Service. [More…]
I say that that particular committee would be one of the most unique in the Commonwealth where there are shipowners and seamen’s union representatives sitting round the same table with the fishing industry boys to work out the problem of higher education. [More…]
Although the Opposition supports the principle that the provisions of the Navigation Act should apply to such off-shore industry vessels, especially as we are advised that the most prospective areas for further discovery of oil and gas in Australia lie off-shore, I think the House should be aware that the policies being pursued by certain trade unions are creating chaos in sections of the off-shore industry. [More…]
I refer in particular to the demands that were made by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in respect of the workers employed in the construction of the Bass Strait oil installations. [More…]
We have seen reports in recent weeks of welders being paid more than $30,000 a year and of the unions waging strike action against contractors on trumped up excuses which have had no relevance to wage justice or the legitimate working conditions and requirements of the men engaged in this work. [More…]
The men made it clear from the start that they wanted to work and it is a pity that the union leaders did not take more notice of their rank and file. [More…]
It would be a help if the Government could use its newly acquired powers over vessels engaged in off-shore industry to curb these flagrant abuses which the left wing unions are making in this industry. [More…]
If the activities of the militant unions continue future oil supplies from Bass Strait will be threatened and the vital energy needs of this country will be placed at risk. [More…]
As the industry is so vital the Opposition is very concerned about the militant union action which has been taking place in recent weeks in the Bass Strait fields. [More…]
Led by the militant left wing officers of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the welders in particular have held up the construction of off-shore oil structures which are necessary to increase the production of oil from the Bass Strait fields, which production is vital to the future domestic energy requirements of Australia. [More…]
It is most unsatisfying to find that unionists who did not want to strike were compelled to do so under the influence of the militant left wing officials conducting wage negotiations in that area. [More…]
The fact that after all these weeks of strike the union has accepted wage indexation- it fought bitterly against it before- only highlights the absurdity of the action that was taken and highlights how damaging it has been in delaying the construction of those necessary off-shore structures. [More…]
We would have hoped that the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) would have exerted some influence on those unionists to prevent such a damaging strike. [More…]
They should bear in mind that we on this side represent the trade union movement, the working people of this nation, and if the rules are to be that anybody can do anything he likes the Opposition parties must bear the brunt of the consequences. [More…]
We are saying to the trade union movement that there is a rule of law and a course of conduct open. [More…]
Let the unions make no mistake about this. [More…]
In public the Leader of the Opposition speaks about having a system of sanctions in our industrial system and in private he talks about gaoling union leaders. [More…]
I call upon my friends and supporters in the trade union movement, of whom I have many hundreds of thousands, to rally behind the Prime Minister’s call, to stand up and to defend the system of government by the people, of a government entitled to govern for its full 3-year term, enshrined by the Constitution as the right of all elected governments. [More…]
Their Ministers have threatened their trade union colleagues with a reference to a 28 per cent inflation rate and 750 000 unemployed. [More…]
The House will be aware of the report cited in the Jakarta newspaper Kompas of 20 October that advancing Democratic Union of Timor- UDT- and Apodeti forces had come across the remains of 4 male Europeans in the Balibo area. [More…]
They are continuing to go to work only because the trade union movement and the Labor Party have told them not to stop work, that we do not want a situation of anarchy to develop. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is he aware of a report by the former Federal Secretary of the Carpenters and Joiners Union that he was told in July that the Budget would introduce a $2 per barrel levy on crude oil. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will look for someone of repute and not just one of his trade union mates whom he is so fond of putting on these commissions. [More…]
The honourable member for Gippsland made some caustic remarks about trade union representatives whom I have appointed to various commissions for which I am responsible. [More…]
Honourable members can rest assured that I intend to continue appointing trade unionists to all these commissions. [More…]
All it is worrying about is trying to placate the left wing union leaders and the people it thinks might help it to preserve it in office, but it will find that so many of those people are so disillusioned with the Government that it will have lost even their support. [More…]
Among those supporting indexation are trade union organisations, industrial associations (representing rural, commercial, manufacturing, mining and service industries), many large and small companies, professional bodies and Australian and State government departments or agencies. [More…]
Included in its membership was a former senior official of the Australian Taxation Office as well as very able persons drawn from the business, trade union and academic spheres. [More…]
One thing that concerned me greatly in the preparation of the Budget before its presentation was that because we had to resort to a number of measures involving indirect tax charges which could easily be interpreted as an anti-worker or as an anti-wage earner impost, and as we introduced in that Budget the most radical reform of personal taxation for 50 years in itself, on the surface, perhaps seeming to be a complex exercise I believed it absolutely essential that the spokesman on behalf of the trade unions who that night, after the Budget was delivered, would be asked to comment on its nature should be fully informed, that he should not have an inadequate appreciation of the strategy of the Budget and its contents. [More…]
There was a real risk otherwise that the moderation which we were striving to achieve would not be obtained and that inadequate information could encourage further resistance from the trade union movement and more wage pressure. [More…]
The result was that much more support has been forthcoming from the trade union and professional association movements in Australia. [More…]
There is more co-operation from the trade union movement because of the informed way in which Mr Hawke was able to articulate the ingredients of the Budget and the strategy into which it fitted; accordingly we were able to gain more support. [More…]
In favour: (93)- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Democratic Yemen, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
The President of the ALP has deep personal involvement in all aspects of the Australian Council of Trade Union’s business and financial activities. [More…]
Yesterday the Treasurer told this House that the leaking of Budget secrets to Mr Hawke would facilitate trade union cooperation with the Government. [More…]
There is more co-operation from the trade union movement because of the informed way in which Mr Hawke was able to articulate the ingredients of the Budget and the strategy into which it fitted; accordingly we were able to gain more support [More…]
The Government decided to leak secret information to the head of the trade union movement in return for co-operation from that gentleman. [More…]
Not only was opportunity for personal gain presented by the Treasurer’s actions but also a capacity for trade union enterprises to benefit at the same time was directly available. [More…]
The House is very much aware of the personal involvement of Mr Hawke in trade union business activities. [More…]
The information given to the President of the Australian Labor Party was also given, by virtue of the trade union movement’s business activities, to one of Australia’s significant commercial organisations. [More…]
The royal commission has already made it plain that trade union business enterprises are in no sense incapable of dishonest practices. [More…]
Mr Hawke, of course and the ACTU and the trade union leadership to play a national role in arguing for wage and salary restraint in the interests both of their members and all Australians. [More…]
Of course, and this is the point, the Labor Caucus and the trade union movement outside Parliament are more significant than the people. [More…]
So it seems that in a less than subtle way the attacks on Mr Hawke take on a form of union bashing, for which the honourable member was well known when he was Minister for Labor in a previous Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
I find it remarkable that the Leader of the Opposition, in his speech to this Parliament on the Budget, should have laid stress on the need for wage restraint if there was to be an economic recovery, if the private sector was to get on to its feet, and that he should have topped this assertion off with a claim that success could be achieved only through co-operation with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and with the ACTU, and that then both he and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition should have presented statements in this Parliament which clearly implied that in their view the President of the ACTU was a crook. [More…]
I repeat that Mr Hawke contributed a great public service by the way in which he was able to achieve by persuasion widespread wage earner support- trade union support- for what we were trying to do. [More…]
The Labor Party is dominated by city union people and by ex-Labor Party executives and campaign directors who come into the Parliament and expect to be able to legislate in a responsible fashion for one of the largest industries in this country. [More…]
It is a fact that there has been a drastic shortfall in the estimated availability of wheat in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The Jackson Committee is meticulous in the recommendations it makes for better consultative procedures in which the trade union movement as well as manufacturers themselves, governments and the consumer interest can all have a proper say. [More…]
Of course, it has related that question of the weakness of middle management in Australia to the equally pressing matter of the quality of union leadership in Australia. [More…]
The Committee rightly recognises the work that was done by the former Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, in establishing the trade union training college. [More…]
For many years in this country we have had people who were prepared to throw up their hands and bemoan the quality of union leadership. [More…]
But Mr Clyde Cameron was the first Minister for Labor and Immigration that this country has had who was prepared to take the practical step of setting up the trade union training college. [More…]
-The honourable member for Riverina, who is noted for the negativism of his views in this House, is amused by the existence of the trade union training college. [More…]
But the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, took an important step when he set up the trade union training college. [More…]
If we can resolve for ourselves the question of how to provide suitable training for trade union leaders in this country it should not be beyond our minds to do as much for management. [More…]
The Electoral Bill, which he claimed would enable the Labor Party to receive vast sums of money from the trade union movement, while threatening heavy fines for any business that gave the Liberal Party financial support. [More…]
The Scripture Union is an Australia-wide organisation working, inter-alia, in the field of drop-out /unattached youth. [More…]
The Union, at the request of youth workers active in this area, agreed to convene a conference to enable such workers to come together to consider jointly some of the issues inherent in their work. [More…]
The Australian Government, through my Department provided a grant of $3,800 to the Scripture Union for the purpose of preparing a report on the subject. [More…]
What action has the Government taken to rectify the banning by certain unions of shipments of wheat to Chile? [More…]
Does he foresee a continuation of this ban and, if so, what action can the industry expect from the Minister and his ministerial colleagues to overcome this impasse caused by the trade union movement attempting to control our exports? [More…]
Whether the Opposition likes it or not, trade unions have shown a remarkably responsible approach in recent months subsequent to the appeal by the Prime Minister and the actions taken by this Government. [More…]
I think those who want to make union bashing more selective ought at least to give some credit to the fact that in this country at this time of economic crisis trade unions have adopted a far more responsible approach as a result of the exhortations of this Government than has been evident at any time I can remember since the war. [More…]
That is a trade union consideration; it is not an educational consideration. [More…]
those aspects of the Trade Union Training Program which have involved the making of grants to assist in maintaining certain trade union training activities. [More…]
Talks are to be held with union and employer groups on the future role and operations of the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
These measures will be discussed with the trade union movement before legislation is introduced. [More…]
The Government gives high priority to the provision of trade union training. [More…]
It is particu- l arly concerned that training opportunities, and the composition of National and State Trade Union Training Councils recognise the important position of women in Australian employment. [More…]
The nation simply has to face the fact that the economy cannot support the magnitude of the wage and salary increases being sought by the trade union movement with the endorsement of the Opposition in this House. [More…]
By going back apparently on its previously announced policy it has deliberately set out to whip up concern and apprehension within the trade union movement. [More…]
I did not receive much support from either inside or outside the trade union movement at the beginning of my campaign. [More…]
Eventually support was given to it by the trade union movement whose members began to see that, if they were to preserve the increased share of the gross domestic non-farm product which they were able to receive for the year ending September 1974, amounting to 6.2 per cent- the most massive transfer from capital to labour that had ever occurred since Federation- they would need to index the wage system so that that increase could remain real over the period of years for which the wage indexation proposal was to operate. [More…]
It was a decision that would have been opposed by the Caucus, and I am certain by Cabinet, if it had ever been put forward, as it should have been opposed, because ever since the concept of wage indexation was a reality, from 1921 onwards, there has never been a concession by the trade union movement that increases reflected in the C series, the D series, the CPI or any other index should have discounted from them the effects of indirect taxation. [More…]
The unions have steadfastly refused it on every occasion. [More…]
What the Government is doing in pressing on with this sort of policy is spoiling for a fight with the trade union movement.. [More…]
The employers want a fight with the trade union movement now like they want a hole in the head. [More…]
The Government did not take the line it did on the application of the wage fixing principles out of some sort of desire to enter into a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Indeed, I am this day engaged in discussion with the Australian Council of Trade Unions to try to arrive at proper procedures for entering into consultative arrangements and I hope to find a favourable response from the ACTU to my approaches. [More…]
Apart from the Treasury- inspired gobbledegook that was used in this House by the previous 2 speakers from the Government side- I am sure that neither of them understood one word they said; they were reading from script which apparently had been prepared for them by the Treasury- what is understood by the community and by the trade union movement is that wage indexation is an increase in purchasing power for that lost through rises in prices. [More…]
Speaking of credibility, it is a matter of great regret that the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations seems to have lost his credibility in his negotiations with the trade union movement. [More…]
In his negotiations with the trade union movement, the Minister comes forward, puts propositions and enters into negotiations but when it comes to the crunch, when a decision has to be made, the honourable gentleman regretfully has to leave the negotiations and go to speak with the Prime Minister to see whether he can give a decision. [More…]
In those circumstances there is no trust of the Government by the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
It was accepted by the trade union movement in an endeavour to bring about some stability in the area. [More…]
All it will do is move the trade unions into an area where they will forget about going to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to seek any rise. [More…]
That in turn will bring about an inequity in the whole society where unions which are dealing with companies that perhaps are not so profitable, or unions that perhaps do not have so much muscle will find that their members will start to lag. [More…]
The trade union movement, as expressed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and its august President, has made it clear that that is a situation it really does not want to see. [More…]
As all honourable members know, unemployment is one of the great creators of division in our society, the division of wage earner against wage earner, of government against union, of taxpayers against people who need to take the dole. [More…]
I refer to tax indexation and the encouragement of secret ballots for union officials. [More…]
Mr Fraser was to be a conciliator with the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask honourable members to listen to what Paul Johnson, someone who can hardly be described as a friend of the trade unions, thinks of Mr Fraser ‘s beginning. [More…]
It seems to me incredible that Mr Fraser should take such a fateful step on indexation without previously consulting trade union leaders or even informing them in advance. [More…]
Recent events in Angola are important for the very important reason that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has shown for the first time that it now has the military and the strategic capacity to move large quantities of arms, munitions and troops- in this case Cubans- to virtually any part of the world. [More…]
In the last decade, while the United States has continued to maintain a parity at the atomic and hydrogen level, at the conventional military level the Soviet Union has moved into a position of quantitative superiority. [More…]
I am merely stating a fact that the Soviet Union today does give the impression to the world of a nation which is determined whereever possible, whenever the opportunities arise, to make use of them to turn a situation to its own advantage and therefore to increase its own international prestige and influence. [More…]
It is obvious that the future of SouthEast Asia is going to depend principally on the relationship between Australia, Japan, China, India and, to a lesser extent, the United States and the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Within that orbit there will continue to be potential for a growing conflict of interest between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China. [More…]
I believe quite firmly that if the Soviet Union increases its influence in South-East Asia, through North Vietnam for example, a point will be reached where China might well have to consider taking action in its own interest. [More…]
The one thing that China is terrified of today is that it is going to be surrounded by the Soviet Union, its growing navy and its satellites. [More…]
But as well as changed attitudes on the part of many managements we need to see changed attitudes in the part of many union managements because it is in many of the trade unions that we find some of the most restrictive trade practices, if I can put it in those words. [More…]
Union demarcation disputes do tend to militate against productivity improvement. [More…]
I suggest that the centres of power from which the people of this nation must be protected are two- the major one big government, the second one big monopolistic unions. [More…]
I do not want to engage in union bashing. [More…]
As a former executive member of a union I have a great deal of respect for the true, proper role of unions in this nation. [More…]
What I am concerned about is the extent to which various union leaders, for political purposes, are using those structures without, I believe, the proper support of their membership. [More…]
I am overjoyed to see in the Governor-General’s Speech that measures are being taken to restore democracy to the union movement. [More…]
At imminent risk, as was pointed out at the time, to her finances, she gave in her adhesion to the union at the very outset without a selfish thought of any kind. [More…]
I am sure the honourable member’s trade union colleagues would react very strongly to such a suggestion. [More…]
On a monetary basis for work done, the farmer would be receiving a mere pittance- a pittance which no self-respecting unionist would tolerate for one minute. [More…]
Shortly before Christmas 1975 the President of the Victorian Dairy Farmers Association and the Dairy Division of the Victorian Farmers Union signed an agreement to form a new body to be called the United Dairy Farmers of Victoria. [More…]
Despite the highest levels of unemployment since the depression, there are still union leaders who will push management to breaking point. [More…]
Even in that atmosphere unions are still prepared to push management to take decisions such as the one taken in Cootamundra last week. [More…]
It was the result of a final confrontation by a militant union. [More…]
I should point out that an industrial order which was granted in Sydney only 1 9 days before the final closure of those works was breached 12 times by the union in that period of 19 days. [More…]
My understanding is that the bulk of the union’s decisions is made or influenced by the union executive in Sydney. [More…]
I wonder whether the Sydney unionists understand or care about Cootamundra and the members of the union who worked at Conkey ‘s. [More…]
What will be the response of the Sydney based union? [More…]
I believe that members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in Cootamundra and in other country areas should give serious consideration to breaking ties with that union if the union executive is responsible for the present situation. [More…]
Perhaps the time has come for a country meat industry employees union. [More…]
I use this analogy simply to demonstrate that the unionists in Cootamundra should not accept a situation in which they become pawns in the power game of a Sydney based executive. [More…]
Do we have the leadership in Cootamundra which will demand the secret ballots for which so many unionists express their support in private? [More…]
I fear that the union in Sydney will be allowed to dominate and that the situation which will then exist will not result in a satisfactory agreement being reached. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) has indulged in a traditional and typical union bashing speech. [More…]
This is never the case with most trade unions. [More…]
There have been reports that certain trade union organisations as well have said that people who come within the ambit of the amnesty should go to their trade union before they go to the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
I remind him that today is the seventh anniversary of the judgment in the Moore and Doyle case in which the Industrial Court drew the attention of the then Attorney-General to the urgent need, as it stated, for a system of trade union organisation which would enable the one body to represent in terms of legal personalities, structure and organisation its relevant members in both Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
The friends of the previous Government, the leadership of the Australian Metalworkers Union, contributed this gem towards the end of January this year on the Government that was. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metalworkers Union leadership stated: [More…]
So on this occasion- it may be rare- I happen to agree with the leadership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
I think a trade union movement tied to capital and thinking more and more in terms of money is not going to be a better trade union movement. [More…]
I can remember the days when he lectured me at Melbourne University on economic history, about the trade union movement and the industrial revolution. [More…]
The Government is also accused by some of union bashing. [More…]
If one reads this document and if one reads the Press statements and other statements of Ministers in this Government one can find no justification for that assertion in relation to union bashing. [More…]
This document reaffirms the Government’s commitment to the trade union training program. [More…]
The trade union training program is essential for a better understanding by rank and file trade unionists and by trade union official of the way in which the economy functions; it is essential to a better understanding of how to manage the affairs of their unions, which is a business when all is said and done. [More…]
If one listens to some of the loose talk from the left or the right in our community, one hears irresponsible and stupid suggestions about a confrontation between this Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact, again it provides an interesting contrast for students of political science to compare some of the speeches of members of the Opposition, some of whom are former trade union officials, with speeches of the kind to which I have referred. [More…]
I am confident that the trade union leaders and this Government will respect the role which each of them has and will not allow extremism to dictate the terms in Australia. [More…]
This proposal is not supported by the United States of America or by the Union of Soviet Social Republics. [More…]
That aim has been thwarted over the last 3 years by a display of political banditry from some members of the Australian Labor Party fully supported, I submit, by the left-wing industrial union backroom boysHawke, Carmichael, Halfpenny and Elliott. [More…]
We particularly require the support of responsible trade unionists. [More…]
We will give them the machinery to control their own unions rather than be controlled by self-elected communist leaders. [More…]
The election of democratically minded Labor men will make unions progressive and trustworthy again. [More…]
The trade unions want leaders, not saboteurs. [More…]
They want men fostered by those unions which have an almost unlimited capacity to seek the good things in our society. [More…]
They have to oppose such unions as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which led by Laurie Carmichael, will have a $10m fee income to spend on activities such as the gestapo tactics employed by certain trade unions in the last election, unions which stood over men demanding money and ordering them to leave their jobs to attend meetings addressed by the former Prime Minister. [More…]
What disturbed me more though about the honourable member’s speech was that earlier in it he named certain union leaders and uttered an open threat to them by saying that the people had gaoled them on 13 December. [More…]
In other words, any union leader carrying out his duties is threatened by this Government with imprisonment. [More…]
It is usually done by putting a political tag on a particular union leader. [More…]
I would remind him of the occasion when Clarrie 0 ‘Shea was gaoled by Mr Justice Kerr for carrying out the wishes of his union members on an industrial matter and not because of his political complexion. [More…]
Mr Justice Kerr committed him to gaol and the whole industrial union movement, not just one pan with a certain political complexion, got behind him. [More…]
Above all he wants to have some involvement in his trade union if he is a unionist. [More…]
One honourable member made some brief remarks about the proposal that secret ballots should be introduced for the election of office bearers in trade unions. [More…]
It is very enlightening, I would suggest, and very instructive to see what is said by those who are opposed to that principle of secret ballots for the election of union office bearers. [More…]
Of course, one of the most vocal opponents of this proposal is Mr Halfpenny of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
He, like some other people on the other side of the House and in the trade union movement, says: ‘We already have secret ballots’. [More…]
Of course the office bearers of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union are elected by a secret ballot. [More…]
It is a ballot conducted in the union offices. [More…]
We want secret ballots conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office to ensure that the individual member of a trade union has a free and unqualified opportunity to express his view on who should govern him in that power structure known as his trade union. [More…]
What is the situation with regard to the conduct of trade union ballots in that union of which I am speaking? [More…]
They are conducted by a returning officer- not an outside independent personwho is an official of the union. [More…]
The election takes place in the union offices. [More…]
I do not know much about the internal workings of the offices of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union but I think it would take a high degree of charity to regard them as anything like the implementation of a proper system of democratic elections. [More…]
It is extremely unlikely that that union’s election of office bearers is conducted on any democratic principles at all. [More…]
No doubt Mr Halfpenny and his colleagues would point again to the rules of their organisation which say that not only is the election of office bearers to be conducted by a secret ballot but also there is an enforcement provision; there is- to use that dreadful expression- a penal clause in the rules of that union to guarantee that the election is conducted properly. [More…]
One can imagine how the prospect of a fine of 25c or $2 would terrorise anyone in that union who might be tempted to exert any influence over the conduct of an election in that union. [More…]
We say that individual trade unionists have the right to have a proper say in the governing of the affairs of their trade union. [More…]
They can have that say only if they have a free and unqualified opportunity to elect the office bearers of their union by a free ballot conducted under the supervision of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
I say that because it is important, particularly in this day and age, that individuals should have an opportunity to have some participation in the power structure which surrounds them, whether it is the Government, their trade union or their place of employment. [More…]
One example of this is the tripartite conference in Melbourne in January which was attended by trade union leaders, employers’ representatives and the Government. [More…]
We have also established the successful Economic Consultative Group, which consists of 17 business and union leaders and which meets with senior Ministers. [More…]
This was the first of a regular series of exchanges of information and views which will lead to a better understanding of the Government bureaucracy and a better understanding in business and in trade union areas of the problems of Government. [More…]
The Government also expects a like commitment from the trade union movement. [More…]
There are more responsible members in the trade union movement than can be found in the ranks of the Opposition. [More…]
The trade union movement and particularly the Australian Council of Trade Unions must be concerned with jobs and productivity. [More…]
The trade union movement can no longer be too much concerned with higher money wages at the expense of other legitimate concerns such as the working environment and jobs. [More…]
To have an exclusive concern with money wages is to pursue monetary interest at the expense of jobs and at the expense of people who once used to work beside other trade unionists. [More…]
Increasingly, the rank and file unionist is realising that higher money wages which undermine the prerequisite for economic prosperity are neither in their interests nor in the interests of other Australians. [More…]
No longer can the trade union movement argue that providing jobs is the sole responsibility of government or employers. [More…]
No longer can the trade union movement regard itself as responsible only for getting more money for its members. [More…]
The power of the trade union movement must involve, must demand as it does, a broader responsibility. [More…]
Unless the trade union movement discharges that responsibility its support amongst its own members will inevitably be eroded. [More…]
A concern that there are adequate jobs is a basic responsibility of the trade union leadership. [More…]
It would be an Australia in which powerful interests- both business and trade union- recognise their responsibilities to the individuals they serve and to the wider Australian community. [More…]
We are involved in serious union problems. [More…]
That is the Russian equivalent of the CIA- is inside the Soviet Union, but its international operation is small compared with the CIA. [More…]
To indicate to the House that the views expressed are not just the views of commercial vested interests I shall quote from a report prepared by the unions involved in the airline industry. [More…]
The unions are as follows: the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, the Australian Federation of Air Pilots, the Federated Clerks Union of Australia- that is a bunch of silvertails if I have ever heard of one!the Airline Hostesses Association, the Australasian Airline Flight Engineers Association and the Flight Stewards Association of Australia. [More…]
De Gaulle was the first significant foreign affairs spokesman to recognise the significance of China’s fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
China, studying the possibility of her own destruction, decided that the United States could not destroy China but that the Soviet Union could, and that the Soviet occupation of Hungary and Czechoslovakia was a claim to supervise other communist powers in the way that everybody supervised China in the nineteenth century. [More…]
China, finding this prospect intolerable, broke with the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the developing tensions, this obliged the Soviet Union to concentrate a couple of million troops on Russia’s Far Eastern border. [More…]
The NATO headquarters was in France, and it finally came to the point where de Gaulle needed to ask a straight question: ‘If, because of the presence of these headquarters, or because of the position of France in the alliance, the Soviet Union were to land a few nuclear missiles on France, would the United States retaliate on her behalf?’ [More…]
The very large French naval forces in the Indian Ocean, which at first sight is an ocean that appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the strategic defence of Fance, are there simply so that nuclear missiles on submarines or on other vehicles are deployed on Soviet Donets Basin cities so that if the Soviet Union were to use nuclear weapons on France, France might have this deterrent to be able to retaliate and not be beholden in any way to the United States of America. [More…]
It has become part of the mythology in this country that we have an automatic guarantee that if the Soviet Union were to land one on North West Cape the United States would retaliate on our behalf and sentence to death some millions of New Yorkers, San Franciscans and others. [More…]
I think it is generally accepted that the submarine missiles of the Soviet Union do not have the range of the submarine missiles of the U.S.A. but they are sufficient. [More…]
So if the Soviet Union actually wished to attack Cockburn Sound- I am not suggesting that it would at the moment- it could do it from off Capetown, from the Antarctic, from 2000 miles north of Singapore or from 800 miles east of Wellington, New Zealand. [More…]
It follows from this that even though the Soviet Union may be mistaken in this view the fact has to be recognised that rightly or wrongly it does hold this view. [More…]
With one-track minds this union baiting and union hating Government will gleefully resort to coercion and conflict with the trade union movement. [More…]
As the chairman of the military committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation pointed out last December, an intelligence analysis of Warsaw Pact military developments has discerned only one trend in the Soviet Union and her satellites- a steady and continuous improvement in both the quality and quantity of weapons, equipment and training with growing emphasis on offensive capability. [More…]
There was no question of some union nominating some ‘com’ or putting some person who was not even employed by the CSIRO on to the executive. [More…]
The low returns for agricultural products whose high volume and tonnage actually carry the transport systems have been bled dry by the fairyland of inefficiencies, feather beddings and go-slows that have been building up year after year in the transport industry, the seaboard and the shipping companies that have to toe the union line in Australian ports. [More…]
If that remark, in the closed minds of my friends opposite, is to be called union bashing then it is past time that we did a lot more of it. [More…]
There will be no profit in attacks upon the trade union movement or the watersiders. [More…]
In conclusion I want to praise the actions of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Engineers, which today has placed a black ban on the Murdoch Press. [More…]
I would consider a similar ban by the members of the telecommunications union employed by the Australian Postal Commission quite fair and reasonable, because not only is the Murdoch Press running the Liberal Government of this country but it is endeavouring to run the Opposition in respect of who shall be its leader. [More…]
He will have noted yesterday’s decision of the Full Bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to award a 36% hour working week to the 500 employees of the Australian Postal Commission and the recommendation of Deputy President Isaacs to the Postal Commission to discuss the extension of the shorter working week with the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [More…]
Has the Government hitherto refused to allow the Australian Postal Commission to negotiate with the union on this matter? [More…]
In view of the fact that the Full Bench in unanimously awarding the shorter working week once again rejected the Government submission that to grant the union’s claim would be economically catastrophic, will the Government now consider taking a more realistic and sensible attitude to industrial issues? [More…]
In particular the presence of Cuban troops acting as agents for the Soviet Union, and also Soviet weaponry, made this impossible. [More…]
With the encouragement of a misguided Government, trade unions have been vigorously pursuing a policy of pricing workers out of jobs. [More…]
In short, the trade union movement and our opponents in this House put the drive for ever increasing money incomes ahead of employment and job security. [More…]
In the basic document of detente, ‘The Statement of Basic Principles of United States-Soviet Relations 1972’, the Soviet Union together with the United States promised to ‘attach major importance to preventing the development of situations capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations’, and recognised that ‘efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly’ were inconsistent with the objectives of detente. [More…]
While it is possible that the involvement of the Soviet Union and Cuba in deterrnining the outcome of the struggle in Angola grew with events and opportunity as much as or more than it was a deliberate attempt to steal a march on and humiliate the United States, it is difficult to see how the Soviet Union’s unprecedented and significant military incursion into southern Africa can be squared with that basic statement of principle. [More…]
It is difficult also to see how the image of the Soviet Union as a conservative, status quo, defensively-minded state- an image which has often been projected lately, not least when the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean is under discussion- can be reconciled with this deliberate projection of its power. [More…]
It is particularly disturbing that the abuse of monopoly power by unions does not seem to be subject to the provisions of this Act but that the activities of corporations and companies are. [More…]
I draw attention to the report by the Trade Practices Commission that it is powerless to deal with unions which engage in illegal trading activities. [More…]
The Commission is unable to proceed against the Transport Workers Union in Sydney whose actions have caused the price of petrol to be higher in Sydney than it would otherwise be. [More…]
Consumers ought to be protected against the abuse of union power. [More…]
In tracing the role of the Labor Party in making Australia a better place to live in, one cannot overlook the part played by the trade union movement in New South Wales. [More…]
Half the Australian Council of Trade Union membership is in New South Wales. [More…]
There are over 800 000 unionists affiliated with the Labor Council of New South Wales. [More…]
The bulk of the Federal unions have their offices in New South Wales. [More…]
The trade union movement in the mother colony- New South Wales- was responsible for the first moves to start a political Labor Party. [More…]
First I mention the present plight of thousands of Jewish people trapped in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I was informed by the Russian Consul that there were 2.4 million Jews in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of which only 2 per cent were being detained, the reason stated being that these people were in possession of secrets of a military or state nature. [More…]
The trade union movement has not forgotten the performance of the Liberal-Country Party governments over the years. [More…]
The particular problem of Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority members and members of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia employed by that organisation has caused concern both to previous governments and to this one. [More…]
The undertaking which the honourable gentleman seeks is very difficult to give because the Clerks Union members employed by the ASIA are not technically members of the Public Service and therefore no guarantee can be given to them that they will be absorbed into another avenue of the Public Service, because they are not members of it. [More…]
Whether one wishes to be the father or the midwife, as the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) so eloquently pointed out, no doubt depends to some extent on the legality of the union. [More…]
The relationship which Japan will build between the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other could cause tensions. [More…]
It could also allow for an exchange between sports coaches, trade union officials, farmers and journalists. [More…]
It is stupid for anyone to talk about political democracy in this place, particularly someone who adopts the point of view of ex-trade union secretaries from States like mine, and the honourable member for Port Adelaide should damned well recognise the fact. [More…]
If he wants it, I have in my office proof going back over 15 years of political levies which were enforced by his Party against the wishes of trade unionists in this country and, in particular, in my State. [More…]
However, it is unfortunate that neither those who are members of the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament nor those who are members of some of the trade unions and who nominally are the supporters of that Party are concerned about those problems outside. [More…]
Indeed, many of the problems in the wool industry to which the honourable gentleman refers relate specifically to a fact- that the members of the Storemen amd Packers Union are not prepared at this moment to maintain an obligation which they voluntarily entered into as to maximum woolpack weights. [More…]
Accordingly at this stage it is difficult to see in what way one can persuade the members of the Storemen and Packers Union to accept the responsibilities that they voluntarily entered into. [More…]
-I am glad to hear the intervention of the honourable member for Port Adelaide because I suspect that even he does not realise that the members of that union entered into these arrangements completely voluntarily; they knew the consequences. [More…]
I believe that there is a responsibility on these men, the members of this union, to return to work and avoid the costs which are now flowing through to the wool growers as a result of their wool not being sold, which is to the prejudice and detriment of the whole Australian community. [More…]
-I ask leave of the House to present the report of the Australian Delegation to the 62nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference held at London between 4 and 12 September 1975, to move that the paper be printed and to make a short statement in connection with the conference. [More…]
The Prime Minister will find to his cost, as did a Conservative Prime Minister in Great Britain, that the voters will not permit unbridled and unnecessary attacks upon the union. [More…]
In these days when the irresponsible element of Parliament which sits opposite us is always mischievously trying to ignite the powder keg of trade union leaders’ applications for more and more wages, it would surely be a good thing if these people paused a while, gathered their scattered brains together- the few they have got must be lonely- and used some of their efforts in asking their followers to copy the example of the wheat growers in restraint, responsibility and statesmanship. [More…]
On these occasions I have been approached by various staff and trade union associations in an effort to embroil me in what I have regarded as purely internal ABC management decisions. [More…]
In their maiden speeches unfortunately, four or five Government supporters made bitter and unfair criticism of the Soviet Union, a friendly country, over its build-up.of forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) spoke in this House this evening about unfair criticism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It is well known that one of the greatest stumbling blocks to a trade in cattle for slaughter has been the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
Members of that union seem to be under the mistaken belief that such a trade would lead to a decrease in the number of jobs, which of course is quite wrong. [More…]
What agent or shipper would comtemplate a contract in live cattle for slaughter knowing of the huge losses suffered in the past as a result of union bans? [More…]
Finally, and necessarily briefly, I refer to a matter of great concern to my electorate and to all Australians, that is the abuse of power wielded by some unions. [More…]
There is little doubt that unions have a positive role to play in our Australian society. [More…]
However, it is equally true to say that there are a number of unions in this country which are controlled by individuals whose aim is not to benefit members of their unions but rather to use their position for their own purposes. [More…]
I am not about to indulge in a spate of union bashings. [More…]
Those who sit on this side of the House as well as those who sit opposite are well aware of the individual executive unionists whom wc would be much better without. [More…]
Merely by implementing the secret ballot provisions we are not going to rid ourselves of our mutual union problems. [More…]
Rather, it is going to require encouragement from all sectors of our community to ensure that reponsible members of the unions stands for executive positions and, further, to encourage unionists to exercise their right to vote. [More…]
We all have a duty to ensure that the role of responsible unionism is protected. [More…]
At the present time our greatest task is to ensure responsibility from the unions. [More…]
It is those in the rural sector in my electorate who are grieviously affected by irresponsible union action. [More…]
They are defenceless against the abuse of union power. [More…]
That is a lovely example of democracy- if a nonLabor union man at a rally tries to express his point of view he can expect to get roughed-up. [More…]
The communists are trying to use the trade union as a weapon to tear down the institution of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
They are hitting at the integrity of the trade union movement and in an indirect way using the movement for political purposes. [More…]
The blame also rests with the Labor Government’s total mismanagement of the economy and, I believe, with the union leaders themselves, many of whom have a lot to answer for because they have priced many of their workers out of jobs. [More…]
The union leaders themselves must accept some of the responsibility. [More…]
In the various States it works from the offices of a number of communist led unions. [More…]
In Brisbane CIET operates from the offices of the President of the Building Workers Industrial Union, Mr Hugh Hamilton, who is also State President of the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
In South Australia support is being organised by Ron Barclay, State Secretary of the notorious Seamen’s Union of Australia, using the office of Action for World Development in Adelaide and this is significant for it points to a linking of a church organisation with the pro-communist Fretilin movement to which I will refer later. [More…]
I believe that the attitude of the Queensland contractors and the people who work for them is an act of statesmanship which it would do well for trade unions and trade union leaders to follow. [More…]
Very often on this side of the House, and less often on the other side of the House, honourable members have exhorted members of the trade union movement to abide by the decisions of the Commission, particularly decisions of the Full Bench. [More…]
There is an arbitration system, widely accepted and widely respected, and it will not continue to be held in that position if trade unions and corporations do not abide by its decisions. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics produces between 85 million tonnes and 1 10 million tonnes a year while the production by North America is between 55 million tonnes and 65 million tonnes. [More…]
1 quality, which is equal to the best in the world, attracts a higher premium than the Manitobas and the best wheat from the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that as of Friday of last week members of the Transport Workers Union of Australia employed to service domestic airlines, members of the Storemen and Packers Union employed in some wool stores, nurses in New South Wales, members of the Storemen and Packers Union employed by drug suppliers and a large retail store in New South Wales, members of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union supplying supermarkets in Sydney, train guards in New South Wales, brewery workers in Darwin, workers in the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union at the General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd plant in South Australia, employees at soft drink plants in Perth and members of the Municipal Officers’ Association of Australia in Western Australia employed by the State Energy Commission were either on strike or were threatening strike action? [More…]
In one instance at least- that involving the Storemen and Packers Union and the wool bale dispute- it is in clear breach of an agreement which was signed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, to which the ACTU was a party, and to which the union, brokers and other people were also parties. [More…]
I cannot remember all the disputes the honourable gentleman referred to but in relation to the Transport Workers Union and the airlines dispute I am advised that the members of that union will be back at work from midnight tonight and that the question has been referred to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the proper body to hear disputes of that kind. [More…]
It never would have occurred had the then Government taken the advice of many of its trade union leaders and practical businessmen who knew exactly what would be the result of those policies. [More…]
If he complains to his employer or- even worse- to his union, further indignities will be heaped upon him. [More…]
This Government seeks deliberately as a means of controlling employment a pool of unemployed so that it can discipline and smash the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a union bashing government. [More…]
I take this opportunity to welcome to the parliamentary union the new Liberal aldermen on the Brisbane City Council- Alderman Denver Beanland of the Auchenflower ward, Alderman Syd McDonald of the Hamilton ward and Alderman John Andrews of the Gap ward. [More…]
An article in the newspaper reported what a local organiser of the trade union movement had to say. [More…]
The particular sources of concern with the proposals, which I am advised did become law on 14 February of this year are, firstly, the description of Poland as a ‘socialist state’; secondly, a reference to the Polish United Workers Partythat is, of course, the Communist Party- as the leading political force in the country; thirdly, a reference to Poland’s alliance with the Soviet Union; and, fourthly, a clause that would have made citizens’ rights contingent upon their fulfilling duties towards the state. [More…]
However, with respect to any particular application- the honourable member’s question referred to a particular application- I have suggested that the exporter or those responsible as his agents if he so desires, should contact those who might have an interest within the trade union movement and perhaps have an informal discussion as to the degree to which that particular export might be supported by the trade union movement. [More…]
There is the European Common Market, and Cominform countries under the control of the Soviet Union, an economic bloc made up of North America and South America, the emerging nations in Africa and, beyond those, out on our own and alone, Japan and Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a country whose friendship we enjoy. [More…]
The Foreign Minister of India recently refuted on the floor of the Indian Parliament an allegation that the Soviet Union had any bases in India or elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
This is a nationalised organisation of the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
When I was in Europe in June last year I was approached- because the discussions were more or less on a confidential level I feel that I am not free to name the people who spoke to me- by people who stated that all the leading people in European shipping are concerned about the way the Soviet Union is expanding its shipping operations throughout the world today. [More…]
The Soviet Union is one of the minor trading countries and probably has less trade than most other countries; but it is the sixth largest shipping nation in the world today. [More…]
Every country is concerned about the way the Soviet Union is expanding its shipping fleet. [More…]
From the attitude of the Minister for Transport and the Government as a whole, the Minister for Defence should have added that with the entry of FESCO into Australian trading we welcome our great friend the Soviet Union into Australian trade and its use of Australian ports, because that is what it means to have Australian ports used by Soviet shipping. [More…]
I was told on the telephone this morning by a union representative that the Opposition had been instructed specifically not to move amendments because the unions want these Bills and this scheme to be carried. [More…]
I would like to know from the Minister whether, in framing these regulations, representatives of the contributors will be consulted and whether the Government will have some consultation with the white collar union representatives to see whether those regulations fill the gaps about which people are complaining. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the way in which certain elements in the trade union movement were allowed make the running on the matter for a time. [More…]
That agreement was signed by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other parties to it. [More…]
This dispute had its origin when, quite unilaterally, the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia repudiated that agreement and said that it would not handle any bales over the weight of 180 kilograms. [More…]
The ACTU advised the Union to keep to its agreement and lift the bans on the handling of wool; but apparently the ACTU is quite incapable of ensuring that the storemen and packers keep to their agreement. [More…]
The dispute has now widened in accordance with the declared objective of the Storemen and Packers Union to smash the national wage case guidelines. [More…]
I was staggered to find that a Minister in the South Australian Government was quoted yesterday as saying that if wool growers wanted to be paid for their wool they should lend their support strongly to the Storemen and Packers Union to see that the Union’s claims were met by the wool selling agents. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware of the financial havoc being created for wool growers and for this nation as a result of the industrial blackmail being perpetrated by the strike by the Storemen and Packers Union? [More…]
In view of the fact that many wool growers are now unable to meet thentax commitments because of the actions of the Storemen and Packers Union will the Treasurer request the Commissioner to exercise his discretionary powers as sympathetically as possible while the present situation persists? [More…]
Yet it is this group that the union concerned is in fact putting up for blackmail at the present time. [More…]
We need the support of the States because they are responsible for a great deal of the spending of the public dollar; we need the support of local governments; and we need the support of trade union leaders. [More…]
Some trade union leaders, in my view, have contributed very heavily to the present situation. [More…]
The Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, at its national executive meeting this month, claimed in its state of the industry resolution that vital sections of the building and construction industry were heading towards a collapse of unprecedented dimensions. [More…]
The union’s National Secretary, Mr Clancy, claimed that from the end of last November to the end of this year another 50 000 workers in the industry will lose their jobs unless action is taken very soon. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition talked about the Building Workers Industrial Union and Mr Clancy. [More…]
I would hope that the situation in Geelong is not as bad as the union thinks it is. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations heard the view attributed to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that he is satisfied with the present system of election of trade union leaders? [More…]
What number and proportion of union members voted for the present leadership in, say, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union? [More…]
Yes, I agree that union leaders do exercise considerable power in the community. [More…]
If the leader of the ACTU says that he is satisfied with the way in which all union elections are now conducted, it is quite clear that thousands of union members are not. [More…]
Many union leaders are not. [More…]
My information is that at the last election for the leadership of the union to which I think the honourable member referred- the AMWU, which has some 170 000 members- the leadership was elected on a vote of approximately 1.8 per cent of the membership of the union. [More…]
The leader of the union now holds his office by a vote of 1 . [More…]
1 per cent of the membership of the union. [More…]
Is it a fact that on Monday of this week the Industrial Registrar convened a meeting of officials of unions which have not yet altered their rules to meet the statutory requirement that as from November of this year a full-time union officer entitled to vote as a member of the management committee of the organisation shall be directly elected by the membership of the union? [More…]
If so, has he received a report that one of these officials, a senior officer of the Federated Clerks’ Union of Australia and a member of the National Civic Council, requested the Registrar to exempt his union from the requirements of the Act on the ground that the Government had given his organisation an undertaking that it proposed to amend the Act to remove the requirements for rank and file elections. [More…]
The Government has received representations from the union movement and employer organisations expressing dissatisfaction with the present legislation. [More…]
We have given an undertaking to employer organisations and the unions which have made representations on this point that in considering amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act we will take into account the representations they have made. [More…]
Of course, the Soviet Union will not face total war- none of us would want that to happenbecause, with the use of today’s weapons, little would be left of civilisation or, indeed, of humanity if such a thing were to occur. [More…]
One cannot trust the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union will never keep its word if it is to the advantage of communism that it should break it. [More…]
Firstly, he says that the Communist Party in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is attempting to create a one-party state. [More…]
What it wants to write into the Constitution amounts to a denial of the right of political association, of the formation of parties and of any real chance of an effective opposition in the Polish Parliament; secondly, the taking away of the rights of an independent and free Polish foreign policy by writing into the Constitution that, ipso facto, the foreign policy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, will be, for all intents and purposes, the foreign policy of Poland; and, thirdly, by giving to an arm of the Executive, the State Council, an interpretive right- whatever the honourable member for Wills might say it is not the right of the Governor-General of Australia but in fact is the right of the High Court of Australia- to interpret the Constitution. [More…]
I hope that by our actions other Parliaments will be encouraged to express similar views and that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics will be told that what it has done has not met with the approval of the people of Australia and freedom loving people throughout the world. [More…]
There has certainly not been any since 1939 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Hitler’s Germany divided Poland between them. [More…]
What happened in Poland is deplorable as is what happened in the Soviet Union and in satellite countries of the Soviet Union. [More…]
If a country is living next to a giant such as the Soviet Union it is even easier for freedom to disappear, as happened in the case of Poland. [More…]
The Soviet Union is an authoritarian and totalitarian country, but we have a distinction on the part of this Government between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
We criticise the Soviet Union and attempt to make friends with China. [More…]
I do not know whether this is really a conscious attempt by our Department of Foreign Affairs or whether it is just a preference by the new Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who has always been closer to the peasants and therefore prefers the Chinese regime to that of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The union said it accepted its broader social responsibilities and that it is prepared to accept changes in the industry which provide national benefits provided only: [More…]
That is no way in which to run a government and to try to intimidate the trade union movement. [More…]
If that ever happens again, it is important that the trade union movement takes some pretty direct action to guarantee that those sorts of stand-over tactics are not repeated. [More…]
I should like to base my observations today firstly on a telephone conversation with Mr Halfpenny, the Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Mr Boswell, an organiser of the Australasian Society of Engineers who organises union work in the Dandenong area. [More…]
The union leaders are therefore perfectly correct and also the speaker from the Opposition is correct when they say that the Government is correct to try to rationalise the motor industry but it must be very careful before it starts inviting other motor manufacturers to enter the market. [More…]
I agree with the unions on this point because it is open to question whether it is possible to keep full employment for everybody if more motor manufacturers try to enter a field which is already diminishing. [More…]
In this the Australian trade union organisation, facing the closing half of this century, will be completely responsible for the employment of its members in that industry. [More…]
The unions have to take exceptional care to be certain that their policies within the industry are in the interests of the Australian nation and all those who work in, belong to and take part in the motor industry of the nation. [More…]
He was reading to us from a document which I believe was somewhat akin to the constitution of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I regret that the honourable member for Burke interpreted my remarks earlier as being an attack in isolation on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
If he had been listening to the introduction to my speech he would have heard specific reference to India, Indonesia and a number of other countries which might be said to be in a different bloc from the Soviet Union. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the Federated Storeman and Packers Union of Australia, whilst demanding a maximum weight of 180 kilograms, has also offered to participate in discussions aimed at increasing the average bale weight? [More…]
If the honourable member can ensure that those who might come from the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia would approach such a conference in a spirit of goodwill and common sense I would be only too prepared to take up his suggestion. [More…]
We do not have a responsibility to the companies and the trade unions. [More…]
The trade union movement is the only body in this country which makes its political donations public. [More…]
The balance sheets of the unions show every donation that is made and every levy which is struck and whose proceeds might go to the Australian Labor Party or to any other political party that is to their liking. [More…]
What would be the case if an organisation such as the Institute of Public Affairs or a trade union such as the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia placed advertisements in newspapers or on television away from election time? [More…]
I am glad therefore to see that trade union principles still exist in the Commonwealth Teaching Service structure and that nobody has gone to the trouble of writing a different speech for the new Minister, even if he happens to be of the opposite political party. [More…]
Honourable members will find that this same situation pertains in countries such as Canada, the United States of America, the Soviet Union, China and India. [More…]
UNION AID TO EAST TIMOR Mr FRY-I direct a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
I refer to the plans of the trade union movement to endeavour to make a shipment of humanitarian aid to East Timor. [More…]
-I have to say at the outset that I agree with those elements of the trade union movement which wish to send aid to Timor. [More…]
To that extent I agree with the trade union movement but I would, of course, prefer that it acted in concert with us and channelled the aid it is seeking to ship to East Timor through the International Red Cross in conjunction with us. [More…]
Unquestionably the union approach is somewhat uncertain, especially as regards the projected departure of a ship. [More…]
We make a plea to the leaders of the trade union movement to show restraint in demands for wage increases. [More…]
Every time wages for employees in a particular union go up other people are put out of work. [More…]
It is often required by union representatives who act on their behalf. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has also shown signs of coming in and making some significant purchases. [More…]
He talked about restrictive practices being rife in Australia and about their causing prices to be maintained at artificially high levels but he did not tell us about the restrictive practices carried on by sections of the union movement. [More…]
No member opposite referred to the situation in New South Wales where the Transport Workers Union has a ban, part of which has been temporarily suspended for the purposes of the State election, on the supply of cheap petrol. [More…]
It is also essential for the survival of our free enterprise system that the union movement recognises that abuse of power will no longer be accepted by the Australian community. [More…]
It is not only business leaders who must contribute but those businessmen, executives and union leaders who have something to say. [More…]
He was a little critical of the Transport Workers Union of Australia in New South Wales because it was trying to preserve employment for its members. [More…]
When one looks at the group that is reviewing this legislation one cannot find anybody effectively representing the trade union movement, the consumer or the small businessman. [More…]
It relates again to the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
There will be an amendment to the Act so that the unions will be subject to the Act. [More…]
The sequence of events very simply was that an 23 February the Commission issued a public statement saying that after a careful examination it had come to the conclusion that there was not capacity within the Commission to do anything about what the Transport Workers Union was doing in relation to the discounted petrol supplies in Sydney. [More…]
I know from experience in my electorate recently- I received a delegation from the State school teachers union and parent organisations, and with them I visited schools in my electorate- the value of that kind of activity not only for me but also for members of the deputation. [More…]
No wonder the Labor Party members do not want secret union ballots. [More…]
The following salient points arising out of the international study to which I have referred are worthy of consideration by government, industry and even unions and the Opposition. [More…]
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, based in the United States of America, is aggressively opposing the internationalisation of garment industry sweat shops. [More…]
This can be done only if we get into close collaboration with the trade union movement and the industries concerned to determine what they think should happen. [More…]
The speaker was Mr John Halfpenny, the State Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
It relates to the ballot shortly to commence in the Victorian Branch of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
The incumbent officials of course have the rolls available to them from the union office, so that the sitting officials have the decided advantage that they have access to the names of everybody who will be entitled to vote. [More…]
Apprentice trainee tradesmen who move from one State to another are accepted by employer and union alike except in the licensed trades where recognition may not be automatic. [More…]
Can he say how many visible surface warships or sighted submarines of the Soviet Union were in the Indian Ocean in each of the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 and to what categories of warships, e.g. [More…]
I now ask the Minister Is it a fact that in the Federated Clerks Union elections in Victoria in previous years, conducted by the Industrial Registrar, the candidates for office were supplied with copies of the electoral roll? [More…]
He made certain allegations regarding elections currently being conducted in the Federated Clerks Union by the Australian Electoral Officer for Victoria. [More…]
Victorian Branch of this union and for the Federal councillors from that branch are being conducted by the Electoral Office at the request of the Victorian State Executive and the Federal Executive of the union. [More…]
But I am informed that if requests to examine the lists of members of this union are made in the proper way the lists will be made available. [More…]
The Government could take a strong stand and assist in the plans of the trade union movement to send aid to East Timor by guaranteeing safe passage. [More…]
One can think of many others of a secondary and tertiary nature which have not adjusted in the way that these agricultural industries, in particular the fruit industry, have, because of union obstructionism, because employees cannot be sacked anyway, or because the industry is protected by very high tariff levels. [More…]
Mr Maher and Mr John Maynes, both of them NCC agents, made representations to persuade the Labor Government to alter the Act to allow a continuation of the collegiate system of depriving union membership of a direct vote for office holders. [More…]
I pay tribute to the very fine work carried out by Mr Joe Riordan in opposing this insidious attempt by NCC agents to persuade Senator James McClelland to defy Labor Party policy and the platform of the Australian Labor Party to bring in this anti-democratic system of controlling union officials. [More…]
They knew that if they could defeat the then Government they would have the power to get their own way and to prevent the rank and file of their unions from having a direct say in the election of office holders. [More…]
Why are they afraid to let the rank and file of their unions have a direct vote for the election of the office holders of their union? [More…]
My Conciliation and Arbitration Bill provided that the cost of officially conducted union ballots would be paid for by the Government. [More…]
They cannot argue that the conducting of these extra elections will cost the small unions money that they cannot afford to pay because, I repeat, my 1973 Bill provided that all officially conducted ballots would be paid for completely by the Government. [More…]
I say quite openly and quite proudly that I have frequently been personally responsible for organising petitions for the holding of officially conducted ballots in the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Therefore I was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I was in that Union for longer than anybody in this building. [More…]
I know more about that Union and its history of ballot corruption than almost any person in Australia. [More…]
I never knew any opposition to come from the rank and file members of the Australian Workers Union to the petitions for clean ballots that I used to take around and organise. [More…]
I never knew any rank and file member that I approached to refuse to sign a petition for an officially conducted ballot and I do not believe that there is very much difference between the rank and file members of the AWU and the rank and file members of most other unions. [More…]
The Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia has for years had written into its registered rules a provision requiring that all ballots of the union shall be conducted by the Electoral Officer. [More…]
It is unworthy of any government or any country that preaches democracy and participatory democracy within the trade union movement. [More…]
He received massive support for his promise to give unionists the right to elect their own office holders in secret ballots. [More…]
It was support that was not deserved because every union’s rules already provide for secret ballots. [More…]
A union cannot get registration unless its rules do so. [More…]
But, of course, by the same rule it will lose votes for the Government now that those who voted for it in the belief that they were going to get the democratic direct voice of the rank and file know that they are going to get only an indirect voice and that handfuls of men calling themselves the management committees of unions will elect each other to the most important full time positions at the federal level. [More…]
It will only need 12 people in the second largest union in Australia to get together and elect between themselves their own federal secretary, their own federal president, their own federal vice-presidents, their own trustees and their own returning officers under the electoral system. [More…]
The Miscellaneous Workers Union, the Electrical Trades Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, to name but three of the largest unions but by no means the only ones who had previously been using the collegiate system for the election of office holders, complied with the requirements of the Act and are now in the position that the officials will be stuck with the rank and file system of electing officers unless they are able to persuade the rank and file to give up their right to directly elect their officers. [More…]
Those union officials who refused to comply with the Act, waiting until the very last minute allowed to them under the provisions of the Act to make changes to their rules, are now in the position presumably that the rank and file will not be able to get rid of the collegiate system unless the rank and file first of all are able to get enough names to obtain a petition for a plebiscite to decide whether the collegiate system is to remain or be abolished. [More…]
It is an unashamed betrayal of all those who believed that the Prime Minister and the Liberal Party stood for rank and file control of trade unions. [More…]
Nothing that the Government says again at an election will ever be believed by those people who on this occasion were silly enough to believe that when the Government said it believed in democratic control of trade unions it did believe in it, because the reintroduction of the collegiate system proves beyond all doubt that it does not believe in union democracy. [More…]
One area of education which is being severely restricted now is union training. [More…]
Union Training with the concurrence of the then Opposition. [More…]
In other words, the field of union training is still developing and therefore growing. [More…]
Has the Minister been informed that the British Trade Union Conference and the British Government have in the national interest agreed to limit pay rises to 4.5 per cent next year with a maximum of $A6 a week and a minimum of $A2.50 a week? [More…]
Will he inform Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, of the statesmanlike and strong support by Mr Len Murray, the General Secretary of the British Trade Union Conference, and ask Mr Hawke whether he will, in Australia’s interest, take a similar national and statesmanlike approach to that problem too? [More…]
I would like to commend the highly responsible attitude which has been shown by leaders of the trade union movement in that country. [More…]
I sincerely hope that Mr Hawke, the leaders of the trade union movement in this country and all sections of the Australian community will join this Government in its attack on inflation. [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Dracup is acting within his rights by not joining the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union? [More…]
He did not join the union: He was subsequently approached by the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and refused to join it. [More…]
Until 1970, the powers and functions of the Authority were vested in a chairman, and two other members, one of whom was to be experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been an employer in an industry or having been otherwise associated with management in industry; and the other experienced in industrial affairs by reason of having been associated with trade union affairs. [More…]
The most significant union in the industry is the Waterside Workers Federation, whose members provide the bulk of the manpower for stevedoring operations. [More…]
When meeting with the Federated Clerks Union, the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, and the Professional Officers Association earlier this year, they all referred to what they saw as the special position of these staff in that their future had been uncertain for some time; that if the Authority were not to continue then special arrangements should be made for the staff. [More…]
He will be aware that the union movement supply ship containing humanitarian aid for the people of East Timor is expected to leave Australia shortly. [More…]
With respect to other aid- a number of institutions in Australia is seeking to send aid; it is not only the Australian trade union movement that has an interest in despatching assistance to the people of East Timor- the position remains that the Australian Government is not prepared to permit Australian citizens to go into a position of total uncertainty as to whether they will be able to land their vessel or take their vessel into the waters of East Timor. [More…]
Has he seen the reported statements attributed to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, that the Government has agreed not to proceed with its proposals to legislate for the conduct of all union elections by the Australian Electoral Office? [More…]
Honourable members will recall that it is part of the Government’s clear policy that it will consult with national employer and union organisations before the introduction of any industrial legislation. [More…]
I fulfilled that obligation in relation to our current proposals on S May when I had discussions with representatives of both employers and the union movement. [More…]
As a result of the views that were put by both sides at those discussions I have taken proposals to Cabinet and we have been considering, consistent with our basic objective of ensuring that every member of an organisation should have an adequate opportunity to vote without intimidation for those persons that he or she wishes to represent them, whether our objective could be met while having in mind the very substantial objections which were put to us by the union movement on 5 May. [More…]
We propose to introduce legislation which will provide for secret postal ballots in all organisations, and of course this already is the case in a number of unions and employer bodies. [More…]
I would expect a positive response from both the union movement and the employers to the Prime Minister’s proposals put last night for discussions on the economy including the question of wages policy and that a similar constructive and flexible approach will be shown by the representatives of unions and employers who we trust will take advantage of that invitation and attend discussions in the near future. [More…]
If so, can he inform the House whether he seriously expects that the trade union movement will cooperate in such a policy? [More…]
I also believe that an increasing number of members within the trade union movement and an increasing number of people on the shop floor recognise that that is an essential prerequisite for the maintenance of their standard of living. [More…]
It is not insignificant that major leaders in the trade union movement, and some people who hold not insignificant positions in the organisation of the party to which the honourable gentleman belongs, have supposed a position that is somewhat less than the one hat the honourable gentleman supports in relation to wage indexation. [More…]
I believe that a great number of responsible members of the trade union movement wish that objective to be pursued and want to co-operate in realising it. [More…]
Therefore I was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The honourable member, intentionally or otherwise, misled the House when he said that he was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The honourable member has a long and colourful career both in the trade union movement and in this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh made very well known at that 18th Commonwealth Triennia Conference that he was opposed to court controlled ballots in the trade union movement. [More…]
He was consistent again in 1951 on the question of union ballots. [More…]
Messrs Cameron and Boland moved: Having regard to the fact that Conference has discharged Agenda Items 96-99 inclusive, Conference now directs the Federal Parliamentary Labor Parry to oppose and vote against any legislation by an anti-Labor Government to amend the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act in respect to the conduct of union ballots. [More…]
On 29 June 195 1 the then Minister for Labour and National Service, the Honourable Harold Holt, brought in a Bill to give effect to court-controlled ballots for union elections. [More…]
I remind honourable members that it was the Chifley Government that put the first provisions in the statutes for court-controlled ballots for the trade union movement. [More…]
I commend the present Government for the tenacity it has shown in bringing clean courtcontrolled ballots to the trade union movement of this country. [More…]
I suggest that the overwhelming majority of Australians from the shop floor of the factories, the members of the trade union movement, support us in what we are doing. [More…]
What was the stand of the honourable member for Hindmarsh, this man who said in this chamber 2 weeks ago that he was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union? [More…]
The trade unionists of this country must fight all forms of tyranny. [More…]
If they permit the form of tyranny to which this bill will give rise to stalk the country, sapping the life-blood of the trade union movement and the strength of the Labour movement, it will not be long before they will find themselves in the position in which their forebears were placed in 1890. [More…]
Therefore I was in favour of officially conducted ballots inside the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I want to say as a person coming from a small State that I believe it would be devastating to the small States of Australia if the collegiate system of voting in trade unions was taken away. [More…]
Whilst I do not claim any expertise in the field, I will support to the hilt the Minister for Labor and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) in his endeavour to ensure that those unions which wish to have access to the collegiate system are given that right. [More…]
But nine times out of ten South Australians, Western Australians and Tasmanians can kiss goodbye any chance of getting a significant union position if the collegiate system is taken away. [More…]
Secondly there are those who want to see certain right-wing unions in this country taken over by the communists. [More…]
I will not be party to any debate in this chamber nor will I back my cart to change in any way the legislation if it will lead to either centralisation of power in the trade union movement or a communist takeover. [More…]
As I said, I have a lot of affection for the honourable member for Hindmarsh, but my ears nearly fell off when I heard him say what he said in the chamber the other night, because for him to say that he supports and always was in favour of officially conducted union ballots in the Australian Workers Union is not correct. [More…]
I think it was rather presumptuous of the honourable member for Hindmarsh to make comments on the trade union movement, considering he was almost 25 years of age before he became the General Secretary of the Australian Workers Union in South Australia; considering that he spent only 13 years in that profession; considering that he spent another 20 years as an executive member of the South Australian [More…]
Branch of the Union and was a delegate to the International Labour Conference; considering that he was shadow Minister and Minister for Labor for many years in the national Parliament; and considering that the first trade union college in Albury-Wodonga was named after him. [More…]
So, I would think that we ought not to take too seriously his comments on the manner in which trade union ballots are conducted! [More…]
Now they are asking the trade union movement and the wage and salary earners of this country to put trust in the Government. [More…]
The Government has even saved $238 from the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
It is quite clear that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions will not seek to sell it. [More…]
We know the Government not only has to sell this from Parliament but also has to sell it on shop floors, in offices and on the wharves throughout Australia, because there are other union leaders in the nation whose job it is to wreck and muck up the economy. [More…]
We remember only last year the case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Carmichael and Halfpenny who, because the workers of this country supported wage indexation and because they agreed with the proposition of tax indexation, could get nothing but a day-long strike. [More…]
It was in that sense that we saw that workers in Australia had the sense to know that the alternatives to what we were proposing- the Labor Party was proposing some of the same measures- should not be abandoned for the sake of union leaders whose desire was to cause social wreckage and economic disaffection. [More…]
Two trans-Tasman ro-ro ships are being built for the Union Steamship Company. [More…]
It contained representatives of management, trade unions and the men off the floor of the workshop. [More…]
As a younger man I was able to go overseas as a trade unionist and see what was going on. [More…]
There is a much different approach at the trade union level today. [More…]
There is a need for the shipbuilding industry to get away from the multiplicity of trade unions. [More…]
I see no reason why there cannot be a craft union and a non craft union in every shipyard. [More…]
Jack Egerton and I were successful in Queensland in getting one industrial agreement which covered all the trade unions. [More…]
There is no reason why unions such as the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union of Australia, the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia. [More…]
the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, the Federated Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association of Australasia and the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia in a shipyard could not be members of one union. [More…]
The Liberal and Country parties have done aU they can to hinder and stop the amalgamation of trade unions, which is to the advantage of the industry in question. [More…]
Has there been a significant increase in the number of stock mortgages and bills of sale made by the Pastoral Houses to primary producers which can be attributed to the prolonged strike by the Storemen and Packers’ Union in the wool stores. [More…]
Was he talking about galvanising the union forces in this country to challenge the authority of the Parliament? [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition came under fire in Tasmaniaand rightly so- from a trade union Leader. [More…]
A union leader and member of the State ALP executive has accused the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Uren, of inciting riot. [More…]
He would know as well as I that, taking the average man as an example, if one gives a wink or a nod, if one incites or if one says: ‘Do the wrong thing’- this never happened with the Australian forces in Vietnam- people will act violently That is what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has done and that is why he has been quite cogently and properly criticised by the Australian newspapers and his own trade union leadership. [More…]
The facts of life are that in the Soviet Union one does not have any say, and one does not have any say in many other countries. [More…]
Thus, apart from the principal employer organisation and the principal union involved in the industry, all other interested bodies advocate greater government involvement. [More…]
In 1974-75 idle time payments rose from $3.6m to $8.4m but this was not due to increased union featherbedding. [More…]
There is one other matter which could still be of concern to those interested parties who called for a statutory authority in this country even if the employers and the unions can reach satisfactory agreements on means by which to overcome the industry’s problems. [More…]
This other matter is the fear that costs will continue to escalate through the process of employers acceding to union demands and passing the costs on to shipping companies which in turn pass them on to their customers via higher freight rates. [More…]
If the Government backs out a responsibility will be laid on the industry to act responsibly and to cease these forced agreements and force both employer and union groups to face up to the facts of life.’ [More…]
Has the Australian Council of Trade Unions agreed to co-operate with the Government in its attack on inflation? [More…]
Can it be said that union leaders realise that a responsible national approach will benefit all working Australians and their families? [More…]
The Government was able to evidence to the President of the ACTU its genuine good faith in these particular matters because, as a result of talks that have already taken place and before these other matters were envisaged, there were modifications, as this House would know, to certain aspects of the proposed secret ballot legislation following suggestions put to us by the trade union movement. [More…]
It is the Government’s view that those modifications will better enable the Government’s objective of secret ballots in unions to be achieved and therefore it seemed sensible h> adopt the proposals and modifications put to us. [More…]
I emphasise, as I have on recent occasions, that there is some division within the ranks of the trade union movement concerning the actual level of wage indexation and the mechanics of its application. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to a number of comments made by both the component manufacturing industry and sectors of the union movement regarding the decision in respect of reversion control announced by my colleague Senator Cotton some weeks ago. [More…]
In view of the fact that later today the Minister’s colleague, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, will introduce legislation dealing with the election of trade union officials, has he considered the urgent need to introduce legislation to enable contributor members of so-called non-profit voluntary health insurance organisations, such as the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia and the Hospitals Contribution Fund to elect their office bearers, let alone do so by secret ballots? [More…]
Does he regard this intrusion by FESCO as part of the Soviet Union’s foreign policy to have a major shipping presence in every country and on every ocean? [More…]
Under the conditions of the present legislation, savings with a credit union are acceptable only if the credit union has been approved for the purposes of the Act. [More…]
People contracting to buy or build their first home on or after 1 April 1976 will be able to claim savings held with any credit union within their 3 years savings period. [More…]
The Government is committed to genuine consultations with employers and trade unions on its industrial legislation. [More…]
I have consulted with the peak trade union organisations, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, and the National Employers Policy Committee, representing the employers, on the Government’s proposals. [More…]
The proposals which it incorporates have the following purposes: Firstly, to rectify weaknesses in the Act regarding representation by the Minister of the public interest, in relation to appeals and references; secondly, to extend the present requirement that in Full Bench proceedings, the Commission must have regard to the state of the economy and the likely effect of any award made, to include specifically the level of employment and inflation; thirdly, to make sure that every member of a union or employer organisation has a real opportunity to choose, without intimidation, who should conduct the affairs of the organisation; fourthly, to limit the term of office of office bearers of organisation to a maximum of 4 years; and finally, to provide for the appointment of an additional judge of the Industrial Court. [More…]
During my discussions with the unions they expressed very strong opposition to the proposal that the Electoral Office should conduct all elections. [More…]
For example, in the last election of a Commonwealth Chairman of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, less than 2 per cent of the total membership exercised its prerogative to vote. [More…]
‘President Australian Amateur Gymnastic Union, delegate to Australian Olympic Federation. [More…]
: Sec/Treasurer Amateur Swimming Union of Australia. [More…]
Legislative Council since 1964: State Secretary and General President of Australian Textile Workers Union: active tennis player for 50 years and No. [More…]
I ask: Has the Treasurer seen recent Press reports that a number of trade union leaders are intending to undertake industrial action as a protest against the changes which he announced to Medibank? [More…]
I have seen Press reports indicating that certain unions are apparently intent on taking upon themselves the process of industrial action against the changes which I announced in my economic statement in this House last Thursday. [More…]
I believe that the union leaders have demonstrated what can be described only as a completely irresponsible and politically motivated attitude. [More…]
The best means of doing this is to mutilate the government sector, keep credit tight, create or maintain high levels of unemployment, hope for a resulting compliant trade union movement and then, by submission in national wage cases and by other means, hope for a reduction in real wages. [More…]
But the Australian Labor Party Opposition rejects the notion that a policy of creating unemployment and beating the trade union movement into submission is tenable in this day and age. [More…]
Big and powerful unions are as dominant in the determination of wages as big and powerful corporations are dominant in the determination of prices. [More…]
I make a further point about these talks between government and unions. [More…]
For instance, to illustrate my point in the union area only, it is not good enough merely to include the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
So this is Labor’s scenario: Create consumer confidence and allow governments to spend more even at the expense of an increased deficit- with this will come increased production- and make a social compact with the unions to allow the increased productivity initially to stimulate investment in order to sustain the economic recovery and thus reduce unemployment. [More…]
I believe that we achieve more than that, because under the present provisions, particularly with regard to the indexation of wages and income tax supplementary to an increase in wages and child endowment increases, we have established the proper basis on which we can now approach the trade union movement in order to ensure that the unions are persuaded to come to the party and agree to an incomes policy and, more particularly, a responsible wages policy. [More…]
This does not complete the story but at least it does present the foundation on which, with sensible, reasonable discussions with the trade union movement we can hope- and we have good grounds for hoping- that we can get a sensible and proper response in the best interests of this country. [More…]
I have not lost confidence in the trade union movement. [More…]
I believe that there are more leaders in the trade union movement generally with common sense and goodwill than one would gather from the actions and statements of the Australian Metalworkers’ Union, the transport union and the building unions. [More…]
I believe that there is a prospect- a little prospect perhaps, but growing into a bigger one as the days go by- that those wise men in the trade union movement will help the Government to succeed in achieving goals that will improve the national development of this country and the welfare of most Australian people. [More…]
Another factor I refer to is the second objective of the package; that is, providing a basis upon which the Government can get co-operation with the unions to reduce the rate of increase of money wages. [More…]
Yet, whilst trying to get the union leaders to co-operate the package gives them absolutely no reason to say to their members: ‘Look, you have something from the Government- big tax cuts’. [More…]
There is nothing in the package which gives the unions reason to say to their members: ‘Let us co-operate with the Government. [More…]
The unions will not get reduced taxes from this package. [More…]
In the United States of America and in the United Kingdom, where attempts have been made to get trade union co-operation, the governments have gone out of their way to make big tax cuts and have tried to give the unions something to hang on to. [More…]
They have said to the unions: ‘You can get what you have lost back another way’. [More…]
Also what the Government gains in goodwill by introducing tax indexation- a basic union objective- it loses completely and utterly by the Medibank levy, not just because of the cash but also because of the conceptual factor. [More…]
Medibank is something which unions appreciated and wanted and they are upset about the attacks on it which have been launched by this Government. [More…]
I am proud of the fact that over a number of years, in a little place like Hobart, I have been able to have a close connection with the trade union movement, not only as a member of Parliament but also as a practising lawyer advising individual trade union members. [More…]
One union for which I have a great affection is the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
Apparently that union has some affection for me because barely 10 weeks ago it invited me- a Liberal member of the Federal Parliament- to accompany a deputation to confront the Premier of Tasmania, a Labor Premier, and his Labor Minister for Transport. [More…]
It sickens me to see a union which is held in high esteem in Tasmania covered with shame and disgrace because of the action of 20 union bosses who decreed, without reference to the rank and file, that 50 000 members of the Australian Railways Union were going on strike because one man determined that he would not carry out his duty because of a view he held in relation to the mining of uranium. [More…]
But I suggest that the mass violence, the power outside the Parliament, which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) urged on the students at the University of Western Australia, reared its head yesterday with an abuse of power by the trade union movement which, in my opinion, shows that we have an irresponsible left wing element in this country which must be curbed and put down firmly by this Government. [More…]
I believe that this is the only Government with the courage to take on these union bosses who decide that, whatever the majority of Australians want or think, they will make determinations and decrees and take over the country. [More…]
To give an idea of how little the people in Tasmania knew about this matter, the Australian Railways Union held a meeting yesterday morning in Hobart and the resolution it passed and which was made public by the Tasmanian President, Mr Jones, straight after the meeting was that it would not go on strike again in response to a national directive unless it was told the reasons for the strike and unless it had an opportunity of expressing an opinion at rank and file level. [More…]
As a former trade unionist and an honorary life member of a trade union- that might surprise honourable members opposite- I want to say that the dinkydie - [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Administrative Services, yesterday tabled in the Senate the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions. [More…]
The Royal Commission was established, as honourable members will remember, in September 1974 to investigate certain payments to maritime unions and the investigation was conducted by Mr Justice Sweeney. [More…]
The significant findings of the Royal Commission include one that indemnity payments were made to maritime unions and another that some of the money paid should be refunded, and it was recommended that payments made by one company should be paid to a charity. [More…]
Another point made was that the payments were not in support of Australian Council of Trade Unions policy. [More…]
For example, in some instances there was no clear indication of where the money paid was at the moment but some had been disbursed by way of testimonials, on payments for picnics, and as allowances to union officials, and other moneys were still in union funds. [More…]
The recommendations made by Mr Justice Sweeney will involve my colleagues the Attorney-General and the Minister for Transport, as well as my own Department in regard particularly to accounting practices of unions and financial reports to union members. [More…]
All we hear in the belly-aching of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) is a union bashing exercise. [More…]
They will need to be accompanied by cooperation from all sections of the communityemployers, self-employed people, union officials and employees. [More…]
The attempt by the Opposition in this debate and through the media to drive a wedge between the Government and the union movement is pitiful and to be deplored by all Australians. [More…]
The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, has given the Government’s latest policy measures cautious approval. [More…]
The introduction of full personal tax indexation is a measure which also has been acclaimed by all sections of the community, including the union movement. [More…]
I say to every trade unionist that we are concerned about them, their families and their jobs. [More…]
The trade union movement has rightly been concerned that workers on the minimum wage should be better off. [More…]
This is supposed to be a magnificent gesture which will convince the trade union movement that it must accept the Government’s proposals to vary the wage indexation guidelines with which the Government promised at the last election campaign it would not interfere. [More…]
The Government says that in this way it will control the unions’ demands for wage increases. [More…]
What it forgets is that a very large proportion of those who are unemployed and whom the Government is putting out of work are not trade union members. [More…]
The amendment also included the incorporation into the constitution of an official eternal alliance with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or, to use the original wording, to make the constitution reflect the ‘unshakable fraternal bond’ with the Soviet Union. [More…]
These measures were designed totally to subjugate the Polish people and their country to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Regarding Poland’s place in the socialist community, the revised wording of the constitution omits reference to an ‘unshakable fraternal bond’ with the Soviet Union and simply states that Poland ‘strengthens its friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union and other socialist states’. [More…]
Although some minor liberalisation of citizens ‘ rights and duties was achieved, the basic points- that is, the socialist character of the state, the role of the Polish United Workers Party and the country’s reliance on the Soviet Union for political support and defence- remain in force. [More…]
Which are the unions involved? [More…]
They are the Builders Labourers Federation, Building Workers Industrial Union, Plumbers and Gasfitters Union, Electrical Trades Union, Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Waterside Workers Federation, Seamen’s Union and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) will note that I did not include his old union because that is considered to be a right wing union, believe it or not. [More…]
I do not think there has been much discussion in this debate in relation to the unions, but I am appalled at the reports of recent days, since the announcement of these important changes to the Medibank scheme, of the attitude of the unions of Australia. [More…]
Frankly, if we see strike action by the unions over this issue I think it is time for a head-on confrontation with them. [More…]
We have seen disruption by unions over trivial matters in the past. [More…]
The report in yesterday’s Australian was indeed apt, in particular the cartoon which shows the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) asking: ‘With unions like this who needs an Opposition?’ [More…]
I sincerely hope that the unions show restraint in this area and we do not see union action over this matter. [More…]
-The fund which the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) had in mind was the Montague Medical Union on the west coast of Tasmania, which is in the electorate of the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Groom). [More…]
The trade unions have very good reason not to trust this Government. [More…]
The trade unions are now asking employers to include in their industrial conditions the payment of the 2.5 per cent Medibank levy. [More…]
It is legitimate action which has been taken by many of the major trade unions. [More…]
Some of the unions involved include the Vehicle Builders Union which is negotiating a new agreement and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union which is also negotiating several new agreements throughout Australia. [More…]
A guarantee that wages will be protected from unlegislated increases in taxation has been a major concern of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement has taken a consistent view that the certainty provided by tax indexation would be a major factor in wage restraint. [More…]
It is a job for all Australians, for the trade union movement and for businesses to exercise restraint and responsibility towards each other. [More…]
For a long time now, ever since the Whybrow and Co. case, there have been many instances of case law which have indicated that one of the great weaknesses in industrial relations has been the fact that unions have to serve logs of claims on employers that would keep them within ambit during the currency of the proposed award; that is to say, if there is a possibility that during the currency of the award there will be a rapid increase in wages or there will be a change in working conditions or standard hours or annual leave, the union has to make certain that the log of claims that it serves will be anticipating at least the standard of wages and working conditions which might ultimately come about before the award expires. [More…]
This means that unions, in accordance with the case law as it now stands, have to serve claims which contain seemingly extravagant demands in relation to wages and working hours and working conditions, otherwise they would have to go to the expense of reserving all of the employers bound by that particular award. [More…]
When I was secretary of the Australian Workers Union we found that every time we served a new log of claims for a new pastoral award it cost us many thousands of pounds. [More…]
Just before I was sacked as Minister for Labor and Immigration I was working on a regulation that would allow substituted service for logs of claims so that unions could make claims that were more realistic, by servicing, say, the association of the employers concerned only and that copies of the log of claims could then be published in the Government Gazette. [More…]
They set quite unreal levels of expectation for the employees, and when the claims are not met the employees blame the union officials for not having done their job Correctly, or they blame the arbitrators for being biased or not acting in accordance with proper principles. [More…]
The Minister can strike a very important blow for sensible industrial relations if he will take up where I left off, consider issuing regulations which will make it possible to serve logs of claims on, say, a nominal number of respondents- perhaps the original association of employers which is appropriate to cover the employers that you wish to cover by the log of claims- and then allow the unions by substituted service to cover the rest of the employers by notification through the Government Gazette. [More…]
I believe also that it is up to the unions to look at their own house. [More…]
Therefore I hope that the union will look at this situation when it is talking about its unemployment problem. [More…]
It so happened that on one occasion the Australian Union of Students contacted me and requested in fairly firm terms that I should release the legal advising to the then Government which justified its excluding university students from unemployment benefits during vacation periods. [More…]
I advised the Australian Union of Students firmly, for a host of reasons which were totally persuasive to me and based on precedent, that it could not have that advising. [More…]
The Soviet Union today would stand before the world in the United Nations and would say, as the Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs said in Izvestia on 30 January 1976: [More…]
That is the Soviet Union today, which would take a Christian leader from his wife and family because he dared to take the Bible, the scripture in his hand, and go into the Soviet Union and read from it. [More…]
The Soviet Union has but one thought in mind- to stop freedom. [More…]
The honourable member has suggested that perhaps another way could be found to serve logs of claims which would avoid this cost, avoid the necessity for unions to make such a large demand at any one time and so reduce the expectations in the minds of union members. [More…]
As I understand him he suggested that logs of claims might be served by way of substitute service by being published in the Commonwealth Gazette, that because this would be a great deal cheaper unions would be able to serve logs of claims without incurring those huge costs, that they would be willing to do it more often and would therefore moderate the sorts of claims that were made. [More…]
So, the strategy has been, I believe, deliberately to create this unemployment and deliberately to work in the hope of a compliant union movement in this country allowing a real downturn in wages. [More…]
It is a decision of the highest level of authority, of the highest level of common sense, and designed to be in the best interests of the unions and the Australian people. [More…]
I know that there will be trouble with the Maoists, the Stalinists and others in the builders union, and that there will be trouble with the transport union and the metal trades unions. [More…]
But I believe the mass of the trade union movement as such is solid and sound. [More…]
The Bill will also amend the principal Act so that the Corporation is obliged to consult with and have regard to the views of trade union and employer organisations before taking action likely to affect conditions of employment or the demand for labour in the wool industry. [More…]
It is extraordinary that because of the climate which operates in rural industries, as a result of union activity growers should be deprived of their lifeblood in many cases for this amount of time. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Government and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch ) that they extended the period in which taxes could be paid by people who were unable to pay them as a result of the actions of that union. [More…]
The objective measurement system will be explained at a trade fair in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics later this year. [More…]
I think it is generally accepted that conditions of employment are matters for the unions, the employers and the conciliation and arbitration procedures that have been set up to deal with them. [More…]
In February the Storeman and Packers’ Union placed a ban on handling what it regarded as excessively heavy wool bales. [More…]
However, at the request of the Storeman and Packers Union the corporation tendered information on changes in handling procedures in brokers’ stores. [More…]
Section 20A can be interpreted by the corporation to mean a process of consultation with relevant unions, wool brokers and buyers on the activities of the corporation. [More…]
Some of the amendments introduce the much-heralded requirement for union officials to be elected by secret postal ballot. [More…]
Another important aspect of this legislation is the proposed requirement for the election of union officials and, supposedly, officials of em- ployer organisations, to be by secret postal ballots. [More…]
Everyone knows that this legislation is aimed at trade unions in general and some trade unions in particular, and especially one trade union, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
This union was the focus of the Government’s attention in the election campaign. [More…]
Indeed even in his second reading speech on this Bill the Minister referred again to the AMWU as a prime example of the low participation rate by union members in elections for officials. [More…]
Clearly what the Government hopes to achieve by providing for secret postal ballots is more moderate union leadership- and employer organisations are irrelevant to that consideration. [More…]
It was essentially an election gimmick by which the Government succeeded in leading people to believe that trade union leaders, particularly the militant ones, were dominating their members, were unrepresentative of them and were able to remain in office by undemocratic election procedures. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Act currently provides, and has provided since 1951, that union rules must make provision for election of officials by secret ballot with provision for absentee voting. [More…]
Of course absentee voting is by postal ballot so the legislation currently requires all unions which hold secret ballots by the use of polling booths also to make provision for secret postal voting for those who want to vote absentee. [More…]
Furthermore, the Act provides that if any member of a union believes that the officials are not following the union rules, including the rules regarding elections, he may take the matter to the Industrial Court and obtain an order requiring the union management to observe the rules of the organisation. [More…]
The Act, as it stands, provides that a union member who believes that there has been an irregularity in an election can lodge an application for an inquiry by the Industrial Court into the matter. [More…]
Apart from those substantial protections against election irregularities, the Act currently provides that the union management or a group of members- that is, 250 or 5 per cent of the membership, whichever is the smaller- can obtain a government-controlled ballot simply by requesting one. [More…]
If a small proportion of members are fearful that irregularities could arise in a union-run ballot, they can obtain a governmentcontrolled ballot quite easily. [More…]
However, it is the union managements that have mainly sought this type of election. [More…]
There has been an increasing trend for unions to seek such elections in recent years. [More…]
In the period from 1950 to now the total number of elections held under the auspices of the Industrial Registrar, at the request of union members, is only 1 18, despite the fact that it is not difficult to get such elections. [More…]
On the other hand, the number of such elections held at the request of union management between 1950 and now is 724- six times the number held at the request of union members. [More…]
So it is beyond doubt that there is increasing usage of this form of election by unions over recent years. [More…]
They have made many unions consider holding such elections through the Industrial Registrar because in this type of election the Government pays the cost of holding the election. [More…]
We suggest that the record of the past quarter century displays no evidence of malpractice in union elections. [More…]
In fact Australian union members and union leaders who genuinely want honest election of officers have ample provisions in the Arbitration law. [More…]
The Australian Government does not interfere in elections but it does provide the machinery so that union elections should never be fraudulent or irregular if the members and officials show interest in the process. [More…]
The Government’s proposal that all union elections be by secret ballot would not overcome apathy. [More…]
However, whilst regarding the Government’s proposal as unnecessary, I would also acknowledge the fact that the Government has made some concessions to union objections, although what we thought on examination of the Bill when it was first put before the House was a major concession has now turned out to be no more than a mistake in the drafting of the Bill or perhaps a change of mind by the Government. [More…]
The Government’s original proposal, as outlined on many occasions, was that all elections for union officials would be by secret postal ballot of all eligible members conducted by the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
However, the Government appears to have made 2 concessions: One is to allow those unions whose rules provide for a form of voting that is likely to achieve a higher participation rate than a secret postal ballot to retain that form of voting. [More…]
It is interesting to note that all of those unions achieving a high participation rate of voting are left wing unions. [More…]
So I do not know where that takes the argument presented by the Government about more moderate union leadership coming from a higher participation by members voting for union officials. [More…]
The Government has made the further concession to the Australian Council of Trade Unions that the unions could run their own ballots as long at they remained secret postal ballots. [More…]
This reduces the impact of the charge of undue interference in trade union affairs somewhat and also prevents possible conflict with International Labor Organisation Convention 87. [More…]
It would therefore have been possible, it seemed to us, for unions to conduct elections simply by running a postal ballot in which all who wanted to vote would apply to the returning officer for a form in much the same way as absentee voting is conducted under the current Act. [More…]
Under these provisions the unions will have a choice. [More…]
In a large union this can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. [More…]
Let me refer to some of the costs involved in conducting union elections. [More…]
Elections involving the Australian Railways Union were estimated to cost $40,248, elections involving the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation were estimated to cost $34,643, and elections involving the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union were estimated to cost $22,195. [More…]
The Government, through the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), is committed to genuine and constructive consultations with employers and trade unions on its industrial legislation. [More…]
Further measures are planned by the Government to ensure the fullest possible participation by members of unions and employer organisations in the election of their office bearers. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s initiatives, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has agreed to take part in wide-ranging discussions with the Government on the state of the economy, with particular emphasis on wages policies. [More…]
The Government has given evidence of its good faith by introducing tax indexation and by taking full account of union views in amending its industrial legislation. [More…]
We now seek the co-operation of the trade union movement in bringing inflationary costs under control. [More…]
The ballot would still have to be secret, but there are certain ways in which a union can have an election by other than a postal ballot. [More…]
I believe that the measures that the Government is introducing take account of the situation that may be faced by particular unions in particular circumstances. [More…]
They are flexible provisions which can take account of the environment in which people work and the industries in which unions operate. [More…]
If, for example, a union has most of its workers employed in three or four sites in the country and they are not spread through many small factories, in that case it could be quite appropriate for the ballot to be conducted by way of polling booths at those three or four limited sites where 90 per cent or 95 per cent of the union membership might be found, and for there to be a supplementary provision whereby people could apply for a postal vote if they so wished. [More…]
The intention of the Government’s legislation, therefore, is not to impose any rigid, dogmatic, doctrinal view of how industrial relations ought to be conducted but to ensure that whatever means are used gain the highest possible proportion of union membership participation in those ballots. [More…]
I have been trying to come to grips with this rather difficult problem because I find that one is the target of representations from many people in the union movement and in employer organisations who have a wide variety of views to put. [More…]
It seems that there is an extraordinary crossing of lines amongst unionists and people involved in industrial relations on this matter. [More…]
Earlier I said that the intention of the Government was to try to ensure the greatest possible participation by rank and file members in union affairs. [More…]
I must say that on my first approach to the problem I did think that a system of direct voting for all members for the election of all office bearers of a union would provide the maximum participation by the rank and file membership. [More…]
But if you consider the situation faced by the rank and file union membership of a large national union where every member of the union throughout the country is required, or is given the opportunity, to vote, for example, for the national president or the secretary of the union, you can see the potential problem that the average unionist faces. [More…]
How does the unionist in some far flung corner of the country really know anything about the candidates whose names he sees on the ballot paper? [More…]
How can a candidate, representing a moderate group within the union- a group that perhaps does not have great organisational or financial resources behind it- conduct a campaign which would require him to organise support throughout the factories and to send through the post how to vote information and literature on himself and his policies to every union member throughout the country. [More…]
One can see that a candidate standing for election in that sort of system could face the problem of having to run a campaign costing $20,000, $30,000, $50,000 and perhaps more in order just to get his name across, in some superficial sense, to every member of the union. [More…]
So there might be difficulties in many unions in the proposition that direct voting in fact allows the rank and file members to have a meaningful say. [More…]
It could well be the case that a better system in such a union would be to have an election for office bearers at a regional or State level where the campaign would not be so costly. [More…]
It would be more likely that the average rank and file unionist would want to offer himself for election, and where it would be possible for him to become known and for members of the union to express a meaningful vote. [More…]
That is the view I am coming to on this matter of whether there ought to be direct or collegiate systems of voting in union elections. [More…]
I am happy to leave it up to the unions to decide which system they want, but I do believe that a form of collegiate voting, as it is called, ought to be open to unions to apply if they so wish. [More…]
All honourable members will recall that during the last election campaign the Government said time and time again that it proposed to legislate, upon regaining the Government benches, to provide that all union members would have a postal vote, or the ability to have a postal vote, in union elections. [More…]
It said that union members would get a ballot paper sent to them. [More…]
As the Bill reads without the amendment put up by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, a union could have rules which provide that members may simply write to the returning officer, requesting a vote. [More…]
To understand the ramifications of it, or any amendments to it, one has to get among the trade union movement, trade union members, members of employer organisations to see the implications of every amendment to this Act. [More…]
Although one might have the greatest legal mind in Australia, although one might be an experienced politician, although one might think he knows all about industrial relations, it is not until one gets to the trade unionists, to whom this Act is a Bible under which they operate from day to day, that one understands the implications of any amendments to it. [More…]
These are men who owe their positions in the trade union movement to their knowledge of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
As I understand it- I am sure I will part company with my friend the honourable member for Hindmarsh now- that trade union which the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) rightly points to as running rather peculiar elections, the Australian Metal Workers Union, would have been laughing to eternity at the Bill before this amendment was proposed. [More…]
That union already had postal ballots and this Bill would not have affected it at all. [More…]
All I am doing at this stage is making a plea to the Minister to organise a panel of trusted trade unionists- there are many- and trusted members of employer organisations with whom he can consult on a confidential basis on future amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, so that omissions like this will not be repeated. [More…]
The power under clause 13(3) to exempt will undoubtedly apply to such unions as the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
It would be totally ridiculous to expect that union to undergo a secret postal ballot when it is able, by the present process, without fear and intimidation to conduct elections at which it gets a polling rate in excess of 95 per cent. [More…]
I say quite frankly and openly that whilst this matter has caused me considerable trouble, I believe that unions which possess at present the collegiate system of voting should be given the right and the protection of this Government to continue their system of collegiate voting. [More…]
I put as a natural extension of the federalist philosophy which I adopt the argument that, in my opinion at any rate, if the collegiate system is taken away the smaller States can say goodbye to any chance of having an effective role to play in the election of federal office bearers of their unions. [More…]
I contend, with respect, that where the collegiate system has been utilised by many unions in this countrywhether honourable members opposite agree with it or not- it would be wrong for this Government to legislate in any way, shape or form, to take it away. [More…]
I know the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) is far more experienced in trade union matters than 1 am. [More…]
It is ironic that the Government which now sits on the Treasury benches was elected to government because it told the Australian people, and in particular the 5 250 000 employees in the work force: ‘If you vote for us we will hand control of the unions back to the members. [More…]
The very first speeches that we heard in the Parliament about the question of participatory democracy within the trade union movement from the Government were a condemnation of the Australian Labor Party’s federal policy of ‘participatory democracy’. [More…]
It says that unions that did not already have the collegiate system in any form as of 1973 would never be allowed to introduce it. [More…]
I have never heard the Government say that those unions which do not have the collegiate system will, by the legislation it proposes, be permitted to have it. [More…]
Where we differ is that under the Labor Party’s platform and under the Labor Party’s legislation those unions which had the collegiate system as at that date were to be given 3 years in which to bring their rules into line with the legislation. [More…]
The legislation did not require unions which had the collegiate system as at that date to abolish the collegiate system in respect of all positions. [More…]
The legislation makes it clear that unions that had the collegiate system then had the right to continue the collegiate system ad infinitum except that those federal positions within the union that were full time jobs and the holder of which was a member of the management committee of the organisation, had to go to the rank and file for election. [More…]
The unions do not have to alter their rules in respect of the part-time positions. [More…]
It is only the full time positions of the Executive kind within a union that are subject to the alteration that has to be made by November. [More…]
There is no doubt that the only unions of which I know that are pressing for the abolition of right of the rank and file to have a direct voice in the election of their full time federal positions are the Federated Clerks Unions of Australia, the Shop Assistants - [More…]
The Miscellaneous Workers Union has altered its rules. [More…]
All the office holders, including the federal secretaryship, of the Miscellaneous Workers Union are subject to the will of the rank and file. [More…]
It was a collegiate system but Mr Gietzelt altered his union’s rules to comply with the provisions of the Labor Party’s Act. [More…]
So it is not true to say that that union is not controlled by its members. [More…]
It is a funny thing that the extremes in the trade union movement- the extreme Right and the extreme Left- are the ones who are doing most about taking from the rank and file the right to elect their full time officers. [More…]
I find it very hard to reconcile the conflicting views of anybody who is elected to Parliament, as honourable members opposite have been elected, on the promise of introducing or strengthening the principle of participatory democracy to give the rank and file the right to control their own union officials, and who then defends the collegiate system. [More…]
This can be true also not simply for a State but also for a very big union. [More…]
We have come to the position now where many of the unions have become monstrously big. [More…]
Yet they want to say that, whether unions want it or not, willy-nilly they should not, in their view, have the opportunity of dividing up their electorate as we divide up the electorates of Australia into separate electorates when we elect members of this, the House of the people. [More…]
My honourable friend will know that there has been in Australia a quite illegitimate link between the trade unions and the political party of the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament. [More…]
Why should a man’s job in a union be tied up at all with the support of one side or another in this Parliament? [More…]
If a union wants to have its elections in another form-if that really be the desire of members of the union and if they really want to express themselves in being able to have their elections in smaller packets like we have the elections to this House of Representatives as opposed to Senate elections- surely we should give them the opportunity. [More…]
It cannot possibly be said that there is a democratic system of control of unions when there is a little circle of friends- a cosy little club- which meet together as a council, which for the. [More…]
purposes of modern day industrial jargon we call a college, and who under the rules of a union are permitted to elect from among their own number someone to be the president, the secretary and the vicepresident. [More…]
It could mean that only those members of a union who are members of the college have the right to nominate for the position of federal president, secretary, vice-president, etc. [More…]
I pointed out- the honourable member for Hindmarsh has not contradicted me- that if this Bill goes through and no further legislation on this subject is introduced into this Parliament, as of the middle of November this year the collegiate system of voting for the election of full time union office bearers in Australia will expire. [More…]
Hotham also referred to the fact that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has provision for a postal ballot. [More…]
We have said that we do not propose to proclaim the legislation in case valid points relating to it are brought up by the employers or union members at forthcoming talks we will be starting next week upon various aspects of the economy, wages policy and so on. [More…]
The reason for the difference is to give somewhat wider discretion to union officers in handling the return of ballot papers. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill 1976 does 3 main things: It introduces the principle that union elections shall be held by secret postal voting; that legal representation shall be given to the Minister by right in all proceedings in which the Minister is involved; and that the Minister shall have the right of reference and the right of appeal against all matters coming before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, even matters in which the Minister or the Government is not a party. [More…]
Disagreement between Congress and Executive has impaired the capacity of America- the only power that can provide a balance to the Soviet Union- to act with full effect abroad. [More…]
Australia lives in a world where predominant power is controlled by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is not in China’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in South East Asia, nor in Japan’s interests that the Soviet Union should become dominant in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
On the other hand, it is not, presumably, in the Soviet Union’s interests that relations between China, Japan and the United States should be too close. [More…]
over the past two years the naval deployments of the United States and the Soviet Union have remained relatively stable. [More…]
Soviet Union. [More…]
Geography alone ensures that the Soviet Navy will remain in the Indian Ocean as long as the Soviet Union remains a maritime power. [More…]
Wedded as he is to the doctrines of confrontation, to notions of monolithic ‘camps’ and ‘blocs’ in world affairs, the Prime Minister imagines that the only way Australia can please the Chinese is by insulting the Soviet Union. [More…]
What possible gain can there be for Australia in taking sides in the dispute between China and the Soviet Union? [More…]
Union, the dramatic reduction of Russia’s strategic and military influence in the Middle East. [More…]
In attacking the Soviet Union the Fraser Government is antagonising one of the two mightiest powers in the world, and a major trading partner of Australia. [More…]
His treatment of the Soviet Union is totally superficial. [More…]
In its most recent survey the International Institute for Strategic Studies notes that in the last year ‘the overall perception of the Soviet Union in the West was perhaps the most anxious for many years’. [More…]
For him, to take note of what the Soviet Union is doing and to consider its implications is to ‘insult’ the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is not the Government’s view, nor, I might add, would it be the Soviet Union’s view when it feels its interests are involved. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly stimulated public anxiety at the possibility that Australia is about to be threatened by some outside power- in this case the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Government has irresponsibly exploited statements made by American leaders for domestic electioneering purposes in support of an alarmist policy completely out of keeping with the real politik in which the highly sensitive relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and China is based. [More…]
While there is an obvious need for continuing surveillance to be carried out over Australian waters and the adjacent region, to create public concern that Australia is suddenly confronted with a threat from the Soviet Union or any other power serves only as a contribution to the undermining of efforts of reasonable men in all great powers to bring about a genuine relaxation of tensions and progress towards a better relationship between those powers in a position to threaten the security of our globe. [More…]
It is reasonable to ask: Why does the Soviet Union desire a military power far greater titan any needed to secure her own frontiers, or the expanded frontiers embraced by the Warsaw powers?’ [More…]
The Soviet Union has a much greater land mass to defend, and perceives major defence problems both in Eastern Europe and on the Asian front, where nearly half of the Soviet army is now stationed. [More…]
Mr Chairman, you will remember that originally the Government proposed that all ballots should be court controlled, but the trade unions asked, and the Government conceded their point, that where they wanted to they could conduct their own ballots. [More…]
I am not suggesting that all trade union ballots by any means are corrupt; nothing like that. [More…]
We do know, however, that there have been occasions in the past when trade union ballots have been very corrupt. [More…]
Firstly, the Commonwealth scrutineers may be able to have resources which individual candidates at union elections might not be able to have, and they might be able to be present at the counts and at the strategic points to make certain that there is no corruption. [More…]
If, on the other hand, the Opposition hopes for corrupt ballots in the unions, it will oppose this amendment. [More…]
It is not meant in any way to interfere with the trade union machinery. [More…]
It is not meant in any way to put any coercion on the trade union in the way it conducts a ballot. [More…]
This amendment is designed to see that when the union acts in accordance with its rules it acts cleanly and that there is no corruption. [More…]
It is perfectly true, as I have said, that even when a union conducts its own ballots it by no means follows that it is corrupt. [More…]
But there have been cases of corruption, and these have been particularly bad in the very large unions. [More…]
For example, a long time ago- I will grant that it was many years ago- the Federated Ironworkers Union fell under the control of a corrupt clique headed by the communist Thornton. [More…]
The clique monopolised union power and was thrown out only by a court controlled ballot. [More…]
There was not the slightest doubt that large scale corruption existed in that union. [More…]
After all, we have an interest in seeing not only that trade union ballots are clean but also that everybody admits them to be clean and concedes that they are clean. [More…]
I put this proposition to my friends opposite: If they have any real support for the principle of clean union ballots, they will indicate their support of this amendment; but if they have some kind of hankering or underground desire to have corrupt ballots, they will indicate their opposition to this amendment. [More…]
The Government has taken honourable members opposite at their word when they said that they wanted to control trade union ballots by their own machinery. [More…]
If they oppose it, they are under suspicion of trying to play a double game and asking for trade union control of ballots in order that corruption can be practised in them. [More…]
The first is that on this particular aspect- indeed, the honourable member mentioned this himself- no discussions have taken place, as the Government is committed to an undertaking with the peak employer and union councils in respect of this matter. [More…]
We have made the point that the unions should be eligible to conduct their own postal ballots. [More…]
I would say that the honourable member for Mackellar is completely overstating the extent of corruption or fraud in trade union elections. [More…]
If he looks at the record of the last 25 years he will find in fact very little evidence of fraud or corruption in trade union elections. [More…]
The fact is that if one looks back at cases which have been taken under section 141 or section 159 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, both of which sections give a single member who feels that there has been any untoward activity- fraud or corruptionin a union election a chance to take it to the Industrial Court, one will find that it works out to about 2 cases a year, and not all of those were by any means cases which were the result of fraud or corruption. [More…]
The Government has tried to create an atmosphere in which the whole of the Australian population was made to fear that there was some fraud or widescale corruption in trade union elections. [More…]
In the case of elections which are conducted by the union itself, the law as it stands at the moment provides for the appointment of scrutineers, and where there are competing groups trying to wrest power in the union both sides would appoint scrutineers. [More…]
Indeed, that is the role of a scrutineer in union elections as it is in parliamentary elections. [More…]
My friends in the Opposition should surely see that if the trade unions are honest and if they want this proposal accepted- if they are honest, they would want it- it should be supported. [More…]
He says: ‘I have perhaps unthinkingly made a compact with the trade unions without asking for scrutineers. [More…]
Unless the trade unions and their representatives in this Parliament will help me I cannot go beyond that. [More…]
I do not want to provoke any strife on this matter because I want to be cooperative with the unions’. [More…]
But they also bring suspicion on themselves that they are acting corruptly when they try to keep the Commonwealth Electoral Office out of every trade union ballot. [More…]
In the last few years there has been an increasing tendency for trade unions to adopt court controlled ballots for reasons which I think have much to do with the increasing cost of conducting elections themselves. [More…]
Yet the Government has seen fit to force everyone to conduct this kind of ballot under which a ballot paper is sent to every eligible member of a union. [More…]
The unions can please themselves whether they have the election conducted by the Australian Electoral Office or do it themselves. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) quoted a figure of cost and a number of extra officers who might be required in the Australian Electoral Office to conduct union ballots. [More…]
I make the point that the number of extra staff quoted by the honourable member and the cost are estimates of what would be required if all union elections were conducted in this way. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), talking of the unions, asked: ‘Why should they not have the right to determine whether they want the collegiate system?’ [More…]
Is he saying that the union officials should have the right to have a collegiate system if they- the union officials- want it or does he mean that the members of the union should have the right if they- the members- want to have the collegiate system? [More…]
If he is going to support a proposal in relation to which the real union that is, the members of the union, the people, the bodies that make up the union itself- are to be given the right to determine whether they want it then that is fanenough. [More…]
There will be cases in which some confusion can arise in the minds of voters in union elections in those States where there are significant arbitration and industrial jurisdictions. [More…]
The classic Moore v Doyle case shows that voters registered in a State union can be presented with a dual set of ballot papers developed under two quite differing sets of circumstances. [More…]
Confusion will also arise where unions registered under State jurisidictions cover generally the same occupations as do Federal unions which have a much wider franchise than the voting procedures of the State union. [More…]
There may be what were previously the same officials working out of the same office, one dealing with State awards and having a similarity to the State branch of a Federal union covering generally the same area. [More…]
In relation to what the Government sees as a exercise in taming the unions, it is my view, having been a participant in union ballots conducted both by returning officers of the union and by the Australian Electoral Office, that what the Government has set out to do will not be achieved. [More…]
The Government ought to look at the history of union ballots and learn a few lessons from it because the exercise we are going through at the moment is quite stupid. [More…]
As to the suggestion that there should be scrutineers from the Electoral Office in the union office, such people could hardly be called scrutineers. [More…]
Another point I should make is that I have never been a participant in a corrupt union ballot, which the honourable member for Mackellar has suggested would be the case if we do not support the views he puts forward. [More…]
-When Government members talk about every union member having a vote, the position is quite ridiculous. [More…]
Union officials such as the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) and I- and most union officials who come into this Parliament sit on this side of the House- happen to know a few things about it. [More…]
If this provision will mean greater activity in trade unions by more people, then we will welcome it. [More…]
The ballots of the most militant unions in this land are unchallenged; so what honourable members opposite talk about is a lot of nonsense. [More…]
I would like to make one short point, that is, that the Government’s hypocrisy in regard to this legislation is shown quite clearly in these clauses dealing with trade union ballots. [More…]
The Government claims it is concerned about having trade unions represented by the people who really represent the unionists. [More…]
It is going to do a deal with the very trade union leaders that it claims are not representative of the rank and file. [More…]
We are not really concerned about getting into these positions people who are really representative of trade unionists. [More…]
I think what he was talking about was what purports to be, and no more than purports to be in many cases, the State branch of a federal union which has State registration in a particular State of the four States in which registration is possible. [More…]
Let me take the case of the Australian Workers Union which I know so well. [More…]
In the case of Queensland the State from which the honourable gentleman comes, the State union known as the Australian Workers Union Industrial Union of Employees (Queensland), or by a name similar to that, is registered as a State organisation and, except for about 4 or 5 awards, all its awards are State awards. [More…]
The horse training award and a couple of other odd awards are Federal awards; but all the other awards are State awards including the pastoral award, the cane cutters’ and the road construction award which are capable of being covered by the Australian Workers Union Federal registration but which, in point of fact, have never moved into the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The true position is this: If the State awards that now operate in Queensland are properly based it is only because the members of the Queensland State registered union are properly members of the State union and not members of the Federal union; because Moore v. Doyle showed it is not possible legally by joining one union automatically to acquire membership in another separate legal entity with its own legal personality. [More…]
That case showed that once a union registers in a State it has to acquire its own legal personality and separate entity- it has to have its own membership, its own offices, its own set of books and its own set of rules. [More…]
There are literally tens of thousands of members of the State union in Queensland who are now participating in Federal union elections and who have no right to vote at all. [More…]
The fact that those union members are in occupations which are capable of being covered by the Federal union - [More…]
The point that I query is the honourable member for Hindmarsh ‘s comments in relation to State and Federal unions and members being members either of one union or of another. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) referred to the fact that last year 29 unions applied for ballots to be conducted under section 170. [More…]
He made the point that, as 3 years is not an unusual term of office, therefore approximately 50 unions a year are involved in elections. [More…]
I merely make the point that not all unions fill all their offices in the one year. [More…]
So, even though the term of office may be 3 years, certain offices of a union can come up for election each year. [More…]
Nevertheless, I will make inquiries to find out what percentage of unions holding elections in that year asked for them to be conducted under section 170. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide referred to the percentage of votes cast in union elections. [More…]
He implied that the percentage of votes cast in union elections conducted under the auspices of the Industrial Registrar or the Australian Electoral Office was not high. [More…]
As a matter of fact, for the 29 unions referred to earlier the average return of ballot papers was just under 40 per cent. [More…]
Certainly we hope that over a period greater interest in union elections will result in greater participation. [More…]
Do these wheats command premium prices in world markets in competition with the best wheats from Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yes if they are not members of the striking union(s) at the establishment where the strike occurs. [More…]
Imagine the situation of the trade union movement when its members realise that this sort of package represents for a man on a gross income of $ 1 70 a week a tax surcharge of between 9 and 15 per cent. [More…]
I would not blame the unions for one minute for taking that sort of action. [More…]
Let us look at the effects of this in terms of tax claw-back and the result it will have on the gross claim the unions will make for increased wages to offset the cost of Medibank and private health insurance. [More…]
Unions now are aware of the fiscal drag effect, as it is called, or the tax claw-back that takes place when they obtain a salary increase. [More…]
The concept of a marriage being the union of a man and a woman for life to the exclusion of all others is to be applauded. [More…]
If the circumstances as outlined to me by members of the Students Union at that college are correct, at the very least the behaviour of the employees of the media channel concerned showed a want of personal judgment and a somewhat reckless disregard for the professional proprieties which would seem appropriate to the situation. [More…]
I seek leave of the House to have incorporated in Hansard the letter which the Students Union has sent to Sir Frank Kitto in his position on the Australian Press Council. [More…]
We the Union, took immediate action in phoning other campuses, however were not able to contact each of them. [More…]
Yours faithfully, JOHN FREY, President, KGCAE Student Union. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of a situation in Western Australia where 8 plumbers have been suspended from their union for a period of 6 months? [More…]
Is it true that the union also forced their employer to sack them because they are no longer union members? [More…]
What can be done to protect union members from the abuse of power by union officials? [More…]
I am advised that the men referred to by the honourable member were employed by Steeldeck Industries ( WA) Pty Ltd in Western Australia and the offence which led to their suspension by the union is that they are alleged to have continued working while other members of the union were on strike. [More…]
I have no doubt that the union movement is highly critical of people who work during a strike but I am dismayed at the action of the union officials which in this instance has meant that these men can no longer earn a living. [More…]
This raises the question whether the action by the union officials was in conformity with the rules of the organisation. [More…]
What I can say is that the union concerned- the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia- is registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and that Act does provide adequate protection for union members from abuse of power by union officials. [More…]
By section 140 of that Act members are enabled to seek orders from the Australian Industrial Court that particular union rules are oppressive, unreasonable or unjust. [More…]
I refer to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I shall cite some figures of exports from Australia to the Soviet Union in recent years and the exports to Australia from the Soviet Unionthe country that was unjustifiably kicked about in the statement made to the Parliament by the Prime Minister. [More…]
In 1970-71 Australia exported to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics $62.3m worth of goods and imported from the U.S.S.R. in the same year $2.2m worth of goods- a balance of trade in our favour of $60. [More…]
In 1971-72 the Soviet Union imported from Australia $82.8m worth of goods and we imported from the Soviet Union $1.8m worth of goods- a balance in our favour of $81m. [More…]
In 1972-73 Australia exported to the Soviet Union $ 123.6m worth of goods and imported from the Soviet Union $2.9m worth of goods- a balance of trade in Australia’s favour of $ 120.7m. [More…]
In 1973-74 Australia sold or exported to the Soviet Union $ 154.2m worth of goods and imported from the Soviet Union $5.8m worth of goods- a balance of trade in our favour of $148.4m. [More…]
In 1974-75 $243m worth of Australian goods were exported to the Soviet Union and we imported from the Soviet Union $6.3 m worth of goods- a balance of trade in our favour of $236.7m. [More…]
I ask the Parliament and I ask honourable members: Is it fair to start this warmongering and unfair criticisms of the Soviet Union because she has put naval vessels in the international waters of the Indian Ocean? [More…]
They must have felt embasrrassed to listen to the speech of the Prime Minister censuring the Soviet Union and its role in world affairs today. [More…]
Only a few months ago the rural people of Australia and the beef producers who are in a tragic plight sold 40 000 tons of Australian frozen beef to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union paid for it but not at the price they wanted for it. [More…]
The farmers were glad to get this purchase of 40 000 tonnes of beef by the Soviet Union. [More…]
They were disappointed when they did not get a follow-up order from the Soviet Union. [More…]
At present the Soviet Union has one of its naval vessels in Portsmouth Harbour on a goodwill mission to our mother country, Great Britain. [More…]
On the other hand the Prime Minister of Australia has launched this vicious and unfair criticism of the Soviet Union and has accused it of warmongering. [More…]
That brings to my mind the tragic embarrassment that Anthony Eden- and the Soviet Union- in the late 1960s when 2 Russian naval vessels were visiting Britain on a goodwill mission with the Premier of the Soviet Union, Mr Bulganin, and a British skindiver was detected obviously interfering with the bottom of these Soviet warships. [More…]
The Soviet Union is subjected to undue embarrassment by the West. [More…]
Board being selected from the trade union movement- in this case, possibly a member of the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draftsman of Australia. [More…]
Then there is a bit of pendanticism about credit union savings. [More…]
The other point I want to make relates to clause 6 of the Bill which concerns credit unions. [More…]
As I understand it clause 6 removes the restrictions which were previously applied in respect of savings in credit unions for the purpose of housing. [More…]
I am referring to the restrictions in terms of the amount of activity of the credit unions, the interest rate at which they made their loans available and so on. [More…]
Does clause 6 mean that the loans which are available from credit unions and which they consummate themselves without other embargoes or conditions will apply for the purpose of the home savings grant? [More…]
One of the most quickly growing sectors of the Australian finance industry has been credit unions. [More…]
I notice that a new publication brought out by the Commonwealth Statistician last month dealing with credit unions’ assets, liabilities, income and expenditure, reference number 5.59, states that during 1974-75 an amount of $537m was involved in loans from credit unions. [More…]
The loans from credit unions in New South Wales to members represented well over 50 per cent of the Australian total. [More…]
Therefore, if the restrictions on savings from credit unions are to be removed completely, that would act as a disproportionate stimulus to New South Wales, which is a large credit union State. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Repatriation a question: Do all those loans from credit unions mentioned in the statistical bulletin to which I have referred, without other restriction as to interests rates and to the proportion of activity of credit union loans for housing etc., qualify, or could they all qualify, were they applied by a member of a credit union for housing purposes or were the savings on which the loans were made applied to housing purposes? [More…]
I end by saying that I am delighted to see that credit unions are to be included in the scheme. [More…]
Then the honourable member for Lilley asked about the problem with regard to credit unions. [More…]
Under the current scheme only savings with approved credit unions are acceptable. [More…]
In order to obtain approval a credit union must lend 20 per cent of its loans for housing purposes. [More…]
For people who buy houses after 1 April 1 976, savings with any credit union will be acceptable. [More…]
Loans made by credit unions have nothing to do with the grant. [More…]
Before entering the Senate, former Senator Whiteside had a long record of service to the union movement and to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I understand that the Trade Union Training Authority has on one occasion engaged a person for a short period of time through a private employment agency. [More…]
I ask: Will the Minister inform the House whether he has brought to the attention of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other trade union officials the fact that there is a nexus between wage costs and job opportunities? [More…]
Coming now to the main part of the honourable member’s question, yes, I have stressed to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and indeed to other union leaders- other Ministers have joined me in those expressions of concern- the nexus between wage costs and job opportunities. [More…]
At the talks that we held in June it was recognised by the union movement that there was a nexus between excessive wage rises, inflation and unemployment. [More…]
What the trade union leaders who lead these strikes do not seem to understand is that they are threatening the jobs of many of their fellow workers throughout the community. [More…]
The Government brought out a scheme as an amendment to Medibank and then there were strong representations from Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to change it. [More…]
Is the Government going to be criticised for consultation with the trade union movement? [More…]
The interesting comparison is the position in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics where there have been massive increases in the consumption of tobacco products during the last few years. [More…]
They were probably shocked to learn that the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd does not recognise the senior trade union body in that city, the Whyalla Combined Union Council. [More…]
It is essential if we are to achieve industrial harmony in these areas that the trade union organisations be represented. [More…]
Before that legislation was introduced, in accordance with the undertakings contained in our industrial policy, I held detailed discussions with the peak councils of the union movement and of the employer organisations and received the benefit of their views as to the detail of the legislation. [More…]
The only comment made by the union movement was that the legislation was unnecessary. [More…]
It has the overwhelming support of the Australian people and, from my own experience, I know it also has very considerable support in the rank and file of the trade union movement itself. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of reported action by certain unions against individual unionists for working in accordance with the terms and conditions of their employment during the so-called Medibank strike? [More…]
Is he aware that 11 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in Ballarat have been fined $20 by their branch for working during the strike? [More…]
What avenues are available to these persons and to other rank and file unionists in a similar situation? [More…]
It is a situation which has caused grave disquiet in the community and, of course, great concern to the individual union members involved. [More…]
Unions have been highly selective and discriminatory in their actions. [More…]
Realising then that it was totally out of touch with the feelings of its own rank and file members, that union- not surprisingly- took no action. [More…]
But other unions or branches of them have taken action. [More…]
I stress the question of branches because not all the unions that I am about to name now have taken action against their members at the federal level; some have done so at individual branch levels. [More…]
Unions in that category are the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, .the Australian Workers Union and the Federated. [More…]
There may be other unions, but these unions or branches of them have taken or have threatened to take action against their members. [More…]
The Government views this matter so seriously that I am seeking urgent talks with the Australian Council of Trade Unions on this question. [More…]
The President of the ACTU, Mr Hawke, has stated publicly that he does not agree with unions taking action to fine their members in this way. [More…]
I am hopeful that Mr Hawke and the ACTU will use their influence and good offices to get these unions or the branches of them concerned to call off this action against their members. [More…]
In the meantime it is important that the union members involved should be aware of their rights. [More…]
But, in addition, members who are fined or disciplined under the union rules have rights under section 140 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which provides, amongst other things, that rules of organisations shall not hinder members from observing the provisions of an award. [More…]
It states that if a member obtains an order from the court calling upon the union to show cause why an order should not be made under section 140, the applicant can apply to the Attorney-General for financial assistance by the Commonwealth in respect of costs he may become liable to pay in connection with the proceedings. [More…]
If the Attorney-General is satisfied that it is likely that hardship would be caused to the union member if assistance were not given, the Attorney-General may authorise payments in respect of such costs. [More…]
He has not hesitated to attack in almost vitriolic terms the government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Together with seven or eight other members of this Parliament I will be fortunate enough to represent this Parliament in the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Spain next month. [More…]
Section 43 (a) of the Family Law Act says: the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
I thought it was very noticeable that the occasion tonight so far as he was concerned was a family affair, and if I can speak of that particular marriage, it is one of a union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life, and he is the issue of it. [More…]
As a matter of interest, countries which have already ratified it include Canada, Denmark, Sweden and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
There is a fringe element in the left wing of the university student movement, combined with some elements of the trade union movementparticularly the Builders Labourers Federationthat would seek to promote this kind of violence, this kind of disturbance. [More…]
This question was also a matter of discussion when the Government held talks with the trade union movement and the employers during the winter recess. [More…]
This Parliament’s grave concern at the action of certain trade unions now disciplining or threatening to discipline union members who exercised their right to work in accordance with their awards on July 1 2, 1 976. [More…]
-A number of members of this House have had drawn to their attention instances in which certain trade unions are now disciplining union members who exercised their right to work on 12 July this year; that is, the day of the Medibank strike- the national stoppage. [More…]
An industrial strike is one in which the union has particular industrial objectives in mind for its members such as improved wages and conditions or the settling of some other dispute with an employer. [More…]
A political strike is one in which the union uses the strike weapon to cause such dislocation to the economy or inconvenience to the population that the elected government is under great pressure to concede the political decision that the union is urging upon it. [More…]
We may as individuals criticise the way in which particular industrial disputes are conducted, but no one here would deny that a union member is entitled to withdraw his labour in pursuit of a legitimate industrial objective. [More…]
I believe firmly in a strong industrially orientated union movement. [More…]
I believe in people joining their unions and playing a part in them. [More…]
A strong union movement is vital, in my view, to a healthy economy. [More…]
But we on this side of the House believe that it is improper for a union to use its industrial muscle in pursuit of political ends, which are the legitimate responsibility of the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
It showed that only 22 per cent of union members and 26 per cent of Australian Labor Party supporters approved of political strikes. [More…]
Council of Trade Unions were such that it supported a national strike on a political issue. [More…]
That lack of judgment is now being reflected by certain union bodies which are proceeding to discipline union members who exercised their right to work on 12 July. [More…]
The next day they were visited at the Ringwood Post Office by an official of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, after someone had telephoned the union office to report that certain members of the union had not observed the strike. [More…]
The union official told the postal employees concerned that they would be fined $20 for not striking the day before. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive support for the strike was unanimous. [More…]
It was the first time since the great maritime strike that the Australian Workers Union leadership had thrown its weight behind a national strike. [More…]
Another great weakness was the action of some union officials in allowing the membership to defy the ACTU call-out, by having meetings of the rank and file to decide whether the rank and file would respond to a national call-out by the ACTU [More…]
I believe in participatory democracy in trade union affairs. [More…]
I believe in giving the rank and file the right to ratify an industrial agreement, which sells their labour, before it is signed by a union official. [More…]
What is more, I was successful in piloting through the House of Representatives Bills which gave legislative force to all these basic principles of union democracy. [More…]
The officer-class of the trade union movement would have to give the orders, and the rank and file would have to obey them. [More…]
It is a measure of the hypocrisy of the opponents of labour who have so much to say about rank and file control that they are the ones who are now advocating the collegiate system for union elections which will deny to the rank and file a direct vote in the election of their full time officials. [More…]
Organised labour is more powerful than the apparatus of any state; but I repeat that labour must be organised, and it is not possible to do this other than through the trade union movement. [More…]
Trade union leaders not only have a national obligation to protect their country from an attempted military coup but also have a class obligation to do so. [More…]
If the unlawful seizure of power is to be prevented, we must look to the trade union movement. [More…]
Given that there is a devolution of the unity displayed by our union leaders in the Medibank strike, the power of organised labour indeed will be boundless. [More…]
The trade union movement has a bounden duty to work out in advance the steps that it must take to defend the Constitution. [More…]
In the event of an armed uprising or in the event of a group unlawfully seizing power or seeking to retain power, the trade union movement must be prepared to act instantly to stop the rebels in their tracks. [More…]
But, to succeed in an operation of this kind, trade unionists must distinguish between the ordinary employer and employee disputes affecting only a few unions at most and those issues that are national in character. [More…]
It will be recalled that my Bill to make easier trade union amalgamation possible was rejected by the claqueurs of the ruling classes in this country. [More…]
The reason for the unity and strength of the West German trade union movement lies in the fact that there is a total of only 16 unions in a population of more than 60 million. [More…]
One of those unions has more members than all of the 303 unions in Australia put together. [More…]
A reason for the great strength of the trade union movement in Sweden is that the unions are bound together by the powerful LO Federation, which has the necessary clout to make binding decisions for all its affiliates. [More…]
The ACTU will generate the power to speak with one voice and to speak for all the unions that are affiliated with it. [More…]
I am not proposing that the ACTU be given power to interfere with an affiliate’s domestic affairs; but on national issues it should have the same power as union federations in some other democracies have. [More…]
Union strategists now say that in the next national strike there should be a demand that the employers be required to pay for the time lost, with the sanction of no resumption against employers who do not meet the demand. [More…]
In my electorate of Ballaarat, certain members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union have already been fined for working during the 4-hour Medibank stoppage on 30 June. [More…]
I understand that other trade unionists in Ballarat are facing a similar situation. [More…]
These men have been disciplined by their union for exercising their fundamental right- the right to work. [More…]
They have been disciplined by their union for working during a strike 2 days after a greater than two-thirds majority of members at a mass meeting at the plant had rejected the union organiser’s request to stop work. [More…]
They have been disciplined for a matter which they claim does not fall within the disciplinary rules of their union. [More…]
There is no shadow of doubt that the vast majority of rank and file trade unionists in Australia are fed up with the growing militancy and increasing use of the strike tactic being employed in this country by a small core of extreme left wing union officials. [More…]
People who speak against the extreme left of the union movement are not infrequently accused of union bashing. [More…]
There is a great need in Australia for a strong trade union movement. [More…]
But the trade union movement cannot be strong if it is not at the same time responsible; if it does not take decisions which are in the interests of its members and of the community as a whole. [More…]
The overwhelming majority of trade unionists want to be responsible, but the extreme left is preventing them from exercising responsibility. [More…]
The left wing of the union movement is dominated by members of one or other of the 2 communist parties in Australia- in particular by Mr Laurie Carmichael, Mr John Halfpenny and Mr Pat Clancy. [More…]
Mr Halfpenny is on record as saying that he sees political strikes as a way of bringing about direct confrontation between the trade union movement and governments, of whatever political persuasion. [More…]
Mr Pat Clancy, the president of the other communist party- the Socialist Party of Australiawho is also national secretary of the Building Workers’ Industrial Union and a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ interstate executive, was reported in the communist Tribune on 9 June of this year as saying: [More…]
I said earlier that political strikes not only usurp the rights and responsibilities of individual trade union members, they also put democracy at risk. [More…]
I am gravely concerned at the way in which the extreme left wing of the trade union movement is increasingly denying rank and file trade union members their basic rights as unionists. [More…]
I am gravely concerned at the risks inherent in the present situation for the future of responsible trade unionism in Australia. [More…]
In an answer to a question in this House on 19 August the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) named unions in which there were these alleged difficulties. [More…]
They included the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists. [More…]
I might interpolate to say that I am pleased that the honourable member for Ballaarat at least knows to which union the people in his area belong; it is a lot more than the honourable member for Casey knows because he cited the wrong union and he named the wrong union secretary. [More…]
The union involved is the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists, not the Australian Postal Workers Union. [More…]
I do not know that the Federal Secretary of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation, Mr Townsend, would be terribly pleased if the honourable member advised him he was being led around by the nose by Mr Carmichael and Mr Halfpenny, any more than would, I believe the Federal Secretary of the Australian Workers Union, for example, a fine radical organisation in some areas, or the Federal Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers Association. [More…]
Another fine gentleman, a bastion of the trade union movement, whom he used to firm up his case was one John Mayne, the Federal President of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
If that is not an industrial matter, if the pay of workers is not an industrial matter so far as the unions are concernedneither of the previous speakers did explain to me how that can be termed a political matterthen I suppose all trade union matters are political, all matters that affect trade unionists are industrial. [More…]
It has been raised only by the Liberals, yet it is always the trade union movement that is blamed for matters becoming political matters. [More…]
Can somebody explain to me the difference between that action and the action about which honourable members opposite are complaining, where a duly constituted body, an executive of a union, took action under the union’s rules? [More…]
I remind honourable members opposite that the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act insists that all rules of all unions be vetted and ratified by the Registrar of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
So no union can write its own rules. [More…]
Unions can only prepare the rules, and before they become law they must satisfy the Registrar. [More…]
So do not leave the false impression with the people listening to this debate that unions write their own rules without restriction. [More…]
All the rules having been ratified, the rules then provide that a union shall have a managing body, and due to the inability of members being able to take action and decide a question the managing body shall have the right to govern. [More…]
Yet this Government denies unions the right to abide by their own rules. [More…]
It has been built up around an attack on the trade union movement by people who stand up and in their first platitudes say ‘Oh, I believe that there ought to be a trade union movement’, and then proceed to destroy the reasons why there ought to be one. [More…]
They would like tame-cat unions. [More…]
They would like unions to do exactly what honourable members opposite in their own conservative way want done. [More…]
I suppose that with that sort of background in industrial relations he is well equipped for union bashing, he is well equipped to support scabs. [More…]
The Government has gone a step further because the unions then used initiative and approached companies on the question of assisting workers in paying the health insurance levy. [More…]
When the employees stand up for their rights, their insistence that this should not happen, they then have to suffer a scurrilous attack in this House by 2 people who would not even know what a trade union movement is. [More…]
They left the impression with everybody that the Carmichaels and the Halfpennys are running the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
Every union is controlled by a committee of management and not just one person. [More…]
It particularly affected the poor and those less able to force an increase in earnings, as can some of the militant trade union leaders. [More…]
The unions have no confidence in it and I believe that they support it only for political purposes. [More…]
Members of the former Labor Government are the jackboots of the trade union movement and they are the ones who put such great emphasis on the public sector that it resulted in the almost total destruction of the private sector. [More…]
Again on 11 May 1966 he referred to the division between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
At the present moment there is a split between the two communist giants- the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and communist Red China. [More…]
He stated that the Government did not regard the Soviet Union as posing a direct military threat. [More…]
On the question of industrial relations, we have heard honourable members opposite- the reactionaries when they were in Opposition, the reactionaries when they are in government- say that we could never have amalgamation of unions. [More…]
They say that big unions would be too strong and that governments would not be able to handle them. [More…]
They fought against amalgamation of unions. [More…]
In Sweden, Germany and Japan there is one union for the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party put forward the proposal in this Parliament that there ought to be industry unions in such industries as the shipbuilding industry, the Liberal Party fought against amalgamation of unions. [More…]
Let us show that trade union action can keep the dockyards open. [More…]
When the honourable member for Port Adelaide raises a matter of public importance of this nature in the House he ought to point it more directly at members of his Party and members of the trade union organisations that he claims to know so well. [More…]
It is fair to say that the rank and file trade unionists at the State Dockyard are aware that the activities of their union leaders have brought about this situation. [More…]
Every speaker from the State Dockyard made the same point, that they thought the trade union leaders had led them into this trouble. [More…]
I refer to the issue of demarcation, an issue that has been recognised by responsible trade union leaders in the industry for many years, one that has been the subject of discussion between unions for a very long time. [More…]
The Government has to admit that there has been progress in this field, because a number of unions which formerly were separate are now under the one organisation. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago the announcement was made that the shipwrights had voted to amalgamate with the main union in the industry- I know this stirs up a few honourable members opposite- the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Whilst the historical practices and jealousies of the craft unions die hard, it is a fact that in both the major centres discussions with management have been going on regarding flexibilities between the various trades. [More…]
Being in close contact with Whyalla unionists, I am aware of their great concern for the industry and their realisation that some rationalisation of it is necessary. [More…]
Let us look at what is happening in the trade union movement today. [More…]
The unions are banning new ships; they are to strike tomorrow. [More…]
They cannot even form a single union that was recommended by the Trade Union Congress in 1975. [More…]
The unions have caused the collapse of talks between management and labour that were to take place tomorrow. [More…]
There is an argument between the communist unions and the right wing unions. [More…]
There is a report in today’s Australian that the National President of the Ironworkers Association attacked the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, describing it as ‘arrogant, senseless and separatist ‘. [More…]
One can only assume that the left wing unions have called the tune for the Opposition here today and have asked the Opposition to bring forward this matter of public importance for discussion. [More…]
I believe that the union movement, agreeing to indexation under the previous Government, was the fundamental factor that led to the relative decline in aggregate wages for the year and to some hope that inflation is beginning to lessen. [More…]
All the evidence to date throws a lot of doubt- at least in the minds of the unions- on the impartiality of the Government in determining that fundamental part of the equation. [More…]
The next step in this insidious scheme is to smash the trade unions of this country. [More…]
Perhaps not every trade union is at risk because the tame cat unions will be allowed to continue to show the rest of the world that our people have freedom to join industrial organisations. [More…]
The unions that do their job and improve the lot of their members will be smashed beyond repair by the cynical increase of the numbers of unemployed in our community. [More…]
These people- men and women, young and old- were not callously used as ammunition to try to smash the trade union movement. [More…]
How can you cow the ordinary union member and incite him to resist attempts to maintain his living standards and to actively discourage him from seeking any share of increase in wealth which he alone creates? [More…]
He gave us the advantage of his great knowledge of industrial relations and of the history of the trade union movement over the century. [More…]
While all this is going on the Government is looking to the trade union movement for co-operation. [More…]
No selfrespecting trade union official could hold his head up if he were to recommend that unionists accept this kind of package deal. [More…]
He can ask the unionists to accept lower wages and he can ask for higher consumer spending, because none of these things affect him. [More…]
Instead of racing down the road of direct and deliberate confrontation with the trade union movement the Prime Minister should call together the unions, management and the Government and put the cards on the table. [More…]
If there is to be some reallocation of resources for the good of this country the unions- the workers- - would co-operate. [More…]
No selfrespecting trade unionist could go along with anything less. [More…]
The article detailed agreement reached between the British Government and the Trades Union Congress for an increase in average wages and salaries of about 4.5 per cent for 12 months. [More…]
With these words, Mr Len Murray, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, Britain’s principal trade union body, ushered in the second chapter of Britain’s voluntary incomes policy. [More…]
This is a very significant policy in which the Trades Union Congress agreed to accept a 4.5 per cent growth in wages and salaries. [More…]
Productivity is sabotaged most effectively, in my view, by the publicity seekers, the union anarchists. [More…]
Take Mr Baird, an organiser for the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union in the shipbuilding industry, who told us today that a strike was needed to draw attention to the plight of his industry. [More…]
Turning to the second part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I regard it as most unfortunate that both meat exporters and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union object to unrestricted livestock exports. [More…]
I hope that neither at the meat export level nor at the union level will there be objection to reasonable sales which are distinctly to the advantage of cattlemen and which will enhance their returns and, I believe, be in the long term interests of Australian exporters. [More…]
When recovery does not come and the workers are taking action to oppose the heavy handed policies against them, the lack of union co-operation will be given as the reason for the failure of the recovery. [More…]
In fact, it is now interesting to hear the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke- who also is the head of the Labor Party- and the New South Wales Premier, Mr Wran, exhorting the same theme of wages restraint. [More…]
I believe that the majority of the rank and file of the mining unions agree with this concept but, unfortunately, they are being led by certain union leaders for their own particular political gains. [More…]
Notwithstanding the present conditions prevailing in the industry- namely, growing employment and I emphasise ‘growing employment’, 5 weeks holiday leave each year, which is 4 weeks annual leave plus 1 week of grouped statutory holidays at Easter, 13 weeks long service leave after 8 years work, 10 days sick pay each year, average production bonus paid for holidays, paid sick days, and compensation up to 6 months- the mining union leaders are still reckless in pursuit of a still bigger share of the cake. [More…]
In June, fitters at the Balmain coal loader banned overtime in support of their union’s national claims for better conditions. [More…]
The Firemen and Deckhands Union has given constant trouble in its militancy and caused stoppages for reasons as wide ranging as Medibank, the environment, higher wages, sympathy with the teachers ‘ strike and the refusal to handle French ships, following the French nuclear tests. [More…]
Then we have had railway stoppages caused by strikes by the Australian Railways Union and the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
This union manoeuvre is rather typical of what is happening at all ports. [More…]
Many disputes seem to be evaluated by trade union officials- if in fact they bother to evaluate them- in selfish and domestic terms. [More…]
If more members of trade unions attended their meetings it would reduce the opportunity for well organised minority groups to manipulate the majority of the members. [More…]
Probably less than 5 per cent of union members attend their union meetings, thus allowing the militants to increase their penetration and control of the trade union movement. [More…]
Let us be Australians first and let us have a national union of the Australian people. [More…]
The dictionary definition of ‘union’ is ‘united’, ‘agreeing together for mutual benefit’, ‘the unity of solidarity produced by this’. [More…]
In a list of words synonymous with the word ‘union’ is the word ‘harmony’ which is a very pleasant word. [More…]
Add the word ‘trade’ and we have ‘trade union’- a movement which, undoubtedly, since its inception, has done a tremendous amount of good and obtained many benefits for its members. [More…]
But have the unions now become largely counter productive? [More…]
Perhaps we could look at the trade union leaders who exist in a very competitive atmosphere and who are subjected to a fair amount of publicity in the media. [More…]
Is this competition between union leaders the real motivation behind our shocking strike history? [More…]
I am sad to think that he joins the long list of union bashers that now occupy the government benches. [More…]
It is to create a massive pool of unemployed, to force down living standards and to attempt to crack the back of the trade union movement in order to force the lower income earners into submission. [More…]
Increasingly, trade union members are beginning to accept this. [More…]
The trade union movement has a vital role in determing whether the economic recovery continues and employment opportunities expand. [More…]
Strikes, such as the container dispute involving rolling strikes by several unions on the waterfront, the 48-hour State Electricity Commission strike in Victoria, and the Medibank strike, have cost Australia millions of dollars in lost production, lost wages and lost jobs. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition and others have taken out and dusted down the worn out slogan that this Government is not interested in reducing the level of unemployment; that, indeed, it is deliberately maintaining a so-called pool of unemployment as a means of inducing wage restraint on the part of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is impossible for the unions to co-operate with a government that does not keep its word- a government which not only attempts to force wages down but also slowly reduces services or introduces charges such as the Medibank levy for existing services. [More…]
The bludgeoning LiberalNational Country Party Government approach to wages and the unions is consistent with the manner in which the Prime Minister obtained leadership of his Party and the style he used to force an election. [More…]
I pledge myself to build more and more bridges with all levels of the trade union movement- not just summit conferences between Australian Council of Trade Unions executives and Federal Cabinets but real communications with Trades Hall delegates, with those at shop steward level. [More…]
A. Santamaria, probably came even closer to the truth when he predicted to a closed meeting of the Booksellers’ Club in Melbourne a few months ago that the present Prime Minister’s Achilles heel would be his failure to understand the intricacies of trade union power. [More…]
There will be a confrontation between this Government and the trade union movement for the good and sufficient reason that the living standards of trade unionists are declining as each quarter’s adjustment goes by. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government then decided that the time had come when the trade union movement should be allowed to consolidate those gains. [More…]
What the trade union leaders who lead these strikes do not seem to understand is that they are threatening the jobs of many of their fellow workers throughout the community. [More…]
It is essential that the trade union movement in this country gets some sanity amongst its leadership so that we can get on with the job of exporting our great primary products. [More…]
What we are seeing today is really an enactment of vengeance by this Government and those who support it against certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a political vendetta designed to divide the trade union movement, designed to put people outside the gate in the hope that there will be enough people outside the gate so that when wages are cut they will have to take them. [More…]
by leave- It is of major concern not only to the Government, but also to individual rank and file workers and the community generally, that orderly methods of wage fixation are under attack by certain elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
I suggest that the real reason for making this statement is not so much to explain the wages policy of his Government to the people of this country or to the Parliament; rather it denotes a move by the Government to undertake an attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
This is the second sitting week in a row in which we have started proceedings after question time by an honourable member from the Government side getting up to attack the unions for being irresponsible and being responsible for the state of the economy. [More…]
The reason for these attacks on the trade union movement is to put the responsibility for the present economic position back on to the trade union movement and away from the Government. [More…]
There had been full acceptance of it by the trade union movement. [More…]
It was part of a social contract that we of the Australian Labor Party were able to achieve with the unions and to persuade the Arbitration Commission to adopt. [More…]
Finally, no trade union official worth his salt can possibly keep telling his members to support a system which inexorably reduces their real wages. [More…]
They have no union to represent them. [More…]
Then we had to try to understand why the Government wanted to start this week of sittings with another attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
It should be of interest to all Australians to know that the state of the House at the moment is 91 members of the Liberal and National Country Parties and 36 members of the Labor Party and that not one of the 91 members sitting opposite are or have been members of a trade union. [More…]
We can therefore expect from them a savage case of union bashing whenever these debates come before the House. [More…]
How seriously should the Opposition regard this union bashing exercise that is taking place today? [More…]
When the present Government challenged us in November and December of last year to prove that we had better industrial relations with the trade unions as a result of our working with them, we pointed out the great difficulties that existed in that area. [More…]
The Government is doing it because it has destroyed any trust that may have been built up with the trade union movement. [More…]
In a series of submissions to the various tribunals around Australia the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union has been able to maintain wage relativities with other sections of the community because inherent in its wage claims was a $30 overaward payment. [More…]
I do not think we should be restricted to making comments on the document which has been just put forward by the Minister as an attempt to discredit the trade union movement in the eyes of the Australian electorate. [More…]
Never a day passes in this Parliament without someone from the Opposition side, usually one of the Ministers, trying to condemn in general terms the trade union movement. [More…]
But every day we have to put up with this routine in the national Parliament of Liberal and National Country Party spokesmen condemning the trade unions. [More…]
It can in no way be said that the policy is a union or wage earner bashing exercise. [More…]
However, the legitimate question which can be asked is: Who are the unions really supporting if they do not support this policy? [More…]
It has been accepted by the Trade Union Congress which is the equivalent in the UK of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
So we have an interesting situation in the United Kingdom where something that will reduce the real living standards and wages of people more than is proposed in this document is put forward by a Labour Government and accepted by the trade union movement; yet we have these people here saying that this is a harsh policy, that it is union bashing. [More…]
Certainly it cannot be the Australian Labor Party or the trade union movement with their present policies because their policies must mean more unemployment, more inflation and a further lowering in the long term of the standards of living of people in Australia relative to other countries. [More…]
Orderly methods of wage fixation are under attack, not from the trade union movement as is suggested in this document, but from the Government itself. [More…]
Then the Minister has the gall to make a statement suggesting that ‘certain elements in the trade union movement’ are attacking the system. [More…]
No doubt, what I am saying will be described as union bashing. [More…]
Let us not forget that some union leaders and some of their followers- I emphasise the word ‘some’- seem to have little hesitation in going in for Australian bashing when they feel Uke it. [More…]
I am not talking on behalf of just the Building Workers Industrial Union or the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
Because of the actions of a communist trade union leader, aided and abetted by people who should know better, that vessel, nuclear powered as it was, was forced to berth without the assistance of tugs, and whilst it remains in this country it and the wharf are declared black by communists who, in my opinion, are making a deliberate attempt to prevent Australia from honouring her treaty obligations under ANZUS. [More…]
I would not let this day pass without putting on record the fact that not one member of Her Majesty’s Opposition has been patriotic enough to stand in this Parliament on this day and condemn out of hand the action of the communist trade union boss Bull in banning from using our wharf facilities a vessel which is sent here by one of our great allies under a treaty. [More…]
In the Government’s recent consultations with the ACTU and other peak trade union councils, both parties discussed the economic outlook. [More…]
In favour (13): Benin, France, Guyana, Italy, Japan, the Libyan Arab Republic, Pakistan, Panama, Romania, Sweden, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United Republic of Tanzania. [More…]
It is worth noting that a couple of days ago the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions affirmed on behalf of the trade union movement, in a way in which nobody opposite in this House could ever do, that the union movement had supported too many strikes. [More…]
There are so many areas where unions are taking it upon themselves to make decisions- many of them nothing more than political decisions- by placing limitations and bans or by striking, and thus preventing Australia from being a continuing exporter of goods. [More…]
The action of the Australian Workers Union on the handling of wheat in New South Wales during May and June reduced the capacity to export wheat by 200 000 tonnes. [More…]
I refer also to the action of the maritime unions in Western Australia. [More…]
There has been a ban by the Australian Council of Trade Unions on trade with South Africa. [More…]
Is a strike by the Plumbers and Gas Fitters Employees Union seriously disrupting the building industry? [More…]
-The dispute to which the honourable member refers, concerning the Plumbers and Gas Fitters Employees Union, relates to the sprinkler and pipe fitters award and goes back to a log of claims lodged about 18 months ago that included claims for a 35-hour week and a $60 increase in wages. [More…]
Many members of the Union concerned have been dismissed. [More…]
About a month ago the Victorian members of the Union voted to go on strike indefinitely and they are still out. [More…]
He referred to the callous and totally irresponsible union approach. [More…]
I understand that Commissioner Brack has taken the very unusual course of sending copies of his decision to every individual member of the Union in Victoria and Queensland. [More…]
I ask the Union members concerned to consider carefully Commissioner Brack’s decision, the loss of jobs their actions have already caused and the potentially disastrous situation which would arise if they continued on their present course of action. [More…]
Indications are that Australia supplies the cheapest coal to Japan of the 4 major suppliers, which include the United States, Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
He has urged the trade union movement to be content with the maintenance of real wages. [More…]
Many of those who are unemployed have not been members of active unions and so union leaders in other employment categories do not always accept the adage which was enunciated by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) that one man’s pay rise is another man’s job. [More…]
It is a difficult matter of union education, and in the case of some of the more militant union leaders it is a point which only the rank and file can really impress upon them. [More…]
The pressure for the payment of the Medibank levy by some militant unions upon employers with limited capacity to resist at present provides an illustration of how the general level of wages may rise beyond the guidelines of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and to the detriment of the employment situation. [More…]
In respect of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act I must refer just to one matter, of Qantas Airways Ltd v. Amalgamated Workers Union and others, No. [More…]
Are contracts let by the Commission to the New South Wales Housing Commission Building Group influenced by the Building Workers Industrial Union’s requirements for sub-contractors’ conditions of employment? [More…]
I understand that the Building Workers Industrial Union is objecting to tenders being called on the open market- open to industry as a whole- rather than being confined to the Housing Commission Building Group. [More…]
In circumstances where the political affiliation of the leadership of so many of Australia’s unions has already been suspect, it seems incredible that one of the areas that is being affected is the other market of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It must be conceded that labour, the unions in the United Kingdom, did not arrive at that attitude without considerable trauma. [More…]
The United Kingdom trade unionists are regarded as the great traditionalists of the trade union movement. [More…]
It must convey a message to the members of the trade unions in this country of the seriousness of the situation which confronted the United Kingdom and which must inevitably afflict this country if some measures are not adopted to withstand its evil influence. [More…]
Sociology is unpopular in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This Government, coerced by its dictatorial Prime Minister, again seeks to mislead the nation by union bashing and the creation of phoney issues in a futile attempt to divert public attention away from the real issue of its responsibility for the planned expansion of unemployment and the stagnating economy. [More…]
Its continued attack on the trade union movement and the so-called left wing minority should be seen for what it is- an attempt to set up the trade union movement as the scapegoat for the certain failure of the Government’s economic strategy. [More…]
The Government controls the Treasury purse strings, not the trade union movement, and it is the Government which has the responsibility for the management of the economy. [More…]
The Prime Minister- and I am sure some of the oncers opposite must have been dismayed, but outwardly they agree with what was done- has adopted a pro-Mao anti-Soviet stance to try to show the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a dangerous threat to our security in order to distract public attention away from the extreme hardships the Government is intent on creating for most Australians. [More…]
Currently the United States nuclear vessel Truxtun is visiting Australia, a visit obviously engineered to trigger a reaction from certain sections of the trade union movement, again to distract attention away from the evil of unemployment which this Government is fostering. [More…]
If the Government persists in its union bashing it is more likely to meet the same fate as did Edward Heath in the United Kingdom when he thought he could batter the United Kingdom miners into submission. [More…]
After all, governments and not unions are responsible for the economy. [More…]
Now in office it seeks to explain its failures as being the result of external trading factors and the unions. [More…]
The picture emerged of those who were significant, powerful trade union people in large numbers being greedy and committing to nothing those who were absolutely dependent upon unemployment relief. [More…]
Union disputes and industrial unrest have extremely grave consequences for our export industries. [More…]
Only today Japan has said that it cannot necessarily guarantee to continue to rely upon Australia as a source of meat or wool, primarily due to industrial disputes and union activity. [More…]
We now see a union threatening on a political basis to place a black ban on New Zealand trade- a trade which is very much in our favour and a trade with one of our great allies and one of our major trading partners. [More…]
No union official can calmly acquiesce to such a policy. [More…]
When those unions in a strong bargaining position- there are still quite a few, despite the recession- make a breakthrough they will spur others to follow. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has made it clear that it will give wage indexation one more chance despite the fact that real wages have been cut in the last 2 national wage decisions. [More…]
But if the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission continues to implement the Government’s wage policy, then the ACTU will be compelled to advise unions to seek the restoration of real wages through direct negotiations with employers. [More…]
Of course this Government will then castigate the unions for not abiding by orderly wage fixing procedures, as indeed it did earlier this week; but it will be the Government that will be primarily responsible for having destroyed the orderly procedure of full wage indexation, which procedure was working well until the Government broke its election promise to support it and advocated instead a totally different concept of partial indexation. [More…]
Because of the Government’s attitude to wage indexation cases it has virtually destroyed the social contract which we established in 1974 with the trade union movement. [More…]
They worked hard to get the unions to accept the social contract on the basis that the government would do the right thing in respect of prices. [More…]
It is evidenced by the stand that the Transport Workers Union and various industry groups have taken. [More…]
Of course, if honourable members opposite approached the trade unions with such a proposal, I think they would get the order of the boot. [More…]
I would not blame the trade union movement for that. [More…]
Frankly, I believe that the Labor Party would not have to go to that much trouble to get the boot from the trade union movement because we see this developing week by week. [More…]
I wish to bring to the attention of the House 2 union actions which have taken place in the City of Ballarat in recent days and which directly threaten the jobs of at least 60 people and, indirectly, the jobs of many others. [More…]
Both actions involve the imposition of black bans by unions. [More…]
Members of the staff do not belong to a union and have signed a document to the effect that no pressure has been put on them by the proprietor, Mr Lewis, to prevent them from joining a union. [More…]
Of their own volition they are adamantly opposed to joining a union because they wish to have no truck with the growing involvement of unions in political matters. [More…]
The men have been under strong pressure from the Trades and Labor Council in Ballarat and from outside union organisers to join the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
On 5 occasions union officials have visited the firm. [More…]
After the second visit the union placed a black ban on the supply of Sanyo equipment to the firm. [More…]
The union officials have made no bones of the fact that if the staff of John and L. Lewis do not submit to these tactics of blackmail and intimidation, they will do all in their power to close the firm down completely. [More…]
It is neither fully unionised nor non-unionised. [More…]
Without any direct contact with management, this week the Storemen and Packers Union placed a black ban on the delivery of Farquhar’s onions and potatoes. [More…]
I raise these matters before the House as yet two more examples of the victimisation that certain trade union officials in this country are wreaking not only on the Australian nation but on the overwhelming majority of hard-working, responsible workers in this country. [More…]
After more than a century of exploitation by colonialist powers, and economic disruption at the hands of the Soviet Union, the Chinese economy has been set upon the course of self-reliance. [More…]
Another lesson that the Opposition must learn and that the trade union movement must learn is that there is a definite nexus between wage rates and job opportunities and that unless there is restraint in that field there will be further unemployment. [More…]
Day after day the spokesmen for the Australian Parliamentary Labor Party revealed to the country why they were judged to be wanting and day by day the extreme left wing unions demonstrate to Australia that they do not care for their rank and file and the people of the country at all. [More…]
Given the fact of an ineffective Opposition and a union movement that has not learned how to control its anarchists and Trotskyites, there is an enormous responsibility on this Government. [More…]
Apart from getting into the Japanese market and securing an extension of our quotas to the United States, we have made a sale to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations recall my asking him earlier this session a question in relation to the rights of trade unionists who were fined by their unions for working during the Medibank strike? [More…]
Does he also recall my recently informing the House about 11 Amalgamated Metal Workers Union members in Ballarat who had been so fined by their local branch and who had announced their intention to take action through the Industrial Court if their appeal to the State Council of the AMWU failed? [More…]
Council of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union met on 6 September and after hearing the case put by the 1 1 constituents of the honourable member voted to remove the financial penalties which had been imposed by the Ballarat branch committee. [More…]
I might say that the successful resolution of this case within the confines of the union movement supports the advice that I have been giving to other union members in a similar situation to those involved in this case, that is, to exercise fully their right to natural justice within the rules of the organisation to which they belong without in any way inhibiting their ultimate right to seek remedy in the Industrial Court. [More…]
I am hopeful that the successful resolution of this case will result in a similarly successful conclusion in similar cases which at present are under consideration in the union movement. [More…]
Due to the combined effect of trade union pressures and the former Government’s policies, the previous post-war overtimenew labour recruitment relationship has been reversed. [More…]
Thus, the real culprits for the present level of unemployment are all those people, both within and to some extent beyond the trade union movement, who insist on wage increases regardless of their adverse impact. [More…]
The Labor Party and some members of the trade union movement still do not understand this relationship between the state of the economy and the rate of unemployment. [More…]
I have seen it as a resident and I saw it when I was in practice at the trade union clinic. [More…]
The trade union movement submitted a proposal that can only be described as savagely unjust. [More…]
Under the proposal of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Labor Party, 85 per cent of the families which now are insured for hospital-only cover would be worse off and 90 per cent of the single individuals would be worse off. [More…]
It must have been the first time in history that the trade union movement has gone on strike for less disposable income. [More…]
The trade union leaders who were guilty of this irresponsible act have a lot to account for. [More…]
The trade union movement conveniently ignored the fact that on 20 May the Government extended full income tax indexation to every taxpayer in Australia, which benefits the average weekly wage earner to the extent of approximately $4.70 a week as from 1 July. [More…]
The trade union leaders and the ALP chose to ignore those benefits. [More…]
The trade union movement wanted full indexation from the Labor Government, but did not get it. [More…]
The Labor Government would not give it to the trade union movement. [More…]
It was certainly expressed to us by the trade union movement which felt that the Australian people, or a percentage of them, who wished to stay with Medibank should have that right to do so. [More…]
During the period of his working life he was an active and dedicated trade unionist, President of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and its State Secretary. [More…]
What really happens is that someone engaged in industry has somewhere to go to get advice, for example, his trade union. [More…]
He does not have a trade union to look after him, and unless he goes out and engages the services of a solicitor or talks to somebody who has as much wisdom as I have, he will find himself in a very bad position. [More…]
What interested me was a copy of a letter I received from the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales telling me that 30 per cent of the children attending kindergartens and preschools in my electorate were in need. [More…]
The Union asked what I was going to do about this dreadful Government. [More…]
I wrote back to the Union thanking it for its statistics which, I said, demonstrated quite clearly that 70 per cent of the children attending pre-schools in my electorate were not in need but nonetheless were in receipt of a 75 per cent subsidy. [More…]
I asked the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales whether it thought it was reasonable that the subsidy should remain as it was- in other words, with 70 per cent of the subsidy going to people who were evidently not in need. [More…]
I also asked the Union whether it would favour a situation in which the needy benefited from welfare payments and whether welfare should be redirected to the needy. [More…]
I asked the Kindergarten Union those questions on 16 August 1976. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware that the Storemen and Packers Union is holding a meeting in Queensland on Friday to determine its attitude to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s decision with regard to the wool bale weight dispute? [More…]
Is the Minister also aware that the President of the union has stated that his union will not accept the Commission’s decision? [More…]
If that proves to be the case, what action can the Government take to assist the persons who will be adversely affected by this union’s move? [More…]
-The history of this issue goes back a long way- some 10 years- to when an agreement was reached between the parties, including the Australian Council of Trade Unions, on the maximum weight of wool bales, which was established in modern terminology at 204 kilograms. [More…]
Also involved were claims by the Storemen and Packers Union for a 35-hour week and improvements in various terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
I would urge members of the Storemen and Packers Union to think of the welfare of their fellow workers in the present circumstances. [More…]
I am hopeful that good sense will prevail in the ranks of the union. [More…]
We are living in an atmosphere in which the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party generally are forever being badgered and told that workers must be responsible and that their demands must be restrained in order to ensure that the country can get onto its feet economically again. [More…]
It is making a mockery of the very advice it is giving the trade union movement. [More…]
Imagine what sorts of effects this will have on the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the whole trade union movement when they next apply to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for wage justice. [More…]
Why should the trade union movement not threaten industrial action in view of these sorts of activities being undertaken by the present Government? [More…]
Accepting for the moment the Government’s assumptions about the causes of inflation and about where we need to have restraint, it seems totally unjust that the only restraint is being placed on the trade union section of the community and not on the private enterprise sec.,tion of the community. [More…]
The 4 countries are Canada, the Soviet Union, Mainland China and Australia. [More…]
The parliamentary Opposition, having been shown up so glaringly by their union comrades, tried to give legs to the Medibank issue. [More…]
this meeting unaminously pledges full support to all union members in acting according to this decision taken by the rank and file workers of the port of Hobart . [More…]
Delegates of Maritime and Harbour Trust Union Merchant Service Guild Seamans Union and Transport Workers Union. [More…]
That telegram says in very plain terms in the last part that these unions will stand by any trade unionist who may be penalised or sought to be penalised by any union other than his own in relation to nuclear ships visiting the port of Hobart. [More…]
That the delegates of unions notified the Premier the Honourable W. A. Neilson and the Prime Minister of this decision. [More…]
Further this meeting unanimously pledges full support to all union members in acting according to this decision taken by the rank and file workers of the port of Hoban . [More…]
Delegates of Marine and Harbour Trust Union, Merchant Service Guild, Seaman’s Union and Transport Workers Union. [More…]
This morning, Qantas Airways Ltd, the Australian Government international airline, brought to Perth the New Zealand Rugby Union team which had been engaging in contests with racially selected teams in South Africa. [More…]
Two weeks ago, the Minister in answer to a question on notice from me, could not even say through what countries the New Zealand Rugby Union team had travelled to South Africa. [More…]
On 18 March 1976, Union Travel, a booking agent in New Zealand, booked 40 seats on a Qantas flight to South Africa. [More…]
The person responsible for recognising the brutal suppression of the Baltic states by the Soviet Union can in no sense be described as someone who is genuinely interested in freedom. [More…]
The quotation read as follows- ‘With regard to reports in the Press that the Transvaal or any other cricket union is contemplating the establishment of mixed club competitions, I now want to state by repetition clearly and frankly that such action will not be in accordance with Government policy and that violation and disregard of the policy of the Government will force us to regard it in a serious light, because it will not promote sport in S.A. ‘In a nutshell the policy of the Nationalist Government is one of multi-national development, that each nation practises and administers its sport separately on club level, provincial level and national level, as it has done in S.A. all the years. [More…]
The members of the Labor Party are the ones who condone racist policies in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
However, I consider that the problems relating to the union structure in this country deserve further examination in order that we may get to the root cause of the problem. [More…]
One area which I believe requires examination and rectification is the divergence of the aims and aspirations of trade union leaders from the aims of their members. [More…]
It is fair to say, I think, that the union is thought of as the embodiment of its individual employees and that the prime role of the union is undoubtedly the maximisation of wages and the improvement of working conditions for the employee. [More…]
However, it we look to what are considered by some union leaders to be their aims, we see that these may in fact differ from the aims of their members, and thus the role of some of the unions similarly differs from the strategy which should properly and reasonably be followed by those unions. [More…]
What then are the motives of the union executive? [More…]
Thirdly, he looks to his position as being one in which he can actively promote his political objectives- although that of course does not apply to all union officials. [More…]
If we consider the role of the union executive pursuing his own political objectives, we can see how often in recent times the union has been treated as a political institution guided by leaders whose aims are of a nature very different from those of the union members. [More…]
Clear support for that argument is shown in the refusal of the members of many unions to support the Medibank strike, which was clearly a political strike. [More…]
Prior to the Medibank strike I received numerous calls from unionists desiring to work during that strike. [More…]
In South Australia the State Bank of South Australia, the Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees’ Union and the South Australian teachers were allowed to vote on the strike. [More…]
In Western Australia approximately 9000 members of that States branch of the Transport Workers Union defied the Federal Transport Workers Union directive to strike. [More…]
In many cases those people who were not given the opportunity to vote defied their union executive and worked. [More…]
How often do we see union executives making decisions and being too scared to put them to the vote of their union members. [More…]
Just as the union executives in the Medibank strike were out of touch with their members, so it was clearly shown at the last election that the Labor Party was out of touch with its electors. [More…]
I said earlier that I considered that political strikes, in which the aims of the leaders of some of the unions differ from those of their union members, constituted one of the factors hampering our efforts to beat inflation. [More…]
Those unions decrease our production and cause a fall in our standard of living from the level at which it could have been. [More…]
Another example of the union executives aims differing from those of the membership can be seen in many of the demarcation disputes throughout Australia. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that I have mentioned, amongst the factors motivating the union executive, his tendency to look to his security in the union he represents and also to the wage he might gain and maintain in that position. [More…]
Clearly then it is to his advantage to maintain and increase the membership of his union. [More…]
He can do that by encouraging nonunionists to join the union or by widening the base of his union to include- or steal- members from other unions. [More…]
Of course, he will have to retain the members already in his own union. [More…]
Thus we have often seen in-fighting between unions trying to enlarge their union’s work responsibilities and so increase their membership to the disadvantage of other unions. [More…]
Trade unions in Australia are diverse in character and range from the small local independent association to the large national organisations. [More…]
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the annual trade union collections show that there were some 280 reporting unions at the end of 1975. [More…]
A small number of the unions reported fewer than 20 members, whilst the largest reported more than 140 000 members. [More…]
In 1975 there was a preponderance of comparatively small unions. [More…]
Thus a number of unions are registered in the States, many of those unions being relatively small organisations operating only within their particular States. [More…]
That, of course, has implications for amalgamations, and it indicates the prevalence of the traditional craft unions in Australia. [More…]
Undoubtedly that has contributed to the incidence of inter-union demarcation problems. [More…]
It is worth nothing that in Germany there are some 16 unions compared with our 280 unions. [More…]
Recently we have seen many instances of problems arising when a union is involved with another union in a demarcation dispute. [More…]
The Daily Mirror of 7 September highlighted that point on page 3 when giving details of a factory that produced 200 caravans a week having to close because of a union demarcation dispute which had stranded materials on Sydney wharves. [More…]
Hardship for industry and workers was being caused by a few union leaders who were hungry for power. [More…]
That was the result of the dispute between the New South Wales branch of the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia over who should handle large containers. [More…]
I understand that there are some 16 unions in the Whyalla shipyard. [More…]
As I have said, that is about the same number of unions in the whole of Germany. [More…]
Despite the huge cost increases incurred in demarcation disputes within that shipyard, the unions continue to bicker to the extent that now all the jobs of their members are at risk. [More…]
How can the leaders of those unions say they have benefited their members by continual infighting, so that now all members risk losing their jobs? [More…]
The farcical nature of the politicking which goes on with some of the unions involved in that industry was made amply clear when some of those unions sent members to protest in this House. [More…]
This House will remember that the demonstration did take place and the union members were removed from the gallery. [More…]
At the same time, the union executives in Adelaide were sending telegrams demanding the release of the arrested men. [More…]
You might have thought that the union executive, before sending the telegrams, would at least have had the intelligence and foresight to inquire whether its plan to have people arrested as a political protest had worked. [More…]
The answer, of course, to these demarcation disputes, which are strangling Australia’s life blood and throwing workers out of their jobs, is to have amalgamation of industry unions. [More…]
I understand that it has been the policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions since the 1920s to encourage amalgamation of industry unions. [More…]
Again, it would seem that the self-centred and selfish aims of some of the union executives have counteracted this policy, and whilst a few amalgamations have taken place, it is obvious that the problem still remains. [More…]
It is Liberal Party policy and ACTU policy to encourage amalgamation of industry unions in order to assist in avoiding this type of dispute. [More…]
It is quite clear that the English craft type of union from which our union organisations have descended, is not appropriate to the current Australian situation. [More…]
I believe the advantages gained by the unionists forming membership of a larger industry union rather than a craft-based union would be enormous. [More…]
A worker would have added security of employment within his trade or within related trades which would all be under the same union, so that if there was a recession in one area of the industry, the employee could move much more easily to another area within the same union. [More…]
Similarly, the employer would have an easier task in having to deal with only the one union in his industry. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
Too much time is lost through disputes over which unions should handle a certain job. [More…]
The mobility of trade union offiicials from office to office is sometimes restricted by rules which require officials to be drawn from amongst long-standing union members only. [More…]
It is my duty to point out to the few unions which are causing the trouble in the Australian community at present that they are causing an enormous amount of pressure to be brought upon persons like me from those who have no such control over their income. [More…]
There is no strong union to press for higher wages in that area. [More…]
When these sectors are affected, as they have been by union disputes and especially demarcation disputes, after the huge loss of income they have suffered as a result of inflation, this burden is almost the last straw. [More…]
I expect this pressure to continue to increase if these thoughtless unions continue to increase their efforts to self-destruct. [More…]
If the Government does legislate it will mean a loss of some of the freedom of the union movement. [More…]
However, it is getting to the stage where in the exercise of our responsibility to protect the Australian society from these unAustralian attacks from radical unions, we could well be forced into this position. [More…]
The easiest way to remedy the problem is in the hands of the unions. [More…]
I call upon all union members to exercise their rights under the secret ballot legislation which we have implemented. [More…]
I call upon the unionists not only to use their right to cast their vote but also to promote from among their ranks for executive positions unionists in whom they have faith and who will in their opinion, protect their interests, that is, the interests of the union members and not people who will merely use the executive position to promote their own interests to the detriment of the union movement as a whole. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting I was urging union members to take an active role in the election of officers in their own unions. [More…]
If the Labor Party- the Opposition in this chamber- has the close affiliation with the union movement and the ability to get on with the union movement that it has tried to suggest in the past, although its record stands to damn that suggestion, it is in its interests to do all within its power to overcome the problem of the selfish union executives. [More…]
But the exercise of such tactics in pursuit of political aims, or to increase the industrial muscle of a union, is unforgivable and quite contrary to the freedoms we cherish. [More…]
Hence it was so exasperating to hear someone like the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) say the other day that there was not one unionist on this side of the House. [More…]
My goodness, from that moment onwards he fired off at man after man, people on this side who have had genuine union experience. [More…]
Suggestions have been made that the Soviet Union is tending to move into the control of the world’s gold reserves and production. [More…]
That strategy has been evidenced by a variety of moves by the Soviet Union aimed ultimately at reinstituting an international gold standard, with Russia itself as the major holder and producer of the metal and as the heir apparent to the United States as the monetary strong man of the world. [More…]
The first option which faces the Soviet Union in moving towards a position of monopoly in the production of the world ‘s new gold would be the fall of Rhodesia, followed by the fall of South Africa, to Soviet controlled communists groups. [More…]
The second option, and a much more likely one, is for the Soviet Union to try to disrupt the supply of gold production through the support of terrorist or guerrilla activities or to disrupt the exports of gold flowing from South Africa by means of border harassments and possibly through a sea lane blockade. [More…]
Thus the Soviet Union would achieve many of the same benefits which Britain first achieved during the 19th century, when it virtually controlled the world’s gold supply and which the United States achieved in the postWorld War I period up to the 1960s; that is, a continuous flow of real resources to those countries as others sought to exchange with them to possess the gold-convertible pounds and dollars and perhaps, in the future, roubles. [More…]
The Soviet Union and its satellite territories are presently indebted to Western financial institutions to the tune of around $35 billion, the major portion of that debt being owed by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The expectation of much greater gold prices down the road probably encouraged an increased indebtedness to the West and is also probably one of the main reasons why the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has sold substantially reduced amounts of its gold stockpile to the West during the past year. [More…]
It has also been suggested that perhaps the Soviet Union is buying up the gold being sold by the International Monetary Fund. [More…]
He said it had to do with some agreement with the union and that they had to do it. [More…]
Will the trade unions allow me to do this? [More…]
Will honourable members opposite stand tonight and join with me in issuing a challenge to the trade union movement to allow me to employ one school leaver during the 7 weeks Christmas break at $50 a week, irrespective of hours worked and conditions? [More…]
The Trade Union Training College has also virtually come to a standstill. [More…]
There is every reason for those who are immediately involved within the trade union movement and State governments to make some comment upon the report. [More…]
The procedures which my colleague, the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), has outlined will enable us to try to consider effectively and adequately whether or not the trade union movement will consider the proposition which has been put to it by the Federal Government and whether those who are working in the various shipyards around Australia, particularly those in [More…]
To debate the matter now with those who are supposedly Labor’s adherents within the trade union movement and who are not being allowed to express a view as to whether they are now prepared to accept their responsibilities would be pointless. [More…]
-On 15 September, during the adjournment debate, the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) spent his 5 minutes attacking the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales. [More…]
He referred to letters he had received from the Kindergarten Union and from supporting pre-school centres. [More…]
I asked the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales whether it thought it was reasonable that the subsidy should remain as it was- in other words, with 70 per cent of the subsidy going to people who were evidently not in need. [More…]
I also asked the Union whether it would favour a situation in which the needy benefited from welfare payments and whether welfare should be redirected to the needy. [More…]
I should like to incorporate in Hansard a letter that I received from the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales which is dated 3 August 1976. [More…]
According to the Government, bulk of Sessional PreSchools are in middle and upper-class areas, but in fact this is not so, as done on a ‘needs’ basis in areas rated l-S, the figure of the Kindergarten Union clearly states as below: [More…]
The Kindergarten Union has 78 affiliated Centres and cares for 6082 children which include- [More…]
I am advised that the new procedures are being carried out in conformity with the legislation which, as honourable gentlemen will recall, requires unions to conduct secret postal ballots. [More…]
The information I have is that in 1 974 only 20 unions availed themselves of the provision that was then in the Act, but not as a mandatory requirement, which allowed the Electoral Office to conduct secret postal ballots on their behalf. [More…]
That shows quite clearly that the rank and file members of the trade union movement are moving towards the Electoral Office conducting secret postal ballots; that they are in favour of the system and obviously believe it gives them a fairer go in determining who should run their union affairs. [More…]
I have in fact had requests from unionists the the dates of forthcoming ballots for trade unions be notified publicly as far as possible in advance of the elections actually being held. [More…]
Therefore the Government will be putting down a regulation which will enable the Industrial Registrar to require trade unions to notify the Registrar of their next forthcoming ballot. [More…]
Under those provisions there would be a continuing record held by the Industrial Registrar of ballots for all union elections and, therefore, anyone would be able to find out what ballots were to be held in the next few months. [More…]
Is it true that the Government dropped its proposal to have union elections conducted by compulsion by the Commonwealth Electoral Office as a result of being warned that it would be reported in accordance with the Freedom of Association Convention operating under the International Labour Organisation, thus provoking massive international labour retaliation? [More…]
Irrespective of whether it is true, in future will the Government submit, in accordance with the Freedom of Association Convention operating under the ILO, all proposals it has in regard to trade unions in order to ensure that such a conflict is avoided? [More…]
The proposals as finally enacted were enacted after proper consultation by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations with the trade union movement. [More…]
The proposals as enacted have enabled secret ballot legislation to be introduced more quickly and to be accepted widely by the great bulk of the trade union movement. [More…]
The second allegation involves Thai International Airways and the Australian Union of Students, and the normal preliminary departmental inquiry has been directed to Thai Airways International, from whom information is expected shortly. [More…]
I said: a letter I received from the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales telling me that 30 per cent of the children attending kindergartens and pre-schools in my electorate were in need. [More…]
The Union asked what I was going to do about this … [More…]
I wrote back to the Union thanking it for its statistics which, I said, demonstrated quite clearly that 70 per cent of the children attending pre-schools in my electorate were not in need - [More…]
What the Government and the majority of the Australian people can see, but not the Opposition and some union leaders, as distinct from rank and file unionists, is that we need a breathing space, a brake to the futile wage- price spiral in order to set the stage for renewed growth. [More…]
As far as I can see in many trade union areas- certainly not all of them- there is no desire to improve our productivity or our efficiency. [More…]
I do not want to criticise the unions unreasonably. [More…]
I do think many, not all, trade union leaders are clearly acting against the interests of their own members, and certainly against the interests of Australia. [More…]
They share the attitude of the Australian Labor Party and Senator Sim- a senator from the Government’s own benches- that there is no reason to be particularly alarmed about the Soviet Union’s activities in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Donald Home also points out that the Australian Constitution is based on an uneasy, clumsy union of two principles of governmentthe federal principle, and the responsible government principle. [More…]
So honourable members can see just what a paralysing effect this strike, which involves the members of the Australian Workers Union, will cause in New South Wales. [More…]
I think it is only fair to the union members concerned that when a member of Parliament rises in this chamber to be critical of the parties to a union dispute because of legislation that a government of which he was a member for many years would not do something about, he ought to declare all of his involvement. [More…]
I ask honourable members to look at the reaction of the trade union movement and people throughout Australia to this off- the cuff speech by the Treasurer in which he called for a pay freeze in Australia. [More…]
Union leaders warned yesterday of massive industrial upheaval, if the Federal Government froze wages and not prices. [More…]
The national president of the 170 000-strong Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Mr Dick Scott, said: [More…]
He ought to look at a situation in the United Kingdom where the Government has secured the support of the Trade Union Congress in that country for a level of wage increases which most people would have believed several years ago would have been quite impossible in the context of the industrial relations of that country. [More…]
It is not union bashing; it is not provocative industrial relations; it is a simple fact of economic life. [More…]
It is a view which has won wider acceptance amongst responsible elements of the trade union movement than the honourable member for Port Adelaide wants to admit. [More…]
In fact conspicuous trade union leaders in Australia, people who are active members of the Labor Party and people who have been leading spokesmen for the Labor Party have acknowledged in recent months the sanity and the virtue of some system of plateau indexation. [More…]
Since taking office the Fraser Government has directed itself to a policy of confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
The gross escalation of wage costs in recent years is a factor which this Government has pledged to overcome, and to do so despite the strongest attacks by the Australian trade union movement- attacks which must surely be acknowledged as damaging to the progress of this nation’s economic growth. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide came into this place today and issued threats, talking about what the union movement would be doing in this area and talking down the economy. [More…]
We must take some blame for allowing into Australia over the years this type of migrant who has infiltrated our trade union movement and who is today causing disruption to industry in this country. [More…]
If he considers, as most informed persons do, that, because of the cost involved, no one would export livestock if the purchaser would buy carcass meat will he undertake to use the resources at his disposal to educate the Australian Meat Exporters Council and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union? [More…]
There is no union to look after the interests of the young job seeker before the industrial tribunals in Australia. [More…]
The unions that presently exist are there to a very large extent to represent those people who are presently employed. [More…]
Proof that it is working is seen in the latest desperate attempts by some radical union leaders- desperadoes- to cause chaos in industry. [More…]
The average hard working unionist is sick to death of politically inspired stoppages. [More…]
On Monday I took my children to the Fremantle wharves to look at the Atlas Pioneer which is under a union embargo in Fremantle Harbour and on which sheep are beginning to die and rot. [More…]
I hope that the trade unionists who are preventing the loading of live sheep at Fremantle Harbour for shipment to the Middle East will understand that what they are doing is not in the interests of Australia or in their own long-term interests. [More…]
We must realise that uranium is being mined on an increasing scale in overseas countries, including the United States, Canada, South Africa, Niger, France, Gabon, and the Soviet Union. [More…]
-My question, which is directed to the acting Acting Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, follows on the question I asked him as Acting Foreign Minister alone yesterday about the visit of a Government member to Rhodesia on the way to a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
Of course, we have to take into account the Industries Assistance Commission report and the Australian Council of Trade Union’s submission that came in yesterday. [More…]
I believe the honourable member for Burke went on his usual kick of accusing the Government of union bashing. [More…]
It is quite often referred to as the Union. [More…]
It is not clear whether it is likely to be a body like the Inter-parliamentary Union or the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, related particularly to functions within Australia. [More…]
Not because such a course might influence or threaten the employment of others; not because he thinks that it might undermine the wage structures achieved by union activity over the years; not because temporary unemployment might interfere with job seeking; but because it is very demeaning to send a person with a higher school certificate or who might have several degrees to pick up papers for the local council. [More…]
On 21 September, Qantas- our government airline- brought to Perth the New Zealand rugby union team which had been engaged in contests with racially selected teams in South Africa. [More…]
By giving transit rights to the New Zealand rugby union team the Fraser Government deliberately condoned sporting contacts with South Africa. [More…]
Last week it transpired that the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly) went to an Inter-parliamentary Union meeting via Rhodesia. [More…]
On 22 April in a statement to Congress, the Administration said that naval deployments by the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean over the past 2 years had remained relatively stable. [More…]
His speech, lasting half an hour, contained not a single mention of the Soviet Union nor a single reference to military threats of any kind. [More…]
Has the Soviet Union reduced its naval presence this year? [More…]
First, it has strained relations with a major trading partner, the Soviet Union, which as recently as yesterday responded by accusing Australia of stepping up the arms race and heightening tension within the region. [More…]
The Labor Party view is a view that is shared by the Soviet Union. [More…]
He says that the view of the Labor Party is shared by the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was not the Labor Party which tried to initiate the regional pact with the Soviet Union; a conservative government put forward that proposal in 1968. [More…]
Throughout the Australian community there are signs of the ascendancy of the Communist Party, and of the radical left in the trade union movement. [More…]
This is not a motion of condemnation of a government; it is a motion which acknowledges that the Labor Party no longer has the capacity to take decisions on its own but is prepared to listen to whatever the left-wing might wish and that it is prepared to comply with the radical communist led trade union movement. [More…]
That was up to 21 January 1975 when he completed a rather extensive trip to Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
He reiterated that quite flagrant charge that in some way Australia had flouted a United Nations resolution because Qantas Airways Ltd had carried the All Black Rugby Union team from South Africa to Australia. [More…]
It is important that we recognise that in the whole of the substance of the allegation which is now before us in the Parliament, what is happening is that the Labor Party is contrasting its continued and progressive subservience to the Left- to the communist influence within the trade union movement- rather than presenting a policy on behalf of the Australian people. [More…]
As I look for the cause of this high cost structure I am not about to indulge in a round of union bashing. [More…]
Here I refer to management, business, unions and farmers. [More…]
This may in turn require a more flexible approach by transport workers and their union leadership to working conditions. [More…]
It does not recognise the senior trade union organisations in the town. [More…]
Australians desire to be free to accept or withdraw from a particular employment, to change their jobs if the opportunity or the need arises, to join a union or to be free not to join a union, to strike or not to strike in pursuit of legitimate industrial ends and, above all, for an employee to regard his own personality and citizenship as the equal of his employer. [More…]
Yesterday we had a debate in this House which was obviously initiated by the left wing of the trade union movement. [More…]
Senior Labor members admitted frankly they considered Mr Menzies’ legislation providing for secret ballots for the election of trade union officials, and on strike action, had been rushed down for electioneering purposes. [More…]
But not all members of the Government believe that employees and unionists should have a say in their livelihood and future employment. [More…]
In September last when the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) used his speech at the opening of the new Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd steelmill to threaten action against unions, no doubt he delighted the company executives and industrialists who were present. [More…]
Many of the anti-union elements in the community would applaud that tool. [More…]
One trade union secretary who did speak out was Mr Joe Thompson, the State Secretary of the Vehicle Builders’ Union in New South Wales. [More…]
In a recent series of papers and speeches he has tackled the anti-union arguments head on. [More…]
There is another widespread myth which says that Australian unions are strike happy and that this is the cause of our mediocre industrial performance. [More…]
But at least there is now a union leader who has taken the effort to point them out to the public. [More…]
Union stop-work meetings leave much of the work force confused about what is going on. [More…]
Does the Conciliation and Arbitration Act provide that fines and penalties imposed by unions by reason of the fact that a man works in accordance with his award are an offence? [More…]
Has the Industrial Court, in the appeal of the Federated Moulders (Metal) Union of Australia and Aylen, recently upheld a decision of a South Australian local court that union imposed fines for non-attendance at stop-work meetings during normal working hours were illegal because of Section 188 of the Act? [More…]
Would the Minister encourage union members to look to their legal rights vis a vis extremist union leadership? [More…]
Yes, my attention has been drawn to this recent decision by the Industrial Court which relates to a case heard in an Adelaide magistrate’s court along the lines outlined by the honourable member in which a union attempted to fine one of its members for working under the terms of an award some 2 years ago. [More…]
The magistrate ‘s court found in favour of the unionist concerned- Mr Aylen. [More…]
The union then appealed to the Industrial Court which upheld the decision of the magistrate. [More…]
This case does highlight the protection afforded by the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to individual unionists against actions which might be taken against them by the union or members of it in relation to various activities of the union or union members. [More…]
In addition to section 188 of the Act which, as the honourable member says, refers to a union member working to the terms of an award, I also draw the attention of the House to sections 140 and 141 of the Act which provide protection to individual members against union rules or actions imposed under the rules which may be oppressive, unreasonable or unjust. [More…]
If a union member feels that by taking an action under these provisions he would suffer financial hardship, it is of course open to him to approach the Attorney-General for financial assistance to pursue his case. [More…]
I believe that the way in which the Minister is conducting his portfolio and the confidence that he is engendering within the trade union movement, within industry generally and throughout the nation, will provide a climate for common sense to prevail in industrial relations and will allow the economy of this country to be put back on a common sense plane. [More…]
He was doing what most honourable members on that side of the chamber do, that is, engage in his puny bit of union bashing. [More…]
If there was an ounce of wisdom or an ounce of understanding of the real problem by honourable members opposite, they would take up this argument rather than the puerile argument put forward by the honourable member for Wilmot in his attempt to do a bit of union bashing. [More…]
I quote from a journal called the communication worker which is put out by the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union: [More…]
I was reminded of it when the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) used the words ‘puny union bashing’ and tried to suggest that the Government is anti-unionist. [More…]
We are certainly not anti-unionist. [More…]
We want unions to be truly representative of their members. [More…]
We want unions that can do the right thing and that can improve the wages and working conditions of their members. [More…]
1) wherein an allocation is made at page 66 for the Australian Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
So if the honourable member is saying that we do not care about unions, I can assure him that there is something in the Budget to prove that we do care. [More…]
I should like to put on the record here and now that they are out there doing a very good job for their union. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava referred to what is one of the major problems, namely, the need to get acceptance of adult gained qualifications in the trade union movement. [More…]
I call for support from every member of this House, particularly the members of the National Country Party whose leader was in the Soviet Union quite recently to negotiate further trade for the country people of Australia. [More…]
I understand that currently the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan have developed techniques for harvesting and processing this product commercially. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that those bases on our territory are in fact supplied by the Soviet Union by way of Africa. [More…]
I understand that initially the planes, that the Soviet Union used- it has planes regularly coming and going from the area- would have flown through South Africa but probably today they fly through Mozambique. [More…]
I believe that if one takes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as the classic illustration one will see enormous evidence of political influence in that nation. [More…]
The advertisement suggests that the New South Wales branch of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union has brought about substantial delays in the mails in Sydney. [More…]
When the matter was taken up with the postal workers union, one union official at the exchange said that the strikes were caused through lack of staff. [More…]
The concern of the postal union for the alleged staff shortage is a great deal worse than the shortage itself. [More…]
If the union expects sympathy from other quarters it had better think again. [More…]
The New South Wales union is at odds with its federal counterpart, which has ordered it to lift the bans, and in Melbourne yesterday the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission handed down exactly the same decision. [More…]
The New South Wales president of the union claims that it is part of the union’s policy to have a showdown with the Government. [More…]
His union is certainly provoking that showdown. [More…]
Obviously there is a union bashing job to be done. [More…]
The Minister for Transport has been doing the dirty work for him- the union bashing. [More…]
Money is available for a superphosphate bounty for Cabinet Ministers but no money is available for the men employed in the metal trades union. [More…]
To force a reduction in real wages, it has to defuse the militant unions. [More…]
It is concerned about the Soviet Union and about India. [More…]
By all means discuss the matter with the people in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is building up, as it should be, with the Soviet Union. [More…]
In 1 975-76 we exported to the Soviet Union wool, wheat, barley, oats and meat to the value of $37 1 m. That is important for them and important for us. [More…]
The value of the imports we received from the Soviet Union was only $3.7m. [More…]
Of course, a number of facilities will be necessary for the conduct of the Inter-parliamentary Union Conference which will require both the Senate chamber and the House of Representatives chamber. [More…]
Only recently teachers- teachers from a teachers’ union- at schools in the electorate of St George came to me with great concern about cutbacks in funds for technical and further education. [More…]
I noticed a news item in today’s Melbourne Herald suggesting that the Soviet Union has threatened to intervene in China at a time when the Chinese leadership is not at its strongest. [More…]
He will recall his recent discussions in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with Mr Guzhenko and Mr Bugayev the Minister for Civil Aviation in the U.S.S.R., and the recent statement about greatly increased prospects for Soviet-Far East trade with Australia. [More…]
As I understand it the parliamentary party has not expressed a view on it, and the current trades union policy position would not be in support. [More…]
I agree that it is not always possible to tell under which or through which hat Mr Hawke is speaking, but it is relevant to note that when there was a referendum on this matter some time ago Mr Hawke led the trade union movement in opposition to his own Government. [More…]
The peak union councils have also been informed of the Government’s proposals. [More…]
When I previously discussed the question of collegiate voting with the unions last May, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, pointed out that there is a division of opinion within the trade union movement on this issue and that he could not put a monolithic trade union view on the matter. [More…]
With the passage of this legislation, organisations, whether of employers or unions, will of course no longer have to comply with the current requirement of amending their rules to provide for direct elections for officers. [More…]
-The honourable member mentions an official of the Building Workers Industrial Union. [More…]
They are no higher than the price paid by Japan for coal from either South Africa, Canada, the Soviet Union or the United States of America after taking into account the quality of coal and freight differentials. [More…]
Aboriginal Social Club of Port Augusta-$30,650; Elizabeth Gooder Centre-$2,900; Kindergarten Union of S.A.-$ 15,700; Pukatja Community Inc. -$20,420; Save the Children Fund, Port Lincoln Branch-$15,188. [More…]
Has the Minister seen recent Press reports that the Leader of the Opposition encouraged trade unions to engage in political strikes? [More…]
Does the Minister regard industrial stoppages, bans and the like on political or non-industrial issues as a legitimate use of union power? [More…]
But any trade union is made up of members with widely varying political views and imposing on them by industrial means the pursuance of political objectives cannot possibly accommodate the wide variety of views held by union members. [More…]
Apparently the Leader of the Opposition sees the role of the union movement as taking away from the Parliament those things which are properly the responsibility of Parliament. [More…]
Unions are an important part of Australia’s social and economic life. [More…]
Information has been obtained from the shipping companies serving Tasmania namely the Australian Snipping Commission, Tasmanian Transport Commission, W. M. Holyman and Sons Pty Ltd and the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. [More…]
We consider that union members should have the right to vote directly for their full-time officials, since these are the people who represent the union and guide its day to day operations. [More…]
Unquestionably they are the most important people in the union hierarchy, and surely it is only fair and reasonable that every union member eligible to vote should be able to have his or her say as to who will occupy these important positions. [More…]
In neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate was any criticism made by the then Opposition of the change in the method of election of union officials. [More…]
The Minister is going to a very considerable length to see that union officials are properly elected- democratically elected- by their unions. [More…]
This implied acceptance by the Liberal Party and the National Country Party of the direct voting method of election of union officials was confirmed by the fact that in both Houses of the Parliament the relevant clause of the Bill was agreed to in Committee without debate. [More…]
Everyone in this House will recall that in last year’s election campaign one of the issues played up most strongly by the coalition parties was-I quote from the Prime Minister’s policy speech- the supposed need ‘to give the Australian worker the opportunity to control his own union’. [More…]
Apparently the present Prime Minister had forgotten his comment of 2 years previously as to the considerable length to which the Labor Government was going to ensure that union officials were properly and democratically elected. [More…]
He was saying that militant union officials had to be stopped from dictating to their members and accordingly they must be elected by secret postal vote. [More…]
He and his fellow caretaker Ministers continually deplored the fact that the president of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union was elected in a ballot of less than 2 per cent of the union membership. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), for instance, was reported in the Melbourne Sun of 24 November last year as saying that the coalition would do what left wing and communist officials feared most; that is, they would introduce secret postal ballots for union elections. [More…]
On obtaining government the Liberal Party and the National Country Party eventually did move to provide that union elections must be by secret postal ballot. [More…]
But they almost made a mess of that by introducing a Bill earlier this year which failed to define a postal ballot and this would have required little alteration of election procedures by such unions as the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union despite the fact that the election of the AMWU president was once again trotted out as justification for the action being taken. [More…]
Every union member eligible to vote would be armed with a ballot paper. [More…]
If we are to believe the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and various other Government spokesmen, this action would set left wing officials of unions trembling in their boots. [More…]
Frankly, I doubt that many left wing union officials were all that concerned. [More…]
Some of the unions most left wing had for years employed a system of compulsory voting by all members at union elections. [More…]
Some large right wing unions were aghast at the prospect of having an election by the whole rank and file for their full time officials. [More…]
This is demonstrated by the fact that when the industrial registrar called to his office members of those unions which had not amended their rules to meet the 1973 requirements- about the middle of this year- the Federal president of the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, Mr Maynes, asserted that he did not believe that it would be necessary to amend his rules because the Government would amend the Act to allow the retention of the collegiate system. [More…]
That union still has not changed its rules and it has a great deal at stake in ensuring the continuance of the collegiate system. [More…]
From what I have said up to this point I do not mean to imply that all unions affected by the 1973 legislation were overjoyed.. Quite a few expressed hostility but most of them eventually came around to acceptance and changed their rules. [More…]
They include such notable left wing unions as the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, the Australian Building and Construction Workers’ Federation- it has now reregisteredand the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees’ Union of Australia. [More…]
Of course, other unions which are not notably left wing have also changed their rules. [More…]
But some of them have not and they are not all right wing unions. [More…]
For instance, the Transport Workers Union of Australia which would be regarded as a moderate union still has not changed its rules. [More…]
Nonetheless, it is difficult to conclude other than that the Government has been greatly influenced in bringing down this legislation by the National Civic Council controlled unions such as the Federated Clerks Union and the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association in which unions the collegiate system enables a minority group to establish control. [More…]
This letter is written by a Mr Noel Wilson who is an assistant research officer for the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, central and southern Queensland branch. [More…]
A Street, introduced an amendment which for all time, in my opinion, negated the right of rank and file union members to elect on a national basis their Federal Officials and ensured the perpetuation in office of those officials under this system who have never faced a rank and file ballot and under the swindle concocted by the Government will never have to. [More…]
As a Federal Councillor of the Federal Clerks’ Union of Australia, I received in the mail today a purported amendment to our Federal Rules which is completely in line with the amendment introduced into the House by the Minister. [More…]
To illustrate the manner in which the National Civic Council control the Clerks’ Union throughout Australia, I give you the following facts. [More…]
The Federal President of the Union, Mr J. P. Maynes, who is also the National Vice President of the National Civic Council, ruled that the college could not remove her. [More…]
The remainder of the delegates (16 in number) who voted against the proposition represented about 67 per cent of the membership of the Union throughout Australia. [More…]
Despite substantial attacks alleging politics in my Branch of the Union, it is the only Branch which has full time paid Officials who are members of the Liberal Party and the National Party. [More…]
Firstly, the Government has contrived with National Civil Council supporters in the union movement to introduce the amendment which is now before the House and which proposes the retention of the collegiate system. [More…]
Secondly, in so doing it has reneged on its stated pre-election intention of ensuring that union officials were elected by their members. [More…]
Thirdly, the collegiate system is capable of enabling and is used to enable minority groups to control important unions such as the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Fourthly, where the collegiate system enables a minority group to control the union they can then use their power to weaken the majority and so further cement their control. [More…]
Perhaps if they are not all abashed by what their Government is doing, they can contemplate the prospect of explaining to Liberal and National Country Party members and supporters outside this House why it is that they are passing legislation which will allow the National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union to be elected in a ballot not of 1.8 per cent of the membership, as occurred last time, but in a ballot of 0.02 pier cent of the membership, if the AMWU decided to opt for the collegiate system which this legislation will now provide. [More…]
The possibility that the AMWU would do so was raised by the Federal Assistant Secretary of the union, Mr Carmichael, in an interview in the Tribune on S May of this year. [More…]
The numbers on the federal council of the Federated Clerks Union are very close, with the break-up being twenty for the Maynes National Civic Council faction and sixteen against. [More…]
But included in the 20 votes for the Maynes’ faction are 4 votes from the federal officers of the union, three of whom are full time and one of whom is part time, who would nevertheless be compelled under the 1973 legislation to face a full rank and file ballot. [More…]
If all these officers were defeated by the opposing faction, the effect would be a transfer of power not only in relation to the union officials as such but also in relation to the federal council of the union. [More…]
Thus from the point of view of the controlling National Civic Council faction in the Clerks Union, it is absolutely imperative that the collegiate system be retained as its chances of winning any of the key officers’ positions in the union in a rank and file ballot are decidedly low due to the fact that the opposing factions cover two-thirds of the union’s members. [More…]
A further unsavoury aspect of this legislation which should also be mentioned is the change in the definition of ‘office ‘ which will enable unions to appoint persons to positions in the union which are similar to elected positions. [More…]
Clearly, this would enable the controlling faction in the union to strengthen its position without recourse to the membership. [More…]
In our opinion, it does not accord in any way with the principle of democratic control of unions. [More…]
What a contrast this creates with the Government’s assertions during last year’s election campaign that it would provide for the democratic control of unions. [More…]
Not only is the Government denying unionists the right directly to elect their officials and providing for manipulation of officials by minority groups through continuation of the collegiate system, but it is also allowing for some persons to undertake union duties of an official nature without having to face an election. [More…]
Finally, I want to take up the matter of consultation between the Government and the official trade union movement in regard to this legislation. [More…]
Earlier this year the Government promised the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations that it would consult them in relation to any legislation it intended to introduce to change the 1973 legislation. [More…]
The contrast between this off-hand treatment of the peak councils and the apparent conniving with some ultra right wing union officials in relation to this legislation is indeed startling. [More…]
In summary, then, the Opposition rejects this legislation because it considers that the collegiate system which the legislation will allow deprives union members of the right to have a direct say in the election of union officials and is capable of being used, and is in fact used, to enable minority groups in unions to control those unions. [More…]
This Government’s action in moving to retain that system makes a mockery of its high sounding rhetoric about its determination to ensure democratic control of unions. [More…]
The Government has been revealed as being much more concerned about protecting ultra right wing groups in key unions and saving employer organisations the embarrassment of direct voting for their officials than it has been about ensuring that democracy prevails in the election of officers of organisations. [More…]
It was a matter of some amazement to me that at no time during the honourable member’s speech did he appear to place any importance on the needs and wishes of the rank and file in the trade union movement. [More…]
All he talked about was how power could be manipulated by a few top officials within trade unions, how the balance of power could be swung from Left or Right. [More…]
The honourable gentleman apparently does not attach any importance to what the ordinary working person in Australia wants and how his interests should best be represented by the trade union movement. [More…]
We have had a period in Australia for some years where interest groups from one side or other of the political spectrum have used the trade union movement as nothing more than a power base from which they could peddle their political interests. [More…]
It is high time that the trade union movement, honourable members opposite, and the Party they represent forgot about political ambition and started to think about the people of Australia and what the ordinary working people of Australia really want and the life style they want. [More…]
Those amendments allowed for the direct election of union officials by all of the rank and file members of a trade union. [More…]
If we think about the implications of the amendment brought in under the previous Administration, we will realise that we could well have a situation where a union membership was dominated by the larger States of New South Wales and Victoria and, because of the sheer weight of numbers, they could dominate the federal office bearers of a union without any consideration being given to the smaller States, to the members in those smaller States, or to the peculiar circumstances under which they might work in those States. [More…]
Those smaller States would have no recourse whatever in either removing the federal office bearers or having any influence over the federal executive of a union. [More…]
In determining a climate in which trade unions should operate, in my opinion it is of paramount importance that we consider the needs of the trade unionist, the rank and file chap who works on the shop floor. [More…]
I do not believe that in this consideration any thought should be given at all to the power base of those people who have no better ambition in mind than to use trade unions for political purposes or simply to manipulate for power. [More…]
In my opinion one of the most unfortunate things that has happened within the trade union movement and within the political structures of Australia is that extremist groups of both the Left and the Right have used whatever facilities have been available to them for nothing better than exerting power. [More…]
I think it is high time, in looking at the political structures and the trade union structures of Australia, that we gave thought not to the extremists and activists but to the ordinary people. [More…]
The ordinary trade unionist is not the least bit concerned with the political manoeuvrings of his trade union leader. [More…]
Nor is he concerned with the extremist views that his trade union leader might hold either of the Left or of the Right. [More…]
We have seen a period in which the extreme Left of the trade union movement and the political structure has been able to win positions of influence within certain trade unions. [More…]
Through their various structures these people have taken control of the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, albeit their numbers are extremely small. [More…]
The extremists of the Left- those associated with the Communist Party- have used the electoral system of the various trade unions to win positions of influence within those leaderships. [More…]
This has now caused extremists of the right wing and in particular those who are associated with the National Civic Council, as was pointed out by the honourable member for Gellibrand, to try to use the electoral system of the trade union movement to win control of certain trade unions for the extreme right wing. [More…]
I believe- and I believe this view is also held by the average worker- that unionists do not want a part of either the extreme Left or the extreme Right. [More…]
They want moderate trade union leaders who have at heart the genuine interests of the worker and not the wielding of political power. [More…]
In framing legislation of this type the Minister and the Government need to give consideration not to the political power mongering of trade union leaders but to the needs of the rank and file worker. [More…]
I believe this can best be served where the workers, both individually and collectively are able to influence and in fact dictate to the union leadership rather than having the union leadership dictate to them. [More…]
I believe that this Bill, as framed by the Minister, does provide that framework within which the rank and file worker can exercise his democratic vote, where he can control his union and where the small States and workers from the small States are given an adequate representation without being dominated by the bulk of membership from the larger States. [More…]
The Bill needs to be coupled with a greater awareness on the part of the rank and file unionist of the need to exercise not just theoretical control but physical control of his trade union. [More…]
We need to do much more to influence a greater number of people to be actively involved in the activities of their unions. [More…]
As the honourable member for Gellibrand pointed out in his speech, only 2000 union members out of a total membership of roughly 185 000 of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union voted at the last federal election for office bearers of that union. [More…]
We cannot expect that democracy will reign in the trade union movement until we can encourage a greater number of people to participate in the activities of their trade union. [More…]
I believe that the proposals that the Minister has encompassed in it will play a great part in restoring democracy in the trade union movement of Australia. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly this is not the first time that the honourable member has stood up in this House and done a little bit of union bashing. [More…]
Whichever system is used to elect federal officials of a union, whether it be by the direct system or by the collegiate system, each State in effect stands on its own feet. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) mentioned the Federated Clerks’ Union. [More…]
That union -certainly in Victoria and I believe also federally- is not the most democratic organisation in Australia. [More…]
But I believe that even in the case of that union the larger States have more delegates to the federal electoral college than do the smaller States. [More…]
It is a vote across the nation of all the union members in the nation, whether it be a vote for representatives who make up the college or whether it be a direct vote. [More…]
But there is nothing to stop a person from Tasmania from putting himself up as a candidate for the federal secretaryship of a union. [More…]
To my knowledge, there are no rules of unions that do that either. [More…]
It is a little curious for the honourable member to talk about unions not doing things for people. [More…]
He seems to forget that a union is simply a collection of people. [More…]
Anything that a union does must be in the interests of people. [More…]
Certainly, any action that a union takes on any question is in the interests of its members. [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union- under the Federal presidency of Mr John Maynes, a noted member of the NCC- certainly has been instrumental in influencing this decision. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot spoke about extremist groups within the community using the trade union movement. [More…]
It seems to me that that is an example of an organisation with a charter to destroy the trade union movement in Australia being supported by members of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The measure introduced in 1973 ensures that the rank and file members of the union have a say in who shall manage the affairs of their union. [More…]
Having said that, he then goes on to introduce into the House a Bill that denies trade union members the right directly to select their officials. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government suddenly has been imbued with the American presidential system because it is that time of the year; but we in the Australian Labor Party- we spell this out very loudly in our policy- firmly believe that there should be full rank and file participation in the affairs of unions. [More…]
Does he think that people are elected as officials of unions simply because they stand for election? [More…]
He should know that people are elected as officials of trade unions because of their known capacity, a capacity that is known by the members of the union. [More…]
Does he think that members of the union are so stupid that they cannot recognise a job being done by somebody? [More…]
For these reasons, it is sheer hogwash to say for example, because a general secretary of a union is elected from New South Wales that he is elected from that State simply because there are more people in that State. [More…]
I have pointed out to the House already that the colleges of all unions, without exception, are not equally representative of the States. [More…]
That union has a 99 per cent turnout on election day. [More…]
He also read a letter that was written by a Federal councillor of the Federated Clerks Union who is a member of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The other day I was reading a copy of Hansard in which an honourable member was recorded as saying by way of interjection that there were no Liberal Party members acting as officials of trade unions. [More…]
There is a fellow who is a Federal councillor of a union and a member of the Liberal Party. [More…]
He has written to the Federal President of the Liberal Party complaining about the lack of consultation with even the Federated Clerks Union of Australia. [More…]
Those who then come to power in the unions are second hand and come not through the honest straightforward ballot as we know union ballots are now but through a system which can be manipulated. [More…]
-The Bill before the House seeks to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in a way which would allow the option of the collegiate system to be used in union elections. [More…]
I make the point that no one system of union elections, whether it be by direct ballot of all members or by a collegiate system, in itself guarantees democratic control of that union. [More…]
Already we have had quoted the example of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union of which only 1.8 per cent of the membership voted in the ballot ibr the federal chairmanship. [More…]
It is definitely the case that in many large unions where we are trying to implement a direct voting system it is enormously difficult for members of the union to have sufficient knowledge of the likely candidates to be able to cast a meaningful vote. [More…]
What we have to ensure as far as possible is that the most appropriate system is used, depending on the circumstances of a union. [More…]
In other words, the electoral college which will elect the senior officials of a union must itself be the subject of a direct vote of members of the union. [More…]
So we cannot get a situation as we can in a multi-tier system whereby the senior officials of a union can be divorced by several steps from the rank and file membership of the union. [More…]
Imagine the problem faced by a moderate member of a union who wants simply to offer himself for election to office in a union with about 100 000 members. [More…]
If he wants to make himself known to all the members of the union he will be faced with an enormous mailing campaign to get a piece of literature to every member of the union. [More…]
In a national union with a membership spread throughout the length and breadth of 6 States and the Territories of Australia it is enormously difficult for any union member to become known in order to offer himself for election. [More…]
A collegiate system with adequate safeguards contained in it would allow such unions to have a more democratic system of election of union officials than would a direct system. [More…]
Also, it must be remembered that there is always the safeguard in section 140 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which allows members to challenge union rules which they believe are oppressive, unreasonable or unjust. [More…]
A great deal of case law has already been built up in the Australian Industrial Court involving consideration of union rules that are oppressive, unreasonable or unjust. [More…]
If a union seeks to implement union rules, governing the election of union officials, which do not accord with the general principles laid down in the Act, whether it be a direct system of election or a collegiate system union members can always challenge those rules in the Industrial Court. [More…]
I say to the honourable member that the point I was making in my speech at the second reading stage was- it still is- that the collegiate system can be used to give proportional representation to the States on the Federal council of a union or to give more than proportional representation or less than proportional representation, depending on how it is organised. [More…]
The system can be used for manipulation of the union in the way in which I suggest it is now being used in the Federated Clerks Union and the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, as I mentioned previously. [More…]
I understand that this amendment makes a substantial difference to the definition of ‘collegiate electoral system’ and will allow the operation of a system which will mean not only that some union officials will not be elected indirectly by the members but also that some union officials will not be elected by members even directly or indirectly. [More…]
The definition of collegiate electoral system’ in clause 3 of the Bill states that the officers of a union must be elected by and from the college and to get on to the college the officers have to have been voted for in a rank and file ballot in the first place. [More…]
It means that if officials of a union want to continue to be elected in order to become Federal secretary, or whatever, they have to be elected to the college and face a rank and file ballot. [More…]
The Government by this amendment is now allowing officers of unions to avoid having to be elected to the college. [More…]
They can just be added to the elected members of the college, as they are now in the Federated Clerks Union, the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and other unions which have a collegiate system. [More…]
Usually there are at least 2 factions in any union. [More…]
That is virtually the case with the Federated Clerks Union, as I said in my speech at the second reading stage. [More…]
As a result of allowing this amendment through, the 4 officers of a union will be allowed to be added to the elected members of the college and by that means to form a college for their re-election. [More…]
This will not apply just to the Federated Clerks Union or the. [More…]
The amendment will enable all unions to adopt this approach if they so wish. [More…]
How far the Government is from the days when it was saying: ‘Look at this terrible Dick Scott, the National President of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, who is elected by only 1.8 per cent of the members’. [More…]
Now the Government intends to allow the AMWU, if it so wishes, to provide for a collegiate system in which Dick Scott and Laurie Carmichael, the Assistant Secretary and another bete noire of this Government, can just add themselves to the elected members of the Federal Council of the union for the purpose of determining a college and thereby having themselves re-elected. [More…]
I think it is the most astonishing thing of all time to come from this Government which went to the people and had as one of its biggest planks that it was going to democratise trade unions and ensure that union officials were elected in a way which meant that they had to face their members, which said that it would arm every union member with a ballot paper. [More…]
It is making a farce of the whole situation by saying to every federal union official in the country that he can, if he can persuade the rest of the federal council to agree, have the rules changed to provide for a collegiate system so that he can be added to the federal council, the former college, and thus re-elect himself time after time after time. [More…]
This application says that the rules of the Federated Clerks Union which currently allow for officers to be added to the elected members of the Federal Council for the purposes of forming an electoral college for the election of the officers, in fact are oppressive, unreasonable and unjust. [More…]
-The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), as is well known, has spent the last nine or ten months in the closest consultation with union representatives and the community at large on matters affecting his portfolio. [More…]
That is in contrast with the actions of the former Minister in the last Government who in many cases rammed through legislation against the wishes of the trade unionists. [More…]
Legislation formerly went through without any choice being given to the trade union movement or the various groups in the trade union movement and there were no consultations. [More…]
I regret the complexities of the trade union system in Australia. [More…]
In this country we have an extraordinarily complicated system of trade union activities. [More…]
I do not know how the average migrant who comes to this country and joins a union can understand how many trade union affairs are conducted or work. [More…]
It is important to note that in Australia we have at present, according to some figures I have, 280 trade unions with a huge membership. [More…]
Fortunately it is a reduction on the figure for 1956 when we had 375 trade unions with lower membership numbers than we have today. [More…]
What eventually is required in this country is a rationalisation to ensure that we get to a system of industry based unions and a much more streamlined method of selecting the various personnel. [More…]
The present system of craft unions is not serving the union movement or the country as well as it should. [More…]
In my recent visit to the Newcastle State Dockyards I was told, and all parties seemed to agree that it was not a very good idea, that 5 unions had to agree before a handrail could be built around a ship. [More…]
In Germany the system has been set up with the advice of the Trade Union Congress of England. [More…]
In Germany they have an effective, integrated union structure, but the United Kingdom still has more than 300 separate unions. [More…]
Surely the answer to the complaints of the Labor Party is this: There is the option for unions to decide on the system they want. [More…]
A union may have direct voting or it may have the collegiate system. [More…]
So it is quite open to a union to decide on a number of different types of elections that it will have. [More…]
Trade Union Movement: Compulsory Voting [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully showeth: That whereas the Democratic control of organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is essential to a sound system of industrial relations; and whereas Democratic control can only be guaranteed by the opportunity for all rank and file members of organisations to vote in elections for all officials and all Committees of Management and whereas some forces within the Trade Union movement are attempting to deny rank and file members the right to vote in all Union elections;- [More…]
Resist the pressures from those elements in the Trade Union Movement seeking to deny members the right to vote. [More…]
Ensure the widest participation in Union ballots by making voting compulsory in union elections. [More…]
Resist the re-introduction of the undemocratic collegiate system of union elections, which enables control and manipulation by minority and extremist elements. [More…]
He said that there are too many trade -unions. [More…]
There are too many trade unions in Australia, and there are any number of trade unionists who will agree with that. [More…]
But when the Labor Party, during its term of office, endeavoured to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, who was it who frustrated that attempt to make it easier for unions to amalgamate? [More…]
They said that they did not want unions to amalgamate. [More…]
Now we have a new breed of Liberal member in the House who tells us that unions should amalgamate. [More…]
The honourable member also used the hoary old argument about 1.8 per cent of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union membership electing Mr Scott as the Federal president of the union. [More…]
Does the honourable member realise that with the introduction of the collegiate system it will be not 1.8 per cent of the membership which will elect the officers of the union but something like .0008 per cent of the membership? [More…]
It was said that if somebody from a smaller State wanted to run for office he would face an enormous postal bill because he would have to contact every union member. [More…]
Does anybody in this chamber seriously believe that to become the Federal secretary of a union in Australia a man simply picks himself up off the floor and nominates ibr the position? [More…]
They know in their hearts that if somebody is going to stand for a senior position in any organisation in Australia, quite apart from the trade unions, he does not pick himself up off the floor and nominate. [More…]
It is a great pity that the Government has decided to use its brutal weight of numbers in this place and in another place to thrust this provision upon trade unions without any consultation at all between the Minister and the trade unions. [More…]
Not even the Federal Council of the Federated Clerks Union was consulted, and neither was the ACTU nor any of the other peak union councils. [More…]
This provision is being thrust upon the rank and file members of unions. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) was wrong in his assumption that anyone could be appointed to a college without first being elected by the rank and file members of the union. [More…]
Everybody has to be appointed in the first place by the rank and file members of the union to represent a particular State at the college level. [More…]
But, if this amendment passes through the Committee, it would be possible for a senior office bearer of a union to retain office within that union, although he had lost the support of the rank and file. [More…]
I believe that that is not the sort of democracy which should be introduced into trade unions. [More…]
I believe that the office bearers of a trade union should be elected and that the rank and file members of the union should have an influence on the office bearers of the union. [More…]
The unions have been preparing to change their registered rules to provide for a direct rank and file ballot where that was not in force prior to the Bill which was introduced by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) 3 years ago. [More…]
Now the Government has changed its mind and we have the audacity of the Minister coming in here and telling us that the reason he is doing this, the reason he has found it so important to introduce an amendment at half past five which no one else in the world had seen, was that the provision as it stands in the Bill might affect the efficiency of the unions. [More…]
Which unions? [More…]
No unions were told of what was to occur. [More…]
Members of the largest organisation in Australia, the trade union movement, unless they are listening to the radio, do not know what is going on in this Parliament in relation to the laws that are to affect their wellbeing. [More…]
On all the occasions they have met these matters have been discussed, and the trade union movement is now asked to change its rules over the next 2 years to fit in with the wishes of that ilk. [More…]
He is a solicitor, a member of the second strongest union in Australia after the doctors. [More…]
The patron saint of conscription told us about justice and the trade unions. [More…]
It is no fluke that these people are associating themselves with this move to try to strangle rank and file control of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is not those of us who have had experience in trade unions who are asking for a collegiate system. [More…]
It is not those of us who have spent our lives working in trade unions who are saying: ‘Let a small group at the top run the unions’. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs told us that the experienced management of a union might be affected if the general secretary of that union had to spend time mixing with the rank and file instead of going about his union business. [More…]
Are we not seeking legislation which will give the rank and file control of the unions? [More…]
In his one minute speech, the Minister said: ‘Let us not interfere with the bureaucratic handling of a union by making its general secretary answerable to the rank and file’. [More…]
The Government is seeking to manipulate the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government is acting according to the whims of one or two trade union secretaries who have told it that their positions could be in danger. [More…]
The political position of those 2 trade union secretaries is closer to the Liberal and National Country Parties and the Australian Democratic Labor Party than it is to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Under this system, a union will be able to determine what size college it will have. [More…]
Any union can decide that it will have 2 delegates to its college from New South Wales, with a union membership of 20 000, and 4 delegates from its Tasmanian branch, with only 2000 members. [More…]
In the example I have given, the members from the smaller States will determine who is to be the general secretary of the union. [More…]
What the Government is doing by this legislation- it is a wonder that the National Country Party did not think of it- is jerrymandering trade union ballots by allowing unions themselves to determine how a college is made up. [More…]
What will be the position if a union decides that it will have a college of 100 members throughout Australia? [More…]
It would rule the union. [More…]
In spite of all the rhetoric from the Government and all the nonsense that we have heard, the Government will find that what it proposes to do now will turn the clock back so that a trade union, no matter who is in charge of it, will be able to devise a system by which those in control will never be out of power. [More…]
The Government should not point the finger of accusation at the Labor Party, at the trade unions or at anybody outside this Parliament when that situation occurs. [More…]
What the Government is doing through this proposal is saying to the trade unions: ‘Do whatever you like. [More…]
The Government now has provided to those controlling trade unions a system under which they cannot be put out of power. [More…]
The system under which I, as a member of my union, voted to elect a general secretary of that union, irrespective of the part of the country in which I worked, is now gone. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union can set up its collegiate system at its annual convention; it can elect Frank Mitchell, its general secretary, under its collegiate system and all the shearers, rural workers and other members of that union throughout this country no longer will have a vote as to who will be the general secretary of that union. [More…]
The controlled vote of one faction of a trade union will now be 15 per cent of the total college. [More…]
I ask the Government to withdraw this amendment, to refer it to the Government members employment and industrial relations committee for consideration and to come back to this chamber with something sensible so that the unions may know what will happen as a result of this Government’s actions. [More…]
In total, the opposition of honourable members opposite has resolved into a cheap, nasty and quite cowardly attack on the officials of certain trade unions, including the Federated Clerks Union and John Patrick Maynes. [More…]
To base an attack on good amendments on personal abuse of someone who has served his union and this country well for so long is to fail to provide sound opposition to what is proposed. [More…]
Perhaps the reason can be found in the words of Sir John Egerton who warns the trade union movement about the activities of minorities within its own ranks. [More…]
The only people who can gain if these amendments are not carried are those who have been running minority subversive movements in trade unions for more years than I have been alive. [More…]
They are still there in the trade union movement. [More…]
Why is it that honourable members opposite must always go in to bat for people such as these, who are dedicated to the destruction of every decent aspect of trade unionism in this country? [More…]
There cannot be a more sensible and more democratic system for those trade unions which prefer that method of operation. [More…]
We on this side of the Committee have tried to provide an opportunity for those trade unions which prefer this system, which have used it for a number of years and which have used it successfully. [More…]
No objection at all has come from anybody within that section of the trade union movement to the adoption of a system of collegiate voting. [More…]
It is Opposition members who are trying to destroy this system that we seek to give those trade unions by enshrining it in the industrial law of this country. [More…]
It is quite plain to us on this side of the House what is necessary to guarantee a proper, democratic system in the trade union movement, and that is what we have done. [More…]
The amendment sets out to legalise the collegiate system of voting for union elections and to force unions to tidy up within a 2-year period their rules for voting in union elections. [More…]
Federated Clerks Union and other organisations. [More…]
The so-called secret ballot amendments passed by this Parliament were not intended by the Government benches actually to provide union democracy. [More…]
The purpose of those amendments was simply to weed out all those devils who were masquerading as humans in the left wing unions. [More…]
Let us look at the situation regarding the regulation of union elections, which is a subject about which the preponderance of the honourable members opposite who have spoken know nothing. [More…]
The Government has shown a total misunderstanding of the nature of industrial relations and the workings of the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
Its whole approach to union elections reflects its simplemindedness. [More…]
The secret ballot has existed in almost all major unions since the 1940s. [More…]
Even before the earlier amendment all unions that registered with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission were subject to secret ballots which were overseen by the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
On top of this, union members who objected to the way in which any election was conducted could appeal to the Electoral Office and, if they had a case, be granted a court-controlled ballot. [More…]
The protection in Australia against the rigging of union elections was amongst the tightest in the world. [More…]
So what was the purpose of tampering with union elections? [More…]
The only aspect of union elections that it has affected is that of direct democracy. [More…]
Under the former Minister for Labor, Mr Clyde Cameron, new regulations were introduced for the direct election of union officials, such as the president, vice-president and secretary, by the rank and file membership of the union. [More…]
I was associated with one of the largest trade unions in this country. [More…]
I challenge honourable members opposite to point the finger at the Electrical Trades Union of Australia and say where it has ever contravened what it was required to do. [More…]
If it is good enough for the Electrical Trades Union it is good enough for any other organisation. [More…]
Some unions objected to the Cameron regulations. [More…]
They were the unions that elected their top office bearers by the collegiate system. [More…]
Under this system the union rank and file did not get a direct vote for the office of president of secretary, but that was tidied up by the previous decisions. [More…]
History shows that the collegiate system often allows one faction to gain complete control of a union. [More…]
If one faction gains a majority on the union executive it usually elects all the office bearers. [More…]
In a system of direct democracy, the various groups within the union will usually have more representation amongst the office bearers. [More…]
Not one of the self-appointed arbiters of internal union matters spoke out about them. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are so inclined to talk about unions, but not one of them has ever been a member of a union. [More…]
Honourable members opposite tell the trade union movement what to do, but what do they say about the employer organisations? [More…]
If anybody thought for one moment that what we are trying to introduce is bad I am quite sure that by watching the real left-wingers jump to their feet tonight he would be convinced that what we are doing is right by the rank and file of the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) was terribly critical of the collegiate system and yet he was elected by the collegiate system as an official of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
He was also elected by the collegiate system as Federal President of the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
The unions support what is now proposed, although it is true that at one stage the unions were asking for almost the very reverse. [More…]
But we looked at the matter from all angles, and we know that we cannot please all the unions. [More…]
We never set out to be yes men to the trade union movement. [More…]
There will be sections of the trade union movement which will not like this. [More…]
We do what we think is best for the country and, in this case, what we think is best for the trade union movement . [More…]
On Wednesday 22 May 1974 the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions criticised the Cameron amendments on the grounds that the trade union movement was never consulted about their introduction. [More…]
The sub-section recognised that amalgamations could be discouraged if the members of the minor union felt that their special interests would be submerged in the interests of the major union. [More…]
To help overcome this problem it permitted the union resulting from the amalgamation to have a collegiate system for 3 years during which time the union was expected to move towards a system of direct voting by the appropriate section of the rank and file. [More…]
In the interim the members of each of the former unions would be represented on the governing councils of the union through the collegiate system. [More…]
Section 171D provides for a scheme of reconstitution of a union in the event of the Court’s finding that an invalidity exists. [More…]
In reconstituting a union the court no longer will be able to change the form of election of union officials from what it was in the rules of the organisation before the invalidities were found to exist. [More…]
I suggest that this amendment is like one of the previous amendments; it has been introduced with at least a large eye on what is happening in an important union in this country. [More…]
The ultra right wing control of that union is under strong challenge and this Government is acting deliberately to change the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in such a way as to protect the ultra right wing controlling faction in that union- in either the Federated Clerks Union in the first case I mentioned earlier or the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association in this case. [More…]
Indeed, I have sent a telegram to, I think, the secretary of the union concerned only in the last 24 or 48 hours. [More…]
I think that the key global elements of that agenda, using the terminology of the Carter team- do not ask me to spell it all out extensively in the time available for questions without notice, or in any order of priorityare, firstly, a cooler hard-headed approach to the Soviet Union; secondly, a stress on reducing the proliferation of nuclear weapons; thirdly, the building up of core alliances with democratic countries, which Mr Carter describes as a democratic concert and in which he includes quite specifically, Australia; fourthly, greater stress, to use his terminology, on global issues, and in particular the north-south dialogue; and finally, and this is by no means unimportant, the belief that there is a need to get a firm domestic base for his foreign policies by making these policies reflect, as he puts it, the moral values of the American people. [More…]
The Australian Journalists Association, which is the major union involved with the Press, has had little or no success in securing structural change in the Australian media. [More…]
Unions have on many occasions remained silent while their membership has churned out heavily biased material designed to jeopardise the advancement of organised labour goals, particularly during the crucial days of some election campaigns. [More…]
Perhaps a greater sense on the part of unions of the arbitrary nature of the powers of proprietors and of the stifling structure of the private media may serve to galvanise the union movement into some kind of organised campaign to break the iron grip these few executives have upon public opinion. [More…]
Printing and Kindred Industries Union, the Transport Workers Union of Australia, the Australasian Society of Engineers, the Union of Painters and Plumbers, the Amalgamated Metalworkers Union, the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia and the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia to deal with the strike. [More…]
The clerks and the journalists have elected not to participate in the combined unions committee. [More…]
It is regrettable that the unions refused to allow this booklet to be circulated to their members. [More…]
Then on 27 October the combined unions’ committee made a request for outside assistance. [More…]
They asked other unions to try to black ban the Sydney Morning Herald and other newspapers and to cut off supplies to them. [More…]
No help was given because the Maritime Services Board had intimated to John Fairfax Ltd that it proposed to charge the company $ 1,000 a day demurrage for the newsprint which the unions refused to load. [More…]
The Union Steam Ship Co. has been intimidated and will give no help. [More…]
Most of all, I look to what the postal union, the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, has done. [More…]
The State branch of the union sent out a circular to all its postal employees at the request of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
matter was referred to the Full Bench and on 2 November, a couple of days ago, the Full Bench again directed the unions to hold a mass meeting on 4 November- I understand it has been postponed for a day- to return to work and to continue negotiations on redundancy. [More…]
Evidence was given to the court that something like 23 000 letters were being held in Sydney at the City Central Exchange in the GPO addressed to John Fairfax which could not be delivered because the unionists would not allow them to be delivered. [More…]
The judge said in his findings that the union or persons were in violation of section 94 of the postal services Act. [More…]
He ordered that the union, its servants and agents, be restrained until further order of the court from doing any act which would directly or indirectly obstruct or hinder the delivery of mail to John Fairfax Ltd or its papers. [More…]
What do the people in the trade unions think of this? [More…]
I do not believe that the average trade unionist will support this kind of action, particularly when he realises that he himself can always be the victim of trade union leaders, and many of the trade union leaders today are the prime enemies of trade unionists. [More…]
The trade unionists knows that they hold over him the power of intimidation, the power of victimisation. [More…]
John Smith in the unions very often knows that if he will not obey his union boss when he is directed to do something illegal which he himself does not want to do that union boss has the power to victimise him, and to victimise him abominably. [More…]
The position cannot continue where the whole machinery of government and our economy and the fabric of our social life can be brought to a stop as a result of unions defying the court and demanding that union members continue to do something illegal. [More…]
It is not the role of the Opposition to get up and defend every action taken by a trade union in this country. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar said that letters were being held up by the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [More…]
I am informed that the Budget Rent a Car System and Avis Rent-a-Car System Pty Ltd will have the finger pointed at them by the trade union movement if they supply vehicles to newsagents in Sydney to carry papers that are produced by the Fairfax organisation. [More…]
It relates to the illegal strike which is occurring at the Sydney Morning Herald offices and the efforts of certain left wing unionists to prevent the legitimate publication of that newspaper. [More…]
The efforts of the union leaders in this dispute are to be deplored. [More…]
The honourable member for Capricornia (Mr Carige) is already worried about a situation concerning Queensland Alumina Ltd. Contracts are up for negotiation between the company and the unions. [More…]
Stewards have taken over against the wishes of the executive of the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) labelled this discussion as union bashing. [More…]
This left wing union control is wrecking large organisations. [More…]
Not once during the past 12 months has any member of the Opposition risen in his place to deplore, decry and criticise worker control by the trade union movement. [More…]
1 ) In respect of each of the following categories of naval units, is he able to provide a comparison between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics showing, where appropriate, (a) the tonnage of the ships, (b) their age and (c) whether conventional or nuclear powered: (i) aircraft carriers, (ii) anti-submarine helicopters cruisers, (iii) gun carriers, (iv) missile cruisers, (v) nuclear powered surface ships or equivalent type, (vi) destroyers, (vii) frigates, (viii) small frigates, (ix) amphibious assaults, (x) amphibious attack, (xi) nuclear submarines, (xii) diesel submarines, (xiii) nuclear powered cruise missile submarines, (xiv) diesel powered cruise missile submarines, (xv) nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines, (xvi) diesel powered ballistic missile submarines, (xvii) operational naval aircraft and (xviii) missiles in all submarines. [More…]
At any chance it has a jibe at the Soviet Union yet its Ministers are still trotting off to Moscow and trying to arrange meat quotas, meat imports, in order to save their bacon back in what they believe are traditionally National Country Party electorates. [More…]
I notice that later on, when the honourable member for Angas had run out of insults, he attacked the trade union movement. [More…]
He got back on to what seems to be the old favourite of the trade union basher. [More…]
On the one hand the Government asks the trade union movement to accept a package deal. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), who nearly saw fit to intervene a moment ago, recognises that what is being done by the meat workers in the trade union movement is not helping beef producers. [More…]
This program ranges from a very significant contribution to the eradication of brucellosis and tuberculosis, to offset losses incurred during the time of the Labor regime in sales to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and significant assistance in trying to ensure that finance is available in a number of areas to the beef industry. [More…]
I believe- and I believe this view is also held by the average worker- that unionists do not want a part of either the extreme Left or the extreme Right. [More…]
They want moderate trade union leaders who have at heart the genuine interests of the worker and not the wielding of political power. [More…]
For making those comments I was accused by the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) of union bashing. [More…]
I am not sure what the honourable member for Burke interprets as union bashing but I well remember a few weeks ago reading an article written in the Australian Financial Review under the nom de plume of ‘Modest member of Parliament’. [More…]
He stated that anyone who dares to criticise the union leadership in Australia must inevitably be branded a union basher. [More…]
I think that this was borne out by the comments of the honourable member for Burke in branding me a union basher for simply saying that the rank and file trade unionists of Australia in fact want to be led by moderate trade union leaders who have their genuine interests at heart. [More…]
While I must admit to being somewhat peeved by the comments of the honourable member for Burke, I was heartened to some degree when I read the Australian this morning and noted the remarks of one of the most formidable and noted trade union leaders in Australia, Sir John Egerton. [More…]
I am relieved that Sir John adopts the same attitude as I to the actions of the trade union leaders in involving themselves in blatant political actions that are, in fact, to the detriment of the trade union movement and to the detriment of the trade union rank and file member. [More…]
Honourable members Opposite are so inclined to talk about unions but not one of them has ever been a member of a union. [More…]
I point out that for many years I was a member of a trade union. [More…]
In fact, I was a member of the Australian Workers Union for 8 years and I was a member of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union for a further 3 years. [More…]
I know what they want, not what the trade union leaders think they want but in fact they do not want I know because I have worked with them. [More…]
I believe that it is the Liberal Party which can best represent the ordinary rank and file trade union member in Australia, not these people who abuse their role in the trade unions for blatant political reasons. [More…]
My question, which I address to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, concerns the introduction of worker control into Telecom Australia and Australia Post by the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and action by that union to prevent the delivery of an estimated 30 000 articles of mail addressed to John Fairfax and Sons Ltd and its subsidiaries. [More…]
Further, was an injunction recently granted by Mr Justice Taylor in the New South Wales Supreme Court to prevent the Union from hindering or obstructing mail addressed to John Fairfax and Sons Ltd or its newspapers? [More…]
Let me say that I deplore the action of members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [More…]
I would hope that senior office bearers of that union could bring their influence to bear for the exercise of common sense. [More…]
It is quite improper for people to use their power to single out one particular enterprise in Australia simply because they want to help another union that is in dispute with that enterprise. [More…]
Let us look at the pressure that the unions managed to exert on the radio and television industry through the Minister for the Media. [More…]
I refer to the situation of a television station in Brisbane which, because of union pressure, was forced to introduce a full news service costing tens of thousands of dollars in a market that was already saturated with news programs. [More…]
One of the brightest spots of that whole situation came the next day when members of the Transport Workers Union in this city refused to drive those members of the Parliament to Government House. [More…]
The position began with a strike by the Printing and Kindred Industries Union about 3 weeks ago. [More…]
The Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union became involved in the issue about 2 weeks ago in support of the PKIU. [More…]
In relation to the PKIU, the matter has gone to the New South Wales Industrial Commission on more than one occasion, I think, and the Industrial Commission, an instrument under law of the New South Wales Government, has said that the bans ought to be lifted and that the members of the union ought to return to work. [More…]
We have a situation in which one union is defying the New South Wales Industrial Commission, that is in the New South Wales industrial jurisdiction; and another union is in defiance of the Supreme Court. [More…]
Members of the union are indicating selectively that’ they are not going to do all their work, that they will do only that part of it which pleases them, but they seek to gain full pay in that situation. [More…]
Obviously that makes it possible for members of the union to direct industrial action selectively against a company or against an industry at no penalty and at no cost whatsoever to members of the union concerned. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with his colleague’s statement, and if so can he say when he is going to appoint a trade union representative to the board of Qantas Airways Ltd, following the resignation of Jack Egerton from all trade union activities? [More…]
Also, can he say when he is going to appoint trade union representatives to the National Airlines Commission and to the National Material Handling Bureau which are commissions and authorities under his jurisdiction. [More…]
I think he would represent the trade union movement much better that a lot of the loud mouthed spokesmen in this House and outside it. [More…]
Therefore I have no intention whatsoever of doing anything about that appointment or any other trade union appointment to the Qantas board. [More…]
A small number of quite irresponsible people, repudiating- I emphasise the word ‘repudiating’- the efforts of national union leaders have prejudiced the normal conduct of business in Australia and therefore the employment prospects of thousands of workers. [More…]
The apprenticeship system developed by negotiation between union and employer but there was no system of registration and no requirement that the apprentices be indentured or that they undertake work at a technical college. [More…]
They even believed that their Australian Union of Students’ subscriptions should be paid by the government. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the present Australian rugby union tour of France and Italy. [More…]
Of course I appreciate the awkward situation in which the Australian Rugby Union found itself. [More…]
I think we would all appreciate that if a tour of that magnitude was in fact cancelled it would have been a tremendous setback to rugby union in Australia. [More…]
My question which I address to the Prime Minister concerns an answer that he gave earlier today in which he said that some union officials did not represent the views of thenmembers. [More…]
In view of that statement, will he explain to the House why the Government has amended the Conciliation and Arbitration Act in regard to the election of union officials so that rank and file ballots for the election of union officials are no longer compulsory. [More…]
Is it the Prime Minister’s attitude that union officials are likely to be made more responsive to the wishes of thenmembers if they never have to face a rank and file ballot? [More…]
If not, will he concede that having allowed union executives to take away the right to rank and file ballots, he is now in no position to criticise union leaders for not reflecting the wishes of their members? [More…]
If a recent report in a newspaper is correct, the Leader of the Opposition accused the present Government of union bashing in relation to the disputes that have been occurring in recent times. [More…]
New South Wales- the Leader of the Opposition’s own State- has felt the weight of irresponsible union action as a result of defiance of industrial commissions, the Arbitration Commission and the Supreme Court. [More…]
To suggest that a government which brings these matters to notice and which seeks to do something about them, is union bashing, is so far removed from the truth and current Australian thought, feeling and concern regarding these matters, that the Leader of the Opposition might well be in another world. [More…]
As I recall the situation, at the time both airlines were having discussions with the union concerned but one airline was also making preparations to go back to work ahead of the other. [More…]
If there is to be a 2-airline agreement and if there is to be disputation that requires negotiation between the union concerned and the 2 airlines, surely those negotiations, because of the very narrow nature of the industry, ought to be on a bilateral basis, that is, both TAA and Ansett should continue the negotiations together without one taking advantage of the other. [More…]
Apparently many union leaders who appear to be able to influence employees have a deliberate determination not to understand what corporations, including publicly owned or government owned corporations, are all about. [More…]
That unfortunate consequence occurred because a representative of the union was a member of the board of an Australian governmental commission. [More…]
That union representative encouraged the commission to take action which, in fact, was not in the best interests of either the Government of the people of Australia. [More…]
It strikes me that there is a real conflict of interest when a union acts illegally against the instructions of a court and takes on the Postal Commission. [More…]
There is a representative of that union on the Postal Commission encouraging it at the time, apparently, to take a view which was, I suggest, a disgraceful one. [More…]
I suggest that this does raise a serious matter of principle concerning conflict of interest between the pressures upon a union or worker representative actually sitting on the board of a corporation like the Australian Postal Commission. [More…]
Perhaps the management of the Commission could also be represented on the union executive. [More…]
In a kind of tit for tat situation it too could be privy to what the union executive was all about and could endeavour to suborn them away from what the rest of the union executive might feel to be its rightful interest. [More…]
In that case, the union representative was in a conflict situation. [More…]
He was a representative on the Commission when his union was in direct and in this case illegal conflict with it I believe that such a situation raises serious problems. [More…]
I believe that the Government should look at the whole question of union representations on corporation boards controlled by it, particularly when they are directly in conflict. [More…]
It seems to me that it is totally wrong for people to assume a one-to-one relationship between our policy towards the Soviet Union and our policy towards China. [More…]
Nevertheless, as we have indicated, we believe there is ground for reasonable concern about some of the Soviet Union ‘s policies, in particular the magnitude of the Soviet arms buildup. [More…]
However, the Prime Minister’s justification for not doing so was that this would break the grip of certain trade unions in the area on the power supplies of the State. [More…]
It must be assumed that the Prime Minister does not know that the people who will work in the power station at Newport will be members of the Electrical Trades Union, just as the people who work at other power stations are members of that Union. [More…]
Arab Republic of Egypt (Cairo), Republic of the Argentine (Buenos Aires), Republic of Austria (Vienna), Bahrain, Belgium- Mission to the European Economic Community (Brussels), United States of Brazil (Sao Paulo), Britain (London and Manchester), Canada (Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver), People’s Republic of China (Peking), Fiji (Suva), Republic of France (Paris), German Democratic Republic (Berlin), Federal Republic of Germany (Bonn and Hamburg), Hellenic Republic (Athens), Hong Kong, India (New Delhi), Republic of Indonesia (Jakarta), Iran (Tehran), Iraq (Baghdad), Israel (Tel Aviv), Republic of Italy (Rome and Milan), Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), Kenya (Nairobi), Republic of Korea (Seoul), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Republic of Mexico (Mexico City), Kingdom ofthe Netherlands (The Hague), New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch), Nigeria (Lagos), Pakistan (Karachi), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby), Peru (Lima), Republic of the Philippines (Manila), Poland (Warsaw), Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Singapore, Republic of South Africa (Johannesburg), Spain (Madrid), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Berne and Geneva), Thailand (Bangkok), Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain), Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Moscow), United States of America (Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco), Yugoslavia (Belgrade). [More…]
The Convention is now in force and the three depository States, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, are actively encouraging all signatory nations to proceed to ratification. [More…]
Since May, I have had extensive discussions with employer and union interests. [More…]
It is a pity for the transport scene in Australia that the Minister does not apply some of that same vigour and inflammatory approach that he displays in his union bashing exercises instead to his Cabinet colleagues to ensure that transport in the States gets a fair share of national revenue. [More…]
However, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics spent 27 per cent on equipment, the United States of America 30 per cent and West Germany about 30 per cent. [More…]
First, it lent general support to excessive union claims, particularly in submissions before the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration commission. [More…]
The unemployed, the vast majority of union members who recognise the grievous damage his actions are having on Australia’s economic recovery may justifiably ask whether Mr Hawke can continue to wear the 2 hats which he seeks. [More…]
The threats of a number of union leaders to cause further disruption have been taken to depict the view of the majority of trade union members, and admitted economic common sense has been set to one side. [More…]
The vast majority of union members do, I believe, recognise the irresponsibility of the minority of extremist union bosses. [More…]
These men have no difficulty in mouthing the words of social responsibility while they systematically drive more and more of their fellow unionists into unemployment. [More…]
The Government’s intends to maintain- and to step up- its strong opposition to wage and salary increases which cannot be justified by economic conditions, and to the disruptive activities of a few irresponsible and extremist union leaders given too much support by the Opposition, where the Opposition should at least seem to have some degree of responsibility. [More…]
I believe that in taking these stands we have the support of the Australian people and of the great bulk of rank and file trade unionists, We would be shown to have the support of rank and file trade unionists if they were only given the opportunity freely to express their views and not have their decisions pre-empted as their decisions were preempted by the Premier of New South Wales and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in respect of shipbuilding a few days ago. [More…]
Our secret ballot legislation has given reasonable rank and file unionists, who in our view are in the overwhelming majority, the means by which they can exact responsible action from their union officials. [More…]
The union movement and the Australian Labor Party share with other Australians a responsibility to advance Australia’s economic recovery, not wilfully or carelessly to undermine it. [More…]
Trade union members must be prepared to see that their officials act responsibly and reflect the broad recognition of the need for restraint in wage and salary demands. [More…]
In a speech to the Australian Railways Union on 26 June this year he said: [More…]
No union has the right to defy the decisions made by the Government on this issue. [More…]
It is interesting to contrast that statement with the attitude taken by the American trade union leader, George Meany, who recently said: [More…]
The attempt by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to incite union blackmail on this issue is both serious and sinister. [More…]
It has acted now to crush the union bans on uranium exports as part of its overall attack on the unions. [More…]
Firstly, meeting contracts from Australian sources right now is a ploy to break the union bans. [More…]
The Government clearly recognises that the union bans are the only way mining and export can be held up until the Australian people examine the real issues. [More…]
I say to the trade union movement- there are some regrettably who take almost a Luddite attitude towards this matter- that the Australian trade union movement has a very constructive role to play. [More…]
Trade unions have a role to play. [More…]
I have had considerable experience with the union movement and there are at least 6 unions involved in the Mary Kathleen operations. [More…]
They are fully united in their resolve not to be adversely affected by the decisions made by the Trades Hall in Brisbane, by those gentlemen who enjoy the luxury of safe and comfortable jobs from which they foment union strikes from time to time. [More…]
I am not a union basher and I can never be accused of being one. [More…]
The 6 unions involved there have said that if those officials attempted to get on the lease they would block the highway. [More…]
So here is a practical example of what decent thinking unionists can do and how they can become united. [More…]
It is to my very great regret, therefore, that once Mr Wran issued the contract to Mr Hawke and to the trade unions, it immediately became a matter for discussion and dispute. [More…]
I believe this is a classic example of trade union leaders pre-empting the decision of members of trade unions. [More…]
I am delighted to know that responsible members of the trade union movement in Tasmania have heralded it as good news for Tasmania. [More…]
The unfortunate consequence of this direct assault on people ‘s personal pay packets is that it will provoke union demands for offsetting wage increases or offsetting benefits to cover the costs which workers now have to meet, as a result of the charges which the Government has implemented. [More…]
I put it to the Government that it has been quite dishonest in its dealings with the trade union movement in Australia on the issue of the costs of Medibank and how they will be treated when they feed into the consumer price index. [More…]
The President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, went away from Canberra several months ago after consultation with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on the issue- I rely on my recollection of newspaper reports at the time- convinced that the Government would ensure that the increases in the cost of living arising from the Medibank levy and from compulsory private health insurance would be fed into the consumer price index and would be fully applied in the wage indexation process before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The Government deceitfully has done this and, in doing so, has not come clean with the trade union movement. [More…]
It has led the trade union movement to believe that the full effects of the Medibank charges will feed into the consumer price index when only about half will feed into the consumer price index. [More…]
The only reason the Government has done so on this occasion is to try to whittle down the rate of increases in wages through the wage indexation system which would otherwise have applied, and justifiably applied, if the Government were to honour its obligations and the commitments that it had given to the trade unions. [More…]
On what date did the Member for Bradfield leave Australia to travel to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Madrid. [More…]
The interesting aspect of the decision is that not only is it supported by those mentioned by the honourable member for Franklin, but the trade union movement also is explaining to its members that this particular move is going to bring very substantial benefits. [More…]
The Soviet Union sent its top leaders there recently. [More…]
Having achieved permanency after long and bitter struggles, the union would be likely to react strongly to any attempt to dilute that concept without Federation agreement. [More…]
This is all the more true since the union maintains that there would be no problem of surplus labour now if it had not been forced to recruit in 1974 when the volume of imports and exports was very high. [More…]
Thus, the fears expressed by the union were soon brought to light. [More…]
The situation remains then one in which the union has modified its approach to allow for compulsory retirement. [More…]
This is not the time for union bashing. [More…]
In discussing the waterfront I think it is good to try to find out why it is traditionally so militant and why it is an area in which trade union activity over the years has always been one of disputation, zeal, heat and bitterness. [More…]
I inject that into the debate for those of us in this Parliament and for the people outside who sometimes become irritated with the behaviour of a union like that on the waterfront. [More…]
It is a militant union and that has brought its own problems. [More…]
I digress for a moment to inject a little philosophy concerning the trade union movement generally. [More…]
As I said, I most certainly will not engage in union bashing. [More…]
I asked around and said: ‘Will the union stick to its word and will the employer stick to its word?’. [More…]
It is virtually unknown in the United States for a union or an employer to break such an agreement. [More…]
Yet the Australian public allows a union or an employer but particularly unions- I think I am being fair here- to make an agreement today, have it arbitrated on and the very next day or week break it. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation, and probably the Seamen’s Union, the Transport Workers Union and everybody else would have a national strike. [More…]
Many people are talking about confrontation with the unions and saying that unemployment will make the Phillip’s curve come into play; because of unemployment the unions will be meek and mild and this is the time to really hit them. [More…]
Let me convey to the House the thoughts of the trade union movement and people who sensitively look at the industrial relations scene. [More…]
I ask those honourable members particularly on this side of the House who are saying: ‘Now is the time to take on the unions’, to think again of the consequences of a national stoppage. [More…]
It does not allow a trade union leader to make a big fellow of himself with his union as much as he used to be able to do. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission virtually is doing the job of the trade union leader. [More…]
The Commission virtually is giving these automatic increases to members of unions. [More…]
When the election time comes around for each trade union leader he will be able to say in respect of fewer matters to his union members: [More…]
Therefore, I believe that any provocative act by employers or government would encourage even union leaders of moderate unions- this is human nature and I am not condoning it but I am saying that it would happen- and give them an excuse to say: ‘Right, we will take you on’. [More…]
I believe that any sort of move to get tough with the unions has to be thought out very carefully or we might find ourselves, for a variety of reasons, with a national stoppage which, at this stage of our economy, would virtually cripple Australia. [More…]
It would appear for the first time that the employers of waterfront labour and the union are in fairly close harmony about the future development of the Australian waterfront. [More…]
Certainly the union is not going to be satisfied with whatever redundancy agreements are reached although most likely it will come to some acceptable compromise. [More…]
It was in doubt because the Government was in the process of consulting interested parties, including the trade union movement and sections of the business community, regarding the future of the Tribunal. [More…]
The Minister also refers to consultations which have taken place with the trade union movement, but in the same breath he makes it clear in his second reading speech that the changes contained in the Bill reflect the decisions taken by the Government. [More…]
He said that because a union has to go to an arbitration commission to obtain a pay rise it is equally important that a company, corporation or somebody charging a price for a good in the field should go to the Tribunal in order to have that price accepted. [More…]
We consulted the trade union movement. [More…]
Those consultations occurred both at a Minister to President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions level and at a research officer-officials of the ACTU level. [More…]
Leave without pay to undertake full time employment as a union official counts as service for the qualifying period. [More…]
It seems to me that, if a public servant can maintain his long service leave credits when he works full time for a union, serious consideration should be given to allowing public servants who become members of Parliament and who, for some reason or other, return to the Public Service, to continue to have the entitlement. [More…]
Mem- ‘ bers of Parliament are serving their country as well as trade unionists are. [More…]
I suggest that the trade unionists among us in this Parliament should make some moves in that direction. [More…]
Accordingly, will the Minister now support the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and support full indexation of award wages to prevent confrontation with the trade union movement and to give some stability to future wage increases in this country? [More…]
The campaign by the Federal Government to denigrate the trade union movement and deny it its right to be involved in matters of legitimate trade union interest. [More…]
That scapegoat is the elected trade union leadership of Australia. [More…]
In the long and shameful history of union bashing by conservative parties, this arch conservative Government stands supreme. [More…]
There is no limit to the depths to which this Government and its spokesmen will sink, no limit to the subterfuge to which it will resort to denigrate and try to destroy responsible trade unionism in this country. [More…]
According to this Government the unions are responsible for everything bad and for everything that goes wrong. [More…]
Instead of being honest about the matter the Government does the opposite to the Mafia, which it closely resembles, and makes the unions an offer they cannot possibly accept. [More…]
It then blames the unions for being irresponsible in not accepting the offer. [More…]
Union leaders have rightly condemned the offer, while good working people of the city of Newcastle remain in fear of the loss of their livelihood. [More…]
It is appropriate to raise this matter in this place because the Draconian measures taken by the Victorian Government against the trade unions have been enthusiastically applauded by this Government’s leaders. [More…]
Trade union leaders visiting this country in past weeks have been appalled both by the nature of the Government’s so-called offer on shipbuilding and by the savagery of the Victorian response on Newport. [More…]
They say that no trade union in the world could accept either. [More…]
Let us look at what the unions have done in Victoria over the Newport issue. [More…]
Certainly they have maintained bans on the building of this power station, but they have done so for good and cogent reasons which have been supported by men of science and others in the community who have been led to say: ‘Thank God for the unions because they are the only thing standing between the community and potential disaster’. [More…]
The unions did not take their decision lightly. [More…]
By a majority vote the unions came down on the side of maintaining the bans. [More…]
The hysterical reaction of the Hamer Government to the continuation of the unions’ ban on the building of the Newport power station demonstrates that its professed concern for the people of that State is hypocritical. [More…]
The next trick in the Hamer Government’s reactionary repertoire is to introduce anti-union legislation within the politics of confrontation to create havoc and civil strife. [More…]
This Government selfrighteously says that the unions have acted contrary to the interests of the people of Victoria and that it gets back to the simple question of who is running the State. [More…]
The unions are saying in the first instance that the power station is not required at the proposed Newport site; that it should be built elsewhere. [More…]
The Fraser Government is carrying out this campaign of union bashing in order to pour the ills of the economy over the trade union movement. [More…]
It is destroying the Australian economy and trying to batter the Australian unions into submission. [More…]
From the time that this Government took office we have sought to establish effective working relations with the peak union councils and the Australian Council of Trade Unions in particular, certainly to a greater extent than his Government did when it was in office, and to a greater extent then any government has done for many years. [More…]
Far from denigrating the trade union movement these sorts of discussions have sought to recognise the important role which we accept it. [More…]
That applies whether it is unions, employers, or interested groups of various kinds. [More…]
It is open to unions and to every group in the community to express and to seek to promote views which they hold on any particular matter which is of direct interest to their members. [More…]
It is not for unions or any other group to use their industrial or other power to prohibit the implementation of decisions which the Government has undertaken. [More…]
Every day there is more and more evidence that people are getting sick and tired of a few leaders- I emphasise that- of the trade union movement disrupting the economic and social life of this country; denying their own members the right to work; denying goods and services to the public; and making unreal demand on the resources of the country. [More…]
In fact, the stage has been reached where the only real major obstacle to Australian recovery is the behaviour of a few leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
Every poll that is taken confirms that people believe that this minority of union leaders is abusing the considerable power that they have. [More…]
It is interesting to note that this opinion is shared by many of the rank and file members of the trade union movement itself. [More…]
The Labor movement has lost touch with reality and some of the leaders of the trade union movement also have lost touch with reality. [More…]
Make no mistake about it: The ban has nothing to do with the legitimate aims of the trade union movement. [More…]
There is only one group of people responsible for this state of affairs, and that is a small number of trade union leaders who quite deliberately are creating direct unemployment now and much greater unemployment prospects in the future in Victoria. [More…]
If that is what Opposition members regard as an example of the trade union movement being involved in matters of legitimate interest, I can assure them that they are the only people who do. [More…]
The ban on the delivery of mail to that company was imposed by a union which had no interest or no concern in the dispute with that company. [More…]
Do Opposition members regard that as a legitimate use of trade union influence? [More…]
A good example of this is provided by some 60 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association and the Electrical Trades Union who were employed by the J. Ray McDermott company on the Bass Strait oil platform construction project. [More…]
The company concerned has indicated its willingness to have the outstanding claims arbitrated; but the unions have always refused to do this. [More…]
The extraordinary aspect is that 75 per cent of those employed on the project, who are members of the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Australian Workers Union, have accepted the company’s offers of improved working conditions. [More…]
The trade union movement itself cannot afford to let this small minority of leaders, this militant minority, continue to deny jobs to other people and continue to delay economic recovery in this country. [More…]
It gives me no pleasure to say that a small minority of trade union leaders are directly engaged in action which is preventing their members from getting jobs and preventing jobs from being created for those people whom they have put out of work, so that they can resume productive employment and a satisfying life. [More…]
So, if the honourable member’s action m proposing this subject for discussion as a matter of public importance today has done nothing else, it has enabled this House to have a look at actions which quite clearly are contrary to the best interests of the trade union movement and contrary to the best interests of the Australian community. [More…]
I suggest that his own statement, that the irresponsible action of a few trade union officials was preventing economic recovery in this country, shows how much out of touch with reality this Government has become. [More…]
The fact is that, despite the Minister’s protestations, in the period it has been in office this Government has engaged in a campaign of denigration and vilification of at least part of the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact, when the Government talks about only a few people being involved, usually it is accusing the trade union movement of action which encompasses many more than just a few people. [More…]
Firstly, let me say that even before this Government came to power its members ran a campaign of vilification against trade union officials. [More…]
They concentrated on a few unions, such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, and said that the leaders were unrepresentative of their unions because they were elected by a very small proportion of the membership. [More…]
The Government, having provided for compulsory secret postal ballots for the election of union officials, found that that legislation had endangered the tenure of office of some ultra right wing officials. [More…]
The Government then passed legislation to allow union officials to be elected by an amazingly small proportion of their union membership. [More…]
For instance, approximately 0.02 per cent of the membership now can elect the officials of unions which decide to adopt the collegiate system. [More…]
Members of the Government Parties have blamed the union movement for various problems existing today. [More…]
For instance, in regard to the economy there is no doubt that the Government has tried to use the union movement as a whipping boy for its failure to get the economy going. [More…]
In regard to wage indexation, the Government, having broken its promise to support wage indexation, has attacked the trade union movement for not accepting a form of wage indexation which would mean drastic cuts in the real wage levels of workers. [More…]
To expect the trade union movement to support drastic cuts in the real level of wages is absolutely absurd, particularly given the Government’s initial promise. [More…]
Then the Government has blamed the unions for the destruction of particular industries, particularly the ship building industry. [More…]
In its denigration it ignored the union’s actions in relation to the shipbuilding industry and it continually ignored the basic problems which that industry is having internationally, such as the problems of low prices from the Japanese which are causing tremendous difficulties in the shipbuilding industry in Western Europe. [More…]
In fact over the past year or so the unions have gone a long way towards eliminating strikes and stoppages in the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
Again the Government is using the unions as an excuse for problems that it has in that industry. [More…]
Denigrating union motives in other disputes such as the Newport power station dispute has also been popular with this Government. [More…]
In fact the actions of the unions in placing bans on Newport have not resulted from the actions of a few. [More…]
They have been the result of the action of a majority of delegates to the Trades Hall Council in Melbourne, not some small unrepresentative group of militants but a majority of the unionsjust a majority admittedly, but a majority. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations have said that the motivation of the unions is political. [More…]
The unions’ motivation in this dispute has been utterly altruistic. [More…]
It goes totally against the evolving role of unions and extends beyond their conventional industrial issues. [More…]
The answer to all this is to extend the role of unions to allow them to be involved in the planning process. [More…]
The project then has to be blocked by union decision. [More…]
We were told that the Federal Government had instituted a campaign to denigrate the trade union movement. [More…]
We were also told that it denies the trade union movement the right to be involved in matters of legitimate trade union interest. [More…]
One of the reasons why it has faltered is because there is a small group- I emphasise that it is a small group- of militant communist and left-wing trade union leaders who have made it quite clear, at every opportunity they get, that they do not like the arbitration system, that they do not wish to live under the social system and that they wish to destroy the system. [More…]
If they do not like the system they can go and live in the Soviet Union. [More…]
What I fail to see is how a small group, and it is such a small group, can be encouraged by the Australian Labor Party to believe that it can use its power to destroy, to denigrate and to disrupt the daily activities of the majority of Australian people and of its own trade union rank and file members. [More…]
If it were not for the fact that one-third of all trade union members vote for non-Labor parties we could never form a government. [More…]
If honourable members examine the trade union movement as a percentage of the total workforce they will see that the trade union movement represents only just over 50 per cent. [More…]
What about the millions of people in Australia who do not belong to trade unions but who dutifully live by the democratic system which they understand and which they respect? [More…]
Does the Opposition seriously suggest that the Government, for some extraordinary reason, is presenting itself as a campaigner against the rights of the trade unions? [More…]
We are not going to fail them because a small group of trade unionists- I again emphasise that point- decided that it does not like us, does not like our policies, does not like the system of government or anything that comes from it. [More…]
We have been told about the so-called democracy in the trade union movement. [More…]
How could anyone believe that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union is democratic when 1.1 per cent of the membership of approximately 180 000 can elect the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary? [More…]
Honourable members opposite have the temerity to talk about union democracy. [More…]
In this week’s Bulletin there is an article on a book entitled Inside Australia’s Top 100 Trade Unions. [More…]
The union has for a long period not accepted the capitalist system as one which either in the short or long term is in the best interests of the working people. [More…]
He speaks for the union. [More…]
As I pointed out, he was elected by 1.1 per cent of the union membership. [More…]
Yet certain people in the trade union movement are encouraged to believe that power once gained by various means is held at all costs. [More…]
We were elected to protect the interests of all Australians- trade unionists and non-trade unionists alike. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition spoke about mass action by trade unions. [More…]
He was referring to the export of uranium, and said that the trade union movement must stop the export of uranium. [More…]
Fortunately for Australia the Labor Party and the trade union movement have since seen the error of his ways. [More…]
Nevertheless he urged direct union action against government policy. [More…]
Is it right that a militant handful, representing perhaps 30 per cent of the trade union membership, which is the absolute maximum constituency for which they speak, can usurp the right to speak for the trade union movement? [More…]
Union threat to stall Tasmanian shipping. [More…]
But where lie the interests of this small extreme group of communist-led trade union officials who sabotage the Tasmanian people who go to the polls in a few days? [More…]
In this case, as in the case of watersiders, they are all unionists because of the closed shop, compulsory unionism policy of the seamen and the watersiders. [More…]
The Opposition keeps putting forward the slogans about union bashing. [More…]
Honourable members opposite accuse us all the time of union bashing. [More…]
I think one could say without fear of cantradiction that the Seamen’s Union of Australia is communist controlled. [More…]
It is perhaps one of the worst unions in Australia in this regard. [More…]
For many years this union has been one of the villains in Australia. [More…]
Yet this so-called unionbashing Government is taking steps to see that seamen and their dependants are adequately compensated. [More…]
It should be repeated that this is a communist controlled union. [More…]
I wonder how honourable members opposite will be able to keep up this lie that we bash the unions when we are prepared to take humane measures such as this. [More…]
Australian Newsprint Mills Ltd has agreed to make this payment to your account on the understanding that the Sevillan Reefer will be provided immediately with union services required to allow the vessel to leave the port of Sydney. [More…]
He is the communist secretary of the union. [More…]
It is a matter of compensation to individual seamen rather than something related to the union concerned. [More…]
I felt it was important to make the point that the Seamen’s Union does not have a good record. [More…]
The union consists of individual seamen. [More…]
I hope- it is possibly too much to hope- for some sort of contrition from the Seamen’s Union in response to what we have done. [More…]
Indeed the Tasmanian Premier has given recognition to this, as have trade union leaders in that State. [More…]
I am certainly not opposing worker representation- we already have union officials on the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commissionbut I am most emphatic that the ABC Staff Association must go right back to the beginning and work out an approach which at least meets with the approval of its own members. [More…]
The report says quite clearly that trade union representation is desirable. [More…]
It refers to trade union representation on Telecom and the Postal Commission. [More…]
It points out that those trade union appointments are balanced by appointments from management- something which has not happened within the ABC. [More…]
The report also makes the interesting point that the trade union appointments to those 2 commissions are made from trade union leadership, not from the employees of either commission. [More…]
I would believe that all those in support of manufacturing industries, and especially those who are representative or claim to be representative of the trade union movement, would support the Government’s moves in that direction. [More…]
On 23 September this year I indicated that in 1974 about 20 elections were conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office under the then legislation for union elections but that by the same time this year 39 elections had already been held and 77 were in hand, making a total of 1 16. [More…]
These figures show plainly that a very large number of trade unions are opting to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Government’s legislation to have their elections conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office, in which case they are paid for by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I believe that over time the legislation will come to have an impact on the management of trade union affairs. [More…]
I think it is worth noting that a number of people have asked whether we can make arrangements to ensure that a forewarning is given of when union elections are to be held. [More…]
The people who have made that request have been wanting to fight the militant extreme left groups in the trade union movement who I believe do not represent the great bulk of their constituents. [More…]
Regulations are being drafted so that there will be a requirement on trade unions to place on notification with the Industrial Registrar when their elections are due. [More…]
It ought also to be noted that this legislation does not apply to trade unions only. [More…]
In that case the legislation does not involve trade unions only but it involves also employer organisations. [More…]
It is quite plain that a very large number of trade unions are using this legislation and the opportunities provided by it and are liking it. [More…]
It is also plain from the objections that are coming from the other side of the House in respect of this particular matter that members of the Opposition wish to deny trade unionists the opportunity for secret postal ballots in which they can vote without fear or favour without any possibility of bullying by a few union officials. [More…]
The announcement this morning that another sale to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had been contracted is a very worthwhile and much needed boost to the beef industry. [More…]
Despite the utterly reasonable and understandable policies of the trade union movement the Government continues to set the stage for vicious confrontation. [More…]
I understand that further announcements coming from the party meetings of today will do nothing more than exacerbate the relationships with the trade union movement. [More…]
I refute any suggestion as made by the honourable member for Adelaide, that the Government is embarking upon a course of confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
But in a sense he is a representative of the union concerned because he is the general secretary-treasurer of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [More…]
But as an official of the union he had some responsibility for the action which the union subsequently took in disciplining members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union who in fact turned up for work in breach of the decision of the Federal Executive of that union that there should be a strike on that day. [More…]
This Government very clearly is not against union representation on various boards and commissions. [More…]
No one suggests that he goes out of the Reserve Bank board meetings and reports to the executive or the congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on what has transpired at those Board meetings. [More…]
There is a great deal of merit in ensuring that there are suitable trade union representatives on various government boards and commissions. [More…]
Earlier this evening the honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) made certain remarks about the lack of parallel with the Postal Commission and the Telecommunications Commission which have trade union representation. [More…]
-The honourable member mentioned the secretary of one union by name. [More…]
As Jack Egerton, he was just another union spokesman whose merits were left to the judgment of those who observed his behaviour at the time. [More…]
His behaviour and his status become more statesmanlike, so much so, that eventually he disqualified himself as an acceptable unit of the trade union movement. [More…]
(a) and (b) An administrative subsidy to the Amateur Boxing Union for its National Senior Championships; A fares subsidy to the Australian Casting Association for the assembly of the Australian team for the World Casting Championships in Taree, New South Wales; Administrative subsidies to the Australian Volleyball Federation for various Championships; and a fares subsidy for attendance at an international conference. [More…]
In favour Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Democratic Yemen, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Finland, Gabon, Gambia, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Holy See, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Republic, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia. [More…]
Allied with this was the fact that an unfair section of the trade union movement pushed wage demands beyond all comprehension. [More…]
The union movement in Australia is a very important part of our social and economic structure, and the conditions and wages which apply for our fellow Australians, determined as a result of negotiations between the unions and the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, have created a climate in which, quite frankly, Australia is the envy of the world. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties upon coming to office on 14 December 1975, reinstated a partnership not only with the union movement but also with labour intensive industries. [More…]
I believe that this is a desirable objective with which there would be common ground with both management and the trade union movement. [More…]
In answer to a question yesterday by the honourable member for Capricornia, I mentioned the benefit that we could see flowing from orders from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I am further informed that the local secretary of the Australian Workers Union is quoted as having said: [More…]
In more recent memory is the $25,000 that the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union paid to the Australian Labor Party as the price for getting amendments to the industrial legislation of the Commonwealth as required by that union. [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian Delegation to the Sixty-third Conference of the InterParliamentary Union, held in Madrid between 23 September and 1 October 1976. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, 63 national groups sent delegates to the sixty-third Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, held in Madrid from 23 September to 1 October 1976. [More…]
The Spanish group proved themselves hospitable and capable hosts and, because of this, your delegation and the delegations from other national groups were able to promote the aims of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which is to promote personal contacts between members of all parliaments, constituted into national groups, and to unite them in common action to secure and maintain the full participation of their respective states in the firm establishment and development of representative institutions and in the advancement of the work of international peace and co-operation. [More…]
Because our Australian Parliament supports these aims and the Australian Branch of the InterParliamentary Union is gaining increasing status amongst the groups, the Australian Parliament and Australians can be proud of the support our Parliament gives to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
We remind the Parliament that the spring meeting of the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will be held in Canberra from 10 to 1 4 April 1 977. [More…]
-by leave-I was privileged to be one of the 8 Australian parliamentarians at the Sixty-third Conference of the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
We heard this afternoon my colleague the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) saying a few words about the hypocrisy of the people at the Interparliamentary Union Meeting in Madrid. [More…]
Even then, there were those who predicted that if the Government based it policies on economic common sense, the result would be confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Unfortunately, too much credence has been given to the threats of extremist union leaders to create further conflict. [More…]
Not enough weight has been given to the great common sense of the vast majority of the rank and file trade union members who know full well the importance of restraint at this time. [More…]
That man received as compensation a paltry sum because he did not belong to a union that had the muscle to be able to get mm what he was entitled to. [More…]
Has the Union of Christmas Island Workers made a formal complaint to the Community Relations Commissioner. [More…]
legislation to break ties between distribution companies and motion picture exhibition chains, such as that between Cinema International Corporation Pry Ltd and the Greater Union Organisation, and those between Hoyts Theatres Ltd and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, United Artists and Columbia Pictures, [More…]
legislation to establish a marketing board to distribute all imported films so that independent country theatres and city exhibitors will be able to obtain films on favourable terms, available only to the large exhibitors such as the Greater Union Organisation, Hoyts Theatres and Village Theatres. [More…]
I understand from representations recently made to me by the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (ACSPA), which operates this Centre, that financial support has not been forthcoming in adequate amounts from Union sources to cover the on-going operations of the Centre after the initial grant of $40,000, made by the Commonwealth last year through the International Women ‘s Year (IWY) Appropriation, has been exhausted. [More…]
Women’s Trade Union Commission in Sydney, and the Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee, both of which also received Commonwealth funds made available through the IWY Appropriation, last year. [More…]
The stations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, mentioned in (1) and (2) are included in the Plan forming part of a Broadcasting Agreement adopted at a Regional Administrative Broadcasting Conference held, under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union, in [More…]
1 ) In what unions and branches of unions has the Registrar received a request, under Section 1 70 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, that a union election be conducted by the Registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Office with a view to preventing irregularities in each year since January 1955 to January 1976. [More…]
How many ballot papers were posted to union members in each of the elections conducted by the Registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Officer. [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether the Working Women ‘s Centre in Melbourne and the Women’s Trade Union Commission in Sydney are short of funds. [More…]
If this statement has any message it is that the Government intends to welsh on its promise to the trade union movement that the consumer price index increases due to Medibank and hospital insurance increases will pass through to the national wage without any opposition from the Government. [More…]
The trade union movement believes that that is a Government promise and I remind the Government of that promise. [More…]
In Australia unions and business leaders- this is reported in the Australian Financial Review of 14 January- have reached ‘an astonishing degree of consensus’ on the fact that the Government is mismanaging the economy. [More…]
All we see is confrontation with the trade union movement, both white and blue collar unions, in order to reduce living standards of the workers in 1977 in the same way as they were reduced in 1976 by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Fraser Government s only response to the terrible situation which it created is to blame the trade union movement, to blame the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, to lecture the Australian businessmen and to criticise the Australian consumers for not spending. [More…]
There is no doubt that employment opportunities are now increasing more rapidly and that, provided we can achieve through the co-operation of government, employers, employees and the trade union movement a reasonable measure of wage restraint in the months ahead, we will see a sharp rise in employment and a reduction in unemployment during 1 977. [More…]
As part of that policy the Government is now arming itself with a far more extensive array of powers to suppress the incomes and the rights of the wage and salary earners and their trade unions than any Government has ever contemplated in the history of this country. [More…]
The proposal to establish an industrial relations bureau and the legislation now before the House in relation to the Trade Practices Act, which in fact would cover about 95 per cent of trade union activity, are the most extensive powers that any government has ever sought to control unions and employees in this country or restrict their rights to organise. [More…]
Has he received a request from the Australian Capital Territory Rugby Union for financial assistance to enable fielding of a representative team in the National Rugby Championship in 1977; if so, what decision has been made on the request, and what are the reasons for the decision. [More…]
Rugby Union wrote to me requesting a grant to enable the A.C.T. [More…]
Rugby Union to participate in the National Rugby Championship in 1977.I replied indicating that under present budgetary constraints the Department of the Capital Territory was not able to make funds available to assist sporting organisations with touring costs. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of the widespread concern throughout the trade union movement at the appointment of a presidential member of a panel of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission who only 2 days before the announcement of his appointment to the Commission appeared to argue the employers’ case against the major union within the jurisdiction of that panel? [More…]
Does the Minister believe that the appointment of a panel head who has been involved so recently in the disputes affecting a union under the jurisdiction of that panel will be detrimental to industrial relations and harmony within that industry? [More…]
Finally, is the Minister aware that the Storemen and Packers Union of Australia yesterday morning withdrew from the proceedings in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission because of the appointment of that particular presidential member to head the panel which deals with that union? [More…]
The other appointee was a former member of the union movement. [More…]
It is inevitable with the appointment of people with this sort of a background that they will be brought into contactin their work in the Commission with the same sort of organisations and the same sort of problems with which they themselves dealt in their previous roles in industrial relations in whatever field they were operating-from the union movement in some cases, or representing employers or, indeed, fields of government employment in other cases. [More…]
He will come into contact with former unions and members of unions with which he was previously associated. [More…]
The withdrawal of a union from a hearing before a commissioner or deputy president seems to me a very childish action to take and one which is not in the best interests of industrial relations. [More…]
The honourable member could not raffle a duck at a union picnic and he would be wise to remember that. [More…]
-I understand the honourable member to be referring to sections 141a and 141b of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which enable the Attorney-General to give, in effect, legal aid in cases where union members have brought proceedings in relation to oppressive rules, or perhaps in relation to nonperformance of rules, of organisations. [More…]
Let us now look at what John Garland-that name will send a shiver down the spines of many honourable members opposite- the Joint National Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights’ Union in Sydney, had to say to me on 3 February. [More…]
They are the names of the firms from which skilled people, members of a craft union, are being dismissed right now. [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not have to go to John Garland- they would not like to do that-the Joint National Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights’ Union, of course. [More…]
He will recall that after the meetings between the Government and union leaders last June a joint Press statement was issued that the Government would not oppose adjustments to award wages that flowed from increases in the Consumer Price Index due to the introduction of the Medibank levy. [More…]
Does the Treasurer’s statement on Tuesday that the Government intends to press very strongly indeed for a maximum measure of wage restraint indicate that the Government will now ignore this agreement with the unions and will oppose any increase in award wages to compensate wage earners for the imposition of the Medibank levy? [More…]
One aspect that is very pleasing is the sales that have been made to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to the eastern Soviet bloc countries. [More…]
I am pleased to say that it is after my visit to the Soviet Union and the invitation of the head of the Soviet State Trading Agency that we look like making sales to the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries of about 100 000 tonnes which is additional to last year’s sales. [More…]
We should seek to erect a constitutional edifice which shall be a guarantee of liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent . [More…]
I emphasise the stress he puts on the words union for all time for the whole people of this continent’. [More…]
We should be a union and that there should be no distinction and no such thing as first or second class citizens. [More…]
The petrol consuming public of New South Wales are being taken to the cleaners at the present time through the existence in that State of black bans by the Transport Workers Union on the delivery of discount petrol to discount sites. [More…]
I will be very interested to see what attitude the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions publicly takes to that legislation, given the professed concern of the Party he leads for legislation to ensure effective competition. [More…]
They have come from the Opposition, from the Australian Council of Trade Unions and from business people who have stopped to think about the ramifications of such a clumsy attempt at union bashing. [More…]
Of course, there will be honourable members opposite who will charge that the Labor Party is forced to support the trade union movement come hell or high water. [More…]
Nor is it true to say that unions support the Australian Labor Party on all occasions or endorse all its policy pronouncements. [More…]
What is true is that the Labor Opposition and the Australian trade union movement have joined together to condemn this clumsy attempt to widen the scope to industrial relations. [More…]
The second string to the Government’s bow is its attempt to camouflage its incompetence in handling the economy and to blame the trade unions for everything that goes wrong. [More…]
I believe that there is no proposition, including the frivolous one in relation to union boycotts which the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) will deal with, that the Government has placed in this piece of legislation that is less deserving of the House’s support than the proposition to repeal section 49. [More…]
He pointed out, not me, that the union was an economic function of the capitalist system. [More…]
It is true that unions grew up within the capitalist system, admittedly and properly, to counter abuses in the capitalist system as a defence mechanism, but they have gone far too far. [More…]
I direct the attention of the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) to some of Paul Johnson’s comments on unionism. [More…]
I am absolutely sure that I will be accused of union bashing. [More…]
When honourable members on the Government side tell the truth about the excesses of the trade unionism they are accused of union bashing. [More…]
In relation to introducing secret ballots for the election of union officials, Sir John Egerton says that it is no good having a secret ballot because Mr [More…]
Halfpenny, on the one hand, makes sure that all union officials on his committees are his friends and they make sure that the shop stewards and people on the shop floor are his friends also. [More…]
Let us look at what the people of Australia think about the excesses of union activities. [More…]
In January 1977 an Age poll showed that 65 per cent of voters thought trade unions should not involve themselves in issues other than members’ wages and conditions. [More…]
A gallup poll in December 1976 showed that 80 per cent of Australians thought unions should not be entitled to strike or impose bans on political and social issues as distinct from industrial issues. [More…]
For honourable members opposite to say that the people do not want the trade practices of the unions to be under control shows that they are the prisoners of the trade union movement- I will tell the House about that shortly. [More…]
All of us are subject to the rules of law except the trade union movement. [More…]
The abuses can be on the one hand the abuses of management, of corporations and of industry, but society has to be protected against the abuses, on the other hand, of monopoly power as carried on by trade unions. [More…]
All people are consumers whether they belong to trade unions or not. [More…]
Members of the Australian public, as they are consumers, are sick and tired of being attacked by the excesses of the trade union movement. [More…]
Excessive union wage demands have caused Australia’s unemployment and inflation crisis. [More…]
This Act must protect the consumer against the unlawful activities of business and the unlawful activities of unions. [More…]
I have no doubt that excesses of union power have caused much of the current inflation. [More…]
As Paul Johnson, the socialist author, points out, each union becomes an opponent of the other. [More…]
As one union sees another union’s wage demands acceded to it makes claims and they further fuel the fire. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Burke- I ask him to agree with the truth of this- that, in Australia today, many employees are more in bondage than was the serf of mediaeval times because they are the prisoners of the union movement. [More…]
They are the prisoners of the union officials. [More…]
All those people who were tested in the gallup poll I mentioned would reflect the views of consumers who are also unionists. [More…]
Johnson also points out that the trade union movement is the enemy of the old, the sick and the physically handicapped- those least able to look after themselves. [More…]
Labor unions have created special problems in the government sector. [More…]
Here the union officials sit, in effect, on both sides of the bargaining table. [More…]
That comment applies to the United States of America, but the direct analogy applies in this country to the Australian Labor Party which is a prisoner and creature of the trade union movement and which can never get away from it. [More…]
Occasionally when in government Labor tried, but the union movement put pressures on the leadership and it buckled. [More…]
At the weekend the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) adequately dealt with Mr Hawke’s complete conflict of interests as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the one hand and Federal President of the Australian Labor Party on the other. [More…]
There is a conspiracy between the Labor Party and the trade union movement and they can never break away from that. [More…]
This measure is a step towards bringing the excesses of the monopoly of union power under control. [More…]
I believe that the union structure must properly reflect the wishes of employees rather than the wishes of the bureaucrats in the trade union movement and the union leaders. [More…]
Today the people on the shop floor know that the trade union movement wields too much economic power. [More…]
Here in this legislation for the first time we are making the restrictive trade practices of the union movement subject to the same rules of law as those to which industry and business are subject. [More…]
Why should the excesses of unionism not be subject to the rule of law and the public interest? [More…]
Any confrontation will be the work of those union officials who want to bring down the private enterprise system, because they must know as all Australians recognise that the vast majority of people in this country want responsible trade unions of course, but that the excesses of unionism must be rejected. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting for dinner I had shown how excessive monopoly behaviour of trade unions, like the excesses of monopoly power of the private sector of capital and business, must be subject to the trade practices legislation. [More…]
Any confrontation by the union movement in respect of this or any other legislation will be of its doing and contrary to the wishes of the vast majority of Australians. [More…]
I am pleased to have the opportunity to follow the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) because it is quite clear from his address to this House this evening that the subject on which he spent most of the time available to him- trade unions- is a subject of which he has abysmal ignorance. [More…]
He represents an area that does not support those who believe in trade unions, although there are, of course, people in his electorate who do not vote for him and they are the people who do support the trade unions; they probably comprise the intelligent sector of his electorate. [More…]
Clearly, from what he told us this evening, he has no knowledge whatsoever as to how a trade union functions. [More…]
Because he comes from the Establishment he can see things only in the hierarchical structure and it has not yet reached his mentality that the people who take the decisions relating to trade unions are the members. [More…]
Trade unions are democratic organisations, not like the political party to which the honourable member belongs and not like the other functions with which he associates. [More…]
There is no direction in trade union movements. [More…]
The decision is taken by the members of the unions and this is why people do band together: They are not instructed to do things; they come together of their own volition. [More…]
Unfortunately I have not had the time to dig out the statements in which Paul Johnson has union bashed even harder than the honourable member did tonight. [More…]
Yet the honourable member holds him up as a paragon of the trade union movement throughout the world. [More…]
He said trade unions were all right. [More…]
He means the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, the Australian Society of Carpenters and Joiners and all of those unions that are nice and respectable and will not to anything to upset the Establishment. [More…]
-I hope that the Minister can do so because it is one clause that it causing great distress to the trade union movement at the moment because it is too wide, too embracing and, furthermore, is in the wrong Bill. [More…]
-It is in the wrong Bill because this Bill has now been put down as an umbrella to scoop up trade union movements in an area where they were never meant to be scooped up. [More…]
Australia is probably unique in the world for its legislation dealing with trade unions and industrial organisations. [More…]
This is the whole tenet on which the trade union movement was built and only in countries such as Australia, which has a totalitarian government, would one find such an action being taken to isolate an integral part of the fabric of our whole community- the trade union movement- and set it aside and say not that it will receive the same protection as everybody else but that it will receive special protection because it is engaged in special activities. [More…]
I am not a lawyer- thanks be to Him abovebut it is obvious to anybody that trade unions do not fall within that definition of corporations. [More…]
The Government cannot identify his organisation- the trade union- as a corporation because it does not fit in with the definition contained in the Constitution yet it is quite prepared to hit the union for a bill of $50,000 a day. [More…]
It will take the same sort of tack that a fellow named Hitler took in Germany in the mid- 1930s and it will destroy the trade union movement. [More…]
It placed penalties against unions. [More…]
The only union that paid was the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia, and the only reason it paid was that it wanted to amalgamate with the Amalgamated Engineering Union, and it had to pay its fine to amalgamate. [More…]
The Amalgamated Engineering Union owed the Government money. [More…]
While I am on this matter, let us look at the position of the people in New South Wales whom I represent- not the people in Victoria whom the honourable member represents who have not had imposed upon them as a result of a union boycott prices for petroleum products that are extortionate in the extreme. [More…]
If honourable members want to know why New South Wales is going down the drain they should ask themselves what is the effect upon the people of New South Wales and the industries of New South Wales of additional petrol price increases which have been brought about by the trade union movement that honourable members opposite defend and represent. [More…]
These increases have been brought about by the boycotts of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
In fact the implications go far beyond the matter of union boycotts, whether they be secondary boycotts or any other form of boycott. [More…]
It covers a vast spectrum of union activity. [More…]
It could be that penalties would apply specifically to trade unions as well as to employees. [More…]
Under proposed section 76, a union with which an employee acted in concert to prevent or hinder the supply of goods or services to a corporation would be liable, by virtue of the aiding and abetting provisions of section 76 to which I have just referred. [More…]
This assumes that a union would be regarded as a person under the Act. [More…]
My understanding is that that almost certainly would be the case, regardless of whether the union was a federally registered union, a State registered union or an unregistered union. [More…]
Thus unions whose members engaged in action which contravened proposed new section 45D would be liable, under section 76, to a fine of up to $250,000 plus injunction proceedings, plus action for loss or damage by the affected corporation. [More…]
The Minister said that the new amendment would in no way interfere with or restrict legitimate union activities. [More…]
Quite clearly from what I have put to the House it is absurd for the Minister to claim that the amendments would in no way interfere with or restrict legitimate union activities. [More…]
Yet the Minister says that it would not interfere with legitimate union activity. [More…]
Perhaps it gets down to the definition of what is legitimate union activity, in which case I can only say that the Minister must have a remarkably narrow view of what comes within that definition. [More…]
It could also be a demonstration of anti-union phobia for which the Government is well known. [More…]
It could also be that pan of the Government’s logic is that this legislation will be thrown in as part of the array of measures that it will use against unions in the post-wage indexation era which its wages policy will bring about. [More…]
I have no doubt that the cunning and ingenuity of many members of the extremist trade union leadership would take advantage of those possible gaps. [More…]
The honourable member harped, whinged and grizzled about the fact that the trade unions are subject to the penalties but he failed to inform the listening public at large that exactly the same penalties apply to corporations which breach very similar provisions. [More…]
He gave himself away when he said that the rights of the trade union movements must be preserved and any form of industrial action should be preserved as the province of the trade union movement. [More…]
We see how wide the trade union movement seeks to extend its province. [More…]
Following on the words of Paul Johnson, who castigated the trade union movement and described its extremist leaders as robber barons, let us ask ourselves what practical examples have arisen in recent times to warrant this equal treatment under this legislation of trade unions and employer groups. [More…]
I do not wish to categorise the average trade unionist as a person to whom this is directed. [More…]
The average trade unionist in this country is still a hard working person, still patriotic and still interested in his country, but he is in the grip of many trade union leadership groups which are interested only in their own power and march only to the drums of their own egos. [More…]
Let us ask ourselves what has been done by the trade union movement in the past few years. [More…]
Has the honourable member forgotten the ban on wool traffic, from Kangaroo Island to South Australia a few years ago when Mr Dunstan was petitioned by union leaders to waive a court order under which union leaders who had been in contempt of court were put in gaol. [More…]
The simple fact is that Australia’s exports of wheat and flour to Chile, which used to represent 5.4 per cent of our exports of these commodities in 1973-74, have ceased as a result of trade union action. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union has banned delivery of petrol supplies to discount service stations, thereby preventing fair competition. [More…]
Members of the Transport Workers Union are preventing the New South Wales public from having petrol at reasonable prices or at a reduced price as applies in Victoria. [More…]
They refuse to deliver bread to supermarkets that sell at less than the price approved by the union. [More…]
The unions are attempting to run this country. [More…]
All we get is Mr Wran in New South Wales window dressing and bleating about the bread manufacturers when half the problem comes from the unions. [More…]
Those union members were not necessarily on strike. [More…]
One would have hoped that the managers of the Rocks project would have taken appropriate action to bring the union leadership before the court by taking out an injunction. [More…]
I certainly hope that this Government will ensure that, to the extent to which they may be affected, its instrumentalities will be the first in the field to see that the law is applied against trade union leaderships that cany out these types of activities. [More…]
The facts of life are that the union bosses have grown far too big for their boots. [More…]
In addition to the amendments which I have proposed to section 45D, I see no reason in principle why the trade unions should not as far as possible be subject to the same law as other corporations. [More…]
I think that over a period it would be possible, if it were carefully done, to have trade unions incorporated- not in the hybrid way as at present when they hide behind all sons of legal technicalities, but incorporated as fully as possible under the same legislation as corporations. [More…]
We would then see how many trade union leaders were immune from the Crimes Act, the Securities Industry Act, the Companies Act, the Trade Practices Act and other Acts that would put them into the same position as company directors. [More…]
Let us see what can be done swiftly about legal proceedings to avoid having to have royal commissions every time somebody puts his finger into an area of murky corruption, as occurred with the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
The trade unions and their mouthpieces in this chamber talk about threats. [More…]
All that I have heard tonight in this debate from honourable members on the tory benches has been one long litany of union bashing. [More…]
Let me say to the honourable member for St George that I can understand, admire and respect the Government seeking to put the trade union movement of this country in a legal legislative straightjacket if the Government demonstrates some semblance of equity and justice by applying the same legislative straightjacket to companies, stock exchanges, banks, insurance companies and all companies - [More…]
I can find nothing, for example, in the Swanson report or in the last annual report of the Commission which leads me to believe that the people in the commercial world or the trade union world- I know that they are in some way connected with commerce and I indicate to the House that I have heard of a company called ACTU-Solo Pty Ltd and I am aware of their growing interest in commercial matters- have, in fact, been treated in an arrogant, domineering manner, in any manner that would justify the appalling comment made in an earlier speech that an image would emerge in government administration that would be reminiscent of the late Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide talked also about criticisms of trade unions and the Labor Party. [More…]
He said that the trade unions and the Labor Party were separate in a very real sense. [More…]
My friend the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) later in his speech made reference to this matter and pointed out that we have all been interested in the activities of the President of the Australian Labor Party in his 2 roles, one as President of that Party and the other as the recognised and accepted trade union leader in Australia. [More…]
I put it to the honourable member for Port Adelaide that he must have absolute contempt for the Australian people if he really believes that the great majority of them accept the view that when the President of his Party takes off his Labor Party cap and puts on his Australian Council of Trade Unions President’s cap he becomes a different man. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) that that has been true for 50 years, because in 1927, which is 50 years ago, he may recall that a distinguished Prime Minister lost his seat because a couple of trade union fellows had been put in gaol. [More…]
In that respect, therefore, I feel that the comments made by the honourable member for Gellibrand were designed more for the consumption of some of his colleagues in the trade union world than they were a proper expression of his own judgment. [More…]
If this is the attitude of the Trade Practices Commission, it seems to me that the more rational line of conduct for those who would speak for the trade union membership would be for them to take the view that no decision should be made on the hindering or prevention of the supply of goods or services by an employer or corporation until the picture is clear in the minds of all those people who are part and parcel at least of the trade unions. [More…]
I remind honourable members that the postal workers made it clear to their union leadership that they were not prepared to go along with the denial of the right of the Sun newspaper company of the Fairfax Press to receive its mail. [More…]
I would have thought that that was an expression of judgment which meant that within the trade union movement there were sufficient people with enough good sense to realise that there was a limit to the type of conduct in which these people could indulge. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) is quite right when he talks about the problems that are going to occur now because of the snide attack on the trade union movement contained in proposed new section 45. [More…]
This could be applied to actions by the trade unions in their legitimate activity of trying to better the industrial conditions of their members. [More…]
Because petrol cannot be sold at the same price in Sydney we now have to attack the whole .trade union movement because it is engaging in what is deemed to be a legitimate boycott. [More…]
The honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) mentioned a royal commission of inquiry associated with the Seamens Union of Australia. [More…]
It is not much good to suggest that now for the first time the whole of the trade union movement is going to be enveigled; that for the first time in this countrycertainly this is not done in the United States of America- it will be the victim of trade practices legislation. [More…]
Where in the trade practices legislation is the protection for any union? [More…]
Unions could be before the industrial court, they could fall within the ambit of the trade practices legislation, or they could also be before a State court on an injunction and faced with possible damages. [More…]
Harking back to the trade union position, I ask: Why is it that honourable members opposite have to embroil themselves in such attacks as they do when those in the United States have never had to do so? [More…]
If as members of Parliament we meet them they want to tell us what is wrong with the trade union movement, what is wrong with the demand for wages, and how unfair it is that there must be some sense of price justification, through the Prices Justification Tribunal, or trade practices control. [More…]
Ministers of this Government went to Japan and suggested in front of the Japanese that they would come back and castigate the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
Many of the union leaders whom the Ministers want to castigate had to fight those same Japanese not so long ago. [More…]
Not one representative of the trade union movement was on that Committee. [More…]
Not one representative of the trade union movement was ever put on it. [More…]
We have heard the most damning attack on the trade union movement during question time. [More…]
As I said in a Press release of 8 December,, honourable members opposite are setting out on a frontal confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Instead it contains a threat of savage penalties against the trade union movement. [More…]
Despite everything that the Government says, the report will lead to national strikes and stoppages on the basis that it is a complete attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
Certainly the trade unionist in Sydney is not getting the benefit. [More…]
The trade union movement will not accept it. [More…]
The unions are opposed to the legislation. [More…]
How unfair the Government was to bring in amendments to this legislation which affect the trade union movement, without daring to suggest that any of its representatives or any people associated with it should be on the Committee. [More…]
The Opposition is well known for its defence of privilege in the higher echelons of the trade union movement which manipulate the working people of Australia in many instances, so of course it was proposed new section 4SD that was the subject of most of the attack. [More…]
If only people such as the honourable member for Burke would not stick up for privilege in the trade union movement but would let the workers of Australia decide their future. [More…]
It is privilege that the trade union movement stands for so much. [More…]
The trade union movement was built up by the Labor Party that then was; the Labor Party that saw the great privilege in the corporations and in the aristocracy on the 19th century; the Labor Party that was a great Party because to some extent it brought about social justice in this country. [More…]
There is concern among non-unionists, people who wear other hats, but there is a great deal of concern among unionists. [More…]
There is concern that the executives of the unions have too much power. [More…]
The other day an old fellow, a strong unionist, who had worked in the mines said to me: ‘In the old days, when they could not find an excuse to bring us out they would bring us out because the pit ponies had bad breath*. [More…]
Members of the Australian Workers Union working on the lower Molonglo water treatment works told me last week that they are sick to death of being pulled out when they want to take home some pay for their wives and children. [More…]
But let honourable members opposite at least take this thought home tonight: They support privilege in the unions. [More…]
There is a growing awareness of the problems in New South Wales, and that is the reason for the course that the Transport Workers Union and the various industry groups have taken. [More…]
I am pleased to say that on this matter I am supported by the Australian Railways Union and the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. [More…]
Quite a few trade unionists in [More…]
There are areas in which the activities of some union leaders have restricted freedom and inhibited human rights and human dignity. [More…]
It is these groups that both the Opposition and the trade union movement hold themselves out to be greatly concerned about. [More…]
In point of fact the trade union movement, and again today the Opposition, have put forward the same policies by pushing for whatever they reckon they can get in the marketplace regardless of the adverse economic indications, making the position of these disadvantaged groups even worse than it is now. [More…]
By aligning itself with this element of the trade union movement which throws over not only the interests and concern for its fellow workers but also for the unemployed, the Opposition is directly contributing to the slowdown in the rate of Australia’s economic recovery. [More…]
We have also recently introduced the completely new apprenticeship scheme known as CRAFT- Commonwealth Rebate Apprenticeship Full-time Training-which has had a very favourable response from all sections of the community including, I am pleased to say, the trade union movement. [More…]
Every trade union official knows that. [More…]
What is needed is complete consultation between the manufacturers, primary industry and the trade union movement It is important that the workers have a share of the business. [More…]
But, when people band together, as they sometimes do in powerful unions, and partially withdraw their services and thereby prejudice the jobs of a great number of people across a wide area, they have gone too far. [More…]
When people in a union are working hard to get better conditions and remuneration and perhaps they do fully withdraw their services, that is not covered by this proposed section. [More…]
But so often it has been the case that other people, apart from the few with vested interests in unions, have had their livelihoods prejudiced. [More…]
People in my area received legitimate payment for their wool many months late because of illegitimate action by the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
The divisions that exist because of militant unionists using great privilege through the system that has been evolved have militated so much against the best interests of the country. [More…]
I am reminded of the situation which exists in Japan, where I understand the union officials have a much greater awareness of the fact that the people who work in unions are part of the wheel of society. [More…]
At least a body of legal opinion believes that proposed section 45D could in fact be used as a major punitive clause against a union taking legitimate actionaction which any person other than a person who is totally devoid of a sense of responsibility would accept that the union is entitled to takeand could result in a suit of prosecution of a nature which would make it impossible for small unions, and there are small unions, to operate. [More…]
The legislation may not make it impossible for larger unions to operate as they have access to a greater level of funds. [More…]
Labor Party is the protector of the trade union movement. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Hunter that if private contractors were put into the breweries, at a lower rate than the present carters receive, there would be some sort of move in the trade union movement that would cause a black ban to be imposed. [More…]
Is it not strange that the housewife who has to pay 45c for a loaf of bread is told that she cannot have it for 40c, 39c or 38c because a few trade unionists have said: ‘We are not going to deliver it’. [More…]
And that is a statement in itself- is that the Labor Opposition and the Australian trade union movement have joined together to condemn this clumsy attempt to widen the scope of industrial relations. [More…]
We intend to continue to widen the scope of industrial relations and in so far as we can to open up the trade union to its membership. [More…]
Is there not something wrong with the system and with the Labor Government’s Act when on the one hand the Opposition says that the trade union movement can black ban service stations and black ban retail stores that would sell cheap bread and on the other hand it says that it is a great idea to black ban the medical profession? [More…]
The honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury) spoke about the unions getting funds from the big monopolist unions. [More…]
What big monopolist unions? [More…]
The unions are made up only of small working class people such as myself. [More…]
The only funds they collect are from the union members. [More…]
One Government supporter spoke about the big union leaders being robber barons who march only to the drum of their own egos. [More…]
It seems to me that, regardless of the good intentions of the Minister, this kind of rubbish will not bring about the co-operation of the great mass of Australian trade unionists; nor will it get the co-operation of the Australian public [More…]
As I see it, this could mean that, if a trade unionist were locked out of an industry such as the mining industry or the timber milling industry and the industry continued to produce by working the staff and bringing in contractors, the people who were working for the contractors, if they said they would not deliver goods or take machinery in to do the work, would then be in contravention of the legislation. [More…]
It covers a vast spectrum of union activity. [More…]
Was the reason the fact that if it was introduced into the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act it could not be enforced on the great body of trade unions which are covered by State industrial legislation, or was there some other reason? [More…]
But if the Government is sincere in its call for co-operation from all sections of the community, why is every measure it takes aimed at worsening the conditions of the workers, the trade unionists, and at making things better for big business? [More…]
I remember when wage indexation was first discussed and the Government was saying that the unions must accept package deals. [More…]
Lo and behold, it was not long before the Government wanted to water down wage indexation when the unions started to accept it. [More…]
I remember a big attack on the trade union movement when I was a member of the Barrier Industrial Council. [More…]
But let me remind honourable members opposite that the Broken Hill mining companies negotiate round table agreements with unions. [More…]
It seems to me that, instead of trying to score in every direction they can, honourable members opposite should look around and see where they can give a bit of credit to the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) should be inviting a member of the Barrier Industrial Council over to help him solve some of his industrial problems instead of criticising unions in this House. [More…]
When the people get sick of the Government blaming everything on the previous Government, it thinks that the best way out is to make an attack on the trade unions. [More…]
I hope that the Government will remove some of the pernicious clauses of this Bill and that it will adopt a different attitude to the trade union movement. [More…]
I listened to the comments he made and I am sure that between him and me and many other honourable members there are no arguments as to the responsibility of large sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
But what has interested me in the debate as it has proceeded yesterday and this evening is that the Australian Labor Party Opposition seems to be obsessed by the application of this Bill to the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not know whether members of the Opposition just do not concern themselves with these other matters or whether they are completely hidebound by the fact that there happen to be some provisions in the Bill which affect the trade union movement. [More…]
It ought to be pointed out that the proposal to examine trade union practices, which admittedly form part of this legislation, was foreshadowed in April 1976, which is nearly 12 months ago. [More…]
The terms of reference of the Trade Practices Review Committee, or the Swanson Committee as it is known, included that proposal, and the unions have had the same opportunity as everybody else in the community to consider what changes may be made and to make submissions to that Committee and to the Government. [More…]
We all are aware that on 25 February this year an opportunity will be given to the union movement to discuss the legislation and there will be a meeting between the Government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the matter. [More…]
Obviously the unions still have a chance to put submissions on this question before the Government. [More…]
The legislation has been before the Parliament and therefore before the people of Australia- anybody who may be interested- since last December, and a further opportunity is being given to the union movement to discuss these matters on 25 February. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have tried to narrow down this debate to a question of the effects of the legislation on the trade union movement and that alone. [More…]
They have tried to portray the Government and its supporters as being interested in little more than union bashing. [More…]
It deals with many things other than the particular sections which relate to the trade union movement. [More…]
We should have the same law that governs industry and business governing trade union and government activities. [More…]
The Bill does not propose to introduce any restriction on legitimate trade union activities. [More…]
Trade unions will be able to do all the sorts of things that they were able to do before but there will be particular things which have developed in the trade union movement which the Government and the community in general considers to be to the detriment of the normal operations of the community and economy which will not be permitted under this legislation. [More…]
As I see it, as the people in my electorate who have spoken to me about this legislation see it and as my colleagues in the National Country Party and the Liberal Party in government see it, there should be no cause for concern by the trade union movement. [More…]
As I indicated earlier, my colleague the honourable member for Darling (Mr FitzPatrick) represents a union which has had a significantly good record in terms of industrial relations. [More…]
If other unions took the approach that was taken by those in Broken Hill in so many instances, I think the industrial relations scene in Australia would be far the better for that education. [More…]
Unions which behave responsibly do not have any cause for concern under this legislation but those which seek to act in such a way as to impose a restraint of trade must be expected to come within the provisions of the legislation in the same way as the employers do, as private enterprise in general does and should continue to do and as the Government itself will do under this legislation. [More…]
The public has expressed the view that the unions have tended to go far beyond the bounds of what the people are prepared to accept as being the normal and proper functions of the trade union movement. [More…]
There are many other areas in which the trade union movement has transgressed what we in Australia, under the historical development of the trade union movement, are prepared to accept as being within the proper role of the trade union movement. [More…]
As I said a little earlier, I do not believe there is any need for any union which behaves in a responsible fashion to have any fear of this legislation but the activities of those who seek to enforce their will on their own membership and therefore on industries and the economy in this country will be noted as a result of this legislation. [More…]
It removes a situation of double standards which in my view applies to the trade union movement today. [More…]
The trade union movement wants to impose all sorts of provisions on other people and is not prepared to have those same provisions imposed upon itself. [More…]
I cannot accept the criticism of the Opposition that this is a Bill which is designed to do little more than union bash. [More…]
I must say that it is a very welcome relief to hear the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) make quite a reasoned speech without resorting to union bashing. [More…]
It has been quite sad to see so many Government supporters use the opportunity for debating this Bill to indulge in very blatant union bashing without any real consideration of the problems involved. [More…]
Governments need sympathy and understanding in order to develop a satisfactory industrial climate between the trade unions and government, and not repressive, union bashing legislation and stupid, unthinking, shallow speeches such as those which we have heard from the Government side today. [More…]
We talk about trade union boycotts. [More…]
The Medical Association is, in effect, a trade union and in certain circumstances it withholds its services because it does not want to see salaried specialists infringing on its little empire, which is a very wealthy empire of course. [More…]
If industrial unionists acted in that way they would be put in gaol; they would be socially ostracised. [More…]
This has been a union bashing debate. [More…]
In the 2 countries with which we compare ourselves, I hope honestly- that is, the United States and the United Kingdom- trade unions are exempted from the operations of trade practices regulations. [More…]
For some obscure reason, which the Minister has not explained, he has sought to bring trade unions within this legislation. [More…]
Trade unions have power, and thank God they do. [More…]
In what respect are trade unions brought within the ambit of trade practices? [More…]
In what respect are trade unions regarded as being perpetrators of trade practices? [More…]
I can understand their not liking trade unions. [More…]
Throughout this debate I have listened to people union bashing- I think that is the respectable term. [More…]
Trade unions are an essential part of the Australian economy. [More…]
That is not what trade union organisation is about. [More…]
Trade union organisation is about employee organisation as against employer organisation. [More…]
I accept the fact that the honourable gentleman probably does not know much about trade unions He probably knows a lot about trade organisations. [More…]
It is an attempt to deal with trade unions. [More…]
Trade practices regulation in my view has nothing to do with trade union organisation. [More…]
Some of the old miners of the northern coal fields never got compensation when their fingers were chopped off The Government, by this legislation, is trying to prevent the Australian trade union movement from correcting grievous social injustices. [More…]
The younger members of the Government ought to go to Latin America and have a look at the living conditions of the people which have been created as a result of trade unions being battered into the ground. [More…]
The revolution in Cuba was brought about as a result of the trade unions being battered into the ground. [More…]
The coup in Chile was brought about as a result of the trade unions being battered into the ground. [More…]
The military coups in many of the countries of Latin America, including Brazil, were brought about as a result of the trade unions not being allowed to function properly or to have corrected capitalist injustices. [More…]
union bashings in this country, that will happen here. [More…]
-I will not take as long as I ought to in this debate, but I want to say something about the trade practices legislation as a means of bashing the trade unions. [More…]
The Tai Vale railway took the railway union to court for damages as a consequence of a strike which had held up the operations of the Taff Vale railway. [More…]
The famous Taff Vale case was written into the case law of England as representing part of the common law of England- namely, that a union or its officials could be held liable for damages caused to an employer as a consequence of a strike action. [More…]
The trade union movement holds the key positions. [More…]
Unionists will close down the wharves. [More…]
It can happen here and it will happen here if honourable members opposite go on to bring into the trade practices legislation penalties of $50,000 and the like for unionists who after all are trying to use the only thing they know- organised labour power- against the tremendous, almost unlimited power of the organised transnationals in this country. [More…]
He may talk about the enormous power of the unions, and certainly we respect him but does he imagine that so many people on the Government benches were returned to power without the support of vast numbers of people in the trade unions? [More…]
He said that the law of tort shall not apply in a union dispute, and it should not so apply. [More…]
I think the Attorney-General and others in the United States of America who are interested in union law would question the premise that no trade unionist shall be subject to the law of tort. [More…]
I would have thought that the distinguished member for Hindmarsh, who must know the union laws in the United States, would know that the law of contract would apply to Mr Fraseur or to Mr Walter Reuther if he signed a contract. [More…]
If we in the Government Parties are going to gaol trade unionists- that is, to bring criminal charges against them- then of course the honourable member has a point. [More…]
My own view is that if unions contract with an employer that contract should be subject to the common law. [More…]
But he knows very well, and so does the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), that by English history he has got out of the English common law and he has got out of the common law of Australia because unions are classified as friendly societies and therefore the employers cannot bring an action against them in contract. [More…]
Therefore, whatever premise they start on, they are starting on a privileged premise that a unionist and a union are outside the normal ambit of the common law. [More…]
I have never met a trade unionist who has never conceded that point. [More…]
Don’t you dare accuse me of being a union basher. [More…]
Don’t you ever dare in this House accuse me of union bashing. [More…]
Unionists in this country do not want confrontation. [More…]
I can name only about 4 trade union officials who would like a confrontation. [More…]
Therefore we seek the cooperation of the trade union movement. [More…]
The majority of unionists who work in the factories in my electorate- the factories of General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd, International Harvester Australia Ltd, Sperry Rand Australia Ltd and all the rest of them- are not going to be led a dance by any person in this House trying to persuade them to have a confrontation. [More…]
Neither do I believe the treasury bench is seeking a confrontation with the unions at this critical time. [More…]
How can we recover as a nation if we have a union confrontation? [More…]
Therefore, please do not accuse us of trying to bash the unions in any way. [More…]
But I do not believe union members want a confrontation with the Government; neither do I believe the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) wants a confrontation with the unions. [More…]
I simply cannot concede that at this critical moment of time there is a single major union which wants confrontation; nor do I believe the treasury bench wants it. [More…]
He called for all the grand bans of the unions. [More…]
Is it the aim of that front bench to cause union disruption, to cause trouble, to damage the economy? [More…]
So they should not call me a union basher. [More…]
If they cannot give it us there are many unionists who will give it us. [More…]
The Opposition can have the unions. [More…]
But when the unionists ‘ wives tell them what is going on- I know what I am talking about; I walk around a bit- they want work. [More…]
Nobody in the trade unions need worry about what the Opposition is saying for political reasons. [More…]
If we need to use the American system of trade union law and practice, then we ought to use it. [More…]
He speech illustrated that on the Government side there is a complete lack of understanding of the trade union movement and of the role that working people play in the community. [More…]
No matter how much honourable members on the opposite side want to describe this legislation as not being union bashing legislation, that is just not accurate. [More…]
The trade union movement cannot interpret the Government’s policy other than as one of deliberate confrontation. [More…]
The operation of the ASIO spy force in the trade union movement must be some new kind of conciliation. [More…]
Do we expect the trade union movement to interpret the Government’s reneging on its election promises in respect of Medibank as being conciliation? [More…]
If that is what you are about, come clean and put your case to the trade union movement. [More…]
There was a grant to the Australian Meat Board of $ 1.2m to cover the cost of the export charges on the sale of meat to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1975. [More…]
One aspect that is very pleasing is the sales that have been made to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to the Eastern Soviet bloc countries. [More…]
I am pleased to say that it is after my visit to the Soviet Union and the invitation of the head of the Soviet States Trading Agency that we look like making sales to the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc countries of about 100 000 tonnes which is additional - [More…]
This lady, who is an official of the local branch of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, paints a very nice picture of the way in which the local meatworks, which produces a lot of meat, is manipulating the market in Townsville: the practice of meatworks owning properties running thousands of head of cattle and their practice of using the fat and boner stock from these properties to flood the market at a time when most forest country cattle are coming into the auction yard could be transgressing some part of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act. [More…]
Do you approve of industrial action by way of strikes or work bans being carried out by certain sections of the trade union movement when this action has no relation to industrial disputes? [More…]
Mr Hurford ‘s remarks are the first by any Labor politician or union leader to indicate that less than the full 6 per cent flow-on may be acceptable. [More…]
Australians surely must be concerned about the level of industrial disputation in the community and should support strongly the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s view that each union member and each union official must evaluate the impact that any stoppage, ban or limitation may have on the viability of the existing wage indexation package. [More…]
Yet he told the Japanese that companies in Japan which were considering setting up operations in Australia or investing in Australia should consult the trade union movement before doing so. [More…]
I believe that the Government must convince our trading partners that the unions are not going to destroy our trading capacity. [More…]
Mr Hawke conferred with the President of the Confederation of Japanese Automotive Workers Unions, as indeed did our Party. [More…]
He did not talk about the harmonious relations that exist between companies and labour unions. [More…]
He did not talk about the concern of unions for the financial and competitive position of their companies. [More…]
He did not talk about how unions voluntarily forego their bonuses in order to assist their employers and their companies in the event of difficult circumstances, such as those which were created during the strike of the Storemen and Packers Union of Australia which withheld wool supplies for mills in Japan, which nearly closed some mills, and which, of course, put what are supposed to be its own colleagues out of work in Japan. [More…]
He did not talk about the policy of Japanese companies of life time employment- a very good, sound mutual relationship between labour unions and company management- and the near absence of industrial strikes, demarcation disputes or bans, let alone employees having a day off when the weather gets too hot. [More…]
The trade union movement and Labor spokesmen in general have criticised the Government for its wages policy. [More…]
We hear from the Government an indictment ofthe trade union movement and what is wrong with the wages policy the Labor Party is espousing. [More…]
When we said in December 1973 that we wanted the power to fix prices and incomes, the then Opposition opposed the idea, as did the trade union movement, for wrong reasons. [More…]
It pushed through a 17.5 per cent pay increase and a fourth week’s annual vacation for the 245 000 Federal civil servants and it supported a trade union plan to extend the longer vacation to private industry. [More…]
During the election campaign the Labor Party had argued that its trade union links would enable it to negotiate more effectively with militant unions, but in Mr Whitlam ‘s first year strikes proliferated and 2 634 000 working days were lost- a 3 1 per cent increase over the previous year. [More…]
He said to the trade union people: ‘If you continue the way you are going now, by the end of 1977 we will have a million people unemployed and we will have roaring inflation of 20 per cent’. [More…]
The others include Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union; Kate and Geoff Pope of the War Resisters League; Aryeh Neier, executive director of the ACLU: Paul O Dwyer, the Liberal New York City Council president; the Reverend Richard John Neuhaus, a founder of Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam; James Forrest, who was imprisoned for draft resistance during the Vietnam war; and Theodore Jacqueney, a former State Department foreign aid employee who resigned in 1971 to protest United States involvement in South East Asia. [More…]
It has been able to broaden access to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for example. [More…]
It is a petition to the President of the United States of America which refers, inter alia, to his recent statement with respect to his defence of prisoners of conscience in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, his comments in relation to the recent tragic events in Uganda, and in particular his remarks with respect to the situation in East Timor, which is our nearest neighbour. [More…]
I must say that as an Australian I find it a matter of profound regret that representatives of that organisation- international terrorists, kidnappers, thugs and gangsters- are coming to Canberra in April of this year as duly accredited representatives of the International Parliamentary Union- at a time when the International Parliamentary Union refuses to permit Amnesty International even to have observer status. [More…]
Why are the trade unions so frightened of the industrial relations bureau? [More…]
Is it that they do not want their members to know how to go about correcting the monopolising power of their union leaders? [More…]
Is it because the union leaders themselves want to maintain a situation where they can manipulate their members for their own political ambitions and they see in the industrial relations bureau some challenge to that monopolising power? [More…]
Yet it is prepared to establish a bureau which will subject a vital part of our social and economic organisation, the trade union movement, to unwarranted intrusion. [More…]
It will destroy once and for all the right of the trade unions to organise their own affairs and to work fearlessly for the welfare of their union members. [More…]
We should remind the Fraser Government that the British Labour Government, like other enlightened governments in Europe, has sought the co-operation of the trade union movement, not confrontation with it. [More…]
It consulted with the British trade union movement and entered with it into a contractual agreement which has become known as the social contract. [More…]
In return the trade unions acted with restraint and patience in a time of economic difficulty and the British Government made concessions which recognise the great burdens borne by those workers. [More…]
It has begun a violent and carefully timed attack on the Australian work force and on the trade unions which guard its rights. [More…]
This Government has been working to open the way for the unwarranted intrusion of an industrial police force into the trade unions. [More…]
The Prime Minister has instructed the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to resume its interference with the individual liberties and human rights of trade unions and trade unionists. [More…]
All that this Government has sought to do while it has been in office has been to restrain the trade union movement and to transfer income from the wage packet to the private sector, and that private sector has been big business. [More…]
How could our trade union movement enter into a contract in good faith with a government such as the one that is governing Australia now- a government of deceit? [More…]
The governments in those countries sought the co-operation of the trade union movement, but this Government is seeking confrontation. [More…]
If there is consideration for the workers then the huge and unreasonable costs that are involved, not so much through decisions which affect industrial awards and arbitration matters but because of the actions of certain groups of people in the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union who are intent on bringing the industry to a standstill from time to time, could be reduced. [More…]
I include among those people a few who are not members of that union -meat inspectors. [More…]
The unions have pushed claims that the economy cannot support. [More…]
People belonging to a rich union do well and people in a poor union do not necessarily do so well in England and not so well in Australia [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) tried to say the other day that if amendments were made to the Trade Practices Act and if there were any sort of conflict this country would be brought to its heels by unions which would turn off switches and plunge this country into darkness. [More…]
The fact is that the mainstream of the trade union movement is sensible, moderate and reasonable and would not support that sort of activity. [More…]
The next fact is that if the indexation system collapses without a reasonable method of wage fixation in lieu, the unionists will get nothing, because there is nothing in the market place with which they can be paid. [More…]
Whilst we as a Government pander to the communist trade union officials and call them ‘militants’ or ‘extremists’, all we do is signify to the moderate trade unionists that we do not really think those officials are all that bad. [More…]
I believe that the bitter struggles in the trade union movement between the extreme communist groups and the mainstream are more bitter than the average man in society realises. [More…]
The moderate trade unionists know the peril to this nation that can come from the leftists, the communists, who are revolutionaries and who seek only to drag this nation down. [More…]
We should be pointing out exactly where the country is at perU from these people and appealing for a consensus from the mamstream, average trade unionists to help get the country going again. [More…]
I refer to the fact that six or seven trade unionists can throw a few switches and black out half a city. [More…]
At present the blackmailers m the extremist union movement know that they can throw on a strike with a few workers and by the time the boss can get around to going to the court and obtaining a stand down order for the employees a week has gone by and it is too late to do anything about it. [More…]
If we reverse the situation, the good, solid, average Australian trade unionist will soon go round the corner, get hold of some of these ratbags, give them a quiet word in the ear and sort them out. [More…]
What the previous gentleman has just said would seem to me to negate a large part of the creativity of the Australian people because it is expressed in his hostility to the trade union movement. [More…]
Looking at overall events that have taken place in the world I put the proposition that to a large extent what happens is influenced by the fact that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China are in conflict. [More…]
If China and the Soviet Union had a common policy, as they did up till about 1958, 1 think that it would be extremely difficult for the United States and for countries associated with the United Statesthe democratic countries of the world- to stand up to pressure from the 2 communist super powers. [More…]
The only basis on which I would think it would be reasonable to support China vis-a-vis the Soviet Union is that the Chinese appear to be weaker. [More…]
After making the point that China is a weak country militarily compared with the Soviet Union he went on to state: [More…]
Personally I would be against dismantling the facilities on Diego Garcia unless the Soviet Union dismantled its facilities in Berbera and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Accordingly, to propitiate one of the passions of his master, the Minister for Foreign Affairs had to launch an attack against the Prime Minister’s perennial ogre, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, albeit with much less fierceness than was displayed by the Prime Minister on 1 June last year. [More…]
He said, firstly, that the Soviet Union had closed the strategic nuclear gap between the United States and itself. [More…]
Soviet Union in bomber payload, missile accuracy, survivability and numbers of warheads and bombers. [More…]
United States Defence Department figures show that since 1960 the United States has built 122 ships over 3000 tons while the Soviet Union has built only 57. [More…]
In every 5-year period since 1960 United States construction has exceeded that of the Soviet Union in large ocean-going naval vessels. [More…]
The Joint Chiefs of Staff do not agree that the Soviet Union has achieved military superiority over the United States. [More…]
Reports of mass, indiscriminate killings have now come to Australia from Fretilin, which alleged that the Indonesians were ‘massacring’ the population and from Chinese sources, including from Taiwan, which claimed that the Chinese minority in East Timor bore the brunt of much of the indiscriminate killing in the territory from Timor Democratic Union- UDT- refugees in Portugal, many of whom claim actually to have witnessed atrocities of a disturbing kind. [More…]
They are, in fact, virtually satellites of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I was interested to hear his comments on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People’s Republic of China and his description of those nations. [More…]
He said, however, that he thought it was of great international significance that the conflict between the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union should continue, the inference being, of course, that were there to be established between the Government of Peking and the Government of Moscow a rapport and an understanding the probability would be that there would be a greater threat in the world because those 2 governments would be so powerful- in truth, two super-powers combined- that the rest of the world would need to tremble. [More…]
I doubt very much that there is any real basic animosity between the people who live in Western Europe and the Soviet Union and the people who live in the People’s Republic of China in the south. [More…]
There are many thousands of men and great installations of weapons in the eastern area of the Soviet Union. [More…]
For one thing, it only antagonises the Soviet Union. [More…]
-No, but I was able to speak to Egyptian politicians in Madrid during the recent Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference. [More…]
The Orlov group ignored the warning, however, and stepped up their activities, distributing their slanderous writings besmirching the Soviet Union and its state and social system. [More…]
Yuri Orlov was arrested not for his ‘dissent’- no one is punished for this in the Soviet Union -but for spreading slander, that is, an offense punishable under Articles 70 and 190. [More…]
Yuri Orlov was arrested not for his ‘dissent’- no one is punished for this in the Soviet Union -but for spreading slander, that is an offence punishable under Articles 70 and 1 90. [More…]
It is the duty of the Government to meet this threat and to meet it by publicising the truth about what is happening in the Soviet Union and in other communist countries. [More…]
What this Government has put forward is that a zone of peace will not be created by one nation but by the co-operation of many nations and particularly of two of the major nations- the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
What we have said is that if there is no indication of the Soviet Union accepting its responsibilities, the only answer to that is that the United States and other nations must take precautionary measures to see that there is no advantage to the Soviet Union in this area. [More…]
Whether this will eventuate will be seen in the months that lie ahead, in the response from the Soviet Union to the initiatives taken by the President of the United States. [More…]
The trade union movement has foreshadowed the possibility of 700 000 people being unemployed towards the end of 1977. [More…]
Has the Government considered declaring a 200-mile zone around Australia’s coastline as the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the European communities have already done without waiting for the next Law of the Sea Conference? [More…]
The Minister would be aware of the proposed amalgamation between the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association. [More…]
I am aware that the 2 unions to which the honourable member referred have for some time been engaged in discussions relating to possible amalgamation. [More…]
At the present stage, as far as I am aware, no formal steps have been taken under the Act towards an amalgamation between the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
Its membership also includes prominent industrialists, members of the legal profession, trade union leaders and members of various community organisations. [More…]
That is a deliberate attempt to bring on a confrontation with the trade union movement purely for the purpose of political advantage. [More…]
That was contemptuous treatment that no teachers’ union would allow to happen to a European teacher and no government would dare to impose on European teachers. [More…]
It is a serious situation indeed that the Minister has seen fit to ignore the CES staff and their union in announcing this statement today at a time when there is a serious industrial situation developing within the CES, particularly in New South Wales. [More…]
That serious situation has arisen over the fact that the union alleges substantial under-manning by the Government of the Commonwealth Employment Service offices. [More…]
The Government caved in to the Australian Union of Students on the tertiary education allowances after only a one-day strike. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and my colleagues who work in the metal trades tell me that a vast number of trained fitters, boilermakers, etc., have taken other jobs for a higher pay. [More…]
What about the following statement as an underhand way of saying that union bashing will be a big plank in the Government’s platform. [More…]
Let us look at wage indexation and the Arbitration Court in relation to what this Government has done; the castration of the Regional Employment Development scheme and the National Employment and Training scheme; the promise of anti-union legislation; the nastiness shown towards the Aboriginal community; the haranguing of social service recipients and tertiary education students; the disregard for the status of women, community health and urban planning; and the mutilation of Medibank. [More…]
We hear plenty of union bashing going on but we hear darned little about action being taken to control these commercial predators. [More…]
The Victoria Teachers Union today issued a statement of which honourable members opposite should take note. [More…]
The Victorian Teachers Union points up this problem. [More…]
I will not go into the details of this shocking performance by the Soviet Union because the document will appear in Hansard. [More…]
But this I would say: The Soviet Union persecutes all religions. [More…]
Under the pretence of freedom, we know that there are inside the borders of the Soviet Union discrimination, persecution and worse of all who profess any religion because, as Lenin said, communism is necessarily militant atheism. [More…]
The Jews in the Soviet Union have fought back. [More…]
They are making their presence felt and they are getting some protection inside the Soviet Union for the practice of their religion because they have stuck together and they are demanding that they have freedom for religious practice and worship. [More…]
They are getting support, and they deserve support, from their compatriots outside the Soviet Union. [More…]
There are other faiths including, and principally, the Christian faith against which continuous outrage and a lying pretence of sufferance is perpetrated inside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Some of these people in the Soviet Union had had the tremendous courage to face martyrdom to face deprivation, to face discrimination, to face persecution. [More…]
I wonder whether they are receiving sufficient support from their co-religionists outside the Soviet Union. [More…]
Railways Union in Tasmania, Mr Jones, contacted me and advised that the decision had been taken, presumably by the ANRC and put into effect by the Transport Commission in Tasmania, that as from Monday next no full meals will be served on the Tasman Limited which is the major train and, indeed, one of the major tourist attractions in Tasmania. [More…]
I was further advised by Mr Jones who, as I have said, is the State President of the Australian Railways Union- it is significant- that leading trade unionists in Tasmania are prepared to talk to and to confide in the Liberal members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
Transport (Mr Nixon) to stay the execution of the order that no full meals are to be served on the train as from Monday next to enable union representatives and people interested in the future of the Tasman Limited in Tasmania to engage in full and frank discussion to fully and properly assess the implications of that rather horrific decision. [More…]
Under the rules of some unions- one large union that I know of- the membership year commences on 1 August in a particular year and the ballot for offices is held between then and 3 1 December of that year, but the financial year of the union does not end until, say, May of the following year. [More…]
I ask the Minister to tell the House how the Commonwealth Electoral Office will be able to forward ballot papers to those members entitled te vote in a union ballot, when the rules are as I have just described, where- and I repeat- the rules of that union fix 1 August as the beginning of the financial year and 31 December as the deadline for the ballot to be held in that year, and a date 7 months later for the end of the financial year and for the return of all ticket butts, which prevents the compilation of an electoral roll before the end of May of the following year, 7 months after the ballot has been completed? [More…]
Do the regulations already published make provision for the Registrar to be informed of the opening and closing dates for nominations and for the publication of those dates in the case of unions whose rules do not specify opening and closing dates? [More…]
It is true that there can be some unions- indeed, I understand that there is at least one- whose rules provide for the sort of timetable that the honourable member has indicated. [More…]
If the union rules provide for elections to be held, for example, between September and December, those elections will not comply with the regulations as gazetted. [More…]
lt is my understanding that in circumstances like this the legislation provides enough discretion to the Registrar to enable him to advise a union that, if its rules state that the financial membership starts at a certain date and that nominations for elections must be on a certain date, the relevant elections would have to be held in the first half of the succeeding year. [More…]
Let us look at the Labor Party’s position and the trade union movement’s stance on Medibank. [More…]
What about the trade union movement’s view on the whole matter? [More…]
As an Australian representative at the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference held in Madrid late last year I was ashamed to have to admit that Australia was pursuing this useless policy when there was so much hunger in the world. [More…]
That is a strange statement for the right honourable gentleman to make because if a union leader urged his members to withdraw their labour I am certain that the Deputy Prime Minister would be up in arms and would class such action as an irresponsible strike. [More…]
Apparently he applies different values to his actions in respect of cattlemen from those he applies when he union bashes. [More…]
The right honourable gentleman is not alone in this because most Government supporters union bash. [More…]
As I have said, apparently he puts different values on their actions compared with the values and responsibilities he tries to place on leaders of unions. [More…]
All it has been able to do is bring about confrontation with the unions, confrontation from which in many cases the Government has had to back down. [More…]
This goes back to the time of Sir Stanley Bruce when a conservative Prime Minister was going to wield the big stick as far as the unions were concerned. [More…]
We have heard protestations that the people on the other side of this chamber are not union bashers. [More…]
I know there are some men on the other side who adopt a very reasonable attitude as regards unions in general, but this Government has its fair share of union bashers sitting on the other side of this House. [More…]
When the Liberal Government starts talking about introducing legislation to do something about trade unions and so on the unions have no cause whatsoever to trust that legislation because on very few occasions has this sort of legislation been in the interests of the unions themselves or in the interests of the members of the unions. [More…]
Anything the Government does will not be trusted by the trade union movement and will only lead to a confrontation with the organisations involved. [More…]
The Government has had opportunities over the last few years when it could have come to some arrangement with the unions in trying to iron out some of the problems. [More…]
I can remember that before ever I came into the Parliament discussions took place between the unions in an effort to cease the demarcation disputes that were taking place in that industry. [More…]
Now we find that all the employees in the shipbuilding industry are under the umbrella of one union and that they can solve their own demarcation disputes. [More…]
But the only way there seems to be to attempt this is for unemployment to increase so that workers will become afraid of losing their jobs and will then be afraid to ask for more money or to support union action for more money. [More…]
It is said that one cannot win elections with these values; one cannot get on in a party, business, union or newspaper if one has these values. [More…]
I am very critical of the lack of consultation between the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
Interest rates are devastating, especially to the young, and yet no attempt at real, sensible and sensitive discussions between the Prime Minister and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been made. [More…]
It is still motivated by events of the past, still obsessed with its socialist ideas and a hatred of private enterprise, and dominated by the shadowy faces in the trade union movement. [More…]
Trade unions asked for it and I am sure that honourable members on this side of the chamber will recollect the praise that the Government received from the trade union movement as a whole when taxation indexation was introduced. [More…]
All the Government can do is scream, yell and rant and continue its policy of union bashing. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sudan, Turkey, United States. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the strike at the Hamilton container terminal, Brisbane, following a demarcation issue between various unions involving 2 Transport Workers Union members who were guaranteed similar work by the same company at a different nearby location? [More…]
What steps is the Government taking to thwart the activities of irresponsible trade union leaders, and what action has been taken to put real teeth into the legislation to allow these unions and their irresponsible leaders to be sued for damages by the beef producers and other workers on a basis similar to that by which irresponsible leaders and unions can be sued for damages under the Bjelke-Petersen legislation in Queensland? [More…]
In a climate in which beef producers are still far from being able to offset the escalating costs which were largely induced by the previous Government, they now find that, through the totally irresponsible action in particular of the Transport Workers Union and of (the officials of that union, the whole of the recovery in Queensland seems to be prejudiced. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union has taken unto itself a position which threatens to disrupt completely the whole of the beef industry in Queensland. [More…]
I understand that the union has now taken action not only against containers within that State, and in particular against refrigerated containers, but also against the handling of those containers interstate. [More…]
A compulsory conference which has been called before Commissioner Mansini tomorrow morning is expected to take place without representatives of the Transport Workers Union being present. [More…]
That leads one to believe that the Transport Workers Union executive is failing in its duty not only to the rest of the residents of that State but also to members of its own union. [More…]
I believe that the circumstances of this dispute highlight the situation in which totally irresponsible action by a few trade union leaders can disrupt the whole of the activities of an industry and indeed of a State. [More…]
One would hope that the responsibility of the members of the union if not of its executive would prevail so that at least they will appear at the compulsory conference tomorrow morning and that there will be a reasonable prospect of a sensible solution to what seems at the moment to be an almost intransigent problem. [More…]
I ask: What approaches has the Government made to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for an expansion or clarification of President Podgorny ‘s statement? [More…]
-The short answer is that discussions of significant moment are taking place at present between the Secretary of State for the United States of America and the Government of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But, after all, what he said was a reiteration of what the Soviet Union has been saying for some time; that it favours demilitarisation and that it wishes to have a zone of peace. [More…]
In this context our officials on occasions have had discussions with the Soviet Union as to just what this means. [More…]
For example, my former Permanent Head put to the Soviet Union: ‘Does it mean that you agree to the dismantling of your base at Berbera?’ [More…]
‘No’, said the Soviet Union, ‘because it is not our base; it is a Somali base’. [More…]
We must await the reaction of the Soviet Union to the proposal enunciated by the American President and discussed in somewhat greater detail by the Secretary of State. [More…]
Until that time I think it would be wiser for countries outside the 2 super powersthe United States of America and the Soviet Union- not to do any more than the form of exploratory discussions that officers in my Department have had with representatives of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But clearly there will need to be, either during this period of talks with the United States or at some future date, if it is agreed that there be further discussions on the Indian Ocean, an acceptance publicly by the Soviet Union that the base in Somalia is in fact what most would accept it to be, a Soviet controlled entity. [More…]
We should seek to erect a constitutional edifice which shall be a guarantee of liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent . [More…]
But the founding fathers were concerned with the people and that is why Alfred Deakin refers to ‘liberty and union for all time to come to the whole people of this continent’. [More…]
There is currently a union demand that stewards who are serving the seamen should themselves have a steward to serve them. [More…]
I want to draw the attention of this House to the disruptive series of strikes presently being orchestrated in Victorian meatworks by the Victorian Branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, the secretary of which is Mr Wally Curran. [More…]
The dispute is over a 19 point log of claims put forward by the Union. [More…]
The union in turn rejected this situation. [More…]
The operators refused to renegotiate the matter with the union, but invited the union to take the full log of claims to arbitration and said it would abide by the Court’s decision. [More…]
The union refused to do this. [More…]
From then until a few weeks ago the union took no further action. [More…]
The union also decided to black ban any member acting in any way to weaken the dispute. [More…]
To quote the report by the union executive, published on 23 February 1977: [More…]
This took place without any contact having been made by the union with the Victorian Meatworks Association since last July. [More…]
In at least one of them the employees were forced out on strike despite an earlier vote by them rejecting the union’s proposed course of action. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union does not appear to be engaging in the same tactics of industrial lawlessness in other States. [More…]
Mr Curran is quoted in the book Inside Australia’s Top 100 Trade Unions, as saying: ‘We’ve been involved in political strikes in this Branch’ that is, the Victorian Branch- ‘I suppose because of the Marxist thought in the union. [More…]
But politics is part of unions’ province’! [More…]
Again he said: ‘I don’t believe there is any place in the Union movement for collaboration with employers. [More…]
It is no wonder there is such industrial lawlessness by the union in Victoria. [More…]
The union’s log of claims is quite exorbitant. [More…]
-The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has not to this stage made a statement on the reformation of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Minister should as a matter of urgency give a statement on another Fraser cutback and the attack on the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
A combination of Liberal Party backbench outrage over paying government money to the trades union movement and of resentment by established union leadership, is believed to have stimulated a Government decision to appoint a 3-man inquiry into the operations of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The Government’s industrial relations platform endorses trade union training, in terms coinciding with the courses which TUTA conducts. [More…]
The aim of the scheme which has centres in all States is to train union officials- from shop stewards to union officials and secretaries- to improve the quality of union leadership and administration. [More…]
Another article which reported a union official, the Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union in New South Wales, stated today: [More…]
But they were now pressing for union action to right their grievances. [More…]
An Electrical Trades Union spokesman said today its New South Wales branch administration costs had risen 20.3 per cent in the past 12 months. [More…]
The secretary of the union, Mr D. McLeish, said there had been an increase called for in services to individual members in award breaches, reinstatements and compensation. [More…]
This really does not have anything to do with the present disabilities and disagreements which some of the Liberal students at the University of Western Australia have with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
-My question is addressed to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and it concerns reports that the Government has decided to establish a committee to inquire into trade union training. [More…]
Is it a fact that, as reported, the committee’s terms of reference require it to consider the budget allocation of the Trade Union Training Authority, the control of curriculums in the trade union training courses and whether trade union training should be integrated with management training? [More…]
Will the Minister also inform the House whether the Australian Council for Union Training was consulted or notified about the inquiry? [More…]
Yes, the Director and Council of the Trade Union Training Authority have been informed. [More…]
Bearing in mind the Government’s support for the concept of trade union training, to report on the future development of trade union training in Australia, including: [More…]
the cost and methods of financing trade union training; and [More…]
The trade union movement of Australia will not take that. [More…]
The Government’s prime tactic is to launch an attack on the trade union movement as if it were the cause of all the faults and ills in this country. [More…]
-That is the Clyde Cameron Trade Union Training College. [More…]
Those amendments, it will be recalled, were designed to encourage greater participation by individual members in union elections and, therefore, more democratic control of those organisations. [More…]
Many trade unions have recognised that the privileges granted to them by the community, and the protection that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act has afforded their members, also have placed an onus on them to behave in a reasonable manner and, in pursuing their industrial claims, to have regard not only for the interests of their particular members, but also, for the well-being of the community in which they operate and in which their members are citizens. [More…]
Regrettably, some unions have tended to disregard their responsibilities to the community and, indeed, to their own members. [More…]
In some instances, the blame for this can be placed on those union officials with certain ideological beliefs. [More…]
It believes that every employee should have the right to join a union and it encourages employees not only to join unions but to participate fully in their affairs. [More…]
On the other hand, it believes that an employee should have the right not to join a union where he or she has a genuine and conscientious objection to so joining; and that this right shall not be dependent upon the existence of a preference clause in an award. [More…]
The Government does not accept that unions should have the right to seek to force self-employed persons and employers who work on the tools to become union members. [More…]
The Government does not believe that members of organisations should be subjected to intimidation or should be disadvantaged because they choose to abide by their contract of employment and refuse to engage in industrial action initiated by their union. [More…]
There is clearly a need to prevent a repetition of the actions taken by a few unions in relation to the Medibank stoppages last year when they sought to penalise members who refused to take part in what was a blatantly political strike and also sought to have employers discriminate against them. [More…]
Section 5 of the Act will be amended to prevent an employer disadvantaging or threatening to disadvantage an employee who refuses to join a union on conscientious grounds; who has notified a matter to the Industrial Relations Bureau, or who has given information or other assistance to that Bureau; or who refuses to take part in an industrial action called by his organisation. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill will insert a new section 5a designed to prohibit both trade union and employer organisations from seeking to induce employers to disadvantage employees or other persons for the reasons stated. [More…]
Finally, these particular sections will prevent unions from attempting to force independent contractors and employers who work on the tools to be become members. [More…]
In particular it will provide a focal point for non-English speaking workers to obtain assistance when they are concerned about their rights as employees and union members. [More…]
The Government believes that its amendments to a number of sections of the Act not only provide a more effective way of assisting individual union members in maintaining their rights, but also will cut out excessive legalism. [More…]
A further amendment- clause 20- is designed to restrict the right of organisations, through their State branches, to enrol as members only those nonemployees who are eligible, under legislation of the relevant State, to join a union. [More…]
It is a remarkable thing that they do not bother to do a little homework and check on the country to which they seem to lean a little, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which has a very poor record in the field of foreign aid. [More…]
The objectives of the people of the underdeveloped countries can, I think, be summed up in trade union phraseology- fair pay and conditions for a fair day ‘s work. [More…]
Perhaps he was referring to Press reports that the Soviet Union might give aid to some South Pacific countries. [More…]
What we must do also is to achieve community acceptance of our conclusions- acceptance by business and acceptance by unions but not, if I may say, by the extreme left-wing unions. [More…]
We must get acceptance by the board run of the sensible trade union which make up the great majority. [More…]
I wish to raise tonight a serious situation concerning the issue of human rights and what I can only assume to be the most unsatisfactory nature of diplomatic representation by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in this country. [More…]
I have been approached on a number of occasions by people seeking to assist Jewish citizens in the Soviet Union. [More…]
What are the general rights of national groups in the Soviet Union. [More…]
How many Churches and Mosques are there in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why has it been forbidden for Jews to make religious artifacts in the Soviet Union? [More…]
Why has not the Soviet Union honoured the Helsinki Pact with reference to freedom of immigration? [More…]
It would hardly be stretching it to describe this treatment of the Australian Parliament as being most discourteous and lacking any element of the co-operative spirit underpinning the Helsinki Pact about which the Soviet Union has been so sanctimonious lately in respect of President Carter. [More…]
The issue of human rights in the Soviet Union and in other countries has concerned me and I have placed a question on notice for the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) seeking information on the number of political prisoners in every country on which information can be obtained and I eagerly await that reply. [More…]
To return to the Soviet Union, I have received on a regular basis a document called Survey. [More…]
I have just received the March 1977 issue of Survey, volume 2 number 12, which has as a standard subheading on all issues, the following words: ‘A monthly digest of trends in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries.’ [More…]
On the front page of this special issue under the heading ‘Human Rights and Socialism’ the statement is made that in the Soviet Union there is ‘the right to freedom of religion’, which of course stands most peculiarly alongside the correspondence I have just mentioned from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
Finally, it seems to me that the Soviet Union is jeopardising detente and world peace and is curiously supersensitive on the issue of human rights when it complains so bitterly about President Carter’s comments on Soviet dissidents. [More…]
The evidence is there and it is up to the Soviet Union to prove otherwise. [More…]
-On 15 March the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) in a wide ranging speech on our relations with the rest of the world extended what could be fairly described as the hand of friendship to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
As the Prime Minister and I have previously emphasised, our bilateral relations with the Soviet Union are sound and we wish to make them as extensive and friendly as possible. [More…]
That this House reaffirms that Tasmania is part of the Commonwealth of Australia and that the people of Tasmania are becoming increasingly incensed by the irresponsible actions of mainland trade union leaders whereby communication links between Tasmania and the mainland States are disrupted and violated with monotonous regularity, causing extreme hardship to thousands of travellers and serious damage to one of Tasmania’s major income earners, namely the tourist industry. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: In view of the reported widespread opposition to the incomes and prices pause by some sections of the trade union movement, will the Prime Minister inform the House what steps the Government is taking or proposes to take to discuss further the freeze with employer and employee organisations throughout Australia? [More…]
It is my understanding that all Premiers have made direct approaches to union organisations within their own States. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has been in touch with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions about these matters. [More…]
If the wage-price halt is carried a stage further and union officials who hitherto have not said a great deal about this matter join in the general call for restraint in these matters, then the Government has suggested that there should be a small group of employees, employers and the Prices Justification Tribunal to monitor these matters so that both employees and employers can be directly involved. [More…]
I have also indicated that it is too early to establish that group at this point because we are waiting and I believe the whole Australian community is waiting for the official voice of the union movement to give some indication of support for a general proposition which the total community supports to a very large extent, which union members support to a very large extent and which their wives certainly support to a very large extent. [More…]
It remains only for union members and their wives to be given the opportunity of influencing the actual decision. [More…]
But if the total community, including the union movement, accepts the wage-price halt I believe that everyone has an obligation to play his part. [More…]
Thousands of air travellers have been stranded in Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria, although I understand that services to Tasmania are likely to be resumed today following a decision by the union members there to return to work. [More…]
Conferences have been held in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission between the oil companies and the union concerned over the log of claims which, in addition to improvement in conditions of employment, is seeking a catch-up for alleged loss of earnings as a result of recent national wage case decisions -an approach which the House will remember the Commission has already rejected. [More…]
It is my understanding that as a result of a refusal to work under the terms and conditions of the award negotiated with the 3 principal suppliers of concrete, approximately 60 union members are holding up the delivery of concrete to building projects throughout the Melbourne metropolitan area. [More…]
Quite clearly, if the unions accept what is now before them, and it is open to acceptance, there is an opportunity for all Australians to benefit. [More…]
The first one is to try to get adequate union support for the initial freeze, something which people throughout the [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and relates to the rolling strike at present being conducted by the Victorian Branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union, led by a Mr Wally Curran, over a 19-point log of claims which includes demands for a $20 a week wage increase and a 9-day working fortnight. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Is it a fact that the union has refused to take the log of claims to arbitration, despite a publicly expressed willingness on the pan of the meatworks operators to abide by any arbitrated decision? [More…]
Does this action represent a major disregard of industrial law by Mr Curran and his associates at great cost to his union’s members, meatworks operators, meat growers, consumers and the nation at large? [More…]
Does the union operate under a federal award? [More…]
Over the past few weeks the union concerned has shown a complete disregard for the interests not only of many of its members but also of members of other unions who have had to be stood down as a result of its action. [More…]
I think the important point needs to be made that if demands such as those being made by this union were granted the inevitable result would be thousands fewer jobs in Australia. [More…]
In that sense, the union concerned not only is uncaring of the effect of its action on the associated people who have been stood down but also is completely uncaring of those people who do not have jobs at present and thousands of others whose jobs would be put at risk if increases such as those being claimed were granted. [More…]
One would hope the honourable gentleman might suggest that the objective he apparently expresses in his question should apply to the wage sector and to the trade union movement so that they too might get behind the Government in its efforts towards a prices and wages freeze. [More…]
A number of honourable members on this side of the House are former trade union officials and perhaps we saw the Parliament being used in that way. [More…]
We hear talk about the wives of trade union people. [More…]
The wives of trade union people and the wives of all wage and salary earners want to know what will happen with the prices of vegetables, meat and old products that are newly packaged. [More…]
Again, it is not prepared to get behind the trade union movement and say to the trade union movement that there is a reason for prices and wages to be frozen for that period. [More…]
It would be a great shame on the Labor Party in this Parliament if only it and a few executive members of the trade union movement were opposed to it. [More…]
When one compares the attention we give to science with that which is given to science in countries such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States, one cannot help but be appalled by the apparent indifference which Australia has shown hitherto towards science and technology. [More…]
Governments would not expect either the business organisations or the union organisations to agree to such voluntary restraint arrangements without agreement by the others. [More…]
The wage-price freeze clearly requires the total co-operation of all sections of the community, and in particular, the support of the trade union movement is critical. [More…]
It was agreed that all heads of government would approach employer and professional organisations and the union bodies with a view to getting voluntary agreement to a 3-month pause and that following the attainment of that agreement there would be an approach to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and to the Prices Justification Tribunal for implementation of the general pause. [More…]
While the Government is seeking the cooperation of the unions it is threatening them with an array of penalties and disabilities such as amendments to the Trade Practices Act and the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the inquiry into trade union training and so on. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has called for a national conference to consider all these matters. [More…]
As a result of my visits overseas as a delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union and after discussions with delegates from all the parliaments of the world, I would say that internationally Australia continues to be recognised as a nation of great wealth and a nation of great potential. [More…]
Some eastern European and European countries and the Soviet Union have resorted to strict controls on abortion as a means of bolstering birth rates. [More…]
What action does the Trade Practices Commission propose to take against the Greater Union Organisation Pty Ltd and Cinema International Corporation Pty Ltd with respect to their exclusive dealing arrangements. [More…]
In its efforts to improve training at all occupational levels and in all sectors of industry and commerce, the Council has actively sought the close co-operation of employer, trade union and industry bodies, and other appropriate bodies and authorities in the formation, within each industry, of tripartite industry training committees. [More…]
I would only hope that the same resolution could be picked up by the members of the Opposition in this place and the members of the trade union movement- in particular their leadership, for I am quite sure that the average member of Australian trade unions has an entirely different attitude towards the voluntary freeze from that which is being expressed by some members of the trade union leadership. [More…]
He offered to act in whatever way might be requested to try to achieve the same sort of agreement which the Prime Minister and the heads of State governments in fact achieved a week ago, which the Prime Minister and the employers achieved, and which the Prime Minister and the heads of the trade union movement have been attempting to achieve over the last couple of hours. [More…]
Towards the end of the discussion this morning held with Mr Hawke and other peak union leaders, I asked whether we could be given any understanding that there was an inprinciple agreement with the objectives expressed in the heads of government agreement. [More…]
It did nothing to advance the cause but much to belittle the cause that is very much in the interests of all of the supporters of the President of the Australian Labor Party and all his constituents in the trade union movement. [More…]
In this connection we commend the ACTU proposal supported by the other peak union councils and the Governments of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania for a broadly based conference to be called by the Commonwealth. [More…]
In this connection, we commend the ACTU proposal, supported by the other peak union councils and the governments of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, for a broadly based conference to be called by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Why does it not bring to attention the industrial sabotage being wreaked on Australia through the extreme left wing of the trade union movement? [More…]
Governments would not expect either the business organisations or the union organisations to agree to such voluntary restraint agreements without agreement by the others. [More…]
Here was the opportunity for Mr Hawke to show that he and other union leaders would put the nation’s interest and the interest of his own constituents first and agree that a 3-month halt in prices would be matched by a 3-month halt in wages. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Government in its determination to make the price-wage halt work if at all possible, today met with peak union councils. [More…]
Some may ask: How can such an agreement be effective in view of Mr Hawke ‘s refusal to support the concept even of a wage-price freeze and his publicly expressed view in 1973 that a wage-price freeze will under no circumstances be acceptable to the union movement? [More…]
We believe that on this issue Mr Hawke and his colleagues are out of sympathy with the overwhelming majority of trade unionists, with the overwhelming majority of Australians. [More…]
On the specific question of wages, the Premiers agreement spelt out in clear terms that nothing would be done until union organisations had voluntarily committed themselves to a pause. [More…]
AH heads of government were to approach the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other employee organisations to seek- I quote the agreement- a voluntary commitment to a 3 months freeze. [More…]
In this connection we commend the ACTU proposal, supported by the other peak union councils and the Governments or New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania, Tor a broadly based conference to be called by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Having deceived the Premiers about his real intentions the Prime Minister then tried to hoodwink the trade union movement. [More…]
It ties in neatly with the Government’s plans to coerce the trade union movement through the Industrial Relations Bureau, through the restricted trade practices legislation and through the use of the corporations power in the Constitution. [More…]
It wants market forces to set wages and it wants a greatly weakened trade union movement to operate in this free market. [More…]
The plotting and connivance have come since then by the efforts of the leadership of the trade union movement to bring into line the Labor Premiers of Australia and to say: ‘You have adopted policies that do not fit into our plot to break the resolve of this Government to overcome the real problem that this country faces’. [More…]
What we have seen in the last few days is a disgraceful attempt by the labour unions to avoid the responsibility for something that the people want to see put into operation. [More…]
Mr Hawke is not the first trade union official to come out with rejections of the proposal, although he is the most prominent. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has been late in the day even in making any statements. [More…]
Other trade union leaders have rejected the proposal before this time. [More…]
The trade union leaders are desperately seeking a way to doublecross the interests of their own members without their own members finding them out. [More…]
If the unions want tax cuts let them ensure that there is a responsible return to reasonable union activities in this country, and that the strikes, loss of production and other disruptive activities that we have been facing over the past few years are ended. [More…]
As far as I can see the only people who do not have that commitment are some gentlemen sitting behind the Leader of the Opposition, but not the Leader of the Opposition himself, and some trade union leaders. [More…]
On the other side of the ledger, I hope that the same measure of persistence might be pursued by the Leader of the Opposition in seeking to achieve from the President of his own Party and others in the trade union movement a determined effort to achieve a way by which wages can be restrained also. [More…]
This would give the union movement, employees, the opportunity of significant input into what was done because it would be open to that committee directly to recommend to government certain actions it indicated- even actions suggesting the amendment of the Prices Justification Tribunal Act. [More…]
One would only hope that the members of the Opposition and the trade union movement will still give it a chance to get going. [More…]
Will the Federal Government approach the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and if so when, to try to preserve the wage-price halt agreed to last week by the heads of government and rejected yesterday by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other official union bodies? [More…]
But whatever the results of this approach, it is nothing short of a national tragedy that Australian union leaders yesterday let down their members by ignoring the overwhelming weight of public opinion in support of the wageprice pause. [More…]
The Government had hoped that the public enthusiasm for the heads of government agreement for a voluntary wage-price pause would have changed the attitude of the official union leadership from that expressed in 1973. [More…]
Regrettably that has not been so and if the Federal Government is not successful in its efforts to preserve the agreement the losers will be the people of Australia, including the people whom the union leaders claim to represent. [More…]
The honourable gentleman and others of his type on the other side of the House have been involved in recent days in that form of critical examination which has been designed to be destructive and not constructive and which has been designed to seek to offset what in fact has been a great move by Australians everywhere, including the trade union movement and presumably some of those people who voted for the honourable gentleman. [More…]
Quite recently it announced the setting up of a committee of people- not parliamentarians- to inquire into the Australian Council for Trade Union Training. [More…]
No consultation was had with either the Australian Council of Trade Unions or any body connected with that organisation. [More…]
The Government said that the reason for doing so was that there was some concern that public funds were being used to train trade unionists in their trades. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) in his comments made a remark that this Government had set up an inquiry into trade union training without consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Some lack of consultation when there is a trade union leader on the very committee which is to conduct the inquiry! [More…]
I have not studied the contracts, but I do know that extreme concern has been expressed by the Electrical Trades Union in the Melbourne metropolitan area that an industry already existing will be run down and in 4 years’ time a new industry to carry out the same processes and bring about the same average employment in Australia will be established. [More…]
The chances of explosion, breakdown or fault in a plant or in transportation by accident or design will increase in proportion to the number of reactors, and if reactors needed to fulfil projected electricity demand in the next 20 years are built, then trains and trucks loaded with deadly radioactive materials will constantly travel across the United States, Europe, the Soviet Union and many other places. [More…]
It is unlikely that the non-competitive, perhaps less acquisitive, but disciplined societies of the Soviet Union and the European state economies will any more achieve increasing human happiness from increasing consumption of material goods. [More…]
Canada, South Africa, Nigeria, France, Gabon and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The other thing to note is that the trade union movement in Germany, because of an increase in the unemployment factor, is supporting nuclear energy. [More…]
Every trade union in Queensland is listed and the names of all other Australian Labor Party senators for Queensland are mentioned. [More…]
Labor has always seen the need for a healthy private sector working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
Working in harmony certainly was not one of the characteristics of the Labor Ministry and an enlightened attitude by the trade union movement does not seem to be the attitude that it is demonstrating in its complete failure to accept, in principle, the approach made by the heads of government agreement regarding a price and wage freeze. [More…]
Labor has always seen the need for a healthy private sector working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
Has the new Indian Government expressed any views regarding its proposed relationship with the Soviet Union and its own attitude towards the future development of defence installations in the Indian Ocean? [More…]
It is clearly not putting quite the same stress as the previous Government did on relations with the Soviet Union, though most of its statements are couched in the sort of language I have just mentioned. [More…]
-I am aware of the suggested embargo on sales that did in fact occur in one market in Victoria on a day that I attended a meeting there and the suggestion by officers of the Victorian Farmers Union that further stoppages might take place. [More…]
-There is an attempt by 230 members of the Transport Workers Union to hold the State of Victoria to ransom. [More…]
At that very time 230 members of the Transport Workers Union decided that they should disrupt the whole of Victoria in pursuit of additional compensation for Medibank, in pursuit of wage claims, and in pursuit of a 9-day fortnight. [More…]
One of the interesting things about the proposition of the Transport Workers Union- it may well explain the incapacity of the President of the Australian Labor Party and of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to embrace even the objectives and principles of the wage-price halt- is the President’s incapacity to do anything about it. [More…]
I think it is a condemnation of his leadership of the Australian Council of Trade Unions that 230 people are able to put at risk not only the services in the State of Victoria but obviously the jobs of tens of thousands of people in that State. [More…]
He built his speech around the thesis that the parliamentary Opposition is extraordinarily weak and that the trade union movement has taken up the burden and is doing it very well. [More…]
He was making the point that it is the trade union movement that must spearhead the opposition to this Government because in fact the parliamentary Opposition is impotent. [More…]
Suite plain that the trade union movement is now le Government’s main political opponent in this country. [More…]
He says that therefore the trade union movement must do it all. [More…]
The really pertinent point made in the Deputy Leader of die Opposition’s statement is that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is the principal political opponent of this Government. [More…]
When he pretends to act as President of the ACTU as opposed to acting as the President of the Labor Party, this Government is justified in believing that he is acting as the President of the Labor Party, committed to the political destruction of this Government; that he is ignoring the interests of the trade union movement whose interests are not the interests of the parliamentary Opposition in this Parliament; that he is ignoring the interests of 40 per cent of trade union members who vote Liberal Party or National Country Party at elections and who certainly did so at the last election. [More…]
Therefore let me quote about half a page, word for word, of what the honourable member said when he accused the Government, as one would expect, of acting in a ruthless way because the trade union movement is now its main political opponent in this country. [More…]
The trade union movement has taken up the burden and it is doing it very well. [More…]
That is quite plainly saying that the Labor Party is blatantly using the trade union movement for its own partisan and political purposes. [More…]
It is using the President of the Labor Party, who also happens to be President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, not in pursuit of a national interest, but in pursuit of a party sectional interest. [More…]
It is the first time that the President of the ACTU has been so used or has permitted the trade union movement to be abused in that way. [More…]
There are many occasions when the interests of the trade union movement do not coincide with the interests of the government which might happen to be in power at any particular time. [More…]
Mr Hawke has demonstrated his utter incapacity not only to represent those members in the trade union movement who vote for the Liberal Party or National Country Party- that is, about 40 per cent of them- but also to serve the interests of the trade union movement in a bipartisan manner and a manner that ought to befit the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s failure to respond positively to the call for a national conference sought by peak union councils, most State Governments and employer organisations, and commended by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
In this connection we commend the ACTU proposal, supported by the other peak union councils and the governments of New South wales, South Australia, and Tasmania, for a broadly based conference to be called by the Commonwealth. [More…]
By so doing, they said that it was not unfair to say to the trade union movement that it should accept wage restraint in return for price restraint. [More…]
What was involved in that and what we must constantly remind ourselves of, despite the attempts of people such as the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to divert our attention from it, was the simple proposition that the Australian people understood that it was fair to have a price pause in return for a wage pause. [More…]
In addition, within 4 days of 13 April, I indicated that if agreement in principle could be reached on the price-wage pause, the Government would be prepared to establish a special group consisting of employers, union representatives and the Prices Justification Tribunal to advise the Government, amongst other things, whether any changes to the Prices Justification Act were required in order to support the agreement. [More…]
What we were doing by that was offering the trade union movement of Australia a direct say in advising the Government of the mechanism required to support the voluntary agreement. [More…]
To the extent that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, his colleagues and members of the Opposition have denigrated the cause of reaching agreement on a price-wage pause, they have denied themselves an opportunity of participating in a means of making sure that the agreement worked. [More…]
If it is aU right for the governments of Australia and for the employers of Australia to say that they seek the objective of a price-wage pause, why is it not all right for the trade union movement of Australia to say the same? [More…]
We are not asking the trade union movement to commit itself blindfolded to the proposition. [More…]
I think an increasing number of people in Australia are now asking why do the leadership of the trade union movement and an increasing number of members of the Parliamentary Labor [More…]
Now we have the kick-the-unions recovery. [More…]
What more uncertainty could there be than a complete absence of any coherent monetary of fiscal policy to deal with inflation and this attempt to coerce the trade union movement and working people in Australia into a premature and useless wage freeze which is not backed by some quid pro quo on prices. [More…]
What is a personal commitment from a person who leads the trade union movement? [More…]
The Government thought that through a couple of clauses in the heads of agreement, as it referred to this document, it could coerce the Australian trade union movement and organised labour into a wage freeze, which has now failed. [More…]
He was speaking about trade union representatives on this occasion- to proceed without a national conference and a subsequent conference of trade unions and seek their agreement to a national conference on this matter. [More…]
We find that the trade union movement does not even want to talk about a wage-price freeze. [More…]
What is it that the trade unions are after? [More…]
If all the heads of government throughout Australia can agree that such a proposal is necessary to bring about economic recovery why do the trade unions not want to talk about it? [More…]
If the Commission fails to make indexation meaningful the trade union movement will then be forced to make claims upon individual employers and as was said in August 1976, to examine whether there is any further point in continuing to participate in such proceedings. [More…]
I believe this is getting closer to the core of what the trade union movement wants. [More…]
It is because the Transport Workers Union wants an increase of $5.70 to make up for increases that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, in its wisdom, decided would not be granted to some workers. [More…]
Then we have the continuing saga that has gone on from the 1880s and 1890s of unionbashing. [More…]
Down through the decades, whatever ails the nation is the fault of the unions. [More…]
The unions have developed. [More…]
But the trade union movement has always been said to be at fault. [More…]
There was no widespread criticism of what the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the governments of the other nations of the Warsaw Pact were doing to the government in Prague. [More…]
Now the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, the union which represents the third and second divisions of the Public Service, has announced that it wants more. [More…]
The point I raise is this: Why is it that our friends in the Labor Party suddenly go silent while their trade union colleagues rape State after State? [More…]
Having said that, let me congratulate the Tasmanian members of the Transport Workers Union who voted unanimously to go back to work. [More…]
In view of the fact that the only hope of implementing a price-wage freeze is by gaining the co-operation of the trade unions, and because of the fact that Mr Hawke, whatever his political colour or motives were, was at that time trying to mediate in the crippling Victorian petrol crisis, can the Prime Minister tell me in all seriousness why he chose yesterday to make his attacks and how those attacks will help to bring about closer relations between the Government and the trade union movement? [More…]
I think a number of people had failed to understand that the Government and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions were not closer together. [More…]
I think that it was perfectly plain, as a result of the speech by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, that the Australian Labor Party had been using the trade union movement and obviously its titular and factual head, the President of the Labor Party, to spearhead that extraparliamentary attack on this Government. [More…]
I think that the timing of what I said yesterday was dictated not by any outside events but by the fact that it was the first parliamentary occasion, I think, since the Deputy Leader of the Opposition had made his statement about the use of the trade union movement. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman wants to know what was happening about matters yesterday concerning the Transport Workers Union, I regard the relevant matters as the matters put in train by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and the decisions and legislation of the Victorian Government yesterday. [More…]
I preface my question by drawing the attention of the Minister to the constant calls in the past to introduce into this country a trade union movement or a system similar to that which operates in West Germany. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that in West Germany 75 per cent of the members of a union must vote in favour of any industrial action before such action can be taken? [More…]
I am aware that the union movement in West Germany is organised on rather different lines from the trade union movement here. [More…]
For a start it has a highly competent and responsible union leadership. [More…]
It is also based on a system of industry unions which suits that country very well. [More…]
I believe that it would not be possible to carry out such a mandatory provision on all occasions in a country like Australia because some of the largest unions have a large number of itinerant workers. [More…]
As the honourable member will be aware, the industrial legislation which is now before the House proposes new provisions whereby those members of a union who indicate that they do not support industrial action which has been called by their union will have an opportunity to see that their views are made known to the union leadership and to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
To assist migrants with their initial period of language understanding, a Liberal/National Country Party government will ensure that government information is available in a variety of languages, and will seek the assistance of the trade union movement and individual employers to make information and safety instructions available in migrant languages. [More…]
Commonwealth-State relations are nearly as healthy as Commonwealth-trade union relations or as healthy as Commonwealth-Conciliation and Arbitration Commission relations. [More…]
I believe that the Government should stop all this talk about federalism and stop bashing the trade unions and the unemployed and get down to doing something concrete for this group of unfortunate pensioners. [More…]
But the situation in New Zealand is a clear indictment of the despicable attitude adopted by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and trade union leaders over the last few weeks. [More…]
However, the essential point is that the unions should have given the freeze in Australian a try instead of torpedoing it in the way they did. [More…]
I remind honourable members that only a very short time after the Premiers and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) signed the document about twelve or thirteen days ago the trade union leadership in New South Wales in the form of Mr Unsworth and in other States in the form of Mr Halfpenny and others rejected the freeze out of hand. [More…]
The trade union leaders are seeking to obtain advantages at the expense of their members because they are not interested in returning this country to a proper and sound economic footing. [More…]
If from the centre the unions were prepared to agree to a voluntary freeze, contrary to the fixed regulatory freezes in other countries, I believe that the proposal would have had a great deal of potential for success. [More…]
But do the union leaders in Australia admit this? [More…]
As a result of the allegations that Russia was involved in a gigantic build-up in the Indian Ocean, the Soviet Union, through the Somali Government, invited some United States legislators to inspect the base in Somalia. [More…]
I believe that it ill becomes any member of this Parliament to tell lies about a friendly power such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a nation with which Australia conducts trade. [More…]
They are here as part of an exchange program with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
-At the opening of the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference a few weeks ago the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made an address. [More…]
Not only were Labor politicians attacked but so too were members of the trade union movement, including Mr Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, church leaders such as the Reverend Alan Walker and a number of bishops and archbishops and sincere people who joined probably their only political involvement ever in the anti-apartheid movement. [More…]
Rugby union internationals such as Mr Boyce, Mr Abrahams and other sportsmen were subjected to all sorts of vicious attacks. [More…]
A few trade union leaders have no right to attempt to interrupt sporting arrangements. [More…]
Since taking office, the Prime Minister has pursued the trade unions of this country and blamed them for the country’s ills. [More…]
When that argument started to wear thin with the electors he thought he would pick on the trade union movement. [More…]
Another area which will be pruned is the Australian Trade Union Training Authority which was set up by the Labor Government under Minister Clyde Cameron when Minister for Labour and Immigration. [More…]
For the first time the Australian Parliament and through it, the Australian community, recognised the need to extend into the trade union area the specialist training that occurs in the community. [More…]
For the first time trade unionists were to be recognised as a responsible and an integral part of the Australian community and all the things it stands for and the Australian economy. [More…]
The people involved in trade union training in Australia are among the most respectable and the most responsible people in our whole community. [More…]
The members of the Australian Council for Trade Union Training received a telex from the responsible Minister telling them that there was to be an inquiry into the activities and affairs of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Even the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, was not consulted. [More…]
I am suggesting that the Government has again demonstrated its intention, because of the Council’s trade union base, to smash it and to do it in such a subtle way. [More…]
The whole attitude of this Government is one of seeking confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Honourable members opposite stand up in this House and speak about the irresponsibility of the people who are elected by the members of their union to manage the affairs of their union and to formulate the policy of their union. [More…]
It is easy to stand up in this chamber when there is a petrol strike in Victoria and call such unionists mainland gangsters. [More…]
Therefore responsibility does exist in this area and there is not the irresponsibility talked of by the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who has a paranoic hatred of unions. [More…]
The trade union movement has tried to wreck the plan and has placed this spark of hope in grave jeopardy. [More…]
The union intransigence to accept the spirit of the plan is based not upon fact or concern but upon an insatiable ambition to clobber our economy to death. [More…]
Anyone who ever held the leader of the trade union movement in esteem must now have a downward revision of his priorities. [More…]
Their action has been a salutary lesson that in critical situations the trade union movement is the Opposition in Australia. [More…]
He believes that the trade union movement is. [More…]
I think that probably this Government subscribes to the argument adopted by some of the old fashioned theorists, namely, that a pool of unemployed would help slow wage demands and reduce the level of industrial unrest that is said to be instigated by the more militant sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
It has said: ‘We have this domestic economic strategy and we want to confront the union movement in order to show who is boss and enforce our views’. [More…]
We saw the response of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to Mr Bob Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, when he offered to consider the wage freeze in return for cuts in taxation. [More…]
It appears to me that we can draw the following analogy from the present situation: The Government has asked the trade union movement to give it a blank signed cheque but it will be allowed to determine the colour of the cheque. [More…]
The trade union movement has given that proposition the rejection it so rightly deserves. [More…]
The whole exercise needed the co-operation not only of the employers, who had certain motivation because they were going to get out of it stable wages, which they claim is very important to them and also stable costs which the government had promised, but also of the trade unions who had to have some guarantees that their position would be protected. [More…]
The trade unions were not consulted and were not brought into the discussion. [More…]
The wage-price freeze was said to be in existence on the day after it was announced but the trade unions were listed to talk to the Government about this matter a week later. [More…]
The call by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for a national conference, which was part of the submission to the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the proposition of tax cuts in return for wage restraint were at least negotiable positions which should have been discussed. [More…]
But the Prime Minister immediately set out on a course of abusing the trade union movement and its leadership because they sought to discuss the matter in a manner which would have enabled them to give serious consideration to whether they could participate. [More…]
The Victorian oil dispute, which the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions was able to negotiate to a settlement and which most likely should have been settled a lot earlier by the same process, resulted not in any congratulations for the President for participating in and achieving a settlement of this dispute but straight out abuse from the Prime Minister and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street). [More…]
They wanted an industrial confrontation situation which would justify the establishment of the Industrial Relations Bureau which they are about to set up as a policeman, along with the trade union section of the Australian Security [More…]
Intelligence Organisation which this Government has reactivated, to spy on and to act as agent provocateurs within the trade union movement. [More…]
In this Government’s 1976-77 Budget $3m was allocated to the Trade Union Training Authority scheme. [More…]
It is believed that the Government is looking at ways in which to cut the Budget and to take away from union representatives control of the curricula in the trade union colleges. [More…]
Labor Council is ‘extremely disturbed’ by Federal Government appointment of a committee to overhaul the trade union training scheme. [More…]
Labor Council education officer, Bob Carr, said: ‘Curtailment will lead to more strikes because many young men and women union officials have learnt and others are learning negotiation procedures, which are of great value in avoiding strikes.’ [More…]
Another article in the Australian, entitled ‘Union trainee programs face overhaul ‘ states: [More…]
The Federal Government is expected to overhaul the national trade union training scheme it subsidises. [More…]
Union officials said last night there was no need for an inquiry and opposed the suggestion that the training scheme should embrace management. [More…]
A combination of Liberal Party backbench outrage over paying government money to the trades-union movement and of resentment by established union leadership, is believed to have stimulated a Government decision to appoint a three-man inquiry . [More…]
Government sources were reported yesterday to confirm that the budget for trades-union training would be severely cut back, as reported in the Canberra Times several weeks ago. [More…]
The Government’s industrial-relations platform endorsed trade-union training, in terms coinciding with the courses which TUTA conducts. [More…]
The aim of the scheme, which has centres in all States, is to train union officials- from shop stewards to union secretariesto improve the quality of union administration and leadership. [More…]
The Government is believed to be looking to cut the budget for trade-union training and take away from union representatives control of the curricula in trade-union colleges. [More…]
Now I would like to speak about the Government’s poorly conceived and short sighted plans to overhaul the trade union training scheme. [More…]
From the outset I think it is important to make it clear to the members of this House that this latest move by the Government is not an isolated affront to the unions, but one of a series of recent manoeuvres to shackle and provoke the unions. [More…]
Apparently the Fraser Government is determined to cause industrial unrest, obviously as a cover-up for its own ineptitude in handling the economy; but I would like to emphasise that it would be a great tragedy if this unquestionably successful scheme for union training is allowed to be sacrificed for this devious purpose. [More…]
Since its beginning in June 1975 this important initiative of the former Labor Government has proven itself to be an effective means of assisting the unions and unionists to make the maximum use of their resources and to participate more effectively in the industrial relations field. [More…]
Maybe this is what the Fraser Government and its big business friends find so objectionable about the trade union training scheme. [More…]
In contrast, prior to 1975 the total resources available for union training were negligible compared with those available for management training, and this was despite the fact that 53 per cent of wage and salary earners in public and private employment belonged to unions and that unions played such a key role in Australian society. [More…]
For these reasons the trade union training scheme can only be seen as a move to balance government assistance to management training and not as a union advantage over management or a needless expense, as the Fraser Government would have us believe. [More…]
No one questions government assistance to meet the needs of the private sector for skilled managers and no reasonable person should question government assistance to union training. [More…]
Prior to the establishment of the trade union training scheme the full-time union official was placed in the unique position of having to learn his or her skills on the job. [More…]
With the introduction of the trade union training scheme union officials and potential union officials were given a much needed opportunity to obtain instruction in how to analyse the significance of the rapid changes currently taking place in industry and industrial relations. [More…]
They were shown how to accept new ideas and methods and to perform more effectively their organising and administrative duties within the union movement. [More…]
Having now been in operation for nearly 2 years, the trade union training scheme has proven itself to be effective in achieving its worthy goal of promoting trade union competence. [More…]
In that short time it has achieved considerable success in the closure of the gap that previously existed between unionists and management and in the level of industrial relations, knowledge and technique. [More…]
In those circumstances it seems difficult to understand why the present Government has seen fit to conduct an inquiry into the trade union training scheme. [More…]
In a Press statement dated 30 March last the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, claimed that there was an urgent need to inquire into trade union training. [More…]
Mr Street made particular reference to 3 areas of trade union training which he considered the inquiry should examine. [More…]
They were the desirability of integrating trade union training into industrial relations training generally and the closer integration of trade union training with the general education system; the role, membership and staffing of the statutory authority concerned with trade union training; and the cost and methods of financing trade union training. [More…]
It seems very strange indeed that this Government should suddenly deem it necessary to conduct such an inquiry into these areas of trade union training when less than 2 years ago it saw fit to pass the Trade Union Training Authority Bill without opposition. [More…]
In seeking seriously to modify the Trade Union Training Authority the Government faces the same credibility problem it faces in seeking the passage of the constitutional amendments it opposed 3 years ago. [More…]
In March 1975 when my colleague the then Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, presented the Trade Union Training Authority Bill he emphasised in his second reading speech the importance of trade union training remaining the sole responsibility of unions. [More…]
The training of unionists in union functions is a specialised task. [More…]
Instructors and lecturers need to understand thoroughly their subject and the objectives and nature of the trade union movement. [More…]
It must be the special responsibility of the union movement to formulate its own training schemes to accord with its own ideas and not to leave them to outside institutions. [More…]
Thus, the conduct of courses cannot be a joint responsibility of unions and employers. [More…]
Whilst there are many similar problems facing employer and union bodies there is much they do not have in common. [More…]
While apparently agreeing with those sentiments in 1975, we now find the Fraser Government making a complete about turn on the matter and bowing to employer pressure to reduce union influence over the curriculum of each course and to appoint employer representatives to the councils administering the system. [More…]
If that happens the Trade Union Training Authority will surely lose much of its proven effectiveness and cease to perform its important function as a counterbalance to government assisted management training. [More…]
Of the large range of government sponsored or assisted management schools currently operating in Australia, no emphasis is ever placed on participation by the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Trade Union Training Authority is to remain a viable counterbalance to management training it is essential that this autonomy of the Authority is not lost by its being diffused with management education bodies. [More…]
The Government’s industrial relations platform endorses trade union training in terms coinciding with the course that the Authority conducts. [More…]
On the occasion of the Trade Union Training Authority Bill being returned from the Senate with amendments, the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations is recorded in Hansard as saying: [More…]
Why is it then that the Government suddenly finds it so necessary to conduct an inquiry into union training when, less than 2 years ago, it wholeheartedly supported the passing of the Trade Union Training Authority Bill? [More…]
This Government’s blatant victimisation of the trade union training scheme is a deliberate provocation to the trade union movement. [More…]
For instance, how much say do unions have in the role of membership, staffing and curriculum at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales? [More…]
The truth is that unions are not considered. [More…]
How can Liberal and National Country Party back benchers and employer groups justly agree that they should be given representation in union training? [More…]
I am not advocating that all training activities for unionists should be carried out in isolation from the rest of the community. [More…]
Let me make this clear: I believe there is much scope for joint attendance of both unionists and management representatives at courses and seminars held in industrial relations and other associated areas. [More…]
However, these activities are not designed specifically to develop the expertise of unionists as officials and members in the union movement itself. [More…]
Therefore, it is imperative that the primary objective of the Trade Union Training Authority remain the adequate provision of trade union training for the trade union movement and by the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government’s wages policy is undermining the wage indexation system and thereby raising the problem of considerable industrial disputation as unions try to restore real wage levels by pursuing wage claims on individual employers. [More…]
In addition, the Government is now launching a quite unprecedented attack on the trade union movement, involving widespread legislative and other action. [More…]
In recent weeks, unionists have been faced with quite momentous amendments to the Trade Practices Act, legislation to enable the Government to sack permanent public servants for any reason, the proposed introduction of tough new stand-down provisions for Federal Government employees and an inquiry into trade union training with terms of reference that portend substantial changes and cutbacks in funding. [More…]
It is clearly seeking to smash union power even though it is likely to provoke widespread industrial disruption by so doing. [More…]
The proposed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are clearly designed to debilitate and shackle the unions. [More…]
The unions are doing a remarkable job in trying to keep peace in this country. [More…]
Unions will be considerably weakened in respect of maintaining and retaining membership by legislative encouragement of non-membership of unions and the prohibition of any action by them to recruit unwilling members. [More…]
The Council resolved unanimously to ask the air traffic controllers union to exempt Tasmania. [More…]
The members of that union met in Melbourne today. [More…]
-This evening we heard a speech that was indicative of the arrogant union-bashing attitude of the Government. [More…]
If the Government introduces industrial legislation of that nature there will be a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
They are a small section of union leaders who are more concerned with promoting their own positions in the unions than they are with the benefit of the people whom they are supposed to represent. [More…]
I compliment the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren), who is sitting at the table at the moment, for saying that the trade unions are the real Opposition today. [More…]
When the Deputy Leader of the Opposition is prepared to say that the trade union movement is the real opposition in this country today, that is an admission which, I think, should be highlighted. [More…]
The trade union movement is willing to co-operate. [More…]
The trade union leadership in this country has helped by its continual nation bashing and public bashing. [More…]
Very late last week, I understand, General Motors sought by telephone to contact one or two Ministers, and there have been some discussions with the trade union movement. [More…]
I would think it needs to be understood that a great deal has been said and written as a result of comments made by a person who has been convicted in the United States of America of the most serious charges and that the only beneficiary of the matters in relation to which he has been convicted is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Further, where the relevant employees are members of a trade union, that organisation is deemed to have engaged in the secondary boycott itself unless it establishes that it took all reasonable steps to prevent the boycott. [More…]
An individual employee is not to be subject to an award of damages where his trade union or organisation is held responsible for the particular conduct. [More…]
The proposed legislation is also a breach of international conventions which guarantee trade unions freedom to organise and to engage in collective bargaining. [More…]
The Government’s strategy, of course, is to divert attention from its economic mismanagement and lack of social conscience by provoking the trade unions into industrial action to preserve their members’ interests. [More…]
What could any decent trade union or group of trade unionists do in their corporate state but fight to preserve the conditions which they have won over the years and which are now underattack by the FraserGovernment. [More…]
This House notes the systematic abuse of psychiatry for political and religious purposes is a deliberate policy of the Government of the Soviet Union; [More…]
1 ) To condemn the practice of the use of psychiatry in punishing dissidents, or for whatever reason and calls on the Government of the Soviet Union and any other government using such methods to cease this torture of human beings immediately; [More…]
He made the unqualified statement at his trial that the CIA had engaged in deception against Australia and that details of that deception had been passed to the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Mr R. Cowles, said a CIA officer had tried to get the TWU to maintain a ban on the departure of Mr Ermolenko . [More…]
Do Ministers who answered questions today seriously believe there is a conspiracy of journalists and editors, union leaders and authors and American and Australian citizens to manufacture news simply to damage the Fraser Government? [More…]
He stayed here until shortly after I lodged official complaints with the United States Embassy against his undiplomatic interference in the internal affairs of the Australian trade union movement in general and of the Australian Workers Union in particular. [More…]
I quote excerpts from an item under the heading ‘Australian Workers Union’ of 15 August 1964. [More…]
Two things prompted this prognosis: First, Dougherty had told him that in the event of the rank and file electing the ‘wrong candidates’, he would use his control of the union’s executive council to cancel the ballot, expel or dismiss the successful candidates, put the branch under the control of the executive council and appoint his own men to fill the positions. [More…]
But in his description of Dougherty’s motives, this particular judge wrote the most scathing analysis of trade union politics that has ever been handed down from a bench of the Australian Industrial Court. [More…]
Another associate was Francis James; another was Mr W. C. Wentworth and another was a prominent union official. [More…]
The five of these people met in 1951 at a private dinner party and discussed ways and means of taking over certain unions. [More…]
The conclusions to be drawn from what I have said are all too clear: The CIA is not only seeking to subvert officials and members of the trade union movement, but is actually concerning itself in the affairs of the Government itself. [More…]
I do not propose to follow the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) down the fascinating byways of the labyrinth of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), for instance, would like to be able to be informed reliably- not by rumour or innuendo- on the activities of security agents from Yugoslavia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other security agents in Australia. [More…]
I think we could judge that the Soviet Union has this capacity. [More…]
The KGB, or Committee for State Security, is the principal instrument through which the Soviet Union is ruled and Soviet foreign policy is executed. [More…]
As such, it impinges on the lives of nearly 250 million individuals in the Soviet Union and countless others in nations affected by the Soviet Union’s presence. [More…]
It is reported in the same article that the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs is opposed to the inquiry proceeding on the basis that union bashing by Government Ministers and supporters negates any advantages that such an inquiry might bring out into the open. [More…]
I reiterate now what I have said on a number of previous occasions- that selective union bashing by Government ministers exacerbates the transport industrial situation rather than remedies it. [More…]
I am satisfied that the Government has a vested political interest in creating industrial disputes in the transport scene so as to present the trade union movement as a scapegoat for its own incompetence and failures. [More…]
The Government quite clearly is prepared to use the unions, and the transport unions in particular, to hold the rest of the nation to ransom for its own selfish political interests. [More…]
I think the strongest evidence of that at the moment is the vigorous campaign that is being waged by the aviation industry unions against the Minister for Transport, who is at the table. [More…]
It also bodes ill for the other transport unions in our nation. [More…]
I have had problems in the past regarding promotion appeals with the ANR, or the Commonwealth Railways as it was then called in my former work as a union official with that railway. [More…]
We trust that this has met with the approval of the unions who would no doubt have examined this matter closely because some of the older by-laws are old fashioned and out-of-date and certainly needed bringing up-to-date. [More…]
In view of the good relations that the directors of General Motors-Holden’s have established over the years with union leaders in Victoria, will the Minister inform the House what progress has been made concerning negotiations to avoid redundancies in either the plant at Dandenong or the spare parts division? [More…]
It is my understanding that the General Motors-Holden’s proposal to advance a week’s annual leave and offer it to its employees has not been received favourably by union members, despite some initial reaction of a more favourable kind by at least some of the union officials. [More…]
I am informed that the management of the company will be meeting with the union leaders at approximately 2.30 p.m., today and I expect that some clarification will come from that meeting as to whether the men are prepared to accept a week’s annual leave proposal or whether the company has any alternative proposals to put to them. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that union dues represent a price to a union member as real as any other price he has to pay? [More…]
Is he also aware of the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ resolution that union dues be raised to one per cent of average awards with the request that the target be realised as quickly as possible? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister appreciate that this means that to achieve this target at today’s rate of inflation, even within 5 years, many unions would have to increase their dues by over 21 per cent a year? [More…]
Quite obviously increased union dues would add to the cost of living of those who are forced to join the trade union movement in order to gain a job in a particular vocation. [More…]
I think it is worth noting now that on the implementation of this ACTU resolution the larger unions will have an income of up to about $ 10m a year. [More…]
Under those circumstances, I think it is imperative that there be a clear understanding by all trade unionists of the way in which trade unions spend their funds. [More…]
We have the report of Mr Justice Sweeney on the maritime unions. [More…]
In that report it was recommended that there be annual reports and financial statements to members of unions so that those members could understand how their funds are being spent. [More…]
The nature of the ACTU resolution and the wealth that it would provide in the hands of a significant number of trade union leaders make it all the more imperative that rank and file members of the trade union movement have an understanding of the way in which their money is in fact being spent. [More…]
I know the honourable gentleman would prefer the Australian Council of Trade Unions to contribute to a move against inflation by changing that resolution and having union charges reduced. [More…]
If that is not possible, the best that the Government could do, I should think, would be to make quite clear that union management will have to advise its members on a regular basis of the way in which funds are spent so that it will be to a greater extent accountable for that than has been the case in the past. [More…]
Trade Union Movement, where this action has no relation to industrial disputes ‘. [More…]
I do not speak to denigrate in any way trade unions or trade unionism. [More…]
I am not involved in what is called a ‘union bash’. [More…]
I have respect for the trade unions as an institution integral to our free society and as bodies that protect ordinary citizens of this country in many aspects of their work situation. [More…]
I am aware also of the historical contribution made by the trade union movement to the development of Australia. [More…]
I speak, however, to draw attention to the activities of some individuals within trade unions who bring disrepute on the union movement and whose activities, if they continue, can only adversely affect our community. [More…]
I refer, of course, to strikes and work bans enforced by sections of the trade union movement for political purposes. [More…]
Some unions have so broadened the scope of their activities that the stage has been reached where there is virtually no area of political, social or econmic life upon which they are not prepared to take direct action in support of their aims and views. [More…]
This is not to say that I believe it is wrong for unions to express views on matters affecting society or on the actions of government. [More…]
As a member of this Parliament I have met with trade union representatives and discussed their views on various economic and industrial matters. [More…]
I can understand unions or individual unionists refusing to carry out some particular work on the grounds that they morally object to it and could not be a party to it. [More…]
This is essentially how some militant unions operate. [More…]
They not only withdraw their own labour but also, through threats, intimidation and arranging boycotts from other unions, ensure that others are unable to exercise freely their right to supply their own labour. [More…]
Some unionists still wish to prevent it being built and to prevent others from doing so. [More…]
Yet this group of union militants considers it has the right to block the decision of the Government overwhelmingly elected by the people of Victoria. [More…]
The union ban on wheat sales to Chile was imposed in 1973 because of the overthrow of the communist government in Chile. [More…]
Before the union ban, Chile ranked high among Australia’s wheat customers. [More…]
If I might digress for a moment, I marvel at the selective conscience of some unions. [More…]
One wonders why there is not a ban on wheat sales and other export to the Soviet Union- a nation notorious for its suppression of human rights, for locking up dissidents in psychiatric hospitals and harassment of ethnic groups. [More…]
I believe this inconsistency gives a clear indication of the political motives of such militant unionists. [More…]
It is the Parliament, the body elected directly by the people of Australia, that should make decisions relating to the Government of the nation, not groups of unionists. [More…]
Communist influence in many of our biggest and most important unions is strong. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, Australia’s largest union, has several communists in critical posts. [More…]
The seamen, waterside workers, locomotive enginemen, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, the building workers and building labourers also have communists in senior positions in their unions. [More…]
It is nonsense to claim that the union movement is more representative than the Parliament. [More…]
It should not be overlooked that trade union membership makes up only 20 per cent of the population, less than 60 per cent of the workforce and only a third of the voting public. [More…]
The falsity of the claim of the union militants is further exposed when one sees that many unions have expressed their opposition to political strikes. [More…]
For instance, the Tasmanian branch of the Shop Assistants Union stated: [More…]
The Federated Clerks Union stated: [More…]
And of course, as I pointed out, there is also a large section of the union movement opposed to this sort of action. [More…]
All citizens would then be given a clear opportunity to give their opinion on whether these political strikes are justified, on whether they feel that the Parliament or the union militants really represent them, on whether political strikes and work bans are justified. [More…]
Secondly, one needs to examine the position of the moderate union officer. [More…]
Moderates are aware that their unions can exercise political power, even if they believe it incorrect to use the power in this direction. [More…]
They are constantly being urged to use their union’s potential political leverage even if this disrupts the community. [More…]
Thirdly, a referendum expressing the desires of the people could be of use as a guideline for industrial courts when disciplinary actions are brought against unions. [More…]
When the case is put, for example, to deregister a union, the court when considering the record of the union in political strikes could be guided by the views expressed in such a referendum. [More…]
Deregistration of a union is a powerful weapon if there is another organisation ready to fill the gap thus created. [More…]
Secondly, it would strengthen the moderate unionists in their opposition to this type of strike action in pursuit of political objectives. [More…]
Thirdly, it would encourage the industrial courts to take appropriate action against unionists and union leaders who abuse their power to impose political disabilities on the community. [More…]
And government by union militants is a very much worse alternative. [More…]
It is an opportunity for him and the fellow union bashers who sit with him to stand up and use the old, tired, worn-out phrases about political strikes, militant unions and communist union secretaries and to ignore all the time the fact that union leaders are elected by union members and, I might add, are elected to act in the best interests of those members, and without exception that is the case in Australia. [More…]
I have been a member of a union for some 38 years and I have worked in industry for about that long. [More…]
I am putting to the House that there is no need to defend the integrity of the union movement and the unionists in Australia. [More…]
They bleat about there being no democracy in trade unions. [More…]
Has an example of no democracy in unions ever been placed before this House? [More…]
Honourable members opposite talk about domination of the rank and file members of unions by their leadership. [More…]
Those who sit opposite hate and never miss an opportunity to bash the unions. [More…]
Why do they fear the unions? [More…]
One must look forward to the trade union movement doing a most responsible job in this area. [More…]
As honourable members are aware the major peak councils of the trade union movement have not been prepared to support in principle the objective of a price-wage pause. [More…]
Subsequently the Victorian Premier, the South Australian ‘ Premier, the New South Wales Premier, the Australian Council of Trade Unions and all other peak union councils withdrew from giving it any support. [More…]
I am disappointed that at present there are still 24 unions in the Australian National Railways system. [More…]
I make an appeal to the trade unions to endeavour to reduce that number, to bring about amalgamations within the industry, because I believe it is to their advantage and to the advantage of the transport industry, the Australian National Railways and the railway system as a whole. [More…]
There are far too many trade unions in Australia today. [More…]
It took the various unions associated with what is now the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union years of agitation within those unions to bring about amalgamation. [More…]
I can recall as a young man joining the Boilermakers Union before the War. [More…]
It never seemed to get any closer and then all of a sudden it clicked and the amalgamation of a number of unions has taken effect. [More…]
I think this is a great advantage to industry and to the unions. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister and concerns the Government’s acceptance of the proposal by the Australian Council of Trade Unions on the Government’s proposed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
If so, will the Prime Minister now explain to the House what he meant by his subsequent statement on 19 May that the Industrial Relations Bureau will be able to initiate prosecutions of unions? [More…]
Specifically, did he mean by that that the Bureau would be able to prosecute a union for breach of a bans clause and, if so, would that not represent a complete repudiation of the agreement announced by his Ministers on 17 May? [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that prior to the announcement by the Government of its proposals regarding this legislation the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions issued a statement saying that whilst the policy of the trade union movement was against penalties in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, nevertheless it recognised that the existing Act did contain, in his words, ‘pains and penalties’. [More…]
He said that, provided there was no extension of these pains and penalties, and the existing processes- I think that was the word he used- were maintained, the union movement would not raise objections to the establishment of an IRB to take over the functions of the Arbitration Inspectorate. [More…]
I have been advised that General-Motors Holden’s is in discussion with union representatives about the current situation. [More…]
The situation I have described has been precipitated by the allegations of one Christopher Boyce, a 23 year old communications clerk, who was on trial in California and has since been convicted of selling United States secrets to the Soviet Union. [More…]
Certainly it is their job, and I believe they will do it, to look into the activities which are carried out in Australia by the agencies of other powers, be they the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or a few others one can think of. [More…]
Respected Australian trade union officials have alleged CIA interference in union activities. [More…]
More recently, the Attorney-General of South Australia, Mr Peter Duncan, has said that he has no reason to disbelieve that the CIA has been financing groups seeking to destroy the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Noting allegations made during the past month that the United States Central Intelligence Agency has engaged in improper activities in Australia, including deception of the Australian Government, especially in relation to the operations of the joint defence space research facility; manipulation of political events in Australia in 1975; channelling of funds to Australian political parties and interference in trade union activities in Australia; [More…]
The allegations of interference in union activities are too numerous to list here, but they have been widely reported by responsible newspapers and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
As well as that, the plants will not be fabricated by the Australian trade union movement until the Government is able genuinely to come to a consensus about uranium policy. [More…]
There can be no doubt that in the 2 weeks when the Parliament was not sitting prior to the referendums a certain amount of common sense prevailed between the trade union movement and the Government in reaching an agreement about the powers of the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
I hope the Government has taken the advice in the submission from the trade unions on that matter. [More…]
If the whole of the section is read, it becomes clear that the wording has been changed to apply the section and the consequent penalties to unions and, in particular, to union officers as representatives of their members. [More…]
It provides that unions and their officers are liable if two or more members of unions are involved. [More…]
If the old wording had been retained- I repeat it here, ‘an employee of a person’- it could be argued that the section did not prohibit unions from engaging in the conduct specified in concert with their members. [More…]
This argument would be valid because the prohibition extended only to an employee and unions were not employees. [More…]
Now the wording has been changed and the unions are liable. [More…]
Plainly, the revised legislation is part of the extensive battery of legislative measures the Government has built up against the trade union movement. [More…]
The total effect is to provide that if two or more members of a union strike about wages, hours or conditions of employment and the strike damages the business of a corporation then the union is in contravention of the prohibition in section 45D ( 1 ) and is liable to the appropriate penalties. [More…]
Linked with this proposed Industrial Relations Bureau legislation these penalties are designed to destroy militant unionism. [More…]
The penalty provisions have been changed to ensure that union funds will be liable to fines of up to $250,000. [More…]
There was a loophole in the original amendment because it was arguable whether or not unions were bodies corporate. [More…]
Whether a union was or was not a body corporate varied according to the relevant industrial legislation of the individual States and of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The new version of the Bill has resolved arguments about whether a union is or is not a body corporate by subjecting all unions to a $250,000 fine. [More…]
A major provision of the amendment to the Trade Practices Act is to include in it section 45D relating to secondary boycotts by unions. [More…]
This introduces for the first time in trade practices legislation a provision relating to union abuse of power. [More…]
We on this side of the House recognise that- and we are often accused of union bashing. [More…]
But in fact they are completely wrong because, as I have said, the trade union movement and the trade unions themselves are an essential and proper part of the capitalist system. [More…]
-I have been a member of a union. [More…]
The trade union movement is important for the future of Australia. [More…]
We are not union bashing in this legislation. [More…]
We are injecting the public interest into the legislation to counter abuses of power and position by the trade unions. [More…]
The people of Australia know that the abuses of union power have to be curtailed in the public interest. [More…]
The trade unions have abused their power. [More…]
The union bully boss comes here tonight and tells us that this law is a bad law and that it will bring the Parliament into disrepute in the community. [More…]
It is a good law and it will re-establish the supremacy of Parliament, the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of public interest over abuses of union power. [More…]
The unions, by exerting power, have injured trade unionists. [More…]
They have injured members of trade unions, fellow workers, and they have in fact threatened the economic and political structure of society itself. [More…]
Trade union activities are legitimate in respect of industrial matters such as negotiating terms, hours, conditions of employment, holiday pay, etc. [More…]
One of the troubles with the union movement as a socialist in Britain, Paul Johnson, has pointed out is that it has outlived its usefulness and is in fact looking for somewhere to go. [More…]
This has been criticised on 2 grounds: Firstly, that it has no role to play in union activity and, secondly, that it is too wide and goes beyond secondary boycotts. [More…]
The Government is completely correct in rejecting the argument for the reasons I have stated, that there is no role for trade practices legislation in union activity. [More…]
I do not see for one minute why the union movement should not be subject to laws in the public interest. [More…]
I was saying that an example of a boycott is where unions cut off supplies of raw materials to a firm in order to enforce the unionisation of that firm’s work force or to support the employees of that union in an industrial dispute. [More…]
I am pleased that the Victorian Government has started work on that project, but I understand that there have been threats by union leaders in Victoria to boycott supplies of material to the State Electricity Commission of Victoria or to the contractors. [More…]
I believe that this legislation should be taken notice of by the unionists concerned. [More…]
I believe it will be welcomed by the Victorian Government and by the people of* Victoria and that this planned activity that some union leaders have threatened in relation to Newport can be dealt with by action under this legislation when it comes into effect. [More…]
Similarly, in relation to the ban on live cattle exports by some unions I believe that would be a secondary boycott to which this provision would apply. [More…]
Similarly, some activities by waterfront and shipping unions in relation to activity on the waterfront and on shipping around the Australian coast- I am thinking of their activity in relation to delaying ships- may also fall within this legislation. [More…]
If a union is deemed responsible for any anti-competitive activity the individuals involved will be protected from liabilities for civil damages. [More…]
I am told that under Public Service union regulations a public servant is not allowed to travel more than 12 hours without having a rest for the night. [More…]
On 25 November 1975 the Women’s Trade Union Commission and the Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee received grants of $40,000 and $500 respectively from the International Women’s Year allocation, to undertake activities which would assist women unionists and would work towards the elimination of discrimination against women in trade unions. [More…]
The Women’s Trade Union Commission has since received $22,400 for the 1977 calendar year from the Office of Child Care for a child care needs investigator: this covers salary assistance, rent and administrative expenses. [More…]
The Queensland Women’s Trade Union Committee has not as yet made a further application for financial assistance. [More…]
In Canberra, a women’s union committee has been established, but as yet has not requested financial support for a working women ‘s centre. [More…]
In our view the fact that certain union action has the effect of restricting competition is no reason to include unions under trade practices legislation. [More…]
Practically all union activity that has the effect of limiting competition has an industrial purpose. [More…]
This legislation nominally seeks to control the activities of employees and unions in respect of secondary boycotts, which is a term that is not defined in the Bill. [More…]
In Grunfeld’s Modern Trade Union Law the expression is defined as follows: [More…]
A strategm of industrial conflict used in particular where the embattled union lacks sufficient strength in the plant of the employer in dispute to bring effective pressure to bear through its members employed there. [More…]
The union may therefore try to sharpen the bargaining pressure by cutting off supplies to the employer or by sealing off outlets of distribution of the employer. [More…]
Indeed, I challenge the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Howard) to name one case of an alleged secondary boycott in which union action has not been taken for industrial reasons. [More…]
In all the cases mentioned in the report of the Swanson Committee and in the debate on the earlier amendments there was not one example of union action not being taken to make an industrial gain or to prevent an industrial loss, such as a reduction in the numbers employed. [More…]
But they are, taken overall, a very minor aspect of union activity. [More…]
It does not follow from that that this legislation will have only a minor effect on the trade union movement. [More…]
On the contrary, if passed into law this legislation will have a dramatic effect on trade union activity covering a far wider scope than the narrow limits of secondary boycotts. [More…]
The criticisms that we made of that Bill were never answered in this House, but subsequently the Government has had detailed discussions with the unions and we now have a considerably altered proposed section 45D before us which, I might say, is in no way approved by the unions. [More…]
Indeed, it will become a lawyer’s dream as there is so much room for debate as to whether particular aspects of union activity would or would not be caught by this proposed section. [More…]
Certainly it goes far beyond secondary boycotts, but it will still affect a very wide range of union activity that could not be remotely described as secondary boycotts. [More…]
It would also appear to cover union officials engaged in union activity that hindered the activities of a corporation. [More…]
Furthermore, the union itself may be included under sub-section (1). [More…]
Whether federally registered unions are bodies corporate for the purposes of this Act is not clear, but there is a good chance that that would be the case. [More…]
In Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia the State registered unions are clearly bodies corporate and likely to be considered as such for the purposes of this Act. [More…]
But even if a union can escape being roped in as ‘ a person ‘ the Bill still seeks to ensure that unions are ensnared by proposed sub-sections (5) and (6). [More…]
Under proposed sub-section (5), when two or more members of a union engage in conduct in concert with another the union is deemed to engage in that conduct in conceit with them. [More…]
Thus any activity by employees or union members which contravenes the Act will rope in the union as well. [More…]
In fact, it will rope in the union instead of the employees unless the union establishes that it took all reasonable steps to prevent its members from engaging in that conduct. [More…]
Thus the union is much more directly implicated than was the case with the previous proposed amendments. [More…]
In those amendments the union was only caught indirectly through the aiding and abetting procedures of section 76 of the Act and even that depended on the union meeting the definition of ‘a person’. [More…]
Now, however, unions are to be directly and specifically implicated in section 45D and if found liable will be faced with an horrific array of penalties involving $250,000 fines, injunctions and civil actions for damages. [More…]
As we read this proposed section now it is much more direct in its concern to catch unions than were the previous amendments but, on the other hand, less concerned to penalise individuals. [More…]
It also now appears to us that the apparently large escape clause for union activity concerned with wages, conditions of employment, hours of work, working conditions or the termination of employment, as set out in proposed sub-section (3), is in fact far less comprehensive than may at first appear. [More…]
In the first place a substantial amount of trade union activity would appear not to be exempted by proposed sub-section (3). [More…]
Then under proposed sub-section (5) it is provided that, where two or more union members engage in conduct in concert, the union is deemed to engage in conduct in concert with them. [More…]
Thus the union is directly caught by any action of its members. [More…]
Proposed sub-section (3) relates only to employees so there is no cover for the union there, particularly as proposed subsection (4) makes it clear that a person not covered by proposed sub-section (3) cannot escape the application of proposed sub-section ( 1 ) simply because the person with whom he is engaging in concert is covered by that proposed sub-section. [More…]
Thus unions are left completely unprotected. [More…]
Unless the Government introduces an amendment in the Committee stage it will pass something which will mean unions will be totally unprotected against the trade practices legislation in respect of any industrial activity which has the effect of causing damage to a corporation. [More…]
Any action by union members that hinders or prevents a company’s activity and so results in a substantial loss or damage to that company will be a breach of the Act. [More…]
In any case it is an improper means of controlling trade union activity. [More…]
Between those 2 sets of amendments other amendments have been floated to the trade unions. [More…]
We have just heard the spokesman for the union movement in this country. [More…]
Of course, if we are to have legal machinery in a circumstance of the kind which this Act provides, there cannot be an easy process on either side, whether it is business large or small, the trade union movement or whether it is single or multiple consumers. [More…]
Further, I mentioned that the Opposition’s main spokesman directed his attention exclusively to proposed section 45D and said that it provided severe implications for trade unions. [More…]
He relied heavily on the reference to actions by unions which interpretation of the new legislation would mean were disruptive and could be dealt with under the various subsections of section 45D on the basis of past record being directly related to union efforts for industrial gain. [More…]
Of course it has been, and the unions have not cared how they have gone about it. [More…]
They have not cared 2 hoots about loss to the individual, and proposed section 45D is designed specifically to ensure that there is responsibility on the part of the trade union movement in these matters. [More…]
Despite the crocodile tears of the honourable member for Gellibrand, who said that the legislation would have a drastic effect on the trade unions and that as a result of the actions of the Government there was not proper provision for adequate consultation with the unions about the legislation, he must admit on the facts that proposed section 45D provides a very evenhanded approach to this important and crucial aspect of trade practices in this country. [More…]
Suffice to say that what is provided in proposed section 45D ensures that in no way is the association or properly organised union of employees hindered. [More…]
Individuals are not liable to any penalties or damages unless they are acting in defiance of their union. [More…]
Boycotts by companies and by unions are treated equally, except that individuals involved in union disputes have protection against penalties and, in most cases, against civil damage. [More…]
The amending Bill not only extends the Act in a limited area to union activity but also extends the provisions of the Act to the commercial activities of the Government itself. [More…]
Indeed as late as yesterday and this morning I had discussions with representatives of the trade union movement regarding some of the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Port Adelaide assert that having introduced this legislation I should not have been prepared to consult the representatives of the trade union movement? [More…]
In January 1976, shortly after the Government came to office, I conferred with representatives of the national employers and the peak union councils with a view to seeking their agreement to the implementation of this policy objective. [More…]
I am therefore pleased to be able to say now that, following discussions on 1 1 May between me and representatives of the peak union councils on the Government’s proposed industrial relations legislation, the ACTU has indicated that it would be prepared to join a re-constituted tripartite consultative council. [More…]
This is simply so that later in the Act in new section 45D we can erect this new concept in relation to secondary boycotts in order that a little bit of union bashing can be engaged in. [More…]
But the Bill which it now proposes to the chamber, namely, the Trade Practices Amendment Bill, is just as threatening and potentially damaging to the trade union movement as the former Bill ever was. [More…]
The trade union movement has given a lead in responsible moderation. [More…]
The unions are well aware that the economy is falling and failing and in particular does not need prolonged and bitter industrial warfare. [More…]
Yet if confrontation is to be avoided and agreement reached, a stable and consistent Government position, worthy of union trust, is essential. [More…]
So far the Fraser Government has proven itself to be treacherous and conniving and anything but deserving of the union movement’s trust. [More…]
Therefore, according to that statement, the IRB will be able to apply to the court to have penalties imposed on a union for a break of a no-strike order. [More…]
Under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act at present, the inspectorate is specifically prevented from applying to the Industrial Court to have’ penalties imposed on a union for breaching a no-strike order. [More…]
It is little wonder then that the trade union movement does not trust the Fraser Government. [More…]
Viewed in this light, it is understandable that the trade union movement should be taking a no-compromise stance with the proposed amendments to the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
These amendments, in the form of the Trade Practices Amendment Bill 1977, particularly section 45d of that Bill and other industrially significant amendments such as 4b (1) and (2), represent a despicable attempt to impose on the Australian trade union movement restrictions on the freedom to take industrial action, which has historically been the right of the Australian work force, and which is guaranteed by International Labour Organisations conventions, ratified by the Australian Government, to unions and associations of workers throughout the free world. [More…]
These proposed repressive measures prohibiting unionists from exercising legitimate activities on behalf of their members should be enough to make any thinking politician associated with the passing of this Bill and having the slightest shred of conscience, hang his head in shame. [More…]
The clear intention of this Bill is to weaken the union movement, to bring the cudgel back in again to industrial relations policy and consequently to ensure fierce and prolonged industrial warfare in this country. [More…]
Bitter and widespread industrial warfare is the excuse the Government needs for implementing the remainder of its vicious attacks on trade unionism. [More…]
In fact, and in law, proposed new section 45d would make any form of industrial activity illegal and punishable by massive fines on individual employees and unions, plus providing for separate actions in the courts for damages. [More…]
There are important implications for the union movement of the introduction of the Trade Practices Amendment Bill. [More…]
Firstly, it will mean that no union or association will be permitted to take any legitimate action when the occasion demands, and all forms of strikes, boycotts, black bans or picket lines, will be forbidden, however justified or necessary they may be. [More…]
Secondly, any attempt to resort to action which free trade unions all over the world are able to use, could expose individuals and unions to fines imposed by the Federal Court of Australia of up to $50,000 for individuals and up to $250,000 for unions. [More…]
It should be pointed out here that a strike or go slow can be interpreted not as an act hindering or preventing supply but as a series of acts hindering or preventing supply and could therefore expose the unionists or union to several fines, each of up to $50,000 or $250,000 as the case may be. [More…]
Fourthly, any individual, including employers, may apply for injunctions, even retrospectively, preventing action and union leaders or rank and file members could be gaoled if they attempted to defy the injunction, however unwarranted the case of the employer. [More…]
Fifthly, apart from crippling fines for the action, unions and their members would face damages cases by which employers or individuals could recover what they claimed to have lost in the dispute. [More…]
Therefore, such damages awarded could be high, so high that even a wealthy union could be crippled and a struggling union totally wiped out. [More…]
Quite simply the unions cannot afford to accept this legislation because it will mean a sellout of what the Australian trade union movement stands for and what it has fought for for over a century. [More…]
By the ‘union movement’ I mean the vast majority of Australia’s 6 million work force. [More…]
The whole trade union movement- white collar, blue collar, right, left and centre- are affected by this Bill and all sections of the trade union movement are prepared to fight it to the end. [More…]
-Contrary to what the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Les McMahon) has just said, I think it will be quite clear from one example I shall give why some sections of the union movement have been so strong in their views about this clause and, I believe, so totally irresponsible. [More…]
Mr George Apap, the State Secretary of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia, placed a ban on the delivery of goods to G. & R. Wills and Company Ltd, an Adelaide wholesale softgoods distributor. [More…]
An article in the Advertiser on 26 February and another on 30 April this year pointed out that a national ban had been placed on the Wills company apparently as a result of Mr Apap being unable to sign up to his union employees of the Wills company. [More…]
The State Secretary of the union, Mr G. Apap, said last night the ban had been imposed about two and a half months ago because the company had refused the union entry to its premises to recruit members. [More…]
Mr Apap said the union was demanding a national agreement for total union membership. [More…]
It was only some 10 days later that a letter appeared in the Adelaide Advertiser under the heading ‘Talks to Staff’ in the following terms: ‘Sir, we refer to the statement by Mr Apap of the Storemen and Packers Union, which appeared in the Advertiser on 30 April concerning G. & R. Wills and Company Limited. [More…]
It is absolutely untrue that the Storemen and Packers Union has been denied access. [More…]
The facts are that none wish to join his union as nearly all are members of an appropriate union. [More…]
It is quite clear that Mr Apap had, in fact, banned deliveries to the Wills company because he could not get people employed by that company who were apparently members of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, the Federated Clerks Union and probably other unions to join his union. [More…]
It appears that because they were happy as members of those unions and did not want to join his union he considered that he would attempt to put G. and R. Wills out of business and therefore run those unionists who refused to join his union out of a job. [More…]
It is quite clear that the secondary boycott in this case was applied by refusing to allow suppliers to deliver goods to G. and R. Wills by asking members of his union employed by companies supplying Wills to refuse delivery of their goods. [More…]
One can immediately see why executive members of some unions have publicly come out against this proposed section when the likes of Mr Apap, by what appears to be totally irresponsible action, apparently cause completely false information to be published and, further, through bans, withhold supplies to a business just because Mr Apap was trying to convince members of one union to leave and join his union. [More…]
He seems totally unconcerned at the effects it would have on the jobs of the unionists employed and seems more concerned about his own power in increasing the membership of his own union. [More…]
I am very disappointed that he should speak in such a disparaging fashion about one of nature’s gentlemen, that is, Mr George Apap, the Secretary of the Storemen and Packers Union in his own State. [More…]
In other words, a trade union: . [More…]
He is protecting the agent provocateur who can smash a union. [More…]
The penalty for a union which is found guilty of such an act is $250,000. [More…]
We will suppose that 2 people working in the Ford Motor Company in Geelong, members of the Vehicle Builders Union, have, for reasons good or bad, taken a dislike to the union itself and the officers of the union. [More…]
The union has no control over them. [More…]
If the union is found guilty as it must be under this section of the Act, it is then fined $250,000. [More…]
It does not take a very strong imagination to work out what sort of weapon is being given to some people who would set out to destroy their union. [More…]
Certainly, it has taken out the penalties of $50,000 for individuals but it has left in the penalty for the unions of $250,000. [More…]
It has left it wide open for agent provocateurs to bring down a union. [More…]
The Government now has another piece of legislation in this Parliament which purports to look after the interests of individual unionists and protect them from their big strong union bosses. [More…]
That piece of legislation prevents a union executive or its officers taking punitive or disciplinary action against its own members. [More…]
There is great concern not only on my part but on the part of the trade union movement about this legislation because it does infringe upon the rights of working people in this country and other countries- rights that were fought for 100 and more years ago; rights that people believe are entrenched. [More…]
I do not know all of the details of the case which the honourable member for Barker mentioned but it seems pretty clear to me that the people involved were in the wrong union. [More…]
They had been body snatched by another union. [More…]
All that George Apap wanted was to bring them into his loving embrace, to bring them back to the fold of the Storemen and Packers Union where they could probably get better protection and better service. [More…]
It was in the interests of the employees to be members of the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
This is not aimed at trade unionists; it is aimed at irresponsible trade unionists and irresponsible trade union activity that is against the public interest. [More…]
I think that the Government has been very sensible and has acceded to complaints from the trade union movement that earlier drafts were wider than a secondary boycott. [More…]
Similarly, I believe that its purpose is related solely to trade practices law and has no effect on those laws that I previously pointed out to the honourable member for Burke that applied to abuses and breaches of law by irresponsible trade unionists, namely, the common law of conspiracy, provisions of the Commonwealth Crimes Act, industrial torts of intimidation and inducing breach of contract In deference to the Opposition, I conclude my remarks at this stage. [More…]
If this Bill is passed Australia must prepare itself for a repeat of the Clarrie O’Shea fiasco because the gaoling of a unionist and its resultant rolling national strikes are the most likely consequences of the reintroduction of the regressive and provocative penal clauses. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that on that occasion in 1969 the wheels of industry came to a halt as workers in their thousands stopped work in protest at the gaoling of a fellow unionist. [More…]
The Government seems to be counting on low level business activity and high unemployment to have sapped the strength of the union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is still very strong and well prepared to fight if the penal powers are revived. [More…]
The unions do not want a confrontation but if the Prime Minister continues to push the unions into a corner by [More…]
E passing this blatant anti-union legislation he will ave a fight on his hands and the Australian people, on the whole, will suffer as a result. [More…]
Examples of this deliberate and severe provocation of the trade union movement by the Fraser Government, such as in relation to section 45d of the Trade Practices Act, since its election to office in 1975 are prolific. [More…]
This important antiinflationary initiative of the Labor Government, which had the full support of the union movement, has been progressively eroded by the Fraser Government. [More…]
The unions have tolerated this despite the Prime Minister’s specific promise to maintain indexation. [More…]
The unions have also tolerated a substantial shift of national income from labour to the profits of private companies. [More…]
Other examples of union provocation have been: The Fraser Government’s assault on the trade union training scheme; its interference with union elections; and its contemptible disregard for the ever increasing number of unemployed. [More…]
But rather than ease up on the unions the Fraser Government has chosen to step up its harassment of them. [More…]
But the trade union movement’s tolerance is now at its limit and these proposed legislative assaults by the Government on the sources of union power just cannot and will not be overlooked. [More…]
It is obvious that the Government lacks popular support for its hard line on the unions, otherwise it would not be trying so desperately hard to promote industrial unrest. [More…]
The Government seems to believe that if it can cause widespread industrial action it will then have the justification for introducing its powerful anti-union weaponry. [More…]
I know that no argument that I will be able to adduce in the few moments I intend to take tonight will be sufficient to persuade any member of the Opposition that it is appropriate to include a clause of this nature in a trade practices Bill, or indeed that this provision is other than a deliberate attempt by the Government to discriminate against the trade union movement. [More…]
But I believe, and I know that the belief is shared in the Government ranks, that this legislation is not designed against the trade union movement. [More…]
No political party in Australia, be it on our side of politics or on the Australian Labor Party’s side, can gain any profit from deliberately confronting any section of the Australian community, be that the trade union movement, the farmers, the industrialists of Australia or whatever the case may be. [More…]
Having read some of the literature that has been produced about this proposed section and having listened to some of the speeches that have been made tonightsome, if I may say so, were more thoughtful than others- one would imagine that what the Government was about through this legislation was to discriminate in favour of all sections of the community against the trade union movement. [More…]
I and people in my Department have spent a considerable amount of time discussing this legislation with representatives of the trade union movement. [More…]
They were, in the main, as a result of representations that we had received from the trade union movement. [More…]
17 -we have provided yet another amendment which makes it perfectly clear that if the conduct in question is the type of” conduct excluded by the operation of sub-section (3) of proposed section 45D that exclusion should cover the conduct of a trade union and trade union officials just as it covers the conduct of individual trade unionists. [More…]
It certainly does provide that a union is deemed to be liable for the acts of the members of an organisation unless the union establishes that it has taken all reasonable steps to prevent the boycott. [More…]
It is an addition that is not designed to affect the trade union movement. [More…]
It is not aimed at the trade union movement. [More…]
The proposition that in some way the total effect of this legislation represents discrimination against the trade union movement to the advantage of private enterprise in Australian society is, in my view, a wholly unfounded proposition. [More…]
It is a nonsense to suggest, as some members of the Opposition have argued during the course of today’s debate, that in some way the Government is now in the process of winding down restrictions that ought to exist on improper commercial conduct and winding them up in respect of trade union conduct. [More…]
Discussions are currently in progress between the Department of Health, the Public Service Board and representatives of the Peak Union Councils as to the steps which can be taken to introduce an occupational health service for Australian Government employees taking into consideration the overriding need for economic restraint. [More…]
, (3) and (4) President Carter has proposed negotiations between his country and the Soviet Union on mutual military limitations in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The only country which is in a position to ‘lend effective assistance to the implementation of this initiative’ is the Soviet Union. [More…]
Questions about the level of forces and capabilities on which the United States and Soviet Union might be able to reach agreement or about a role for Australia in implementing an agreement between them are premature and hypothetical at this stage. [More…]
Tories of this Parliament never have any compunction about introducing penal provisions to strangle the trade union movement. [More…]
I rise to speak about a subject of intense importance and interest to many people in Australia, in particular a large segment of the student population of some 250 000 people who are forced to pay some $700,000 annually towards the political activities of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Broadly speaking the objectives of the Union are to promote the educational welfare and political objectives of students. [More…]
Within which the union has put an elephant throught the eye of a needle. [More…]
It naturally opposes any move by State or Federal authorities to interfere with the present structure of student unions. [More…]
Nevertheless, the union calls it Malaya. [More…]
Then we go on to the question of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Student Union for which an amount of $22,000 has been allocated. [More…]
Along with scientists and conservationists, they are exerting pressure on those nations which do whale, particularly in this respect the Soviet Union and Japan which currently take some 85 per cent of the world catch. [More…]
It is to be regretted that greater progress has not eventuated because of the action of the trade union movement in its recent decision not to participate in the voluntary wages-prices arrangement. [More…]
Notwithstanding the unco-operative attitude of Mr R. J. Hawke and the trade union movement there is nevertheless an encouraging trend emerging that must give Australian business great hope for the next financial year. [More…]
It is a pity that the Australian Union of Students does not think of that rather than supporting socialism outside Australia. [More…]
They are not parasites like some trade union leaders in Australia. [More…]
The second area of concern to which I wish to direct my remarks this afternoon is the operation of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
This union purports to represent students at all tertiary institutions. [More…]
Students automatically pay a compulsory levy of $2.50 to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
State government legislation enforces this compulsory unionism by preventing any students refusing to pay this levy from sitting for examinations or receiving degrees or diplomas. [More…]
However, beyond that it has ignored its proper role of a student union which is to promote all aspects of students’ well-being. [More…]
Clearly major changes are needed in the leadership of the Australian Union of Students to ensure that the compulsory levy which is extracted from students to finance its operations is spent in the interests of the great bulk of students and not in the interests of a small extremist leadership junta. [More…]
I strongly urge the Commonwealth Government and the Minister for Education to use their influence to bring about necessary changes in the structure of the Australian Union of Students and in the way that university union fees and student fees operate to ensure that a more responsible and moderate leadership comes to power in the AUS. [More…]
-The Australian Union of Students is a federal body and it is extremely doubtful whether any State legislation compels any students to contribute to it. [More…]
Whether that student body is affiliated with the Australian Union of Students is an entirely separate question. [More…]
The Guild of Undergraduates of the university or the student representative council of any given university does not have to be affiliated with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
No State law requires the student representative council of any university to be affiliated with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
If the student union by its own decision is affiliated with the federal body- an affiliation fee is paid- I think that is quite a separate issue from compulsory membership with the student union of any given university. [More…]
Membership of the Guild of Undergraduates of the University of Western Australia only involves membership of the Australian Union of Students if the Guild of Undergraduates affiliates with the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
They seem to have behaved as though there has never been an industrial stoppage over a demarcation dispute, employment of non-unionists or the employment of people who have failed to observe a majority decision of the policy making bodies of their unions, people who in industrial circles are called scabs. [More…]
Suppose we had an employer who was seeking to man a port with members of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
In many cases the wages paid to members of the AWU who do stevedoring work are nowhere near as high as the wages which would apply if the same work were carried out by another union. [More…]
If I had been typical of so many union secretaries who place union membership above union benefits I would have held onto those workers at Whyalla but as it was I handed them over to the other union. [More…]
There are demarcation disputes between the Storemen and Packers Union and the shop assistants’ union, with the storemen having on their side the fact that their award provides for a much higher rate than does the shop assistants award. [More…]
There are demarcation disputes between the Builders Labourers Federation and the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union over who shall control dogmen, with the builders labourers being able to get a quite substantial amount more under their award than the metal trades workers can get under theirs. [More…]
On the face of it a demarcation dispute is about union membership, but in reality it is a question of getting decent rates of pay. [More…]
I believe that a person who has scabbed upon a decision taken by a properly constituted pOliCy making organ of his union has no right to be treated as a clean skin. [More…]
The person who has carried out the obligations of his union leadership has every right to refuse to work with such a person and he has every right to refuse to work with a freeloader or a ticket dodger, as some unions would call them. [More…]
What union m Australia does the Government believe could afford to pay the $250,000 penalty, if the maximum penalty were applied? [More…]
There is no union that could do that by way of cash unless it sold up its properties. [More…]
There would not be many unions which could stand more than five or six fines of $250,000, even if they sold up their properties. [More…]
Does the Government think the unions would be prepared to sell up all their properties and allow the Government to have all their assets? [More…]
And stand up and fight the trade union movement will be forced to do if the provisions of this legislation are applied. [More…]
It would not be unusual for anybody following or observing parliamentary proceedings to find that we on this side of the chamber have a lot to say about the roping in of the activities of trade unions into the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
As I said in the second reading debate the night before last, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which the Government seems to have ignored, has decided that should anybody be caught in the net of section 45D and m the interpretation of the clause that is now under discussion, they will meet with the full support of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The Government ought to cast its mind back to the actions that were taken against the Secretary of the Victorian Tramways Union, Clarrie 0’Shea. [More…]
The then government no doubt felt at that time that because Clarrie 0*Shea was a professed member of one of the communist parties of that time the public would feel no sympathy for him and the trade unions would not gather around him. [More…]
Yet all of a sudden we find that a trade union could be subjected to a fine of up to $250,000. [More…]
-Members of this Parliament, expecially the young pups on the other side of the chamber such as the honourable member for Barker, should, while they are members of this Parliament, which will not be for much longer in his case, listen to honourable members on this side of the chamber, especially the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), whose advice and experience surpass that of anybody else sitting in this Parliament, particularly when he says that a union that participates in what may be appropriately called a sympathy strike is not then going to allow itself to be fined $250,000. [More…]
The unions will not comply with such a law. [More…]
When one union is taken to the test the Government will have a major confrontation with the whole trade union movement. [More…]
For the benefit of honourable members opposite I say that it ought to be understood that Australia is one of the most highly unionised countries in the world. [More…]
A lot of the emergence of the trade union movement has to do with the attitude of employers in this country over the last 100 years. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta, who possibly has never had to go to work in his life, suggests that people who go to work and who decide at a union meeting to take some action in support of workers in another factory or at another site are law breakers. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide and the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) spoke much of the confrontation situation that this legislation is going to bring about between the unions and the Government or, as I would rather say, the people of Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that whenever one enters into debates in this Parliament and outside it on this subject there always has to be overlaying sympathy with the understanding of the union cause. [More…]
I invite him to look at the actions of the trade union movement throughout Australia over the last few years- actions by which it has sought more than equality with the wealth producing sectors of this nation, particularly the rural sector. [More…]
But meat workers at Bunbury have, without the backing of their union, the ability to stop the loading of live sheep onto ships. [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement and the Australian Labor Party have forced this Government into the position it is in today. [More…]
Proposed new section 45d is deliberately aimed at the trade union movement. [More…]
So the Minister should have made this amendment because all sorts of issues will arise in the industrial field as to what are the rights of other people in the same union movement. [More…]
Proposed section 45 D (5) puts enormous vicarious responsibility on the unions. [More…]
For example, if 2 transport workers decide that they will not service a company which once sacked them their union would be liable unless it can show that all reasonable steps were taken by the union to prevent its members from taking that action. [More…]
The onus is on the union which will be subject to very heavy penalties unless it can satisfy that onus. [More…]
It is an interesting concept that under trade practices legislation, founded on the issue that the Government now has some constitutional power to deal with corporations and therefore that unions become part and parcel of the corporation power, the Government has decided to bring in this confrontation legislation. [More…]
But he does not seem to have much doubt now because he thinks he can deal with unions under the same power. [More…]
I suggest that the Government should not come in with a side door attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
How difficult is it for any trade union to say that it can control all its members. [More…]
The onus will be on the union to prove that it had no responsibility for certain actions. [More…]
May I say in answer to mm that I welcome the provisions of proposed section 45D because they are restraining the inevitable growth of monopoly- of the abuse by irresponsible unionists of the union power which is also monopoly power. [More…]
That is why we introduced section 45D which protects the public from secondary boycotts and the abuse of union power by irresponsible trade unionists. [More…]
In relation to section 45D- industrial union bashing- we see that we can, in fact, apply for an authorisation for a secondary boycott by a union. [More…]
The difficulty in applying any such criteria in the present contextthat is a secondary boycott by a union- is, as other honourable members on this side have observed this evening, that a great deal of industrial action has nothing to do with trade practices; that is, it has no implications for free competition or fair trade. [More…]
Industry Employees Union has a policy of restriction on livestock exports, a policy which this Government does not recognise. [More…]
It seems that the producer groups to which I refer believe that the Corporation would enter into arrangements separately with the union on a national basis quite apart from the regional arrangements now negotiated by local exporter and producer groups. [More…]
Whilst the Government might have adopted that stance from the point of view of endeavouring to indicate to the trade union movement that it was going to do all sorts of dreadful and dire things, it ought to be looking at what is the present law as regards its powers. [More…]
They attempted to make it an offence for employers or organisations to take discriminatory action against people who refuse to join a union or refuse to join in industrial action. [More…]
There cannot be an interstate industrial dispute between an individual and a union. [More…]
If an individual refuses to join in industrial action or to join a union, he may be involved in an individual dispute but it is not an industrial dispute; nor is it capable of becoming an interstate industrial dispute. [More…]
The fact that the national Parliament has power to create trade unions does not mean that it may pass any law it likes in relation to them. [More…]
Clause 5 would be invalid to the extent that it deals with refusal to join unions and refusal to take part in industrial action. [More…]
The alternative would have been massive economic dislocation by trade union activity objecting to the legislation. [More…]
It is important- my comments also apply to clause 26- that the Government just cannot assume that it has unlimited powers to do what it likes with a trade union organisation simply because it has the power to settle industrial disputes. [More…]
I believe that they would have had the effect of preventing a union from going about its practical day to day business of obtaining members, from having any discipline over its members, and from being able to prevent its members from doing things that were against the will of the majority. [More…]
The Government has said that its intention in introducing the legislation is, as it puts it, to look after the rights of individuals in unions. [More…]
The fact that unions must register their rules with the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is in itself a protection for the members. [More…]
There is no need for it to endeavour to legislateas the honourable member for KingsfordSmith said, probably to legislate illegally- under the guise of looking after the interests of individual members in fact to make a trade union unworkable. [More…]
In fact this changes the situation where a person who obtains a certificate of the court on the grounds of conscientious objection is required to pay to the registrar of the court a sum equal to the union dues. [More…]
Only recently in Melbourne we had the case of a man working at a tramway depot saying that he had been prevented from working because he would not pay his union dues. [More…]
The truth is that the man refused to join the union. [More…]
He could have obtained a certificate if he had good reasons for not joining the union. [More…]
But the important thing is that this man did not want to pay the union dues. [More…]
No fair minded person would say that someone could just come in off the street and enjoy the benefits achieved by a group of people, benefits which were gained by them or others acting in concert, without making a contribution to the union. [More…]
A person may be the only worker in a plant who declines to join a union. [More…]
The rest of the workers are all members of the union because they wish to be members of the union. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) mentioned in his speech during the second reading debate- he did so quite erroneously- the position of a union which was to take action against some of its members for not engaging in a strike. [More…]
Just to set the record straight, I presume that the honourable member was talking about some members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union who worked in Ballarat. [More…]
I have mentioned the wrong union. [More…]
It is the Postal Workers Union in the Ballarat area. [More…]
The union did not back off in this case. [More…]
A strike concerning wages was called by the union. [More…]
Because these employees declined to take part in the strike and wanted to work naturally the union was bound under its rules which are registered with the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to take action against its members. [More…]
I do not know whether he wants us to cease registering rules of unions or whether he is pleased that we have rules of unions but he does not wish to see members of the unions abide by those rules. [More…]
If this provision is left in the legislation it will prevent the union from taking any disciplinary action against the malcontents or the people who wanted to bring about that circumstance. [More…]
He either wants the organisation to be responsible for the action of its members- that means disciplining them if they step out of line according to the union rules- or he wants the situation which exists under the trade practices legislation whereby members of an organisation can bind the organisation whether or not the organisation is aware of their actions and whether it can control them. [More…]
He must have put to the Government, which accepted the situation- which he wanted- that the union should have no control over its members. [More…]
Particular provisions are to be amended to give to individuals rights vis-a-vis their trade union and the trade union movement generally. [More…]
There will be discussions with the Trade union movement through the National Labour Consultative Council which will be established in an endeavour to put to the trade union movement the responsible nature of the course which we are pursuing and the desirability of these provisions. [More…]
He made it very clear that the trade union movement- that is the organisation- is opposed to this matter because it thinks that it will weaken the trade union movement financially; that it will affect its membership numerically; that it will destroy the bargaining power of the unions and that it will create dissention. [More…]
In other words, what is all right in legislation dealing with other organisations is not all right when dealing with a monopoly organisation in the form of a trade union in which individuals have no rights. [More…]
When we come down to the real reason that these proposals are being opposed, we find that they affect the vested interests, those who control, the leadership and the incumbents in the trade union movement. [More…]
The people who would be called power brokers and capitalists in a company situation are different when they exercise that sort of power over individuals in a trade union situation. [More…]
It is suggested that these clauses will destroy the union’s ability to bargain, the ability to exercise power over other people in the community and other organisations, that it will create dissention, that people who are members of the organisation, who would have been entitled to a voice and to more realistic participation, will lose that opportunity. [More…]
He spoke about the way in which these rights are being negated or neglected by the trade union movement. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, they are entrenched in every union rule book. [More…]
In the same way that the majority shareholders he mentioned are protected by rules, so are the rights of individual unionists. [More…]
One of the basic things that the Government is trying to do is to give protection to the individual to make a free choice and to ensure that once the individual has made that free choice he is given protection against intimidation, whether that intimidation be directed to him by his trade union or by his employer. [More…]
The provisions are not designed in any way to be a stick with which to beat the unions over the head. [More…]
They provide for the same basis to be applicable to either the employer or the trade union, but they are designed essentially to give protection to the individual. [More…]
honourable member for Burke and the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) would agree that if they talked to the rank and file of the trade union movement they would find that the rank and file are seeking desperately to have that sort of provision incorporated into legislation so that their right to choose whether they will join or not join an organisation is enshrined in legislation and they are protected against powerful monopoly organisations. [More…]
In that case, for the purposes of this legislation, if a group of members of an organisation take action then the union itself will be deemed to have taken the action. [More…]
When it comes to the matter of catching trade unions, any action by a group of trade unionists will catch the whole union. [More…]
It would have meant that the Bureau would have been able to initiate proceedings for the imposition of penalties on a union for breach of a bans clause. [More…]
The fact is that since 1969 the whole process of penalising unions for breaches of bans clauses has been in abeyance. [More…]
The employers of this country have not seen fit to seek such certificates due to the actions of the union movement in 1969 when they finally declared that they were totally against complying with this section of the Act. [More…]
They thought it was totally unfair, and indeed its operation had been very adverse to the trade union movement and had involved unions in very heavy fines during the previous decade and a half. [More…]
By passing the Bill in the form in which it was originally presented to the House, the Government would have re-imposed the whole system of applying penal clauses against the union movement. [More…]
The Bureau would have been involved full scale in the business of seeking penal action against trade unions in this country. [More…]
The Parliament cannot pass an ambitory clause on the basis that because it is dealing with a trade union and an employer it can do whatever it likes with those parties. [More…]
Are unions to be all the time obligated to go to the High Court in order to keep telling this Government where it has made the mistake? [More…]
The more practical position I am putting is this: Does the Government expect the unions to do what it seeks or does it expect to have confrontation? [More…]
In the middle of economic dislocation, a union may decide to take the case to the High Court. [More…]
Trade union rules do not provide for those things. [More…]
When we argue here today what the individual rights are, that is subservient to the fact that the conciliation and arbitration system is built on the fact that there will be a trade union organisation. [More…]
If we are to have an orderly society, it ought to be built on the basis that we in this national Parliament recognise that trade unions exist, we want to promote goodwill in industry, we want to encourage the means by which we can settle disputes, we want to provide the means for the settlement of those disputes and we want to encourage the organisation of representative bodies of employers and employees. [More…]
What we are saying here is that we cannot have people fragmenting the whole trade union organisation or a very satisfactory employer-employee relationship simply because those people want to do their own thing. [More…]
I could not think of anything worse for the trade union movement than to have our friend Mr Tony Macken sitting there as director of the Industrial Relations Bureau and being completely independent of the people’s elected government. [More…]
If the Minister does not make the change for which we are asking and we find ourselves saddled with a director who is biased against the trade union movement as we know the Director to be appointed will be, then I make it quite clear that the Labor Government will not consider itself bound to continue the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
It is the view of my colleagues and the trade union movement that there ought to be ministerial control over the Director of the Bureau. [More…]
I repeat the words used by the honourable member for Gellibrand and the honourable member for Hindmarsh: This provision is a breach of the agreement with the unions. [More…]
None of us was looking forward to a confrontation, the Government much less than the Opposition and the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister now seems to be hell bent on not keeping to the agreement reached with the unions. [More…]
In that case we will see massive industrial relations dislocation in Australia and the ACTU and other union organisations certainly will not stand idly by and watch those prosecutions occur. [More…]
The average Australian worker, the trade unionist, is a little upset with regulations, and this legislation will provide other regulations. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer), the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) and the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr), speaking to various clauses of the Bill have stated that there is nothing in the legislation that will upset or incite the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement has been with us for over 100 years and it will be with us for at least the next 100 years. [More…]
Let us reflect that on Tuesday 17 May, 5 senior Ministers of the Fraser Government met with the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, and agreed to accept his proposals that the Government establish the Industrial Relations Bureau without increasing existing powers and legal obligations under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and that the National Labour Advisory Council be reconstituted on a statutory basis. [More…]
Two days after this agreement had been reached, and imminent industrial warfare had been averted, at least for the time being, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made statements about the proposed role of the Industrial Relations Bureau which immediately placed the fragile agreement between the Government and the unions in jeopardy. [More…]
Commenting on the intended powers of the Industrial Relations Bureau the Prime Minister stated that the IRB would still be able independently to initiate prosecutions of unions and employers. [More…]
These comments were notoriously contrary to the assurances on the IRB’s powers which were given by Mr Street and the other senior Cabinet Ministers just 2 days beforehand and which formed the basis for the trade unions decision to accept the IRB legislation. [More…]
Then, on the same day, another senior Government Minister, a man well known to share the Prime Minister’s rigid and despotic anti-union sentiments- the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair- was reported to have stated that legislation to be brought before Parliament in the next week- that is today- would extend the protection available against trade union excesses and that the trade unions had accepted these new procedures and constraints. [More…]
No doubt the unions are now wondering why in the first place they ever trusted the Fraser Government to keep an agreement. [More…]
With the overwhelming support of the trade union movement he had made a genuine attempt to avoid a bitter and disastrous confrontation between the unions and the Government. [More…]
The Trade union movement asked for a chance to come to the conference table and it did so. [More…]
The Trade union movement has put all its faith in the Minister, as has been said by my colleagues. [More…]
I hope that when the time comes he will carry out the promise he made to the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I quote it because it is against the union movement. [More…]
The Act makes it clear that trade unions have to keep proper records of their financial transactions. [More…]
They have to keep certain records of union elections. [More…]
Any union that does not do all of those things ought to be prosecuted. [More…]
If I were the Minister I would say to my inspectorate if it was handling the matter: ‘Not only do I want you to get right after this particular union but also I want you to get the best counsel you can, take the union to the Industrial Court and tell the court to impose the maximum penalty in order that its decision will be a deterrent against other unions breaking the Act in the same way’. [More…]
In my second reading speech I stated the Government’s view that there was a need for time to be given not only for members of Parliament to give the proposed legislation their objective consideration but also for the principal parties to industrial relations- the peak councils of the employer organisations and trade unions, individual trade unions and employers and the community at large- to examine the contents of the Bill and to be able to make their views known to the Government. [More…]
I subsequently invited representatives of the national employers and, through the Australian Council of Trade Unions, representatives of peak union councils to meet with me separately to discuss the Bill. [More…]
I met with the union representatives on 1 1 May and with employers on 13 May. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the Trade Union Movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
Award breaches by employees (awards are binding on employees only if they are members of a union respondent to the relevant award or the award is Common Rule) are subject to the same fundamental enforcement policy as award breaches by employers. [More…]
We oppose the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill because we regard it, in its original form- in the form in which it is now before the House- as a totally repugnant piece of legislation that is aimed at reducing the unions in this country to a state of industrial impotence. [More…]
After this Bill was first put before the Parliament it was considered by the Executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and that body passed a resolution threatening massive dislocation of the economic life of the nation if this legislation were proceeded with. [More…]
The reason why it did so was that this legislation was so fundamental to the very ability of the trade union movement to carry out any effective representation on behalf of its members. [More…]
It was, in a sense, the culmination of a whole series of attacks upon both the trade union movement and the employee section of the Australian community. [More…]
We also have had the introduction of legislation designed drastically to affect the operations of trade unions, namely the Trade Practices Amendment Bill. [More…]
Though that legislation has been changed many times, in the form in which it has now passed through the House of Representatives it is still a very severe inhibition upon the ability of trade unions to operate. [More…]
It will cover a very substantial amount of industrial activity and lay unions open to very substantial penalties indeed. [More…]
In addition, the Government announced recently the setting up of an inquiry into trade union training, which is in its infancy. [More…]
The terms of reference of that inquiry seem to indicate that the Government intends to launch a very severe attack upon the trade union training system as it has begun to operate. [More…]
In that situation the unions were then faced with a Bill to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act that in many respects would have reduced them to a state of total impotence. [More…]
In brief, the legislation would have had the effect upon unions of weakening them numerically and financially, of fostering dissension within their ranks, of destroying their bargaining power and of subjecting them to harassment and interference by an industrial police force. [More…]
Firstly, in relation to weakening the unions numerically and financially by facilitating and encouraging non-unionism, it was going to do this by allowing conscientious objection to being a union member to be claimed by an employee for any reason. [More…]
Given the very wide definition of ‘conscientious objection’, it meant that many employees would have been able to claim conscientious objection and therefore not need to be members of a union. [More…]
Furthermore, employees would have been given a financial incentive to claim conscientious objection because, unlike the current Act which says that if a person claims conscientious objection he has to pay an amount equivalent to the union fee into Consolidated Revenue, that provision was to be wiped out. [More…]
That would have meant in the case of weak unions in particular a very substantial possibility that they would have lost a vast number of their membership. [More…]
This was the case because if a union, or any union member, were to take any action or place any pressure whatever to induce a person who claimed conscientious objection to join the union, the union would be deemed to be liable and be open to a fine of $400. [More…]
Furthermore, certain other persons, such as independent contractors, would have been substantially restricted in their ability to be union members. [More…]
In some States- in Victoria and Tasmaniait seems they would have been prohibited altogether from being members of a federally registered union. [More…]
So these provisions went to the heart of union membership. [More…]
They were making sure there was an inducement and encouragement for people to get out of unions and they also prohibited some persons from being members of unions. [More…]
Of course, if the numerical strength of unions was to be weakened, so too was their financial strength. [More…]
In both respects the trade union movement would have been seriously weakened. [More…]
The second important way in which this Bill sought to undermine trade unions was in relation to weakening the solidarity of unions through encouraging dissident members to undermine union action. [More…]
It did this, for instance, by prohibiting a union from taking or threatening to take any action against a member to coerce him to take part in industrial action of for refusing or failing to take part in industrial action. [More…]
What this meant was that dissident union members who did not want to be involved in a particular union action decided on by the properly constituted union leadership or the majority of the union were able not only to express their objection to that action but also not take part in it. [More…]
If any pressure whatever was put on the members to try to make them abide by the decision of the union that would have made the union liable to a penalty of $400 a day. [More…]
It also provided for dissendent union members to notify the Industrial Relations Bureau of their opposition to any action or proposed action by their union and for the Bureau, after investigation, to report such notification to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and for the Commission then to make that report public. [More…]
So quite clearly this was another means of intimidation, of trying to put some public pressure on the union movement by showing that there was a number of people who were dissatisfied with the action being taken by the union. [More…]
The third way in which the Bill sought to attack the unions was by emasculating their bargaining strength in industrial disputes. [More…]
First, it did it by providing the Bureau with the power to notify the registrar of the contravention of a bans clause in an award thereby initiating procedures by which unions may be fined for engaging in strikes or other industrial action. [More…]
What the Government was doing through this provision was changing the process so that the government agency, the Industrial Relations Bureau, would be able to recommence the process of imposing penalties on unions for engaging in industrial action. [More…]
May I say in relation to those penal clauses for breach of a bans clause, that in the period 1957 to 1969, which was the key period in which they were effective, the unions were fined more than $280,000 in this country plus costs which would have amounted to a similar sum, whilst the employees were fined just over $2,000. [More…]
There is no doubt that this area of fines operated very substantially to the detriment of the trade union movement. [More…]
It also provided for the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations and the Director of the Bureau to be listed amongst those who can seek deregistration of a union. [More…]
One was where a union was engaged in industrial action which prevented, hindered or interfered with trade or commerce with other countries or among the States. [More…]
Another ground for deregistration was where a union engaged in industrial action that prevented or hindered or interfered with the provision of any public service of the Commonwealth or State. [More…]
Another ground for deregistration was where a union had engaged in the conduct of activities not authorised by or in accordance with its rules. [More…]
The legislation also provided additional penalties which would have been available to the Federal court to apply as an alternative to imposing fines or gaol for breach of an order, a court order or the Act or instead of deregistration of a union. [More…]
These alternative penalties would have been to suspend the rights, privileges or capacities of the union, or all of a section of its members, the power to suspend a union officer or officers, power to give direction as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that had been suspended and power to restrict the use of union funds or property. [More…]
What they amounted to was saying that the Federal court would have been able virtually to take over a union by suspending its officers, controlling its funds and directing its operations. [More…]
These powers would have been available to the court whenever a union was, say, in breach of a bans clause. [More…]
Instead of applying the fine or seeking deregistration there could have been the operation of these alternative penalties of taking over the trade union. [More…]
So in fact what was being proposed was giving the court the ability to take over a union almost indefinitely. [More…]
So long as the Bureau kept reapplying and showing to the satisfaction of the court that there were grounds for the court to continue its suspension of the union and /or its officers, the court could continue to make that order. [More…]
So the union would be suspended indefinitely. [More…]
It is an incredible situation that a union could be taken over by a court for as long as it and the Government thought fit. [More…]
Furthermore, the effect of the legislation was that all the members of a union or a certain group of members or some individual members could be deprived of their rights to hold any position in the union or to nominate for any position in the union. [More…]
The severity of these alternate penalties and the fact that they would be available to the court whenever it found a union in breach of the Act or award means that these provisions could have been used completely to shackle the trade union movement. [More…]
Furthermore, the Commission had the power to seek a secret ballot of union members to ascertain their views as to certain existing or threatened industrial action in which they were involved. [More…]
Furthermore, the legislation sought to establish a bureau which would have been able to harass and interfere with the trade union movement in many respects. [More…]
Staff of the Bureau would have been able to enter union offices at any time they deemed necessary to inspect any books or documents; to require a union to make available any books or documents the Bureau wished to inspect; to require a union officer, employee, agent or returning officer to make available to the Director of the Bureau any information he may require; to require the attendance of a union officer, employee, agent or returning officer before the Director or an authorised member of his staff and for such person to produce all books, documents and papers in his custody which may be required. [More…]
Refusing to abide by an order of the Director to be summonsed to his presence means that a union official, agent or whatever could have been liable to a fine of $500 or to 6 months gaol. [More…]
He would not have been obliged- he still will not be obliged by the amended Bill- to have regard to objectives laid down in the current Act such as promoting goodwill in industry, encouraging conciliation, providing for the means of settling disputes or encouraging the organisation of employees into trade unions. [More…]
Of course, the Opposition endorses entirely the attitude of the trade union movement in relation to that legislation. [More…]
It was opposed not only by the unions and the Australian Labor Party, but also by the employers. [More…]
For example, where a firm does not take action against unions under the present legislation due to the fear of union reprisals, it is unlikely to welcome IRB action which will provoke the same union reaction. [More…]
The section committee went on to move that the union’s Victorian branch be asked to advise on what action could be taken ‘to black ban positions created for the Bureau’. [More…]
In this respect, Mr Kidd said his members would not bc happy about interfering in the internal conduct of union affairs, and raised some doubts about whether this aspect of the legislation would be effective. [More…]
The Bureau, like the Inspectorate, will have the power to prosecute unions for breach of a bans clause and to prosecute employees for breaches of the Act such as incitement to strike. [More…]
That will certainly be the understanding of the trade union movement, I assume. [More…]
The unions will surely regard that as a breach of the agreement, and I do not know where that leaves us. [More…]
It is for the union movement to make up its own mind on what it is going to do if the Government persists in pursuing that matter in the debate today. [More…]
We object to the Bureau, whether the agreement is complied with entirely or not, but I hope that if the Government is not going to scrap the Bureau it will at least make sure that the Bureau is subject to the same powers and processes which it agreed with the unions in the first place would be the case. [More…]
It is a breach of the agreement reached between the unions and the Government. [More…]
In the Committee stage we will be moving amendments to the membership provisions, but I would make the point that the establishment of the National Labour Consultative Council is something which is being brought about at the suggestion of the union movement rather than the Government. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand did not discuss the agreement with the ACTU until the last few minutes of his speech, but he did say that the unions and the employers were totally opposed to the legislation introduced into this House by the Minister a few weeks ago. [More…]
I think that to most of us who have talked to representatives of unions and employers that is palpably untrue. [More…]
But quite apart from the employers, many of us have been in a position where we have spoken to a number of middle ranking trade union officials, who have said to us: ‘Publicly we cannot support the legislation because it would not be in our interests to do so, but privately we can tell you that we would not be greatly disappointed if the legislation went through, with a few amendments here and there’. [More…]
There is in fact a greater degree of acceptance by the trade union movement of the main thrust of this legislation than honourable members opposite care to acknowledge. [More…]
The trade union movement developed out of a situation where capital was more powerful than labour. [More…]
Much of the trade union movement’s traditional hatred of penalties in industrial affairs has its basis in that history of struggle. [More…]
We have a situation in which, if a large union or group of unions is ranged against one of the smaller to medium sized businesses, the balance of economic and industrial power is very strongly on the side of the trade unions. [More…]
Therefore, trade unions have immense power which can be used for good or ill. [More…]
The second trend which I think is of concern and which ought to be looked at in connection with this debate is the growth in the size of trade unions and their involvement in a wider range of issues than purely industrial issues. [More…]
This has made it much less likely that a union can act with total membership agreement on every matter. [More…]
Consequently solidarity often will be missing, particularly where unions engage in activity which goes beyond the purely industrial issues. [More…]
I refer to the rights of individuals to disagree with the actions which their union executive has determined the union should take. [More…]
I raised in the House the case of employees at the Ringwood Post Office who were victimised by their union for turning up for work on the day of the Medibank strike. [More…]
Their union, the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, sought to fine them $20 each for taking that action. [More…]
Because the matter was raised in this House and because substantial action was taken by more moderate elements in the union to withdraw that discriminatory action, eventually the Union backed away and did not impose any fines. [More…]
This points up the fact that, because of the size of unions and their involvement in an increasing range of non-industrial areas, individual rights can be in jeopardy and they need further protection than is provided under existing legislation. [More…]
Firstly, let me compliment the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions for recognising the Government’s determination to legislate in this area and therefore dropping his previous blanket opposition to the legislation. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have not yet caught up with the fact that the trade union movement has dropped its blanket opposition to the legislation. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, in this respect he clearly acted more as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions than as President of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Secondly, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations ought to be complimented for acting on the offer made to him by Mr Hawke on behalf of the trade union movement and thereby securing 2 key elements of the Government’s industrial relations policy with substantial union agreement. [More…]
The policy of the Government Parties has always been that we should reestablish what formerly was called the National Labour Advisory Council on a statutory basis and ensure that it plays a responsible and regular role in tripartite consultations between the Government, the trade union movement and the employer organisations. [More…]
Because of the agreement between the trade union movement and the Government, 2 key elements of the Government ‘s industrial relations policy will be implemented with substantial union agreement. [More…]
He alleged, as I understood him, that, because the Government is setting up the Bureau as an independent statutory body under the control of a director, this implies some breaking of the agreement with the trade union movement. [More…]
So it is a remarkable proposition to me for the Opposition to claim in some strange twist of logic that for the Government to proceed with that, following the agreement with the trade union movement, represents a change in the Government’s agreement with the trade union movement. [More…]
Obviously, they would require more consideration in the light of representations made by employers and by the trade union movement. [More…]
Individuals have been disadvantaged by the way in which some trade unions have used their powers irresponsibly. [More…]
It is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The significant point here is in the words ‘some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian trade union movement’. [More…]
I believe that this introduces an element of flexibility into what has been presented in the past as the trade union attitude to penalties and it ought to be explored further. [More…]
I think it is a very significant note of flexibility in trade union attitudes which could indicate that in this vexed area of penalties, which has caused a great deal of conflict and ill feeling in the past, there is the possibility of reaching agreement with the trade union movement on the type of penalties which ought to be in our industrial relations legislation and which ought to be enforced against industrial organisations, of both employees and employers, which break industrial laws. [More…]
I am pleased to see the agreement that has been reached between the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
It is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian Trade Union Movement. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the Trade Union Movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
I believe that it is quite easy for the trade union movement to win a confrontation with the government in this country or in any other country. [More…]
Just as the trade union movement brought down the Heath Conservative Government in the United Kingdom, the trade union movement of this country could bring down this Government simply by bringing out a few key men. [More…]
The trade union movement will not be so stupid as to bring out 4 million or 5 million workers in a confrontation with the Government. [More…]
Why would it need any of those provisions now that it has got the trade union movement to say that it would not oppose the transfer to the Industrial Relations Bureau of the existing pains, penalties and processes which reside in the hands of the Inspectorate. [More…]
The Government must have been agreeably surprised when it found that it had been able to get the Australian trade union movement to agree to something to which the trade union movement in no other country in the free world has ever agreed. [More…]
What other trade union movement in the world would have agreed to offering no objection to the existing pains, penalties and processes of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act? [More…]
Who would have thought a few years ago that we would have seen the day when a special conference of Federal unions would have agreed by almost a 20 to 1 majority that they would offer no objection to the present pains, penalties and processes of the existing Act? [More…]
I say that it cannot be avoided if the Industrial Relations Bureau does what the Act allows it to do and if the new Trade Practices Act is ever applied against the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement may as well stand up and fight now as to lay down in the forlorn hope that this Government will be any different from the governments of Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Chile. [More…]
The legislation that the dictators of those countries used against the trade union movement was no less tyrannical than the legislation that already stands on the statute book. [More…]
If the union movement is to say that it will not object to a provision that provides for a fine of $500 a day on each single individual worker who decides to strike against an award that contains a bans clause or imposes a penalty of $1,000 upon a worker who strikes against a bans clause issued under section 32, if it is to tolerate a $400 fine on an official who incites a person to go on strike against an award, even one that contains no bans clause, if it is to accept the contempt provisions that already exist, and if it is to accept the penalties provided for in the Trade Practices Act of $250,000 upon an individual trade union, it will accept anything at all. [More…]
A trade union movement which is prepared to accept these sorts of penalties is not likely to put up any fight. [More…]
But I am beginning to believe that some elements in the trade union movement would be prepared to accept anything that this Government dishes out to them. [More…]
I was in the same position as Mr Hawke once when I was State Secretary of the Australian Workers Union and also State President of the Labor Party. [More…]
I had to take off my ALP hat and put on my AWU hat and act as a trade union official. [More…]
How do we know that now that the Government has the green light from the trade union movement that it will not object to the existing pains, penalties and processes that it will not go the whole hog? [More…]
Of course it will and when it does, it will remind all those who protest that it is merely doing something to which the trade union movement said it did not object. [More…]
I believe that the trade union movement will live to rue the day that it ever agreed to say that it would offer no objection to the transfer of the existing pains, penalties and processes to the Bureau. [More…]
No matter how justified that strike might be or how deep the grievance might be, if an individual member of a union goes on strike or breaches an award, he will be guilty of an offence rendering him liable only to a $500 a day penalty. [More…]
So if the 1 964 General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd strike had been a lock-out instead of a strike- iri other words, if General Motors had locked out the number of workers who were involved in that dispute for the number of days that that dispute lasted- the total penalty imposed upon General Motors under the existing Act, to which the unions say they have no objection, would have been a total fine of about $9,000. [More…]
But if the penalties to which the unions say they will offer no objection had been imposed upon each employee of General Motors for each day that that dispute lasted, the aggregate fines would have been $220m. [More…]
The present Act that we are describing- the present Act to which the unions say they will have no objection- does not allow a member of a union executive or any union official to incite a person to go on strike or to involve himself in even a go-slow strike, no matter how justified the action might be. [More…]
The employer may have sacked the union representative; it may have been a case of where the employer deliberately set out to employ union scabs; it may have been a case of where the employer was refusing to supply proper safety requirements in his factory. [More…]
It refuses any representation to one of the 3 peak councils of the trade union movement, the organisation known as the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations. [More…]
It covers quite a number of so-called white collar organisations and represents in a way that no other organisation does the trade union organisations in the white collar area. [More…]
Some organisations affiliated with ACSPA are affiliated to the Australian Council of Trade Unions and some are affiliated to CAGEO, the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations. [More…]
In the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, where there is nomination by the various organisations to the Australian Council of Trade Union Training, there is reference in relation to the ACTU to 3 members appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the ACTU. [More…]
ACSPA is opposed to any proposal which indicates to the Government that if it wants to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing penal sanctions into the hands of a body which it wishes to designate an Industrial Relations Bureau, the union movement would offer no objection. [More…]
The Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations is a major peak body of the trade union movement. [More…]
1 ) ( a ) Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965: Monaco, Ghana, Zambia, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Yugoslavia, Norway, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Nigeria, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Finland, Singapore, Canada, Germany, Federal Republic of, Sweden, Netherlands, Israel, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Tunisia, Poland, Madagascar, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Fiji, New Zealand, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Chile, Austria, India, Bahamas, Iraq, Hungary, Surinam. [More…]
International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969: Denmark, United Kingdom, Japan, Belgium, Senegal, France, Norway, Fiji, Liberia, Sweden, Spain, United States, Morocco, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Dominican Republic, Syrian Arab Republic, Monaco, New Zealand, Germany, Federal Republic of, Lebanon, Netherlands, Panama, Yugoslavia, Mexico, Tunisia, Cuba, Poland, Bahamas, Finland, Ecuador, Surinam. [More…]
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969: Senegal, Fiji, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Syrian Arab Republic, France, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Germany, Federal Republic of, Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Panama, South Africa, Poland, New Zealand, Tunisia, Japan, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bahamas, Portugal, Brazil, Equador, Belgium. [More…]
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter, 1972: Afghanistan, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, German Democratic Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Jordan, Kenya, Libyan Arab Republic, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia, Zaire. [More…]
This was no strike by a communist union, led by rabid left-wingers. [More…]
I want to draw the attention of the Parliament to the campaign being conducted by the aviation industry union. [More…]
These are not rabid militant left wing unions; they are the conservative unions in our society whose members are, in the main, the better paid members of the workforce. [More…]
These unions are waging a very serious campaign against this Government. [More…]
There is something wrong when the Minister cannot see fit to respond to the wide campaign being waged by the unions because the air travelling public needs to be reassured that safety standards are being maintained or that changes are being made to the standards themselves. [More…]
I am satisfied that the air traffic controllers strike occurred as a result of intimidation and abuse of the membership and the officers of the union by supporters of the Government. [More…]
I had a long discussion with some members of the executive of the air traffic controllers union a few days prior to the strike and a few days prior to the ballot being taken. [More…]
Members of the air traffic controllers union,’ a union that is not affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions or the Australian Labor Party, voted by way of secret ballot against the recommendations of their own executive to go on strike. [More…]
In the Farmers Weekly of 1 7 February 1977, the Farmers Union of Western Australia told the Minister to ‘honour rural promises’. [More…]
On 10 April this year, the wool section of the Farmers Union of West Australia unanimously carried a resolution of no confidence in the Minister. [More…]
In addition the Farmers Union of West Australia gave Mr Sinclair an opportunity to reply to the accusations but he declined to do so. [More…]
He is not an objective unionist. [More…]
I suggest that members of his union should reproach him severely for this outburst at a time when the deliberations are in a delicate situation. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware that the general manager of Consolidated Meat Holdings Ltd at Wodonga has stated that the works will close indefinitely as a result of industrial action taken by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union? [More…]
Is this not yet another example of how unreasonable union action can not only close works, creating serious local unemployment and possible permanent destruction of jobs, but also further erode our international trading competitiveness in meat and livestock products? [More…]
It is but another indication of how radical left wing trade union leaders seem intent on destroying job opportunities for those whom they purport to represent. [More…]
While that sort of direction is pursued within the trade union movement I am afraid there is little chance for the prosperity of that sector. [More…]
The ever-growing and publicised criticism by the Australian Cattlemen’s Union in Queensland indicates that large numbers of National Country Party supporters are far from happy with the approach adopted by the Minister and the attitude of some of their traditional organisations. [More…]
The Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian Cattlemen’s Union want absolute acquisition powers and the Australian National Cattlemen’s Council and the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council want commercial autonomy but have reservations about acquisition. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, the farmer deserves a say on the Corporation just as much as representatives of the trade union movement deserve their say. [More…]
We accept that the trade unions should be represented on the Corporation. [More…]
It is obvious that the main opposition to this Bill by the Victorian Farmers Union concerns a lack of grower representation on the Corporation. [More…]
The cattlemen’s union based in Queensland, which is another great critic of the legislation, is a com- paratively new organisation and no doubt it has een formed only as a result of the very low beef prices. [More…]
They sought the co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
With the assistance of the trade union movement- particularly the Transport Workers Union- the boycott was successful. [More…]
Even though they have been very ready to criticise trade unionists who take militant action, when they see that it is in their interests to take such action they do so. [More…]
I commend them also for asking the trade union movement to support them because when they work together they can be very successful. [More…]
The occasion when primary producers combined with trade unionists to achieve some relief from their problems was a very interesting event. [More…]
I hope that when the good times come along they will remember the occasions when they called on the support of the trade union movement to help them overcome their problems. [More…]
… the Australian Meat Board entered into some arrangements with the Soviet Union. [More…]
There has been a lot of comment in the industry, particularly from the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the cattlemen’s union group, about the extent of ministerial power under this legislation. [More…]
Getting back to the direction of this amendment, I think I should mention for the information and elucidation of the large number of cattle producers from the Cattleman’s Union of Australia who have been lobbying in the halls of this Parliament in recent weeks and who have been talking about the problems in this legislation with regard to ministerial direction that this insertion into the legislation that the Australian Labor Party would like to make really gives the lie to the Labor Party. [More…]
I hope that the people in the Cattlemen’s Union who, as I said, have been talking a great deal about ministerial discretion will note just where the aims of the Labor Party really are. [More…]
-This clause continues to be opposed by the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and by the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
They certainly would include the trade unions. [More…]
I had in mind the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union and the Meat Inspectors Union as 2 illustrations of unions which I would expect to have representation on the AMIC. [More…]
I refer to disquieting reports of the build-up of the armed forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Insofar as this can be done within the limits of intelligence security, will the Minister have prepared for the information of honourable members a report showing the increase in the conventional armed forces of the Soviet Union during recent times and the nature, extent and location of Soviet armed forces distinguishing, as far as possible, between conventional and non-conventional weaponry? [More…]
I also say to the House in passing that I am a former branch president of a trade union in Australia and I have no reason to want to keep that quiet. [More…]
Is the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs aware of an Australia-wide campaign being waged by various building unions to force builders of modular homes to employ their workers under an award which relates to on site builders rather than the awards applicable to employees in a factory situation as is the case with employees building modular homes? [More…]
Is he aware that as part of this campaign the Electrical Trades Union is engaging in a secondary boycott through inducing its members employed by State electricity authorities not to connect power to newly constructed modular homes? [More…]
The Soviet Union, which has experienced reduced influence in the region, may be tempted to make use of the Soviet Union’s improved military capacity for intervention in the Middle East and thus risk a confrontation with the United States. [More…]
When Canada withdrew its supplies from India the gesture proved futile because the United States and later the Soviet Union kept up supplies of enriched uranium to the Indian Government. [More…]
Certainly there has been a hue and cry in the community, largely started by the same gang of pro-communist agitators who are doing a splendid job of wrecking the trade union movement and trying while they are at it to destroy this country. [More…]
For example, the message should be made even clearer to uranium buyers that any nuclear explosion set off by countries other than the recognised nuclear powers- that is, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, China and France- will result in immediate and permanent cessation of uranium supplies from Canada, Australia and the United States. [More…]
They were not successful because extreme union bosses told people at the Mount Lyell mine that they were not to work at Mary Kathleen. [More…]
Honourable members should not suppose that the Soviet Union and other countries are not also using commercial nuclear reactors to produce electricity. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports that these staff are considering forming a Parliamentary Staff Association to be affiliated with the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
Mr G. J. Boreham, Consultant to Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues [More…]
Mr R. C. Petersen, Chairman of Directors, CBOA Credit Union Ltd [More…]
Credit Union League Ltd [More…]
Mr C. G. Jury, President, Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues [More…]
Mr K. Murray, Executive Officer, Australian Federation of Credit Union Leagues Ltd [More…]
Because of the inability of the Honourable Member-then Minister for Urban and Regional Development- to obtain approval for the extension of the project to include housing, and to resolve a union matter relating to contract or day labour construction of the sewerage system, a considerable portion of the allocation had not been committed at the change of Government in December 1975. [More…]
Did the Minister when he made his speech concerning primary industry say that all shop stewards and union officials who came from the United Kingdom had the disease or did he become muddled between corns and Poms? [More…]
Obviously, within the Australian trade union movement there are a number of acknowledged communists and a number of radical left wing union activists who have contributed significantly to non-industrial action which prejudices the recovery of the Australian economy. [More…]
In one group there were a few of those who are British shop stewards and a few of those who are British trade union leaders. [More…]
Obviously, not all British trade union leaders are in the category to which I referred. [More…]
In a series of speeches, television and radio appearances and newspaper articles the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) has vented his prejudice against British migrants who engage in trade union affairs by blaming them for the dire economic straits into which this country is steadily sinking. [More…]
One of his more Neanderthal back benchers has since suggested that such deportations should be to the Soviet Union. [More…]
On further consideration the Minister has recently proposed another solution, that migrants not be allowed to stand for trade union office until they have lived in this country for a number of years. [More…]
As unemployment escalates to increasingly record levels, as inflation continues at double figure rates, as economic growth ceases, as farm income declines alarmingly, as our international reserves run down and as the value of the dollar is greatly depreciated, this Government is becoming increasingly desperate and in its desperation is increasingly anxious to pin the blame for its abysmal failures on the trade union movement. [More…]
As all this seemed to be running rather counter to the Government’s developing union bash campaign we on this side of the House were interested to see which view would predominatewould the Government ignore these figures except when placating foreigners whom it wanted to invest here and pursue its union denigration campaign or would it change course, stop blaming the unions and emphasise its record in reducing industrial disputation? [More…]
It simply incorporated the decline in industrial stoppages into its extremely short list of achievements but continued full bore with its union bashing campaign. [More…]
They must be seen as a crass extension of the general union bash campaign to a particular section of the trade union movement. [More…]
In our view it is not simply a matter of him being an enthusiastic supporter of the Government’s anti-union campaign. [More…]
Just over a week ago at the time the Minister for Primary Industry launched his attack on British migrants Mr Barry Cassell, the Federal Director of the National Country Party, announced he was leaving that job to become National Director of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, an organisation that has been trenchantly critical of the Government. [More…]
The National director of the Cattlemen’s Union, Mr Barry Cassell - [More…]
So there we have the ex-Federal Director of the National Country Party just over a week ago publicly saying that this campaign of denigration of the trade union movement and the British should stop. [More…]
Furthermore, by calling for deportation or discriminatory treatment for British migrants because of their participation in trade union affairs, the Minister not only offends the British born but all the nonBritish migrants who are made to realise that they are still regarded as different from Australian-born citizens by some people in power and therefore liable to be denounced or discriminated against. [More…]
He assumes, as do all his colleagues judging from their public statements, that strikes occur because evil-minded union officials or shop stewards are trying to disrupt industry simply for political purposes. [More…]
The article goes on to make the point that the German manager in Britain sees poor management, inadequate investment and insensitive industrial relations as the cause of the so-called British disease; not the British workers or their unions. [More…]
I think the Government’s campaign of denigrating unions because of strikes totally misses the point. [More…]
Of course, the Government is not interested in discussing the point that there are two sides and that if one simply union bashes this may have extraordinary negative reactions and adverse effects on the community. [More…]
This woman, Mrs Court, found that the major reason for bad industrial relations in the Pilbara was not that there were evilminded trade union officials operating there but that management was largely the cause. [More…]
Union bashing may be all very well for election purposes but its real danger is that it thoroughly confuses the reality of industrial relations in this country and contributes to disharmony and lost production. [More…]
As if that were not enough, only today I have had a report that in the rice industry there is a dispute between the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and the Federated Millers and Mill Employees Association, as a result of which it seems that 1 100 tons of bagged rice destined for Papua New Guinea and a cargo of 20 000 tons due to be loaded at Portland will not be loaded. [More…]
It is not only the rice growers who will suffer but also the very men whom honourable members on the other side purport to represent-the very men whom trade union leaders are supposed to represent. [More…]
What I have done is say that there are communist Australian trade union leaders. [More…]
I have referred to radical left wing trade union leaders. [More…]
It also needs to be said that there are a number of factors within the trade union movement about which we need to be concerned. [More…]
What I have said is that there are a few things that can be done within the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope that one thing which will happen is that more Australian trade unionists will start participating in trade union affairs. [More…]
I hope that they will participate not just in registering a vote but in seeking an appointment within the hierarchy of the trade union movement. [More…]
-Even though the honourable member who is now interjecting does not agree, he realises that the fractionalising of the Australian trade union movement which has taken place as a result of the intervention of British shop stewards, has been rejected by many of those who are significant Australian trade union leaders. [More…]
It is interesting, for example, to refer to Mr Fred Nicol, the Federal President of the Storemen and Packers Union. [More…]
English migrant workers as being disruptive and antagonistic towards the union. [More…]
It is true that the British disease does not exist only in the trade union movement, but it is important that we register its effect in the trade union movement. [More…]
I am endeavouring to point out to the honourable member for Gellibrand that these remarks are not racist in origin; they are not union bashing, much as he likes to use that phrase. [More…]
Even within the hierarchy of the trade union movement there are people who very strongly support the remarks I made. [More…]
In ‘An Overview of the Problems of Migrants Workers’- a paper delivered by Dr June M. Hearn in an industrial relations program at the University of Melbourne in July 1976- she mentioned the Ford workers strike in Victoria in 1973 as a graphic illustration of union leaders being completely out of touch with their rank and file, who were mainly southern European. [More…]
She referred to union shop stewards: . [More…]
Many British migrant unionists, unencumbered by a language barrier, familiar with similar trade union institutions and practices in Britain and often schooled in a union system that relies heavily on strong shop-committee organisation, have been responsible for a substantial militant input into the Australian trade union scene. [More…]
He said that the main cause of Britain’s current economic ills was the union monopoly. [More…]
He said that unionists were so entrenched in key industries that they could raise wages to the level where viability of industry was threatened and in some cases destroyed. [More…]
Mr Johnson said the same structures and practices of trade unions existed in Australia and there was no reason why we should be immune to the developments that have afflicted England. [More…]
The tragic truth is that British socialism has had a devastating case to make out against postwar union leadership. [More…]
Neither in this country nor anywhere else - he was speaking of Britain- have trade unions been able to increase the share of wages and total national income. [More…]
It is trade union action which through wage induced price movements has created the basic problem. [More…]
We need to ensure that both management and trade union members coordinate and co-operate to regenerate this country so that those who are at the end of the line, such as the farmers I represent, are not totally disadvantaged. [More…]
This is the action of a desperate individual whose long history of vicious union bashing is well known. [More…]
I wonder how much support the Government and in particular the Minister is getting from the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia which Mr Cassell now heads. [More…]
The union has been militant, favouring direct action. [More…]
… Mr Cassell has said that his union represents ‘desperate men’ who regard militancy as the best weapon to force government action. [More…]
To ensure that Mr Cassell ‘s statement is regarded as taking the Minister to task about his union bashing, let me quote from a Press release- it is not a comment- signed by Barry Cassell and dated Sunday, 14 August 1977. [More…]
The third point he makes is that there should be positive policy initiatives to replace negative British and union bashing. [More…]
He claimed there had been an attack on migrant workers- there has been no such thing; union bashing- there has been no such thing; evil and vicious intent- there has been no such thing; and ravings. [More…]
Both the speakers for the Opposition have reiterated the untruth that the Minister for Primary Industry talked about the deportation of migrants who have taken part in union activities. [More…]
Obviously, all this talk about the deportation of people taking part in union activities is a figment of the imagination of the Opposition. [More…]
Union leadership bears an equal responsibility: it is the trade union leaders who have to consider the unemployment consequences of their demands for higher pay for those presently in jobs. [More…]
Discussions are held on an informal basis with individual drivers or formally with union representatives. [More…]
Union on rice exports through the ports of Melbourne and Portland. [More…]
Will the Minister, through consultation with his colleague the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs, investigate this dispute with a view to taking action against the Storemen and Packers Union under the provisions of the Trade Practices Act? [More…]
-Unfortunately, this is another instance of disputes within the trade union movement. [More…]
What action can be taken to ensure that live sheep exports are not interrupted by trade union activities? [More…]
I therefore suggested to each of those who were involved in export that in their own State and individual instances they should consult with all who were involved within the trade union movement, the shipping companies and so on, to ensure that to the maximum there was a free flow of livestock to markets and that this would be without prejudice to any ratio that might previously have been negotiated. [More…]
However, there have been for some companies and in some States far more interruptions than I believe necessary or desirable and certainly far more than are in the best interests of the trade and the members of unions which have been active in imposing bans. [More…]
I am.not sure of the future intentions of the federal union involved but it is my belief that separately within each State arrangements can be negotiated quite satisfactorily to look after the interests as they are seen in that State. [More…]
For the whole future of the livestock trade to be prejudiced because union action has imposed bans is to penalise those who are involved in the trade union movement because they will not have jobs involved in loading live sheep. [More…]
It goes back to April this year when the building industry unions made claims for a $30 a week wage increase, a 35-hour week and some other concessions. [More…]
Various building unions have pursued these claims through strike action since, I think, June. [More…]
As a result the Commissioner responsible for this industry refused to vary the builders labourers award to include the recent wage indexation increase unless the union concerned gave an assurance to the Industrial Registrar that it would cease its strike action and pursue its claims through the proper processes which are available to it; that is through conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
The union leaders responsible for this situation should be condemned for directly endangering their members’ best interests and, as well, imperilling the jobs of those who are associated with firms and industries which are suppliers to the building industry. [More…]
In this regard the trade unions have an obligation to overcome some of their previous prejudices about adult training, especially in some of the metal trades areas where there is a screaming shortage of skills. [More…]
We are so conscious these days of removing discrimination in employment that the community, and certainly the trade union movement, should give more attention to this aspect. [More…]
Could the situation arise where the United States and mainland China tapered off their interest in the Middle East and the African continent and left a zone of influence available for the exclusive exploitation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
Fourthly, as 65 per cent of the world ‘s oil deposits are located within this vicinity we ought to acknowledge the growing dependence on the area by the West, by the Soviet Union and by Australia. [More…]
And each conflict within any of the countries, between any of the countries, has deepened the possibility of confrontation and conflict between the two great powers, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anyone reading this report and unfamiliar with the politics of the Middle East may well throw up his hands in despair at what appears to be the impossibility of finding a solution that will satisfy everyone-Egypt, Syria, the Lebanon, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel, not to mention the many other neighbouring Arab countries which abound in the region and the two super powers that wield such influence there, the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
It is also said that one of the forces behind the PLO is the Gaddafi Government in Libya and behind Gaddafi stands the Soviet Union. [More…]
In chapter 4 the Committee looked back at the one time when a world war might have threatened but where, clearly, neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wanted to allow this situation to develop into a war. [More…]
Specifically, the Soviet Union did not want to be pulled by those they were sponsoring. [More…]
Instead President Nasser turned to the Soviet Union and by January 1970 the U.S.S.R. had agreed to supply Egypt with an integrated airdefence system comprising surface-to-air missiles, some 20 000 advisers and Russian piloted Mig 23s. [More…]
4.14 The Soviet Union had been forced to intervene to preserve President Nasser’s regime, which it had come to depend upon for its influence in the Arab world. [More…]
The Soviet Union therefore acquiesced in the American proposed cease-fire of August 1970 which ended the War of Attrition and reduced the dangers of a general war. [More…]
By restricting arms supplies the Soviet Union would prevent Egypt from going to war and also prevent it from achieving the ‘position of strength’ necessary for negotiations involving the U.S. [More…]
In this way the Soviet Union could exercise control over Egypt’s belligerent aspirations while preventing a deterioration in its position of influence. [More…]
There is a tendency in Australia to talk about the foreign policy of the Soviet Union as if it were an endless summer of successes. [More…]
It was a very distinguished Egyptian Ambassador who pointed out to me that back in 1955, at the time of the Bandung conference, the Soviet Union was the dominant influence in China, the dominant influence in Indonesia, the dominant influence in Egypt, the dominant influence in Syria and the dominant influence in India. [More…]
The Soviet Union is in the role of urging them to be at peace with one another, obviously so that it can retain its influence with both. [More…]
I merely say that there is no infallibility in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The first relates to a disgraceful episode in which a pig-headed and stupid government set about deliberately victimising a small but significant group of trade unionists who wished to stand up for their rights and the protection of their jobs. [More…]
While I have incurred some criticism in my own home State for supporting members of the Australian Railways Union, I want to say that I have done it in good faith and I will do it again. [More…]
I am very proud that when they had their meeting last Sunday to decide whether or not they would remove certain carriages which they had placed across the tracks at the Hobart railway station, members of the union invited me to be present as an observer and to speak briefly to the meeting. [More…]
Naturally, members of the Australian Railways Union and other affiliated unions took a pretty dim view of this. [More…]
In any event, when the Government had indicated that it was blindly determined to go its own way, the unionists decided to put four railway carriages across the tracks. [More…]
Although I have been accused of backing a union which was bucking the Government, I say that because the jobs of the men were in jeopardy they had a right to take action. [More…]
People should not be shifting from one foot to another like an ice skater trying to get from one place to another and, as it suits them, calling trade unions mainland industrial gangsters, and then on another occasion standing in this House to praise and applaud the Australian Railways Union. [More…]
I am pleased that the honourable member for Denison did that because the Australian Railways Union, like the other 360-odd unions in Australia, is a responsible body. [More…]
I am glad that the honourable member for Denison now agrees that there is responsibility in the trade union movement and that the trade unions themselves are responsible people. [More…]
I look forward to his support for those unions that are taking action in respect of questions that affect their members and all people in the community generally. [More…]
The unions in the city, the town council and various organisations expressed their concern for the future of the city because the shipbuilding industry was the backbone of the city and was the industry upon which Whyalla grew. [More…]
There have been approaches by various other bodies such as the Whyalla City Council, the chamber of commerce and the combined union councils but all these approaches have received a negative response. [More…]
Redfern did not see fit to accept their union recommendation. [More…]
The union recommendation seems to have been a very sensible recommendation and I am pleased that in most States it was accepted. [More…]
What is the issue that caused all the problem we have with the Postal and Telecommunications Union? [More…]
The dispute is over an agreement to implement a 36%-hour working week for those members of the union who do not presently enjoy that advantage. [More…]
After all, the federal executive of the union is unhappy. [More…]
It ought to be remembered that the Government and the Australian Postal Commission agreed to support the implementation of a 36% hour week for members of the union who do not presently enjoy those working conditions, on the arrangement and understanding that the guidelines laid down by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission would be followed. [More…]
Is there any argument that it is reasonable to expect commissions, unions, employers and employees to accept those guidelines? [More…]
It was a reasonable approach, agreed to by the Postal Commission and agreed to by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, which a significant section of the union is now prepared to ignore completely. [More…]
While all this has been going on, particularly in the last few weeks, the matter has been subject to further arbitration and an element of the trade union movement has continued to say: ‘We are not concerned about the view of the umpire. ‘ [More…]
Whilst this legislation is in no way designed to deal simply with a postal dispute, and in fact it is made perfectly clear that the Government hopes that the legislation will not be used, it ought to be understood that when governments are faced time and dme again with this sort of challenge from elements within the trade union movement there has to be legislative authority available should it need to be used. [More…]
This Bill is really a ploy by the Government to bring about a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
Have honourable members opposite not noticed that the problems even seem to be within their own union? [More…]
It must be of some enlightenment to honourable members opposite that those people appear to regard themselves as a separate part of the union. [More…]
That was done in the company of union officials. [More…]
Of course, if it had been applied to them the whole trade union movement in Australia would have come out in sympathy with them. [More…]
I suggest to him that the more significant issue at present is the contempt for Australia and Australians shown by these various union people. [More…]
They defied the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union order to lift the ban. [More…]
It would be impossible to absorb the material in the Bill without consultation with the trade union movement in the few hours longer that members of the Government have had to look at the Bill than I and honourable members opposite have had. [More…]
It cannot wait until Tuesday so that honourable members can leave this place and consult with reasonable trade unionists on the implications. [More…]
We cannot ascertain whether it will lead to industrial paralysis and whether the moderates in the trade union movement will be put into a corner by the militantsthe communists and the people destined to give us trouble. [More…]
There has been no consultation- if there has been, the Minister did not mention it- with the trade union movement on this Bill. [More…]
Do they say that a Minister now has the power to arbitrarily sack any individual trade union member? [More…]
During his speech the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) mentioned that all sections of society have both rights and responsinilities The air traffic controllers’ strike, and perhaps the mail strike at the Redfern exchange, are illustrations of the way in which a minority section within the trade union movement is prepared to demand its rights within society, while failing to respond to its responsibilities to the rest of the people in the community. [More…]
A militant minority within the trade union movement is trying to set its own rules. [More…]
Are we as Australian citizens prepared to bow to the overbearing demands of a militant minority in the trade union movement? [More…]
In my opinion, it is high dme that Australia, this Government and the people of this country stood up to the trade unions and said: ‘We are not prepared to tolerate any more. [More…]
Too often we hear, particularly from honourable members opposite, that because we stand up and say that the militant unions are nothing more than industrial gangsters we are union bashing. [More…]
It is these same trade unionists, who are too greedy, and because they know that they are in a powerful position they want to grind the last cent out of the community, regardless of the consequences. [More…]
The definition of a grouper is a treacherous individual who undermines the trade union movement. [More…]
Mr Speaker, who was an advocate in the industrial court at the same time as I was, knows that the sophisticated introduction of union bashing and using the back of the axe in industrial relations just does not pay off. [More…]
The penal clauses m 1960s resulted in the gaoling of a union official. [More…]
Mr Clarrie O’Shea from the Tramway Workers Union went to gaol but after that no more fines were paid following litigation in the industrial court. [More…]
Unionists who vote for action and those who fail to vote will all be caught in the net. [More…]
This is the sort of thing to which this Bill leads in order to take control of all union activities. [More…]
It will be possible to retain non-unionists and lay off unionists. [More…]
That provision is not aimed at striking workers; it is a direct step in the process of union bashing. [More…]
This measure was drafted when the air traffic controllers, who are not affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, took industrial action in order to have their position resolved. [More…]
Honourable members opposite told us before the election in 1975, and they have told us since, that an industrial dispute should take place not by direction of the elected officials of a union but after a poll or ballot has been taken among those who are affected by the dispute. [More…]
The Government said that no person in Australia, be he a member of parliament or a member of the union, will ever have the right to question the divinity of this Government and its right to take decisions and impose them on the people of Australia. [More…]
Mr George Polites said: ‘Oh, the one that is going to knock hell out of the union blokes. ‘ [More…]
-This is a clear and concise Bill which will help to answer a clear and concise question: Who is running this country, the elected government of the people or arrogant trade union bosses? [More…]
These arrogant trade union bosses think only of power. [More…]
They developed subject to pressure after pressure that the trade union movement applied. [More…]
The trade unions got on top in those two cases. [More…]
They have been continually asked by the public ‘When are you going to do something about the unions?’ [More…]
The loss of morale among ordinary decent working people who see what the trade union bosses are doing to this country is serious. [More…]
The unions say that they will treat the Government as a bottomless pit. [More…]
This is all part of the overall plan of some extreme union leaders who are trying to bring this country into very serious economic stress. [More…]
The whole problem has arisen because the unions are getting too strong comparative to other sections of the community. [More…]
People talk about union bashing. [More…]
The unions have spent so much time Austrafia bashing that they are deliberately assisting in bringing this country to its knees. [More…]
We ought to talk about unions which indulge in public bashing and Australia bashing. [More…]
I am talking about the leaders of those unions, not the ordinary worker. [More…]
It is time- we are bringing in legislation to produce this situation- that the unions were democratised from within. [More…]
Secondly, the facts of life are that when the average, good, honest, decent trade unionist realises that he can be stood down because of the actions of a few who will not throw a few switches somewhere or who will not handle some machinerythese few in the specialist areas- and that they have stopped him working for the day and that he has to go home without pay, he and his wife will sit down at night and the real effect of these dictatorial actions of the trade union bosses will come home to him. [More…]
He will say to himself: ‘I will have to take more interest in my union’s affairs’. [More…]
I hazard a guess that he and his friends will walk across to the union disruptionists and say: ‘Listen, fellows. [More…]
Until the average trade unionist realises the effect of the actions of his leaders, until he has this brought home to him and decides that he will do something within the union to democratise it, we will continue to go backwards. [More…]
The factual situation is that confrontation arises because of actions taken by trade union leaders. [More…]
There was a recommendation from the officials of that union. [More…]
It should go on record that members do control their unions. [More…]
If the Government wants to take us on with the moderates and the other people in the trade union movement, then we will go. [More…]
Which honourable members opposite are members of a trade union? [More…]
Do they know what it is like to be a union official, to go somewhere at 6 o’clock in the morning and find that employees have taken direct action because they have been forced to do so by the employers, because of the conniving that takes place? [More…]
They come down to the union office pleading for some money. [More…]
Would they understand what the union is about? [More…]
The honourable member was arguing that we have to be looked after and that we have a trade union training school. [More…]
The average trade union official comes from the ranks. [More…]
Why should not the unions unite? [More…]
The men who have done all the work as union officials over the years, as I, the average trade union delegate, the average rank and file member and the average person who loves Australia have done, will take sides if this legislation is passed. [More…]
The New South Wales secretary of the Postal and Telecommunications Union, Mr Merv Hawkins, said the union was trying to get the rosters re-arranged so its members did not lose any money. [More…]
But honourable members opposite will not receive an extra vote if they take on the trade union movement. [More…]
There are responsible people in the trade union movement. [More…]
We in the Labor movement have differences of opinion about how to do things and how not to do them; but, if somebody takes on the trade union movement, he takes on the whole Labor Party side because we are all brothers. [More…]
The trade union movement is made up of the small people. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was formed by the trade union movement in Balmain back in the 1880s, in particular in 1889. [More…]
It was interesting to note also that Mr Slater, when commenting on the actions taken by this Government, lost all track of union matters and quickly got onto a political description of the economy. [More…]
They seek to impose industrial anarchy upon this country because they are controlled by the extremists in the union movement. [More…]
They Will stop at nothing to make the better union members in any union kotow to their desires. [More…]
Unfortunately, not one member of the Opposition has stood in this House tonight and condemned the action of these employees at the Redfern Mail Exchange or members of any other union where the left wing or the communists are in control. [More…]
I refer to the amalgamation of the Australian Workers Union and the Building Workers Industrial Union within the New South Wales jurisdiction. [More…]
The amalgamation was proposed by a vote on the executive in terms of the New South Wales Act which allows such an amalgamation to occur without any reference whatsoever to the rank and file members of either union. [More…]
Within the Federal jurisdiction, we know that there has to be a reference of such a matter to the rank and file members of unions and there has to be a vote of 50 per cent of the members of the union. [More…]
Those who speak about amalgamations of unions so glibly without reference to the rank and file membership will have cause to ponder the significance of their suggestions and their proposals in the years ahead. [More…]
I suggest that some parts of this amalgamation will be very important for Australia because through it attempts will be made to change the federal structure of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union has had great respect in Australia. [More…]
Consequently, there will have to be a very close watch to see that this amalgamation does not become a method whereby the new New South Wales State union does not have the opportunity of an inflated membership to dominate the federal structure of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
They previously would not have been part of the delegation sheltering under that very respected name of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I merely say that the industrial movement in that State and the ACTU will both be altered by a change in the balance that has occurred with respect to this union. [More…]
You are the union. [More…]
Incessantly Government supporters talk about the fragmentation of the union movement, yet when some effort is made to consolidate it in a contemporary way, as is being done in other parts of the world, they adopt this reactionary attitude. [More…]
They raise any kind of opposition at all that will cast some slur over the trade union movement. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman can wheel in anybody who can put up some kind of opposition to delay the consolidation of unions, he certainly will take that course whilst, on the other hand, he wil go on complaining that the trade union movement is fragmented to the disadvantage of the Australian people. [More…]
A Manning Committee is a committee of advice constituted under the provisions of section 424 of the Navigation Act and comprises representatives of the owners of the ship, and the relevant maritime union, and is chaired by an officer of the Department of Transport. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the recommendations made at the recent Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference with regard to the world’s use of water resources and the disposal of waste. [More…]
As I indicated in my speech at the opening of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Canberra last April, the Government considers that deficiencies in water supplies loom as one of the great issues in economic and social development over the next 25 years. [More…]
Often I felt his intense sense of pride as we walked together at the head of Labor and trade union marches through Crown Street, Wollongong. [More…]
It has never been regarded as being pro union, pro worker or pro the Labor Party. [More…]
As one who was associated with it for many years in an advocacy sense and in appearing before it I think I am in a position to say that it certainly is a basically impartial tribunal although I think it perhaps has a tendency to lean, if anything, against the interests of the unions. [More…]
That project was threatened by a minority of communist led unionists subverting that program and eliminating job opportunities. [More…]
Another instance is in Tasmania were eight members of the Transport Workers Union were in dispute with other unionists. [More…]
At least 3,000 workers will be put out of work if those eight unionists do not go back to work. [More…]
It seems to me also that this offence might be something else that could be laid at the feet of the Australian Union of Students, which could not conduct a duck raffle in a pub without welshing. [More…]
The background to this dispute is that the Seamen’s Union wants coal to be carried out of Australia in Australian flag ships with Australian crews. [More…]
That is the rip-off that the Seamen’s Union is trying to perpetrate on the Australian economy and the Australian taxpayer. [More…]
From time to time honourable members on this side of the House have been known to comment on the amazing flexibility of the trade union movement in matters that seem to link industrial actions and political actions. [More…]
The telegram from the Farmers Union of Western Australia helps to identify part of the hypocrisy, if I may use that phrase, of the ACTU in matters of this kind. [More…]
I should think that even the trade union leadership would realise that by stopping trade of this nature- in this instance Indonesian flag vessels carrying Australian wheat and in other instances any flag vessel carrying wheat to Chile- the losers are not only the Australian farmers but also the trade union members themselves as the benefits go to farmers in other countries and to the members of the work force in those countries. [More…]
In other words, there is no doubt that the political practices of the Seamens Union referred to by my colleague the Minister for Transport, those of the builders labourers referred to by my colleague the Minister for Construction and those of the other individuals throughout Australia to whom I referred recently, are significantly prejudicing economic recovery in this country. [More…]
-I would hope that it will be recognised at the forthcoming ACTU conference, even by the honourable member for Port Adelaide, that the time has come for some common sense and some rational approach amongst those who are the leaders of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Representations from eminent international conservation bodies such as the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources have stressed the global significance of the Park. [More…]
The draft Code was circulated for comment to 94 recipients made up of appropriate Australian and State government departments and authorities, uranium mining and exploration companies and mining associations, and relevant trade unions and trade union councils. [More…]
-And the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Of course, this includes countries such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and countries behind the Iron Curtain. [More…]
Last year the scapegoat was the trade union movement. [More…]
We all know of the devastating actions of small groups in the trade union movement. [More…]
We must realise that uranium is being mined on an increasing scale in overseas countries, including United States of America, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria, France, Gabon and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The trade union movement in Germany and France had come together at a meeting in Hamburg and had undertaken to give their support to the Australian trade union movement in respect of what is a moral experience as much as a political one. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that uranium has been mined in Australia since 1958 and for at least the last two decades uranium power has been a viable source of energy, particularly in western Europe, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The strange thing we have not noticed in this debate is that the other section of the world, namely the Soviet Union and its satellites, which are also well along the road to nuclear development, have not been brought into this debate. [More…]
Then I suppose at the executive meeting of the Australian Council of Trade Unions he suddenly became somebody else and did not have to support Labor Party policy. [More…]
If he thinks a referendum in relation to uranium is a good way of resolving an issue, one would think such an election procedure would be a good way of making sure that the union movement gets the right President at reasonably regular intervals. [More…]
While great joy has been expressed in industrial circles and in trade union circles about the Prime Minister’s stand, no one knows better than the Prime Minister that he was talking nonsense. [More…]
They are similarly exerting pressure on our trade union movement to allow full-scale mining to go ahead. [More…]
The movement which includes eminent scientists, church leaders, trade unionists and conservation groups has become so influential that there is considerable doubt as to whether the plans of the companies will be realised. [More…]
If the major figure who has bought into the argument on uranium has a loyalty to his unionists will jump when the radical left wing unions crack the whip- I am not a union basher; quite the reverse- then the rest of the nation will ask: ‘Who rules this country? [More…]
I was very proud when I visited the Academy of Science in the Soviet Union and the Indian Academy of Science to hear leading scientists from around the world say that our country was leading the world in solar energy research. [More…]
I want to refer now to the proposal of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I know that Edgar Williams of the Australian Workers Union, who behaves as though he is the AWU, is prepared to poison and distort the genes of the 130,000 of his members to keep less than 2,000 of his members in a job in which they will lay themselves open to death from cancer caused by the radioactive effect of uranium mining. [More…]
It is all right for Edgar Williams in the safety of Dunstan House to say that he is prepared to put at risk the lives of members of his union for the sake of keeping up his falling membership and to appease the mining lobby. [More…]
He said that this is a foul communist plot designed to immobilise the Western world so that the Soviet Union can forge ahead with ample power while we will have no power at all. [More…]
So just where is the trade union movement going? [More…]
Now what we are doing when we say that all these countries can have the fast breeder reactor is saying that the detente that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union, which detente has perhaps played a leading role in the world’s living in peace, is now to be broken. [More…]
Israel, Egypt, Brazil, all the European countries, India, China, the Soviet Union, the United States of America, all the countries in eastern Europe if the Russians allow them to build the same sort of nuclear reactors, will have the ability to build nuclear weapons. [More…]
The Labor Party does not agree with what the Soviet Union is doing in the proliferation of nuclear reactors throughout eastern Europe. [More…]
I happened to be the organiser for the union at Radium Hill when uranium was being mined and exported from that centre. [More…]
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics already have major nuclear power plants in operation while Hungary, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia have a commitment to nuclear power and are proceeding with that commitment. [More…]
So the Government believes that it can create a nice union bashing, Labor Party bashing issue on the question of uranium. [More…]
But when the people of Australia see what is an obvious phoney- they see a government being destroyed by its incapacity to handle the economy, and suddenly it switches the issue to the question of uranium, knowing what the reaction of sections of the trade union will be and knowing that it can create a climate of union bashing- they will see the hypocrisy and the absurdity of this as a major election issue. [More…]
One of the things that strikes one very strongly when speaking to Japanese officials- people in government circles, in the bureaucracy and in industry, either at management or union level- is the great sensitivity that Japan has towards her dependence on overseas sources of supply. [More…]
I have noted that, amongst other things, one union leader has said: ‘Violent uranium protesters, mad lunatic elements, want bloodshed, want confrontation. [More…]
I suggest that threats by the executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to ban uranium development if there is not a referendum can only encourage them. [More…]
I think it is sheer hypocrisy on Mr Hawke ‘s part to try to create confrontation between government and trade unions. [More…]
It is worth noting that on many occasions the President of the Australian Labor Party has suggested that this Government wants confrontation with the union movement. [More…]
If the truth be known it has always been this Government that has protected the people of Australia against confrontation by minority union groups of one kind or another which have sought to deny their services to the people. [More…]
Despite all this evidence highlighting the Government’s failure to act to stimulate employment opportunities and the economy in general, it still attempts to pour blame on the union movement for its own economic incompetence. [More…]
Any such attack on the union movement such as the recently introduced [More…]
Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill is quite plainly designed only to divert public attention from the Government’s own failures and to provoke the union movement into confrontation with the Government. [More…]
The trade union movement, the latest anti uranium movement, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal, and the Industries Assistance Commission are some of those bodies the Prime Minister has sought to blame for his own incompetence and that of his colleagues. [More…]
Will Australia’s policies on uranium development and export be affected in any way by recent discussions and decisions at the British Trade Union Congress on nuclear energy recently reported in the Australian Press? [More…]
-Attention has been drawn to reports dated 10 September that the annual conference of the British Trade Union Congress advocated an expanded nuclear program. [More…]
I further note that the Trade Union Congress, as that report indicated, backed a full scale demonstration of fast breeder reactors on grounds that there might be a shortage of uranium and that therefore countries dependent on nuclear energy for peaceful purposes would need to conserve what supplies of uranium were available to them. [More…]
I believe it is most significant that the Trade Union Congress has apparently come to these views. [More…]
It also shows that in the United Kingdom responsible unions, having a considerable number of facts available to them, having a very large number of their members dependent upon energy from nuclear supplies, recognise that countries of Europe need uranium for the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. [More…]
Over a period all these organisations, in addition to the Australian Cattlemen’s Union, have given advice to the Government on these matters. [More…]
More recently a paper has been submitted to the Government by the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
However, there is one rural organisation which in my view has been irresponsible in its public statements, and that is the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
I agree with many of the aims of the Cattlemen’s Union, but I disapprove very strongly of its methods. [More…]
In my electorate the executives of the Cattlemen’s Union are my friends. [More…]
In my area the executives of the Cattlemen’s Union have been responsible and moderate. [More…]
Some executives of the Cattlemen’s Union have resorted to threat and have attempted to blackmail members of Parliament by attacking them personally as not doing their jobs and by threatening to join Australia s latest and most formless political party, the Australian Democrats, in an attempt to take away our seats. [More…]
The Cattlemen’s Union is claiming credit for recent announcements made by the Government. [More…]
This was before members of the Cattlemen’s Union had seen the Prime Minister. [More…]
-The first round of discussions on mutual military limitations in the Indian Ocean between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was held in Moscow in June. [More…]
The aim is for mutual balanced reductions, a viewpoint we put forward since the days when we were in opposition in contrast to the demands of the former government, the present Opposition, which was calling for unilateral withdrawal by the US irrespective of the moves of the Soviet Union in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
The Australian views have been communicated in great detail to the United States and the US Administration has undertaken to consult very closely with this Government before any final agreement is reached with the Soviet Union. [More…]
This consultation is taking place as the negotiations continue between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
There are some lucky countries, such as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which have plenty of oil and plenty of uranium. [More…]
Moreover, a considerable amount of the better uranium ores originally present in the United States, France and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has been used for weapons production via enrichment. [More…]
The proposition that a referendum should be conducted on the uranium issue seems to be an attempt by the Executive of the ACTU to establish a compromise between the extreme views of Labor Party members within the trade union movement. [More…]
Before doing so, I think it is rather interesting to consider the wrangle or argument that is going on within the Australian trade union movement as to whether it will move, transport or mine uranium for export. [More…]
It is not a question of whether uranium will be exported or whether it will be sold; it is a matter of whether the trade union movement will assist. [More…]
It is interesting to note the resolution on nuclear energy adopted by the English Trade Union Congress on 8 September at its annual congress at Blackpool, England. [More…]
Before proceeding further I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the Trade Union Congress resolution on nuclear energy. [More…]
We gave him approval to incorporate the British Trades Union Congress resolution. [More…]
I refer to the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
The National Director of the Cattlemen’s Union, in a speech given at his first public meeting as Director, in Goulburn said: [More…]
It is abhorrent to see that this highly paid Director of the Cattlemen’s Union has resorted to such petty and threatening outbursts in order to justify his position and in order to further the cause of his organisation. [More…]
The tactics employed by the Cattlemen’s Union would appear to be a desperate attempt to claim credit for the forthcoming measures to assist the cattle industry at the expense of the well documented and researched representations put to government by the long-established and well-regarded rural industry organisations, both State and national. [More…]
The credibility of the Cattlemen’s Union is being eroded by its extreme and sensational outbursts. [More…]
I should have thought it to be in the interests of the whole cattle industry that the Cattlemen’s Union, with its undoubted energies, abilities and funds, be directed to closer collaboration and co-operation with the other industry organisations and the Government to secure a return to economic stability and security for all sections of the cattle industry. [More…]
Algeria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, German Democratic Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Spain, Sudan, Turkey, United States of America. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that the British Trades Union Congress recently adopted by a large majority a motion calling for a 12-month interval between pay increases? [More…]
Finally, does he have any grounds for expecting that the Australian Council of Trade Unions will adopt the same responsible attitude as has the British Trades Union Congress towards this matter in the interests of all Australians? [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions could learn a great deal from the responsibility exhibited by the British Trades Union Congress. [More…]
There is one thing which I think the British trade union leaders have had very much in mind: They are concerned not only for their members who have work but also for the unemployed in Britain. [More…]
If Australian trade union leaders could act in the same way we would march much faster along the road to recovery. [More…]
The company’s shareholders are: Intercontinental Fuels Ltd, a European company, 26.6 per cent; Commercial Union (United Kingdom), 26.6 per cent; the National Coal Board of the United Kingdom, 20 per cent; and Austen and Butta, 26.6 per cent. [More…]
A number of union bans and boycotts are preventing the shipment of many Australian export cargoes and are resulting in the loss of vital export markets. [More…]
Other bans are used to support restrictive work practices by Australian unions. [More…]
I move onto the other type of ban I have mentioned, that is, action designed to support restrictive and protective practices by certain unions. [More…]
For example, I mentioned the bans and demands placed on Utah Mining Australia Ltd by the Seamens Union of Australia to force coal to be carried in Australian flag ships with Australian crews. [More…]
As the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) said recently, Utah is doing Australian farmers, miners, exporters and in fact the Australin people a great service in standing firm against the union’s demands. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union has priced itself out of the market and however much we would like it, Australia cannot afford to employ Australian flag carriers in highly competitive industries such as the coal industry. [More…]
An even more extraordinary example of union action is the ban promoted by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on the export of live sheep to the Middle East. [More…]
That union even wrote letters to the Prime Ministers of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in April this year threatening to ban the export of live sheep unless those countries took more sheep carcasses. [More…]
Decisions about industry protection should be the subject of separate Government consideration, not an imposition by way of capricious action by a few union officials not answerable to the public. [More…]
Action of this nature by a few Australian unions is damaging [More…]
-The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) in his usual dignified way launched a vicious verbal assault on Australian trade unions. [More…]
I honestly believe that had it not been for the strength and unity of Australian trade unions the overall population of Australia today would not be enjoying its present standard of living. [More…]
The honourable member indicated that he was strongly opposed to the maritime unions taking action against the handling of Indonesian ships. [More…]
I think his speech would have been more balanced had he added to those remarks that the Australian trade union movement, and particularly the maritime unions, have been consistent all the way down the Une with Indonesia. [More…]
The Indonesian Government was reminded late last year by several members of the Australian Labor Party when they were in Indonesia and when the Australian trade union movement was being criticised by the heads of the Indonesian Government, that the Australian trade union movement employed similar embargoes and fought just as tenaciously for the Indonesians when they were fighting for independence against the more or less harsh Dutch colonialists. [More…]
It must encourage progressive reform of the trade union movement. [More…]
Here I have in mind particularly the need for the development of industry unions rather than the fragmented union structure we now have. [More…]
I remember an occasion when the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union asked me to support an application before the PJT for an increase in the price of products of Comalco Ltd or Alcoa of Australia Ltd- I am not sure which. [More…]
We should be spending more time seeing what kind of technology is available to industry in countries such as West Germany, the United States, even the Soviet Union, Italy and France. [More…]
In countries such as the Soviet Union and the United States they have now discovered that, with the rapid pace of life we are living towards the end of the century, they need a big influx of psychologists if people are to be able to handle the pace of life. [More…]
The article reported some remarks made by the President of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, Mr Graham McCamley, about why his organisation had to kick. [More…]
A lot of Press publicity has been given in recent times to the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
To my mind, some of the leaders of the Cattlemen’s Union have virtually sold the industry down the drain by trying to play politics with it. [More…]
I do not wish to brand all members of the Cattlemen’s Union as being irresponsible, because I know that some of them are not. [More…]
To my mind, the Cattlemen’s Union is acting like a fly-by-night organisation, and its spokesmen are acting like fly-by-night operators. [More…]
It is only since the Australian Labor Party has taken up the cudgels on behalf of country people and since the Australian Cattlemen’s Union has been formed that this Government has taken any notice of the militancy which is growing in country areas about something being done because of what is happening. [More…]
I wish to refer also to the allegations of a Public Service union that this problem was caused mainly because of staff shortages. [More…]
While on the subject of industrial disputes I must also decry the fact that so many British migrants seem bent on importing the ‘British disease’ into the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
They are seemingly adopting the same attitudes and views towards the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
I suggest that unionists are not to blame for all the diseases of Australia today. [More…]
I shall place on record some statistics on the number of trade unionists in our work force. [More…]
The reference is a document issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in June 1977 headed ‘Trade Union Statistics: Australia December 1976’. [More…]
In that document the definition of trade unions states: [More…]
For the purpose of the statistics a trade union is defined as an organisation, consisting predominantly of employees, the principal activities of which include the negotiation of rates of pay and conditions of employment for its members. [More…]
According to the document from which I read the membership of unions in December 1976 was 1,950,600 males and 841,300 females, and total of 2,791,900. [More…]
From December 1975 to December 1976 there was a decline in male union membership of 0.8 per cent, and the same percentage decline applied in female union membership, making a decline in union membership of 0.8 per cent in the 12 months of 1976. [More…]
In 1 976 63 per cent of males and 47 per cent of females in the work force were in trade unions, the total number of persons in the work force in trade unions being 57 per cent. [More…]
That means that 43 per cent of the 6,199,500 persons in the Australian work force are not in a trade union covering their calling. [More…]
Forty-three per cent of them do not contribute to a fighting fund; they do not attend a stop work meeting or a union meeting; they do not vote in a union election; a number of those 43 per cent claim that industrial action is useless; they talk of their union being communist controlled, undemocratic or inefficiently managed, yet they complain about their rates of pay and conditions of employment. [More…]
But those same 43 per cent who are not in a trade union will accept any increase in pay, any reduction in working hours, improved sick leave, longer annual holidays, better long service leave, improved retirement benefits, safer working conditions, improved amenities at their work place, and more pleasant and comfortable working conditions. [More…]
Some of my previous remarks apply also to people who are in a union but who take no part at all in the management or control of their union. [More…]
If there is anything wrong with our trade unions it is caused by the apathy of many unionists who are not active unionists, but more particularly it is caused by non-unionists in our work force, not by the importation of any ethnic disease. [More…]
There should be less union interference and fewer trivial and unjustified strikes. [More…]
Wales the matter was finally resolved by way of a settlement which effectively restored Latham’s membership of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
Despite a meeting called this week by the Barrier Industrial Council the 90 members present, being respectively members of the Town Employees Union, the Municipal Employees Union and the Building Trades Union, decided to have their own meeting at which a resolution was passed supporting the right of any individual to exercise his discretion as to whether he should work with any particular person. [More…]
How many unions have taken advantage of the Government’s offer to conduct secret ballots for union elections through the Australian Electoral Office. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3) The only official information available on union elections relates to those of elections that are conducted by the Industrial Registrar or the Australian Electoral Office pursuant to section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
On the contrary, I attacked the National Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
I accused the Cattlemen’s Union of being an organisation set up for political purposes. [More…]
I said that it would collapse as quickly as it had been formed and that if the Cattlemen’s Union would only - [More…]
Some criticisms have been made of the Government by the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
The trade union movement in Broken Hill is very efficient and very capable. [More…]
The Broken Hill trade union movement went before the Industrial Commission with this case. [More…]
Certainly the Government will not be coerced by irresponsible union muscle and it will not hesitate to introduce legislation, as it has already done, if and when it is necessary. [More…]
As examples of those sorts of disputes I instance the building industry disputes currently taking place in Victoria, disputes in the Pilbara which disrupted our trade to Japan, bans by the Seamen’s Union of Australia involving claims for crewing of ships engaged in overseas trade and strikes in Queensland abattoirs which again have threatened the fulfilling of contracts and, in one instance at least, closed a works and put hundreds of people out of a job. [More…]
By engaging in these sorts of disputes unionists show a total lack of concern for the effects on the community and on fellow workers. [More…]
As the honourable member would be aware, the present International Wheat Agreement expires next year, and as there is a substantial world build up of stocks, particularly in the United States of America and Canada, and increasing stocks in Europe and the Soviet Union there are great fears about the pressure being applied on the market by these stocks. [More…]
Is the Minister for Construction aware of reports claiming that an all State survey indicates that building projects worth $500m are in jeopardy because of union disruption? [More…]
We have found that the additional cost to the taxpayer as a direct result of industrial disputation by the Builders Labourers Federation alone is $2m, which gives the House and the people of Australia some idea of what the activities of this union and of some others like it are costing the country. [More…]
We could seek deregistration of the union; we could interfere in individual disputes which are affecting our own projects; or we could take direct action similar to that taken by the Victorian Government and close down all Commonwealth projects. [More…]
I wonder why he does not exercise some of his influence on some of his friends in that union and get them to lay off the industry, let the members of the union go back to work and give the building industry an opportunity to get back on its feet. [More…]
In the Security Council there is a further protection of the veto power which may be exercised by the United States of America, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and China. [More…]
I can imagine what would happen on the shop floor when it was known that a member of a trade union had made a donation to the Liberal Party. [More…]
The union would probably impose a black ban. [More…]
Union provided funds for the Labor Party in 1972? [More…]
That union provided $25,000 to the Labor Party on the basis that if the Labor Party gained power, which it did, no action would be taken against the unions under the existing arbitration rules and regulations. [More…]
The comment went on: working in harmony with democratic governments and an enlightened trade union movement. [More…]
In 1974 and 1975, how many members of the trade union movement were forced to subscribe extra money to assist the Labor Party in its campaign funds? [More…]
The Labor Party itself relies a lot on the funds it receives from the trade union movement. [More…]
Every financial member of the trade union movement is subscribing to the Labor Party, whether he votes for that Party or not. [More…]
But Government supporters chide us on this side of the House by saying that the unions make contributions to our campaign funds. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union made its contribution on television. [More…]
Honourable members opposite can inspect the balance sheet of that union to see the contributions that are made. [More…]
What happens to the levies paid to unions? [More…]
The Labor Party is quite happy about the compulsory acquisition of funds through union dues from people who are very strongly opposed to it. [More…]
The Labor Party collects these funds from the unions. [More…]
People must contribute to the unions. [More…]
Very many people in the unions who do not express publicly their objection do object. [More…]
There should be a regulation which provides that union funds which are acquired compulsorily should be used for union purposes and that funds which would be devoted to political parties should be on a voluntary contribution basis. [More…]
As I said earlier, there are 12 kindergartens in Sydney controlled by the Kindergartens Union of New South Wales. [More…]
-The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations is aware that legislation was introduced last year to allow for secret postal ballots in union elections. [More…]
Unions are taking advantage of section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which enables elections conducted by the industrial registrar or the Commonwealth Electoral Office to be conducted at no cost to the union. [More…]
As yet, I think it is too early to assess with any accuracy the extent of acceptance of officially conducted ballots since the legislation came into effect, because not all unions nave been required by their rules to have elections conducted. [More…]
But it is my own view that ultimately most, if not all, union elections will be officially conducted. [More…]
Some elections, for example, in the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union have not conformed with the requirements of the Act. [More…]
There were extensive discussions with the unions concerned over this matter before the contract was let and the view of the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia was put in these terms: [More…]
The scheme of improvements envisaged in the alterations proposals was endorsed by the union which believed that the working conditions for workers at the Lodge would be considerably enhanced when the alterations are completed. [More…]
The union, however, would expect that these improvements would be implemented as soon as possible, including air conditioning which is considered a necessity. [More…]
Honourable members opposite yesterday said that the trade unions make donations. [More…]
Every balance sheet of every trade union would show its political donations. [More…]
The Labor Party has to kotow to the leaders in the union movement for their funds or else it is in real trouble because that is where a lot of its funds come from. [More…]
It all comes back to what I said in the few minutes available to me between the points of order by back bench oncer members, that is, that in order to take the people’s minds away from the economy, unemployment and other matters of great concern to this nation they create smokescreens such as union bashing. [More…]
-The democratic process in this country stands inperilled by the actions of arrogant trade union bosses. [More…]
They are often in a position to manipulate members of trade unions who would wish to disown their leaders but are unable to do so because of intimidation, trickery and other underhand methods. [More…]
Today we have heard that a bans clause has been inserted in the Building Workers Industrial Union award. [More…]
He points out that in England the prevailing view taken by the majority of union bosses in the Left is that liberty is conforming to majority opinion. [More…]
The British labour movement is being followed by the union groups in Australia. [More…]
Their masters are the Marxists and other protagonists in the trade union movement. [More…]
I did not believe that any trade union group could set itself up as a judicial body and fine people. [More…]
In the past few years we have seen a growth in the incidence of violence amongst trade unions. [More…]
Much of it has been caused by the incredible factionalism within the union movement itself, with numerous different groups of communists all vying with each other. [More…]
Mr Gallagher has said that the union movement should be above the ordinary law. [More…]
A lot of union leaders take that view. [More…]
I remember occasions, both at Victoria Street and at The Rocks, when there was violence, when there was intimidation and when photographs of individual unionists and politicians were put up all round the place with slogans written all over them saying that these men were to be stopped, that they were to be beaten. [More…]
We saw what happened when the Builders Labourers Federation got into an argument and invaded the Building Workers Industrial Union premises in Sydney, and eventually had to pay damages for what occurred. [More…]
One day a year should be set aside for union elections. [More…]
I know that union elections may come around every two or three years, but one day should be set aside on which people could go to some appropriate place and cast their votes in a secret ballot. [More…]
We have to democratise the unions and made the bosses responsible to their membership, we have to remove the totalitarian aspects of the leadership that presently exist and all these other problems that have been occurring. [More…]
The time is long overdue for us to take steps to ensure that violence within unions is stamped out. [More…]
Despite the fact that unemployment is a great problem, it is estimated that 30,000 people have been thrown out of their jobs because of actions taken by building workers union bosses. [More…]
The threat to the democratic process and the Australian economy by the actions of Trade Union leaders, particularly in the building industry. [More…]
This is not a matter of union bosses breathing down the necks of their members as the honourable member for St George would like the people of Australia to believe. [More…]
Yet its supporters come in here with this trumped up matter of public importance that was only ever an exercise in union bashing anyway. [More…]
-After weeks and weeks of build-up, meetings with the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia and subsequently the Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation and the Australian National Cattlemen’s Council, the Government has managed to devise a higgeldy-piggeldy program in an attempt to assist the Australian beef industry and to take the heat off itself. [More…]
The Minister seems to take great delight in blaming trade unions for all the problems of primary industry, but again he has failed to repeat the statements he made to the Retailers Annual Convention in Sydney when he blamed ineffective management for many of the problems faced by primary industry. [More…]
If the Minister was honest, he would recognise that many of the problems, particularly in abattoirs, grain handling authorities and other rural service organisations, are due as much to defective management as to union militancy. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
I understand that at present there are no commercial fast breeders in operation, but demonstration reactors are operating in France, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
You do not even know that the Soviet Union at this moment is building one of the most powerful atomic breeder reactors ever seen. [More…]
Other nations that are operating nuclear power stations include Czechoslovakia, France, West Germany, East Germany, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In addition to that we need to develop new groups, new communities, new unions, new parties which consist of people who are able to be committed to one another in loyalty, honesty, responsibility and trust. [More…]
I do not think that any group of people, any community, any party, any union or any other body can contribute to a better society unless the people in it have been substantially de-alienated. [More…]
-Earlier in the day the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) brought before the House one of the most serious matters which concerns this nation, that is, the disruption and permanent damage that is being done to this country by militant trade union leaders. [More…]
We are not talking about trade union leaders who are concerned about their rank and file members and who genuinely want to bring about better work conditions for their members and genuinely represent them in industrial cases. [More…]
We are talking about those trade union leaders who are motivated by political reasons, people who are prepared to use guerrilla tactics to disrupt the normal processes of the country, people who want to do no more than use their muscle through the trade union movement to bring about the economic downfall of this country. [More…]
As the honourable member for St George said earlier today in this place, in March this year there was a disgraceful exhibition when the Builders Labourers Federation invaded the offices of the Building Workers Industrial Union, tossed furniture all around the place, and frightened the female staff of that office. [More…]
It was because one union leader was simply trying to assert his dominance over another. [More…]
The honourable member for St George earlier today mentioned several matters to which I believe the Government should give serious consideration in order to make these communiststhese radical union leaders- acknowledge the law of the land, to ensure that they are brought under the normal controls of society. [More…]
No longer is the community prepared to put up with those people who want to hide behind the umbrella of genuine organisations such as trade unions which have been established for many years for quite genuine reasons- to represent the working people of Australia. [More…]
These trade union leaders want to hide behind mummy’s apron so that they can use their position of power to push their communist tactics. [More…]
-Again we have been treated to an episode of union bashing- the second for today. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr) is well known for his attitude towards the trade unions of Australia and even more so for his attitude towards the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
He made the allegation and the accusation that the trade unions of Australia were responsible for the problems this country faces. [More…]
Is he saying to this House and through this House to the nation that people who belong to trade unions are not ordinary decent people? [More…]
He agrees that, somehow or other, trade unionists are different from the rest of the community. [More…]
I remind the honourable member that most of the people who receive their incomes in the form of wages and salaries in Australia belong to a trade union of one sort or another. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) seeks to confront not only the trade union movement but also those sections of the community which dare to criticise him in any way. [More…]
There is no doubt that the appropriation we are considering will be used for small things such as the erection of the flag, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and even the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship. [More…]
I wish to touch on the appropriation for the InterParliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
Every encouragement should be given to keep the good work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union going. [More…]
I refer to the secretariat of the InterParliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union, as a general background to its negotiations is relying upon that principle. [More…]
It just happens that the union forgets to apply those principles in respect of, for example, Russian ships which transport goods to and from Australia. [More…]
A previous speaker has also referred to the union problem. [More…]
Certainly there are problems with the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
Nothing could give a clearer indication of the very deep feeling among the rank and file members of Builders Labourers Federation against the totally irresponsible and destructive actions of their union leaders. [More…]
That is indicative of the fact that, when given the opportunity to do so, rank and file union members often indicate that they do not go along with the disruptive tactics of those who allege that they are representing their interests. [More…]
A point that needs to be emphasised is that some extreme elements in the union movement are becoming more skilful in exerting a thoroughly disruptive effect on large sections of the Australian community by pulling a relatively few people out on strike. [More…]
The activities of the Seamens Union in Queensland in relation to the Utah dispute and the export of coal have resulted in the suspension of the Norwich Park project. [More…]
There is also the dispute conducted by certain members of the Australian Workers Union in Bass Strait I think that at this stage most honourable members are unaware of the fact that that dispute could lead to the cessation of oil production from Bass Strait by tomorrow or the day after. [More…]
In the face of those figures can anyone deny that certain extreme elements in the union movement are seeking to destroy economic recovery in Australia? [More…]
I rise tonight to discuss some of the relevant and pertinent facts about one of Australia’s most disruptive unions, which is filled with officials who have a high degree of expertise in telling lies to the Australian community. [More…]
Throughout the months leading up to my making this statement in the House tonight this union has caused a great deal of disruption, hardship and unnecessary provocation in areas which are related to its supposed area of control. [More…]
That union is the Seamen’s Union. [More…]
They have no concern for their fellow Australians and they are the scabs of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
The pamphlet which has been put out by this malicious union claims that only $600,000 was given in coal export royalties in 1976 and that in 1977 the total amount which the Queensland Government would receive in royalty payments would be less than Sim. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union claims: [More…]
I say to this House and to those people of Australia who are concerned about the actions of this unfair union that the Utah Co is presently paying International Transport Federation rates of pay and conditions and that the average wage of these seamen is $ A9.000 per annum tax free. [More…]
The Seamen’s Union has been told this but it is refusing to drop this matter. [More…]
Are professional actors, entertainers and television performers denied unemployment benefits even when they produce a membership card identifying them as long standing members of their trade union, Actors Equity. [More…]
Eligibility for unemployment benefit is not dependent on union membership. [More…]
However, a claimant may on occasions use his membership of a union to establish his occupational status, but this only has relevance for an initial period since policy now requires claimants to consider, after a reasonable period, employment outside their normal occupation, even if this means a change in status or remuneration. [More…]
The Australian submission is supported in ICAO by the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries and the prospects of international acceptance are very good. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister inform the House whether a request for intervention by the Commonwealth in the Seamen’s Union dispute with the Utah company has been received from the Queensland Government? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister indicate to the House what powers the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government have to take action to overcome the bans imposed by the Seamen’s Union against Utah ships and to ensure that the jobs of thousands of Queensland workers are maintained? [More…]
-Since May of this year the Seamen’s Union has refused to provide services at Hay Point for vessels operated by Utah in the coal export trade to Europe. [More…]
The Seamen ‘s Union has been claiming that Utah vessels should be manned with Australian crews. [More…]
According to the analysis available to us, if the Seamen’s Union’s claims were met in full it could well jeopardise exports of coal from Australia to Europe; it could well jeopardise future contracts. [More…]
It is now well known that, as a result of the bans that have been imposed by the Seamen’s Union, the development of the $250m Norwich Park coking coal project in central Queensland has been deferred. [More…]
It is my understanding that he wished to seek deregistration provisions against the Seamen’s Union in this matter. [More…]
When we look at what is going on, particularly in Victoria, in relation to efforts by the trade union movement, with which honourable members opposite are so closely aligned, to break the indexation guidelines and to destroy the wage-fixing system in this country, we realise that honourable members opposite have no interest in unemployment. [More…]
Quite frankly, I predict that unemployment will increase greatly, as it has already as a result of strikes, if the indexation guidelines are broken as a result of the activities of the unions in Victoria. [More…]
We cannot tell the Soviet people what is happening here, and the Soviet Union continues to tell uslies. [More…]
Devaluation speculation by responsible members of this House, election speculation by those folk who operate above us in the Press Gallery, industrial anarchy and speculation as practised by the left wingers in the trade union movement, all contribute to the feeling of uncertainty which must be overcome if we are to see a healthy consumer-based recovery in the Australian economy. [More…]
That is the United Kingdom- is currently being asked to accept a series of major infringements on traditional personal freedoms largely on the basis of an unproved economic hypothesis- that the main cause of inflation is trade union cost push. [More…]
It is interesting to note that one of the countries they support, without any apology-we know their alignment and their sympathies- is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I have the feeling that he was referring to the Cattlemen’s Union which is better known to my friends in the National Country Party but I would imagine that he was referring to the interest of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in trying to help people who are in that organisation. [More…]
I have no doubt that many honourable members in the House noted the discussions which took place the other evening on the television program This Day Tonight between members of the trade union movement and the Minister in Victoria. [More…]
Why should the trade union movement of Australia be expected to put up with that? [More…]
It was agreed that if this matter is not resolved today the Victorian Government will be instructing the State Electricity Commission to move for deregistration of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, the Australasian Society of Engineers, the Federated Ironworkers Association and the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
Acceptance of economic stagnation as a policy has made it difficult to deal with industrial disruption, and has given a golden opportunity to union extremists. [More…]
But beyond this, the Government has failed to give to the trade union rank and file protection against victimisation by the thugs within their own unions. [More…]
Extremist leaders are anxious to convert any confrontation with themselves into confrontation with trade union rank and file. [More…]
-The Opposition stands condemned and the Australian Labor Party stands indicted for failing to tell the nation, and the House, its attitude towards the current wave of strikes and abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
There is a Seamens Union strike in Queensland which has stopped a major investment project and is causing people to lose jobs. [More…]
There is an Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union dispute in which bans are stopping the delivery of mail in New South Wales. [More…]
There are bans by the union movement on the export of products to Chile and Indonesia. [More…]
More people are out of work through the activity of a small band of union officials than are unemployed. [More…]
The Opposition is constantly raising the matter of the number of unemployed in this country, but it constantly fails to tell us about the number of people who are out of work and unemployed because of the activities of a small band of union officials. [More…]
I challenge the Opposition- I challenge the Labor Party- to tell us where it stands in relation to those people who have been stood down, those families which are suffering, because of the activities of a few union officials. [More…]
I am not engaging in a union bashing exercise. [More…]
It is remarkably silent and throws out the smokescreen of union bashing to divert the attention of the people from the truth. [More…]
The vast majority of responsible unionists, like the vast majority of Australians, need to know where the Labor Party stands. [More…]
I am not attacking the 95 per cent of unionists who are responsible and decent people. [More…]
The union movement is a proper part of the capitalist system. [More…]
But the trouble with the union movement now is that it has outlived its original function. [More…]
We in this society are engaged in a battle for the supremacy of the rights of the people and for the supremacy of the rights of the Parliament over the abuses of power by a few officials in the union movement. [More…]
When the history of the times we are now in is written it will tell us whether the battle against the abuses of union power was won or lost. [More…]
That man and 500,000 others in Victoria and perhaps 600,000 or 700,000 people throughout Australia are out of work because of the excesses of union power. [More…]
The honourable member for Diamond Valley told me that until the power dispute the figures for registered unemployed in that CES office showed a slowing down in unemployment, but because of this abuse of union power unemployment is rising again. [More…]
I have referred to the denial by the unions of the ability of Australian livestock producers to export cattle. [More…]
I should like to know what the Cattlemen’s Union thinks about that. [More…]
The honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam), the Leader of the Opposition, when asked about unions last Monday on a PM program said: [More…]
I point out to the Leader of the Opposition that the plain fact is that the arbitration system is breaking down because of the excesses of union power and because of the activities of left wing unionists. [More…]
He has been a successful manager in the union movement and he is a prominent politician. [More…]
Not one of those headlines m that advertisement to the people of Australia today mentions strikes or the abuse of union power. [More…]
I would say that the words that should appear in that advertisement are: ‘Unemployment through union strikes is the worst that it has been’. [More…]
More people are out of work now because of the abuses of union power. [More…]
The Labor Party is in a dilemma because, on the one hand, its organisational strength comes from the union movement and, on the other hand, its essential weakness, its democratic weakness, is that it is linked with the union movement. [More…]
The people of Australia know that whoever controls the union movement- that is, the left wing- controls the Labor Party. [More…]
The Labor Party was born out of the union movement; the Labor Party is a party formed to represent unionists in parliament. [More…]
Over a period of one and threequarter years the trade union movement has recorded a very substantial decline in the level of industrial disputation, despite the fact that this Government has been slashing away at the living standards of its members. [More…]
Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the Premier of Queensland, is stopping any negotiations occurring in that dispute by telling Utah that if it negotiates with the union in relation to this matter he will move to increase freight rates paid by Utah. [More…]
So we totally reject the subject of this matter of public importance- the abuse of union power throughout Australia. [More…]
There is no union plot to destroy wage indexation. [More…]
The unions support wage indexation, but they say that this Government has breached its promise to the Australian people about the way wage indexation should apply. [More…]
I support strongly, as a matter of public importance, the issues raised by my colleague the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton), namely, the current wave of strikes and abuse of union power. [More…]
The major group that is destroying the Australian way of life is the extremist unions which my colleague the honourable member for Higgins mentioned in his address this afternoon. [More…]
This improvement is a result of the Fraser Government’s sound economic management and its willingness to consult with the trade union movement. [More…]
However, this overall improvement hides a real and continuing problem, that is, unjustified strikes initiated by left wing union leaders and, as we have seen this afternoon condoned by the Labor Party, involving key workers in key industries. [More…]
It is absurd that the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Victorian Trades Hall Council should have allowed a committee of militant shop stewards to incite direct action in support of a log of claims contrary to the trade union movement’s own rules and best interests. [More…]
The situation gets worse day by day as the abuse of union power in Victoria continues to deprive Chrysler of its components. [More…]
The people of Australia are entitled to know the way in which the abuse of union power, condoned by honourable members opposite as we heard a few moments ago from the honourable member for Gellibrand, is sabotaging economic recovery and adding to unemployment in Australia, despite the sound economic management of the Fraser Government. [More…]
The trade union movement does not hire or fire; that is done by the government and by employers in the private sector. [More…]
Many of the people who formed the trade unions in this country were sent here, exiled from their country because they went on strike in their own country. [More…]
They have arisen because the working people- the trade unionists- have decided not to let the Government lower their living standards. [More…]
Why do honourable members opposite think unions are formed? [More…]
Why do they think people who go to work in any establishment decide to join a union or an association? [More…]
When the Government said that it would abide by the policy of wage indexation the trade union movement accepted it, but the Government’s word was not worth a butt. [More…]
The honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton), who raised this matter of public importance, has never been a member of a trade union. [More…]
The Government will not break the back of the trade union movement by its daily exercise in abuse, by its use of the Parliament in attempting to divide the community. [More…]
The Government might say: ‘Let the unions with the most muscle go out and get what they can, but those workers who are not organised into trade unions or who are poorly organised perhaps will not do nearly as well’. [More…]
They make all sorts of abuse about left wing unions. [More…]
They would not know a union if they came across one. [More…]
Today the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke about deregistering left wing unions. [More…]
The cub from Chrysler has never heard of Laurie Short, but he is one of the people whom the Government intends to take to court and whose union the Government intends to deregister. [More…]
We have reached a new height in union abuse. [More…]
Fees have more than doubled- certainly in New South Wales- in pre-schools which are run by the Kindergarten Union and by local government councils. [More…]
As further evidence of the jackboot dictatorship that would smash our democratic freedom I quote to the House the contents of a document distributed in Broken Hill by militant union officials. [More…]
The only official information available on union elections relates to those elections that are conducted by the Industrial Registrar or the Australian Electoral Office pursuant to section 170 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
I am advised that the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia and the Musicians’ Union of Australia are the only employee organisations which have such a requirement in their rules. [More…]
Preliminary disposal action including arranging of discussion with the Peak Union Councils concerned is being undertaken by the Minister for Productivity. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to allegations that the Soviet Union, while it pretends support of international detente, nevertheless indoctrinates its own citizens with concerted falsehoods about conditions in the Free World, with the object of raising up unwarranted hatred and contempt. [More…]
My understanding is that various signatory states, including the Soviet Union, have indicated interest in discussing this subject in order to correct what they regard as distorted views, held in other countries, of their own countries ‘ socio-political systems. [More…]
Telecommunications Union are being cooperative in this instance and are trying to talk common sense to the workers. [More…]
I make some reference to the important submission of the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia because I believe that is the major union of the industry. [More…]
The union says that the industry ought to have a great deal more industrial democracy and that little work is being done to improve the working environment. [More…]
The Indicative Planning Council, which is giving advice to the Government, represents the industry, the trade union movement and other sectors. [More…]
The renovations have the full support of the Union involved and those working at The Lodge will benefit from the renovations rather than Mr and Mrs Fraser. [More…]
I am very concerned with the intransigence of the Prime Minister about the Industrial Relations Bureau and about the lack of consultation between the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
In the United Kingdom there has been an alarming tendency for a small number of large corporations to control a greater proportion of production because it is far easier for government and unions to influence a small number of large corporations than it is to influence a larger number of small businesses. [More…]
And it is the essence of modern union bureaucracy that workers are easier to control in big factories, where the organised military clique rules all. [More…]
So Labor ministers and union bosses are united in their upending of Labor’s old posture. [More…]
Both loathe the small business and the little workshop and penalise them viciously; both exhibit a positive hatred for the self-employed, who cannot be unionised or corporated at all. [More…]
I am very critical of the lack of consultation between the Government and the trade union movement. [More…]
Firstly, I do not believe for a moment that the allegation is true, but if it were true it does not say very much for the union movement which is involved at all levels within the industrial and manufacturing sectors. [More…]
If the conditions about which the honourable member complains were in evidence, this is a very damning indictment of those organisations, particularly of the unions which allege that they look after their members. [More…]
As the honourable member would know, a great number of migrants are members of unions. [More…]
The most racist organisation in this country is the trade union movement. [More…]
The major importers included the United States, Japan, Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The international market for sugar does not include agreements which exist between the European Economic Community, French Caribbean and Pacific countries under the Home Convention, Cuba and the Soviet Union. [More…]
And it is of the essence of modern union bureaucracy that workers are easier to control in big factories, where the organised militant clique rules all. [More…]
So Labour Ministers and union bosses are united in their up-ending of Labour’s old posture. [More…]
I would hate to call Mr Hawke a fibber, but it has been said that a promise of one cent a gallon payable by ACTU-Solo to the Labor Council of New South Wales was made and that in fact the Transport Workers Union threatened to go on strike if that one cent was not paid. [More…]
Many approaches were made by local government, by various union organisations, by me and by others about these problems. [More…]
We have seen the bluster of this Government and the Victorian Government in trying to inflame the industrial dispute in the Latrobe Valley, and we have witnessed its settlement by the common sense of the trade union leadership nationally. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations has sought, most scrupulously, to consult with the trade union movement and with employer organisations. [More…]
After about 1 8 months of the term of office of this Government the trade union movement accepted the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
The Government was enormously disappointed with the Australian Council of Trade Unions when it stood out of that tripartite consultative mechanism for 18 months. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students is recognised as an affinity group and its members can obtain cheaper international air fares as a result. [More…]
Let us set out to see what we can get from that monster in the way of further trade in the manufactured products, because we will not get that customs union to change its attitude when it comes to the votes of the farmers having their sway. [More…]
It is said that because some other countries have no unions and they can get people to work for nothing in darkness, in slime and in filth we have to pass all our manufacturing industry to them. [More…]
We need as well a sensible trade union movement that will not allow itself to be provoked by people who represent the manufacturers and the entrepreneurs. [More…]
We hear all sorts of screams and belly-aching from the neo-fascists opposite about union bashing, but when we start talking about the involvement of the people who control them and investigating those people it is a horse of a different colour. [More…]
There have been discussions and negotiations with the unions involved and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, but to date there has been no settlement of that issue. [More…]
How can we have a few militant union leaders trying to dictate what our foreign policy and trade policy will be? [More…]
I think it is worth noting that the Soviet Union in these particular matters continues to spend 12 per cent to 14 per cent of its gross national product on defence, not only for direct offensive weapons of a great variety but also for the construction in very large measure of strategic nuclear shelters for a large part of the Soviet population. [More…]
It is something that is far beyond the needs of the Soviet Union for purely defensive purposes. [More…]
Not without note are the efforts to create and multiply the divisions in the trade union movement about which we hear from Government Ministers every day of the week, and in the rural community. [More…]
For instance, the spurious attacks on the trade union movement and the lack of justification for its generalised claims about industrial unrest in a nation at the present time are clear evidence of its determination to divide the nation by abuse and by false accusation. [More…]
Moreover, the trade union movement, the industrial movement, has been forebearing and sacrificing in the way in which it has been prepared to contribute, through self restraint, to an improvement in the economic conditions of the country. [More…]
We have heard much about the problems of wage push, the pressures which emanate from that and the destabilising effects which can flow from that in economic management, but we have heard of no credit being extended to the trade union movement for the fact that, in spite of average earnings increasing by a little over 10 per cent last financial year, the cost of living increased by much more than 13 per cent and productivity increased by more than 3 per cent. [More…]
On the one hand the organisational President of the Australian Labor Party and the trade union leader, Mr Hawke, is saying that there should be a referendum to make a decision on this issue. [More…]
The average citizen believes that the trade union movement regrettably has been irresponsible in certain sections and has created havoc for a country that is struggling to get back on its feet after the economic recession and setback which it received at the hands of the previous Government. [More…]
This assistance is given in recognition of the pressures that are exerted on primary industry over which the industry neither has control nor has any inbuilt mechanism to cushion the effects of decisions made by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the Prices Justification Tribunal or union initiatives. [More…]
I suggest that it should have the sorts of organisations which exist in the trade union movement, whereby pressure can be applied to obtain the conditions to which trade unionists believe they are entitled, whether or not the community agrees. [More…]
Subsequently I entered into consultations, on behalf of the Government, with the peak union and employer councils. [More…]
I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to both the national employers and the peak trade union councils for the frank views put to me during those consultations. [More…]
These provisions are based on the recommendations of the Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Sweeney into Alleged Payments to Maritime Unions conducted during the office of the previous government. [More…]
It is a response to emergent trends in the social role of trade unions, or in the roles which they seek to assume, which has led to changes in the behaviour of trade unions as institutions. [More…]
It is obvious that unions have moved a long way from being small craft organisations with limited aspirations concerned mainly with ensuring fair wages and working conditions for their members. [More…]
By contrast, the union movement today is a powerful economic and social pressure group. [More…]
Unions have grown greatly in size and are in a position to influence powerfully, by concerted action, the economic wellbeing of the community. [More…]
A very real danger arises where a union, in pursuit of some limited or self-interested goal, is able to impose economic hardship and dislocation on the entire community. [More…]
We have seen, and are witnessing, the frightening capacity of a relatively small group of unionists in the Victorian power industry to wreak havoc on an entire community. [More…]
It is paramount that unions recognise their obligations and the legitimate interests of the Austraiian community. [More…]
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this trend is the change in the relationship between the member and his union. [More…]
A certain common purpose must be shared by the members of a union, but as the objectives of unions broaden this becomes less and less likely. [More…]
Clearly, in any large group of individuals such as a trade union, whilst there might be agreement about traditional union goals, the scope for disagreement about other issues- political, social, cultural, environmental- may be as great as the diversity amongst individuals in an organisation. [More…]
This becomes all the more oppressive for individual members where the union leadership is ideologically oriented, bent upon serving some narrow political interest rather than the interests of the members. [More…]
The Medibank strike of last year, a political not an industrial issue, will live long in the memories of many whose unions tried to discipline them for non-participation or who, under duress, took industrial action against their personal convictions. [More…]
However, in response to views put to me during consultations with the national employers and the peak union councils, the Government has decided to require the payment of a fee by an applicant for a certificate. [More…]
Non-employees will be able to join a State branch of an organisation of employees only where, and to the extent that, State industrial arbitration legislation authorises non-employees to be members of State unions. [More…]
The right of a union member to refuse to participate in industrial action is to be reinforced. [More…]
I was talking about provisions relating to secret postal ballots for union elections. [More…]
In response to the views put to me by the national employers and the peak trade union councils, the relevant provision has been redrawn to make clear that the Bureau cannot take part in the dispute settling process under this section. [More…]
The amendments now proposed in this regard retain the right of a person to go directly to the Court, rather than to have the Bureau act on his behalf, and this change again reflects views put to me by the national employers and the peak union councils. [More…]
This decision by Government is a further indication of the seriousness with which the views of national employers and the peak union councils have been considered. [More…]
This is important and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union ought to remember that the more livestock we export to the Middle East, and the larger the number of consumers we encourage to eat meat, the greater will be the opportunity to export carcass meat in the future. [More…]
However the unions have said that unless all abattoirs are working to capacity they will actively endeavour to prohibit such a trade. [More…]
However, the union, which consistently seems to adopt a short term inward looking policy, persists in hindering the future of its members ‘jobs. [More…]
But there is not only a union problem; there are other problems. [More…]
I refer particularly to the agency operated by the Australian Union of Students and the great hardships that were caused to many individual students who were caught overseas and who could not make proper or effective travel arrangements through that agency. [More…]
On the past record of those gentlemen, no one could accuse that Full Bench of being anti-trade union. [More…]
They are paid enough bloody money to say ‘Well perhaps the union case didn’t cover everything but we are now charged with the settlement of an industrial dispute and we will now settle it’. [More…]
I have a letter from some responsible union leaders in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
I refer to a letter from the State President of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, who is also Secretary of the Morwell sub-branch of that union, and the Secretary of the Yallourn sub-branch of that union to the local newspaper, the La Trobe Valley Express some three weeks ago. [More…]
Two meetings of representatives of the SEC unions were held at the VTHC in May, at which discussion was necessarily protracted because of complex award matters involved. [More…]
It would have been, nevertheless, only a matter of time until agreement was ultimately reached on the log to be submitted to the SEC through constitutional trade union channels. [More…]
However, on IS June, an organised group calling itself the SEC Latrobe Valley Shop Stewards Committee, under the leadership of Amalgamated Metal Workers Union official S. Armstrong - [More…]
-Mr Armstrong is President of the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council, Chairman of the SEC Latrobe Valley Shop Stewards Committee, Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and a member of the Communist Party, as the honourable member for Riverina said. [More…]
Apart from the fact that S. Armstrong’s committee is representative of only 11 of the unions with members employed in the SEC, shop stewards committees, which operate under an ACTU charter, have no constitutional authority to either engage in this type of industrial activity or pursue matters affecting wage rates or award conditions. [More…]
From the outset, therefore, the Latrobe Valley campaign has been essentially illegal and divorced from properly constituted trade union procedures. [More…]
This organisation is strongly opposed by many groups in Australia, including the East Timor Association, the Aboriginal land rights groups, the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation, the Australian independence movement and the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
What has financial accounting for unions to do with the SEC dispute? [More…]
What have union ballots to do with the SEC dispute? [More…]
It is totally opposed by the unions. [More…]
Despite the impression that may have been given by the Minister in his speech last night referring to points of agreement, this legislation is totally opposed by the trade union movement in this country, and I suspect that a lot of employers are not too happy about it either. [More…]
Last May when similar legislation- not exactly the same, but similar legislation- was put before this Parliament the resolution of the Australian Council of Trade Unions executive was that if it were passed into law there would be massive economic dislocation in this country. [More…]
So the unions’ attitude to this kind of legislation is well known. [More…]
The Government knows that the unions will resist completely this kind of legislation and it knows that, by introducing it, it is raising the prospect of industrial confrontation. [More…]
The Government knows that the penalty procedures which it has introduced in this legislation have been against trade union policy since 1969. [More…]
It knows that the attempt to impose that kind of legislation will mean that there will be strong resistance from the trade union movement. [More…]
It was vigorously opposed by the unions- not just bv the ACTU but by the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations and also by the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations. [More…]
Both of these white collar organisations, CAGEO being predominantly a white collar union, agreed completely with the ACTU that this legislation should be totally opposed. [More…]
It is known that some of those provisions conflict with the policy of the Australian Trade Union Movement. [More…]
First, if the Government wishes to put the responsibility for dealing with the existing pains and penalties and processes into the hands of a body which they wish to designate as an Industrial Relations Bureau- and there is no explicit or implicit addition to those existing provisions or processes- the Trade Union Movement, while regarding such a move as unnecessary, would offer no objection. [More…]
So we will be right back to the pre- 1969 days when unions were taken through the industrial court and fined for breaches of bans clauses. [More…]
It could seek deregistration of unions. [More…]
Where a union or its officers or members are suspended, as will be provided for in this legislation, the Bureau can seek renewal of the suspension. [More…]
So the Bureau will play the role of seeking time after time the suspension of unions, union officials or members. [More…]
It can investigate union rules or adherence to rules on its own initiative. [More…]
It can apply for demarcation orders to exclude a union from covering employees engaged in certain work. [More…]
It is an industrial police force brought in to enforce various provisions, both existing and new, against the trade union movement. [More…]
If that involved trade or commerce, either interstate or overseas, it would be a basis for deregistering a whole union. [More…]
Also conduct not authorised by the union rules is a basis for deregistration proceedings. [More…]
Once a union or a section of a union is deregistered as this legislation will allow, there is no control whatever by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Deregistration means that the union is then outside the system. [More…]
You are not just imposing a penalty by taking away award cover; you are throwing that union right out of the system. [More…]
The whole process of dealing with industrial disputation ceases once the union is deregistered. [More…]
The only way in which it can work is if the unions are so frightened of deregistration that they would give in on the expectation that they would be deregistered if they undertook certain action. [More…]
Where a union is m a position where deregistration or selective deregistration is applicable, an alternative set of penalties are available. [More…]
A power is given to the Industrial Court to order suspension of the rights and privileges of union officials, of the union itself or of its members. [More…]
If it were applied to union officials, such as Mr Halfpenny, who have been involved in the dispute people would be suspended who may have the best chance of settling the dispute. [More…]
If the Government insists on bringing in this kind of legislation either in relation to the SEC dispute or any other dispute it will bring about an enormous reaction from the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Government thinks the Federal Court of Australia will be allowed to take over the trade union movement, suspend its officials, direct its funds, direct the operations of the unions and the union movement will quietly accept that, the Government has another think coming. [More…]
I cannot believe that the union movement will allow without substantial protests such action to occur. [More…]
It means that unions can be virtually wiped out by that kind of provision. [More…]
The second principle is that unions in Australia I am talking now specifically about unions and not employer organisations- are in a very privileged position. [More…]
That system of registration gives unions a large number of very considerable advantages. [More…]
The unions have the advantage, for instance, under section 47 of the Act of obtaining preference for their members. [More…]
It means, to take one example, if there are two employees, one who is a member of a union and one who is not, the one who is a member must be given preference in the case of employment, in the case of termination and in the case of any other provisions under the award in which a decision must be made as to who will benefit. [More…]
It means that if a competent, willing, devoted employee who is prepared to work for wages fixed properly under the system, fixed properly according to arbitration, is not a member of a union, he suffers. [More…]
The person who gets the advantage, the person who gets the benefit, the person who gets the preference, as it is called under the Act, is the member of a union whether he is competent, whether he is able or whether he meets the requirements of the employer. [More…]
That is one enormous advantage to unions which are registered under the Act. [More…]
It is likewise not realised that section 142 A of the Act can give to one union the exclusive rights of representation in industrial matters in a particular industry or part of an industry. [More…]
That means that not only is that union entitled to operate within that industry but that no other union is entitled to operate within that industry. [More…]
That is an enormous and very valuable advantage to unions which are registered under the Act. [More…]
Hence, if advantages of these sorts are to be given to unions which apply for preference or which obtain this exclusive right of representation, that system must operate in such a way that those who are not members of the organisation are not prejudiced. [More…]
If there is union opposition to these provisions relating to conscientious objectors, if there is opposition coming from the Labor Party or from the trade union movement, I suggest that that opposition comes because what they want is universal domination. [More…]
They do not want people to be joining unions because the union provides a benefit, because the union is so good that it attracts people voluntarily to join it; they want people to be obliged to join compulsorily. [More…]
They want universal dominion on the part of the union, aided in some cases by tyranny. [More…]
Not only should there be some preservation of the rights of people who do not want to join unions but likewise there must be a recognition that people who are members of the organisation have rights. [More…]
They pay their dues; they surrender a lot of their responsibility to the union and it is only right and proper that the Government should take steps to ensure that the union acts properly towards its own members. [More…]
E roper that those accounts, when audited, should e available to the members of the organisation so that they can see what is happening to the union dues which they pay to the organisation and which are supposed to be spent on their behalf. [More…]
It is now clear, as it was to me several months ago, that the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and the special conference of the federal unions were led up the garden path when they were conned into saying that they would accept existing penalties and processes of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act m return for the abandonment of the more obnoxious provisions of the original Bill. [More…]
Trade union collaboration with it does no more than provide sitting fees for its members and a facade of respectability to disguise its real purposes. [More…]
The trade union members of the NLCC are not even allowed to report back to their constituent bodies on what happens at meetings of the NLCC. [More…]
Why have not we read a word in the newspapers about this from representatives of the unions on the NLCC? [More…]
So far as I am aware, the ACTU and CAGEO representatives have not held a meeting of the constituent unions since their last meeting with the Government’s NLCC eight days ago. [More…]
I believe that they had a duty to tell all the trade union movement by way of a special federal conference what had been planned so that at any rate the Labor spokesman and the people who represent labour on this side of the House would have had at least more than 12 hours notice of the present intention. [More…]
I do not know whether the peak unions accept the principle of allowing union rules to be made by regulation. [More…]
Here is a new concept proposing that the Government may make union rules by regulations. [More…]
Where the union rules are in conflict with the rules specified by regulations, the rules made by regulations shall prevail. [More…]
It means that we have taken the first step towards giving the Government the right to make a set of uniform rules that will apply to all unions that wish to remain registered with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
I do not know what sort of opposition was expressed by the unions at the last meeting of the NLCC to the proposal that the court can order that an elected official shall refrain from holding himself out as being so elected. [More…]
But I have not read anywhere in the Press that representatives of trade union organisations on the NLCC have indicated their opposition to it. [More…]
If they are not free to do that, then if they have any self-respect at all, they will get off the NLCC altogether because they are being used as a facade by the Government to give respectability to the Government’s rotten proposals to try to hogtie and weaken the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) claims that it is necessary for the court to have new powers to deal with demarcation disputes and to make orders prohibiting a union from covering a particular employee or group of employees. [More…]
The Government talks about the democratic right of union members to control the policies and affairs of their unions and blames the communists for forcing members to go on strike against their will. [More…]
When the SEC refused to accept the log the rank and file authorised the Electrical Trades’ Union to serve the claim on their behalf. [More…]
The present strike came about as a result of rank and file decision, not by a directive of some union bureaucrat. [More…]
Since we are talking about communist union bureaucrats it is perhaps appropriate to mention that when John Halfpenny went down to the Latrobe Valley to try to persuade the men to go back they howled and hissed and jeered rum out of the meeting. [More…]
So much for the nonsense about communists union officials forcing people to go on strike against their will. [More…]
His union membership inhibits his wish to change his trade or his will to remain an individual instead of a unit in an anonymous mass. [More…]
The right of the individual must be protected; so also must be the right of the decent trade union which tries to secure justice and equity for its members by negotiation, thus preserving industrial peace. [More…]
The Bill does not upset preference for unionists. [More…]
The legislation has made clear that the conscientious clause which protects the individual ‘s right not to be a unionist will not be a refuge for free-loaders who want all the benefits of decent unionism without paying a cent. [More…]
The beneficiaries, the unionists, have to pay their way and it costs them plenty of money. [More…]
Section 22 also protects employees from arbitrary action and persecution from employersnot just from their own union but also from employers- in many specific ways which are itemised. [More…]
Until now it nas been a case of woe betide any humble trade unionist who questioned the actions of the bureaucracy to which he had to give allegiance. [More…]
Union bureaucrats have ample power to deal with people who do not pay their way or who make difficulties other than the ordinary difficulties for the union and whom, up until now, they had the right to expel. [More…]
One of the great difficulties that people in the Liberal Party have in understanding preference for unionists is that it seems to resolve itself into a closed shop. [More…]
The closed shop puts enormous power into the hands of the union officials both on the job and at headquarters. [More…]
The whole essence of the legislation before us is that it is designed to protect the individual, to protect his rights against arbitrary dismissal, to protect his rights against arbitrary action by union officials. [More…]
Everyone on this side of the House knows that all unions are not communist. [More…]
I hope that no one gets the impression because I have strong views about this matter that I make a declaration that every single union in this country is a communist controlled union, that ipso facto all unions are bad and that we should have nothing to do with them. [More…]
I am not suggesting that for a moment Everyone on this side of the House knows that all unions are not communist and that decent trade unionism is as essential to our present structure of civilisation as is any other social institution. [More…]
We know that if the present communist penetration of the key unions goes on, the whole structure is likely to crumble. [More…]
For example, the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union now has a membership of 170,000-3 per cent of the work force of this nation- and it has an annual income of $4m. [More…]
It seems to me that, if 3 per cent of the work force can cause 30 per cent of the stoppages, there is something seriously wrong in that union. [More…]
Sir John Egerton says that this particular union’s awards do not compare favourably with those of unions which do similar work. [More…]
We also know that the key unions in this country, such as the Waterside Workers Federation, the Seamen’s Union, the railway unions, the miners, the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Builders Labourers Federation are communist controlled or strongly communist influenced. [More…]
They are the key unions in this country. [More…]
In a list of the 25 major unions in this country we see that 230 key positions are held by members of the Communist Party and 150 fulltime positions are held by members of the Communist Party. [More…]
The whole purpose of this Bill is not to destroy the Communist Party- would that it were possible to do such a thing- but it is designed specifically as the beginning of a number of major industrial steps to give rights and freedom to the individuals within those unions so that they will have the full protection of the law when and if they decide to stand up and seek office in the interests of other members of those unions. [More…]
In conclusion let me say also that anyone who has any doubts about the sort of extortion, thuggery and difficulty that has been brought to trade unionism by this dreadful element in the community should read the two Sweeney reports of 1974 and 1975. [More…]
If they had done that sort of thing outside the trade union structure that would have been the penalty. [More…]
The Bill seeks to make unions, and union officials in particular, observe the law - [More…]
It has just occurred to me that in this country when a number of working people sit down and meet we say that that is a union. [More…]
It is a snub and an arrogant rebuff to the Opposition, to the trade union movement and indeed to the people of Australia to have this measure introduced yesterday at 8 p.m. and to expect a full, in-depth debate at 12.30 p.m. today. [More…]
As with each piece of legislation introduced dealing with industry, there is always provision for action against unions. [More…]
It is not provocative to say that with this great arsenal of anti-union legislation already available to it, the Government has seen fit not to use any of it yet. [More…]
There has been great play about the question of secret ballots in unions. [More…]
Most of the unions, if not all, use this provision. [More…]
The union has compulsory voting and fines members if they do not vote for their union officials. [More…]
They deal with properly elected shop stewards of the union. [More…]
The man is still without employment because he still declined, having been persuaded by those who have a hatred of unions- that man I do not believe does have a hatred of unions- to face up to his responsibility as an employee in an establishment and take out his union membership. [More…]
He promptly got lumbered by the local secretary of the Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union. [More…]
He was told to either join the union or to get out from behind the bar. [More…]
He said that if the union would send him an account for his membership he would send back a cheque. [More…]
The members of the union said that they would not bother sending him an account and furthermore that they did not want him as a member of the union. [More…]
Clearly, in any large group of individuals such as a trade union, while there might be agreement about traditional union goals, the scope for disagreement about other issuespolitical, social, cultural, environmental- may be as great as the diversity amongst individuals in an organisation. [More…]
As I understand it, the person then pays into the court a sum of money equal to union dues. [More…]
-The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) and other Australian Labor Party speakers tried to give the impression that these amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act are a form of union bashing. [More…]
I suggest that on reading the amendments and the legislation generally a far more compelling argument could be made that the amendments are to strengthen the role of the individual unionist and to protect his rights against certain union leadership. [More…]
Furthermore, because of the effect of union power on all aspects of life in this country, there is a need for greater accountability by the unions to the public at large. [More…]
They have not been introduced just because of the Latrobe Valley dispute, the Seamen’s Union dispute, the dispute involving the transport people in Western Australia or the dispute involving the Builders Labourers Federation in Melbourne, although I believe that each one of those disputes provides justification for the introduction of these amendments. [More…]
There were lengthly consultations with the union movement, with employers and with people inside Parliament. [More…]
They are designed firstly to protect the rights of individual unionists. [More…]
I believe these amendments and the principle behind them are supported by the majority of ordinary unionists in my electorate, because time and time again they have complained to me about political strikes of which they do not want to be a part, about the less than genuine secret ballots for the leadership of their union and about compulsory levies for certain funds the ideology of which they do not subscribe to. [More…]
Firstly there is the question of conscientous objection, of protecting a person rather than forcing him to join a union. [More…]
If he has a conscientous objection to joining a union there is a provision by which an amount can be decided and the payment made into Consolidated Revenue as an alternative to a union fee. [More…]
Some States already have such a provision for unions within their power. [More…]
The second point is forced unionism for selfemployed people. [More…]
The amendments protect such people from being forced into joining a union which really does not have a genuine interest in such people but a union which will be used against them and which is being used against them if they fail to join. [More…]
For example, take the owner of a truck which carries premixed cement for some bulk cement com- pany, and the unionists fail to load the truck un:ss he joins a union which he really has no point in joining. [More…]
The next amendment deals with secret postal ballots for union elections. [More…]
It surprises me that many people in Australia are still not aware that we passed legislation some time ago providing for secret postal ballots for union leadership. [More…]
This amendment is to tidy up the loopholes which some unionists have used to try to subvert a genuine exercise of opinion by their ordinary union membership. [More…]
There are many examples of the union leadership trying to protect itself and trying to restrict the real rights and freedoms of the individual union member. [More…]
For example, there was one case in which nominations for leadership of a union were to be presented at union headquarters. [More…]
Because they were presented at union headquarters by hand rather than through the post office box of the union, that was considered to be not a correct situation. [More…]
Another example is a case in which five days after the nominations for a union leadership ballot both opened and closed, a notice appeared in the paper to that effect. [More…]
These are the sorts of loopholes which are restricting the rights of the ordinary unionist to participate gainfully in his union’s affairs and to get the leadership which he feels he wants and is really representative. [More…]
Where union elections have not been conducted properly there are provisions to declare them null and void. [More…]
There is the question of greater accountability of union finances. [More…]
Once again I believe that this is protecting the rights of individual unionists to see what is happening to their money and, in some cases, even from where it comes. [More…]
These statements of account of the unions must be audited and filed. [More…]
I believe that in these days of greater public accountability the public has a right to know the sources of union revenue and the avenues on which they are expended, including the possibility of illegal payments. [More…]
We already have documentation in this country of such payments, with the maritime unions a couple of years ago. [More…]
I referred earlier to another aspect of the legislation, and that is that because the unions influence the everyday activities of nearly all Australians at present, usually to their disadvantage, there is a genuine public interest in whatever a union may do. [More…]
Once again, in many cases the complaints will be from individual unionists who feel aggrieved at the tyranny of their leadership. [More…]
There is a great need to protect the individual and the people of this nation, in particular the individual unionist, from this type of oppressive union leadership. [More…]
They say that somehow or other the Latrobe Valley situation is one which everybody should have agreed was one of justice, that it was done properly through the arbitration process and that it was another exercise of the Government not giving in to legitimate union demands but indulging in union bashing. [More…]
I believe this letter is an important document which shows to the people of Australia the true situation within unions and between unions. [More…]
I refer to a letter from the State President of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, who is also Secretary of the Morwell sub-branch of that union, and the Secretary of the Yallourn sub-branch of that union to the local newspaper, the Latrobe Valley Express some three weeks ago. [More…]
Two meetings of representatives of the SEC unions were held at the VTHC in May, at which discussion was necessarily protracted because of complex award matters involved. [More…]
It would have been, nevertheless, only a matter of time until agreement was ultimately reached on the log to be submitted to the SEC through constitutional trade union channels. [More…]
However, on IS June, an organised group calling itself the SEC Latrobe Valley Shop Stewards Committee, under the leadership of Amalgamated Metal Workers Union official S. Armstrong took it upon itself to call a mass meeting of SEC workers in the Latrobe Valley in order to discuss the log of claims issued. [More…]
I interpose to remind the House that these words were said by two leading trade union officials in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
Apart from the fact that S. Armstrong’s committee is representative of only 11 of the unions with members employed in the SEC, shop stewards committees, which operate under an ACTU charter, have no consitutional authority to either engage in this type of industrial activity or pursue matters affecting wage rates or award conditions. [More…]
From the outset, therefore, the Latrobe Valley campaign has been essentially illegal and divorced from properly constituted trade union procedures. [More…]
In response to certain grunts from the Labor Party side I interpose once again to say that these are the words of senior trade union officials in the Latrobe Valley about the Latrobe Valley situation. [More…]
To my mind this reinforces certain comments made about the power of the shop stewards, the usurping of constituted trade union authority, the British disease in this country, and articles written by Paul Johnson, that leading Labor Party intellectual in the United Kingdom, who contributed to the New Statesman on the new tyranny of the trade unions. [More…]
A union card already confers a greater degree of real political power than a parliamentary vote. [More…]
This reminds me of that song of not so long ago which says that you cannot touch me because I belong to the union. [More…]
I hope that with these amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act we can restore some rights and protection to the individual union man in this country who, I believe, overwhelmingly supports this legislation. [More…]
State Housing Trust unless he is a member of a trade union. [More…]
It is a cynical use of the hundreds of thousands of decent people in the trade union movement. [More…]
The men in the Latrobe Valley have been disadvantaged- and this has been pointed out by other speakers on this side of the Housebecause there are too many unions in that area. [More…]
The unions have adopted an ad hoc approach in which one union gets a benefit and the other unions do not. [More…]
An impediment to the long term solution of disputes of this type is the number of unions in the country. [More…]
Germany, which has a population of 80 million people, has IS trade unions Australia, with a population of 13 million people, has over 311 trade unions. [More…]
He well knows, and anybody with any industrial experience whatsoever well knows, that any attempt to tear down the trade union structure, to turn it into a tame cat organisation, and to reduce its potence, will succeed only in watering it down to the point where we have either control outside the wishes of the properly elected leadership or leadership that is not acting in the best interests of the unionists. [More…]
Disputes will not be resolved if unions are treated in this way. [More…]
This tyrannical, oppressive and unjust legislationthose are its implications for the trade union movement- does not go one iota along the line towards resolving the dispute in Victoria or, for that matter, any other industrial dispute that may arise now, in the short term or in the long run. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) claims that the Government has a mandate to introduce legislation which will create a haven for scabs and eat away at the foundations of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Minister seeks to protect individuals who have been set up or who set out to destroy trade union organisations. [More…]
But the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the peak councils rejected the policy and the philosophy inherent in the Government’s proposition. [More…]
Protection in relation to union ballots has existed ever since the conciliation and arbitration legislation was just enacted. [More…]
Day after day they took unions into the industrial court, and under sections 109 and 1 1 1 had them fined and finally having a trade union official gaoled. [More…]
The sins of the trade union officials were that they stood up for the union members they represented and carried out the duties of the democratically elected positions they occupied. [More…]
So far as trade unions are concerned, once the Government destroys that conciliatory section of the Act and puts in the hands of the employers the right to neglect and reject any area of conciliation, the end result will be confrontation. [More…]
I sincerely hope and trust that the trade union movement shows a bit of guts and stands up and fights to the finish. [More…]
The Government is putting into legalism what it tries to do by standing over trade unions for the purpose of creating a political gimmick that is so blatant it is a joke and will never convince the electorate that the Government is fair dinkum. [More…]
It should have shown its bona fides to the trade union movement and the peak councils. [More…]
These were deliberate confrontations by small sections of the Trade Union movement. [More…]
The second part of the log was that they wanted to make a series of claims that would have repercussions throughout the whole of the trade union movement of Victoria. [More…]
The Commission could not deal with the Latrobe matter unless it dealt with the other unions as well. [More…]
Why should a few sections of the trade union movement have a licence to forget the law and not care about the devastating effects that strikes in essential industries, by a small number of people can have? [More…]
E laces from which the others have come- should e able to ensure, that 300,000 of their colleagues in the trade union movement are put out of jobs and that Australia lose a minimum of $800m and probably $ 1,000m in production? [More…]
I believe that power corrupts, and I think that every honourable member in this House, except members of the Opposition when their own interests or trade union interests are involved, agrees with that. [More…]
Power has corrupted too many of the trade unions. [More…]
If we do not take action to bring trade unions within the established law, I believe that parliamentary democracy will be at stake. [More…]
Why should not that be the case if, day in and day out, little groups of unionists with a maximum of destructive power disobey an award and are callous about what effect their actions might have? [More…]
The Bureau also has the power to apply for deregistration of a union that is causing continuous trouble. [More…]
The second point I want to make relates to deregistration of unions under section 143. [More…]
Suspension will now relate only to the circumstances associated with possible deregistration and particular sections of the union involved. [More…]
It will not apply over the whole range of union activities that were previously envisaged in the earlier Bill. [More…]
Frequently we may be faced with a set of circumstances in which a group in a trade union or a division or branch of a trade union may be causing all the trouble. [More…]
In this case the law will now provide that it is within the power of the court to distinguish between the union itself and the various groups or branches that make up the union and are causing the industrial dispute. [More…]
As an example there must be proper administration and proper accounting for moneys received by the union. [More…]
It has to be filed with the Registrar and it has to be open for inspection by members of the union and by the general public. [More…]
I understand from the union that, without that matter being canvassed or explored in any way at all, all employees were stood down. [More…]
On the basis of the advice passed on to me by the meat workers union, it is clear that the workers have been stood down. [More…]
-An election in the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union is coming up. [More…]
Two factions are fighting bitterly for control of the union. [More…]
One faction could be called the Hawkins faction, which is presently in control of the union; the other faction could be called the Barney faction, which used to be in control of the union. [More…]
The Barney faction alleges against the Hawkins faction that the present officials of the union have been involved in what is called booking off” postmen and linesmen at Commission salaries to assist in postmen’s reviews and that this has involved excessive payments of more than $20,000 from union funds. [More…]
An accountants ‘s report from the firm of Coopers and Lybrand shows that the union’s provident fund is deficient by $24,500 for the three years ended 31 August 1976; that the long service leave fund is deficient by $38,630; that there have been overpayments; that union officials have borrowed moneys contrary to the rules, that they have borrowed moneys in circumstances in which they are subject to a charge; that there have been irregularities in the books, which have been kept in a totally wrongful fashion; that moneys have been paid improperly to a person called Evans; that people have been credited improperly with sick leave; that former union officials, when they took over, got rid of all their ordinary motor cars and purchased luxury cars - [More…]
As the honourable member will also recall, this nonlegislative approach which was adopted by the Commonwealth Government in 1973, had the support of all the State governments,’ as well as of the national employers’ organisations and the trade union movement, and the tripartite membership of the Employment Discrimination Committees reflected this tripartite support. [More…]
In these circumstances, and given these recent legislative developments, I am examining the desirability of discussion with the States, as well as with the national employers’ organisations and the trade union movement (through the National Labour Consultative Council), on the possibility of providing a legislative basis for the National and State Employment Discrimination Committees. [More…]
We have seen the abuse of union power abetted by the Labor Party, and we have seen the Government’s continuing success on the economic front which makes me well prepared for any election. [More…]
The commitment on employment and industrial relations was that office bearers of all trade unions and all employer organisations registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act would be elected under Electoral Office supervision by secret ballot. [More…]
That promise has not been quite fulfilled, but a fairness in election for all unions has been introduced by this Government so that those people who make up the silent majority have an opportunity now of having a voice in the affairs of trade unions. [More…]
It is a great shame that within the last weeks and months a number of trade unions have not been acting on the directions of their members. [More…]
‘We will work positively in co-operation with trade unions’. [More…]
I am sure that if members on the other side examined the record of this Government they would see an active participation and an active endeavour to understand and co-operate with the union movement in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has been most patient, most discerning and most co-operative with unions, particularly in the establishment of the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
It endorses the policy that trade union actions should not be limited to industrial matters. [More…]
It now behoves us to listen to every other Minister in the Cabinet making statements on industrial relations that are bringing about a major confrontation between this Government and the trade union movement in defiance of what this Government said in December 1975 that it would do. [More…]
What about their colleagues in the trade unions? [More…]
What is happening in Tasmania, a trade union State where the moderates have been able to dominate the Trades and Labour Council for so long? [More…]
The major union is the Federated Ironworkers Association. [More…]
In September 1975, 13,946 people in that great steel complex were members of that great union. [More…]
Before we were elected we indicated to the people of Australia that we would intervene in the incredible situation that has occurred in Australia over the past five years and I believe quite firmly that it has come about by the introduction into the industrial arena of the militant left wing trade unionists who have been intent on destroying the confidence, the economy and the right to work of many Australians. [More…]
They repeat consistently that they are there to help and work for the worker but unfortunately they are disregarding one important point- that there are many Australians, many good sound unionists, who desire only to be able to work, who desire only to be able to obtain employment and not be consistently harassed and perplexed by the continuous interjection, manipulation and disruptive attitudes of self-professed leaders of the trade union movement. [More…]
We now have this legislation and while some will say- and say it continuously- that it will not overcome the problems confronting Australia at the moment at least it will indicate to the sane Australian that there is at least legislation, that there is a law that should be observed by all involved in the trade union movement. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are many involved in the trade union movement who do not believe in the decision of the umpire. [More…]
We have members in Tasmania who are prepared to stand up and fight these disruptive left wing trade unionists. [More…]
-At 3.47 p.m. today Mr Charlie Oliver was expelled from the Australian Workers Union on the casting vote of Edgar Williams, a man who is not fit to wipe his boots, for no better reason than that Oliver moved to give the rank and file of his union the right to elect a new general secretary and a new president. [More…]
For years and years now General Secretary Frank Mitchell and President Edgar Williams have been responsible for allowing one of the finest unions in Australia to detenorate into a disgraceful shambles with some of the worst awards in Australia and an utter comtempt for the democratic rights of the union membership. [More…]
The union’s funds are depleted. [More…]
He wants to give to AWU members in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria the same high level of awards and rights of participation in the affairs of the union as AWU members enjoy in New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
Oliver has dedicated his whole life to his union and to the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Mitchell’s only opponent has now been expelled from the union which he has served so faithfully for all of the working years of his life on the casting vote of the very man whose position is under challenge by Oliver’s colleague. [More…]
It is not possible in the time at my disposal to explain all of the technicalities associated with what is known as the law of Moore v. Doyle, but in essence it is this: When the New South Wales branch of a federal union registers in the New South Wales Industrial Commission it ceases to be a part of the federal body and its officers are no longer bound by the federal body’s directives insofar as they may relate to those officers ‘ activities in the State union. [More…]
Oliver, in his capacity as president of a State registered union, had carried out a directive of his State union to increase membership fees payable by members of the State union to $40 a year- little enough, but more than the federal union was charging its members. [More…]
The price of the federal union ticket is only $30 a year. [More…]
Mitchell and Williams used this difference in the charges that the two different unions fixed for their fees and imposed upon their members as a subterfuge for charging Oliver with misconduct and called upon him to show cause why he should not be expelled. [More…]
In that section we see that the only way that an elected official can be expelled from any union nowadays is if it can be shown that he has been guilty of misappropriation of funds, substantial breach of the rules of the federal union, gross misbehaviour or gross neglect of duty. [More…]
Charlie Oliver has never misappropriated a cent of the union’s funds. [More…]
Charlie Oliver has never committed a substantial breach of the union’s federal rules. [More…]
Mitchell and Williams believe and hope that as a result of expelling this man there will rest upon his good name and reputation a dark cloud which will suggest that he has done one or more of the things which the Act states has to be proved before anybody can be expelled from a union. [More…]
-The reason they gave is that he had issued tickets in the State union which carried a fee different from that fixed for the tickets of the federal union. [More…]
They have no power whatsoever to give a directive to an officer of another union that is a completely separate entity with its own separate legal personality. [More…]
He referred to my constituent, Mr Charlie Oliver, and his expulsion from the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I endorse the remarks that the honourable member for Hindmarsh made about this man truly being one of the noble men of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I believe that Mr Oliver has been removed from the position of secretary of the New South Wales branch of the federally registered Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Recently, in Tasmania, we have seen an injustice very similar to that described earlier this evening by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) in a situation where two young, dedicated, hard-working trade union leaders have been persecuted, convicted and crucified by the Tasmanian Labor Party. [More…]
They met secretly in what they described publicly as a move to re-unify the Tasmanian trade union movement. [More…]
And it seems more than coincidental that so soon after the expulsion interstate Communist and extreme Left heavyweights attended a meeting in Hobart ostensibly to ‘reunify’ the Tasmanian trade union movement. [More…]
Among those who attended this meeting and who will no doubt assist in moves to restore ‘unity, cohesion, and effectiveness to the union movement’ were the Moscow-line Communist Party boss Mr Pat Clancy - [More…]
The instance that the honourable member for Macquarie has given the House will indicate the seriousness of the disruption that has been caused by the intolerable attitude of members of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union to the Redfern Mail Exchange. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement by the Tasmanian Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr Northey, accusing the Federal Government of criminal neglect over the derailment and claiming that the Government intends to use the derailment as an excuse to withdraw the train from service? [More…]
In any case, in undertaking the considerable task of investigating alleged discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union, the-. [More…]
Committee needs to make comparisons with other groups in the Soviet Union which may or may not be disadvantaged. [More…]
It has therefore been decided by the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence to rename the Sub-Committee on the Petition regarding Soviet Jewry as the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
It is already harvested by a number of countries including, I think, West Germany and the Soviet Union. [More…]
I understand that whilst informally there are good relationships between the geologists of these countries there has not been any formal exchange of information, and that in fact the Soviet Union has not honoured its undertaking which was apparently given to that expedition and which was in accordance with the Treaty to provide Australia with this information. [More…]
One must ask whether the Soviet Union has anything to hide. [More…]
I call upon the Soviet Union to make that information available. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics maintains a base in the Antarctic, but claims no territorial grounds at all. [More…]
This action has been taken deliberately to cause trouble in the trade union movement. [More…]
This Government is very swift to bring in legislation to shackle the trade union movement, but it has a total reluctance to bring in legislation to straighten up corporate crime or white collar crime. [More…]
The second matter I raise is the whole area of union activity as it relates to the Defence Force. [More…]
I commend to the Committee, the provision of legal aid to those students at universities who are challenging the dictatorial provisions of rules of the Australian university councils and the Australian Union of Students which force students to direct their funds to the university councils and to the student councils within the universities. [More…]
In my opinion, whether one pays funds for the purposes of the Australian Union of Students should be an entirely voluntary matter. [More…]
In fact the people who are featherbedded are the union bosses who are not subject to control and who get away with murder in the unions, in many respects. [More…]
Tasmanians of course will react very strongly to the intrusion of mainland industrial gangsters such as Mr Pat Clancy, Mr George Crawford and others who flew into our State secretly last Thursday- officially and publicly to reunify the Tasmanian trade union movement. [More…]
It has been traditional- it has been a universally accepted principle in this country for years- that apprentices shall not be compelled to join trade unions and shall not be compelled to go on strike. [More…]
People who have been unionists, such as myself, know that to be the fact. [More…]
He was heavied by the pro-communist left operatives of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and told that he must join the AMWSU. [More…]
Dithering Doug, the Deputy Premier of Tasmania, has not been prepared to come forward and defend the right of this young apprentice not to join a union. [More…]
There was an occasion, if my memory is correct, when the Leader of the Opposition attended a meeting of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and gave certain policy assurances. [More…]
and (4) The Australian Union of Students arranges charter flights under the terms of the Government’s affinity charter policy. [More…]
What 1 am trying to say, particularly to our trade union friends in Australia, is that they really must understand that uranium for us is extremely critical for the wellbeing of the working people in Great Britain. [More…]
May I recall just two statements made not by conservative politicians but by well known British unionists. [More…]
First, the General Secretary of the Electronics Union in Britain, in supporting the development of Britain’s nuclear energy industry last month, said that death from starvation, cold and wars of conquest would be the fate of the world if energy supplies ran out. [More…]
Arising out of this conference, the matter was then sent to a Full Bench of the Commission to examine in detail the union grounds for a wage increase based on the situation involving possible anomalies within the SEC pay structure itself. [More…]
The decision of this Bench was that no wage increases were warranted on the grounds which the unions had put forward. [More…]
While the Government refuses to accept its responsibilities in ensuring that a more reasonable amount of the massive profits reaped from this country’s natural resources are being redistributed, to the advantage of this community, I think it not surprising that industrial organisations like the Seamen’s Union will react and will seek to claim that at least their members should enjoy some of that profit which they believe rightfully belongs not only to this country but also to posterity. [More…]
I do not want to go into the details regarding the Utah organisation, the Ford organisation or any other organisation, except to say that the honourable gentleman, with his socialistic aspirations, would obviously seek to re-introduce the coal export levy in relation to Utah, would withdraw the investment allowance and would put up the communist Seamen’s Union against Utah. [More…]
Although the various inquiries have recorded much employer, customer and government concern at the high cost of reducing the number of waterside workers by financial inducements, I think it must be remembered that the dramatic move to containerisation has taken place without union opposition and that considerable benefits have thereby been achieved as compared with what would surely have happened had containerisation been simply imposed on the waterfront and large scale retrenchments implemented. [More…]
The union involved in this legislation is a noted left wing union. [More…]
Yet this union has shown a very substantial willingness to discuss this issue and to co-operate with the Government and with the employers in reaching arrangements which can be to the betterment of all Australians. [More…]
I think it contrasts remarkably with the kind of reaction which one would get from a trade union movement if the other kind of approach were adopted, namely that which seeks not so much consensus as the wielding of big sticks and the offering of threats rather than co-operation. [More…]
Some people reply to that argument with the point that the Authority has been rendered ineffective because of the lack of government support for its disciplinary powers, on the one hand, and because of union and employer pressure, on the other. [More…]
They have equal representatives from the industry users, the employers and the union, in this case the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I find it very strange to listen to these attacks on trade unions. [More…]
This Government, which is so fond of union bashing, is legislating to give responsibility for the administration of the Australian stevedoring industry to the Australian Employers of Waterfront Labour and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
In the long term there is a need for unions in the stevedoring industry to amalgamate. [More…]
In the stevedoring industry, just as in other industries, there is a need for unions to combine for greater efficiency and to achieve better results for their members. [More…]
I know that BHP obstinately refuses to extend the same precise working conditions to its iron workers engaged in stevedoring as it extends to members of the waterside workers union. [More…]
Ports, unfortunately, slowly are being strangled through the operations of waterside workers union officials who continue to operate with a most irresponsible standover attitude. [More…]
It is the fervent wish of many of us that the parallel industrial relations legislation- I refer to the Industrial Relations Bureau- will smash waterside workers union bans on such things as wheat shipments to Chile and Indonesia, livestock exports and uranium exports. [More…]
Our exporters have proved that they are in the forefront of the world’s economic producers by any comparison, but they do have difficulty in absorbing costs such as the $20m annual bill for idle time referred to earlier and the cost of the high wages paid to Seamen’s Union of Australia employees whose average wages are of the order of $16,000 a year. [More…]
No wonder the honourable member for Capricornia gets upset when he finds trade unionists trying to bash the primary producers of this country. [More…]
That paper contained the basic proposals for the Industrial Relations Bureau, gaol sentences for union members as well as officials- the whole apparatus of intimidation and confrontation and all the other provisions of the new Bill which have been rammed through this Parliament during the session. [More…]
Regarding the export of beef from Queensland, as in other States of Australia, there has been a very creditable performance over the last year by all parties concerned in exploring new markets, particularly in the Soviet Union, the East European countries and the Middle East. [More…]
While the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) sets his sights on union leaders, the Queensland Premier sets his sights on nothing much lower than an archbishop, and certainly nothing lower than a dean. [More…]
A substantial portion of the $117m that was repatriated would have gone into the development of the Norwich Park coal fields only for trie actions of the seamen’s union. [More…]
The current dispute with the Seamen’s Union of Australia has deferred development of the $250m Norwich Park project which has often been mentioned in this House by honourable members on either side. [More…]
I refer to the ballot that is about to begin in Victoria for the Shop Assistants Union and to the fact that the challengers of the sitting officials are unable to obtain a copy of the voters’ roll. [More…]
I have pointed out previously in this place what British trade unionists, for example, have said. [More…]
On Tuesday I quoted the General Secretary of the Electronics Union in Britain who, in supporting the development of Britain’s nuclear industry, said that death from starvation, cold and wars of conquest would be the fate of the world if energy supplies ran out. [More…]
We do not want the stuff to be sent to the United States or the Soviet Union or any place else where Japan may choose to have it enriched. [More…]
I learnt that when I first joined a trade union at 14 years of age. [More…]
If so, will he supply full details and advise whether the union action was justified in view of reports of departmental staff. [More…]
The Director assumed that in the light of his instructions and advice to the owner, the fumigation was being arranged at the initiative of the owner to overcome continuing union objections to working the vessel. [More…]
In the problems and traumas of the Labor management one finds the Leader of the Opposition still subject to the same insidious influence by the communist trade union leaders and the radical left wing. [More…]
Remember those commentaries he made in his first years in office that the Labor Government had some special relationship with the trade union movement. [More…]
The dispute involving the Seamen’s Union of Australia over the export of coal is having the consequence of a loss of jobs in the Norwich Park operation in Queensland. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen on the opposite side of the House are really concerned for jobs in the Australian community they will reverse the influence that the union movement has over them and try to place some influence over the union movement for a change and suggest to it that strikes should not take place, so that jobs can be created throughout Australia. [More…]
The second factor, I think, is the visit by Dr Mabon, the British Minister who distinguished and contrasted sharply the approach taken by the British Labour Party and the British Trade Union Congress with that of the Australian Labor Party and the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations by reminding him and the House that among the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which take great care to ensure that members of unions are able to participate effectively in the affairs of their unions are three sections: Section 133, which gives to all financial members of the union the right to vote; section 152, which requires that union secretaries keep a correct account of union ticket butts; and section 170 A, which requires union secretaries to supply to the Commonwealth Electoral Office full particulars of all butts which they have in their possession. [More…]
Having regard to those conditions or requirements of the Act, I refer to a very serious example of union balloting malpractice which is occurring right now in relation to the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
At Mt Isa in Queensland more than 1,000 financial members of the union have been refused the right to vote. [More…]
Does the Minister know that when complaints were made to the electoral officer the electoral officer told the members that he cannot get from the union secretary concerned a list of the members who are entitled to vote and that the union secretary is in breach of the Act and nothing is being done about it? [More…]
Does the Minister know that the union secretary, on the other hand, when complaints are levelled against him accuses the electoral officer or not sending out the ballot papers? [More…]
I want to know from the honourable gentleman now what action he proposes to take to ensure that all members of the Australian Workers Union who want to vote for or against the present office holders shall be given the right to vote, providing they are financial. [More…]
-The ballot for the Australian Workers Union election in the State of Queensland is currently proceeding, as the honourable gentleman has said, and I am informed that it will close in early December. [More…]
I am further informed that as at 3 1 July of this year the audited membership of the northern district of the AWU, which is the district of the union that is concerning the honourable member, was 10,313 members. [More…]
However, it is understood that an additional number of butts are being posted from the Townsville office of the union and should reach Brisbane today. [More…]
Has the Government any intention of according de jure recognition to the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? [More…]
In the letter he describes as ‘a stupid deception’ the attitude that Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania are not legally part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
In this growth market members of the Opposition would do well to seek to use whatever influence they have to get people in the trade union movement to co-operate in the use of the technology that is available. [More…]
Regrettably at the moment some members of the trade union movement want to set their face against technology. [More…]
I wish the honourable member for Cowper would understand also that the Government has amended the Act so that a trade union can be liable for damages if it causes a secondary boycott. [More…]
That claim by the Queensland Premier had been refuted consistently and persistently by officials of the Australian Railways Union in Queensland. [More…]
In May of this year the Premier of Queensland told Utahthis is on record in a number of national journalsthat if Utah negotiated with the Seamen’s Union of Australia on the utilisation of Australian seamen in the bulk ore traffic out of Australia, royalties on the company’s coal production will be increased. [More…]
It is another example of what I have referred to on many occasions, both inside and outside this House- of attacks, by the National Country Party more particularly than by the Liberal Party, on the trade union movement, and particularly the unions involved in the transport industry, as a substitute for a political argument. [More…]
It is the old story of bashing the unions. [More…]
There may be some substance in some of the problems to which attention is drawn but that is not the way in which to go about it Bashing the transport unions costs the consumers of this country money; it costs the workers their wages, it costs companies a loss of profits, and it damages our trading reputation. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind, having had discussions earlier in the year, that when this matter was raised originally the Seamen’s Union would have been quite happy to open negotiations. [More…]
Instead of that, the Premier of Queensland is using the Seamen’s Union and the other five maritime unions to try to create a political issue out of this matter for the State election. [More…]
Instead of reasonable and factual arguments being advanced, we have political union bashing and political bluster. [More…]
The honourable member for Shortland accused members on our side of the Parliament of union bashing. [More…]
He blithely overlooked the militant unionism in recent happenings which cost hundreds of millions of dollars and which put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. [More…]
Because we in government do not take very lightly to this sort of behaviour by the militant unions we are accused of union bashing. [More…]
My advice to him, which I offer in the kindliest of ways, is that from now on he should continue to speak from the heart- he has proved himself to have a heart- and not to read and rant from papers written to him by the Australian Cattlemen’s Union or whoever used to write his speeches. [More…]
Jondaryan is the station where the Australian Workers Union first secured agreement from the pastorialists of Queensland for an all-union shop. [More…]
It was agreed with the late Spence and Macdonnell that in the shearing season of the following year all of the workers there would be union members. [More…]
He said that if they did not agree to a union shop, as it was called- to work according to agreement rates- the waterside workers would refuse to load the wool onto the ships. [More…]
However, because Jondaryan eventually agreed to the union demand, the waterside workers were quick to turn around and claim credit for a threat that was made in their name. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an ambitious scheme to advise on how the union movement can win control of private employee superannuation funds and establish a large ACTU run financial institution. [More…]
What action is he or Australia Post prepared to take to ensure that mail is delivered to every Australian irrespective of his political or trade union attitude. [More…]
I am sure that you would want debated in this Parliament the reports of the Australian delegations to the International Parliamentary Union and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. [More…]
He returns time and time again to his ideological crusade against the trade union movement. [More…]
Yet the Prime Minister is constantly proposing further initiatives to stifle the union movement while he benignly views the highest level of unemployment in Australia since the Great Depression of the 1930s. [More…]
It is in the same context of the Government’s union bashing that the Prime Minister seeks to have the ordinary wage earner carry the burden of his Government’s destructive policies. [More…]
I refer to some of the more irresponsible elements in the trade union movement- the people who, for example, brought about the La Trobe Valley power strike last year. [More…]
The reason for that is that the courts are loathe to give trade union officials the right to enter people ‘s private homes. [More…]
We know from the experience of the last two years what is meant by this business of protecting the rights of individual unionists. [More…]
We know that it is to foment, to foster and to protect scabs in the trade union movement with an intent to destroy the trade union movement from within. [More…]
However, it surprises me not with this Government with its avowed anti-union attitude, with its history of union-bashing, that that statement is there. [More…]
Surely the cautionin other words, the fact that the Government does not rapidly and immediately increase immigration rates- reflects the true effect of immigration, and the stated policy, or what the Government goes on about publicly, about increasing immigration is simply humbug, an ideological hangup, a nefarious plot to weaken the trade union movement by increasing the pool of unemployment or, worst of all, a simplistic acceptance of up to now generaly held myths whose consequences have never been assessed. [More…]
In China we are regarded as imbeciles; we do not understand world power; we have not comprehended the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Did any members of the Opposition rush to the Russian Embassy and say: ‘I say, trade unions and all the rest of it; you are actually putting into outer space nuclear-powered satellites without our knowing ‘. [More…]
Was any protest made throughout the nation at the Soviet Union actually having in outer space a satellite driven by nuclear power? [More…]
We have debates about Indonesia, but nobody seems to understand the importance of submarines of the Soviet Union passing through the Straits of Sunda or south of Australia into the Indian Ocean. [More…]
At every meeting that I had with Chinese Ministers concerned with foreign affairs they pointed out that Australia and Western Europe are completely unable to understand the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Tonight I want to draw the attention of the House to another matter relating to trade unions which is causing absolute outrage and is a scandal amongst the constituents in St George. [More…]
The trade union persons involved are interfering with the operation of the CES. [More…]
This was corrected by strong union pressure and coincided with the introduction of equal pay. [More…]
Certainly we would have difficulty in meeting the defence forces of the United States of America or the Soviet Union in open combat, but we are hardly likely to expect to do that. [More…]
I hope that instead of interjecting as the honourable member for Reid did, honourable members opposite will have the courage to stand up one after the other and to repeat, as did the honourable member for Hindmarsh, with the utmost clarity their disapproval of the action of that trade union in relation to our young unemployed people, the people whom we all have to represent in this place in one way or another. [More…]
’, they are essentially addressing themselves to the industrial work force in the trade union movement and to no other section. [More…]
I refer to disruptive elements within the trade union movement. [More…]
The goal of economic prosperity will not be realised until the disruptive elements in the trade union movement are prepared to accept what the community demands and will work in a lawful society and abide by the self-discipline which the society demands. [More…]
Whilst it is fair enough for people engaged in trade unions to represent their members and put forward proposals for increased wages and advanced working conditions, they must also realise that their members cannot have improved conditions unless there is prosperity in the industries in which they work. [More…]
We recognise that fact but I earnestly believe that a number of the disruptive elements within the trade union movement are not concerned about the interests of their members, the Australian community or economic prosperity in this country. [More…]
Those people, particularly the communist elements within the trade union movement, are concerned to bring down society rather than to advance it. [More…]
Employers and industries in that country can come to an agreement with the respective trade union movements for a period of two or three years. [More…]
Yesterday in this House the honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates), for whom I have considerable respect, I thought was unfair in his criticism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
We have friendly relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Because it follows a political philosophy which is different from that of Australians and that of the Western world, we are inclined to resort to unfair and bitter criticism of the Soviet Union. [More…]
That expenditure is often matched- we read recently it was exceeded- by the amount of money expended by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt, in what I referred to as unfair criticism of the Soviet Union in this chamber yesterday, said such things as: ‘I hear no member of the Opposition protesting to the Soviet Embassy in connection with the Soviet nuclear powered satellite which came down in Canada’. [More…]
We heard no tribute- I have not heard a tribute paid by any member of this House- paid to the Soviet Union for its co-operation in recent times in making its facilities at its Antarctic base at Mirney available to members of the Australian Antarctic expedition. [More…]
Many honourable members seem to forget the fact that the Soviet Union fought as our ally against the barbaric Nazi war machine and lost over 20 million citizens in the last World War, over twice the then population of Australia. [More…]
I ask: Are we fair in this unjustified criticism of the Soviet Union from time to time? [More…]
We are sometimes inclined to forget the fact that the Soviet Union has been buying for a considerable number of years now over $80m worth of Australian goods each year and that in return Australia has been buying somewhere in the vicinity of $5m to $8m worth of its goods annually. [More…]
Members of the National Country Party are always gratified to know when the Australian Meat Board or the government of the day has obtained another substantial meat sale to the Soviet Union. [More…]
We seem to ignore the fact that a little over 50 years ago more than 80 per cent of the population of the Soviet Union were illiterate, yet it is now one of the major world powers and the Government of the USSR claims to have wiped out illiteracy completely. [More…]
I understand that freedom in the Soviet Union is too restricted for that sort of thing. [More…]
How can any fair-minded person take seriously the Government’s foreign policy when it holds the view that the Baltic states should be given independence from the Soviet Union while East Timor is accepted as being incorporated into Indonesia? [More…]
After all, the Soviet Union did free the Baltic states from the barbaric Nazi occupations and lost millions of its troops in doing so. [More…]
If the honourable member does not know the real facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I refer him to the Gulag Archipelago and the First Circle both written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. [More…]
There is not one industrial award in this country and there is not one trade union in this country that would allow an individual to be employed if he did not wear shoes. [More…]
This attitude is paralelled by the Government’s attitude to the trade union movement, which is subject to continuing criticism and the introduction of intimidatory legislation. [More…]
On the contrary, they indicate that the unemployed and the militant or even defensive trade unions are not numbered amongst the Australians for whom the Government has concern. [More…]
Let us take, for example, the Government’s introduction of tax cuts, which are often presented by it as a concession to the trade union movement. [More…]
The tendency present in conservative governments towards the ‘blame the victim’ syndrome, constant denigration of the unemployed and union bashing simply distracts attention from the fundamental problem which faces national democracies such as Australia to establish effective democratic control over national resources and their utilisation. [More…]
In his 1975 policy speech Mr Fraser referred to the need to create more democratic structures in the trade union movement and to reduce and make more accessible and responsible the government bureaucracy. [More…]
The Government has made it clear that it is prepared to take on the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact it is composed of union bashing bullies who shrink “– n confrontation with large scale capital even v when it clearly operates in a way which is detrimental to the interests of the Australian people. [More…]
This situation is very appropriate to the Japanese context because Japan has a history of company-based labour unions, and a negotiated contract can therefore be worked out between the company and the labour union within that company. [More…]
It may be appropriate in some companies but it will not be acceptable to some company managements and indeed it will not be acceptable to some employees and trade unions. [More…]
I raise something that I have raised in this Parliament in the past and that is the position on the Australian Postal Commission of Mr George Slater, the General Secretary of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union. [More…]
I pointed out some time ago in this House the situation in which he found himself during the period of the Medibank strike when the Postal Commission, of which he was a member, urged employees of the Post Office to turn up for work and the union, of which he was General Secretary, urged people not to go to work on that particular day. [More…]
So he faced this situation of a conflict of interests between his Commission position and his union position. [More…]
There can also be a problem with the lack of experience in business procedures of some people who are appointed as union representatives. [More…]
Therefore there is the danger that if we proceed too fast in that direction it will lead to a feeling of inadequacy on the part of some union officials who are appointed to such positions. [More…]
In many cases it also means the abandoning of some of the trade union jealousies that exist within the trade union movement itself. [More…]
If one is to talk about job enlargement, giving people a wider range of activities and a wider area of involvement in their work place, one can conceivably run into demarcation disputes between individual unions within the same plant. [More…]
So union attitudes to the work that their members have to perform will often need to be changed, and that may have a consequence for the vested interests of certain union officials and the structures that they have built up. [More…]
This has enormous implications for government training policies and for attitudes towards the trade union training authority, for example, and its role in the training of people with a proper perspective of worker participation and worker involvement. [More…]
It could be a very worthwhile step if meetings were held with some of the peak union councils to discuss this aspect. [More…]
The Minister was chastised about six months ago when he started to interfere with the trade union movement on the issue of Pommy shop stewards or English shop stewards. [More…]
Yet yesterday he said that what we should do now is kick the trade union movement, and kick the fellow worker. [More…]
I do not think he has ever been in a trade union movement. [More…]
Why should the trade union movement not subscribe to the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
The Minister has never been in a trade union movement and would not know what the trade union movement was about, yet he attacks the trade union movement about its organising. [More…]
Through hard work by the trade union movement. [More…]
Yet we have a person who has never been in a trade union movement bashing and kicking them. [More…]
The union has placed the bans on this recruitment on two grounds. [More…]
The union says that it should be represented on those panels. [More…]
So what the union is in fact saying is that it has no confidence in the judgment of its rank and file members to decide who should be recruited into the CES. [More…]
The union has further requested an appeal procedure against those people recruited from outside the Public Service. [More…]
What the Government and the Public Service Board put to the union- this has been made public in statements I made last week but it has not been put to the House and I think the House should be aware of it- was that in the case of those people inside the Service who either did not get an interview at all or felt they did not get a fair hearing at an interview there should be a review committee, on which the union could be represented to look into those two aspectspeople who did not get an interview or thought that they did not get a fair go. [More…]
It is a matter of great regret that the union knocked that back as well. [More…]
If these reports are correct, what authority has the Government to ensure that green and gold remain the traditional colours of our great national sporting teams, such as cricket, athletic, rugby league and rugby union teams, and that they will be the eventual representative colours of other sports, such as Australian rules, which at present have rather sectional, narrow and limited appeal? [More…]
The Government has failed in its efforts to find scapegoats in the trade union movement. [More…]
I notice that there is another one in this House tonight who is a member of the ex-political party secretaries union. [More…]
Last night I spoke on the adjournment debate about the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Sinclair) and his idea of kicking the trade union movement. [More…]
I do not know why he is in favour of kicking the trade union movement. [More…]
At the moment the trade union movement in Australia is exercising a great deal of restraint. [More…]
The vagueness of the decision places future trade union support of the Commission on the question of wage indexation in jeopardy. [More…]
What choice does the union movement have other than to go outside the boundaries of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and enter the jungle of collective bargaining? [More…]
It is a terrible way to be forced to act considering the state of the country, but the way trade union feeling is now, I can see a lot of industrial trouble ahead. [More…]
The only reason why unions are keeping fairly quiet about this matter is because they are not going too well financially. [More…]
If we have that overhaul we will have a greater degree of justification for asking the moderate unionist to come to the party and assist us in holding down wages. [More…]
I believe that at this time the trade union movement as such has not the confidence in the Labor Party that perhaps it had a few years ago. [More…]
I believe that the moderate trade unionist is beginning to realise that there are too many extremists in trade unions and that there are too many men who are interested only in themselves and not in the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
I think that the Labor Party will have to examine itself and the unions to see what it can do about the situation. [More…]
But this would need the co-operation not only of the trade union movement; it would need also the co-operation of employers and governments. [More…]
I am pleased that the people of Australia, and particularly the union movement, are now coming around to realising that they have a part to play in the development of that huge uranium province and uranium industry. [More…]
As well, the Prime Minister has been demonising the trade union movement for the last two years and blaming it for the problems, particularly unemployment and inflation, which beset this economy. [More…]
It can make them work longer hours, give them minimal conditions and break down any welfare benefits that they have achieved over generations of union effort. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the National Country Party took time out during the week to attack the trade unions for making political donations. [More…]
The trade unions are the only group in this country which make public the fact that they have made a political donation. [More…]
If the Australian Workers Union, the Metal Workers Union or the Waterside Workers Federation make a political donationand usually such a donation would go to the Labor Party- that donation is always made public. [More…]
There is no secret about a donation from a trade union, nor can there be, because its balance sheet will show it. [More…]
Members of the union have every right to go to the union meeting and object and oppose the donation being made. [More…]
It seems to me that the Commission was looking more at the election result of last December than at the submissions that were put before it by all the people representing the trade union movement and some State governments. [More…]
Any trade unionist or any trade union official who believes a spokesman from the Liberal or National Country Parties on this question before he believes a member of the Labor Party is a fool. [More…]
It should be noted that the American garment workers union is actively promoting American made garments. [More…]
I believe that any representative of the textile industry or any other industry, at an election time or any other time, like any trade union official or any political lobbyist, is entitled to put pressure upon any political party or upon the government of the day in order to maximise whatever benefits may be achieved for those people in the industry which that person represents. [More…]
Its wish for a trade union dominated central power base has at this point of time been thwarted. [More…]
From the commencement of the 1970s Australia has suffered from not having what one could call a viable manufacturing policy- a policy under which industry, the trade union movement and employees knew where they were going. [More…]
Successive governments over the years have sent tripartite teams, made up of government, employer and union representatives, overseas to try to establish mutually acceptable criteria on which overseas qualifications may be recognised in Australia. [More…]
There have been discussions in the last couple of weeks between producer organisations and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
I understand that in discussions between producers and the trade union movement there has been some agreement on a general objective of increasing carcass trade wherever possible. [More…]
I share the honourable gentleman’s concern that actions taken by the trade union movement in the short term, supposedly for the advantage of maintaining labour for its employees, might well in the long term be to its distinct disadvantage. [More…]
I hope that that aspect is brought home to individual members of the trade unions on whose behalf their principals purport to be currently negotiating. [More…]
But since then the Government has opposed wage indexation on every occasion and has sought to frustrate the trade union and Australian Council of Trade Union cases, culminating in the recent demands that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission should discount the effects of the personal tax cuts, which the Prime Minister claims will be worth $406m to 1 July this year, should discount the consumer price index for the increased petrol prices and should discount it for the effects of devaluation. [More…]
The facts are that no wage adjustment should be awarded on equity grounds since the union argument to maintain the value of real wages ignores the wider equity considerations of the Australian community. [More…]
On top of that, the unemployed are being used by this Government as a part of its union bashing equipment. [More…]
He has never been a member of a union in his life. [More…]
He has never suffered the repression that unionists suffer in their attempts to represent the people they are elected to represent. [More…]
How much justification do unions have now to move within the system? [More…]
How much justification do union leaders have to go out and tell their members that they should operate within the system? [More…]
It will rue the day because surely to God it will be stood up in an argument with the unions and be called upon to say why it now finds itself outside the parameters of its charter, that is, to reslolve industrial disputes that extend beyond the borders of one State. [More…]
Similarly, we should be paying more attention to the organisation of trade unions in Australia. [More…]
At present we have some 300 trade unions. [More…]
Nations like Germany and Japan, with work forces many times the size of ours, have 25 to 30 trade unions. [More…]
I would like to see a strong move towards industry unions in Australia, and a major reduction in the number of unions. [More…]
This would, I believe, lead to a significant increase in both the quality and the sense of responsibility of union leaders. [More…]
I would also like to see legislation introduced to make compulsory a vote of union members before strike action is adopted. [More…]
To quote West Germany again, not only must any strike there be approved by the union’s executive council, but at least 75 per cent of the members of the union must previously have voted for industrial action in a secret ballot. [More…]
In taking a decision, the union executive must take into account the business situation of the firm concerned, the general economic situation, and the public’s welfare. [More…]
Would it lead to a massive revolt by the union movement in Australia? [More…]
I have been approached by a particular union which has drawn my attention to cases similar to those I have just mentioned. [More…]
This particular project was helped by a grant from the British Trade Union Congress and the International Federation of Free Trade Unions. [More…]
The absurdity of the banning order is demonstrated in that the urban training projects officials had a reputation as apolitical trade unionists who were highly respected in the more liberal enlightened business circles in Johannesburg. [More…]
Despite the substantial achievements of the present Government in this area- such as its taxation reforms, its encouragement of law reform and administrative review, its encouragement of the individual trade unionist as opposed to the monolothic trade union that tries to dominate him- despite all the reductions in government expenditure and despite the reduction in the size of the Public Service, I hope that during this Parliament we will continue with this as one of our guiding principles: a concern to keep the role and the involvement of government under some reasonable control and, at the same time, to improve and increase the role of the individual citizen in society. [More…]
He is showing that he is subordinate to those in the trade union movement instead of the parliamentary members behind him. [More…]
The fact accepted today by the Commission, the business community and the trade union movement is that the fellow receiving something less than average weekly earnings- roughly a tradesman’s rate of pay of $ 1 80 a week, give or take $5 to $ 10 a week above or below that figure- is about $ 10 a week worse off as a result of the policies of this Government. [More…]
In fact, he drove so many miles that at one stage we were expecting the secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Jack Nyland, to knock on the door and ask him to sign up. [More…]
As honourable members probably are aware, under the Dunstan Government in the State of South Australia compulsory unionism is much in evidence. [More…]
I am sorry to see that the trade union movement seems to want to obstruct young people under 1 8 years of age taking jobs unless they are on an apprenticeship. [More…]
The union of which they are members has made representations to the Minister on their behalf as have a large number of people in the Geelong area who know them. [More…]
I hope that, in the ensuing three years, our Government will have a good, hard look at immigration on the basis of a wider family re-union. [More…]
I say this: Turn on the taps of immigration at a moderate rate so that we can have family re-union and so that we can have skilled workers and some unskilled workers. [More…]
The other point I want to comment on is this: We have great support for a trade union training college known as the Clyde Cameron college but we have no support whatever for a similar type of initiative in respect of farm leaders. [More…]
Their whole attitude constitutes a deliberate program of union bashing. [More…]
It is no less the responsibility of unions. [More…]
I am not union bashing when I say that everybody- government, unions, working men and employers- must take a proper share in the responsibilities of making this country go. [More…]
Now it is up to everybody else, including the unions, to pull their weight. [More…]
I raise the question of union blackmail of workers in the building industry. [More…]
In Canberra at present the Building Workers Industrial Union, which is a major building industry union, is in the process of blackmailing quite a number of Australian working people and sub-contractors in the building industry by forcing them against their will to join unions. [More…]
I refer to Mr Ron Driver of the Building Workers Industrial Union who is using this form of blackmail. [More…]
I understand however that Mr Driver is then able in those circumstance to call out other unions. [More…]
As I said, the unions hold the whip hand because of the terrible costs involved to the major contractors. [More…]
I know, from discussions with union officials of employees of the Australian National Railways, that quite a number of anomalies still exist. [More…]
I have spoken to members of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Australian Workers Union and other unions and found that they are still concerned about a number of matters. [More…]
These matters are causing concern to a number of the unionists involved. [More…]
One would hope that a rational appreciation by the trade union movement of Australia’s economic problems will lead to the adoption of sensible policies. [More…]
I was invited to join the delegation which, apart from myself, consisted of Rabbi Alony of the Central Synagogue, at Bondi Junction, Dr Schneeweiss, President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, and Mr Michael Marx, President of the Australian Union of Jewish Students. [More…]
The attitudes that I have expressed in relation to the policies of the Soviet Union originally in June or July 1976 have been echoed on many occasions since in more cogent and more powerful terms by the Foreign Ministers and the Defence Ministers in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and in recent times by a fine editorial in the Melbourne Age. [More…]
I think that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) should be encouraged, without delay, to be quite certain that emergency communications have been opened between President Carter of the United States and President Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I do not see how any peace settlement can arrive in the Middle East unless it is underwritten and supported by an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
However brilliant Mr Herman Eiltz, the United States Ambassador in Cairo, however good the United States Minister for Foreign Affairs, however brilliant Mr Stoltfuss in the Gulf, and however wonderful the diplomats, it seems to me historically impossible to hope for any solution unless the Soviet Union is brought into the discussions. [More…]
All I can do is repeat what I have said before: In the circumstances I think that the Prime Minister should be encouraged to see that emergency communications are opened without delay between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
It is very clear that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other countries are interested in obtaining beef and other food products on the condition that we take some of their products in return. [More…]
I refer to a note which is attached to a memorandum written by Mr Bob Hawke to the Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union in Newcastle. [More…]
Do honourable members remember the cent that was to be paid to the New South Wales Labour Council until the Transport Workers Union was able to transfer the petrol? [More…]
He will be aware that there has been a long series of union-inspired industrial disputes which have resulted in the disruption of rural exports. [More…]
The latest in this long line of disputes has been that involving Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union pickets preventing live sheep exports from South Australia. [More…]
What overall action can be taken by the Government to guarantee the right of exporters to export free of union interference? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of current strikes at Sydney and Newcastle by members of the Australian Workers Union and the Public Service Association of New South Wales which are placing in jeopardy a $50m market for New South Wales wheat in the Middle East? [More…]
Can action be instituted in this dispute similar to that presently applying to the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union blockade of live sheep exports in Adelaide? [More…]
Before coming into the House for Question Time I received a fairly long and detailed telex from Mr Cliff Semmler, the Deputy General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, explaining that already serious repercussions are appearing for Australia’s wheat export trade as a result of the disruption to shipments from Newcastle and as a result of strikes by members of the Australian Workers Union and the Public Service Association of New South Wales which, I understand, are occurring on a rolling basis. [More…]
Once one union returns to work the other goes out. [More…]
I can understand the Opposition’s concern about this matter because many primary producers are gravely affected by the union action in South Australia. [More…]
I do not know what the position is as of this moment, but as of a short time ago the union is reported to have rejected a compromise. [More…]
If trade union leaders maintain their present attitude in regard to this dispute, they are worthy of nothing more than the severest censure. [More…]
I do not think that I can recall a strike, except for the mail strike which took place recently, in which the union involved has had so poor a case, has been so badly led or has adopted such a stupid attitude to cut off its own head as is occurring with the strike in South Australia that is preventing the export of live sheep. [More…]
They did so by negotiation without the backing of governments that could direct resources to certain areas and they did so in the face of union difficulties. [More…]
It is well known that the Australian ability to sell in the Middle East market has been prejudiced severely by union activities. [More…]
I am reminded of what happened a few years ago when a union prevented the wool clip being transported from Kangaroo Island to Adelaide. [More…]
The union concerned had an injunction laid against it. [More…]
The unions eventually backed down as they ought to do in this case. [More…]
How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
The Minister would be aware of the widespread concern in rural areas about loss of income and violation of the principle of freedom to export as a result of the ban imposed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on live sheep exports. [More…]
In a nutshell the attitude of the Premier of Queensland is in union with that of the Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court, who said on 1 June 1 977 in connection with uranium mining at Yeelirie: [More…]
) How many employees belong to each union. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Trade and Resources: Why is a trade delegation from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics visiting this country at present? [More…]
A meeting in relation to trade matters is held annually between officials of Australia and of the Soviet Union. [More…]
A Soviet Union mission will be arriving today for discussions. [More…]
I am particularly keen to talk with the Deputy Minister to try to assess why the Soviet Union is not buying our meat this year. [More…]
So I am hoping that in the course of our discussions I might get some assessment of the market possibilities in the Soviet Union for Australian meat. [More…]
Let me say from the point of view of the Opposition ‘s record that we do not accept some of the ad lib comments made in the course of the debate in the Senate that a business includes a trade union. [More…]
Let us make it clear that a trade union is not a business and does not come within the ambit of the definition of ‘business’, despite what an honourable senator said in the course of his deliberations in the Senate chamber. [More…]
One would have hoped that, when the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) was dealing with that matter in the Senate, he could have put on record that the word ‘business’ did not include trade unions as such. [More…]
I deliberately refer to this matter because on 2 March 1978, as recorded at page 278 of the Senate Hansard, Senator Missen, a distinguished senator, I think was completely wrong in asking whether the definition of the word ‘business’ included the trade union movement. [More…]
Some lawyers may relish the possibility of arguing that the operation of a trade union is an undertaking. [More…]
To be quite frank, as a matter of principle I have no firm view one way or another as to whether it ought to apply to the records of trade unions. [More…]
Federated Clerks Union [More…]
Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union [More…]
Federated Storemen and Packers Union [More…]
Building Workers Industrial Union [More…]
Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union [More…]
Clothing Trades Union [More…]
Plumbers and Gasfitters Union [More…]
Transport Workers Union [More…]
Australian Workers Union [More…]
Electrical Trades Union [More…]
Operative Painters and Decorators Union [More…]
Australian Timber Workers Union. [More…]
Personnel in the factories are not required to disclose union membership and we are unable to answer the second part of the question. [More…]
1 ) To which unions, Federal and State, do employees of the Naval Dockyards belong and how many employees belong to each union. [More…]
) To which unions, Federal and State, do employees of other Defence establishments and laboratories belong and how many employees belong to each union. [More…]
If section 45D of the Trade Practices Act is not wide enough to cover the conduct and circumstances of the union bans on live sheep exports at present occurring, will the Prime Minister consider changing that section by widening its provisions to cover that sort of conduct which at present is affecting Australia’s export trade? [More…]
It is against that background that the actions of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union need to be examined, because the union is looking, as it says, at employment in its industry, but it is not looking at the consequences for employment of its actions in many other industries, which might be much more severe than the implications for the union. [More…]
The fact that the matter has gone as far as this certainly does no credit to the sense of responsiblity of the particular trade union, or of the trade union movement generally which, as I understand it, does not give widespread support to this issue but has not been able to encompass the circumstances in which the bans would be lifted. [More…]
The Opposition, in concert with the peak councils of the trade union movement of Australia and, on a number of occasions, a number of State governmentson most of those occasions they were Labor State governments- has constantly advocated full wage indexation. [More…]
Development of uranium also will be dependent upon the co-operation of those members of the trade union movement who will be involved in mining, milling and transport activities. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Australian Council of Trade Unions determined that affiliated unions should make labour available to facilitate the honouring of existing contracts from Mary Kathleen and the Lucas [More…]
Many unemployed people not only in Sydney but also throughout Australia are working 20 to 30 hours a week part-time and have no union shops. [More…]
Many people now do not have to join a union. [More…]
People who can do the jobs advertised might not have to join a union, and people such as Mr Trlin who put small advertisements in the newspapers might be assisting the development of this very dangerous situation. [More…]
Is the Minister for Primary Industry aware of statements in the media this morning by a Mr Graham McCamley, President of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia, calling action by sheep producers in South Australia and Western Australia, reckless and irresponsible and berating graziers and their organisations for antagonising the unions? [More…]
Can the Minister advise the House whether or not the Government supports the Federal Executive of the Cattleman’s Union in its current policy of appeasement of the Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union in this dispute over the right of graziers to supply vital overseas markets with sheep or cattle? [More…]
It is quite true that the union concerned has on a number of occasions expressed attitudes about livestock exports, although not peculiarly sheep. [More…]
I think it ill becomes any producer organisation to seek to ensure that, perhaps through some untoward sweetheart agreement with the trade union movement, it will be able to continue to gain the respect of those whom it purports to represent. [More…]
According to these reports, Cuban troops have killed many civilians in the course of recent attempts to wipe out so-called right wing opponents of the present regime, and there have been other reports that the Soviet Union has established a camp to train guerrillas for operations in Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zaire. [More…]
It is quite intolerable to imagine that a sectional group or interest, union or whatever else it may be, can disrupt that trade. [More…]
Is it a fact that to qualify for this discount a person needs to produce only an Australia Union of Students identity card available to anyone for a modest sum rather than producing a campus identity card available only to a genuine student? [More…]
Perhaps I should add that the Company Fraud Squad was first called in 1976 to look into Mr Smart’s activities by the Victorian Farmers Union, which alleged that Mr Smart had changed the designation of cheques amounting to $80,000 for agricultural marketing, and had transferred them to Maxwell Newton companies as well; but apart from a report by the Victorian Corporate Affairs office to the Victorian Government in September 1976, no further action has ensued. [More…]
The President of the Victorian Farmers Union, Mr Jim Heffernan, is a director of the Society. [More…]
Following a meeting of over 600 co-operative shareholders held at Bendigo on Friday, 24 February, and attended by the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier), Mr Jim Heffernan, President of the Victorian Farmers Union, and Mr Jack Gilmore, Chairman of the Co-operative, travelled to Canberra and put the case before the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Ministers. [More…]
-I heard an interjection about the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
-As the honourable member says, it is irresponsible that the fraud squad was asked in 1976 to investigate the situation in regard to a misappropriation of funds from the agricultural marketing section of the Victorian Farmers Union but no action has since been taken. [More…]
The Victorian Farmers Union has also supported the call for an inquiry. [More…]
In 1976, because of the nonsense about saying to the people in the sugar production business that everything was rosy, because of the failure to look at the fact that the European Common Market was expanding its production and the Soviet Union had expanded its production and because of the failure to recognise the fact that Cuba was coming back into the international market and was no longer going to maintain its exclusiveness with respect to the Soviet Union, we did not have the courage to tell the growers of Australia that there would be an over supply. [More…]
The industrial relations situation in Australia will, no doubt, worsen as the unions react to substantial declines in real wage levels. [More…]
Highlypublicised confrontations with the union movement and the use of penal powers, fines and suspensions, will be the order of the day. [More…]
I submit that we on both sides of the House, who gave approval to the Clyde Cameron Australian Council for Union Training for trade union leaders - [More…]
We read about our worthy Ministers not having time to talk to trade officials from other countries such as the Soviet Union. [More…]
If one talks to the Soviet Trade Commissioner one will be told that the Soviet Union is buying Australian exports to the value of $400m a year and that Australia is buying from the Soviet Union imports to the value of $4m. [More…]
Among these are the United States of America, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the European Economic Community countries- in short, both major fishing nations and nations with fisheries resources. [More…]
The hard liners in the Labor Government of South Australia would compulsorily have union and Government representatives on boards, leaving the shareholder representatives in a minority. [More…]
Many members, not only of the Vehicle Builders Union, the Metal Workers Union and other blue collar unions operating in this field, will be affected. [More…]
It is the duty of the Federal Government, the livestock producers and the trade union movement to stop this deplorable trade. [More…]
Trade recognition criteria in the metal and electrical trades for Britain and a number of European countries were established in 1 969 following the visit to Europe by an Australian Tripartite Mission comprising Government, employer and union members to study the training of skilled workers in the metal and electrical trades. [More…]
Similar missions visited the Philippines and South America in 1 974 and criteria for the countries visited have also been established by Central Trades Committees which have representatives of the unions and employer organisations in the trades concerned as well as a representative of the Government. [More…]
The principal unions involved in the bans affecting trade with Indonesia and Chile were the Waterside Workers Federation and the Australian Seamen’s Union. [More…]
-Did the Acting Minister for Industry and Commerce chair in this building last night a three-hour meeting between myself, the honourable member for Franklin, three Tasmanian trade union leaders and representatives of Dunlop Australia Ltd with reference to the future of Universal Textiles Australia Ltd at Derwent Park in Tasmania? [More…]
The representatives of both the company and the trade union movement together with the two members of Parliament from Tasmania gained information which, had it been available earlier would, I believe, have been very helpful in resolving a very difficult human problem more easily than has been the case in recent weeks. [More…]
Publication even of ACTU, labour council and union resolutions urging a boycott of the Ranger operation could be illegal, and be subject to penalties of up to $10,000 and 12 months imprisonment if prosecuted on indictment. [More…]
Should unions opposed to the establishment of a mine at Ranger not be deterred by the possible use of these powers, the Atomic Energy Act itself allows that a person authorised by the Minister may enter a mine site, as stated in section 41, ‘with such workmen and other persons as he thinks fit. ‘ [More…]
Clearly the Government recognises that this repressive Atomic Energy Act will be extremely useful if it fails to neutralise public opposition in general and trade union opposition in particular. [More…]
By conducting uranium mining under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act the Government has the power to deny ordinary industrial rights to workers and unions associated with the mining, handling and transportation of uranium. [More…]
The Act denies basic civil rights to any persons, including workers and union members, who hinder uranium mining in any way. [More…]
The use of the Atomic Energy Act to cover uranium mining makes an outlaw of any worker, union or Australian citizen who does not fully comply with the uranium mining and export policies of the Fraser Government. [More…]
It includes the situation where workers or unions desire to boycott any part of the project either directly or by a secondary boycott. [More…]
They range all the way from situations in countries such as Italy, whose total indigenous fuel resources would hardly be sufficient to meet two years of consumption at present rates, to situations in the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics with vast oil, gas and coal reserves. [More…]
The Soviet Union and Great Britain had tested nuclear weapons. [More…]
My friend the honourable member for Ried indicating much misery and much disturbance at the potentialities of the nuclear industry, did not see fit to make any reference to the development of that industry in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I have examined the possibility of propelling the Broken Hill City Council into court for denying natural justice to a trade unionist and an ex-member of the merchant marines who, on anyone’s say so, has done nothing wrong and has given long, loyal and valuable service to the Council. [More…]
What would be feasible, however, is a simple amendment to the law to provide for a right of appeal to a court, which amendment would not only safeguard Latham’s democratic rights but also the rights of others who may find themselves on the receiving end of union muscle. [More…]
If the New South Wales Government keeps on turning a blind eye to the overall situation- to do a Pontius Pilate in this case- by washing its hands of the affair, the assumption can be reliably made that it would act similarly in similar circumstances where any other responsible worker in New South Wales was the recipient of union strong arm tactics. [More…]
-I desire to report to the House that last night the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck), Mr Derek Holden, who is the State Secretary of the Textile Workers Union in Tasmania, Mr Paul Houlihan, who is State Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union, Mr John Gyselman, who is State Assistant Secretary of the Australian Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, and I attended a meeting which extended over a period of three hours with the executives of Dunlop Australia concerning the future of the plant of Universal Textiles at Derwent Park. [More…]
Mr Houlihan, who is a moderate trade union leader, said: ‘Given the total disregard that Dunlop has shown for its employees in this matter, it can expect little mercy from the trade union movement in its pursuit of proper, adequate and fair redundancy payments from Dunlop for the people who will be affected by this decision’. [More…]
The union leaders will report back to their members next Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. but in the meantime I want to put myself on record and my colleague the honourable member for Franklin on record as saying that we cannot, even today, say with certainty that we are now satisfied that we have heard all the facts, and some of the revelations last night leave us with considerable misgivings about the whole matter, and with a very nasty taste in our mouths. [More…]
In 1977, twelve Australian scientists visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
a) Visits by Australian Scientists to the Soviet Union: [More…]
Y. Voronin, All Union Research Institute of Plant Production; A. Y. Sikura, Ukranian Science Research Institute for Plant Protection, to study biological methods of plant protection- 15 January to 1 1 March 1977. [More…]
Mr G. K. Shutov, Byelorussian Agricultural Research Institute; Ms L. Kovlenko, All Union Research Institute for Plant Production; Mr A. M. Umnov, All Union Research Institute for Phytopathology, to collect samples of native Australian cotton, fodder, cereal and pulse plant varieties- 10 March to 9 May 1977. [More…]
Ms G. I. Sukhoruchenko, Dr V. N. Burov, All Union Research Institute of Plant Protection, to study genetic methods for the control of agricultural pests- 5 November to 12 December 1977. [More…]
A. Bagri, Academy of Agricultural Sciences-, Mr E. G. Shugai, All Union Research Institute for Sheep and Goat Production; Mr A. P. Zharenov, Ministry of Agriculture; M. A. Kosminski, Ministry of Agriculture, to assess opportunities for co-operation in the field of animal sciences under the Australia/USSR Agreement- 29 November 1977 to 14 December 1977. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports in the Farmers’ Weekly of 14 July 1977, official organ of the Farmers’ Union of W.A. [More…]
We have no figures available for the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is very depressing because the Soviet Union is one of the largest producers of uranium and one of the largest manufacturers of atomic energy plants. [More…]
It is depressing that we do not have any figures available from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe the position of the Soviet Union on this matter is completely irresponsible. [More…]
He went to the Soviet Union and established a major new trade pact for the first time. [More…]
At the national level, the Bill proposes the establishment of a national advisory committee consisting of two union representatives, two employer representatives, the National Director and a representative of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
In the face of this massive tax evasion by shareholders and high income earners, how incongruous it is that wage earners and pensioners cannot escape paying tax on such items as- these are listed in the income tax return applicable to the poor old ordinary salary and wage earnerliving away from home allowances, travelling allowances, even tips they may receive in the course of their employment and interest on savings bank deposits, fixed deposits and credit union deposits. [More…]
There is a strong case that interest earnings on bank and credit union deposits to around $30,000 should be taxable only to the extent that the annual interest rate exceeds the annual inflation rate. [More…]
Can he say if Mr Kouzin is a well known secret police agent employed by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as alleged by members of the then Opposition in 1975. [More…]
We could talk about a law, say, to outlaw a certain form of union activity as from 14 August last year or what could now be called a certain form of criminal activity. [More…]
We also know of negotiations and discussions between the Soviet Union and the United States and of the joint determination of the United States and Australia that those negotiations will not reduce the ambit of the ANZUS Treaty in any sense, shape or form. [More…]
Secondly, I make the comment that many of the difficulties that we are experiencing have also resulted from the actions of militant and irresponsible elements of the trade union movement which have done a good deal of damage to the export of our mineral products from Western Australia. [More…]
In respect of trading relations with Japan, again I find the Opposition’s claims rather paradoxical and amusing because it has said this afternoon that it is not the function of the Government to try to bully our various trading partners, whether it is Japan, the Soviet Union, the European Economic Community or whatever. [More…]
These are now protected by the Universal Customs Union in Western Europe and these goods are being dumped on the rest of the world. [More…]
Those deputations have been from the town council, the local combined union council, chambers of commerce, various town organisations and so on. [More…]
I am not usually a union basher. [More…]
I believe that fundamentally unions have a very important part to play. [More…]
They are saying that this is going to upset the south, it is going to upset the north, it is going to create problems for the Seamen ‘s Union of Australia or it is going to create problems for the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
There were many in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union who thought that Khruschev’s speech at the 20th Congress in 1956 about Stalin’s rule contained ‘useless and unnecessary information’. [More…]
Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights’ Union of Australia [More…]
Officers) Australian Society of Engineers Australian Workers’ Union Building Workers’ Industrial Union of Australia Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia Commonwealth Services Employees’ Union (West [More…]
Association Commonwealth Medical Officers Association Electrical Trades Union of Australia Federated Clerks Union of Australia Federated Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association of Australasia Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australia Federated Ironworkers ‘ Association of Australia Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees [More…]
Union of Australia Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia Federated Moulders’ (Metals) Union of Australia Federated Ships Painters and Dockers Union of [More…]
Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia Merchant Service Guild of Australia Operative Painters and Decorators Union of Australia Operative Plasterers’ and Plaster Workers’ Federation of Australia [More…]
Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union of Australia Printing and Kindred Industries Union Professional Officers Association, Australian Public Service [More…]
Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia Transport Workers’ Union. [More…]
-by leave-I present the report of the Australian delegation to the 64th Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference held at Sofia, between 21 and 30 September 1977. [More…]
In recent years, there has been increased Australian participation in the affairs of the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
As those majority decisions are reported in the report from the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference, this Parliament should recognise the context of an Inter-Parliamentary Union with representatives from parliaments throughout the world, and decide to debate those resolutions to see what attitude we should take. [More…]
There is a further matter that was raised at the Inter-Parliamentary Union to which we believe as a delegation the Parliament should pay more attention. [More…]
I found the sanctimonious and pious comments in this regard of the Soviet Union, of many other communist countries, a number of Third World countries and some of the Arab countries to be totally hypocritical and therefore lacking in credibility. [More…]
I made the point that countries like the Soviet Union should put thenown house in order before voting against Israel on human rights issues. [More…]
It was the Soviet Union, the communist countries in general, the Third World countries and some of the Arab states. [More…]
Lest anybody thinks that delegate members can get up at an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference and debate any question at all, I state that this is nonsense. [More…]
I would like to say that the Bulgarians were excellent hosts and to the best of my knowledge life in Sofia carried on as normal during the meetings of the InterParliamentary Union. [More…]
That statement seems to be shades of centrally planned economies, particularly of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
In fact the resolution on the comprehensive nuclear test ban was supported for the first time ever by both the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
One of the matters put to us by trade unionists just a couple of nights ago was that there should be assistance with training or retraining We put it to the unions that they in turn might be able to make that easier by supporting a move for adult qualifications for tradesmen, which is something that the trade union movement has not always grasped with a great degree of enthusiasm. [More…]
At this very moment officers of the Commonwealth are in consultation with the company and with the trade unions at Chrysler. [More…]
After the Second World War that Territory was administered in union with the Territory of New Guinea and, as the third schedule to the Papua New Guinea Act 1949, as amended up to the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence, makes clear, islands within the Torres Strait that were not part of the State of Queensland continued to be within the bounds of Papua New Guinea immediately prior to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
On 1 December 1976 in the case of Saint v Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and others the applicant sought orders under section 140 that a rule of the Union under which an office was abolished was contrary to section 133 (1) (f) of the Act. [More…]
The applicant sought orders that his suspension under the rules of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union be treated as null and void. [More…]
In these cases it may merely prolong the course of litigation and increase the cost to the parties if the case is heard by a single judge, especially where the litigation was inspired by a factional dispute in a union. [More…]
To a large extent factions in trade unions are born out of the very nature of a free trade union movement. [More…]
Thus free trade unions as such are enormously important in the make-up of Australian society. [More…]
We would be deluding ourselves if we believed there was a recipe for legislating factions within trade unions or, as in this case, using factions as an excuse to further what we consider to be a bad principle. [More…]
Again the Minister uses in his defence of this provision the role of factions within the trade union movement. [More…]
In regard to the role of the Minister, there can be no doubt, irrespective of the views of the National Labour Consultative Council, which may not be released publicly, that the trade union movement, the Labor movement generally, is opposed to the way in which the Minister is being written into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
As the honourable member says, these issues often involve highly sensitive areas in the union movement. [More…]
I am aware of the trade union movement’s general opposition to this right of the Minister but I make no apology for this power. [More…]
Those union and association representatives speaking on behalf of the employees in the Commonwealth Employment Service have made their views quite clear. [More…]
This has been indicated in recent years by the fact that a number of major countries- including the United States, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, New Zealand, Canada and the member countries of the European Economic Community- have extended their fishing jurisdiction to this extent. [More…]
The Soviet Union is seeking a fishery agreement with us and has made specific overtures to participate, alone with Australian partners, in fishing within Australia’s proposed 200-mile zone. [More…]
Might I suggest to the Minister that my assessment is that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is probably interested more in obtaining access to Australian ports than in gaining the right to fish within our fishing zone. [More…]
These areas are already being exploited by fishermen from Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and the maritime province of the Soviet Union, even in areas inside the 12-mile zone where the waters are generally less than 200 metres deep and contain the valuable demersal fisheries. [More…]
However, I urge all involved in the process whereby an injured off-work employee converts his workers compensation entitlement to a lump sum- I urge union representatives, employers and State insurance office officials- to inform the worker of the facts. [More…]
Union Carbide Australia Limited, Sydney, NSW. [More…]
It should have been clearly evident even to the honourable member for Cunningham, although at that time he was busily engaged in involving himself in industrial unrest on the Port Kembla waterfront as a union representative in that area. [More…]
Those people include both operators and trade union leaders in the industry. [More…]
The Minister responded to that serious statement by a major union in the industry in his usual inimitable way, namely, by denying the claims of the Federation and accusing its manager, Mr Coysh, of casting aspersions on fellow members of the Federation and air traffic control personnel. [More…]
The union concerned has asked whether the Department has advised the airlines of its inability to meet ICAO standards in rescue fire fighting at the majority of airports which it staffs with rescue fire fighting services. [More…]
The great arms traders, of course, are the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Britain and France. [More…]
Within that context it is important that a dialogue be instituted with leaders from industry and the trade union movement. [More…]
I made a few investigations and found that in fact 156 submissions were forwarded from computer organisations, industry, community groups, the general public, academics, the Government and trade union groups. [More…]
Australia has adopted a distinctive approach to trade union training. [More…]
It has three elements: Firstly, public funding of union training; secondly, the planning, development and provision of training by an independent authority set up by Act of Parliament, which is, I believe, unique; and thirdly, the establishment of a National Trade Union Training College and trade union training centres in each State. [More…]
The approach recognises that trained trade unionists, no less than trained management, are of critical importance to the community and that without public support for trade union training little progress is likely. [More…]
It is particularly fitting that he should be permanently remembered in the name of the National Trade Union Training College, the Clyde Cameron College. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the legislation providing for a Trade Union Training Authority passed through this Parliament some three years ago. [More…]
The Government has consistently expressed its support for the concept of trade union training. [More…]
Should trade union training be part of a wider industrial relations training or continue to be separate? [More…]
What were the training needs of trade unionists? [More…]
The Australian Council for Union Training had adopted an annual training objective of one per cent of trade unionists, but this did not have any established basis. [More…]
Should trade union training provided by the Authority be solely public funded or should there be some commitment on the part of the trade union movement itself, in line with the arrangements overseas? [More…]
The Government felt that it needed a fresh examination, and a more detailed one than was possible by the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
As honourable members will be aware, in 1977 it established a tripartite Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training. [More…]
Detailed comments on the recommendations of the inquiry were invited from the Australian Council for Union Training and from the employer and union peak councils represented on the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
There were further discussions in the NLCC and the Australian Council and a top level deputation from the peak union councils put additional views. [More…]
Trade union training should not be integrated into a general system of industrial relations training. [More…]
Trade union training should continue to be funded by Government, with funds to be provided commensurate with the Authority’s training program. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority should be retained as an independent statutory body, an independent training institution. [More…]
The report also proposed some changes in the composition of the Australian and State Councils for Union Training while at the same time retaining the basic structure. [More…]
As the name implies he will, under the National Director, be responsible for the management and provision of all training by the Authority, not only at the College but in each of the State trade union training centres. [More…]
Honourable members will appreciate that streamlining of the executive and management responsibilities will naturally change the present role of the Australian and State Councils for Union Training. [More…]
The Government sees advantage in maintaining these bodies to advise on trade union training programs and their effectiveness. [More…]
Thus the Board will comprise a chairman, who will be the Chairman of the Australian Council, the National Director of the Authority, the employer and departmental members of the Council, and four union members drawn from the union members of the Council. [More…]
Perhaps even more important, however, employer representation at both the policy and advisory levels will bring a broader insight and perspective to trade union training. [More…]
This is important, bearing in mind that industrial relations involves both employers and unions. [More…]
Added to this, such areas as paid educational leave concern the employers no less than the unions. [More…]
The Government is conscious of the need to maintain a proper balance of interests in relation to trade union training. [More…]
On the one hand it is important that the trade unions are able to participate effectively in the formulation of policy and programs and have confidence in the Authority’s activities. [More…]
Thus union interests remain in the majority on the Australian Council and each of the six State Councils for Union Training. [More…]
Equally, trade union training, provided through a statutory authority and funded by the taxpayer, must have regard to community interests, and the Government believes that the balanced membership of the Executive Board recognises that need. [More…]
The changed structure within the organisation will make for a more effective pursuit of the objectives of the Authority, namely, the planning, provision and oversight of trade union training in Australia. [More…]
Whilst the Law of the Sea Conference is not moving with any great haste, a substantial measure of agreement has been reached on the question of the 200-mile economic zones, and this Bill will bring us into line with the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Japan, Canada, New Zealand and the European Economic Community countries. [More…]
The two nations that would be most affected would be Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
The argument goes that it is better to have some sort of conservation enforced by the IWC rather than no conservation which apparently would lead to the wholesale slaughter of whales throughout the world, particularly by Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
This suggestion of the United States is opposed by Japan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the two major whaling nations which account for something like 85 per cent of the world catch. [More…]
At present there are seven professors, each covering a different area, four managing directors or general managers of large public companies, the chairman of a primary producers organisation, a political scientist, a union leader and a scientist. [More…]
Many of the awards covering employees of the Australian Workers Union contain them, and there are hundreds of awards that contain stand-down provisions. [More…]
They are members of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia, which is a quite distinct and separate union. [More…]
The dispute is the result of a trade union ban on processing outside applications for CES positions following the Government ‘s decision late last year to expand CES staff. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service staffing dispute deteriorated yesterday with the Federal Government threatening to apply for de-registration of the major Public Service union on top of standing down a further 17 CES managers. [More…]
The union referred to this long industrial dispute between the ACOA and the Austraiian Public Service Association on the one hand and the Public Service Board and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations on the other. [More…]
The union took the view that applications for promotion or transfer from serving officers, some with many years service, should be considered- that is all, considered. [More…]
The union felt that qualifications and the suitability of those people who had been in the Service for a long time should be taken into account in respect of these appointments before a recruitment campaign was launched outside the Service. [More…]
The union had put forward a comprehensive proposal on the occasion of the very first meeting on 17 November 1977. [More…]
In other words, right at the start the union put up the solution that was ultimately accepted. [More…]
3 of 1922, the Australian Postal Electricians Union, claimant, against the Commonwealth Public Service Commissioner and the Postmaster-General of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), in his usual role as the defender of the unions, and he does it very well, spoke out very strongly in opposition to the Bill. [More…]
But it is interesting to speculate that if a Bill were brought before the House next week to bring about the reverse conditions against the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union I am sure that he would speak against it. [More…]
He is a nice fellow, but he has said, tongue in cheek, that what is good enough for the metal workers and other unionists is not good enough for the Public Service. [More…]
He knows quite well, as does the honourable member for Port Adelaide, that in the case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Australian Workers Union and other unions, any person affected by a strike can be stood down through lack of work if necessary. [More…]
Nobody in this country has tried to work more closely with the unions to bring about a good relationship between employees and employers than the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
There are many people on both sides of the House and in union and employer organisations who sometimes ask why the Minister does not use the big hammer on the unions, but he always prefers to conciliate and arbitrate for a better overall result. [More…]
Then the Public Service union decided to oppose this course, and bans were later applied. [More…]
As I was saying, clearly in the private sector the trade union movement quite rightly accepts the restrictions, rights, controls and privileges provided under those awards. [More…]
I totally support the Minister who has always worked very closely with the unions. [More…]
He has discussed these matters with all sections of the union movement in this country and is held in very high esteem by the union organisations. [More…]
He is prepared not only to speak up when he is in favour of something the unions want but also to stand up for what he knows is right when it may not be entirely what they want. [More…]
This Bill points up quite brutally the determination of this Government to undermine and destroy the arbitration procedures which have been followed meticulously by the union in this case. [More…]
The union went to arbitration. [More…]
The union was of the opinion on good legal advice that the decision was incorrect. [More…]
At its own risk and at considerable cost the union took the matter to the High Court and the High Court, of course, upheld the union’s point that the right of appeal was a fundamental condition of employment. [More…]
23, which was a determination concerning the Australian Postal Electricians Union’s claim against the Commonwealth Public Service Commissioner and the Postmaster-General of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The union members went to the court. [More…]
In effect it is taking away the right of the unions to appeal in a similar case to this one using the same process that was followed here. [More…]
He can support the Public Service Board or he can support the union. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson)- I shall come back to this later- that it was the union that did not accept the umpire’s decision. [More…]
It was the union that appealed against the decision, as it was perfectly entitled to do. [More…]
In 1976 Mr Martin was the Government-appointed leader of exhibitors to the Honolulu Trade Show and later in that year accompanied the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony), Deputy Prime Minister, to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as leader of exhibitors for the Moscow Trade Show. [More…]
1 ) Did the case of Moore v. Doyle in the Commonwealth Industrial Court concern the separate legal identities of the Transport Workers Union of Australia registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch registered under the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act. [More…]
in its unanimous judgment on 25 February 1969 stress that a system of trade union organisation was urgently needed which would enable the one body to represent its relevant members in both the Federal and State arbitration systems. [More…]
How many man hours have been lost in each year in the last 9 years in the course of demarcation disputes between the Transport Workers Union entities registered under Federal and New South Wales laws. [More…]
Information on the number of man hours lost in each year in the last 9 years in the course of demarcation disputes between the Transport Workers Union entities registered under Federal and New South Wales laws is not available. [More…]
The tax calculations from which these percentages were derived do not take account of any deductions allowable for union dues, housing loan interest or gifts and they assume that the taxpayer’s allowable rebatable expenditure does not exceed $ 1 590. [More…]
In view of the deepening national concern over youth employment, including that expressed by the trade union movement, what steps do the Minister, the Minister for Education and the Cabinet propose to take concerning the introduction of a national community youth cadet scheme both at home and overseas? [More…]
Accusing fingers are pointed at unionists who are forfeiting all their pay to try to get an arbitration hearing or a conference, and charges of disloyalty are wildly laid on union leaders who are struggling night and day to persuade wildcat strikers to go back to work. [More…]
Blame and abuse are hurled at Mr Bob Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions although he and the ACTU have more than once ironed out major disruptive stoppages, sometimes with ugly and dangerous possibilities, which the Government sought only to foment by provocative, ill-informed comments from a distance. [More…]
The Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia records show that 18,846 skilled building and construction workers are unemployed nationally, 6,382 of them are in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, and 4,400 are in Victoria. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable member for Reid could also help out in this regard with his union colleagues. [More…]
There is no doubt that militant unionism has been one of the contributing factors to the tremendous increase in housing costs- to the extent that now builders’ labourers are paid higher wages than are many skilled tradesmen, especially among metal workers. [More…]
Also, in accordance with the recommendation of the Review, trade unions will be eligible for special project grants to improve migrants’ knowledge of and participation in union affairs. [More…]
In its work the Committee, under the chairmanship of Mr S. B. Myer, had the services of eminent Australians from a wide variety of interests- including government, business, the trade union movement and academics. [More…]
Both countries have a high stake in the security and prosperity of other economically advanced democratic powers in the world; in the continuation of the process of detente between the super-powers; in maintaining an open and nondiscriminatory regime in international trade; in encouraging a continuing United States presence in the Asia-Pacific region to the extent necessary to maintain a sound balance in that region; in opposing any attempt by the Soviet Union- or any other major power- to establish hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region; and in encouraging China to continue to play a constructive role in regional affairs. [More…]
It’s members will include the Japan Committee members and representatives from academic, business, cultural, trade union and other interested community groups. [More…]
At last year’s General Assembly, the documents of which are again public documents, Australia was instrumental in efforts to secure the adoption of a single nuclear test ban resolution, supported by the overwhelming majority of the Assembly, and for the first time, by the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
A comprehensive test ban treaty now under negotiation between the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain would be an important barrier both to the spread of nuclear weapons and to the expansion of existing arsenals. [More…]
I note that President Carter has said that an ultimate decision on production and deployment of a new weapon- the neutron bombwould be influenced by the degree to which the Soviet Union shows restraint in its conventional and nuclear arms programs and force deployments. [More…]
In the Government’s view, further progress in the SALT negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit their respective nuclear arsenals is crucial to wider nuclear non-proliferation efforts. [More…]
The four principal arms suppliers of the world are the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, Britain and France. [More…]
I might say that both the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics supported Australia’s initiatives at that meeting. [More…]
It is cooperating with the States, with industry, with employers and with representatives of the trade union movement and it has never deviated from that course. [More…]
Only five weeks ago, Norman Kirkhan, in a report in the London Daily Telegraph- A report never contradicted by Russia- revealed, not for the first time I believe, but for the third time, that the Soviet Union had set up a guerrilla training camp in Angola. [More…]
The Soviet Union has reportedly set up a secret training camp in Angola for 25,000 African guerrillas who will form armies to attack Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), Zaire and Namibia. [More…]
The pupils are members of Mr Joshua Nkomo ‘s faction of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), the Southwest African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO) in Namibia and also include units of the Katanganese rebels who attacked the Shaba province of Zaire last year. [More…]
While we do not discount the real defence needs of the Soviet Union, we cannot fail to be concerned at the apparent Soviet military build-up. [More…]
It is regrettable, to say the least, that this build-up is taking place while the Soviet Union is engaged with the United States in substantive negotiations on arms control in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
It attempts to bring to an end what has been one of the most effective instruments brought into the trade union field this century. [More…]
The introduction of the Bill exposes the Government in its lack of understanding of the collective needs of the trade union movement and industry. [More…]
In the second reading speech the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) referred to the bipartisan attitude that pervaded the debate on the original Trade Union Training Authority Act in 1975 and said he hoped this would persist in relation to this amending Bill. [More…]
The establishment of the Trade Union Training Authority was one of the major successes of Labor’s Administration. [More…]
He then refers to the fact that the structure of TUTA comprises seven councils- the Australian Council for Union Training and six State councils for union training, a director of the Clyde Cameron College, and six directors of the State trade union training centres. [More…]
The major intention of the principal Act was to set up a body which could utilise public funds for trade union training, with the effective checks necessary to the use of public funds- such as responsibility to the Minister and Parliament, audits conducted by the Auditor-General and so on- but in such a form that the trade union movement could use the scheme with confidence that it would meet the needs of the movement free of political interference. [More…]
Indeed the present Minister, when leading for the Opposition in the debate in 1975, in moving an amendment to increase the size of the Australian Council for union training, the chief governing body of the authority, said this: lt will be seen that if our amendments are adopted- as I hope they will be- union representatives will maintain a large majority on the Council. [More…]
The new Executive Board of TUTA will have eight members of whom four will be trade unionistsnot a majority at all, let alone a large majority. [More…]
Indeed, the non-union members of the Executive Board can now outvote the union members because the Chairman, who will be appointed by the Minister without any obligation to consult the unions, has both a deliberative and a casting vote. [More…]
Moreover the quorum requirements mean that a meeting of the Board could be held with only one union representative present. [More…]
When we come to the revised Australian Council for Union Training in the amending Bill, matters are even worse. [More…]
The quorum required for a meeting is six, and the new composition of the Council makes it possible to hold a meeting without any unionists present. [More…]
This is plainly ridiculous for a body whose function it is to advise the Authority on the planning, development and effectiveness of trade union training. [More…]
I have already referred to the unsatisfactory representation of trade unions and the Board. [More…]
The Opposition regards it as extremely dangerous and undesirable that in an area as sensitive as trade union training, there should be three political appointees out of a board of eight. [More…]
There is a high risk of politicising trade union training, which would obviously be fatal to its effectiveness. [More…]
If this is accepted by the Government, it will ensure that TUTA remains beyond political interference, and retains the full confidence of the union movement. [More…]
This legislation gives the union movement the worst of all worlds. [More…]
It cuts across the recommendations of the committee of inquiry, it gives enormous impetus to political appointments and reduces the union voice on the Executive Board to that of a minority. [More…]
In other words, we believe that if the Government accepts that there should be majority union representation on the Executive Board, and the Australian Council should nominate the Chairman and the National Director for appointment by the Minister, the representation of employers on the Board and Council would do less to reduce union confidence in the scheme. [More…]
Again, I urge the Minister to give careful consideration to our views which are intended to enable TUTA to continue to function efficiently and with the confidence of the union movement. [More…]
The present position is that the existing Director is appointed by the Australian Council for union training. [More…]
I know from my own personal experiences with the trade union movement that the concept of trade union training has grasped the trade union movement in a manner that would have seemed impossible just a few short years ago. [More…]
Regardless of whatever government is in power, political appointments to TUTA are fraught with danger to the well-being of effective trade union training. [More…]
We all agree in this House that trade union training is vitally important to the well-being of our society. [More…]
Apparently the Minister or his Department have given the trade unions the impression that the new National Director may not be located at the headquarters of TUTA, that is at the Clyde Cameron College in Albury-Wodonga. [More…]
Will the Minister restore this section and demonstrate his goodwill toward the concept of trade union training with the highest degree of trade union involvement? [More…]
In the debate on the principal Act in 1975, there was universal agreement by all speakers that the definition of trade union training was appropriate. [More…]
Many speakers welcomed the breadth of that definition and urged that trade union training should not only encompass the technical questions and procedures of industrial law but also be concerned with the history of the movement, and its structure, and such matters as labour economics and the wide range of national issues relevant to trade unions and their members. [More…]
However, the current definition has created no practical problems and I am not aware of any departure from fields which all members of this House could regard as legitimate for a trade union training program. [More…]
The committee of inquiry agreed with Senator Guilfoyle ‘s view and made recommendations to strengthen the coordination of trade union training on a State and national level. [More…]
I understand that about 200 different unions have already been involved in courses, and that includes all the significant unions, regardless of their political views or their industrial policies. [More…]
Unions have not only accepted the need for training but also in consultation with TUTA officers many unions are now developing internal schemes of training provided by themselves without public funds, as complementary to TUTA’s work. [More…]
Public funding has thus been instrumental in developing trade union training provision beyond TUTA’s own programs. [More…]
Umons are now starting to meet their own individual needs through training in internal union procedures, paid for out of their own resouces. [More…]
Moreover many unions are now planning their training work to make the fullest use of the available resources. [More…]
For example, some unions have taken decisions to send each new officer or official to TUTA’s courses, and others have decided, over a period, to enrol each member of the union’s council or governing committee to TUTA courses. [More…]
Those who know anything about trade unions and trade union training, will realise what an enormous breakthrough this represents. [More…]
Trade union training has also been accepted outside the union movement. [More…]
Professor John Niland, Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of New South Wales has written that TUTA’s establishment represents ‘the most significant development of the last 50 years in the area of trade unionism and education’. [More…]
It is in this industry that TUTA’s success in attracting the support of both employers and unions is most outstanding. [More…]
Employers in these industries have recognised as much as unions the need for the training of union delegates, located so far from the trades halls and union offices in the capital cities. [More…]
Clearly such courses can only be conducted in these locations through the agreement of the employer and the unions, in co-operation with TUTA. [More…]
There is practical evidence that such courses have reduced the number of minor disputes at mining sites which require senior union and management personnel to fly to the site. [More…]
The understanding of procedures and the confidence built up in local delegates and supervisors have resulted in many differences between unions and supervisors being settled before anyone has had to be called in. [More…]
For example, one company has recently provided funds, together with the Australia-Japan Foundation, for TUTA to select two union students to go on a study-tour of Japan. [More…]
Another company has provided financial assistance to enable TUTA to develop materials for teaching non-English speaking migrant unionists and for unions with migrant workers. [More…]
Yet another company has agreed to meet the travel costs of bringing a German trade union education expert to work with TUTA for a few months, probably in the field of health and safety. [More…]
I remind the House also of some of the figures I have mentioned: 17,000 unionists have attended over 900 courses in about 50 locations. [More…]
The Opposition agrees wholeheartedly with the Minister’s plea for a bi-partisan approach to trade union training. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and all his advisers on the amendments that they have made to the Trade Union Trading Authority. [More…]
I can appreciate the fact that the trade union movement has an important function to perform and I would like to congratulate the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) on his initiatives in commencing the TUTA college and for all the foresight and insight that he put into it with the reaUsation that it would bring employers and employees closer together in the best interests of Australia. [More…]
Australia has adopted a distinctive approach to trade union training. [More…]
It has three elements, the first of which is public funding of trade union training. [More…]
They realise that some of the things that occurred in 1977 should not occur and they are hopeful that the funding of the trade union training college will overcome some of those problems and bring the employers and the employees closer together. [More…]
If 1 can just recall some of the things that occurred within the trade union movement in 1977 I think there will be a realisation that if the $3m is to be spent, it should be spent in the best interests of Australia and also in the hope that the trade union movement will understand that the people of Australia are concerned at some of the things that are occurring in that particular arena. [More…]
Hopefully with successful trade union training they will not occur again. [More…]
Hopefully, if we can get rid of the guerillas involved in the trade union movement there will not occur the problems that are impeding growing confidence in Australia’s economic management and so on. [More…]
The Government felt that it needed a fresh examination, and a more detailed examination was possible by the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
Inquiry into Trade Union Training. [More…]
Detailed comments on the recommendations of the inquiry were invited by the Australian Council for Union Training from the employer and union peak councils represented on the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
There were further discussions within the NLCC, and the Australian Council for Trade Union Training received top level deputations from the peak union councils. [More…]
On the key issues the Committee recommended that trade union training should not be integrated into a general system of industrial relations training, that TUTA conduct a complete evaluation to determine the specific extent of training both as to course content and numbers required, that trade union training should continue to be funded by the Government, and that the funds to be provided for trade union training should be commensurate with the Authority’s training program. [More…]
It recommended also that the Trade Union Training Authority should be retained as an independent statutory body, an independent training institution. [More…]
The report also proposes some changes in the composition of the Australian and State councils for union training, while at the same time retaining the basic structure which the Government considers necessary to go further and which the committee recommends, to provide for more effective and efficient management of the Authority. [More…]
In summary, the purpose of the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment [More…]
The employment of the present director of the Clyde Cameron College and each of the directors of the State trade union training centres is provided by the Bill. [More…]
Though trade unions may complain that they are losing control of TUTA, the view of the Government is taken in the light of the substantial funds being provided. [More…]
The Government has agreed to continue public funding of trade union training and to provide sufficient funds to maintain an independent authority. [More…]
It did not take long for the well known anti-union bias of the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) to show through. [More…]
It was also quite clear to those honourable members who listened to him that, in his view, all industrial disputes are the fault of unionists and that employers never play a part in bringing about disputes. [More…]
It is not always found there that the workers, the unionists, are at fault. [More…]
But, we are not speaking about industrial relations when we speak of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The purpose of the Authority is to train trade unionists as its name says. [More…]
It is there to train trade unionists. [More…]
The report of the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training that was chaired by Mr Paine in 1977 does not advocate that at all. [More…]
we do support the proposal for a national council for trade union training, and we recognise the need for widely based courses at a number of different levels. [More…]
I have no hesitation in admitting that in our time in government- I do not exempt myself from responsibility in this- we should have given more attention to trade union training. [More…]
to create a statutory position of Chairman of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
For the Secretary of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations to relinquish his position as Chairman of the Australian Council for Union Training but still be a member of the Australian Council. [More…]
The honourable member for Franklin seemed to get some pleasure out of speaking about the $3m of taxpayers’ money being spent on trade union training. [More…]
As part of our national education budget, $3m is not a substantial sum of money and in terms of the achievements of the trade unionists who have been through the college the Australian community has had good value for every dollar that has been spent. [More…]
So already we have deep community involvement in the training of people and apparently this is accepted by the honourable member for Franklin except for when it comes to training people in one particular profession or calling which happens to be related to trade unions. [More…]
I am not sure how he spelt that word but it was not a very nice way to talk about the trade union people of Australia. [More…]
This too is an absurd situation which will be thrust upon the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
There has been no agreement to this proposal by any of the peak councils in Australia- the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Council of [More…]
I would not make so broad a statement as to say that the legislation is opposed by every trade union in Australia. [More…]
I do know, however, that there is a very strong feeling of support in the trade union movement for the existing situation and that there is great resistance to the proposed amendments which the Government, I repeat, is thrusting upon the trade union movement with very little consultation and certainly without consent. [More…]
The Australian Council of Union Training is not in agreement with what is being done. [More…]
I think it is still part of this on-going attack on the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I believe that this is just another shot in that longrange, continuing campaign of harassment of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
It is a situation in which the Minister not only has the right to appoint people to the Australian Council but also, with the greatest of impertinence, to take unto himself the right to appoint the trade union representatives to it. [More…]
Five members of the Australian Council of Trade Unions are to sit on the Australian Council, and the Minister must be given 10 names. [More…]
Never has such impertinence been perpetrated upon the trade union movement than that which the Minister is trying to thrust upon it on this occasion. [More…]
I remind the Minister- I cannot warn him of anything; nobody can- that this Bill does not have the support of the progressive trade unions in Australia. [More…]
It does not have the support of the peak councils of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
I am convinced that, for that amount of money, which is not a large sum, that has been spent on trade union training in the short space of 2 te years, and to the advantage of 17,000 students, the Australian people have never had their money spent so well. [More…]
-The House is debating a Bill to amend the Trade Union Training Authority Act, and that Bill is designed to achieve a more integrated management structure and greater involvement by a broader crosssection of the trade union movement in the affairs of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I heard him complain about the fact that the Bill contained a provision under which the Minister could require a list of names from the peak councils of the trade union movement- a list containing twice the number of names needed for appointment- so that he could select from that list submitted to him the people to be appointed. [More…]
We picked it up and we included that idea in the structure of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
He said that the Government was not in touch with the trade unions on this matter of trade union training and that in fact there had been no complaints about the efficiency of the administration of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
All I can say is that members of the Opposition obviously are people not in touch with the trade unions on this issue. [More…]
I also visited the Melbourne centre of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I spoke to a number of people such as the Director of the Clyde Cameron College, a number of members of the Australian Council for Union Training, and a number of trade union officials and employer representatives about their proposals for the Authority. [More…]
Indeed, there were a number of complaints about the Trade Union Training Authority as it is presently structured. [More…]
I do not want to say that the Trade Union Training Authority as it is presently structured is completely wrong. [More…]
In fact, one of the mapx objections that we had from both employer representatives and from a number of trade union officials was that there was a fragmentation in the Trade Union Trading Authority between the States. [More…]
In certain States a particular group in the trade union movement would take control of the Council in that State and, rightly or wrongly, other trade unions in that State would believe that the courses were being run by union groups hostile to their interests. [More…]
So in Victoria a number of right wing union officials would say quite frankly that they would not send their members to any TUTA courses because to do so would be to hand those people into the arms of the left wing. [More…]
On the other hand, in Tasmania, left wing union officials would say: ‘Look, the courses in this State are being run by dreadful people like Harradine and Tony Macken, that right wing lawyer who advises some right wing unions, and we wouldn’t send any of our people along to courses being run by people like that ‘. [More…]
I put it to the House that that is not in the best interests of trade union training. [More…]
We want a broad involvement of all trade unionists in the courses so that there is a proper cross-fertilisation of ideas in each State. [More…]
There are, of course, a number of industrial awards which contain provisions for paid leave to allow people to undertake trade union training. [More…]
I think therefore that it is appropriate that there be some representation- and it is only ‘some’ representationfrom employer groups on the executive board and on the councils of the Trade Union Training Authority, at both Federal and State levels. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide spoke about the need for maximum involvement of trade unionists. [More…]
He also said that all significant unions have been involved in the TUTA. [More…]
As I have pointed out, it may be true that all significant unions in one State or another have been involved, but certainly within individual States there is a great deal of suspicion on the part of significant unions about the groups that they believe are in charge of the Authority in their State. [More…]
I do not agree with those submissions; I agree that there is a need for an independent trade union training authority which gives training to trade unionists specifically in trade union matters. [More…]
If the honourable member for Port Adelaide is so confident of the views of employers in support of the Trade Union Training Authority, what objection could he possibly have to formal employer representation on the executive board and on the councils of the Authority. [More…]
I wish to deal with this suggestion that was put to me by a number of employers that there ought to be people nominated by the employers themselves taking pan in various courses run by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Moreover, it was suggested that there would be an exchange of views within the context of those courses between union members and certain people from the management of various companies. [More…]
Whilst there is some attraction in that view, I should like to put the view that there ought to be an independent trade union training authority offering courses and training basically for trade unionists because of the particular needs of the trade union movement. [More…]
I think it would be unfortunate if, on many of the courses, there was a situation where people who were being given a basic grounding in trade union organisation and in industrial relations were thrown into the same tutorial room, say, as a young industrial officer who had his Bachelor of Commerce degree or his Bachelor of Law Degree and a couple of years experience in a company. [More…]
I am talking about a fairly articulate fellow who has been educated in a different way and who perhaps is able to articulate his views to a greater extent than the person who is taken from the factory floor by his union and given a responsibility in the trade union of that factory. [More…]
I think it is important for people at the grass roots level of trade unions to be able to develop their confidence, to be able to develop their knowledge of trade union operations and to develop a technique in conducting basic negotiations with management on things like the allocation of overtime-simple matters like that, that arise on a regular basis in many industrial concerns. [More…]
However, I believe that there is a separate need for representatives of employers to have a lot more traimng in trade union operations and in industrial relations than they presently have. [More…]
In fact many industrial relations probelms arise, I believe, because foremen and supervisors do not have a proper knowledge of the workings of trade unions. [More…]
Frankly, they are often badly treated by both employers and trade unions alike. [More…]
That is one reason why one trade union is having a great deal of success in unionising foremen in many industrial concerns at present. [More…]
They do not deal very basically with the structure of trade unions in this country and the structure of our conciliation and arbitration system and how it works. [More…]
So there are some very fundamental needs on the management or employer side as far as trade union training and industrial relations training are concerned. [More…]
As I have said, I do not believe that that ought to be incorporated in toto with the sort of training offered by the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
I shall give a little bit of background to the way in which trade union training developed in this country as I see it. [More…]
One of the problems before the Trade Union Training Authority was established was that there was a lack of any particular institution which gave a sufficiently high priority to trade union training. [More…]
Indeed, some of the trade unionists who were themselves involved in the early attempts to get trade union training underway have told me of attempts to book facilities, for example, at various tertiary institutions. [More…]
Of course the other courses which those institutions were set up to provide had the first priority and trade unions and trade union organisations wanting to offer training courses had to fit in with the requirements of those other institutions. [More…]
Indeed, many trade unionists felt a little bit out of place if they went along to a university lecture theatre or to a university library to undertake their training there. [More…]
There is a need for the Clyde Cameron College, a separate institution which the trade union movement can regard as existing primarily to service its own training needs. [More…]
Government’s attempts to update the management structure and give it a greater degree of integration and better control and also to redefine the meaning of trade union training. [More…]
In line with what I said earlier, there was a great deal of suspicion on the part of some trade union officials and many employers that the broad definition of trade union training contained in the existing Act might allow a number of courses of a very broad ideological nature to be introduced into the trade union training syllabus. [More…]
To overcome that possible undesirable development- some would say that it actually occurred in a number of courses but I cannot speak with first hand experience of that- the definition of trade union training has been somewhat restricted. [More…]
It surely will not restrict any legitimate aspect of trade union training which anyone would openly wish to propound as being the responsibility of the trade union training authority. [More…]
-I understand that the honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) may have acquired some of his indoctrination and biased views against the trade union movement when he worked as a junior executive for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd some years ago. [More…]
Since I have mentioned BHP, I might also mention one other fact that is relevant to what we are talking about in relation to this Bill, and to whether or not the Trade Union Training Authority has been successful in its operations. [More…]
So much for the attitude of some of the employers in this country to responsibility in trade union and management negotiations. [More…]
This Bill to amend the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975 is the result of the Government’s nearly total lack of understanding of the nature and aims of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
Because of that lack of understanding the Government has been led into this misguided assault on the rights of the trade union movement to manage its own affairs. [More…]
Let us look at the original philosophy behind the 1975 Trade Union Training Authority legislation. [More…]
The autonomy of the trade union movement in the organisation and operation of the Trade Union Training Authority, as originally conceived, is vital to its proper and effective functioning in the interests of clearer and more coherent functioning of industrial relations. [More…]
The first annual report of the Trade Union Training Authority, that for 1975-76, reveals that 3,877 unionists participated in 211 courses conducted by that body throughout Australia. [More…]
Those 3,877 unionists represented 125 unions, according to the report, or some 44 per cent of the total number of trade unions within Australia as at December 1976. [More…]
Yet this Liberal-National Country Party Government seeks to destroy the control of the trade union movement over the operation of union training courses offered by the Authority. [More…]
In short, the Government proposes to take the repressive step of relegating the majority of union representation on the Australian and State Councils for Union Training to a merely advisory capacity. [More…]
By means of the device of ministerial appointment at all levels of TUTA, the Government seeks to emasculate the level of trade union responsibility and courses within the Authority. [More…]
Why the Government must take these measures will remain something of a mystery, for within TUTA the broad union movement sought an operation which expressed itself simply as a desire to gain the skills and competence to more effectively and efficiently represent their members. [More…]
Accordingly, through lack of intellectual effort and understanding, it feels that it is much safer to hamstring and attack innovations such as the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The training provided will be aimed primarily at promoting trade union competence . [More…]
This will undoubtedly diminish the tensions and frustrations between the two parties (unions and management) and contribute to the more efficient avoidance and resolution of industrial conflict. [More…]
The aims of the Australian Labor Party, as expressed in the TUTA legislation of 1975, were the fostering of competent and efficient trade union administration, and the development of greater levels of verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills amongst those officials and delegates involved in industrial contact with management; that is, the ability of union organisers to quickly and clearly perceive their own and also the employers’ position on any particular issue so as to act in the best interests of their members. [More…]
In his original speech on TUTA, Clyde Cameron spoke of ‘The development of trade unions as social institutions’. [More…]
The original Act sought to enhance and promote the status of unions as integral and effective elements of an increasingly complex social and industrial society. [More…]
To achieve these aims it was absolutely necessary that trade unions insist upon themselves organising trade union training in a manner compatible with the aspirations of the trade union movement. [More…]
There is obviously a huge fear in the ranks of the Government that if unions run their own training programs they will produce militant unionists dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism. [More…]
Obviously many trade union officials and trade unionists feel that this may be a desirable function, but it clearly has not been the function of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
TUTA does not attempt to influence union policies- that is not its role. [More…]
TUTA aims to provide a training and education service for the whole union movement in Australia. [More…]
The contents of the course book on shop steward training gives the following headings for the courses: Union structure and the role of the shop steward; duties of a shop steward; protection for the shop steward; What the shop steward needs to know; Recruiting; and handling of a grievance. [More…]
In combating this mistaken notion of the type of union training propagated by TUTA it is necessary to remind such critics that it is insulting to treat unions and unionists as if they were appendages of the employers and the Government and must be supervised at every step. [More…]
Honourable members opposite may like to know that according to the TUTA annual report for 1975-76, the first year of its operations, representatives of unions such as the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Sheet Metal Workers Union, the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association of Australia, the Ship Painters and Dockers Union, the Miners’ Federation, the Seamen’s Union and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia attended TUTA courses throughout Australia. [More…]
The willing participation of these and other unions will not be as much in evidence, I fear, in future years now that the Government is proceeding to attack the autonomy of the movement by deliberately weakening the power of the unions to control their own training programs through TUTA. [More…]
In accordance with the spirit of the original legislation, trade union interests predominated on the bodies which constituted TUTA. [More…]
Of the 16 members of the Australian Council 1 1 are direct union representatives- three from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, one from the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, one from the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations and six from State Trades and Labour Councils. [More…]
Similarly, it is proposed to have 14 persons on the Australian Council, five from the ACTU, one from ACSPA and one from CAGEO-that is seven from the unions- all to be appointed by the Minister from short lists. [More…]
Is not the trade union movement entitled to say that its representatives will be elected or selected from the movement and will be directly responsible to that movement and will be replaced if they do not do the right thing, if they do not perform their job? [More…]
Clearly the union members of the Council ought to be elected by the trade union movement and responsible only to that movement. [More…]
There will be a loss of interest in TUTA, at a time when the underlying hostility towards TUTA is lessening in many unions which traditionally had undertaken full responsibility for the training of their own delegates and shop stewards. [More…]
The certain effect of this legislation will be to drive unions and unionists away from an organisation which is so obviously run by government bureaucrats. [More…]
The unions will not have a bar of such a set-up, and who will blame them? [More…]
Let me, as a trade unionist with some 23 years experience, stress that any dedicated unionist would see the purpose of trade union training as a means of improving his or her ability to fight for the rights of the people whom he or she represents, not as a means of creating a better or a smoother industrial relations situation for the benefit of the employers. [More…]
If it is a by-product, well so much the better; but it should not be seen as the primary purpose of trade union training. [More…]
Let it be said again that the main aim of trade union training should be to place the delegates and union officials representing workers in a better position so that they can be more competent representatives of the workers and trade unionists whom they represent. [More…]
I can well understand that those who have hitherto relied on their own industrial experience and on the forms and machinery of their own unions, such as the shop stewards of the Australian Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and the job delegates of the Waterside Workers Federation- an organisation with which I have had some little experiencewill be even more disposed than they were before not to participate in an organisation which so obviously is influenced by employers and by the coalition Government. [More…]
Perhaps there are some overdue reforms in the trade union movement, but this legislation is certainly not on the agenda of desirable reforms. [More…]
There is a need to amalgamate smaller craft unions and multiple industry unions into single industry organisations and a need to make all union officials completely responsible to their own rank and file, both by election and during their term of office. [More…]
We can be assured that the people who are now attempting to assassinate TUTA by attempting to make it a creature of government policy, will oppose these reforms that I have enunciated and any other progressive forms that the unions may seek to implement if those reforms are thought likely to strengthen the ability of unions to battle for workers. [More…]
It wants to cause trouble in the trade union movement. [More…]
Government is paranoic about the trade union movement. [More…]
In conclusion, Mr Minister, let me say to you tonight that if you are genuinely driven by a desire to improve trade union training and management in industrial relations in this country then you will ignore the blandishments and exhortations of the people in the Ministry and those on the back bench who do not care one iota about the future of industrial relations or for the workers who turn the wheels of Industry. [More…]
W. Hayden, that construction of the National Trade Union Training College at Albury-Wodonga, which now bears his name, would commence on 1 July of that year. [More…]
Of course, he probably achieved more in real terms for the trade union movement in Australia during his occupancy of that most important portfolio than any previous Minister had achieved in the history of Australia since federation. [More…]
It is wrong for the trade union movement to believe that it has in effect a divine right to control how public money shall be allocated. [More…]
We seek to bring accountability into the operations of the trade union training movement of this country, and well we should. [More…]
I was delighted to hear in speeches made by honourable members on both sides of the House an appreciation of the need for a college to train trade union leaders and rank and file members of the trade union movement. [More…]
A typical example of the need for such a college is the recent utterance of Mr Norm Gallagher of the Builders Labourers Federation who, when asked on 30 May during an Australian Broadcasting Commission news program how he saw his reelection to leadership of the union, said: [More…]
I do believe that members of the union, and building workers and workers generally have lost their purchasing power for indexation and as far as I am concerned is that we will be campaigning the purchasing power of our members. [More…]
Obviously, if we have trade union leaders in this country who believe that their prime aim and No. [More…]
1 priority is militant action we have a need for a trade union college to which unionists can go in order to get their sense of priority right. [More…]
The National Country Party is delighted, therefore, to support the concept of the trade union college because the college will turn out better informed trade union leaders and rank and file members who will be better equipped to achieve the aims, aspirations and hopes of the people they represent. [More…]
It is appropriate to remark that employers have co-operated with the trade union college. [More…]
Not only have they sent lecturers to the college, but also they have allowed workers who are union officials to go to the college and to participate in the various lectures that have been held. [More…]
It benefits employers in the sense that the trade union member is more adequately equipped to advise his members. [More…]
It is true that there is less confrontation between employers and employees when the trade union official on the shop floor knows the rules, when he knows what the guidelines are and when he knows where his authority begins and ends. [More…]
The Government believes that there is a necessity for better management not only of the trade union college at Wodonga but also of the associated State enterprises. [More…]
We have the chairman with a casting vote, and with the employer’s representative, a department representative and the National Director plus four unionists, a blueprint for the successful operation of the college can readily be sustained after having been discussed at the round table conference. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the trade union movement itself tried out an approach based on theory. [More…]
In that thesis he indicated quite clearly that if trade union training is to be based straight out on theory, it will eventually wither and die on the vine because, of necessity, it must have a practical application. [More…]
That is one of the recommendations contained in chapter 7 of the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training, indicating that the employers could have an input into the training of trade union leaders. [More…]
Surely the justice of public money being spent in the interests of farm leaders, as it is presently spent in the interests of capital, management, labour and trade unions, cannot be denied. [More…]
I believe if we have the courage to establish a farm leaders training course much benefit, much good input, could be given to the training of our farm leaders of the future by having representatives of the trade union movement come along and give them lectures, be it on a weekend seminar arrangement or a week long arrangement. [More…]
It is absolutely essential that farm leaders of the future, just like the trade union leaders of the future, as indicated in that report, should have access to the other person’s point of view. [More…]
Farm leaders training courses, of course, would need to be structured somewhat differently from the present idea of trade union training courses. [More…]
He paid tribute to my work in setting up the Trade Union Training Authority and he also said, and I thought it was generous of him to do so, that it was fitting that I should be remembered permanently in the name of the National Trade Union Training College- the Clyde Cameron college. [More…]
I shall always be grateful to the permanent head of the Department, Dr Ian Sharpe, as he then was, for proposing that the college be named after me and for the fact that it was Bob Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, who, seconded the resolution. [More…]
I am grateful for the support that I received from the Australian Council for Union Training, the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee) and the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) in this place. [More…]
It is no use anybody saying that the peak unions and the trades and labour councils are seeking to politicise TUTA. [More…]
I give this warning to the Government and to the National Civic Council which now controls the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations: It will be a pyrrhic victory for the National Civic Council, for the Department and for the Government because the bureaucrats in the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations will now be seen for what they really are- bitterly anti-trade union, and fanatically pro-NCC. [More…]
They have succeeded in winning this battle but the bureaucrats in the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations have lost the war of being able to convince organised labour that it is has anything to offer the trade union movement. [More…]
The very act of pushing the Minister into proposing something that the employers, the unions, the Minister and the Committee of Inquiry did not ask for, but which was contained in the last minute submission that the NCC put in to the Committee of Inquiry, is the last straw. [More…]
The Government will never now be able to convince organised labour that it has anything at all to offer the trade union movement. [More…]
He said a lot of sensible things about employment and trade union training. [More…]
Honourable members should not think that when I established the trade union Training Authority all the trade unionists went on their hands and knees and prayed for me or kissed my shoes or did whatever people do when they want to show their appreciation. [More…]
I once had a meeting with trade unionists at which Peter Matthews was present and when Harold Souter found out that Matthews had been here to talk to me about introducing a system of trade union training he telephoned me to tell me in no uncertain manner that Matthews had no authority to speak for the Australian Council of Trade Unions on trade union training. [More…]
Ask Norm Gallagher what he thinks of trade union training. [More…]
He will say that it is a foul capitalist plot thought up by Clyde Cameron to soften the future leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
I had no support from any substantial section of the trade union movement anywhere in Australia, from either right, left or centre, because the trade union movement saw it as being a foul capitalist plot to subvert its future leadership. [More…]
It was only when I was prepared to offer the trade union movement complete control of the organisation and said ‘we will fund it and you can have complete control over the curricula and the syllabus and the election and appointment of the people who will do the job’ that the movement was finally prepared to come in and become part of it. [More…]
Not only is it insisting on a stacked executive committee with the casting vote of its appointed chairman deciding every issue; it is adding insult to injury by demanding that the trade unions send it a panel of names of double the number required to be represented on the council or executive body, so that it can hand pick the trade unionists it would like to see on those bodies. [More…]
Its idea is to have this device so that if the trade union movement nominates anybody that it does not like it can put the cleaner through the list of nominations and end up with a purely pro-National Civic Council body in charge of everything. [More…]
Ltd, to Brian Loton of Broken Hill Pty Ltd, to Rod Carnegie and many other captains of industry who have been able to see what the Government cannot see and what the National Civic Council will not see; namely, that if we are ever to get trade union leaders who are efficient, sophisticated and able to give sensible leadership to the trade union movement we will have to start training them now. [More…]
When I first introduced this proposal I said that it probably would take 10 years before the harvest of leaders from the Clyde Cameron College and from the State training centres would be wide enough to make the desired impact upon the thinking of the trade union movement. [More…]
We will have to wait until there are enough graduate trade union leaders and future trade union leaders on the factory floor and on the floor at union meetings to make their presence felt. [More…]
For too many years union meetings have been sparsely attended with all the talking coming from the table. [More…]
That has been the trouble with union meetings. [More…]
I am critical of the way in which union meetings are conducted because generally speaking the only people at union meetings now who are able to talk with any confidence are those at the table and an occasional sprinkling of graduates from the [More…]
He tendered an apology and indicated to me how wholeheartedly he was behind the concept of trade union training. [More…]
I have not met anyone of any consequence who is asking that we destroy the union control of the Clyde Cameron College or the Trade Union Training Authority generally. [More…]
He also said that employers should be able to make some sort of input to trade union training. [More…]
To allow employer representatives to sit on the Australian Council for Union Training is like demanding that the Catholic Education Office in each state should accept the Grandmaster of the Freemasons Lodge on its board of control and demanding also that as catholic education is being given millions of dollars of Federal funds a government-dominated board ought to be appointed and made answerable directly to the Minister to decide what the syllabi, curricula and appointments shall be in all the catholic colleges and schools in Australia. [More…]
I pay a tribute to that honourable gentleman for the courage and for the foresight that he has shown and for the role that he played in the establishment of the trade union training colleges. [More…]
As he pointed out, they were not subject to immediate acceptance by the trade union movement. [More…]
I have no doubt that on many occasions the Minister has not agreed with the honourable member for Hindmarsh, but, when the honourable member for Hindmarsh, with his knowledge and understanding of the trade union movement, sounds the warnings to the Minister that he has, I think the Minister and those members on the Government side who support him ought to pay some real regard to them. [More…]
It is sad because it involves an issue which until the introduction of this Bill virtually was dealt with in this Parliament on a bipartisan basis, with all parties agreeing on the need for trade union training and with all parties in broad agreement on the nature of the structure that ought to be established. [More…]
These amendments were not sought by the trade union movement. [More…]
I want, first of all, to pay a very real tribute to the work that is being done by those who have been responsible for the conduct and the management of the trade union training colleges because right from the inception of those colleges these people had the problem of selling this concept to the trade union movement. [More…]
Acting upon this, the Trade Union Training Authority prepared estimates for recurrent expenditure to enable full utilisation of the existing traimng staff and for capital expenditure to enable building works already commenced to be completed. [More…]
It is a report of the very real achievements of the Trade Union Training Authority in Victoria. [More…]
That is another argument, but the point I am making is that it is completely spurious for the honourable gentleman- I commend him for at least going there and having a look- to say on the basis of a visit that he is supporting the Government ‘s amendments because some unnamed trade union official said to him: My word, you could not send your officers there because they might be subverted’. [More…]
If some trade union official is prepared to tell the honourable member for Casey that all this subversion is going on surely that evidence would have been made available to the committee. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman knew anything about the way in which the trade union movement operates he would know it was nonsense. [More…]
The confidence of trade unions in the authority’s activities could be weakened by employer representation on Councils for Union Training and for this reason we should not recommend such representation. [More…]
Well, with great respect, it seems incredible to me that there can be a report of this kind wherein all these issues have been examined and there are responsible employer groups, responsible union groups and experienced industrial judges, none of whom can be quoted by the Minister, none of whom can be used as an authority by the Minister. [More…]
It is true, then, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh says, that at the last minute forces operating within the Department- forces which were not necessarily serving the interests of the Government, the employers or the trade union movement- were then able to so influence the policy processes of the Government that we got a statement like this in the second reading speech: [More…]
It states: trade union training’ means- [More…]
That definition is broad enough to encompass a history and a knowledge of the trade union movement, its traditions, the fact that it was born out of a period of class struggle, the historic role it played in Australian society and the fact that many of the problems that confronted it in the 1920s and the 1930s are not the sorts of problems that confront it today. [More…]
That will have a real effect on the trade union movement. [More…]
It is narrow and almost spiteful to say that we have to amend the definition section so that the Trade Union Training Authority must now concentrate on educational, technical or practical training, capable of advancing and developing an understanding of the functions and objectives of trade unions or officials of trade unions. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority has only now got itself into the position where I think it can say to the Minister that it enjoys the confidence of the trade union movement. [More…]
But the trade union movement in Australia will not accept the view that this Authority is going to be an extension of some arm of the Government, an extension of the Department which is designed to produce tame cat union officials. [More…]
There are grave doubts and grave concerns running right throughout the trade union movement that the confidence won by those dedicated officers of this structure by hard work, by sacrifice, by skill and by diligence, as the record shows, as the tables which I have laid before the Parliament show, will be lost overnight. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that if he loses that confidence, the simple thing for him to do is not to worry about the future of the Trade Union Training Authority, but to save his money, wrap it up and not pretend that some exercise in public relations will pull the wool over the eyes of the trade union leadership of this country. [More…]
There is real concern within the trade union movement. [More…]
If he proceeds with this Bill in this form, he runs the very real risk of losing the entire confidence of the trade union movement in terms of the whole future operations of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
If these amendments are passed, it will take a considerable exercise in goodwill for the trade union movement to live with some of the concepts which are now being pushed. [More…]
It is one that I think could encompass the destruction of an institution which has already proved its worth, not merely to the trade union movement, but to the Australian people, the Australian community. [More…]
I draw the attention of those honourable members who commented on this matter to the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training. [More…]
It included representation from the union movement. [More…]
The Trade Union Training Authority has faced the same restraints as other bodies in the public arena with regard to staff ceilings and finance but in practice it has received very special consideration in both these respects for the proper reason that it is a new body which cannot be considered in the same context as those departments and other statutory authorities which have been in existence for a long time. [More…]
The amendments are the result of prolonged and extensive consultations with the National Labour Consultative Council, peak union councils and the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
The honourable member for Franldin (Mr Goodluck) made the very relevant point that trade union training has a major role to play in improving industrial relations generally. [More…]
Trade union training was then an entirely new concept in Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey discussed at some length and very sensibly the rationale for trade union training. [More…]
The honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) seemed very disappointed that the trade union courses to which he referred did not preach the degree of revolution and the overthrow of our society that he would have liked. [More…]
He laid great stress on the need for the union content of the Trade Union Taining Authority. [More…]
I remind him that the Australian Government funds trade union training in a way which, as far as I know, does not apply in any other country. [More…]
I would be more impressed by the arguments of the honourable member for Cunningham if the trade union movement indicated that it was prepared to make a substantial contribution to the capital and recurrent costs of trade union training, but so far I have not detected any great enthusiasm. [More…]
He too made reference to the list method of selection but went on to say that the lists could result in there being on the councils people whom the unions no longer wanted to represent them. [More…]
That applies equally to union and employer representatives. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) drew attention to the drastic results of irresponsible union leadership in strike action and the effect that had on job opportunities and the purchasing power of rank and file members. [More…]
He also mentioned the need for informed and responsible union leadership. [More…]
The honourable member also made some very valid comments on the difference between the educational side of trade union training and the administration side concerned with running a statutory authority. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling Downs did make an interesting suggestion regarding the desirability of having greater understanding between the farming community and the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), who can truly be called the father of trade union training in Australia- I acknowledge his contribution to that field- did disappoint me when he spoke so disparagingly of the department of which he was once the Minister, and of which I now have the honour to be Minister. [More…]
The honourable member referred to the longterm nature of the benefits of trade union training. [More…]
Incidentally, he was strongly critical of there being an employer representative on the Australian Council and on the Executive Board, but I must say that his view is not shared by the union movement, which did not oppose it. [More…]
I merely say that the union movement did not oppose it. [More…]
As I have explained, any government has the right to do so if it believes that it will result in better and more effective management of the Authority and, more effective use of the resources provided, both human resources and the physical buildings of the college and the various trade union training centres. [More…]
-The changes included in clauses 1 to 7 of this Bill call into very serious question the sincerity of the Government’s claim of commitment to trade union training. [More…]
The changes put in doubt, and very serious doubt, the continued effectiveness and indeed the very viability of the Trade Union Training Authority, and it is just possible that this is the Government’s real intent. [More…]
The Minister tries to obscure this lack of justification by claiming that comments were sought from and discussions were held with, firstly, the Australian Council, secondly, the National Labour Consultative Committee and, thirdly, the peak union councils. [More…]
The discussions with the peak union councils were not initiated by the Minister, as could be construed from the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
No longer will the preferred representatives of the unions even be assured of membership on the Board. [More…]
Whilst there will be some union representation it is perfectly clear that the Government can avoid appointing the preferred representatives of the trade union movement. [More…]
Even then no longer will those trade union representatives be in a position of control. [More…]
This is one of the unnecessary changes which will threaten the continued existence of the Authority, because it is the control of TUTA which has led to the development of the excellent relationship between the trade union movement and the Authority. [More…]
The basis of the relationship between the trade union movement and the Authority is one of trust. [More…]
The trade union movement recognises that TUTA is an organisation almost unique in that it understands the problems of the trade union movement, and its job is to do something about those problems. [More…]
There may be some unions which prefer a docile membership. [More…]
Practically all the unionists who I know who have attended trade union training courses have come back to their unions better equipped to participate, and to encourage others to participate in their unions ‘ activities. [More…]
However, with the proposed change to the legislation I really wonder whether that sort of relationship will be able to be continued, and whether the sort of involvement that unions have encouraged in TUTA will be able to continue. [More…]
He claimed in his second reading speech, at least by implication if not specifically, that it was the report of the Committee of Inquiry on Trade Union Training which was the justification for including employers on the controlling body of TUTA. [More…]
It pretends to rely on the support of the trade union movement. [More…]
He cannot use the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training as a springboard to justify these changes. [More…]
I must say, with due deference to the trade union movement, that if the NLCC is to be used in the national Parliament in the way in which it is being used at the moment- the Minister coming in here and saying that he has had consultations with the NLCC, in an attempt, supposedly, to persuade the Opposition that it should go along with certain measures- the trade union movement itself should look seriously at the way in which the Minister uses the name of the NLCC. [More…]
We consider the Trade Union Training Authority to be of extreme importance to the community. [More…]
The Minister fails miserably to present an argument as to why the Parliament ought to support the legislation, why powers are being taken away from the trade union movement and on what grounds these major changes are being made. [More…]
He also said that the only reason that the honourable member for Cunningham is opposed to the Bill is because the Trade Union Training Authority may not be as revolutionary as the honourable member for Cunningham would like it to be. [More…]
The very case that we put forward today on the clauses now before the Committee is that the Trade Union Training Authority is not anyone’s bunny. [More…]
The very strength of the Authority, of the Australian Council for Union Training, of the Director, of the college and of the State councils is that they are not anybody’s bunny. [More…]
No one in the two and a half years in which the Trade Union Training Authority has operated can lay that charge against it. [More…]
How can the Government justify the proposition that the majority voice on that executive board should be other than a trade union voice? [More…]
Is the Government trying to present us with a view that people outside the work force know more about the labour force than the trade unions themselves? [More…]
The fact is that a majority of people on the board are non-trade union people. [More…]
The term ‘members of trade unions ‘ has disappeared. [More…]
Reference to the locations of where the trade union training will take place and the functions of the Authority has disappeared. [More…]
If the Government said, ‘This is the view of the Government; we still hold the same views as we held when Tony Street was Opposition spokesman on employment and industrial relations and when Malcolm Fraser was Leader of the Opposition in 1 975; all the fears we held then about trade union training we still hold and we are using that as justification for changing the Act’, we would be prepared to argue with the Government. [More…]
But Government members know full well that since those statements were made two and a half years ago the trade union training authority, by its very influence, by its very attraction to working people in this country, has dispelled all the fears that were expressed. [More…]
The Minister has not really told us why the Government wants to change this Act dealing with the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Dawkins) alleged that the Government did not want trade union training to continue. [More…]
As I understood him, he alleged that the Government did not want trade union training to continue, and I am saying that is ridiculous. [More…]
We acknowledge the need for trade union training. [More…]
He also made reference to employer participation in the Trade Union Training Authority and if there was any misunderstanding I am glad to clear it up now. [More…]
There was very strong representation from the employers to gain representation both on the Council and on the Executive Board, and if it makes him any happier I repeat what I said in winding up the second reading debatethat was not opposed by the union movement. [More…]
I have never claimed unanimous agreement arising out of discussions in the NLCC, but very extensive discussions have been held by that Council and subsequently further discussions with the peak union councils. [More…]
It recognises the need for different levels of function- the level of the State Councils for Union Training and the level of the Australian Council for Union Training. [More…]
It has taken the formation of the Trade Union Training Authority to put into practice the co-operative relationships that we have stressed should exist between State activities and the Federal co-ordinating activties. [More…]
By omitting the definition of ‘trade union training’ and substituting the following definition: “trade union training” means technical or practical training capable of advancing and developing knowledge and skills in fields connected with the powers and functions of trade unions or the powers, functions and duties of officers or officials of trade unions; ‘. [More…]
It seems that the Government, through the Minister, has decided that education is far too broad a term to be used in the definition of trade union training. [More…]
Trade Union Training Authority must carry with it a connotation of educational training. [More…]
For reasons best known to himself, which the Minister has not made clear to me, to the peak councils, to the trade union movement generally, to TUTA or to the community, for some reason or other he has decided to exclude the word education. [More…]
If the Minister does not believe that trade union training authorities, or, to be specific, the Trade Union Training Authority by its nature is an educational institution, let him say so. [More…]
The third point I want to make, which takes me more closely into the Bill, is to draw attention to the way in which the power has been shifted within the nature of the Trade Union Training Authority so that we now have elevated in place of a broadly representative board- other honourable members have referred to this- a National Director appointed by the Minister operating in the context of an executive which clearly can be controlled by management when the Chairman appointed by the Minister is prepared to go in that direction. [More…]
The people who are enrolled in those courses will certainly not be operating in a trade union context. [More…]
The point I want to make is that one institution has been established to serve the trade union movement, to provide, as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) has suggested quite properly, education for the trade union movement rather than some narrow notion of training. [More…]
If this Government, which says that it intends to talk about consensus and that it is trying to achieve a situation in society in which all groups are somehow represented in some kind of corporate decision making, takes over the one institution which provides the basis for the trade union movement to develop a capacity for articulating its views on major questions, including questions that involve matters directly affecting people in the work force, then it seems to me quite clear that what this Government is on about is not consensus but conflict. [More…]
Whilst the honourable member for Cunningham was accused of prosecuting a view of conflict, it is in fact the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) who is encouraging conflict within this society by bringing in this piece pf legislation, because he is ripping the guts out of the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
It is clear from clause 7 that it is quite possible- indeed, it may even be inevitablethat the National Director of the Executive Board which can be controlled by management will be able to transfer resources outside of the Trade Union Training Authority altogether. [More…]
The situation can develop where management courses run by businesses may receive funds so that token trade unionists can come along, and the paltry Sim a year recurrent funds, or whatever the amount is, will get diverted off to support management so that it can make a token gesture in regard to the odd trade unionist. [More…]
But the Minister had better tell us loud and clear why he reserves the right to decide who will be the union representatives on the Executive Board. [More…]
He said that I said tonight that the Trade Union Training Authority was not revolutionary enough. [More…]
What I said was that honourable members opposite think that the Trade Union Training Authority has been turning out militants and revolutionaries. [More…]
While some trade unionists and even some trade union officials might think that this is desirable, in fact it is not so. [More…]
The whole thrust of the training program was concentrated on important negotiating skills, teaching people to write letters, to administer trade unions and how to be better shop floor representatives. [More…]
Without limiting the generality of section 7, the National Director may, on behalf of the Authority, arrange for the provision of courses of or related to trade union training at places in Australia other than the College or Trade Union Training Centres. [More…]
The National Director may arrange for persons with knowledge or experience in trade union matters or in matters relevant to the functions of the College or of a Trade Union Training Centre or to the instruction and training of persons in trade union matters, to assist, otherwise than on the basis of full-time employment, in the performance of the functions of the College . [More…]
Can we look forward to someone like David McNicol or Bob Santamaria suddenly appearing in the role of a trade union instructor at the Trade Union Training Authority? [More…]
In conclusion, I submit that only a government that is completely out of touch with the realities of industrial relations and the trade union movement and how workers think could act this way and still expect that the broad labour movement would still support a trade union training authority under this sort of administration. [More…]
I think the answer is that the Government knows that a lot of unions will not support the Authority under this sort of administration. [More…]
I believe that is the whole purpose of the exercise, to help to destroy the Trade Union Training Authority and the Clyde Cameron College. [More…]
It seems that the National Director has been imposed above everybody in the whole Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
(aa) to provide such other training that is related to trade union training as the National Director determines. [More…]
(a) To provide such courses of trade union training as the National Director determines; and [More…]
to provide such other training that is related to trade union training as the National Director determines. [More…]
The National Director may arrange for persons with knowledge or experience in trade union matters or in matters relevant to the functions of the College or of a Trade Union Training Centre or to the instruction and training of persons in trade union matters, to assist, otherwise than on the basis of full-time employment, in the performance of the functions of the College or a Trade Union Training Centre, as the case may be. [More…]
In whose opinion are persons to be said to have knowledge or experience in trade union matters and so forth? [More…]
It contains nothing that will give confidence in the Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
Why did the advertisement for the position of commissioner omit any reference to the rural sector and, to use the words in the advertisement refer only to ‘the business sector, the Public Service, the academic community and the trade union movement’? [More…]
Has the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations seen statements by the re-elected secretary of the Builders Labourers Federation, Mr Gallagher, that that union intends to pursue a program of guerilla warfare to gain additional payments for building workers? [More…]
Very significantly, in Victoria, the rank and file members of the BLF eventually repudiated their union leadership and insisted on the right to return to work. [More…]
The ordinary Australian worker certainly does not appreciate irresponsible action by union leaders to pursue things for their own selfish purposes, often with questionable political motives in mind, particularly when it is likely to cost the worker his job and the jobs of fellow workers who depend on the building industry. [More…]
The system of the Soviet Union is quite different from our own. [More…]
As I understand it, Dr Orlov is the leader of a group within the Soviet Union that has been monitoring the Helsinki agreement. [More…]
I think that in general all I can say is that Dr Orlov ‘s trial and sentence certainly will serve to qualify Western confidence that the Soviet Union intends to honour its commitments on the implementation of human rights. [More…]
One sympathises, of course, with his views on civil rights in the Soviet Union and such places but Indonesia, which is much closer to home - [More…]
They have always been pushed along by primary producer organisations such as the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia and the Northern Territory bluetongue committees. [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman whether he is aware of the considerable apprehension among trade union organisations that, in the light of what the Government has already done to alter the structure and the control of the Clyde Cameron College and of the Trade Union Training Authority generally, the Government is planning to cut back, or, if not cut back, to refuse to give an adequate increase in the Budget for the forthcoming year to meet running costs and, more importantly perhaps, capital costs to complete the Clyde Cameron College and to meet the costs of certain capital expenditure which has to be met at the various State training centres. [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that will allay the concern that these trade union organisations now have? [More…]
It has been agreed for some time on both sides of this House that trade union training is both necessary and desirable. [More…]
In all candour I must say to the House that if the policies of the Opposition, the trade union movement and a number of Labor State governments had been followed by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, we would have had more unemployment and more inflation in Australia over the past two and a half years than we have had. [More…]
It seems to me that the only group in this country which is actively supporting the Soviet Union is the Opposition in this House. [More…]
There have been talks with union leaders, representatives of industry and commerce, and government authorities in all States and Territories. [More…]
I refer to the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), who on 30 May launched a vicious attack against the Soviet Union. [More…]
He went on to criticise the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics about its suppression of some of its dissidents. [More…]
Whether the Soviet Union is right or wrong I think it ill behoves a supporter of the Government to attack the Soviet Union, a friendly nation, in the manner in which he did when one takes into consideration what is happening in some of the nations more friendly towards Australia, such as Indonesia which is at our doorstep. [More…]
I think that these countries should have deserved the withering attack of the honourable member for Denison before the Soviet Union. [More…]
He bitterly and unjustifiably, in my view, attacked the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Yes, the Soviet Union is right at the end of the list. [More…]
The Soviet Union has its faults; so have we. [More…]
We have all been prepared to sit back and see him perform during his first parliamentary session as Leader of the Labor Party and hope that he might give some sort of inspiration to a declining Labor Party which seems to be riddled with ali sorts of problems, such as whether it will follow the course of socialism being followed by the trade union movement. [More…]
Of course, outside those figures the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries also have large nuclear power programs. [More…]
At Dumbarton Oaks in 1 944 the leaders of the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America met and agreed upon proposals to establish an international organisation to replace the League of Nations and which was to be called the United Nations. [More…]
For example, in October 1977 the sub-committee on human rights in the Soviet Union of the Parliament’s Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence widened its initial terms of reference to include the following: . [More…]
human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the final act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
We have recently witnessed the sentencing of Yuri Orlov, one of the group formed in 1 976 to promote observance in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of the Helsinki Agreement following the 1 975 signing of the Helsinki Declaration by Mr Brezhnev. [More…]
He was told that no one could doubt that the Soviet Union was sincere about the implementation of the Helsinki Declaration and he was warned that the formation of the group was unconstitutional. [More…]
The sub-committee on human rights in the Soviet Union will shortly prepare a report on the subject of human rights in the USSR. [More…]
Another example of the actions of parliamentarians is the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
Because of the time factor, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a document dealing with one such case, the case of John Marie Seroney of Kenya, as an example of the work of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in this area. [More…]
At its 121st session, the Council unanimously approved the affiliation to the Union of the Kenyan InterParliamentary Group. [More…]
State its firm belief that the Kenyan Parliament, as a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, will use its best endeavours to secure the release of Deputy Seroney. [More…]
The position of civil liberties has improved somewhat in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and most eastern European states in recent years but there are some disturbing examples to the contrary. [More…]
The recent trial of Yuri Orlov and the sentence imposed on him have damaged the Soviet Union because it appears that Orlov has been tried for the holding and disseminating of unpopular opinions, something with which we in the Australian Labor Party are all too familiar. [More…]
In the eyes of the Government their only offence was that they were once members of a trade union, a peasant association, a cultural association, or of some organisation which was operating legally during the period of the Sukarno administration and which was subsequently proscribed by the administration of President Suharto because it was regarded as Communist or left wing. [More…]
The AMA must be one of the strongest unions in Australia if not the world. [More…]
If a deputation from the trade union movement asks for wage justice the National Country Party and the Liberal Party say a few words about what is going on and claim that the unions are breaking the country, but they do not stand up to the AMA. [More…]
The Government is forcing the union movement towards confrontation with its policy that real wages must be reduced and wage rates compressed further. [More…]
They have to be developed on the basis of close consultation between the trade union movement, particularly the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and the appropriate employers who are interested in structural change; they must be developed on the basis that there are markets for the products; and they also ought to be export oriented. [More…]
There are few opportunities and boys are selected after interview by a panel comprising representatives of the Department of Transport, the shipowners and the Seamens Union. [More…]
I was impressed too with the view of leading experts in international affairs in China when they said that the Western world today does not appreciate the threat posed by the Soviet Union through its activities in Africa. [More…]
I raise tonight an alarming example of an extortion racket, a union ripoff. [More…]
This abuse by some union officials at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings is an attack on the freedom of individuals to carry on business and an attack on the liberty of the subject. [More…]
Apparently officials from the Operative Painters and Decorators Union and the Building and Industrial Workers Union checked all people working on stands to see whether they were union members. [More…]
They were given the opportunity of joining the Painters and Decorators Union for $43 and the BWIU for $37. [More…]
This is union blackmail. [More…]
What the unions are after is the money, the fast buck. [More…]
Officials visited standholders every half hour to check that only union labour was involved. [More…]
I understand that other unions could be involved and I have reports that the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters is involved. [More…]
This is an attack by unscrupulous union officials on small businesses- businesses which at the time of that show were just recovering from the crippling power strike and looking for new business. [More…]
The next thing will be that if we are mowing our own lawns they will want us to join a union. [More…]
I call on the Trades Hall Council and responsible union officials to have this disgraceful behaviour stopped. [More…]
I am sure that responsible union officials and unionists alike would be as horrified as I am of this frightful behaviour. [More…]
I say to responsible unionists that this is what irresponsible union officials are doing in their name; they are bringing the union movement into contempt. [More…]
I call on responsible unionists to recognise these corrupt actions being done in their name. [More…]
I call on them to remember them at union election time. [More…]
I ask the rank and file to exercise the opportunity this Government has given them, under our secret ballot legislation, to get rid of these sorts of officials that give unions a bad name. [More…]
This is the type of abuse of power by union officials that brings the union movement on the whole into disrepute. [More…]
I call on responsible unionists to act. [More…]
What categories of employment require (a) union membership or (b) preference to (i) unionists and (ii) Aboriginals in each State and Territory. [More…]
Some Federal and State awards prescribe preference in engagement for members of unions which are parties to these awards; some provide that if a non-union member is engaged he shall become a member of the union within a prescribed period; and many have no preference provisions of any kind, so that, in some employing establishments and industries, certain employment categories may be governed by preference provisions while the same categories in other establishments or industries are not so covered. [More…]
Panama, Peru, Philippines (Protocol I only), Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America, Upper Volta, Vietnam (Protocol I only), Yemen Arab Republic, Yugoslavia. [More…]
The matter is left to negotiation between the shipowner and the union concerned. [More…]
Queensland Teachers’ Union Health Society [More…]
Queenstown Medical Union Ancillary Medical Benefits Fund [More…]
Queenstown Medical Union Hospital Benefits Fund [More…]
If he has received a report on the trial, does it indicate whether the trial accords with the Soviet Union’s claim to be taking human rights more seriously in accordance with its minimal Helsinki Pact obligations. [More…]
I welcome the honourable gentleman’s question because I feel it is high time that attention was focused on the facts of the dispute rather than on the apparently clouded public relations exercise in which the union has been engaging in the last couple of days. [More…]
I say that because I am not surprised that the union would try to obscure the real issues involved. [More…]
The reason was the refusal of the union leaders to accept a working document prepared by all parties to the dispute as a basis for examining the classification structure of the Telecom Australia staff. [More…]
On the recommendation of the federal executive of the union, the work bans and industrial disruption were then widened. [More…]
At the time of the union ‘s action Commissioner Clarkson said: [More…]
That is the union- persist with the action which your members are now engaged in that you are inviting a confrontation . [More…]
That evening Telecom communicated to the union its general acceptance of this proposition. [More…]
The next day the Federal Executive of the union decided to reject the Clarkson proposals in the full knowledge of the Telecom general acceptance of them. [More…]
On the other hand, the union has rejected any attempt to negotiate and has chosen to revert to strike and ban action designed to impair the effectiveness of the nation’s telecommunications network. [More…]
Concern has been expressed from time to time since the end of the Vietnam conflict that Russia might gain access to Cam Ranh Bay as a major addition to its own shore based facilities, thus enormously increasing the Soviet Union’s strategic reach into the Pacific and linking up the Soviet facilities at Vladivostok and in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Of course, we know that the Soviet Union has a great capacity to maintain ships at sea for long periods and can reach into any part of the world from its present facilities. [More…]
But another major land based facility at Cam Ranh Bay would enormously increase the Soviet Union’s capacity to reach out with great strength. [More…]
But activities of recent times by the Soviet Union have not given us great cause to be confident that the Soviet Union shares that particular objective. [More…]
A major development at Cam Ranh Bay by the Soviet Union would be such a development. [More…]
In addition to that unsettling factor, we have the fact that the move would inevitably tend to push Vietnam towards closer and closer links with the Soviet union in contradistinction with its relations with China. [More…]
I can only say that that is typical of the view that has been taken by the Leader of the Opposition and by his predecessors over a great many years- that an extension of power and influence by the Soviet Union does not create instability. [More…]
That kind of attitude in relation to the extension of the Soviet Union’s influence needs to stand in stark contrast with the Opposition ‘s general criticism of the efforts of the United States whenever that country undertakes initiatives designed to maintain balance. [More…]
If this Government has to make a choice, in blunt and plain terms, between naval facilities under the control of the United States and those under the control of the Soviet Union, I guarantee that we would prefer those facilities under the control of the United States. [More…]
We do not wish to see an extension of major facilities under the control of the Soviet Union that would upset the strategic balance and which would, at the same time, be viewed with great disfavour by ASEAN countries and which would lead to the possibility of political instability of a very serious kind. [More…]
Divisions of Occupational Health within the State health authorities and various professional, trade union and employer associations are available for expert advice and /or recommendations in the field of occupational health. [More…]
The unions say: ‘We are not going to accept that Budget’. [More…]
The union movement, and particularly those unions that are communist-dominated, already have started a process of rolling strikes to subvert the Government’s policy, to prevent a recovery being brought about by this Budget and to disrupt economic recovery in Australia. [More…]
I believe that this is only the start of what we can expect to see from an irresponsible trade union movement. [More…]
If we are to see the economy run along lines that all Australians want, the trade union movement will have to take to heart its role and its responsibilities to the nation. [More…]
Perhaps I should make a distinction here because I do not believe that subversion and disruption to industry is the response from all trade unions. [More…]
If we look at the trade unions in which these actions are being brought about we note with monotonous regularity that their administrations are dominated by people who are associated with various factions of the Communist Party. [More…]
I am not saying that the trade union movement as a whole is irresponsible but I do claim that those unions that have communist dominated leadership are purposely setting out to subvert the economy of Australia. [More…]
I am quite sure that the honourable member for Port Adelaide is not out to disrupt the system- he wants to see economic recovery and the creation of jobs in this country just as much as every member on this side of the chamber does- but I would be surprised if the honourable member and his colleagues do not recognise that the subversion that is coming from the trade union movement is not general and that it is engaged in by political activists within the trade union movement who are determined to subvert not only this Government but also the economic structure of Australia. [More…]
Only yesterday I think it was I heard the Prime Minister answer a question in the House in respect of one of our trading partners- a country from which I have only recently returned- the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Prime Minister could not be disparaging enough about the Soviet Union. [More…]
He had no consideration of the fact that there is a great imbalance of trade between Australia and the Soviet Union- an imbalance which is greatly in Australia’s favour. [More…]
I think it is to the tune of $400m exports to the Soviet Union and about $4m imports from the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like him to elaborate some time on how the position of the balance of trade with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, if redressed, would create further job opportunities, presumably in Australia, because I found that point a bit obscure. [More…]
I can remember on that occasion a delegation from the farmers union meeting the Opposition and asking us for a referendum before legislation for a compulsory levy was passed. [More…]
The farmers union claimed that there was a significant difference of opinion among pig producers. [More…]
-In this House earlier this year I revealed a union extortion racket that was being carried on at the Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne. [More…]
At this critical time before the show opens, officials from the Operative Painters and Decorators Union, the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Carpenters Union are circulating throughout the buildings, threatening workers and standholders that if they do not join a union their part of the show will not go on. [More…]
One trick is to threaten to cut off power to those stands not built by union labour. [More…]
On one stand where a small amount of wallpaper was being put on a wall a man doing the job was told: ‘The power will be cut off if you do not employ a union paperhanger’. [More…]
I have heard of one businessman who some time ago was forced to join a union at the Exhibition Buildings in these circumstances. [More…]
When he tried to exercise his rights and go to a union meeting he was denied entry. [More…]
These few officials bring the whole union movement into disgrace. [More…]
Exhibition Buildings who are preparing for the Melbourne Home Show: ‘Do not give in to these union bullies. [More…]
In the Queensland Press a similar arrangement was undertaken by the trade union movement encouraging people to leave their work and walk off their jobs, and encouraging waterside workers to call strikes and stop work meetings. [More…]
The Labor Party and the trade union movement deliberately set about to organise an environment in which a number of people experienced in haranguing crowds could build people up to feel that they have lost something, that they have to take some further action or, in the words of advertisement, that they have to fight. [More…]
Also present were the National President of the Australian Labor Party, the Deputy Premier of Tasmania; the State President in New South Wales, Mr Ducker; various trade union leaders; and of course the Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
To be quite blunt, I believe the union movement has again been forced into the inevitable confrontation with the Government over unreasonable wage compressions both as a tactic for the Government’s short-term political advantage, and as a diversion for the Government’s mismanagement of the economy. [More…]
The trade union leadership conscripted its members. [More…]
Overseas newspapers, government officials and the leaders of trade unions in other countries have said that they cannot understand how any trade union group would encourage strikes or demonstrations over a budget. [More…]
He cannot face up to the strength of the militant Left of the trade union movement of which he is captive. [More…]
-I would like to devote the short time available to me this evening to speaking about the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement has a history and a tradition of activity on behalf of organised workers in Australia which is unequalled by any other organisation in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Industrial disputes represent only a small item of trade union activity. [More…]
But unfortunately it is that item which receives wide press publicity while all other activities of the trade union movement pass without recognition. [More…]
On any given day, the trade union movement, negotiating in industrial disputes, solves thousands of problems on behalf of its members. [More…]
The trade union movement contributes to countless charities. [More…]
The Government readily admits that many of its most important committees are unable to function without the full support and co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement will not and cannot accept restrictions upon its right to involve itself in the political life of the community. [More…]
As the organised strength of the lower and middle income workers, trade unions have an obligation to exercise their civic responsibilities. [More…]
The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the trade unions for improved conditions in social services, education, housing and a host of other areas. [More…]
Trade unions initiate the demands, and they need an Australian Labor Party government to implement them. [More…]
Surely no honourable member would challenge the right of the trade union movement to interest itself in these matters. [More…]
We all can remember when the Government used to attack the trade union movement for its stand on apartheid. [More…]
History proved that the trade union movement was right in relation to apartheid. [More…]
History has proved also that the trade union movement was right in its stand in opposing shipments of pig iron to Japan, in its support of independence for Indonesia and in its stand in opposing the phoney war in Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is proud of its association with the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope that while I am a member of this House I will be able to work to ensure a strengthening of the great ties that exist between the Australian Labor Party and that most important section of the working class, the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he has read in the Press the following statement by Mr A. Tonkin, the South Australian State Secretary of the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union: [More…]
It might be useful if I were to remind the House that last Friday I chaired a meeting in Sydney attended by growers, exporters, representatives of the government departments concerned and the Australian Council of Trade Unions, which considered Mr Miller’s report and also the report of the tripartite mission to the Middle East on developing our carcass and package meat trade in that area. [More…]
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union was invited to attend that conference but did not do so. [More…]
I therefore find it extraordinary that a union claiming to represent the interests of its members not only rejected a report by a highly respected, impartial expert but also is talking about reimposing bans which will have the effect of losing jobs in that industry. [More…]
-I ask the Treasurer: How does it come about, if it is the case, that 40 per cent of workers in the building industry do not pay income tax at all, according to the New South Wales President of the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia? [More…]
Furthermore, is there then a case, as the president of that union went on to say, for those employees to obtain higher wages to restore what the president called their real income? [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life; [More…]
He was referring to the Opposition- must tackle the conservative’s ideology head-on and educate wage and salary earners, and their union leaders, not to be dazzled and deluded by tax cuts which will only result in a lower quality of government services, or in them having to pay in the market place for services that were previously provided by the Government - [More…]
The people have long realised that the Labor Party, the party of the trade union hierarchy, is no longer representative of their interests. [More…]
In addition to the United States, 42 other countries including major industrial countries, such as France, Italy, Sweden, Canada and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and neighbouring countries, such as the Philippines, Taiwan and Korea, had by the end of 1970 introduced legislation providing statutory protection for marks for services. [More…]
An early judgment of the High Court, in the Union Label case in 1908, concluded that the Commonwealth legislative powers in respect of trade marks did not extend to marks applied to goods to identify the source of labour employed by the manufacturers of those goods. [More…]
The Government, however, has recently been informed by its legal advisers that that conclusion is not consistent with interpretations of the Constitution by the High Court of Australia subsequent to the Union Label case and that the trade marks provision of section 51 (xviii) of the Constitution does, in fact, empower the Commonwealth to legislate in respect of marks used to identify and distinguish services. [More…]
Clearly, decisions have to be made and should be made by government in consultation with business and the trade union movement to concentrate our productions in the areas in which we have the resources, the energy, the manpower and the technology to produce them in large numbers so that we can compete internationally. [More…]
If new technology is introduced it is done after long periods of consultation with the union and the workers themselves. [More…]
One obvious advantage in Japanese industrial relations over Australian industrial relations lies in the smaller but stronger number of unions. [More…]
When the present honourable member for Hindmarsh was Minister for Labour and Immigration legislation was introduced to facilitate the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
Despite the overwhelming view of all those who have studied the problems of demarcation disputes in Australia that there was a need for fewer unions, the Liberal-National Country parties blocked that legislation in the Senate. [More…]
They were more concerned with the political value of maintaining divisions in the union movement than in minimising industrial disputation. [More…]
The Japanese, who like the West Germans, have unions based on industries rather than crafts, are bemused by our union system. [More…]
Telecom has fully supported Commissioner Clarkson ‘s proposals for settlement and there have been others before the ones rejected by the union executive this day. [More…]
The union has resolutely rejected not just one but three sets of proposals by Commissioner Clarkson. [More…]
But no, not being prepared to accept that, the executive of the union is prepared to make this nation and tens- indeed hundreds- of thousands of people right throughout Australia pay and go on paying because it is not concerned about the increasing hardship that it is putting upon this nation. [More…]
The union officials are now seeking to throw that tradition aside. [More…]
But one of the tragedies of more recent years is that senior union leaders have taken the view that they will accept arbitration while it gives them what they want, but if it does not give them what they want, they will go outside arbitration and use industrial action, thereby inconveniencing the people of this nation, in order to achieve a settlement more to their liking, more in accord with their own decision. [More…]
Commissioner Clarkson said that he was bitterly disappointed at the lack of leadership shown by union officials. [More…]
That is the view of union officials. [More…]
But the cost to Australia would be greater still if a small minority in one union were allowed to blackmail this nation, to destroy arbitration and to determine what they do and what they want and say that that must prevail. [More…]
It will not hesitate to use those powers if members of this union do not accept their responsibility to the total Australian community. [More…]
The members of the union will have that opportunity on Monday and Tuesday of this coming week. [More…]
They are delighted when they think that there is some political advantage in involving themselves in getting stuck into a trade union. [More…]
So the Government embarks on a threat, or an offer which it says the union cannot refuse. [More…]
He has put the union members on notice that on Monday and Tuesday they must vote to return to work and consequently allow the Prime Minister to say that he has had a great victory. [More…]
When this dispute arose the Government could have moved to have a parliamentary committee look at the introduction of this technology and discuss with the union and Telecom itself what action ought to be undertaken to try to solve this dispute. [More…]
The role of the Government has been to agitate for a deepening of the problem and to provoke the members of the union to stay on strike. [More…]
The union demands that an examination be conducted of, firstly, the rate of introduction of new technology and, secondly, the ability of the economy to create alternative employment opportunities, which is the point which I made earlier. [More…]
As I was saying, the union says that one of the most important aspects of this dispute is the ability of the economy to create alternative employment opportunities. [More…]
It is wrong of the Government to try to provoke or stand over the members of the union who are to meet on Monday and Tuesday by saying: ‘If you do not do so and so- vote to go back to work- we will deregister you’. [More…]
I challenge any honourable member opposite to walk out of this chamber tonight and ring Laurie Short of the Federated Ironworkers Association, Norm Gallagher of the Builders ‘ Labourers Federation, Pat Clancy from the Building Workers Industrial Union or any of the secretaries of the unions which have been deregistered and ask him what deregistering a union proves. [More…]
Ask them what on earth is achieved by deregistering a union. [More…]
It says: ‘Where there is a dispute between an employer and union members, we are always on the side of the employer. [More…]
It does not worry about the 27,000 members of a union. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) invited us to telephone some union leaders tonight. [More…]
Thanks to the members of the Austraiian Telecommunications Employees Association, we cannot telephone union leaders tonight. [More…]
This union has been engaged in industrial action for at least a month. [More…]
No matter how the union tries to disguise this issue, its real motive is clearly set out on page 121 of the July 1978 edition of the union’s own journal Teletechnician. [More…]
In the current situation these concessions are clearly threatened as a result of the union’s action. [More…]
This subcommittee on new technology includes representatives of the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union, the Australian Telephonists and Phonogram Operators Association, the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association, the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association, the Australian Public Service Association, the Professional Officers Association and the Australian Professional Engineers Association. [More…]
The sub-committee has now reached the stage where draft detailed procedures and conditions of service for the introduction of new technology are being considered by the staff side and a union position paper is being considered by management. [More…]
All we have heard from the very beginning of this dispute is the angry ant and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) blasting the union at every course. [More…]
The organisations which represent the unionists in this industry have, in fact, complied with many requests and joined in objective negotiations in order to facilitate the introduction and development of new techniques and to adapt themselves to handling the new equipment. [More…]
Individuals who condemn the union do not understand clearly the ramifications of this equipment in the hands of certain people. [More…]
Instead of the Minister and the Prime Minister proceeding to describe everything that the union has done as bad, and everything that Telecom has done as good, they ought to have a look inward, at themselves. [More…]
The general secretary of the organisation, to his credit, said: ‘If you gaol all the union officials in the ATEA, that is too bad. [More…]
More power to the arm of union members if they are going to defend their jobs. [More…]
The unions have been more than tolerant. [More…]
It forced Telecom into a situation and is now going to use Telecom as a political weapon against the workers in the trade union movement. [More…]
Telecom indicated to the union its acceptance in general. [More…]
However, whilst the federal executive of the union had the opportunity to accept the recommendation, it chose not to do so. [More…]
In addition to the repeated attempts to settle the dispute through negotiation, officials of Telecom have assured the union that no member of the ATEA will lose his job as a result of the installation of this new equipment. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Melbourne that Telecom has also told the union and the Commissioner that it will help to train Telecom technicians to gain higher qualifications. [More…]
On the other hand, the union has rejected any attempt to negotiate and has chosen instead to revert to strike action designed to impair the effective operation of the nation’s telephone network, resulting in major disruption and inconvenience to the public. [More…]
The union has blocked every attempt to negotiate a settlement of this dipute There must be serious doubts now whether the union is interested in ending this dispute at all without total capitulation to its demands. [More…]
If the union persists in its actions there could be a complete breakdown in Australia’s communication facilities. [More…]
That would be the union’s responsibility and no one else’s responsibility. [More…]
Of course, the union is represented on that body- is considering this question and in due course the results will be reported to the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The Austraiian community is being subjected to major inconvenience and hardship through the industrial actions of a relatively small group of government employees and their union. [More…]
It is idle to suggest, as the union has done, that this disruption is not aimed at the general public. [More…]
In matters of major industrial concern, I see it as my responsibility to acquaint the employers and union leaders in the community of the approaches that the Government is contemplating. [More…]
The union finds that it is not just in an ordinary industrial relations situation; quite clearly the Government is announcing that it is taking the union on. [More…]
Deregistration of a union does no more than take the union out of the dispute-settling machinery. [More…]
Once a union is deregistered the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has no power in respect of it. [More…]
The union cannot be brought before the Commission because it is no longer a registered body. [More…]
Yet we see the union concerned, a union that does not represent the large majority of the employees of Telecom - [More…]
Does it support those people who have had a gutful of militant unionism in Australia? [More…]
Or does it support this dispute as an irrational, unjustified, militant unionmotivated exercise, an exercise in which no member will lose his job or lose his salary? [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) said that people were struggling for survival in that particular union. [More…]
I put it to him that Australia is struggling for survival against militant unionism such as this. [More…]
Union bashing should be firmly rejected. [More…]
What is needed is a national work force policy to be worked out at the highest level in consultation with the trade union movement, commerce and industry, and the Australian Labor Party, and with a leading part taken by the Government. [More…]
The trade union movement and even- I blush to say- my own party to some extent have failed in some measure to grasp all the implications of post-industrial change. [More…]
We had in Canberra today the State secretary of the Australian Railways Union, Mr Rex Neil, who spoke to Liberal members. [More…]
Rule 47 of the registered rules of the Australian Workers’ Union provides that ballots for the election of Federal officers are to be conducted ‘at the same time and places and in the same manner as the ballots for theelection of Branch officers’. [More…]
Nominations for Branch offices must be called for, under rule 68, in the Union journal. [More…]
I am informed that for some time elections in the union for Federal and Branch offices have been conducted by the Australian Electoral Office and that at the last election for the Federal offices of President, General Secretary and VicePresidents, the opening and closing dates for nominations were advertised by the Returning Officer in the union journal,’The Worker’ of 29 April 1977. [More…]
I am informed that the Australian Workers’ Union is complying with these requirements. [More…]
Whether the provisions in the rules of the Australian Workers’ Union are sufficient to meet the requirements of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act would be a matter for determination by the Federal Court. [More…]
This dispute had its origin on Thursday of last week when the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia ascertained during a check of membership that a Mr Jacques Aper was working in the kitchen. [More…]
On being asked to join the union this employee had refused to do so. [More…]
Mr Aper is the same person who currently has an application before the Federal Court of Australia to secure exemption from joining any trade union on the ground that his conscientious beliefs do not allow him to do so. [More…]
On Friday last the staff had a stop-work meeting after which the union informed the management that it had been decided that there would be a further meeting on Monday morning, that is, yesterday, and if Mr Aper had not joined the union by that time industrial action would be taken. [More…]
During the tramways dispute in Victoria he made a strong plea for Miss Biggs, who had no union membership, to be permitted to work. [More…]
Would the Minister permit a shearer without membership of the appropriate union to be part of a shearing team on his property? [More…]
Finally, if somebody wanting to shear in my shed had satisfied those conditions relating to the payment of an equivalent amount of union dues which he would otherwise have had to pay and had satisfied the Industrial Registrar that he had a genuine conscientious objection to joining a union, I would be happy to have him in my shed. [More…]
In one union in South Australia, the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, over the last two years, 300 young people registered with that union have had their apprenticeships broken as industry closed down. [More…]
Some unions irresponsibly go outside the wage indexation guidelines to use their industrial muscle to get wage increases, which will ensure that unemployment in Australia remains a problem, even though those people with secure jobs may feel that they can go outside the wage indexation guidelines to get more money. [More…]
There has been no condemnation of union action which will guarantee that fewer people in Australia will get a job. [More…]
However, the trade union movement for years has been pointing out what would happen. [More…]
Again, this Government persistently has argued before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission that we cannot have one sector of the economy- those people who happen to be in the most powerful or dictatorial unionsdemanding more and more wages while other people are continually deprived of jobs. [More…]
There is a correlation between high wages and unemployment which our friends on the opposite side of this chamber do not seem to acknowledge; nor do their friends in the trade union movement acknowledge it. [More…]
More and more unions are demanding more and more money. [More…]
I strongly advise members of the Opposition to use their good offices with their friends in the trade union movement to bring some responsibility into those organisations and then they will be far more prosperous and they will be of far more value to the Australian community at large. [More…]
The trade unions have not learnt their lesson, nor have the members of the Opposition in this chamber. [More…]
Why will honourable members opposite not try to talk some sense into their friends in the trade union movement? [More…]
Is it that they simply want to guard and protect those people who have the most, those greedy people in the trade unions who want more and more and who are not the least bit concerned about the numbers of unemployed? [More…]
Yet we still will not see people on the opposite side of the chamber having the honesty to admit that correlation and trying to bring some common sense to their friends in the trade union movement. [More…]
I urge the honourable member for Port Adelaide and his colleagues behind him to use their good offices to convince their friends in the trade union movement that if we are to have a sustained economic recovery that will create permanent jobs it must be done in conjunction with a responsible trade union movement that will allow private industry to regain its profitability and employ more people on a permanent basis. [More…]
We have seen the autocratic elite go after the trade union movement with repressive legislation and coordinated campaigns to weaken organised labour- politically and economically- at a time of great economic upheaval. [More…]
Yet he has made no criticism of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People ‘s Republic of China. [More…]
The Prime Minister will not be able to say to every union which reacts as did the Australian Telecommunication Employees Association to computerisation: ‘You must not win; you cannot win’. [More…]
As we know, the AMA is the strongest union in Australia. [More…]
Our gas reserves per head, are second only to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Middle East. [More…]
What occurred in my home town was that a Miss Biggs, who was an applicant for employment by the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, sought and was granted an exemption from joining the relevant union. [More…]
If one looks at the history of the Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association, one finds that it has been operating on the basis that all employees of the Tramways Board are members of the union. [More…]
That is known to the Board, it is known to the union and it is known to any person who is an applicant for a job with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board. [More…]
It says that the Industrial Registrar is given no option but to grant an exemption from membership of a union if requested on conscientious grounds. [More…]
The trade union movement has been long used to living with genuine grounds of conscientious objection. [More…]
But the grounds now are so wide and the Registrar’s discretion is so limited that someone who goes along and simply says: ‘I do not want to join a union’, can create a situation in which the options of the Registrar are very limited. [More…]
There is no competing, alternative argument put up by the union or the employer. [More…]
The tramways union certainly did not want this problem to occur. [More…]
She said that when she applied for a certificate three weeks ago she told the Industrial Registrar that her specific objection was to those unions which used strikes to disrupt vital industries. [More…]
If she had been subject to any crossexamination of that statement in respect of the tramways union, there is no way in which that objection could have been sustained. [More…]
Miss Biggs went on to say that it was made clear to her that a certificate would not be issued unless she opposed all unions. [More…]
This statement was made by the young lady when she was contemplating joining another union. [More…]
I believe that at the present time there are enough problems in the industrial relations area facing employers, unions and the Government without creating ground for this sort of industrial confrontation. [More…]
The second point to be made about this issue is that the argument advanced by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, by Mr Hawke and by those in the union movement who advocate compulsory unionism is along these lines. [More…]
They say to people: ‘You do not want to join the union but you are prepared to take the advantages of the work of the union. [More…]
You are prepared to take the benefit of wage increases, improvements in conditions and all the other benefits that are obtained by the trade union movement’. [More…]
It would be the union itself which would say: ‘No, you are not going to take benefits less than those prescribed by the award’. [More…]
It is the union itself which prevents people such as Miss Biggs from not taking the advantages which the union maintains it secured. [More…]
In any event, the whole argument that was advanced is quite absurd because, with indexation, it is the benefits granted by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission under indexation and not any great achievements of the union which are passed on to the employee. [More…]
Brown) that a person who does not want to join a union and who says that he or she would be prepared to accept the lesser conditions would not be allowed to do so not because the boss would object but because the trade unionists would object. [More…]
-In the couple of minutes that are available to me, I participate in the discussion that has taken place tonight about the rights of people to join and not to join unions. [More…]
I think that all unions recognise that there are people in the community who hold very deep religious beliefs about not joining trade unions. [More…]
But it is astounding that Government members spend a lot of time talking about one or two people who are glorying in publicity for not joining a trade union but never mention the millions of people who are members of trade unions. [More…]
But it seems to me that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act ought to provide for the appropriate trade union to be involved in the granting of exemption, as well as perhaps the appropriate employer and the Registrar. [More…]
If the Government thinks it is continually going to be able to push these people who have in the widest terms an objection to joining a trade union in order to break down what has been the relationship established over many years it is going to find that that sort of action just will not work. [More…]
There has been some union opposition to unrestricted live cattle exports, but there has not been any disruption to shipments of five cattle in recent years. [More…]
1 ) Will he allow the Parliament to see the submission put to the Committee of Inquiry into Trade Union Training by hisDepartment. [More…]
Large sectors of the trade union movement, such as members of the printing trade, clerks, bank officers, employees in Telecom and so on right along the line, have known that this situation is upon them. [More…]
Yet the Government has so far repudiated the call by the Premier of New South Wales and by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, for a national inquiry. [More…]
It must have the support of people outside this chamber and, in particular, it must have the support of the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement has been particularly irresponsible in the attitudes it has adopted. [More…]
The Reserve Bank’s report in this regard is also interesting, particularly in view of the fact that Mr Hawke, the head of the trade union movement in Australia, is a member of the Reserve Bank Board. [More…]
The trade union movement and the ALP both complain that automation is taking jobs from people. [More…]
-Since the Telecom dispute we have witnessed confrontations involving industrial renegades seeking to enjoy the benefits of trade unionism while refuting their obligations and a major dispute resulting from stand-downs in container terminals on the Australian waterfront. [More…]
What is the reason for this sudden support for non-unionists and industrial provocation by waterfront employers? [More…]
Is it because the Government and some employers recognise that only the trade union movement prevents the use of the vast army of the unemployed to reduce the living standards of workers? [More…]
It is desirable that people join unions from conviction rather than from legal compulsion but, not surprisingly, most trade unions insist on full coverage within their area of work. [More…]
Trade unionists rightly refused to work with those who would accept the gains of collective action but who would refuse to contribute towards achieving them. [More…]
As one union leader puts it: ‘This Miss Biggs might have her conscientious beliefs that she should not be in a union, but there are 3,500 others who have a conscientious belief that she should be in a union’. [More…]
There is a great need for a single industry union on the Australian waterfront. [More…]
They include Said Zahari (a journalist), Drs Poh Soo Kai and Lim Hock Siew ( both medical practitioners), Ho Piao (a trade union leader), Lee Tse Tong (a trade union leader and former assemblyman), Chia Thye Po (a former assemblyman), Chua Seh Kui (a student) and many others. [More…]
Taking into consideration the rashes of strikes that are occurring now, which obviously are co-ordinated, designed and activated by members of the Australian Metal Workers Union, such as Carmichael and Halfpenny, who are hell-bent on destroying the economy of this country, I do not think that we can expect people to do other than save. [More…]
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The Minister will recall union strike action earlier this year which severely disrupted live sheep exports to Middle East markets and damaged Australia’s reputation abroad as a reliable supplier. [More…]
It is not just a matter for government; it is a matter for every employee, and particularly the trade union movement, to ensure that they take on board the necessity of representing not only those who currently have jobs but also those who are seeking jobs in pursuing their industrial grievances. [More…]
Therefore, it is not only prejudicing the export of Australia’s primary products but also affecting employment opportunities for those who are unemployed and for whom the Opposition and the trade union movement profess to have some concern. [More…]
I am told also that there has been some support for these statements from the secretary of the railways union, Mr Neil. [More…]
The Opposition consists of a group of people who claim that they have a degree of communication with the unions. [More…]
At present union membership is falling dramatically but unreal logs of claims are put forward every single day of the week. [More…]
We have delegations going to the Interparliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the United Nations. [More…]
Plans are going ahead for grounds of the same standard in other countries such as New Zealand, India, Pakistan and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will stir up the trade union movement, the academics and anybody else to try to frustrate the Government’s desire to develop uranium in the interest of this nation and in die interests of people in other parts of the world who are working to proceed with the nuclear age. [More…]
It would be remiss of me if I did not in this debate pass one or two comments about the various State governments and call on them to put their shoulders to the wheel and to be part and parcel of the development of the Australian tourist industry and if I did not make a request of the leaders of the Australian trade union movement to be realistic if they believe that it is important in Australia’s order of things to have full employment in this country. [More…]
Trade union leaders should be alive to the situation that we are pricing ourselves out of the tourist industry. [More…]
Who’s Who for 1977 shows that Dr McMichael has been vice-president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources since 1975, secretary of the Department of Environment from 1973 to 1975, president of the River Murray Commission for the same period and director of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1967 to 1968. [More…]
This reflected an earlier judgment by the High Court in the union label case of 1908. [More…]
Officers of the Department along with management and along with trade union representatives- in other words, these are tripartite studies- have been conducting direct and detailed studies on many industries. [More…]
Did we hear the trade union movement being whipped up into synthetic protest at the way Labor hit the pockets of the taxpayer, of the worker and of all Australians? [More…]
They were brought about the activities of the trade union movement itself- the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Most of the objections which generally come from the trade union movement are based on economic grounds. [More…]
Some weeks ago claims were made on various food processing companies, I understand, by the food processors union, for an extra $30 a week. [More…]
I am further informed that the union accepted the Heinz company’s offer about 10 days ago. [More…]
However, possibly due to them having dual membership, the Victorian Farmers’ Union and the United Farmers and Graziers of South Australia Inc. have interested themselves in matters remotely pertaining to this Bill. [More…]
In the last 48 hours I have received telephone calls from both the Victorian Farmers Union and the United Farmers and Graziers Association requesting copies of legislation. [More…]
Unhappily, the so-called non-aligned have much too often, especially in recent years, been non-aligned against the United States and on behalf of the Soviet Union in every world forum and on every world issue of consequence. [More…]
Whilst Tito may now be offside with the Soviet Union this was not always the case- so, friendships do change all the time. [More…]
Vietnam is a country which is striving to maintain its independence and freedom from all sides whether it be China or the Soviet Union on the one hand or the United States on the other. [More…]
Earlier this month I was fortunate to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Bonn. [More…]
Indeed the Minister took no trouble at all to consult the company, the union or the member who represents the area concerned. [More…]
Heinz has an investment of $20m in Dandenong and is responsible for the job security of over 1,000 employees, 450 of whom are members of the Food Preservers Union of Australia. [More…]
As a result an agreement was put by the union to its members that they receive an extra $13 per week, $5 of which had already been agreed upon before the Commission and $8 of which was agreed upon at the conference ordered by the Commission. [More…]
The Food Preservers’ Union’s point being that the Federal Budget represented a further loss of real wages to the work-force which should be recouped from the employer. [More…]
In an attempt to resolve the situation the company and the union have appeared twice before the Arbitration and Conciliation Commission. [More…]
On September 13, in an effort to get the striking workforce back to work the company made an offer to the union. [More…]
Having only recently been a member of the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Bonn, I feel rather depressed about the state of the world, as I did when I came back from attending meetings at the United Nations five years ago. [More…]
It is only when one meets with people who basically ought to share one ‘s concerns and one’s attitudes especially representatives at the Inter-Parliamentary Union, where the pretence at least is that these people are parliamentarians and people who have a basically democratic attitude or when one participates in the debate and listens to the debate at such conferences that one realises that we share very little with a large number of participants at such world meetings. [More…]
In olden days I think the Soviet Union used to have a slogan to the effect that the world was divided into two camps: On the one hand there were imperialist powers and, on the other hand, there were peace-loving countries led by the Soviet Union. [More…]
If he had received a report on the trial, I asked him whether it indicated that the trial accorded with the Soviet Union’s claim to be taking human rights more seriously in accordance with its minimal Helsinki Pact obligations. [More…]
I take considerable support from honourable members such as the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Simon) and others in this Parliament who for a long time have been concerned about the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that Department has much to offer and I hope that the more widely its activities are understood the more widely industry and the trade unions will understand that there are real gains to management, labour and jobs through the development of new technology and productivity improvement in Australia. [More…]
As has been indicated on earlier occasions, these matters are for discussion at the National Labour Consultative Council, in which the peak employer councils and the peak trade union councils will be involved. [More…]
Payment may be made by cheque or by credit to a bank, building society or credit union account. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would be aware of the negotiations that are taking place within the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission between the union involved and the employers and that those negotiations concern a consent determination. [More…]
The union in question is the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia. [More…]
However, if they failed to take that long service leave- for which I believe the trade union movement fought well and hard because it was held that people deserved that benefit- and thereby apparently demonstrated that they did not need it, they could avoid normal taxation on it. [More…]
This is because as a result of strenuous endeavour, for which I commend it, the trade union movement has earned entitlements to leave for its members. [More…]
He is also on the record in the NorthernTerritory News of 28 September admitting that he lied to the Northern Land Council regarding a statement by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Bob Hawke, in order to convince the Council that it would not get trade union support. [More…]
Does he intend to extend to these conscientious objectors the same courtesy as his colleague the Minister for Education has promised to people objecting to the use of student union funds at The Australian National University. [More…]
4-27 June 1977- 63rd Session ofthe International Labour Conference, Geneva, followed by a meeting with the Secretary-General and senior officials of the OECD in Paris and discussions with Labour Ministers and leaders of trade union and employer organisations in the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan. [More…]
7-28 June 1978- 64th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva; discussions with the Secretary-General of the OECD in Paris; discussions with Labour Ministers and leaders of trade union and employer organisations in Yugoslavia, West Germany, Sweden and the United States. [More…]
The unions involved, that is, the Australian Public Service Unions, the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association and the Federated Clerks Union, have joined us in that demand. [More…]
Such a concept has already been put into practice by some unions. [More…]
A centre was established in Footscray by the Butchers Union in Victoria. [More…]
There is also a centre run by the Australian Workers Union in Sydney. [More…]
Five different unions are acting together in that area. [More…]
The Guidelines were voluntarily adopted by the fifteen leading suppliers of nuclear equipment and technology including the United States, Canada, major member states of Euratom, Japan, the Soviet Union and other east and west European countries. [More…]
He lost an argument with the British Trade Union Congress about an agreement he was seeking for, I think, a five per cent wage increase throughout the course of the year. [More…]
The Trade Union Congress threw that out; it would not have a bar of it. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Britain was saying quite plainly to the Trade Union Congress and the British people that without wage restraint there would be reduced government expenditure and a tougher monetary policy. [More…]
Why is the Government treating a respectable trade union organisation operating a major travel service as though it was composed of desperate criminals? [More…]
It is difficult to understand trade union movement lending its support to an activity which might well undermine the Australian travel industry to the detriment of thousands of employees. [More…]
If unionists themselves wish to subsidise the travel of members of the ACTU Leisure Club by paying higher union dues that is their concern. [More…]
Clearly Mr Hawke is prepared to use the union movement to promote the commercial activities of a private operator with which he is involved. [More…]
Despite the irresponsible reporting by certain journalists and the attempts by Mr Hawke to use the Australian union movement in this way, I am sure the people of Australia will reject this proposition. [More…]
I believe it was based to a large extent on the Minister’s obsession with the trade union movement and his animosity towards the trade union movement. [More…]
The only construction that we can place upon the events of last Saturday are as follows: Firstly, they reveal the discrimination of this Government against the trade union movement and any efforts it makes to advantage the needs of its members; secondly, they reveal the Government’s inability to administer in an evenhanded, proper and responsible way its obligations under bilateral arrangements with nations and with the International Air Transport Association; and, thirdly, they reveal the Government’s blind and continuing opposition to the introduction of lower air fares. [More…]
It is a blatant use of force by the union movement to get its own way against reasonable people who are proposing reasonable action on behalf of the Australian community. [More…]
It will be a $10m advantage to the union movement if the Government will agree. [More…]
Will it come from the pockets of the workers, their union fees? [More…]
I think that of the large number of unionists in Australia, the small number who will travel will be a very privileged group if this scheme is to operate from unionists’ funds and fees paid to their legitimate organisations. [More…]
The majority of employees are members of the Transport Workers Union, maintenance workers, metal workers and miscellaneous workers. [More…]
The Royal Commission on Petroleum which was set up to examine a business enterprise undertaken by ACTUSolo, the same union movement and the same leader that are involved in cheap air fares, found that they misled the Labor Government; in fact the Minister was completely deceived. [More…]
As the Public Service Amendment Bill 1978 has very wide support from the peak councils of the union movement, I would not like any major alterations being made to it that would mean that its passage would be held up. [More…]
Large as our reserves are, they are very small compared with the reserves of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I mention for the purpose of comparison that the Soviet Union’s reserves total 18 trillion, or 18 million million, cubic metres. [More…]
Yet the Soviet Union is exporting only 8 per cent of its annual yield of 0.345 trillion cubic metres. [More…]
This honourable gentleman from Bendigo asks about the Soviet Union. [More…]
The truth is that more than half of all the enriched uranium in Western Europe is treated in the Soviet Union. [More…]
When the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development wish to have uranium enriched in the Soviet Union everything seems to be all right, but when the honourable member for Bendigo wishes to indulge in a Red witch hunt he likes to make what he calls his personal score, making innuendoes against me. [More…]
Such opportunities should not be available only to members of a particular trade union, a particular association of trade unions, a political party or indeed any other specific group of people. [More…]
It refers to the so-called walkout by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, and other union representatives from a meeting of the National Labor Consultative Council following the action of the Department of Transport against ACTU Jetset Travel Service Pty Ltd. Can the Minister inform the House what link, if any, there is between Mr Hawke ‘s position as President of the ACTU and his involvement in ACTU Jetset? [More…]
I think that Mr Hawke has a duty to decide whether he wants to represent the trade union movement properly, as he ought to do, or whether he is going to carry on trying to get some commercial advantage in his position by tying up with private enterprise and then, as appears to be the case, organising some kick-back arrangement through his organisation and giving it industrial muscle by wearing the cap of President oftheACTU. [More…]
Through the Department of Productivity the Government also has established three-way working parties consisting of employer, union and the Government representatives to examine in an atmosphere of confidentiality and cooperation, not in a political climate, ways in which such industries can be updated to meet Australia’s particular needs. [More…]
I also pay tribute to those trade union officials who have given of their time and energy to improve these programs. [More…]
I am not a Luddite; nor do members of the trade union movement say that technology should not advance. [More…]
In fact, one would find that members of the trade union movement, more than anyone else in this community want technology to advance quickly. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable member for Murray was referring to an article in The Cattleman, which states that according to the union’s national director, Mr Barry Cassell, bank rates - [More…]
The trade unions are co-operating with the ship owners. [More…]
Agreement has been reached between the trade unions and the shipping industry. [More…]
The trade union movement will accept the manning of Australian ships by Australian crews on conditions comparable to those on ships of other developed countries. [More…]
I believe the ship owners have been told that if they buy ships the Australian unions will man those ships under conditions applicable on the ships of other countries. [More…]
I think it is a great pity that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions is casting doubt on trade union participation, although I note that at the moment he is speaking for the ACTU, and the Victorian Trades Hall might well take another attitude in relation to this. [More…]
I believe that is a pity because there is no doubt that the Australian Council of Trade Unions, without the grandstanding, has an important contribution to make to matters of this kind. [More…]
The bulk of telegrams that have been received are from trade unions not affiliated with the most powerful trade union group in Australia- the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
I want to highlight the serious divisions that exist in the Queensland Labor Party and the fraud that has been committed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) on his alleged ideals and ability to control the left wing trade union-dominated party in his State branch of Queensland. [More…]
I believe that Mr Hayden is nothing more than a cream puff, light and fluffy with no weight, with no power and with a facade- a facade which must be broken down so that the Australian electorate can see how the union left wing bosses still call the tune to which Mr Hayden so merrily dances. [More…]
Let us look at the record of the Queensland branch of the Labor Party and examine its trade union-dominated structure by which rank and file ALP members in many cases are virtually excluded from the decision-making process. [More…]
The Queensland branch of the ALP not only is dominated by a small clique of left wing trade unions but also those people are unrepresentative of the rank and file Labor members in the Australian community in general. [More…]
The Queensland Central Executive, with its 96 members, has 52 union delegates. [More…]
Queensland the ALP is in effect dominated by trade union machinery men, the faceless men of Queensland politics. [More…]
The reformers want less trade union domination, an annual convention, a proportional voting system and a more open decision-making process. [More…]
Eventually, in July, Neil Kane, a member of the left wing Electrical Trades Union and a member of the inner Executive of the ALP in Queensland, said that Mr Hayden should not be leader of the Australian Labor Party, because he did not have the confidence of the working class. [More…]
has only seven members, is not representative effectively enough of the trade union movement in Queensland . [More…]
We have found markets also in the Soviet Union and in the Middle East countries. [More…]
It is quite easy for a small unionmaintenance workers, members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- to close down the whole waterfront in Sydney or Melbourne and to prevent movement of all freight. [More…]
Within a few days the dispute can flow over to the Federated Clerks Union, the Transport Workers Union and the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
When one hears the secretary of that Federation say that there should be only one union servicing the waterfront one is inclined to agree with him for the sake of industrial peace and sensible decision-making. [More…]
-It was interesting to hear the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman), mention the amalgamation of unions. [More…]
The union he was condemning, the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, is an amalgamation of about five different unions. [More…]
When we tried to introduce legislation to facilitate union amalgamation colleagues of the honourable member saw fit to oppose that proposition. [More…]
In the last couple of months I have come back from a tour to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Whilst I criticise our system in Australia for overeducation, I think I have seen a greater measure of it in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think the Soviet Union system is probably showing the benefit of that over-emphasis on education because at present it appears to be the leader in the scientific field. [More…]
I applaud bodies such as the Rothmans Foundation which, among other things, supplies a national director of coaching for rugby union in the person of Mr Dick Marks. [More…]
They are precluded from it because of various agreements that have been made as a result of strong arm tactics by the trade union movement. [More…]
If we have a section of society such as the trade union movement or any other group that says: ‘We are not going to accept that responsibility we are going to adopt an anti-social attitude’, then I believe that the long term effect in the future will be to keep more and more kids in the dole queues and extend this problem for many more years than is absolutely necessary. [More…]
His absolute paranoia about the trade union movement comes through in every speech that he makes in this House. [More…]
Above all, the Act is one which is required to be used regularly by people in the work place on both sides of the industrial fence- on the management side and the union side. [More…]
Our fourth objective should be to encourage membership of industrial organisations, particularly trade unions. [More…]
Members should be encouraged to take an active part in the running of their union’s affairs. [More…]
So long as this Government continues with the sort of perpetual political handouts which are made on an almost daily basis by the Prime Minister and by his Ministers, so long as a disproportionate amount of blame is placed upon the work force of this community and upon the trade union movement, so long as the Government is engaged on an almost daily basis in attacks upon the trade union movement, I do not believe that there is any way at all that what is contained in these estimates will go anywhere near solving the problem. [More…]
The one which is of most immediate concern and which, I think, principally worries the honourable member, is a strike by about 140 members, I am informed, of various unions, including the Federated Clerks Union, the Transport Workers Union, the Storemen and Packers Union and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, at the Caltex Banksmeadow terminal over a claim for $10 a week relating to depreciation of motor vehicles. [More…]
I have noticed some comments by Mr Jack O Toole of the Australian Meat Industry Employees’ Union in which he complained about the possibility of New Zealand getting into the processed meat trade in Middle East to the detriment of Australia. [More…]
An official mission, which included three members of this particular union, went there early this year, to investigate the market circumstances. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the honourable gentleman certainly would not for one moment have raised this question, for example, if a number of members on his own side of the House had organised a dinner with representatives of the Soviet Union or of other countries, and I would not take it as a mark of criticism if they had. [More…]
Therefore, whatever happens it is essential that the United States and the Soviet Union lend their efforts to bring a halt to the complete dismemberment of the Lebanon. [More…]
If anybody imagines that it is going to be possible to bring a peaceful solution to the Middle East without consulting the Soviet Union directly or indirectly he must be gravely mistaken. [More…]
To leave the Soviet Union out of any discussions concerning the Middle East must indeed be a mistake. [More…]
For example, the strike at the Caltex Banksmeadow terminal involves only 128 drivers of the Transport Workers Union, 37 members of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union, 16 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and 15 members of the Federated Clerks Union. [More…]
It is important to remember that this was a wildcat strike and there is no evidence that union officials were involved or even advised. [More…]
Why is it that thousands of Sydney motorists should be held to ransom because fewer than 200 people, without the support of their union, simply decided they wanted to go on strike. [More…]
One union was involved in the Shell stoppage that commenced about a month ago. [More…]
That union has been followed in the last few days by other groups at Caltex. [More…]
There has been a rolling dispute between unions and different companies and the disruptive effective has been planned and dramatic. [More…]
I think that in other circumstances it could almost be termed a conspiracy on the part of this small group of unelected union people. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union basically was responsible for the dispute, which began on 15 September when that union became involved in a new agreement that was to begin during that month. [More…]
It seems to me that there is clear proof that the union was not prepared to accept the judgment of the referee, the judgment of Mr Commissioner Neil, and the union took the matter to bans and dispute regardless of his recommendations. [More…]
The company was told by the Transport Workers Union that individual members of the company would be prevented from getting fuel both in the short term and for a period of three months after the settlement of the dispute. [More…]
There was a clear breach of section 45 D of the Trade Practices Act by the Transport Workers Union which claimed that it was not in breach of that section. [More…]
I am informed today that that union is continuing its tactics; it is continuing to adopt the practice of threatening not to supply for long periods any individual in New South Wales who will take on board and sell fuel that is imported from Victoria. [More…]
No recognised union leader is involved in the current dispute. [More…]
That legislation provided for the deregistration of unions. [More…]
It provided for the fining and gaoling of unionists and union leaders. [More…]
It provided for the freezing of union funds and so on. [More…]
The Government has tried to use a dispute at the oil refineries in New South Wales involving workers in the Transport Workers Union, the Storemen and Packers Union, the Federated Clerks Union and the Amalgamated Metal workers and Shipwrights Union regarding a $10 claim for alleged sand damage to cars, to inflame passions in New South Wales, not because of its alleged concern for the economy, but because it wishes to use the dispute in a vain attempt to restore coalition fortunes, which are irretrievable anyway. [More…]
I took the trouble to speak to some people in the Transport Workers Union today and I understand that despite company promises, as ruled by Justice Ludeke, that the senior officials would negotiate with the unions this week, such negotiations did not in fact occur and that actually the company reneged on that arrangement. [More…]
The workers in the Transport Workers Union are not getting overtime at the moment. [More…]
Now, China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Indo-China countries are each in various ways seeking better relations with these countries. [More…]
A further possible threat in the future could come from attempts by the Soviet Union to destabilise the South East Asian region in order to encircle or contain China. [More…]
This could take place as part of the Soviet Union’s long term quarrel with China. [More…]
I would have no objection if, for example, Pine Gap were being used for surveillance of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Ballarat because of the immense industrial problems that New South Wales has, I might note, under a Labor Government which claims to be able to co-operate with the trade union movement. [More…]
In his visit to Ballarat on Tuesday, he opened the annual conference of the Victorian branch of the Australian Textile Workers Union. [More…]
Mr Wilkes also made the assertion, which I found absolutely staggering, that trade unionists fare better under a Labor government than under Liberal governments and that relationships in the industrial relations area are more harmonious when Labor governments are in office. [More…]
He also neglected to mention that in Ballarat in the past two years the Liberal Government has done more, I believe, to strengthen the rights of individual trade unionists than any other government in a generation. [More…]
He preached consultation with the trade union movement. [More…]
But the last Labor Government cut off almost all communication with trade unions other than those extreme left wing unions which have had and continue to have such a large influence on the operations of the Labor Government. [More…]
Quite apart from employment aspects- this applies whether it is in relation to cattle, sheep or wheat exports or exports of manufactured products- it is wrong for any group of people or any union to take to itself the decision that producers, the owners of products, will not be allowed to sell them overseas in a certain way. [More…]
But it is certainly quite unacceptable to this Government to have any trade union or any other group of people outside the ambit of government- making that kind of determination and, as a consequence, limiting Australian exports. [More…]
It is taking a power to a limited group, in this case a trade union, and it certainly ought to be opposed. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that discussions are going on right now between the Public Service Board and Public Service unions- the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations, the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations, amongst others- to see that the redeployment of Medibank staff is done fairly and equitably and that those who can be placed in employment in the Public Service will find positions. [More…]
In fact, I was involved with my colleague the Minister for Health in discussions with union representatives and Public Service Board officers the other night on this subject. [More…]
He spoke about the pressures that play in respect of conscientious objection to membership of a union. [More…]
Whereas the article suggests that each American farmer feeds and clothes 59 people compared with estimates of 19.2 in Western Europe, 13.7 in Japan, 10 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and a world average of 5.1, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics has estimated that the average Australian farmer feeds and clothes approximately 70 people. [More…]
Secondly, we are concerned that the Government’s inequitable wages policy is undermining the system of orderly wage fixation in this country by destroying the confidence of the trade unions in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the wage indexation system. [More…]
So long as union bargaining power is inhibited by high unemployment that may not be a problem for the Government, but if the economy should eventually move into a substantial recovery phase, union frustration and resentment at the depression of real wages and complete lack of confidence in the wage indexation system may well boil over into another wage explosion. [More…]
A return to full employment with low rates of inflation must, in our view, involve the adoption of an equitable wages policy, supported by the trade union movement. [More…]
I point out that a signatory to the report of the Reserve Bank is Mr Bob Hawke, a person who is not unknown in trade union circles. [More…]
I suggest that the trade union movement does not represent the unemployed. [More…]
Therefore, it is not surprising that the trade union movement argues for a bigger share of the total economic cake. [More…]
It is possibly also not surprising that the trade union movement and its advocates should ignore that fact in representing, quite properly, those who are in work and who pay their union dues. [More…]
It is about time the Labor Party started thinking in terms of the unemployed instead of those people presently being looked after by a selfish trade union movement. [More…]
In recent times there has been a professionally conducted survey of the attitudes of trade union members. [More…]
In view of the attitudes that are so often expressed by some trade union leaders, I think the attitudes of trade union members, as opposed to those of their leaders, are highly relevant and highly important to Australia’s present circumstance. [More…]
For example, from the survey it was perfectly plain that there is an enormous gap between the views of union leaders and members of unions. [More…]
For example, 63 per cent of workers agreed that union pressure for wage increases was not supported by the rank and file. [More…]
There were similar disagreements between the work force and union leaders on compulsory unionism and working hours, for example. [More…]
Of the work force, 75 per cent did not want compulsory unionism and 65 per cent of workers said that the average weekly working hours should be kept the same. [More…]
It is a pity that some trade union leaders did not heed their own constituents to a greater extent. [More…]
Human Rights in the Soviet Union (Question No. [More…]
The issue of human rights in the Soviet Union is one which has drawn the particular attention of the Government. [More…]
The Government has called on the Soviet Union to implement the important principles of human rights embodied in United Nations instruments as well as the 197S Helsinki Accords. [More…]
The Government’s stand on human rights will be maintained into 1980 (when the Olympic Games are to be held in Moscow) and for as long as basic human rights are denied in the Soviet Union or elsewhere. [More…]
The World Peace Council since it was formed in 1948 has consistently followed the foreign policy line of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union invariably supports the peace movement. [More…]
The World Peace Council can proudly list its achievements as failure to protest about the Berlin Wall, failure to protest about the invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia and its rather dubious protest about nuclear testing, forgetting altogether that the Soviet Union is perhaps the greatest nuclear tester of all. [More…]
I point out that in addition to Japan, which I mentioned earlier, and West Germany, some of those primitive countries that our colleagues on the other side find so obnoxious, such as Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and East Germany also have maternity leave conditions that are better than those that we have in this country. [More…]
I refer to what Mr Barry Cassell, the Chairman of the Cattleman’s Union said. [More…]
That is why Mr Cassell of the Cattlemen’s Union said that the Primary Industry Bank was a sellout of primary producers and that it would be of little use if interest rates were around 10 per cent. [More…]
Australian Farmers Federation president, Don Eckersley, also has warned his members may boycott the bank, and a resolution to the Cattlemen’s Union convention this week recommends similar action. [More…]
Obvious examples are staff social clubs, staff associations and union meetings, and the Royal Institute of Public Administration. [More…]
Furthermore, we later decided to suspend plans for the holding of a meeting to review the science agreement with the Soviet Union which had been due to take place in Moscow in September. [More…]
The Soviet Union has been shown to be actively engaged in activities of an espionage character which it has recently and unconvincingly condemned in others, including some of its own courageous citizens. [More…]
It need scarcely be emphasised that hostile intelligence activities detract seriously from the purpose of improving and developing relations between the Soviet Union and Australia, a purpose to which the Australian Government has been diligently directing its efforts. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the Government of the Soviet Union will do likewise and direct its energies towards the same objective and refrain from further activities of a nature likely to damage mutually beneficial relations. [More…]
This was purportedly in protest against the action of a Seymour oil agent who had issued a writ against members of the Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
This person was employing his own labour, being good unionists, to carry out his normal business activities. [More…]
If we are to apply the logic of the Transport Workers Union that only people that it deems to be appropriate union members should transport fuel supplies, we have to say that all sorts of people will be banned from a great many normal activities. [More…]
All sorts of small businessmen would not be able to use their own labour- union labour in most cases- to pick up the supplies and the raw materials which they need for their own activities. [More…]
Secondly, it involves the rights of other unionists in the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
This dispute does not involve unionists against nonunionists; it involves members of the Transport Workers Union against other members of the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I read with disgust in this morning’s Press- I hope other honourable members also read the article with disgust- that yesterday members of the Transport Workers Union who were on strike barred from a meeting on the issue country members of the same union who wanted to turn up to express their view on the subject. [More…]
The matter affects not only the rights of other unionists in the Transport Workers Union but also the rights of other unionists throughout the country. [More…]
It is not even a demarcation dispute in the normal sense between two unions as to the members of which union should have the right to perform certain work. [More…]
This dispute involves the members of only one union- one group in one union against another group in the same union. [More…]
It is an attack by certain people against the rights of other members of their union. [More…]
No wonder many trade unionists throughout Australia are hostile about the dispute and about being done out of their jobs. [More…]
It is silliness and irresponsibility on the part of the members of the national management committee of the Transport Workers Union to extend the dispute nationally. [More…]
It indicates an arrogant attitude on the part of some union officials that they should be above the law. [More…]
One might assume that it is an effort to achieve a greater concentration of union power in the hands of a certain group of militant trade union leaders. [More…]
Obviously the Transport Workers Union bosses fear the independence of small businessmen and contractors who are prepared to work and to continue working to keep their own businesses afloat and the lifeblood of the economy flowing. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union industrial bosses do not want alternative means of carrying fuel and other essential supplies to exist in the economy so that when they snap their fingers they can bring the economy to a standstill and there will not be other alternative sources of transport to keep the wheels of industry turning. [More…]
At a telephone hook-up of the federal management committee of the Transport Workers Union it was decided to call out 2,500 tanker drivers and aircraft refuellers from midnight tonight. [More…]
Are the members of the management committee of the Transport Workers Union who made a decision by way of a telephone hook-up between themselves to be regarded as being representative of the Australian work force? [More…]
I suggest that if the average Australian unionists had a vote on the issue they would have a telephone hook-up for sure. [More…]
That would be the attitude of the majority of the Australian trade unionists to the action of those industrial gangsters. [More…]
He apparently believes that his union, and particularly, the actions that he cares to initiate through his union, should not be subject to the law. [More…]
He apparently believes that he ought to be free of legal restraint to negotiate with small businessmen on his terms, backed as he is by the might of his union militants. [More…]
If he is prepared to have his union bully boys march on the Federal Court of Australia, imagine the tactics he would use against a small company to ensure that he got his way. [More…]
They are not sticking up for the rights of other unionists in the Transport Workers Union who, probably traditionally have been supporters of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The members of the Labor Opposition are not sticking up for other unionists throughout the country- for the 2,000 service station workers who are in immediate danger of being stood down and for the many other unionists employed in all sorts of factories and undertakings throughout the country who will be in danger of being stood down if their companies cannot obtain the necessary fuel supplies to keep them going. [More…]
The matter of public importance brought forward by the honourable member is couched in words of confrontation, words of hate; they are words which demonstrate his anti-unionist feelings. [More…]
Can any honourable member imagine anybody thinking he can settle a dispute by suggesting that we execute the union leaders? [More…]
Can honourable members opposite imagine ever settling a dispute by threatening a union with a fine of a quarter of a million dollars or of damages being imposed on any person involved in what is deemed to be a secondary boycott? [More…]
Is it any wonder that the trade union movement is going to fight the Government all the way in order to have put on record the fact that that sort of legislation is punitive and discriminatory. [More…]
In the course of this debate all that has been talked about are gaol sentences, fines and executing union leaders. [More…]
But he did not send it to any trade union or any trade union official. [More…]
The reason is that that policy was aimed at the trade union movement. [More…]
The issue, as you know, is the question of section 45D putting people into a position of penury because they happen to be trade unionists. [More…]
Bear in mind that the Swanson Committee was hand-picked by the Government’s Minister; there was no trade union representative on it, there was no consumer representative on it. [More…]
There was a tramways strike in Victoria because Miss Biggs objected to joining the Tramways Union; not any other union, but that union. [More…]
It shows the intelligence of this Government to suggest that the rights of the individual must always be maintained, yet from the point of view of conscientious objection no judicial test of its validity has been put in the Government’s legislation; no union can test it. [More…]
We on this side of the House stand for the trade union movement. [More…]
The trade union movement is part and parcel of our political philosophy. [More…]
There is a desperate need for an organised trade union movement. [More…]
Transport Workers Union of Australiaultimately the Australian transport industry has to be closed down. [More…]
Not only does he want withdrawn the court action of the Seymour oil agent just to protect this union which seems to have its own ideas about being above the law but also he wants the Government to withdraw legislation which has been conscientiously brought into this House and which has proved to be the cause of a reduction in industrial action in Australia. [More…]
I was amazed to read in the Press this morning this statement by the Federal Secretary of the Transport Workers Union, Mr Hodgson: [More…]
What do honourable members think that the union leaders will be doing when 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the Australian people are put out of work, however temporarily, by this dispute? [More…]
The members of the Transport Workers Union and all the other unionists who will have work taken away from them as a flow-on from this dispute will not have petrol to put in their cars and will not have jobs. [More…]
What do the union leaders care? [More…]
What do the union leaders care about those sections of Australia? [More…]
It is not a debate in confrontation with the union movement. [More…]
It is a debate brought on by Government members because we believe that the Australian people need to be urged to act in their own best interests and absolutely go against the actions of a small number of unionists who are acting against them. [More…]
They do not like to read the results of independent surveys such as the recent one which showed that, despite the fact that union leaders want as many pay rises as they can possibly get against all sorts of logic, most unionists are prepared to forego pay rises if it will bring down the rate of price increases. [More…]
Members of the Opposition should talk to the taxi drivers who went to Melbourne last night in large numbers and confronted the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
They do not want to be caught up in a stupid dispute, involving, on the one hand, a single operator, a person who has acted within the law, and on the other hand, a small group of unionists who are not prepared to act within the law. [More…]
Our very fragile economy, which is picking up because of strong Government policies, is at risk because of strikes like this- and I suspect that the union movement knows it. [More…]
I suspect that the control of the unions over the fuel situation as exercised by members of the Seamens Union of Australia, the refinery workers, the transport workers, and the clerks in the industry- they have all been going on strike- is, as the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) has so often said, a conspiracy. [More…]
It has been characterised by the traditional approach of back bench members of the Liberal Party, who have presented an argument based on error, untruths and hypocrisy with all sorts of pious hypocritical assertions based essentially not on the facts of the dispute in the fuel industry but on their prejudices and upon their own lack of knowledge of the trade union movement and more importantly their own lack of knowledge of industrial relations. [More…]
If the honourable gentlemen opposite had done their homework they would have found that when Mr Gorman was invited to open a depot which had been closed for some five months and to which oil was being delivered by tanker drivers who were operating under a federal award he was told by Esso Australia Limited that it believed that the Transport Workers Union would not oppose his use of his own trucks. [More…]
Unfortunately, what was not pointed out to Mr Gorman was that, whatever trucks he was using, the Transport Workers Union would expect Mr Gorman to continue what had become the practice in the industry and pay his men the federal award. [More…]
From the point of view of the union [More…]
Is it remarkable for a trade union secretary who finds himself in that situation to say: ‘You can do the work if you want to but it must be done under the terms of the federal award’? [More…]
It is perfectly true that all the men involved are members of the one union. [More…]
Any employer knows, as a result of statements made by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and of warnings issued in this House, that if writs are issued which threaten unions with penalties of $250,000 and which threaten decent Australian unionists with having their houses taken away from them they will produce a massive confrontation. [More…]
Yet honourable gentlemen opposite have said that it is a terrible thing for the union to suggest that the writs ought to be withdrawn. [More…]
It is a fact that an examination of these awards will show that a great many of them are the result of consent agreements between the employers and the union or unions involved. [More…]
I must say that to date the union movement has shown no great inclination to favour changing the present system. [More…]
-I refer the Prime Minister to the current industrial dispute in the oil industry resulting from action being taken under section 45D of the Trade Practices Act against the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the fact that there are bright prospects for settlement on the basis that the writs issued thereunder will be withdrawn. [More…]
We all know that quite apart from reason and consultation, the processes of conciliation have to be backed on occasions by the force of law to protect the rights of individual working men and women of Australia and to protect the rights of all citizens in this country against the predatory actions of some union leaders in some circumstances. [More…]
That ought to be understood because the particular employer was seeking to use his own employees who are members of the same union, the Transport Workers Union of Australia, to drive his own petrol trucks and to collect his own petrol. [More…]
The company now employs about 1,100 members of the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
I know, in some of the labour intensive industries in which my Department has been working with the trade union movement and with the employers directly, of a number of cases where the situation is turning around. [More…]
The first amendment will enable a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, appointed to office under the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975, to receive remuneration and allowances in the performance of the duties of that position with the Authority and at the same time retain office as a member of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Honourable members will know that Mr Commissioner M. E. Heagney, a man with long trade union experience, who has contributed much to the work of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission over the past six years, was appointed National Director from 1 August this year. [More…]
With his sound leadership TUTA will continue to gain increasing support from the trade union movement and industry generally. [More…]
The second amendment concerns the question of remuneration for chairmen of the councils for union training established in each State. [More…]
The Government sees these State councils providing valuable advice in respect of trade union training in each State. [More…]
One of the producer groups that was to be represented on the consultative group was the Australian Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
I cannot think of one concrete advantage that has come about for the cattle industry- for producers or anyone else- since the advent of the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
I would like to think that, when this Producers Consultative Group is eventually formed and the members are elected, the Minister for Primary Industry will think very hard about giving the Cattlemen’s Union a place on the Group and whether Mr Cassell’s actions are in any way representative of the mass feeling of the people in that group. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta mentioned the director of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
The Minister has informed us that the consultative groups are in favour of these increases but if one reads what the Cattlemen’s Union has to say about the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, one will find it hard to understand how it would agree to doubling its contribution to that organisation. [More…]
I know that many uncomplimentary remarks have been made about the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia tonight. [More…]
I do not want to argue the point about that, but the fact is that the Union represents a large proportion of Australian beef producers and its membership is increasing rapidly. [More…]
It is a well known fact that the Cattlemen’s Union has sought a federal inquiry into the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation’s administration of the beef export entitlement scheme. [More…]
If we are to accept the Minister’s statement in his second reading speech that all the producers are in favour of these extra levies, surely some Government members or the Minister himself should give answers to the claims and statements made by the Executive of the Cattlemen’s Union, particularly the Press releases by Mr Barry Cassell and the letter from Graham McCamley, the national president, to the Prime Minister on 10 May. [More…]
The Cattlemen’s Union seeks a full, open public inquiry into how the $2S0m false market has been allowed to continue. [More…]
The Cattlemen’s Union asks for Federal intervention to effect the incorporation of the following basic principles in any new export entitlement schemes: [More…]
When a body the size of the Cattlemen’s Union has the courage to come out in the open and make these statements they should not be wiped off by someone saying he does not like Barry Cassell. [More…]
Surely someone has to answer the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
I am in no way trying to prove that the claims made by the Cattlemen’s Union are 100 per cent correct, but the House should at least debate the claims made by the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
In a recent tour of Hunter Valley towns Mr Cassell and Mr Armstrong have been promoting membership of the Australian Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
That may be why there is so much opposition to the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
In my opinion the Government is under an obligation to answer the charges made by the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
I ask the Government to consider these things and to give an answer to the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
It is appalling that although this is public information someone on the Opposition side of the House should get up and promote a line of nonsense being perpetrated by the leader of the Cattlemen’s Union of Australia whose only chance of having any meaningful voice is to generate membership by a form of proselytising, which certainly is not appropriate to the meat industry. [More…]
All he said was that some charges had been made by the Cattlemen’s Union which needed to be answered, particularly those in respect of entitlements and the traffic in entitlements. [More…]
This matter was much discussed at this year’s conference of the InterParliamentary Union and I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard for the information of honourable members the resolution on this subject that was passed at the recent Bonn Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
However, those members who normally provide services to the Parliament- for example, sound reinforcement within the chambers- have been exempted by the union from striking and they have expressed their readiness to keep working. [More…]
Would honourable members believe- I find it very difficult to believe newspaper reports but apparently these reports are true- that the Labor Party in Victoria had the opportunity to debate this matter but defeated a motion that dissident persecutions in the Soviet Union should be condemned? [More…]
They agree with the Victorian Labor Party ‘s decision to throw out a motion in condemnation of the dissident persecution in the Soviet Union. [More…]
He huffs and puffs, as do many members on the Liberal Party and National Country Party side, on the question of Russia and human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This House set up the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, which in turn set up a sub-committee chaired by Senator Wheeldon dealing with human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
They will see just how frequently not a single member of the Liberal Party or the National Country Party attends meetings of that sub-committee, which was set up following a resolution of this chamber to investigate the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
involving persecution of dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
My question, which is on a substantive matter, is addressed to the Prime Minister and is subsequent to a number of petitions I have presented to the House concerning human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform the House of the Government’s attitude towards the Soviet Union’s attempts to deny the rights and liberties of those of its citizens wishing to exercise the democratic rights of free expression and peaceful dissent? [More…]
We have urged the Soviet Union to implement important principles of human rights embodied in the Helsinki Accords, and if that could occur I am quite certain that the thrust for peace throughout the world would be enormously strengthened. [More…]
The only implication from that can be that that conference of the Victorian Labor Party was supporting the actions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But the leaders of this move were three devout defenders of liberty- Mr Bill Hartley, Mrs Joan Coxsedge and Mr Bert Nolan, the State Secretary of the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
But for the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party to reject that motion condemning Soviet actions against the dissidents in the Soviet Union on the grounds that these people would prefer to believe what the Soviet Union, what communist Russia itself, said about the dissidents is, I believe, a totally unreasonable situation and one that would be widely condemned throughout Australia. [More…]
I think it is a great tragedy that some trade union leaders in this country cannot take heed if not of us then at least of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, which has recognised the realities in the fight against inflation. [More…]
Mr Speaker, in view of answers given at Question Time, I ask whether you will investigate why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
He made reference to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and to the sub-committee which is chaired by Senator Wheeldon and which is currently investigating human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In moving that motion the speaker made a very specific reference to the position in the Soviet Union and referred to the Dinzburg trial in particular. [More…]
I have gone on public record several times quite recently condemning the onslaught against dissidents in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics but also pointing out that there are extensive erosions of basic human rights in just about every country within our own geopolitical region. [More…]
He made generalised allegations that members on this side of the House were not concerned about the question of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I refer now to the attitude of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the business sector and the community generally to annual and long service leave. [More…]
The trade union movement believes that annual leave and long service leave are benefits that have been acquired over the years for the purpose of ensuring that the workers have time off from work and that they are part and parcel of their conditions of employment. [More…]
What the world has been deploring in the Soviet Union is happening in Australia: The Soviet Communist Party is putting in gaol people who have the honesty and courage to publicly criticise the party line. [More…]
The advice was subsequently rescinded pending further consultation with union representatives. [More…]
and (2) There is currently a ban placed by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) in 1 974 on the export of live cattle to Japan, Canada, the United States of America and the Middle East. [More…]
In addition, live sheep and merino rams are currently the subject of specific trade union bans or limitations. [More…]
The Federal Executive of the AMIEU is seeking the views of members of the Union as to the future policy on action to be taken by the Union with regard to live sheep exports. [More…]
The ACTU Executive position, resolved on 6 July 1978, was to ask Union members who might be involved ‘not to facilitate the export of merino rams against the decision of growers expressed by way of referendum’. [More…]
In the light of this information and with regard to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission’s February decision to discount the wage rise for the December quarter last year partly because of tax cuts in February this year, will the Government consider instructing its advocate at the Arbitration Commission’s hearings on the wage indexation case to support the argument of the Australian Council of Trade Union’s advocate that the November tax increase should be taken into account by the Bench in its present deliberations just as the February tax decrease was taken into account earlier this year? [More…]
Yesterday during Question Time in this House we heard the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) call for human rights in the Soviet Union, a nation as far from Australia’s influence as possible. [More…]
I am comparing the position with that in other parts of Australia, not the Soviet Union. [More…]
I will just refer to a paper which was prepared by Mr Morschel the Director-General of Plant Quarantine, to answer representations which had been made to him by the President for the time being of the Flower Growers Branch of the Victorian Farmers Union in August 1 977. [More…]
It is the paper which was released by the Victorian Farmers Union and which contains comments by the VFU and comments by the Director-General of Plant Quarantine, Mr Morschel. [More…]
It has served notice on the people of Victoria not only in relation to the nationalisation issue, but also in relation to the question of dissidents and human rights for all those those within Victoria who might have come from Eastern Europe as well as members of religious communities who are not given adequate rights within the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
-I refer the Minister for Foreign Affairs to his answer to a question on 14 November indicating that a review of relations with the Soviet Union took place in June. [More…]
Do these letters give approval in principle for toll enrichment in the Soviet Union of Australian uranium purchased by Finland? [More…]
Did the review of relations with the Soviet Union encompass this question? [More…]
What safeguards arrangements with the Soviet Union would satisfy the Government? [More…]
why an undertaking was given by the Department of Foreign Affairs to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
As I understand it, one of our officials was told at a social function by a middle ranking Soviet official that the Soviet Union could have a certain attitude. [More…]
The interesting thing is that this is the first time that members of this Parliament sitting opposite have taken such a viewpoint of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Parliamentary delegation that went to the Soviet Union could have been looked upon as one that was elected to comply with the wishes of the middle order official from the Soviet Embassy. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio made an incorrect statement last week when he said that the Department of Foreign Affairs gave an undertaking to the Soviet Union that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Subcommittee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be included in any parliamentary delegation to the Soviet Union. [More…]
There are those with a genuine concern regarding the suppression of civil liberties, as epitomised by the honourable member for Prospect, and there are those who need to aspire to the desires of others who would seek to suppress criticism of the suppression of civil liberties in the Soviet Union, namely, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding) who goes along with the socialists in Victoria who would not condemn the Soviet Union for its brutal suppression of civil liberties. [More…]
Some few moments ago in a speech to the House by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock)- perhaps it was an exercise in the honourable gentleman’s forensic skills- he described members of the Australian Labor Party as being of two kinds: Those who were genuinely concerned with problems of civil liberties and those who, to quote the Minister’s words, were concerned to suppress evidence of oppression of dissident groups within the Soviet Union. [More…]
In many of our programs, therefore, we have approached problem solving on a tripartite basis- involving government, management and and the unions. [More…]
Equally, union officials who are informed of the real position of an industry and the issues it faces have reacted positively in order to seek solutions to what, in reality, are mutual problems. [More…]
Our faith in this innovative approach has been vindicated by experience: Unions and management are seeking to explore matters of mutual self interest. [More…]
A national steering committee, representing employer and union organisations, has been set up to reach a consensus about terminology and concepts and to consider methods of implementing employee participation as thus conceived. [More…]
I chair that committee and would like to pay tribute to the most constructive attitude taken by all its members, whether representing the public sector or the private sector, unions, managements or government. [More…]
My Department has been studying such things as redundancy policies and practices, retirement planning, information sharing with employees, and trade union attitudes to varied working hours to assess the scope for amelioration of some of the problems. [More…]
If the imposition of penalties could solve industrial disputes in Australia, there would be no industrial disputes because we have applied to trade unions a wide ranging group of penalties that does not exist in any other part of the world. [More…]
We have seen this demonstrated in the last few days by a very small distributor of oil in the countryside of Victoria who used section 45D to try to solve with the Transport Workers Union of [More…]
Now we find the Government extending that power because the strict interpretation of section 45D before this amendment foreshadowed by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs may not have allowed it to rope in the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union in the case of the export of live sheep. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Government is giving power almost to every employer in the country to take action against a trade union when, in the first instance, there is no mechanism for conciliation. [More…]
Obviously, he was guided by professional advice- anti-trade union professional advice. [More…]
It is because they have departments of industrial relations, they have people who are expert in the carrying out of industrial relations, they have people who understand the trade unions and who are dealing with the trade unions every day, and they think it is in the interests of this country not to stop industry. [More…]
Obviously, as soon as this legislation becomes law, and there is a dispute again on the waterfront, someone will be backed financially to take action against the meat workers union. [More…]
What was the meat workers union about? [More…]
It does not matter who takes the action; as soon as a union is fined $250,000 Australia will stop. [More…]
If the export of live sheep is going to cause redundancy of employees in the meat workers union at the abattoirs around the country the matter is worthy of consideration. [More…]
Does he want to see the small grower who lives at the behest of some of the major breeders in the country fined $250,000 because that grower gets together with the Australian Workers Union to stop the export of merino rams? [More…]
The trade union movement will have to look closely at the way in which members of the National Country Party operate. [More…]
The purpose of the proposed amendment is obviously to facilitate proceedings against unions, their officials and members. [More…]
It was not necessary merely to provide extra avenues for proceedings against unions, their officials and members. [More…]
For example, it will no longer be necessary as in the recent Tillman’s Butcheries Pty Ltd v. the Australasian Meat Industry Employees’ Union case for the complainant to prove that the union, its officials or members had caused substantial loss or damage to the business. [More…]
We understand well- this is something the Government is ignoring- that we will not throw members of the meat workers union on the dole heap. [More…]
Does the Government think that if it takes action against the meat workers union all the unions involved in the stevedoring industry will capitulate, go down on their hands and knees and say: Malcolm, we are sorry. [More…]
Now we will load the ship because you fined the meat workers union $250,000”? [More…]
This legislation will bring into confrontation the person taking the action or the industry involved in taking the action and the whole trade union movement. [More…]
The unions have made a decision as a result of the last Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress that they will not stand by and watch unions penalised under this section of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
The trade union movement solved it. [More…]
This was not caused through the action of a union but by the use of section 4SD and because a writ was taken out against the union. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey, in all his wisdom, said that unions have a right to defend the wages and working conditions of their members. [More…]
It was all about protecting the working conditions of unionists and their wages. [More…]
The company, Tillmanns Butcheries, sought an injunction and damages against the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union and five individuals under the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
This was because of certain members of the union refusing to slaughter animals destined for the company’s butcher shops for three weeks in December last year. [More…]
The company claimed the union had breached Section 45 of the Act and that it had caused substantial damage to business and lessening of competition. [More…]
Under the Constitution the Australian Government’s power in industrial matters lies in conciliation, not in thumping unions. [More…]
The Government will find that there are not too many industrial cripples in Australia if it pulls in the whole trade union movement. [More…]
As the honourable member for Port Adelaide said, the Australian Council of Trade Unions has taken a consolidated decision on this matter. [More…]
Not individual unions but every trade union in Australia affiliated with the ACTU has pledged itself to oppose this part of the legislation wherever it rears its ugly head. [More…]
If this Government thinks that it can take on the combined might of the trade union people of Australia, the organised working people of Australia, it has another thing coming. [More…]
The Opposition, with the support of the combined trade union movement in Australia, strongly opposes the action that has been taken. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the dispute which caused last week’s petrol crisis in Victoria ended in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission when Commissioner H. Neil ruled that members of the Transport Workers Union would make deliveries from the Esso Spotswood plant. [More…]
Rather, it is a sledge-hammer, full frontal attack and the trade union movements will not accept it. [More…]
The trade union movement will not wear that any more than the Labor Party will in this place. [More…]
The immediate reason for the introduction of the legislation is, no doubt, as a result of the ban imposed during April this year by the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union on the export of live sheep to the Middle East. [More…]
-Once again we see this anti-Australian Government seeking to attack the trade unions. [More…]
2) 1978 is the same sort of anti-union legislation as the Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Bill of last year which set up the useless and inflammatory Industrial Relations Bureau and which also provided for the deregistration of trade unions, the fining of trade unionists and the freezing of their lawful funds and property. [More…]
It was this legislation which, as the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, said only today, led the International Labour Organisation in Geneva just one week ago soundly to condemn this Government and this Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as being authoritarian and prone to using the same repressive tactics against the legitimate labour movement as the Pinochet movement in Chile. [More…]
This of course was the legislation under which the Utah Development Corporation instigated litigation against the Seamens Union of Australia for attempting to ensure that Australian crews were employed on vessels carrying the 12 million tonnes of coal, worth $620m, that Utah exported to Japan in 1977. [More…]
One could argue that under the Minister’s interpretation- seeing that these employees were certainly struggling around conditions of employment and the right to work- this legislation should never have been successfully used against the Seamen’s Union of Australia. [More…]
Now this Government finds that after all its attempts to suppress the trade union movement, its section 45D legislation is still deficient. [More…]
Let me quickly prove to this House that not all of the boycotts of this nature which have been imposed by the Australian trade union movement in the past have been against the best interest of the nation. [More…]
For instance, let me remind the House that in December 1938, long before my time on the waterfront, members of the Seamen’s Union in Port Kembla imposed a ban- this Government would call it now a secondary boycott- on the export of pig iron to Japan. [More…]
If there was one single trade union boycott that had a decisive effect on world history it was the Australian maritime boycott on the loading of arms in Australian ports on Dutch ships that were bound for the Dutch East Indies. [More…]
We saw a country petrol seller, Mr Gorman, take action against the Transport Workers Union under the controversial section 45d of the Trade Practices Act because that union was saying that workers transporting fuel to Mr Gorman’s depot should be paid under the Federal and not the Victorian State award. [More…]
Last week we saw the usual huffing and puffing, union baiting and stirring by this Government. [More…]
I suppose in a sense it can be argued that it was the threat of action under section 45D that caused the Transport Workers Union to reach the compromise. [More…]
I conclude by urging Ministers to stop and think of the nation for once instead of trying to stir up and cause more trouble for the trade union movement. [More…]
Union affairs bear no reality to today’s world. [More…]
In the United States and in other countries no union ever worries about being subject to the normal laws of contract. [More…]
I thought that in law they would be unenforcable and would turn union leaders into martyrs. [More…]
I said to him: ‘I do not understand why you and your union friends, or some of you, always object to being subject to the law of contract or the law of the land. [More…]
He replied, I think quite fairly: We in the unions do not intend to be subject to any law or any laws of contract’. [More…]
That is the exact reason why this Liberal Government has decided in its best wisdom to protect the rank and file members of the unions against the tyrannical power of a few- not all-union leaders who choose, not for the benefit of their workers but for the benefit of themselves, very often deliberately to throw this country into complete confusion. [More…]
It may not succeed in what we want it to do but at least it goes part of the way to asking the moderate, sensible union leaders to realise that the contracts Australia makes overseas shall be honoured; if there is a union contract requiring something to be done, that contract should be subject to the law. [More…]
If honourable members and unions want to be outside the law, then I am sorry, but there is no help and no hope for them. [More…]
The penalties in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act were put to rest during the 1960s when the trade union movement indicated clearly and unequivocally that they were not going to work any longer. [More…]
Those penalties having failed, and the Government having failed in getting the Commission to act in that way, it moved in another direction to bring into the common law field the penalties imposed on unionists for action taken by their membership in legitimate disputes. [More…]
It moved into another field for the purpose of bleeding the unions white and once again keeping them submissive. [More…]
The Transport Workers Union dispute had its genesis in other States. [More…]
This Government is prepared to use bludgers, pimps, scabs, anybody it can get its hands on, to do its dirty work and to set up the unions on that basis. [More…]
I might add that the Government does not even practise the courtesy of going through the procedures by serving the unions in a proper way. [More…]
For instance, the Federal office of the Transport Workers Union has not to this day received a summons over the Gorman case. [More…]
The Conciliation and Arbitration Commission would love to handle a dispute where it has just handed out a $250,000 fine to a unionist or a union! [More…]
The trade union movement has an obligation to its membership and to the movement generally to stand up and fight it out, and that it will do. [More…]
If a trade union official was gaoled in this country again the confrontation would be on. [More…]
We would see whether every unionist in the country would support the Government. [More…]
One other matter I would like to mention in relation to the Transport Workers Union is that it is vulnerable. [More…]
The next morning the union received another notification under section 45d from a messenger service in Melbourne. [More…]
In effect, they have served summonses on the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
Having got through the Gorman dispute, the union is looking down the barrel of another one. [More…]
The dispute is not going to be settled unless the Government takes this type of legislation out of the area where it can be used as a bludgeon to batter unions into submission. [More…]
This legislation will provide a lot of justification for a confrontation with the Government by unions. [More…]
There will be more power to the unions’ arm if and when it is required. [More…]
If the unions are fined $250,000 or if the Government takes the next step and gaols a union official it will be on and that will be on the heads of the people who have supported this legislation. [More…]
In that case conscientious objection to unions was used as a basis for a dispute. [More…]
We heard Barbara Biggs saying: ‘I am not going to be involved with the tramways union. [More…]
I do not mind being involved in any other union’. [More…]
Throughout the time that we have been in government we have tried to balance firmness in those situations when it is required with a willingness to conciliate and to consult with the trade union movement. [More…]
It would mean repealing legislation which is designed to remove as far as possible from the Australian community the abuse of union muscle; that is the pledge of the Opposition if it is returned. [More…]
Twenty-nine of the Federal Labor Party’s 64 parliamentarians and six trade union leaders have signed a letter directed to the ALP National Executive asking the ALP to steer further to the Left. [More…]
The Committee also understands that an enclosed heated pool- admittedly smaller- is under construction at the Clyde Cameron Trade Union Training College at Wodonga. [More…]
It makes an outlaw of any worker, union or Australian citizen who does not fully comply with the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
The leader of the trade union movement in West Germany told the leader of the trade union movement in Australia, Mr Bob Hawke, that the trade union movement in West Germany was reassessing its attitude to nuclear energy. [More…]
It was only on 6 November that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden), when in Broadbeach, Queensland, at the Building Workers Industrial Union conference, said: [More…]
Is it the Government’s intention to legislate for union balance sheets to be forwarded to union members? [More…]
It is obviously very important that members of a trade union have a full report of the way their contributions and subscriptions to that union are spent. [More…]
That clearly would give an insight into the management of the affairs of a union. [More…]
It is perfectly appropriate and proper that members of a trade union be fully informed on their union’s affairs, especially its financial affairs. [More…]
As part of the amendments that have already been passed through the Parliament, union balance sheets and other financial statements are to be made available to members. [More…]
I have a letter written to Mr George Crawford, General Secretary of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union of Australia. [More…]
You will recall that apropos of nothing other than my greeting you, you burst into a tirade of abuse against me for allegedly amending the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force you to post to all members of the Plumbers & Gasfitters Union a copy of their union’s balance sheet each year. [More…]
You responded by shouting: ‘My union’s balance sheets are properly audited’, and I replied: “Then that means you have nothing to hide’. [More…]
I am still trying to work out what motivated you to flare up into such a state of wild excitement over the union ‘s balance sheets. [More…]
Your attitude on the question of balance sheets caused me to tell you that the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union is not George Crawford. [More…]
It is the thousands of rank and filers who constitute the membership of that union of very fine Australian Tradesmen. [More…]
I repeat again: it is their union, not yours. [More…]
I think that recommendation was contained in a report into certain activities of the Seamens Union of Australia. [More…]
Let the unions run their own affairs ‘, you yelled. [More…]
I believe that the rank and file should have enforceable rights to effectively control their union’s policies and paid servants … [More…]
I have never heard you object to the law giving your union monopoly rights to enrol plumbers and gasfitters. [More…]
I have never heard you object to the law that permits you to prevent another union seeking award coverage for plumbers and gasfitters. [More…]
Nor have I ever heard you complain against the law that permits the Commission to give preference of employment to plumbers and gasfitters who belong to your union. [More…]
I have never heard your objection to the law that prohibits victimisation against your union’s members. [More…]
I have never heard you protest against the law that permits your union to sue an employer for breach of award and for wage arrears. [More…]
But if you don ‘t accept the sections of the Act that provide protection for a union ‘s membership - [More…]
But if you don’t accept the sections of the Act that provide protection for a union ‘s membership against the possibly tyranny of their paid officials, and if you object to those laws which protect the ordinary plumber and gasfitter against rules that are ‘oppressive, unreasonable or unjust’, and which give him a legal right to force you to observe the union’s rules, then why don’t you try to persuade your members to allow your union’s registered rights to be taken over by some other organisation and try working outside the Act? [More…]
I intended to say that if, in fact, your union rules now ensure full democracy, i.e. [More…]
I intended to say that, if, in fact, your union rules now ensure full democracy, i.e., that right of every rank and filer to have a direct vote in the election for the position you now hold, then they have me to thank for it; because I amended the Act to make that requirement compulsory and you opposed those amendments. [More…]
It won’t surprise you to learn that I am not excessively impressed by your performance as a union official. [More…]
I guess you will remember that when you told me that I know nothing about trade unionism I retorted that I knew more about the union movement than you would learn if you live for a hundred years. [More…]
I now invite you to publish this letter to rank and file members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union because I believe they are entitled to have the benefit of my views as well as your own. [More…]
Could I suggest that special arrangements be made so that a copy of the relevant Hansard containing the letter is forwarded to every member of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union because quite certainly they will not get it from Mr George Crawford? [More…]
Mr G.Crawford, General Secretary, Plumbers & Gasfitters Employees’ Union of Australia, 52 Victoria Street, Carlton South 3053 [More…]
your union’s balance sheet. [More…]
You will recall that apropos of nothing other than my greeting you burst into a tirade of abuse against me for allegedly amending the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to force you to post to all members of the Plumbers & Gasfitters Union a copy of their union’s balance sheet each year. [More…]
You responded by shouting: ‘My union’s balance sheets are properly audited’, and 1 replied: ‘Then that means you have nothing to hide’. [More…]
I am still trying to work out what motivated you to flare up into such a state of wild excitement over the union’s balance sheets. [More…]
Don ‘t you regard your members as being shareholders of the union? [More…]
Your attitude on the question of balance sheets caused me to tell you that the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union is not George Crawford. [More…]
It is the thousands of rank and filers who constitute the membership of that union of very fine Australian Tradesmen. [More…]
I repeat again: it is their union, not yours. [More…]
Let the unions run their own affairs’, you yelled. [More…]
I believe that the rank and file should have enforceable rights to effectively control their unions’ policies and paid servants. [More…]
So does the ALP and so do the Vh million workers who constitute the real trade union movement. [More…]
I have never heard you object to the law giving your union monopoly rights to enrol plumbers and gasfitters. [More…]
I have never heard you object to the law that permits you to prevent another union seeking award coverage for plumbers and gasfitters. [More…]
Nor have I ever heard you complain against the law that permits the Commission to give preference of employment to plumbers and gasfitters who belong to the union. [More…]
I have never heard your objection to the law that prohibits victimisation against your union’s members. [More…]
I have never heard you protest against the law that permits your union to sue an employer for breach of award and for wage arrears. [More…]
And, I have never heard you object to the law giving you the right to sue your members for union fees and fines. [More…]
All of these are essential and I support them; but they all represent interference by the law in the relationship between union officialdom and union membership. [More…]
But if you don’t accept the sections of the Act that provide protection for a union ‘s membership against the possible tyranny of their paid officials, and if you object to those laws which protect the ordinary plumber and gasfitter against rules that are ‘oppressive, unreasonable or unjust’, and which give him a legal right to force you to observe the union’s rules, then why don’t you try to persuade your members to allow your union’s registered rights to be taken over by some other organisation and try working outside the Act? [More…]
I intended to say that if, in fact, your union rules now ensure full democracy, i.e. [More…]
In fact, I still have the telegram I received from you on 8 May 1973, calling upon me to withdraw my amendments to the Act which required that all union officers exercising powers to make or alter rules, impose fines upon members, expel members or to exercise the functions of union management, must be elected by a direct vote of all of the union members likely to be affected by those decisions. [More…]
But your telegram informed me that my amendments were ‘Causing concern’ to your union and called for their withdrawal. [More…]
He went on to defend the collegiate system for the election of union officials and condemned direct rank and file elections on the ground that they would ‘ultimately hand moderate unions over to the Communist-extreme-left coalition, behind the camouflage of an ALP ticket’. [More…]
That Platform pledged that ‘Labor will also ensure a system of democratic control of all unions, allowing the fullest participation by members in their union affairs, a system of participatory democracy’. [More…]
It went on to demand amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to provide that all members of a Union committee exercising any powers of management shall be elected by and made subject to the effective control of the membership’. [More…]
And, ‘that no financial member shall be deprived of the right to vote in union elections’. [More…]
But to return to your telegram: let me assert at once that you were not speaking for the rank and file of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union when you sent me that telegram. [More…]
But, as I reminded you on Thursday evening, you are not the union. [More…]
I know that you did not consult the membership before sending me that telegram because I received widespread support from the rank and file unionists, for what I did to return the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union to its members. [More…]
Your members wanted the right to have a direct vote on the election of their General Secretary- a right which you said would cause ‘concern’ to ‘this union’, meaning you. [More…]
It won’t surprise you to learn that I am not excessively impressed by your performance as a union official. [More…]
I guess you will remember that when you told me that I know nothing about trade unionism I retorted that I knew more about the union movement than you would learn if you lived for a hundred years. [More…]
I also expressed the view that your own performance as a union administrator compared most unfavourably with my own. [More…]
I now invite you to publish this letter to rank and file members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Union because I believe they are entitled to have the benefit of my views as well as your own. [More…]
Indeed, only this morning in another article in the Australian Financial Review I noticed that Mr John Silkin, the United Kingdom Minister for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries remarked on the fact that the EEC has sold subsidised butter to the Soviet Union at a price of about 47.5 pence a pound compared with 60 pence a pound paid by British shoppers for the same product. [More…]
Without wishing to disclose the price that has been received in the recent sale of Australian butter to the Soviet Union I think it is apparent that Australia’s ability to sell agricultural produce in Third World markets is seriously prejudiced by the maintenance of the very high subsidies on European produce that is applied through the Common Agricultural Policy. [More…]
I would point out that many charitable voluntary organisations, religious associations, trade union organisations- a multiplicity of organisations- have been able to benefit from the subsidised postage rate. [More…]
-In recent months mankind right around the world has strongly and vociferously condemned the systematic persecution of civil rights dissidents in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On Remembrance Day 1978 a small section of the Australian community but an influential section of the Australian community not only chose to forget those who are fighting for basic human rights in the Soviet Union, but they callously turned their backs on those freedom fighters in the Soviet Union, the modernday martyrs of 1978. [More…]
What a day of shame for Australia when one of the two major political parties in the State of Victoria came out publicly and refused to condemn the Soviet Union for its treatment of civil rights dissidents. [More…]
What does the Minister intend to do with the Australian Union of Students Friendly Society, which has different rates for people under 31 years of age and those over 31 years of age; and with the Hospital Contribution Fund of Australia, whose Selectaplan discriminates against pregnant women, who are not covered by this plan. [More…]
It is said that doctors on the whole are compassionate towards pensioners and that the same union, the Australian Medical Association, recommends that doctors subsidise pensioners. [More…]
The union is obviously concerned that too many patients will become subsidised and, therefore, cause a drop in doctors’ incomes. [More…]
In addition, material has been circulated by the Australian Teachers Federation, the Council of State School Organisations, the Australian Union of Students, the Federal Catholic Education Office, the University Staff Association, and so on. [More…]
Nevertheless I have had the benefit of attending a meeting, observing what happens and meeting with the people from the employers, the trade union movement and the Government. [More…]
I must say- I think the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) would agree with me on this-that the senior spokesman from the employers, who is in the House tonight, Mr Polites, and the senior spokesman for the union movement in Australia who is in this city tonight, Mr Hawke, have an influence way above what one would think Australia is entitled to at a forum such as the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
We have asked questions of the Minister particularly in relation to the Finnish Agreement and the fact that uranium will be enriched in the Soviet Union- asking about safeguards procedures for toll enrichment- and we are not getting any assistance. [More…]
There is not much point in attacking the Soviet Union on the basis of having bugging devices here as though it is a pleasant exercise and in the same context not telling anything about nuclear safeguards arrangements with that country from the point of view of uranium supplied to Finland. [More…]
Has the EEC suspended export subsidies or restitutions on butter sales pending an inquiry into an attempted sale of French butter to the Soviet Union contrary to the notification procedure introduced after a similar sale in 1 977. [More…]
Until the United Nations intervened, it was the venue, as was the Union of South Africa more generally, of the most odious, racist and repressive security laws- apartheid- of anywhere in the world. [More…]
Because Namibia or, as it has been known, South West Africa has been completely incorporated within the economy of the Union of South Africa, it is the South African Government which has been draining off the benefits of that income that has been generated. [More…]
Three years ago when I became the member for the electorate of Sydney young people in particular were coming to see whether I could help them to become employed- As a former union official I was able at that stage to telephone local councils, my State parliamentary colleagues and other contacts in the building trades industry about jobs. [More…]
and (2) The Government’s policy is designed to provide for the democratic control of industrial organisations by their members, including giving every member of an organisation a full and equal opportunity to influence policy within his organisation, so that union management will reflect the real needs and aspirations of the rank and file membership. [More…]
In November 1976, following discussions with the peak union and employer councils and numerous representations, the Government introduced further amendments to the Act to give organisations the choice of providing for elections for offices by direct vote of the appropriate sections of the rank and file or by a defined form of collegiate voting. [More…]
Is he able to say what is (a) the number or nuclear power plants and (b) the nuclear electricity generating capacity of plants (i) in operation, (ii) under construction, (iii) planned or on order and (iv) planned or on order and subsequently cancelled or deferred during the last5 years in (A) the Soviet Union, (B) Eastern Europe, (C) Cuba and (D) the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
1 ) How many certificates have been granted pursuant to section 144a of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which concerns conscientious objection to union membership. [More…]
1 ) Who or what is the Commercial Bureau of Australia which was recently reported in the press as being one of the two companies which have successfully negotiated a sale of butter to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
It so happens that the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II encompass the cruise missile involving the United States of America and the Soviet Union. [More…]
-I direct to the Minister for Industrial Relations a question concerning the Industrial Relations Bureau and events which occurred in March of last year when Mr Kane, a union member, resigned from his union, dissociated himself from a strike -at a Melbourne City Council depot and subsequently obtained a certificate of conscientious objection from the Industrial Registrar. [More…]
Have officers of the Industrial Relations Bureau spoken to the Melbourne City Council and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and informed them that they will be prosecuted by the Bureau? [More…]
Yes, I am aware that officers of the Industrial Relations Bureau have been in contact with both the Melbourne City Council and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
Indeed, the President of our union movement, Mr Hawke, once the 4 per cent decision was announced, virtually said ‘Look, that’s enough, lay ofl”. [More…]
Later on in his answer he defends the industrial record of the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
-The Commonwealth Public Service peak union organisations are very concerned with the particular aspect about which the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Stewart) spoke. [More…]
The peak union organisations feel that it is only just that before an officer is blamed for what may appear to be an inefficiency he should have the opportunity to put before the permanent head his view as to what may have activated the inefficiency upon which the Auditor-General is reporting. [More…]
It ought to be noted, I think, that the ANZUS treaty was emphasised in a very particular way last year because even though discussions were going on between the Soviet Union and the United States about lowering force levels in the Indian Ocean- I have indicated that I hope those discussions can be resumed- a major ANZUS exercise involving significant United States and Australian forces took place off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
I refer the Minister to the prosecution by the Industrial Relations Bureau against the Melbourne City Council and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union under sections 5 and 188 of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Trade and Resources aware that the Seamen’s Union of Australia, in support of one side of the ideological war in Vietnam, has placed bans on Chinese ships which load iron ore at the ports of Dampier and Port Hedland in Western Australia? [More…]
WU1 this action by the Seamen’s Union seriously affect Australia’s reputation as a stable supplier of raw materials, and will it lead to a loss of contracts? [More…]
I was shocked to see an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning which on the one hand attempted to set out the facts of the actions of the New South Wales Government in regard to proposed cut backs in State services but on the other hand attempted to push all the union activity towards the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
We have already asked the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to use its special relationship with Vietnam to bring about a cease-fire and withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Kampuchea. [More…]
We welcome statements such as that made by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
The trade union movement has, he says, ‘A responsibility in respect of those who are not in the work force’. [More…]
This recognition holds out real prospects for the constructive, cooperative approach as between Government, trade unions and industry, which is fundamental to a real and lasting increase in employment opportunities. [More…]
Has that not pushed the Vietnamese into the arms of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The Labor Government had good diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Australian Government has failed to maintain a balance in relations with the Soviet Union on the one hand and China on the other hand. [More…]
It has made a strong effort to isolate Vietnam and it has helped to drive it straight towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Industrial Relations Bureau is issuing a summons against the Australian Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union because of some gentleman who has a conscientious objection. [More…]
That gentleman had a conscientious objection on 22 March but was a member of the union and agreed to go on strike on 1 March. [More…]
The trade unions have very considerable monopoly powers. [More…]
It is important that a better understanding be engendered in the union movement, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and in the minds of the members of the public generally. [More…]
It is a pity that the union movement involved in the loading of ships at Newcastle and Sydney does not realise the serious situation that eventuates when we cannot ship our grain to overseas purchasers on time. [More…]
I will not have time to do that by any means, but let me mention some of the classical quotes of the 1975 election campaign like ‘we will maintain Medibank’, ‘the Government will support wage indexation’ and ‘we will work positively in cooperation with the trade unions’. [More…]
We have had a succession of disasters and serious confrontation in respect of the Trade Practices Act and that inquitous section 45D, and the newly established Industrial Relations Bureau which was meant really to antagonise the trade union movement of this country. [More…]
I am appreciative of the support from the trade union movement and the Labor Party in at least participating in what I believe to be a matter of great national importance; that is to try to engender a greater awareness of and respect for the exporting industries of this nation. [More…]
The ability of the Vietnam Government to absorb those problems is limited by the lack of assistance it received from other countries except of course the Soviet Union and some socialist countries. [More…]
It had no option but to sign a friendship treaty with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We have some evidence of the sharpening of the differences within the Vietnamese leadership as the links with the Soviet Union are bound tighter and tighter. [More…]
I believe that we should take five major steps: Firstly, we should call for an immediate withdrawal of all Chinese forces from Vietnam and call on United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to avoid any action or statement that could provoke a further escalation or inhibit the resolution of the conflict. [More…]
Some of the headings are as follows: ‘Dividend rise by Perpetual’; ‘Union Carbide jumps after strong second’; .C - — Ltd increased net profit by 15.5 per cent’; ‘Santos in big leap. [More…]
The conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four states: The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
I emphasise this deliberate and substantial militarisation of African conflict by outside states- particularly the Soviet Union and its Cuban surrogates- because I do not think that the qualitative change it has wrought in African affairs has registered clearly enough. [More…]
The situation began to deteriorate last year with increasing hostilities between Kampuchea and Vietnam, a worsening relationship between China and Vietnam and the signing of a Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation- which included a military assistance clause- between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China for long term influence in the region- and, more generally, on the whole Sino-Soviet dispute. [More…]
China’s subsequent incursion into Vietnam can only be understood as a reaction to Vietnam’s treaty with the Soviet Union, its invasion of Kampuchea and the installation there of a pro- Vietnamese Government. [More…]
In turn, its concern about events in Kampuchea relate not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but also to the role of the Soviet Union as Vietnam’s principal -backer. [More…]
We have called on Vietnam to withdraw its forces from Kampuchea, on China to withdraw its forces from Vietnam and on the Soviet Union to exercise restraint to prevent the last turn of the screw, which could be disastrous not merely for the region but for the peace of the world. [More…]
It is a neighbour of the Soviet Union, a major oil producer and a principal member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. [More…]
In terms of the so-called ‘northern tier’ countries- that border on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- the upheaval in Iran, following closely on the proSoviet coup in Afghanistan and accompanied by very shaky conditions in Turkey, creates an entirely new situation. [More…]
While the Soviet Union is increasing its already enormous military power faster than any other country, and while it is increasingly active in relation to the trouble spots of the world, politically it is the odd-man-out among the great powers. [More…]
At the time of the Korean War, the Soviet Union was pleased to see China at war and can welcome now in its own terms the dissipation of China’s energy in the south. [More…]
The Soviet Union need not lift a finger in the sense that it may well hope that China’s influence could fail. [More…]
The Soviet Union is greatly advantaged by the Chinese operation in Vietnam. [More…]
The Soviet Union was delighted when China was embroiled in Korea in the 1950s and those qualities of spreading the interest and flexibility which so characterise Soviet policy are likely to be satisfied to see China at war with Vietnam and China’s relations with Vietnam being shattered for a generation. [More…]
The central elements of his arguments in relation to these various international elements can be linked with a decline in the power of the United States and the increase in the power of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Whilst all of us wish for nothing more than peace between nations regardless of differences of ideological approach, the reality facing us today is that we have seen, over the last few years in particular, a steady but sure increase in the military capacity of the Soviet Union compared with the United States of America. [More…]
It is so easy to imagine a situation where one mistake, one miscalculation, one rifle bullet across an international frontier, could well be enough to launch the Soviet Union against China- an action which would result, quite likely, in disastrous consequences for all of mankind. [More…]
Our world today is a relatively small place and nations have the capacity, in the form of intercontinental ballistic missiles and manned bombers, to travel great distances, for example from the Soviet Union to Australia, or from the United States to the Soviet Union- in fact virtually around the world. [More…]
Despite this enormous military build-up by the Soviet Union in recent years, it must be recognised that since 1945 no Soviet unit has been placed in a military position against any other state. [More…]
In recent years there has not been one trouble spot, not even Northern Ireland, in which has not been found among the arsenal of those who wish to fight equipment supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
For example, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation area of Western Europe there is again a degree of malaise in that the United States and its Western allies demonstrably do not have at this point of time at least equality of strategic capability with the Warsaw Pact countries, which include the Soviet Union. [More…]
Cuban forces, armed and equipped by the Soviet, have again been prepared to be the catspaw of the Soviet Union, dabbling wherever possible in strife between states, in civil wars between rulers and people and between rulers and their own elite as in Chad. [More…]
In fact, we are seeing a pronounced deterioration in the relative strength of the United States and its allies visavis the Soviet Union and its allies, a pronounced deterioration in the capacity of the Western alliance to present a united face, and a deterioration in the capacity of the Third World to feel that in the West it has a group of states which are reliable, can be depended upon to make decisions and have the courage to carry them out for the welfare of mankind. [More…]
We commend the Soviet Union for its moderation in response to the Chinese actions, but it is to be regretted that the same moderating influence was not extended from Moscow in the case of Vietnam’s actions against Kampuchea. [More…]
Let me remind the Foreign Minister what the President of the United States had to say only just over one month ago in his ‘State of the Union’ address to the Congress. [More…]
Co-operation with the Soviet Union serves the cause of peace, for in the nuclear age world peace must include peace betweeen the superpowers- and it must mean the control of nuclear arms. [More…]
President Carter went on to say that SALT II will not be based on sentiment, but on the self interest of the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Our relationship with the Soviet Union is a mixture of cooperation and competition, and as President of the United States, I have no more difficult task than to balance the two. [More…]
It is in our national interest to pursue it even as we continue competition with the Soviet Union elsewhere in the world. [More…]
She has her own reasons for trying to marshal powerful forces against the Soviet Union. [More…]
Frankly, it would suit China to see the United States with overwhelming weapons superiority over the Soviet Union. [More…]
Yet, in fact, the United States is prepared in SALT II to accept numerical equality of nuclear weapons with the Soviet Union. [More…]
If anyone were to suggest that the Soviet Union is not involved in any way in this matter and is just an innocent bystander wanting to assist wherever possible, he would be very naive indeed. [More…]
If one were to read the statements made by the foreign ministers of other great nations one would realise that there has been an obvious attempt in each case to try to appreciate a situation which involves the possibility of an unthinkable conflict, that is, the possibility of the Soviet Union and China coming into conflict. [More…]
The Australian Foreign Minister has made this statement at a time when continuous attempts are being made by the United States to achieve a genuine detente with the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that they gave me classified information, but the general impression there is that America is getting nearer to a genuine understanding- and this is being achieved in a remarkable way- with the Soviet Union at the same time as this very wonderful association is being built up with communist China. [More…]
I suggest that the same would happen in the three countries in Indo-China, in China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, the Philippines and in many other countries of South America, Africa and the Middle East. [More…]
As people who have talked about the Soviet Union have said, we are dealing not with the dictatorship of the proletariat but with the dictatorship of the secretariat. [More…]
There is a dictatorship in the Soviet Union and there is a dictatorship in many other countries. [More…]
In some cases the difference may be only marginal such as in the disputes between the Soviet Union and China or between Chile and Argentina. [More…]
I raised the point that the Soviet Union indicated to this country last year that it would invite a parliamentary delegation to visit that country only on the basis that no members of the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defence Sub-committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union would be on that delegation. [More…]
This Government to its eternal shame agreed to send to the Soviet Union a delegation on the basis that the Soviet Union had decided that certain persons in this Parliament were persona non grata. [More…]
For example, there would be no point in Australia deciding to boycott the Olympic Games to be held in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Olympic Games would be held in the Soviet Union even if Australia decided not to participate. [More…]
The Soviet Union would be able to say that a campaign was being conducted by countries opposed to the holding of the Games there. [More…]
This would only be to the advantage of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to make this point in relation to the conflict in South East Asia: It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has occupied- in some cases continually- nearly all of Eastern Europe. [More…]
In some cases- for example, the Baltic States- it has actually incorporated the countries into the Soviet Union. [More…]
With its Cuban mercenaries fighting in much of Africa, the Soviet Union has a hide to talk about interference in other countries. [More…]
Within that we have an intense competition between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, each with a paranoid fear of the other, each believing that the other is bent on world domination and each determined to take steps to prevent the other from achieving the aims that are ascribed to it. [More…]
One would imagine that if a direct request were made and the Soviet Union attacked China in any force, the Chinese would neutralise their southern flank with a much, much heavier blow being directed at Vietnam than at present. [More…]
I suppose that it is not in Vietnam’s interest to call in aid from the Soviet Union at this time. [More…]
In the world scene, it is perfectly clear that the Soviet Union is seeking to obtain strategic dominance throughout the world. [More…]
In 1985 the Soviet Union will have a strategic superiority over the United States of America that will be very, very pronounced. [More…]
Therefore, at about that time there will be a predominance by the Soviet Union, which has shown itself willing to use client states to the utmost to achieve its strategic aims. [More…]
That aim has been announced by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That the communist states of the world are essentially monolithic and that, for example, Yugoslavia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vietnam and China had identical aims and worked virtually under a unified command. [More…]
When the honourable member for Dawson (Mr Braithwaite) and I paid a state visit to China in July 1978, we were both struck- and this is a highly bipartisan comment- by the widespread fear, which was expressed everywhere we went, about the Soviet Union. [More…]
In China at the moment there is enormous fear of the Soviet Union. [More…]
You want power for your own trade union and yourself. [More…]
I have been to China on two occasions in the last four years and I have been to the Soviet Union as well. [More…]
The Chinese are fearful of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union detests the Chinese. [More…]
The United States, the Soviet Union and certainly Vietnam and Cambodia should be present as should some of the other great countries of the world. [More…]
The Soviet Union is the only country in the world that can endanger world peace and the only country that has both the will and the ability to create a world diversion and involve the rest of the world in possible nuclear assault of one kind or another. [More…]
I remember my last visit to the Soviet Union when all the Russians talked about was war. [More…]
Just as the United States of America and the rest of the world want the SALT II negotiations to be completed soon I have no doubt that so too does the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union knows that it could not do more than possibly take out Singkiang Province and destroy the oil reserves and oil operations in Taching. [More…]
If one goes to the Soviet Union and talks to the people- they cannot talk very much to you- one finds that the people in Leningrad and Moscow are people of energy, physical strength, and effervescence. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union cannot go on permanently appropriating so much of its real wealth not to the purposes of humanity and its consumers throughout the whole of the Union, but in order to sustain the greatest army, navy and air force of all time. [More…]
I could not be confident but many of the great world leaders such as the Chancellor of West Germany and others, have expressed their belief that the Soviet Union will act with restraint. [More…]
It seems to me that the power of the proMoscow left wing in the unions of Australia to dictate communist policy to the parliamentary wing of the trade union movement, the Australian Labor Party, has been seen on the floor of this Parliament today. [More…]
seen alongside negotiations of the United States .and the Soviet Union on the strategic arms limitations talks, the Camp David negotiations which have just resumed in regard to the Middle East, the situation in Indo-China and the African position. [More…]
The United States-Peking recognition, this new United States-Sino link, is in its own way one counter to the strategic balance which has moved in favour of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The first is the discussions on the stabilisation of forces in the Indian Ocean that were taking place between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
So talks, although currently stalled, are being held between the Soviet Union and the United States on the stabilisation of naval forces in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Last November there was the treaty of friendship and co-operation between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Vietnam, which of course has certain military commitments within it. [More…]
We should also be very thankful at this point in time for the restraint displayed by the USSR because when China invaded Vietnam everyone was concerned that there could be immediate intervention by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is to say, there would be a non-aligned communist country- a country not aligned with the Soviet Union or with China. [More…]
Why did Australia work with the United States to force Vietnam into COMECON-the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance- and into a close dependence on the Soviet Union against Vietnam’s wishes against its independence and against its integration into the region? [More…]
In its search, Vietnam was struggling to avoid being locked into economic dependence on the Soviet Union. [More…]
Vietnam was attempting to free itself from the powerless, triangular balancing between China and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs almost excuses the Chinese invasion of Vietnam as part of its containment strategy against the Soviet Union. [More…]
He also dismisses the incursion by Vietnam into Kampuchea as the act of a client of the Soviet Union against Kampuchea as a client of China. [More…]
At least the Vietnamese do not make Cam Ranh Bay available to the Soviet Union. [More…]
For so long whenever there has been a union strike for better conditions or something such as that we have heard the cry, ‘Who is ruling Australia?’ [More…]
New South Wales- Association for Consumer Education; Australian Consumers’ Association; Campaign Against Rising Prices; Country Women’s Association of New South Wales; The Home Economics Association of New South Wales; Union of Australian Women. [More…]
Victoria- Australian Telecom Employees’ Credit Cooperative Limited; Consumer Education Centre; Consumers’ Association of Victoria; Credit Consumers’ Network; Gippsland Regional Consumers Association; Home Economics Association of Victoria; The Country Women’s Association of Victoria; The Tenants Union of Victoria; The Dietetic Association, Victoria; Victorian Commercial Teachers Association; Western Region Consumers ‘ Association. [More…]
Concern has been expressed by some members of the trade union movement in the past about the effect of the maintenance of the live sheep exports. [More…]
I hope that the further conferences will provide a responsible settlement of the dispute and that the union members concerned will have regard to the threat to the jobs of many of their fellow workers as well as to the inconvenience possibly caused to the community. [More…]
This has led to the establishment of an international union within the framework of the United Nations agency, a union responsible for industrial property and known as the World Intellectual Property Organisation. [More…]
Australia is a member of the union, has contributed to the development of that system and is participating in its further development. [More…]
8 ) consult fully with trades union and industry representatives; and [More…]
Any group of three or more workers of a firm or subdivision of a firm, their union, or their duly authorised representative, who feel that increased import competition has contributed importantly to the workers’ unemployment or underemployment may petition the United States Department of Labor for a determination of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance. [More…]
Why is the Government not prepared to talk to the trade unions about the problems, instead of accepting the complementation scheme dictated by General Motors-Holden’s Ltd? [More…]
We should be talking to the trade union movement and to the people in the industry, such as the engineers, about what we can do as Australians. [More…]
We have heard from the Minister that the trade union movement was consulted. [More…]
The trade union movement represents almost 100 per cent of the people who work in the industry. [More…]
There has been an arrangement between the unions and the employers for a long time. [More…]
The unions are entitled to be heard on this question. [More…]
Perhaps some of those fears could be put to rest if the Government knew what was happening, but fortunately, as is evident from the statement made to the House by the Minister, the statements that have been made outside the House, the amount of information being given by the company itself and the meanderings of the component industry which has swung backwards and forwards in the last fortnight the information which the trade union movement requires is not available to be given. [More…]
Many jobs have been lost because these international firms- and in some cases even Australian-owned firms such as the Repco company- have moved part of or all their production overseas to countries such as the Philippines where workers receive an average of $2 a day, where governments offer large incentives such as the Bataang free trade zone, where imported components are tariff free, where the state pays the cost of infrastructure and where trade union organisations are effectively prohibited. [More…]
Union has estimated that over a 10-year period there will be around 40,000 jobs lost in the manufacturing industry. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor attended the special meeting of the Automotive Industry Advisory Council and reported to our caucus that information which was sought from General Motors could not be given to him or trade union representatives. [More…]
During the past two or three weeks the whole world has held up its hands in horror at a possible confrontation between two giant nations, the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
On all fronts we have seen the Soviet Union take the initiative: In IndoChina with the Vietnamese in Kampuchea, with the Cubans, in Africa and in Iran where the leftist forces helped set the stage for the toppling of the pro-Western Shah. [More…]
We have already witnessed in Angola the takeover of a Soviet orientated government with the assistance of would be Cuban mercenaries armed and supplied by the Soviet Union. [More…]
With the Soviet Union spreading its influence in Asia, Chinese intervention was inevitable. [More…]
It is not that the People’s Republic of China was prompted by territorial ambitions in Vietnam, but they wished, probably naturally enough, to make sure that they were not outflanked by the Soviet Union in Asia. [More…]
Overall the situation in Indo-China seems to indicate that here is another explosive situation, sparked by the Soviet Union, which has caught Jimmy Carter once again with his pants down. [More…]
It is true that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America are producing enormous quantifies of arms. [More…]
I have no inprinciple objection to the idea of the OECD being exposed to the views of the trade union movement of Australia and, indeed, the views of spokesmen for the Opposition in these matters. [More…]
Is it the policy of this Government, as part of the attack on inflation, to reduce the level of real wages in Australia and oppose all efforts of the trade union movement to obtain wage increases in line with increases in prices? [More…]
A number of trade union organisations are taking up this matter, and I refer in particular to the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association. [More…]
If union organisers inform an employer that he is breaking the law the person concerned says: ‘That is O.K., the CES sent them along and so far as I am concerned that organisation can take the responsibility’. [More…]
I thank the Treasurer for his assurance that he will endeavour to arrange time for this mission to interview peak trade union organisations, interested representative groups of industry and commerce and spokesmen from the Opposition. [More…]
Today we have made inquiries of the union that covers the fruit growing industry, the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
I asked the appropriate union what sort of pay these people would get if they did go into these industries. [More…]
This is due to a High Court decision in the Union Fidelity case of 1969. [More…]
One has only to ask any Public Service union representative or the honourable member for Fraser or any other member of the Labor Party. [More…]
Over the period since World War II there has been a movement of the people from the rural areas to the urban metropolitan areas, coupled with activity by the trade union movement and others to reduce the hours of work. [More…]
In 1975-76, the Australian Little Athletics Union received $31,546 but only $20,000 in 1977-78. [More…]
In 1975-76 the Australian Women’s Amateur Athletic Union received $12,899 but in 1977-78 it received only $2,000. [More…]
In 1975-76 the Amateur Basketball Union of Australia received $62,000 and in 1977-78 it received $39,000. [More…]
I am very pleased with the support that is coming forward from industry and the trade union movement. [More…]
I note that the Inter-Parliamentary Union, at a symposium in Geneva in April last year, discussed the general question of the relationships of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the United Nations. [More…]
A lot has been said in the last two or three days about who sent the Cuban troops, and the relationship of President Castro and Mr Brezhnev of the Soviet Union. [More…]
One can understand that unions fear that migrants may take the jobs of their members. [More…]
I believe that the expressed opposition to migration from the unions is quite often the view of the executive rather than of the union members themselves. [More…]
The rank and file union members in their day to day living are probably far more in touch with the facts of Australia’s multicultural development which has enriched all our lives culturally and financially. [More…]
Many union members have entered this country as migrants. [More…]
Where employees are in fact being retained union coverages and designations are changing. [More…]
If we give the central place to the traditional issues of power politics we may be led to forget that the threat to the peace of the world and to the security of this country derives much more fundamentally from the gap between the rich nations and the poor, between the developed and the developing nations than it does from the global ambitions of the Soviet Union or the paranoia of China. [More…]
It leads one, I think, to particularly unbalanced analyses and one of these is the role of the Soviet Union as portrayed in his comments. [More…]
It does not mean that Vietnam will not use the Soviet Union or that the Soviet Union will not use Vietnam each in its own interest. [More…]
Interestingly enough, in nearly every case members of that party were blinded by their obsession with the threat of atheistic communism or with geo-political visions about the threat of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Above all, we should not exaggerate the global menace of the Soviet Union to the extent that it blinds us to the local realities of Iran, Indo-China and Southern Africa. [More…]
He said that the Soviet Union ‘is the odd man out among the great powers’. [More…]
The Soviet Union occupies both a dangerous and a difficult position. [More…]
In the triangular balance of power between China, the United States and the Soviet Unionone could also include Western Europe- the odd man out at the moment is the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Minister noted, I think quite rightly, that there is a dangerous asymmetry between the military strength of the Soviet Union and its diplomatic isolation. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics does not give any foreign aid as such. [More…]
Arab States- we ought to remember this point- produce 60 per cent of OPEC oil and 39 per cent of the world’s oil supply, excluding the Soviet Union or, if one likes, the communist bloc. [More…]
Algeria, Iraq- Iraq seems to be getting out of the Soviet Union orbit- Kuwait, Qatar and the Emirates are closely tied in influence to Saudi Arabia. [More…]
They are Mexico, Norway, Britain, the United States, Canada and the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea was an attack by a client of the Soviet Union ona client of China. [More…]
I am concerned because of the increasing influence of the Soviet Union in the South East Asian area. [More…]
Was it to sit still and, to use the Minister’s words, let this client of the Soviet Union actually jeopardise its territorial boundaries? [More…]
The remark was significant, because it was generally assumed that Indonesia was as suspicious of Vietnam’s intentions in the region of its ASEAN partners, particularly given its links with the Soviet Union, enhanced by the Moscow-Hanoi friendship treaty signed soon after Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong’s goodwill tour around all the ASEAN countries. [More…]
I remind Dr Mochtar that Australia says that Vietnam is the client of the Soviet Union. [More…]
But one member of ASEAN is leaning towards the Soviet Union. [More…]
I express the gravest concern that a client of the Soviet Union engaged in military aggression, precipitated this crisis. [More…]
I do not apprehend any fear for Australia should Indonesia come under the influence of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that if Indonesia had been more under the influence of the Soviet Union than it was probably there would have been little likelihood of Indonesia doing what she did to little Timor. [More…]
opposes the Soviet Union instead of uniting with it, opposes the People’s democracies instead of uniting with them, opposes the Communists, the proletariat and the People’s forces in all countries instead of uniting with them, opposes the national liberation movements, instead of uniting with them and all the oppressed nations . [More…]
Washington, Friday- ASEAN leaders urged yesterday an increased US economic presence in the region to counter the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is utter hypocrisy for the Soviet Union to criticise China or the United States for interfering in other countries. [More…]
The Soviet Union has occupied- in some cases continuallynearly all of Eastern Europe . [More…]
-Two weeks ago the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) delivered a statement which might have been titled ‘The State of the Nation’, but it offered a poor comparison with the ‘State of the Union’ message that is delivered annually by the American President. [More…]
The establishment between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of sound and effective relations on which to found a basic trust is the central most important international issue of our time and of the near future. [More…]
The general purport of what the Opposition has been saying is that the Soviet Union could be made to feel the odd man out if we do not take an even-handed posture in this international situation; the Soviet Union could feel bad about things and this would make the situation very difficult. [More…]
Of all the super powers I believe that the Soviet Union is the only one which is building up an offensive capacity well beyond its needs for defence. [More…]
I am talking about the extreme interventions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that there is an increasing concern about the balance of power as we move into the 1980s and about the activities of the Soviet Union. [More…]
The two principal situations that the Minister discussed, both of which are described as being geo-politically critical, are set out in terms of the imperialistic ambitions of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Thus, in the South East Asian situation, where currently there exist conflicts between Kampuchea and Vietnam and between Vietnam and China, we are told simplistically, if impressively, that the conflicts reflect and were created by the hostility and rivalry existing among four States- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
In the Minister’s terms, it was clearly in the United States’ geo-political interests, after the conclusion of that notorious and infamous war in Vietnam and Cambodia, to provide massive resources to rebuild Vietnam on the basis that that would be the only way to lessen the dependence of that country on either the Soviet Union or China. [More…]
The result is that Vietnam has been drawn into a struggle between China and the Soviet Union in which her own national interests ought not to be at stake. [More…]
Whilst the Minister has admitted that the Shah’s regime collapsed through internal causes, nevertheless the dreaded Marxist influences are at work in the region, which he asserts is of great strategic importance to the Soviet Union. [More…]
It involved itself in that way and, as one of the consequences of that involvement, Vietnam has been drawn into what might be described, in the Minister’s terms, as a geo-political conflict between the Soviet Union and China. [More…]
I want to place on record my personal thanks to the officials in the embassies of China, the Soviet Union, the United States and France from whom I sought advice during the recent conflict in South East Asia. [More…]
Finally, there was the sudden newfound interest of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [More…]
At one time one might have said that the Soviet Union possessed an overwhelming armed force in its conventional troops and the United States possessed an overwhelming capacity to move by sea, that one was a sea power and the other a land power. [More…]
Anybody who has read the recent strategic studies will appreciate that the Soviet Union has now moved into a state of parity with the United States in both offensive and defensive weapons. [More…]
Therefore it is absolutely correct, given the damage that can be done by missiles in the event of a misunderstanding, that the United States and the Soviet Union should make the SALT agreement their priority above everything else. [More…]
All that the Soviet Union had to do, quite succinctly, was to stand by and wait for the effect of these mistakes in international affairs to manifest itself. [More…]
They thought that when Vietnam signed the agreement with the Soviet Union Vietnam took advantage of the agreement and immediately went into Kampuchea. [More…]
However I am not too certain that the Soviet Union would have encouraged Vietnam to do anything of the sort. [More…]
The difficulty is to get a rule of law which will be acceptable to the antagonists; to get some sort of world authority, world court, world police or world legislature which both the Soviet Union and the United States of America will recognise as being sufficiently impartial to warrant them surrendering that much of their national sovereignty that they will accept a decision, a compromise, short of an armed solution, which nowadays is no solution. [More…]
One gets this answer from Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
My second point is that the dispute amongst the totalitarian gangsters- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- proves what I have always thought about them. [More…]
I hope that the drum beats in Asia and the murderous antics of the gang of three- the Soviet Union, China and Vietnam- are heard and noted by every Australian. [More…]
In part, the lack of Western support forced the Vietnamese Government to adopt more orthodox Soviet style communist policies and to lean increasingly upon the Soviet Union for support. [More…]
It ought to be pointed out that if we have learned anything from the history of Vietnam it is that Russians and Vietnamese interests do no perfectly coincide and that the fiercefully nationalistic Vietnamese are not likely to become simply puppets of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I believe that it is false strategy at this time to engage in positions based upon moral and pontifical statements which are designed essentially to alienate Hanoi, because the effect of any strategy of isolation is to drive Hanoi further into the arms of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Anyone who has been to China knows that throughout China, at almost every level and on almost every street there is concern and fear about an attack by the Soviet Union. [More…]
Equally, one can understand that China will be, and obviously is, concerned when it sees that in the communist world the Vietnamese are operating in an increasingly closer alliance with, and with an increasing dependence upon, the Soviet Union. [More…]
He mentioned that South East Asia is again the scene of armed conflict created by the hostility and rivalry existing amongst four states- the Soviet Union, China, Vietnam and Kampuchea. [More…]
Of course the Soviet Union is interested, and so are we. [More…]
He talked about the Vietnamese attack on Kampuchea as an attack by a client of the Soviet Union on a client of China. [More…]
Whatever its motivation the attack bore directly on the rivalry and competition between the Soviet Union and China . [More…]
In turn, its concern about events in Kampuchea relate not only to the extension of Vietnamese influence but also to the role of the Soviet Union as Vietnam’s principal backer. [More…]
Accepting the Minister’s assumptions, what he is saying is that Vietnam has behaved in the way it has because it is beholden to and dependent upon the Soviet Union. [More…]
It sought aid where it could and that aid came from the Soviet Union. [More…]
The inevitable result- I am using the Minister’s argument- is that Vietnam is now beholden to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Why has it encouraged Vietnam, in its conflict with China, to seek refuge in the arms of the Soviet Union? [More…]
The direct interests of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics stretch from Europe to Vietnam, and it is involving itself directly and through surrogates in Africa, the Indian Ocean and other areas. [More…]
The events in Vietnam and Kampuchea are largely the continuation of a long historical struggle between the two countries and it is highly unlikely that any other country including China and the Soviet Union will become involved directly. [More…]
If they are correct it does mean that Woolworths Ltd has been successful in resisting claims by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia in respect of company contributions to that union’s superannuation fund. [More…]
The acceptance of indexation by the trade union movement of this country had been premised on the understanding that a body such as the PJT effectively placed companies in a position of public accountability which paralleled unions’ requirements to justify their members’ wage levels before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The trade unions are unlikely now to accept that their wages should be determined in significant part by arbitration while firms are free to set prices without reference to any public authority. [More…]
Union wage claims are not implemented pending Commission consideration; nor should company price increases be implemented prior to those price increases being justified. [More…]
I refer again to the militant sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
On the other hand, the Tribunal is actively supported by the trade unions and workers generally who see it as providing some equity in the community, counterbalancing the rigid wage controls to which wage earners are subject. [More…]
Similarly, the Department of Industrial Relations and the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) recognise the important industrial relations and economic effects of this trade union support and so to a large degree support the PJT. [More…]
In between these attitudes there is the basic apathy to the Tribunal amongst the broader business community, which feels it provides some legitimacy to its activity, mollifies the unions and affects only a few large firms in any case. [More…]
But surely to God there can be some preparation for marriage, some seriousness in regard to this step which will introduce a greater permanency into this very sacred union between two people. [More…]
The organised minority is going to fail in this campaign just as it failed in its campaign against divorce reform, just as it failed in its campaign against the laws relating to homosexuality and just as the militant minority failed in its campaign against clean union elections. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that Australian Rugby Union players are participating in a national team playing a series of matches in the Transvaal? [More…]
I am aware that six Australian international Rugby players were invited by the Northern Transvaal Rugby Union to join an international team to play a series of matches in South Africa in March and April of this year. [More…]
The Australian Rugby Union issued a statement on 22 January stating that the three players concerned had accepted the invitation as private individuals and that the Australian Rugby Union disapproved of their participation in the matches. [More…]
The Australian Rugby Union further indicated that the players would be advised that they could not represent the Australian Rugby Union and that they may jeopardise their chances of selection to represent Australia in a tour of New Zealand later this year. [More…]
The Australian Government welcomes the attitude taken by the Australian Rugby Union. [More…]
In a brief statement in relation to air matters and the matter of the Malaysian aircraft that was, in a sense, hijacked by an Australian union, the Prime Minister said in the Malaysian Parliament a day or two ago: [More…]
We have seen how the less militant British Labour Party has wrecked Britain’s economy and has failed to moderate the irresponsible extremes of trade union responsibility. [More…]
The history of the Australian Labor Party is that it was formed as the parliamentary wing of the union movement. [More…]
The people who control the State conference of the Labor Party are the union movement. [More…]
The experience over the years is that once a union made a claim against one department or one authority and that was met by that department or authority, there would be a flow-on to other departments or authorities. [More…]
There would be an inevitable expenditure of large amounts of taxpayers’ money to meet the claims of unions for increased wages. [More…]
Those two men are controlled by the union movement. [More…]
The State Government will take a tougher line on public service union claims on wages and conditions. [More…]
I have assisted in endeavouring to provide better working accommodation for union members in areas where I regard the accommodation provided as not being up to the standard that I feel government departments or commissions should provide. [More…]
My colleagues on the Opposition side of the House might take cognisance of the fact that I have received compliments from union officials in my State as a result of those activities. [More…]
When the Grievance Debate is concluded at 12.45 p.m., the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards) will not present his report concerning the Inter-Parliamentary Union meetings; instead he will do so next week. [More…]
Information disseminated to raise worker, management, union, bureaucratic, and general community awareness of health hazards from asbestos [More…]
Mr M. H. Bone, a former DirectorGeneral of the Department of Further Education in South Australia; Mr C. O. Dolan, the National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Senior Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the National Training Council; Dr A. M. Fraser, the Director of the Queensland Institute of [More…]
In March 1976 the Government opposed a reduction in hours for ATEA members employed by the Australian Postal Commission and in its submission to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission argued that a concession of the union’s claim would create pressures for a general flow-on, the overall effects of which would be economically damaging and jeopardise the indexation package. [More…]
Earlier this month, the Government advised the peak union councils that it would not be altering its policy on reduced hours, and that the shorter hours guidelines for the consideration of hours claims in Commonwealth employment would not be reintroduced. [More…]
Instead of facing up to the need for wage restraint, as this Government has done, the Labor Party continues deliberately to ignore the need for wage restraint because it realises that its links with the trade union movement would make implemention impossible. [More…]
In the process, of course, the efforts of the trade union movement to break down the decision of the then New South Wales Government on this matter did not succeed. [More…]
As a consequence, undoubtedly there was some degree of acceptance of the position by the unions concerned. [More…]
It can be overcome only if the Government’s policy, recognised in part by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, is pursued. [More…]
He has made a number of statements which in fact now recognise the need for such a policy, but an important section which claims to represent the trade union movement- I refer to the members of the Labor Party in this House and in the States- has failed to acknowledge what has been acknowledged by the President of the ACTU. [More…]
This nation just cannot afford that sort of thing at this stage in the recovery of its economy- a recovery which is on the way but which at every turn is being attacked by the trade union movement, or sections of it. [More…]
In New South Wales the position is that the union has said to the Electricity Commission that it will let the Electricity Commission’s maintenance people maintain the electricity generation plant only at a time when all the other employees are on the payroll and in the plant. [More…]
It is an absolute disgrace that a union has been able to blackmail the Electricity Commission thus preventing the people of New South Wales benefitting from the increased productivity that could have flowed long before this. [More…]
It is a disgrace that that particular union has prevented the people of New South Wales gaining the benefit of decreased electricity generation charges which would have occurred had that increased productivity ensued. [More…]
If that is called a responsible trade union approach, I do not think anybody can hold himself to be responsible in any area. [More…]
Not only that but by insistence of the union involved not just one drag line operator has to be employed but there has to be two in the cab. [More…]
It is not as though the union and the State Government were breaching the indexation guidelines. [More…]
In 1970 the 35-hour week issue came into prominence with statements by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and in turn the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council that the union movement would seek a 3 5 -hour week in certain industries, including the power industry, as a spearhead for the introduction of a 35-hour week generally. [More…]
That Government was prepared to accept the umpire’s decision: The union, of course, would not give the same undertaking. [More…]
Too many leaders in the union movement and too many people in the Australian Labor Party believe that they have an entitlement to be paid according to their own estimation of their worth. [More…]
I speak in a very sincere way of the dedicated staff, the people who work in this building under conditions which, were I again a union organiser, it would not be my wont to allow. [More…]
Co-operation will be needed not only from members of this House but also from members of the union movement, the private enterprise area, the builders, the contractors, the designers and the artisans who will be involved in the development of this project so that it will be ready by the bicentennial year of 1988. [More…]
We have, since 1927, from time to time put up with the frustrations in working conditions which would not be tolerated for one minute by any person who would be a member of any union. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier it will provide an ideal opportunity for the union movement of Australia to come in and say: ‘We are going to frustrate this. [More…]
That will be very easy for some unionists to say. [More…]
If the honourable member for Melbourne will wait I will say that the majority of union members in this country will take up the challenge and realise that there is a national responsibility to have this particular Parliament House constructed by the time of the bicentennial celebrations in 1988. [More…]
1 think it is particularly worthwhile recording that there is a challenge not only to the union members but also to members of Parliament, employers, contractors, and all the artisans who will be involved in this particular construction. [More…]
The first group it fails to acknowledge or represent is the union movement. [More…]
I believe that a union representative should be on the Construction Authority. [More…]
Telecom will indicate to the union this morning that if work bans are not lifted immediately it will act on the principle that workers who will not work as directed will not be paid. [More…]
-by leave-I present the Report of the Australian delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union spring meeting in Lisbon in March-April 1978 and the 65th IPU conference held at Bonn in September 1978 and I move that the Report be printed. [More…]
-The Inter-Parliamentary Union is a significant and important body and its activities and deliberations, as set out in this Report, should command the interest and strong support of the Parliament and all honourable members and senators individually. [More…]
The meeting held at Bonn in September of last year was the 65th Annual Conference of the Union. [More…]
More recently the Union made a notable contribution- springing from a resolution of the 59th Conference at Paris in September 1971- to the formulation and acceptance by governments of the Helsinki Agreements to facilitate rapprochement and co-operation between European countries with different political and economic systems. [More…]
In fact, however, the approach of the Union in this matter, which has resulted in the present membership, is very much the strength of the organisation, as the contribution to the Helsinki Agreements bears witness. [More…]
One does not have to participate in the IPU for very long to appreciate the great store which west European countries in particular set on the Union as a major forum for the exchange of views and a meeting of minds of West and East. [More…]
On that, it might be said on the one hand, and not without justification, that the wall underlines the incongruity of a regime that would perpetrate such a tiling participating in an inter-parliamentary union. [More…]
On the other hand, the wide membership of the Union embracing the East German state- and other states of the Russian bloc- provides a base from which to work away, within the limits of the concerns and influence of the IPU, at breaking down or mediating between the differences in ideology and political system of which the wall is symptomatic. [More…]
An account of the day to day ‘between conferences’ so to speak, activities of the Union is given in the report of the Secretary-General. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard, as an appendix to my speech, the summary introduction to the section of the Secretary-General’s report which deals with the activities of the Union. [More…]
The purpose of these recommendations is to assist in translating the resolutions agreed upon at IPU conferences into some action in this place and the country at large and to make Australian participation in the activities of the InterParliamentary Union more effective. [More…]
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is made up of 79 parliaments. [More…]
-by leave-I will not waste the time of the House by thanking all of the people associated with the InterParliamentary Union Conference. [More…]
1, which, in part, states that the Parliament and the Government should give close attention to the resolutions of the InterParliamentary Union conferences. [More…]
In a sense I must apologise to the House for not spending much of my time, even though I was a delegate, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Bonn. [More…]
I suggest that it is completely inappropriate for an organisation called the Inter Parliamentary Union to hold its meetings in those places. [More…]
Those who have had a privilege of attending an inter-parliamentary union conference know the value that Paul Ward was to the organisation. [More…]
To be sure, the Soviet Union has the capability to attempt the invasion of virtually any country in the world, as for that matter does the United States. [More…]
If one were allowed flights into fancy sufficient to conjure up a world in which no-one else existed but the Soviet Union and one other country, it would require no brilliant insight to demonstrate that the Soviet Union possesses overwhelming conventional military power visavis any one of a hundred or more potential victims. [More…]
I think it is true that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States are the only countries which could do so in a relatively short period. [More…]
I think it is also true that it is unlikely that either the Soviet Union or the United States would engage in any military venture against Australia in isolation and, I would hope, not in combination with any other group of people. [More…]
If such place happens to be within the present boundaries of the Soviet Union and the passport is presented to a Soviet authority abroad, or at a place which is governed by the Soviet Union, the authority may treat the person as a Soviet citizen for all purposes. [More…]
If they go back to Yugoslavia or back to the Soviet Union they are treated as nationals of those countries. [More…]
1 ) Will he take steps to ensure that members of the Commonwealth Parliament representing their country at meetings of the (a) United Nations General Assembly (b) InterParliamentary Union and (c) Commonwealth Parliamentary Association are issued with diplomatic passports. [More…]
The problem that we are facing today is that the free enterprise system has become a paper tiger in some areas to be eaten by the sacred cows of big union bureaucracy and big union arrogant bosses. [More…]
Indeed, as we know, on 28 March the Deputy Leader of the Opposition made such a proposal to a conference of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
It would be of concern not only to Australia but also to other countries in the Asian-Pacific region and would be a further indication of the increased reliance of Vietnam on the Soviet Union. [More…]
One cannot help but note that most of the opposition to nuclear power comes from the Friends of the Earth organisation, financed by Russia, and from militant union leaders who regularly visit Russia and are at the opposite end of the political spectrum from us. [More…]
The situation is that most of the uranium used by Western Europe is enriched in the Soviet Union, so I am sick to death of all the talk about a red bogy. [More…]
The uranium used by countries which honourable members opposite regard as allies and with which they want us to trade could be enriched in the Soviet Union. [More…]
This goes to the heart of the problem; that is, unions taking industrial action of one kind or another prior to or during a hearing of their claims by the responsible tribunal. [More…]
Proper procedures are always available and it is both unreasonable and irresponsible for any union to behave in this way. [More…]
Furthermore it will be submitting to the Commission that it not proceed to hear the unions ‘ arguments while direct industrial action is continuing or order a secret ballot to determine union members’ attitudes to the industrial action being pursued where that is considered appropriate. [More…]
The Government will encourage State governments involved or affected, other employer interests affected and other unions whose members may be affected and other unions whose members may be affected by the industrial action to lend their support to return to normal work. [More…]
It must be demonstrated to the unions that their cause will not be advanced by industrial disruption. [More…]
As I have already announced in the case of the Transport Workers’ Union, the Government will consider applying for the deregistration of a union engaged in action which interferes with interstate or overseas trade and commerce or the provision of the public service by the Commonwealth or the State. [More…]
In relation to the Transport Workers’ Union, reports in this morning’s Press that the Government has halted proceedings relating to the deregistration of the Transport Workers Union are false. [More…]
There is also a major industrial dispute in the paint industry, which involves the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
In his history of the dispute, including the matter of the Transport Workers Union, the Minister has not given one piece of evidence why the Government would tend to make such threats. [More…]
He did not tell the Parliament that over 70 per cent of people covered by the awards of the Transport Workers Union throughout this country have now received the $8. [More…]
Every party associated with the dispute knew on Sunday that this morning there would be a hook-up of the Transport Workers Union executive to decide on a recommendation to the transport workers on Wednesday. [More…]
The threat to continue with the deregistration of the Transport Workers Union, a mechanism that has proved absolutely useless in the past, is an attempt to try to grasp something out of tomorrow’s decision. [More…]
What a stupid, naive, infantile action for any sophisticated government to take in the area of industrial relations in the midst of negotiations within the union movement. [More…]
No one on the other side of the chamber would dare say that Hawke, as the chief negotiator of the trade union movement in this country for the past decade, has not been perhaps the most skilled negotiator this country has ever had. [More…]
After trying all day to contact the Minister, he was told that the action had been set in train, that nothing could be done, that the workers must go back or the union would be deregistered. [More…]
He beat his chest about the fact that perhaps industrial relations were better, which by itself is arguable, and then took this action in the midst of mechanism being used by the union which might mean that the men would go back to work tomorrow. [More…]
Now, when the opportunity is being given to the Victorian electors to bring down the Hamer Government on 5 May, the Federal Government is acting in cahoots with it to use the Transport Workers Union dispute to try to play down some of the other issues. [More…]
Let me reiterate: Over 70 per cent of the people covered by the awards for which the Transport Workers Union has constitutional coverage already have the $8. [More…]
Does anyone think that, despite the words that may have been used by the Commission, the union is going to say that the flow-on is not automatic? [More…]
One of the features of industrial relations at the moment is that for a while there was general acceptance that the national wage hearings would be conducted every six months- twice yearly instead of four times yearly- because it was recognised by the union movement as well as by the employers and by the bench that perhaps there could be sixmonthly hearings if inflation was going to fall. [More…]
But now the Government is frantic because inflation is not falling, it is again on the way up, and the unions are going to be demanding threemonthly hearings, and quite rightly. [More…]
The union was told that in future it would be consulted by Telecom management on any technological changes, and there was a guarantee that no one would lose his job. [More…]
The Government has said that employers, State governments, the Federal Government and the Commission should not continue negotiations if the union or the work force concerned is taking strike action, is imposing overtime bans, or is involved in any restriction on work. [More…]
A few years ago this union demonstrated its irresponsibility and its real aims to such an extent that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission decided to deregister the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
With the growth in size of projects, the advent of the developer and the emergence of so many time-critical projects, have come changes in union tactics. [More…]
No one can criticise a union for pursuing the legitimate aims of its members through established channels. [More…]
But it is clear that this union has decided that the best way to operate is on the basis of, as Norm Gallagher puts is, ‘the most harm to the boss, the least harm to us’. [More…]
Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I ask you to rule on whether we are debating the issue concerning the Transport Workers Union or some other unspecified issue related to the building industry. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Isaacs, I know that his claims on behalf of his union members, whether they be for $6 a week, $10 a week or $20 a week, are made openly and publicly. [More…]
It is a very low, mean and despicable form of political bastardry because what the Government is really concerned to do is to use its powers to try to intimidate the industrial tribunals, the employers, the trade union movement and the workers on the basis that it will be the final and ultimate political arbiter. [More…]
When the Minister walked into the Parliament today did he not know that tomorrow morning there is to be an interstate telephone hook-up in which advice in the form of a set of recommendations will be tendered to all the unionists involved in the Transport Workers Union? [More…]
The irresponsibility of” the leadership of the Transport Workers Union of Australia in cutting off essential food supplies knows no bounds.The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said yesterday: [More…]
The trade union leaders seem incapable of grasping the fact that they and their members are pan of the community that they are injuring by their actions. [More…]
There are processes by which the union’s case can be properly heard. [More…]
The Government will not tolerate- the community will not tolerate- the situation in which as a first step in the bargaining process trade unions inconvenience and harm the public- in this case including hospital patients, families and small children. [More…]
Let us look at what has occurred over the last year or so with the Transport Workers Union of Australia. [More…]
In June last year porters, also members of the Transport Workers Union employed by TransAustralia Airlines took some industrial action over the use of staff labour. [More…]
Let me point to the importance of this sort of action which is being taken particularly by the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
I will go through a little of the background of the development of trade unions. [More…]
No one would dispute that the organisation of labour into trade unions enabled working people to gain many great benefits which have flowed through to the standard of living that we all enjoy in Australia today. [More…]
The Government has announced that it will consider applying for the deregistration of the Transport Workers Union because it is engaged in an action which interferes with interstate or overseas trade and commerce or the provision of the public service by the Commonwealth or a State. [More…]
If we are to talk about the public interest, as the honourable member did in laying blame fairly and squarely at the feet of the trade union movement, I would remind him that there are always two parties to every dispute. [More…]
The Minister has come into this House and said that the Government will deregister the Transport Workers Union and the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
If members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union do not go back to work, only the automotive industry will be injured. [More…]
Members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union will not be hurt, but the Government is giving another boat ride, another bonus, to the people it wants to help- the employers. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey used the words: ‘ … the irresponsibility of the Transport Workers Union leadership’. [More…]
Either he does not know or he does not want to know- I suspect the latter- what happens in trade unions. [More…]
It is not a question of the leaders of the Transport Workers Union going to the men and saying: ‘Right-o, guys, no work. [More…]
I was a trade union official before I came into this Parliament. [More…]
On more than one occasion the leadership of the union has gone back to the members and recommended a return to work, the members have been dissatisfied with the advice given by their leaders and have decided by ballot that they will remain on strike. [More…]
Where are the people with this great power who can march in and tell the trade union members to stay out of work? [More…]
Government members talk about the deregistration of the two unions. [More…]
But he said that was justification for the deregistration of the union. [More…]
The honourable member gave a history of the trade union movement and said that at some time or another there was great justification for the existence of trade unions and the organisation of the work force. [More…]
But let honest working-class men demand something that the court has given to them, and the Government wants to deregister their union. [More…]
-The House has just heard a speech which I believe typifies the illogical, irresponsible and doubtless deliberate attitude of militant trade union leaders. [More…]
The honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) styled himself as a former trade union official. [More…]
It is about the fact that this Government is facing up to a situation deliberately contrived by militant sections of the trade union movement, in particular the Transport Workers Union and a section of the Miscellaneous Workers Union, which are disrupting enormous sections of industry and, in the course of events, inconveniencing and taking away the livelihood of many people in the work force in this country. [More…]
Apparently he is dedicated to the belief that industrial disruption is the right way to approach the aspirations of the unions in certain matters, but he tried to cover that up by saying that there is provision for arbitration and conciliation. [More…]
If that provision exists, why are the unions failing to use that avenue properly to determine what they want and to abide by a proper decision when it is made? [More…]
But if the long haul of strikes and bans of the sort that were referred to by a previous speaker, who gave a very good account of what had occurred particularly on the part of the Transport Workers Union, are to continue, then there is no other course of action. [More…]
I, like every other member of this House and members of the trade union movement, will know that it is doing so in an attempt to win some electoral mileage because of the elections to be held in Victoria next month. [More…]
I note that the Government was instanced in media reports this morning as backing away from this dispute- backing away from the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
Here we see the Transport Workers Union on behalf of some 35,000 workers in Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria making a claim for an increase of $8 a week. [More…]
It is true that already the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has granted that same $8 a week to a section of the Transport Workers Union in Victoria- I understand to the milk carters. [More…]
It can certainly be expected that if one section of the Transport Workers Union wins its claim of $8 a week, the others will continue their struggle to obtain equity also. [More…]
It also set out to freeze union funds, even fine unionists and, in some extreme contingency, perhaps even gaol trade unionists. [More…]
Certainly, it provided for the deregistration in certain circumstances of unions that were out on strike. [More…]
Perhaps the Government is looking to a repeat of the Victorian incident of 1969 when it was its provocative actions that incited a massive confrontation with the trade union movement which became known as the Clarrie O’Shea case. [More…]
What this type of behaviour by a government achieves is to unite unionists within the particular union that is out on strike. [More…]
Secondly, it unites the trade union movement as a whole- the ACTU. [More…]
If there is any marked disunity within union ranks we can be assured that such massive attacks by government tend to close those ranks. [More…]
In response to that the International Air Transport Association, which has among its members many unions and different organisations throughout the world, called on its member organisations to support them, and because the Transport Workers Union did so it was villified by this Government. [More…]
Will it then roast trade unions in the community and in the electorates because they tried to get wage increases outside the guidelines, as did the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
First, it proposes to support an application for the deregistration of the Transport Workers Union of Australia and the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
Secondly, it proposes to make an application to the Prices Justification Tribunal for an examination of the price structure of the goods and services supplied by the employers concerned in this case should they yield to union pressure. [More…]
In that event, the Government further warns that it will consider as a third step, in the case of the Miscellaneous Workers Union industries, bringing in products without any tariff duty being imposed in order to see that people do not have to go without paint. [More…]
The arbitration system will not work if the unions are deregistered and the arbitration system will not work if the unions decide to get out of the arbitration system. [More…]
Unions cannot readily get out of the arbitration system. [More…]
It could very well be that the unions might welcome deregistration because, if they begin to see that there is nothing for them in the arbitration system, they will have no terror of being deregistered. [More…]
If one reads the history books one finds that, when the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was introduced in 1904, the Government of the day had to evolve all kinds of inducements to get the unions to register. [More…]
In 1904 the unions did not flock into the arbitration system in droves; they had to be cajoled in, coaxed in. [More…]
Eventually they came in and the law was altered to provide that once a union was in the system it was locked in. [More…]
It does not matter whether a union is registered. [More…]
The unions will continue to direct their members. [More…]
Deregistration can work only in situations such as we saw when the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia was deregistered and the carpenters and joiners came in and picked up the constitutional rights which the deregistered union previously had. [More…]
That only happened because of a factional war between the right and the left wings of the carpenters union. [More…]
That situation is not in existence now in either the Transport Workers Union strike or the Miscellaneous Workers Union strike. [More…]
Unless we have that situation- unless we are able to guarantee that some other union will come in and pick up the registration which is forfeited by the deregistered union and, moreover, that that union has the power and the capability to enroll the members who were doing the work as members of the deregistered union- we will solve nothing at all. [More…]
What we could do is create the catalyst which will make all the other unions see the folly of remaining in an arbitration system which is lopsided against the interests of organised labour. [More…]
It is possible that, if the Miscellaneous Workers Union were deregistered, the Australian Workers Union could move in and pick up the registration of the Miscellaneous Workers Union. [More…]
It is possible that, in different circumstances from those which apply now, in the metal trades industry if the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union were deregistered, the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia could move in and pick up the registered rights which the AMWSU now has. [More…]
Any union which did that would stand branded as a scavenger against unions which were fighting for what the rest of the trade union movement regards as a legitimate case. [More…]
No one in the trade union movement, no trade union, would be prepared to act as a scavenger against a union which was deregistered simply for trying to retain what it was able to get from the arbitration system. [More…]
I repeat, it could be the very action which will spark off the kind of climate and the kind of reaction in the trade union movement which will cause the conciliation and arbitration machinery to collapse around our ears. [More…]
When I was Minister for Labor I was confronted by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union with the request that I support an aluminium company in an application it was then making to the Prices Justification Tribunal for a further increase in the price of its product in order to meet the AMWU demand for more wages. [More…]
I told the union that I would not have a bar of it. [More…]
I told it that I saw no point in the aluminium company, Comalco or Alcan- I have forgotten the name of the company concerned, but it was one of the three alumium companies then operating- making all the workers of Australia pay more for their aluminium just so that the company could pass on by way of increased prices the cost of additional wages that were being paid to the members of one particular union. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan are harvesting in excess of some 20,000 whales a year. [More…]
They do not have Transport Workers’ Union strikes there. [More…]
So far as United States-Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean is concerned, it is well known that in recent years the Soviet Union has had more ships, up to approximately 20 at any one time of which nearly half have been combatants. [More…]
This general pattern was broken at the beginning of 1978 when the Soviet Union, in response to its growing involvement in the Horn of Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, significantly increased its naval deployment in the region. [More…]
In response the United States broke off talks with the Soviet Union which were aimed at stabilising their naval presence in the Indian Ocean. [More…]
Australia, of course, is on record as welcoming the talks on the United States-Soviet Union Arms Limitation Agreement in the Indian Ocean which, as I mentioned earlier, were suspended. [More…]
It will be recalled in the latter connection that in 1977 I received a firm and unequivocal assurance from the United States Secretary of State that nothing entered into between the United States and the Soviet Union would qualify the operation of ANZUS. [More…]
Finally, it needs to be recognised that a prerequisite for any agreement, such as talks between the Soviet Union and the United States that might be resumed, would be a degree of political stability in the region which is not there at the moment. [More…]
If there is any implication detrimental to the character of any union person who can be identified, the question will be ruled out of order. [More…]
He is an honourable gentleman whose legal firm of Holding, Ryan and Redlich some months ago obtained the brief to handle workers’ compensation cases for the communist-controlled Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union in exchange, it is said, for his support for two of the leaders of the extreme left wing of the Labor Party, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) and Senator Gietzelt, in the Labor Party Caucus. [More…]
He is a very powerful man in the trade union movement and in the ALP. [More…]
Even on the Newport power station resolution, the powerful union leader, Mr Ken Carr, stated emphatically that a number of unions will continue to maintain bans despite the passing of the resolution. [More…]
Their case was taken up by the Austraiian Workers Union and was prosecuted before the appropriate industrial tribunal in Queensland. [More…]
I would suggest, with due respect to those people who are planning to spend this sort of money to take on the trade union movement on this issue- I believe that they have not been able to prove their case- that they are absolutely insane because they will not achieve their aim. [More…]
Penalty rates are a hard won condition which the trade unions have achieved and which they are not going to give up lightly. [More…]
He never mentions the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics science agreement, the Indian science agreement, the Australia-Japan enrichment study, the Australian- Japan oil from coal investigation, or the Australia-United States oil from coal investigation, all entered into by the Labor Government, the Nippon-Australia Relations Agreement or any of the other scientific and cultural exchanges. [More…]
-Another document that came to me is a copy of a letter written by Mr Reg Mawbey, Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the AWU alleging that the union’s auditor has certified that the balance sheet does not give a true account of the state of affairs of the Union’s special purpose fund in that a huge amount of more that $ 1 38,000 is now irrecoverable. [More…]
-Mr Mawbey’s letter states that the company operating the Union’s superannuation fund now owes the Union’s special purposes fund upwards to a quarter of a million dollars and that Mr Williams recently presided over meetings of the company and the Union’s executive council at which it decided to convert the union’s irrecoverable debt to the company into $ 1 shares which will be shown in the next balance sheet as an asset. [More…]
On the face of it, Mr Edgar Williams, the President of the Union, in fact presided over a conspiracy to commit a most serious, corporate crime against the members of his own union and the Corporate Affairs Commission should treat him in the same way as it has treated Harry M. Miller by having summonses issued against him. [More…]
It is a scandalous state of affairs that paid officials of the Union should be allowed to misappropriate Union funds in this way without any action being taken against them. [More…]
I am astonished that the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has not yet gazetted the regulations needed to give effect to last year’s amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act concerning union balance sheets. [More…]
When I say ‘all’, I mean that not only union superannuation funds, but also private insurance companies that run superannuation funds, ought to be brought under government scrutiny. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) has a very long experience in industrial relations and, indeed, union affairs generally. [More…]
I remember Frank asking me one day about my background and about my father who was a trade union official like his own father. [More…]
My father used to say that the three main things a man had to do in life were to go to mass, be a member of the trade union movement and be a member of the Labor Party. [More…]
Frank was going to take a trip as a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union with his wife, Maureen, together with me and my wife, Pat. [More…]
Commonwealth Public Service (Qld) Credit Union Health Benefits Society-L. F. Talty, A. W. Hill, M. D. Fagg, A. N. Durham, G. Fowler, E. A. Menadue, T. J. Corcoran, R. D. Price, N. K. Beikoff. [More…]
Queensland Teachers’ Union Health Society- G. C. Lean, R. E. Jones, R. W. Cable, J. Arnold, V.Lucas, K. Brasch, N. J. Ross, B. Stephenson, A. Bevis, V. Cottell, M. Izatt. [More…]
Queenstown Medical Union Ancillary Benefits Fund/Queenstown Medical Union Hospital Benefits Fund-D. L. Bugg, D. Sturgess, P. Reynolds, M. B. Giles, [More…]
The rank and file members of the BLF are getting fed up with this sort of behaviour by their union officials, which is costing them - [More…]
A dispute which arose from action by another union, - [More…]
In this case it was the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- related to the shipment of live sheep. [More…]
This led to a national stoppage by waterside workers in protest against the use of non-union labour - [More…]
It is about time that the Australian Labor Party, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the trade union movement recognised this and started to think of their responsibility to the unemployed as well as to the employed. [More…]
Also, the President of the Australian Council for Trade Unions has agreed that any submissions which are made by the trade union movement should now show some concern for those who are unemployed. [More…]
During that time two things developed: Firstly, a very strong trade union bargaining power that lives with us to this day and, secondly, the growth of a badly structured industry behind high tariff and quota walls. [More…]
We also have to bite the bullet in the area of trade union monopoly power. [More…]
No one from the Opposition or from the trade union movement would recommend himself to me as being suitable for an alternative appointment to this Committee if there is to be such a loose use of facts in the area to which I have just referred. [More…]
Box 487, Sydney, NSW 200 1; (c) Trade Union Executive; (d) 9.1.73-8.1.76. [More…]
2001; (c) Trade Union National Secretary; (c) 12.2.76-11.2.79, 12.2.79-11.2.82. [More…]
Box 1419, Adelaide, SA 5001; (c) Trade Union Secretary; (d) 1. [More…]
I understand that transport union leaders announced this morning that there would be an indefinite stoppage in Victoria and involving the Australian National Railways Commission in South Australia, commencing at midnight tonight. [More…]
He neglects to mention the criticism of the arrangements by groups such as the Cattlemen’s Union. [More…]
Returning to the booklet, the publisher is the National Employee Participation Steering Committee of which I am the Chairman and whose members include the Secretary of the ACTU, Mr Peter Nolan, the Director of the National Employers Council of the Confederation of Australian Industry, Mr Bryan Noakes, plus other representatives of employer and union peak councils, the Commonwealth Public Service [More…]
In due course I hope that State governments will be able to endorse the principles outlined in this booklet and thereby work with State employee and union organisations which are already identified with these views through their peak councils. [More…]
The co-operation and consensus between employers, unions and government, evidenced by the book launching this morning and the dinner last night, means that those objectives are closer to becoming realities rather than merely being cliches. [More…]
1 have valuable associations with that trade union, particularly with Mr Stan Bidmeade, its federal secretary, and with a number of the State secretaries. [More…]
As the Minister knows, there is enormous co-operation from that trade union in a number of areas. [More…]
Time and again the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated that the Government will take a very stern attitude to what it regards as sweetheart industrial agreements reached between employers on the one hand and unions on the other. [More…]
This Government says that under no circumstances will it approve sweetheart agreements and that it will take any action it can within the framework of the Constitution to deal with any employer or union that comes to sweetheart arrangements. [More…]
Indeed, many sections of the trade union movement argued strongly for many years that the ingredient of leave was far more important than the ingredient of payment. [More…]
As this Parliament’s representative, together with the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards), at meetings of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, I have had the opportunity to travel overseas on three occasions in the last 18 months. [More…]
The Government and certain people in the Australian tourist industry should stop trying to stir up trouble in the trade unions which represent workers in that industry and should get on with the job of selling the industry. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Industrial Relations seen a report in the Adelaide Advertiser of yesterday’s date describing a log of claims served on employers throughout Australia by the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and asking for $500 a week in wages, 24 public holidays, a 30hour week, 8 weeks leave, huge superannuation entitlements as described by the newspaper, 20 days compassionate leave and unlimited sick leave? [More…]
Does he know that the Secretary of the union in South Australia, Mr George Apap, has stated publicly that these are not real claims, but are claims that have been imposed upon the union as a result of a quite stupid if I may be forgiven for describing it as such decision of the High Court of Australia many, many decades ago? [More…]
Will he now take into account the expectations among members of the union which claims like this create, and consider mounting a test case before the High Court with a view to asking the present judges of the High Court to reverse the decision taken so many decades ago? [More…]
It is a fact that an existing decision of the High Court requires unions, unless they are to make logs of claims excessively often, to put claims in those terms. [More…]
I do agree with him that such logs of claims in the case of union members who are not versed in the legal technicalities can raise expectations to an unreal degree. [More…]
-I refer the Treasurer to criticism of the Government’s economic policies by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
If we analyse the sheer obsession of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- and presumably members of the Opposition- with the level of foreign ownership we see a complete incapacity on their part to understand that companies employ people not out of thin air but out of profits. [More…]
Most significantly of all, we see the complete hypocrisy on the part of that union- as the honourable member for Lilley indicated- in that the level of inflation in relation to its union dues over the past 3V4 years has been extremely high, whereas the record of this Government, so far as inflation is concerned, bears extraordinarily favourable consideration. [More…]
In 1978 the Federal Government amended the Atomic Energy Act, making its purposes more directly related to the commercial aspect of uranium mining and export and imposing even more restrictive curtailments on civil liberties and trade union action. [More…]
The union representative, Mr Meyer, has been putting his case through the media recently and he is very well informed. [More…]
Last but not least, can the Minister indicate, even though the full text of the Treaty has not yet been released, what sanctions are envisaged with respect to discovered breaches of the Treaty by the Soviet Union? [More…]
We welcome the announcement made by the United States Secretary of State along the lines that basic agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union on a second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty has been reached. [More…]
The SALT negotiating process, of course, is central to the maintenance of stability and the relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
It should, at least in theory, reduce the threat of a nuclear war and place limits on the strategic arsenals of both the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
We have to look to the Soviet Union to honour the spirit as well as the letter of the agreement if and when it is signed. [More…]
The nature of the Chinese proposals indicates that Peking is linking any improvement in its relations with Vietnam with the Vietnamese military presence in Kampuchea, and more indirectly with Vietnam’s treaty relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those are not the words of a trade union spokesman deeply involved in one side of an industrial dispute, the comment of an Opposition speaker in the industrial area, or the thoughts of a worker involved in a dispute with his employer. [More…]
It is relevant to this debate because the so-called no work, no pay’ direction was applied in a matter involving Australia Post and the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists which has been before Mr Justice Staples on a number of occasions. [More…]
This learned gentleman, who could never be accused of trade union militancy or radicalism, will be seen to be most critical of Australia Post’s role as an employer. [More…]
I have told this House before, and I repeat it now, that in only one area has this Government shown consistency and that is in its belief that in 100 per cent of industrial disputes the employer is absolutely correct and the trade union movement absolutely incorrect. [More…]
In March the union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists imposed bans on certain duties in an attempt to resolve three longstanding issues over which the employer was, as usual, equivocating. [More…]
All this relates to the Government’s unrelenting attempts to create an anti-union, anti-worker atmosphere in this country. [More…]
Australia Post insists that members of the Union of Postal [More…]
After lengthy discussions the attempts of the Union fell to the ground. [More…]
Other large American companies, including the Monsanto, Union Carbide, and American Cyanamide companies, have moved into Australia. [More…]
The balance of power shifted dramatically towards the Soviet Union, and we now have the Chinese stating openly that Vietnam is the Cuba of Asia. [More…]
The Vietnamese obtained aid from the Soviet Union in Cam Ranh Bay in October and November of last year. [More…]
In order to pursue their aims of attacking Kampuchea they obtained more aid from the Soviet Union, according to one very important published report, than they received in the whole of the Vietnam war. [More…]
They have signed a contract, agreement or treaty with the Soviet Union which gives them a certain degree of protection. [More…]
They used knives and stabbed an Australian trade union official. [More…]
-by leave-I think I can say on behalf of the Opposition that we generally support the arrangements made by the Government but I suggest that perhaps some trade union bodies may be interested in displaying the flag in their buildings. [More…]
) Regrets that the Association for International Cooperation and Disarmament is a lineal descendant of the World Peace Council whose interests in foreign policy have consistently supported the Soviet Union; [More…]
-Has the Minister for Industrial Relations seen recent advertisements by the Australian Bank Employees Union which begin with the statement ‘Full indexation or else’? [More…]
Will the advertisements prejudice the Australian Bank Employees Union case before the national wage case currently being heard by the Full Bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission? [More…]
During the current national wage case hearing the Government has drawn to the attention of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission statements by various union leaders of a similar kind to that made in this advertisement which, if pursued, would put the whole wage fixation process at very serious risk. [More…]
The heading ‘Full indexation or Else’ in the Australian Bank Employees Union advertisement, which the honourable member quoted, really speaks for itself. [More…]
It is a threat that unless the union gets what it wants it is prepared to embark immediately on a campaign of disruption which the union must realise cannot change the decision which the Full Bench hands down. [More…]
The union is attempting to blackmail the Commission. [More…]
Therefore, members of the ABEU may well ask their union officials what they hope to achieve. [More…]
In the light of their irresponsible and- I agree with the honourable member- provocative statement, the union’s expressed concern that it does not want people put out of work is seen for what it is. [More…]
It is nothing but a smoke screen to hide the union’s very selfish and, I might add, totally contradictory motives. [More…]
This Government certainly places very great importance on the negotiations of adequate and appropriate arrangements between the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
It is not only the question of the arrangements in SALT itself but also the changed environments and the changed perceptions of the relationship between Russia and the United States that properly negotiated arrangements between the Soviet Union and the United States can acheive. [More…]
Continually we hear spokesmen from the Government say that these measures are being initiated by the Government after consultation with peak union councils involved. [More…]
We expressed the hope that the Soviet Union would make a similar constructive contribution to the peaceful development of the region- a contribution which would be of particular importance because there are areas in which the Soviet Union is not without influence. [More…]
Before I launch into the main thrust of what the Prime Minister had to say- it does very much come down to an interest in some of Australia ‘s regional neighbours but essentially in the recent UNCTAD V discussions in Manila- I have to comment on his references to the role of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the AsiaPacific region. [More…]
In some of the comments that they have made members of the Opposition and some Public Service union leaders are misjudging the mood of members of the Public Service. [More…]
That is typical of his union bashing concept. [More…]
The Minister took money off the unions for years and he sent them down the drain; so much for maintaining the principle of permanent career service recruitment. [More…]
Deceit and deception have been served up to the trade union movement and other employee organisations in this country. [More…]
It seems that both he and the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) have read only the letters from the union secretary and have not read the Bill. [More…]
I can understand Mr Munro ‘s position as secretary of his union. [More…]
They were clearly political speeches based on the letters that they had received from their union bosses in the Public Service. [More…]
It would seem to me that his Public Service union bosses do not fully inform him. [More…]
Not only do they have an appeal provision, they have a union member on the appeal tribunal. [More…]
The honourable member for Barker used more than once the expression ‘their Public Service union bosses’. [More…]
As a consequence, I think it is most incongruous that the honourable gentleman should talk about our Public Service union bosses. [More…]
For one thing, the strength of the trade union movement in protecting real income ensures that. [More…]
As mentioned in the pamphlet to which the honourable member refers, the establishment of the National Labour Consultative Council means that for the first time effective statutory tripartite machinery is available to provide a continuing forum for consultation between the Government, employer organizations and the trade union movement. [More…]
1 ) Have any food processing companies in Victoria or elsewhere recently been forced to agree to pay increases by the Food Preservers Union which are contrary to the indexation guidelines. [More…]
1 ) and (2) I am informed that, commencing in mid- 1978, the Food Preservers Union engaged in a campaign against a number of food processing companies in Victoria aimed at achieving increased wages in the form of higher over-award payments. [More…]
I inform the House that we have present in the Gallery this afternoon a delegation from the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by ViceChairman Pavel Georgievich Gilashvili. [More…]
Has Government legislation relating to the election of union office bearers had any noticeable positive effect in improving democracy in recent ballots for union leaderships? [More…]
That in itself has resulted in a greater degree of participation by union members in the affairs of their organisation. [More…]
The Government has had, through me, several discussions with the trade union movement over the question of the re-employment of people. [More…]
The Soviet Union invariably supports the peace movement. [More…]
He said that the United States was embarrassed as a result of events in Iran and that there were uncertain allies in the Middle East on the borders of the Soviet Union that existed previously. [More…]
We have representatives in the trade union movement with whom the Government has no communication whatsoever, except to bring in punitive legislation to gaol or fine union members which encourages the Communists to seek more control. [More…]
I have read Senator Wriedt ‘s speech very carefully and I want to say quite frankly that the only group in the world that I think would applaud that speech is the Soviet Union and its surrogates. [More…]
If they are to be removed, is he suggesting that they be replaced, for example, with bases run by the Soviet Union? [More…]
They sounded more like the words we have become used to hearing from the pro-communist left wing which has now most assuredly taken control of the Australian Labor Party in this country- the same sort of people who are in charge of the Victorian branch, which last year at its conference refused, and I repeat ‘refused’, to stand up and condemn the systematic and brutal violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
These people were not even prepared to utter one word of criticism in respect of those continuing violations of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Where has been the controversy in Australia except between those who support the aims and ambitions of the Soviet Union and those who are determined that this country will be defended? [More…]
Real fear to the Soviet Union but certainly not to the people of Australia. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley said, once one makes these things public one does not just make them public only to the people of Australia, one makes them public to the Soviet Union and to any other nation which has territorial designs upon Australia. [More…]
The only country to gain by the removal of the United States bases from Australia is the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
If he wants to assist the Soviet Union I will be bitterly disappointed in him. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition’s speech will also be applauded by the Soviet Union. [More…]
That is, where conscientious objection is claimed, an opportunity will be given for trade union representation to put forward an alternative case if that is appropriate. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that this has to be done in the context of an incomes policy, which means co-operation with the trade union movement. [More…]
We do not control massive reserves, compared with Western Europe, the Soviet Union or the United States of America. [More…]
I know that they are grateful to the union movement for providing their son with that equipment. [More…]
I thank the honourable member for Phillip for his question because I know of his strong and continuing interest in the reunification of Jewish families from the Soviet Union with their families in Australia. [More…]
Since that time about half of those leaving the Soviet Union have settled in Israel. [More…]
In 1973, 100 people from the Soviet Union were allowed to resettle in Australia. [More…]
As recently as 29 April this year- before Mr Hawke made his much celebrated and publicised visit to the Soviet Union- I gave permission for an additional SO families, covering 250 to 300 people, to be added to the numbers already being resettled in Australia. [More…]
For some years the Government has been carrying on in an active and positive way a program of reunification of families from the Soviet Union with their Jewish relatives in Australia. [More…]
Those men are members of the New South Wales State branch of the Australian Workers Union, which operates separately from the federal Australian Workers Union which covers the rest of the industry in New South Wales. [More…]
It is important to note that we were supported in that argument by the federal Australian Workers Union, the federal Storemen and Packers Union and the federal Transport Workers Union. [More…]
In fact, it has been opposed bitterly whenever the unfortunate trade union movement has tried to get wage indexation at national wage case hearings. [More…]
He is also reported as having said that there ought to be a trade union ban on the extension work. [More…]
Deputy Leader of the Opposition, from which we have heard extracts, this joint study has gone out of its way to call public submissions and to arouse public interest, including trade union interest. [More…]
In calling yesterday for a total trade-union ban on any future work involving the expansion of Kingsford-Smith Airport, the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition, Mr Bowen, came alarmingly close to abandoning reason in favour of emotion- [More…]
Mr C. Oliver, Australian Workers’ Union (New South Wales Branch). [More…]
Mr J. Baird, Amalgamated Metal Workers’ and Shipwrights’ Union, N.S.W. [More…]
Mr i. Sheather, Building Workers’ Industry Union of Australia, N.S.W. [More…]
Mr C. Raper, Federal Miscellaneous Workers’ Union of Australia (New South Wales Branch). [More…]
It was the case of a man who, when he belonged to a union, agreed to take part in a strike. [More…]
As a unionist he agreed to do that. [More…]
Some time after that he left the union, and then pretended to say that because he was no longer a member of the union this Act should apply and there should be some penalty against the Melbourne City Council. [More…]
This Government used confrontation tactics in the hope that some penalty could be applied which would guarantee that the union concerned would suffer. [More…]
Air traffic controllers are not really part of the trade union movement. [More…]
They are not affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
She was a person who allegedly did not want to join a union. [More…]
The Kane case involved a person who was in a union but who got out of it. [More…]
We can well understand some of the concern of the unions when they look at the broken promises of this man on, for example, wage indexation. [More…]
I remind the House in talking about conciliation and arbitration that the trade unions have rights and duties. [More…]
They listened to the evidence tendered on behalf of the trade union movement and it justified the union movement getting increased wages awarded by the Commission. [More…]
If the unions care to refer to the profits of companies they certainly have got something going for them because it will be noted that the profits of shareholders has increased from 9.6 per cent in 1975-76 to 1 1.3 per cent. [More…]
There has been talk about punitive legislation which does nothing but confront the trade union movement and virtually tries to ignore the conciliation and arbitration provisions. [More…]
Why should the union movement not be entitled to rely on the promise made by this Government that it would adhere to it when the union movement knows that this Government is so treacherous that as soon as it gets its votes it will go into court and oppose wage increases. [More…]
The unions see the profits of big companies going through the roof. [More…]
Company profits are at a record level yet this Government claims that the trade union movement is not entitled to put its case. [More…]
For example, during the whole of the three years of the Labor Government’s term of office, there was no formal tripartite machinery for discussion between government, employers and unions. [More…]
During the Labor Government’s term of office, the rights of individuals were ignored and economic stability crumbled to meet the demands of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a forum at the national level where governments, employers and unions can meet to discuss industrial matters of common concern. [More…]
We have encouraged individuals to join the relevant union which represents their interests and just as importantly, we have encouraged and enabled them to take a more active part in the affairs of that organisation. [More…]
We have actively sought trade union involvement and participation in matters in which the unions have a direct concern. [More…]
We have been active in consultation with unions on significant issues such as the training of our workforce and on uranium mining in Australia. [More…]
We have also maintained the previous policy of consultation with the trade union movement in pre-Budget talks. [More…]
-The Government’s industrial relations policy depends upon bludgeoning unions and workers into submission rather than relying upon compromise and the establishment of justice in the industrial area. [More…]
This obnoxious legislation gives power to the Industrial Relations Bureau to summon trade unions and individual union members before the industrial division of the Federal Court of Australia. [More…]
It gives that court power to penalise unions, employees and employers for a number of reasons. [More…]
It provides, in section 15, power to suspend members of trade unions, officials of trade unions, to deregister trade unions and to freeze the funds of trade unions. [More…]
It would be interesting to find out whether Mr Kane had any official connection with the Liberal Party because he has certainly had a connection with the Liberal candidate for Coburg in the last Victorian State elections, a Mr Nick Kosenko, who, I understand, accompanied Mr Kane at all the Federal Court hearings against both the MCC and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
That is what is being said around the unions in Melbourne. [More…]
The Prime Minister then added that the Australian record on strikes was much better than that of the United Kingdom, yet he still attacks unions, individual union members and wage and salary earners generally. [More…]
The booklet produced recently by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- we all know that it is a communist-led union- called Australia Ripped Off contains most of the statistics that were produced in the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The statistics used by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition came from a booklet produced by a communistled union, the AMWSU. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party did not tell us that the IRB is charged also with the responsibility of over-viewing union rules and union actions and that it can take action in the courts to protect the interests of the community and to protect the interests of workers because of the overbearing action of these unions. [More…]
That is what the unions are desperately trying to avoid telling us. [More…]
In particular, the left wing and the communist unions do not want anybodyany organisation or group- overviewing their actions. [More…]
It is to that end that we will continue to mount our industrial relations policy, regardless of what puppet spokesmen from the Opposition or the left wing unions might care to say. [More…]
National president of the AMWSU in 1977, only 2,100 people in that union bothered to vote. [More…]
But on this occasion, because a candidate was purposely standing against the candidate of the Communist Party, 23,000 members of that union voted, and they voted overwhelmingly against the Communist Party. [More…]
Naturally, that put all sorts of fears into people such as Mr Halfpenny, Mr Carmichael and others within that and other communist-led unions. [More…]
They know full well that under the policies that have been brought in by this Government to allow for free and open election of office bearers within unions, if there is an overwhelming participation by union members the communist-led organisers and officials in those unions will be tossed out of office. [More…]
It is because of the fear within the communist-led unions that this political ploy has been used in the House today. [More…]
It is part of a nationwide and long-term campaign by the unions to protect the communist influence within those unions. [More…]
Training of workers includes trade union and apprenticeship training, NEAT and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
Apart from the cuts foreshadowed by the Treasurer, the Government has campaigned strongly against student unions, undermining their effectiveness in lobbying Parliament for a civilised share of the nation’s resources to be channelled into education. [More…]
Again, I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a summary of that report provided by the Australian Union of Students newsletter for April this year. [More…]
Background information circulated by the Australian Union of Students, 95 Drummond St Carlton 3053. [More…]
I understand that some limited work is going on at the Dockyard as part of a union tactic to work in. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Industrial Relations aware that the cigarette manufacturer, Philip Morris (Australia) Ltd, is reported to be negotiating with the Federated Tobacco Workers Union concerning the introduction of a shorter working week? [More…]
I have been informed that the company named by the honourable gentlemanPhilip Morris (Australia) Ltd- has been negotiating with the Federated Tobacco Workers Union for a productivity agreement which I understand is likely to involve shorter working hours. [More…]
The information I have suggests that the union is seeking a 72 -hour fortnight in return for its members agreeing to operate certain machinery of the company on a continuous basis. [More…]
I am told that if an agreement is reached it is likely to be in the form of a private agreement between the company and the union which is not- I repeat not- registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
May I refer to two tables prepared by researchers of the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Let me suggest the following examples of market distortion by government interference or by business monopoly or union monopoly- I make no distinction- which are depriving Australians of benefits they should be enjoying, and where the position daily gets worse: Firstly, our whole transport system, where a population living almost entirely by the sea is denied by Government, business or union restrictive practices the full benefits of carriage by sea; where the economics of rail versus road are not even known because of numerous cross subsidies; and where competition in the air is stifled in the interest of one Government-owned and one Government-supported airline; and all this in a country suffering, as Blainey has said, The Tyranny of Distance’, dependent for its very lifeblood on the cheapness of transport; secondly, the postal system where Government monopoly and feather bedding result in less and less service at higher and higher cost, and where the organisation of alternative methods of communication is prevented by force of law; thirdly, the restrictive framework of limited trading hours, weekend and holiday penalty rates and other protective devices that are, on the one hand, denying consumers the goods and services they have a right to expect and, on the other, denying those who are prepared to work the employment which they seek; and fourthly, a banking system so regulated and controlled that it is difficult to distinguish one bank from another, and in which nobody knows whether the system is responding to new demands or merely moulding its customers into the patterns of its own inertia. [More…]
1 ) How many Union of Soviet Socialist Republics mercantile vessels visited Australian ports in each of the last5 years. [More…]
1 ) The number of visits made by Union of Soviet Socialist Republics mercantile vessels to Australia in each of the last5 years was: [More…]
We know that it arises from an attempt by a New South Wales union to split from the federal award and to establish a separate New South Wales jurisdiction so that there would be a possibility of leap-frogging in awards from the Commonwealth to the State and greater industrial turmoil in the industry as a whole. [More…]
One of the very unfortunate points about this situation is that the New South Wales Minister, Mr Hills, some time ago gave, as I am advised, very positive encouragement to the New South Wales union and supported its claim to be under the New South Wales Industrial Commission. [More…]
That strengthened the industrial arm of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Workers Union and, obviously, encouraged it to take the disruptive tactics that it embarked upon. [More…]
-Recently the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), launched a publication by the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union entitled Australia Ripped Off. [More…]
That is a proposition that has been successfully pushed in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am surprised that the honourable member for Calare pushes the sort of proposition that has come into force in the Soviet Union. [More…]
That was printed by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union. [More…]
Members of a union which is directly involved in a strike are not eligible for benefit; Members of a union which supports the strike and whose members become unemployed because of the strike are not eligible for benefit; Members of a union which disowns the strike and whose members become unemployed because of the strike are qualified for benefit. [More…]
In 1973, Labor changed that policy to provide that: members of striking union(s) at the establishment at which the industrial dispute is in force, are not eligible for unemployment benefit . [More…]
Members of other unions at that establishment who were stood down as a result ofthe dispute will however, be paid unemployment benefit subject to the usual conditions. [More…]
Persons stood down at other establishments as a result of the dispute will be granted unemployment benefit subject to the usual conditions, irrespective of their union membership. [More…]
The carry-over of stocks, excluding those from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, is expected to increase to a record level of 88 megatonnes. [More…]
It is also intimated that several things could happen in regard to Soviet Union grain production and consumption, and a long-term prediction is hard to make. [More…]
We have no information to the effect that the Soviet Union has opposed the proposal. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement of President Carter that human rights constituted the soul of American foreign policy and that the United States of America would demonstrate its affinity with democratic nations through its allocation of assistance funds and will not hesitate to convey its outrage- nor will it pretend that its relations are unaffected- if human rights violations persist in Cambodia, Chile, Uganda, South Africa, Nicaragua, Ethiopia and the Soviet Union. [More…]
As the law stood, the 30 June cut-off date for the 40 per cent investment allowance put unions in a very strong bargaining position to hold businesses to ransom in the period immediately leading up to that date. [More…]
Under such an arrangement it is easily understood that enormous costs may attach to a company which withstands union campaigns to gain wage concessions far beyond the wage fixation principles. [More…]
I refer him to his statement on the investment allowance of last Sunday, 3 June 1979, which he might recall was designed to ensure that businesses needing to complete projects by 30 June 1979 in order to qualify for the investment allowance were not held to ransom by union industrial action. [More…]
However, I should make it clear to the House that the purpose of the decision that was announced last Sunday by the Minister for Industrial Relations and myself was not to subtract from the existing provisions of the investment allowance- all of those provisions remain unimpaired and unaffected- but to add to the existing provisions of the investment allowance a further proviso to insulate, as far as possible, against union blackmailing of businesses which, through industrial stoppages, are not able to have plant installed and ready for use by 30 June, thereby losing the benefits of the investment allowance. [More…]
That person is Mr Hawke, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
If the Opposition wants to keep making these great noises, let it go to the Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union of Australia and say that the jobs of its members are in jeopardy if it undertakes uranium development. [More…]
Let the Opposition go to the Australian Workers Union and say that Mary Kathleen mines do not mean anything to it and that the jobs of the AWU’s members will be scrapped as soon as it gets into office. [More…]
Yet we never hear a word about the Soviet Union or the East European countries which are pushing ahead with nuclear power generation as fast as they can. [More…]
President Carter, in the 1 979 State of the Union Address, said: [More…]
1 ) Is he able to state whether a Mr Igor Ogurtsov was sentenced by the government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to 15 years imprisonment and 5 years of exile about 1 1 years ago. [More…]
1 ) I am advised that a Soviet citizen, Mr Igor Vyacheslavovich Ogurtsov, a co-founder and leader of an organisation known as the All Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of the People, was sentenced in 1 968 to 1 5 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by periods in a labour camp and internal exile. [More…]
3 ) Mr Ogurtsov along with a number of other Soviet citizens connected with the All Russian Christian Union were the subject of court proceedings in the USSR in 1968. [More…]
It would be quite wrong to try to prejudice that decision, of course, but I hope the Arbitration Commission and trade union leaders will pay greater regard to the need to encourage greater employment. [More…]
1 believe it has been deterred by threats that have been made time and time again by a number of union leaders about what would occur if a responsible, economically based wages decision were made. [More…]
The ability of the local book manufacturing industry to compete with its Asian counterparts has been impaired by fragmentation, excess capacity, high over award payments and union constraints on the operation of printers. [More…]
Union constraints have certainly not reduced. [More…]
I might say that I have an utterly cynical regard for provisions which protect members of an association or a union being placed in regulations. [More…]
We feel it is important that liaison be established with other international parliamentary organisations and, as can be seen from our recommendations which are referred to in the report, we hope that other parliamentary organisations such as the International Parliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the Parliament of Europe will take an interest in this initiative. [More…]
I think we ought to adopt the same attitude we adopt to Inter-Parliamentary Union conferences. [More…]
Yet the member for Reid knows only too well that his colleagues- I say this unreservedly- in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are forging ahead with the development of nuclear energy. [More…]
the potential for union blackmail inherent in such a monopoly, and [More…]
I am aware of the critical situation which is developing in the vehicle industry in Australia as a result of action taken by unions at W. H. Wylie and Company Pty Ltd in Adelaide. [More…]
That was followed by strike action by the ASE and the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and also the establishment of a picket line. [More…]
This dispute highlights the selfish attitude of some unionists in pursuing excessive wage claims irrespective of what happens to their fellow workers. [More…]
He has to have a confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
In his last national broadcast, which we were urged to witness on national television, he told us that all the problems of this country belonged to and rested on the shoulders of the trade union movement. [More…]
In all the problems that this country faces he finds as his only foe the trade union movement. [More…]
I was very disturbed at the decision of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations not to participate in meetings of the NLCC because of the proclaiming of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the trade union movement took that stance because, whilst it may have objections to that provision or other provisions that may be introduced by the Government or by employers, the Council is a body which enables people to sit around a table and discuss matters of importance. [More…]
I support the honourable member for Port Adelaide in saying that it is a body that should be given much greater recognition by the Government, unions, employers and the community at large because it is a body in which that sort of consultation can take place. [More…]
Anything that can be done by the Ministers who attend the meetings of the Council, by leaders in the trade union movement and in industry and by employer groups who can come together around a table at that forum should be done. [More…]
Of course, that is the whole attitude of the Labor Party in all of its industrial attitudes and in its attitudes towards the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a pity that the Prime Minister of this country did not take some note of that attitude during the recent Telecom dispute when he gave strict instructions to Telecom that it was not to negotiate with the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association-with the union it was not to negotiate. [More…]
The unions have no vested interest in creating industrial disputes. [More…]
They like to turn their wrath upon the unions and place everything at the heels of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is hardly to be wondered at that the trade union movement is not going to be snowed and it is hardly to be wondered at that the trade unions did refuse to sit around the table while the Government was in such an intransigent mood. [More…]
I personally greatly regret the decision of the union movement not to participate in the last meeting of the NLCC. [More…]
In the meantime, there is not much point in the Opposition or the union movement talking about lack of consultation when they have decided not to attend the very body, the National Labour Consultative Council, established for that very purpose. [More…]
Listening to the honourable member for Burke, one might be forgiven for thinking that the union movement as a whole had nothing at all to do with any form of industrial disruption. [More…]
1 ) What status does Ms Lillian Gasinskaya, formerly a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, who jumped ship at Sydney on or about 1 4 January 1 979, hold in Australia. [More…]
Mr G. Slater Union official [More…]
Pursuant to section 58 of the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975 and section 25 (2) of the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Act 1 978 1 present the report of the Australian Trade Union Training [More…]
As in all cases where ministerial discretion replaces fixed statutes, vigilance by the Parliament, the industry and the trade unions will be necessary to safeguard against the potential existing for abuse of ministerial power. [More…]
I note also from the Minister’s second reading speech that this change in provisions relating to manning scales is to occur in two stages and that there has been consultation with the industry and with the trade union movement in respect of the transition. [More…]
I am quite confident that if the problem is approached by the Government in consultation with the industry and with the trade union movement progress can be made. [More…]
He made sabre-rattling speeches about the need to establish one union to cover the whole of the Pilbara iron ore industry. [More…]
Those workers believe that it is up to them to determine the union to which they belong and the arrangements which should exist in relation to their affairs. [More…]
The intervention of the Prime Minister by saying, in effect, that he would close down existing unions which operate in that area, that he would establish a new one and then insist that all workers join that single union was an instance of his crass misunderstanding of the issues involved in that dispute. [More…]
It was a deliberate attempt to exacerbate the dispute by the arrest of union officials involved in it. [More…]
The Soviet Union would like to buy Australian uranium, but the Government will not sell it. [More…]
Minister has said in the Parliament that no safeguards agreement will be concluded with the Soviet Union. [More…]
We supply the fuel to Finland and it will be enriched by the Soviet Union. [More…]
He said to me: ‘Do you think that we have a stable democracy in this country when we cannot have full, free and one-man-one-vote elections; when we see the trade union movement hindered; when we see those who have power getting into the issue of preventing me from having my normal rights? [More…]
Increasingly, unrealistic demands were made on world economies, particularly by trade union movements which came to exercise unprecedented power, and it became fashionable to decry growth and to place impediments in its path. [More…]
Indeed, it is reported today that Mr Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union- the section of the Front based in Mozambique- has strongly denounced the London conference and urged full concentration on a war of liberation. [More…]
I note a tendency to prefer confrontation to diplomacy, The Government has shown this tendency to ‘have a go’ in its dealings with the Soviet Union, the EEC, the ASEAN countries and Vietnam- and there has been more than a tinge of confrontation about the handling of a number of bilateral issues with the US. [More…]
I suppose that all of us have some anxiety that the user, the consumer, the master of the ship, the ship owner, the union employee might in the end be able to sort out the great mass of paper containing State and Federal laws. [More…]
The Union reaffirms its opposition to the present proposals on minimum safety manning. [More…]
I think the union is demonstrating a fairly responsible view here. [More…]
I feel that in relation to these matters he has had more co-operation from the unions than he has had from some of the States. [More…]
I would not be surprised if he has had more co-operation from the unions than he has had from some of the important components of the shipping industry- the entrepreneurs or the shipowners as one might choose to call them. [More…]
In the event that a shipowner cannot go out with his full complement and the union concerned is unable to supply the replacement, the Department personally has the authority through the Manning Act to allow minimum manning consistent with safety regulations. [More…]
The union accepts this and there is no dispute. [More…]
The union and the shipowners would discuss the manning problem and in the event of no agreement being reached it would then be referred to a safety manning committee, which would include representation of the Department. [More…]
As a Brisbane executive of the Seamen’s Union of Australia told me, minimised government intervention as proposed by the Minister will mean not increased industrial disputation, but the introduction of such disputes over manning. [More…]
I inquired through the Seamen’s Union about Mr Saverpson ‘s chances of receiving compensation for the injury he suffered while working on the tug Virile. [More…]
A member of the executive of the Seamen’s Union informed me that Rollem Pty Ltd which owns the Virile had the tug registered in Tonga. [More…]
The union does not hold the proprietors of that company in high regard. [More…]
In the opinion of the Union, the only government to which a claim for compensation might be successfully directed by Mr Saverpson is the Government of Tonga. [More…]
We need look only at its economic policy which is the co-operation of the trade union movement regarding wages, prices and all economic decisions. [More…]
The Labor Party sold out completely to the trade union leaders and is trapped in its deal with the Left. [More…]
The participants include major industrialised countries, such as the United States of America, the countries constituting the European Economic Community, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan; middle order countries of the kind to which Australia belongs, such as Sweden and Austria; major developing countries such as Brazil; and underdeveloped countries, such as Cameroon, Congo and Madagascar. [More…]
He told us what the Labor Party proposes to do- the socialist strategy- the interventionist role by government, prices and incomes policy- with the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
Increasingly, unrealistic demands were made on world economies, particularly by trade union movements which came to exercise unprecedented power, and it became fashionable to decry growth and to place impediments in its path. [More…]
At a time when there is talk in the air of a closer union with our greatest friend across the Tasman it is well to remember how much we have in common with New Zealand. [More…]
What about the attitude of the trade union movement to that sort of scheme? [More…]
There is no reason to believe that with activity in Australia and reasonable trade union cooperation we will not continue to expand the markets which are now developing. [More…]
He talked about the creation of this program with the full support of the trade union movement in accordance with the existing junior award wages. [More…]
In 1966 ‘Little General Elections’ were held, consisting of byelections for 30 constituencies following the resignation from the Kenya African National Union of the then Deputy Leader of that party. [More…]
The 1966 ‘Little General Elections’ were contested by the Kenya African National Union and the Kenyan People’s Union. [More…]
The 1969 and the 1974 elections were contested only by the Kenyan African National Union, the Kenyan People’s Union having been banned just prior to the 1969 elections. [More…]
What about the attitude of the trade union movement to this sort of scheme? [More…]
We read stories about inflation and growth in Australia and the difficulties we face with the trade union movement. [More…]
Trade union policy is to exploit both the arbitration system and collective bargaining outside conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Now, the trade union movement has taken up the cause of trying to get what it calls ‘lost pay’ incurred over the last few years. [More…]
Unless there is greater restraint within the trade union movement our rate of growth, fall in inflation and rise in employment may be slowed down but it will not be stopped. [More…]
Certainly, other sections of the community will have to pay if the trade union movement continues to act in the way in which it is acting at present. [More…]
We desperately need to avoid constant confrontations and to replace them with a spirit of overall co-operation in the economic and financial world, particularly- I emphasise this pointbetween governments, employers and the trade union movement. [More…]
-Of course I have seen references, as I am sure every member of this House has, to the wages policy coming from the Australian Council of Trade Union Congress which is currently being held in Melbourne. [More…]
What the ACTU policy means and spells out- the ACTU is not keeping it secret- is that in addition to national wage case increases, the union movement must have complete freedom to negotiate whatever it can over and above those increases. [More…]
At that meeting I also met Dr Gajdusek who is a Nobel laureate and who has been working in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-I have seen reports of an address which shortly preceded the cruelly selfish Australian Council of Trade Unions wages policy to which I referred a moment or two ago. [More…]
I find it incredible that the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions should direct the trade union movement to ignore the proper industrial relations processes. [More…]
By advocating this policy, Mr Hawke has grossly misused, for political purposes, his own position as leader of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
What in fact has happened is that the President of the ACTU has threatened the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, the business community and the public that unless trade union demands are met industrial disruption will be used and, indeed, encouraged to damage our economy. [More…]
Once again, the trade union movement has made it quite clear that it offers nothing to the unemployed. [More…]
What, in effect, Mr Hawke and trade union leaders have done is to tell members of the trade union movement that lining their own pockets comes before the interests of the community and of the unemployed. [More…]
I notice that Mr Hawke has also said that while, in his words, the unions have offered consultation, the Government has offered nothing but confrontation. [More…]
I would be more impressed with Mr Hawke ‘s allegations about lack of consultation if the union movement had not twice walked out from the body established to provide the proper processes for consultation. [More…]
The direction to the unions to increase industrial disruption shows just how far the leadership of the trade union movement is from community thinking. [More…]
As far as the trade unions are concerned, wage increases are apparently to come before economic recovery, the interests of the unemployed and the commercial and social life of this nation. [More…]
A break-up of the causes of disputes in 1976 shows that wage disputes were responsible for 26 per cent of industrial disputes, management behaviour was responsible for 23.5 per cent of industrial disputes, inter-union rivalries and demarcation disputes of one kind or another constituted 1 5 per cent of the disputes, and working conditions and safety matters constituted 12 per cent of disputes. [More…]
Even to the casual listener it is obvious that most strikes in Australia are not caused by wage demands but are caused by matters such as management behaviour, inter-union rivalries- this Government does not support the amalgamation of unions and so stands in the way of union amalgamation which would cut out demarcation disputes- and safety matters. [More…]
Yet this Government, for its own domestic and political purposes, likes to promote the line that all of the difficulties in Australia are brought about by the industrial action of these militant trade unions. [More…]
With the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement - [More…]
But I think we would also have the union movement interpreting it as it wants. [More…]
The union movement interpreted it in the last day or two by way of a most irresponsible wages policy of all time, one which would add to the numbers of unemployed. [More…]
Therein he reveals the reason for the sudden wisdom of the Leader of the Labor Party, the reason for the sudden insight into the needs of the union movement and the reason for the sudden sell-out to the Left. [More…]
Mr Hartley has made it perfectly plain that the Leader of the Opposition is listening to Mr Roulston of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union and his economic advice. [More…]
The futility of this Government in not looking seriously at the question of national superannuation is being exploited by individual trade unions who are saying to their employers that one of the ways in which they will involve themselves in productivity gains is by setting up company trade union superannuation funds. [More…]
As its second argument, fancy the Government having the audacity to go to the indexation inquiry and to say to the trade union movement of this country that it can have the cost of living increases passed on every six months but not including health insurance charges or the increases in petrol. [More…]
For the trade union movement to accept that argument it would have to say: ‘Inflation is going up by 10 per cent, but if you give us something like a 5.5 per cent increase in wages we will be really happy. [More…]
However, in the Treasurer’s statement we did see the other proposition not completely abandoned by this Government; that is, that wage increases and union demands are the cause of unemployment, or, to put it simply, one man’s wage increase is another man’s job. [More…]
The American Federation of Labour-Congress of Industrial Organisations testified that between 1966 and 1971 American-based multinationals transferred over 900,000 jobs based on union wage rates in the United States to low wage areas in Asia. [More…]
Both the Australian National Line and Union Bulkships have indicated that the level of their Tasmanian services would need to be reviewed if the Tiger Line proposal came to fruition. [More…]
I refer him to the remarks he made yesterday regarding the so-called selfish wage policies of the union movement. [More…]
That Committee comprises such representatives as Dr Coudreau, Director General of the National Committee on Tuberculosis and Respiratory diseases in Paris, France, Dr Nigel Gray, Director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria who also attended as a representative of the International Union Against Cancer, Dr Loransky, Director of the Central Institute for Scientific Research in Health Education in the Ministry of Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Moscow, Dr Djordjevic from the Occupational Safety and Health Branch of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland and a number of other world renowned specialists in their respective field- not a lightweight committee. [More…]
I ask for incorporation in Hansard of the policy which has already been accepted by the Executive Committee of the International Union against Cancer and the Scientific Committee on the Non-Tuberculosis Respiratory Diseases of the International Union Against Tuberculosis. [More…]
Union there are at least seven reactors in operation. [More…]
The generation of electrical power in the Soviet Union doubles each decade. [More…]
The Soviet Union has said that it wants to reserve and save its fuel and other forms of energy. [More…]
They are now a major source of electrical power in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union is now proposing to construct nuclear stations of two to 6 million kilowatts each in the following areas: Leningrad, Ignalinskaya, Kursk, Smolensk, South Ukrainian, Kalinin and Rovno. [More…]
It came from a representative of the students Union who also said he was the Australian Union of Students secretary. [More…]
unions cannot be required to accept wage restraints unless those restraints are applied for the benefit of the whole community . [More…]
excessive company profits provide no justification for union restraint. [More…]
Because in New South Wales there is a large number of private child care centres and kindergarten union centres, which are not long day care centres, the children in the inner city areas of Sydney have been further disadvantaged. [More…]
As will become clear, the basic proposition which runs through the Labor Party’s platform is that the trade unions should be placed virtually above and beyond the law. [More…]
From its beginnings, one of the principal aims of conciliation and arbitration was to legitimise the role of trade unions. [More…]
Consequently, the trade unions were given certain privileges under the law which carried with them specific responsibilities. [More…]
It is generally accepted that the trade union movement is now in a position to exercise more power than at any other point in its history. [More…]
The Labor Party, by persisting with the archaic belief that trade unions should still be granted extraordinary additional privileges, has isolated itself from the views of the community, including a large proportion of trade union members. [More…]
A further example of the Labor Party’s hands off attitude to trade unions is its policy to ‘encourage the membership of registered organisations through the provision of preference to unionists in the taking of leave and … in their engagement and promotion and their retention in cases of retrenchment’. [More…]
Under a Labor Government, unions would be positively encouraged to trample over the rights of individual workers with a genuine conscientious objection to union membership or to engaging in industrial action. [More…]
Furthermore, the Labor Party would exempt unions from the provisions of the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
With the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement, ‘Labor would’ develop and implement a policy which will encompass prices, wage incomes, nonwage incomes, the social wage, taxation reform, and elimination of tax avoidance, and which will achieve a more equitable distribution of our national wealth and income, with the commitment to supporting the maintenance of real wages by quarterly adjustment and the passing on of the benefits of productivity. [More…]
A similar survey conducted by the same organisation last year showed that 63 per cent of union members do not believe that union pressure for wage increases is supported by the rank and file. [More…]
Interestingly, only 20 per cent of union leaders held the same views. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Labor Party has aligned itself with that element of the trade union leadership which is determined to push for huge increases in wages irrespective of the capacity of industry to pay. [More…]
The Labor Party is still not prepared to stand up to the irresponsible element in the trade union movement and argue for wage restraint and more jobs. [More…]
Instead, it has now supinely added wages policy to its ‘hands off the unions’ list. [More…]
It is clear that, because of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress which is being conducted in Melbourne during this week, the Government finds it convenient for the Minister to make a statement. [More…]
What it does see as being important is its hope that it can continue to provoke and confront the trade union movement of this country in order to give it some sort of political advantage at any forthcoming election. [More…]
If one looks through the 13 ‘A pages of this statement on industrial relations, it is incredible that one sees the accusation that the Labor Party is one-sided, that it speaks on behalf of the trade union movement or the wage and salary earners of this country, but it does not look after, protect or stand up for the rights of employers. [More…]
This statement merely condemns the trade union movement and people outside the organised trade union movement who are seeking to maintain their standard of living. [More…]
This is the most hamfisted statement on industrial relations that I have ever heard in this Parliament, at industrial relations seminars, at trade union conferences, or at employer conferences. [More…]
Who is to say that, if the trade union movement were to accept such a package, the [More…]
Any trade union official in this country who asked his members to accept the Government’s offer would be defeated in the next election in which he stood, and so he should be, because he would be selling his members down the drain. [More…]
That is not what trade union officials are for. [More…]
John Halfpenny belongs to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, the union which is at the end of a very long work value case for metal tradesmen. [More…]
The union is asking for a substantial increase in money terms. [More…]
This has been rejected by the union movement time and time again. [More…]
There is nothing in this statement tonight that tells us that the unions have to take one attitude because the Government is taking a similar attitude on prices. [More…]
When the trade union movement or anybody in this country looks at the financial pages of our newspapers today one of two things can be seen- companies making record profits or one major company swallowing another major company because there is so much cash. [More…]
There is a good deal of sympathy for the actions of the unions. [More…]
Other people whom I had never met or heard of were speaking and they held views just as strong as the views of those people from the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
So the Government ought to be cognisant of just how the union movement in Australia feels about these issues at the moment because the Government’s performance, its broken promises and its telling of untruths has left the work force with no alternative but to fight if necessary to maintain the standard of living. [More…]
The honourable member also said that the Government accuses the Labor Party of standing up for the trade unions and the wage and salary earners of this country and not for the employers. [More…]
Indeed, this evening the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) cited research statistics which showed that 63 per cent of union members do not believe that union pressure for wage increases is supported by the rank and file. [More…]
What we are really accusing the Opposition of is not that it does not stand up Ibr the trade unions- that is not true; we would be quite happy to accuse it of that- but that it is not really standing up for the proper interests of wage and salary earners in this country. [More…]
People who were interviewed in the survey recognised this when 63 per cent of union members said they did not believe that union pressure for wage increases was supported by the rank and file and 59 per cent agreed that wage increases these days often meant that someone else lost a job. [More…]
With the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement, (Labor would) develop and implement a policy which will encompass prices, wage incomes, nonwage incomes, the social wage, taxation reform, and elimination of tax avoidance, and which will achieve a more equitable distribution of our national wealth and income, with the commitment to supporting the maintenance of real wages by quarterly adjustment and the passing on of the benefits of productivity. [More…]
It takes dead aim at the union movement. [More…]
Labor Party industrial policy; and thirdly, it talks about irresponsible union policy. [More…]
On that last score, let me make it clear for the record- I do not want there to be any misunderstanding- that Australian Council of Trade Unions policy or a particular trade union policy is not ALP policy. [More…]
There is frequently a great deal of difference on policy between the ACTU or individual unions on the one hand and the Labor Party on the other hand. [More…]
The unions have a responsibility to look after the best interests of their members; we have a responsibility to discharge our duties to the Australian community. [More…]
In spite of the enormous dishonesty and dissembling of the members of the Government from the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) down, the fact is that the trade union movement, out of a sense of national commitment, has retained a fairly consistent commitment to that policy. [More…]
I repeat that there are three key thrusts to the statement, the diatribe of the Minister for Industrial Relations- a glowing economic prospect, an allegedly defective ALP industrial policy and an irresponsible union policy. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) asserted that the Government had made a reasonable offer to the unions on the matter of wage policy. [More…]
If the union movement accepted the bear-pit trap that the Government has set on wages policy it would be a further $7 a week worse off. [More…]
The most extraordinary point is that the Leader of the Opposition started off by saying that there was a difference between the Australian Council of Trade Union’s policy on this matter and the Labor Party policy. [More…]
Let us consider for a moment that the Government has just appropriated $3m for the Trade Union Training Authority, and it has just appropriated $3m or thereabouts for the Industrial Relations Bureau which spends almost all of its time pursuing the claims of unionists and other workers who may not be unionists and who have, together with the arbitration inspectorate in the last 12 months, recovered some $lm for workers. [More…]
When one considers that fact one is driven to accept that the Government is not antiunion at all. [More…]
The ordinary men and women of Australia know that if the Labor Party were returned to government, it would do nothing more than take this country down the same path as the Labour Party in the United Kingdom took, a path that was littered with the monuments of higher taxation, penalties on incentive, endorsement of union extremism, stand-over tactics and the dead hand of government which destroys job opportunities. [More…]
They also know that it will and can do nothing to protect individuals, individual unionists, from being dominated by particular trade unions and the stand-over tactics that some of them engage in. [More…]
There would be no hope under that policy, if implemented, for individuals to seek redress from the courts against injustices perpetrated by their trade unions. [More…]
Indeed, it goes further than that, because there would be no opportunity to obtain redress from the courts on the part of the majority in a trade union. [More…]
I think it is important that members on both sides of the House listen to this- by or on behalf of a trade union in contemplation or furtherance of a labour dispute excepting . [More…]
It means that if a trade union official causes the death of someone- I did not write this, this is the Labor Party’s termsand injures someone or if property is damaged there is no redress to obtain damages or any other relief unless the act was wilful. [More…]
If a union official negligently kills someone there is no liability on him to pay damages to the widow or children of the worker. [More…]
In its anxiety to capitalise on what it sees as the politically populuar tactic of indulging in union bashing at the time of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress, this Government has abandoned all standards of decency. [More…]
Quite clearly the unions would reject the proposal out of hand, and they did. [More…]
Any other response would have meant a union official saying to his members: ‘We have just got to accept drastically reduced living standards- living standards which will be reduced even more than they have been till now’. [More…]
One could hardly expect the union members to accept such a proposition. [More…]
I refer to the determination of the Commission which called on the unions to lift their bans. [More…]
The consequence was that the Government, having given every opportunity to the leaders of the union movement and the officials of the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association to get the bans lifted, had no recourse other than to introduce and bring into effect legislation which had been passed by this Parliament to deal with just that kind of situation. [More…]
I notice that the effect there was the very speedy resignation of a senior union official named Williams, who was not even game to stay in office until the legislation proposed in that State was enacted. [More…]
Quite frankly, I think we might see even more departures within the trade union movement. [More…]
The Labor Party and some of the union leaders say that the Government pokes its nose into industrial situations to draw attention away from what they describe as failures on the part of the Government. [More…]
Well, the honourable member for Melbourne, Mr Deputy Speaker, is well known for having very little capacity in these matters, despite his experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
It knew that that would provoke the unions, which it did. [More…]
This Government talks- with tongue in cheek- about drawing up laws and rules to make the union movement function better. [More…]
What about the changes to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act by which the Government made it virtually impossible for trade unions to amalgamate? [More…]
What about the provision that more than 50 per cent of the members in a union must vote, and more than half of those who do vote must vote in favour? [More…]
The members of this Government are very plausible rogues, but do they know that now there are unions talking about amalgamation in order to bring about more efficiency, fewer demarcation disputes, fewer stoppages and fewer strikes? [More…]
That is why those unions want to amalgamate. [More…]
The textile and footwear unions are talking about amalgamation. [More…]
The Federated Storemen and Packers Union and the Transport Workers Union are talking about amalgamation. [More…]
For the information of honourable members opposite- I think they ought to know this and understand it well- it has been estimated by the officials of those unions that it will take them 8 years to amalgamate. [More…]
The Government talks about union democracy. [More…]
It practises democracy nowhere, but it uses the phrase democracy in unions’. [More…]
The Government is not talking about democracy but about individuals within trade unions taking unilateral decisions. [More…]
What it wants to bring about in trade unions under the guise of democracy is of course anarchy. [More…]
The Government may talk about the unions engaging in action outside the field of wages and incomes and in areas that are not traditionally theirs. [More…]
If the Liberal Party accepts that it is good enough for the business people, it is good enough for the trade union movement. [More…]
When the Government speaks of wages it speaks of the income of all people in the community because wage structure- whether they belong to a union, work in a factory or whatever they do- is related to the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
To destroy the trade union movement would bring about anarchy in the community. [More…]
In fact, the main thing that came out of his speech was that he is against the concept of membership ballots for union amalgamations. [More…]
I thought that that was quite extraordinary: He would deny the membership of unions a say in what should happen with respect to union amalgamations. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the honourable member for Diamond Valley raised the proposal by the ALP to exempt unions from actions in tort. [More…]
He asked what would be the position of a widow of a trade unionist whose husband died as a result of some negligent action of a trade union official. [More…]
Would that trade union official be exempt from an action in tort? [More…]
But I think we all accept that the trade union movement, through the Australian Council of Trade Unions and its official organs, has a great deal of influence on the ALP. [More…]
The ALP platform provides for the right of” workers to ‘organise in democratic trade unions’- no one objects to that- ‘and to collectively bargain and to exercise the right to strike in the course of such activities immune from any pains and penalties directed against unions and unionists’. [More…]
That is quite a blanket statement- ‘immune from any pains and penalties directed against unions and unionists’. [More…]
It means that, no matter what activity a union is engaged in, if it is engaged in during an industrial dispute unions and unionists would be exempt from any pains and penalties. [More…]
If the Arbitration Commission, in the exercise of its responsibility and having examined all the circumstances in a dispute, decided that trade union leaders, a section of the trade union or the trade union in toto is exercising the right to strike in an improper way, in a way that is not helpful to the settlement of the industrial dispute, or in a way that damages individual members of the community and the community at large, the Commission would have no power to insert any bans on that sort of activity. [More…]
Clearly, the ALP would remove penalties against trade unions for that sort of action but it is interesting to note that the [More…]
The Labor Party has also given a commitment to recognise ‘the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference’. [More…]
Who, indeed, protects the rights of individual unionists aggrieved by union action when they want to take action against their own union officials? [More…]
It would seem that under a Labor government unionists would not have the right to take action to protect their own position. [More…]
I invite honourable members to consider the position of small businesses faced with a black ban from a militant union. [More…]
The balance of economic and industrial power in that instance is on the side of the union. [More…]
Responsible unions do not want to engage in such activities. [More…]
I believe that the Government’s action in putting those provisions into the Trade Practices Act has a good deal of support not only from businessmen but also from a large section of the moderate trade unionists. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that in this House I raised a matter involving some constituents of mine who refused to obey a union directive to go on strike. [More…]
The union executive set about trying to fine them $20 each per day for not obeying the strike directive. [More…]
This Government has taken action to ensure that unions cannot take that type of intimidatory action against individual members. [More…]
We have also taken action to ensure that there is better reporting of union financial affairs to the rank and file unionists. [More…]
We have also introduced provisions to ensure that unions give adequate notice to their members of impending elections. [More…]
Why did not honourable members opposite introduce those sorts of provisions if, in fact, they are really interested in the welfare of the rank and file trade unionists of Australia? [More…]
The Opposition is not really interested in the welfare of the rank and file trade unionists of Australia. [More…]
In naval parlance, the honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates) has been here for a dog’s watch and would not know anything about the traditional trade union movement in this country or in any other country I would imagine. [More…]
The union wants the conditions existing before the closure. [More…]
Despite the union assurances at the meeting on 25 August that the decision would be handed down the following week, the result of the application is still not known. [More…]
The union could not manage more than about 1 10 at the official meeting on 25 August, only a handful more than the number who attended Nevyl Hand ‘s meetings a couple of weeks earlier. [More…]
Conditions or improvements won at Conkeys could be passed on to union members in other works. [More…]
At least once during that period, Metro has made it clear that if the union consented to federal award coverage, it would look to re-opening the works immediately. [More…]
The plant was closed only after severe union provocation. [More…]
Can the union be blamed? [More…]
The initial cause of the closure, despite what the union may say, was industrial disruption. [More…]
The obvious intention of the union was to continue that disruption under the new ownership. [More…]
The day the works were closed the union said there would be no return to work other than under the pre-existing conditions. [More…]
What I am concerned about is what the local members of the union were told before the vote. [More…]
The union has stuck by that decision for three months, despite the fact that in two unofficial meetings with no Sydney representative present, almost 100 members voted to accept the federal award. [More…]
On that point of great principle, the union has kept the Cootamundra work force out for three months. [More…]
I say it lies fairly and squarely with the union in Sydney. [More…]
How much longer will Sydney deny these 300 jobs in Cootamundra while members of the same union are killing stock in other abattoirs? [More…]
The power of the union, the mystique, the almost religious adherence is, to me, frightening. [More…]
About 90 people voted for the union motion on 25 August after presumably the same people had voted the the opposite way a few weeks previously. [More…]
As we all know, the Soviet Union is now supplying 3,000 advisers, but even Soviet civilians have been involved in the fighting and even killed. [More…]
We realise that the Afghanistan army and air force have been trained by the Soviet Union. [More…]
We recognise too that because of the close proximity of Afghanistan to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is bound to be at least sensitive to the government in Afghanistan. [More…]
People who were sacked because they joined the Australian Workers Union have been encouraged at a meeting with members of that union, the Industrial Commissioner in Cairns and representatives of the Federal and State governments to go back to work on the old basis of a training allowance, which is about half the award wage, until November when the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs in Queensland has carried out a survey of all the reserves to find out which people it thinks should get award wages. [More…]
He ratted on his union mates in front of the ACTU Congress. [More…]
The Committee was a strong, broad based one which included representatives from business, the trade union movement, the academic community and the Public Service. [More…]
If, as members of this Parliament, we are concerned about housing costs we should be very much concerned about the attack that is now taking place on the sub-contract system in Australia among elements of the union movement. [More…]
If we look at the parallel, we see that in 1977 there was brought into this House industrial legislation which required that there be a financial audit of industrial union affairs and that there be appropriate publication and transmission of the information concerning those affairs. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union collects $8m to $9m a year. [More…]
I was concerned to hear him argue so illogically that the same sorts of standards and prescriptions that apply to a company or a trade union- which is a public organisation, a voluntary organisation, like a company, with rules laid down- ought to apply to a security service, in the face of the findings of Mr Justice White and Mr Justice Hope and in the face of all the body of accumulated evidence that the laws have been broken and the rights of the ordinary citizen have been transgressed. [More…]
I refer to such things as the actions of a peace movement where no violence is involved or the actions of a student organisation or some of the right wing sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
In June 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted in Sing Sing prison on a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage in wartime, for passing on technical details of atomic weapons to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in September 1945, still technically during wartime, at a time when Russia was an ally of the United States of America. [More…]
In respect of dobbing in somebody who was heard to say in a pub something about trade union activity, yes, it was absolutely able to do that. [More…]
Mr Justice Hope, referring to what ASIO was doing in the trade union area, wrote: [More…]
What is the Government’s attitude to the proposals by Senator Edward Kennedy for an international conference on Indo-China designed to bring about a process of Vietnamese military withdrawal from Kampuchea and Laos, to be followed by an easing of the present economic isolation of Vietnam, an isolation which has created such a high degree of dependence on the Soviet Union? [More…]
It was Vietnam which chose to execute an agreement with the Soviet Union. [More…]
one of the tools which extremist elements within the Vietnamese community are using- that program has been used to send out the names and addresses of the (pro postwar Vietnam) Union of Vietnamese in Australia. [More…]
What argument would we then have against, for example, the Soviet Union? [More…]
They consider that anybody who says anything against the Soviet state inside the Soviet Union is spreading malicious propaganda against the state and is a threat to their security. [More…]
Mr Justice White made the point that a significant proportion of the files related to political, trade union and other such matters. [More…]
What about the industry leaders, the trade union movement and everybody else wanting to know where funds ought to be invested or where there will be job opportunities? [More…]
There has been no consultation with industry leaders and the trade union movement as to the direction we are heading. [More…]
The Council regretted the absence of union representatives at the 6 August meeting. [More…]
Thirdly, provision for prompt access by employers to the Commission in applications for stand-down clauses should encourage unionists generally to exert a moderating influence on particular union members and officers who are quick to call strikes rather than use the processes of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
I need only remind honourable members of the disruption caused by members of the Transport Workers Union in support of claims for wage increases under a number of awards. [More…]
But I do not wonder that there would be many other people in the trade union movement who would be similarly placed. [More…]
That is why, during the late 1960s and early 1970s we had the spectacle of ASIO agents placing under surveillance people who marched in anti-Vietnam demonstrations- clergymen, academics and trade union leaders- because in their judgment those actions were ultimately bound to lead to threats against security and constituted subversion. [More…]
We are involved in the trade union movement. [More…]
Not only were they part of the security organisation, but the security organisation, instead of worrying about Burgess, McLean and Philby, was probably trailing some trade union secretary to a meeting. [More…]
A union dispute on the waterfront about a vessel being a health hazard because it had not been fumigated could be interpreted by somebody to be in some way, remote as the dispute may be from subversive activity, to be hindering the performance of the Defence Force because the vessel is being used for carrying supplies somewhere up north. [More…]
It became quite clear that while the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) may have had other examples in mind- he referred to conscientious objectionhis intention was to protect the trade union movement and its right to act in any area in industrial disputes in any way it saw fit. [More…]
-It would not be unlawful unless a union was indulging in certain activities which were, by their character, unlawful. [More…]
Some people in the trade union movement might picket or refuse their labour in order to undermine the effort of our defence forces. [More…]
Nobody wants to persecute unreasonably the trade union movement for its pursuit of its industrial causes. [More…]
That implies that some consequence in relation to a person’s or a union’s activities will arise from this legislation. [More…]
I think that it would be possible to have a trade union activity which in itself was lawful but which was being engaged in with the objective of obstructing the defence forces in the performance of their legitimate duties. [More…]
I think we have to be very realistic in our consideration of this matter because there are certain elements within the trade union movement- and I hasten to add, before anybody from the Opposition side jumps on me, that they are extreme minority elementswhich would not be democratic in their intentions. [More…]
This is quite important because within the decisions of the conference in Adelaide were a number of resolutions which related to the legal position of trade unions and trade unionists. [More…]
Resolutions were passed at that conference which sought to remove the activities of unionists from judical oversight in very significant respects. [More…]
As this legislation presumably will last for a number of years and as it is not inconceivable- perish the thought- that there could be a change of government, and as the principal Opposition party has decided at its annual conference that the trade union movement will be removed from certain judicial restraints, legal restraints, it is quite possible that trade unionists could be in a position of being able to indulge in certain activities which are quite legal under Commonwealth law but which quite clearly could obstruct the defence forces in their essential duties. [More…]
In particular, I do not think that it is wise to accept this amendment, in view of the decisions of the Australian Labor Party Conference in Adelaide which sought to remove the trade union movement and members of unions from judicial restraint. [More…]
The moment we come to some form of definition of what we mean here he turns to the Australian Labor Party’s policy and actions of the trade union movement. [More…]
We do not need to send out spooks to see what is happening in a trade union movement. [More…]
The other area of concern, as other honourable members have pointed out, is with respect to trade unions- for example, where the Transport Workers Union of Australia held up the supply of petrol or the operations of Garden Island Dockyard so that a ship could not be fitted out. [More…]
According to Mr Justice Hope, the trade unions are performing very creditably indeed, thank you very much. [More…]
He made the point that ASIO does not, and properly does not, survey employer organisations or trade unions as such. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member for Mackellar that if there is something wrong in a trade union it will be revealed at a meeting. [More…]
Trade unions usually have meetings. [More…]
The trade unions can be subject to discipline in the courts. [More…]
There are no clandestine operations at trade union meetings. [More…]
Does the Government seriously suggest that because a trade union meeting passes a resolution that it is not going to work a certain ship that therefore is an action directed at causing some subversion? [More…]
The Minister is the most frequent interjector and, I may say, the greatest union basher we have on a clause dealing with subversion. [More…]
Government members have spent all their time on this matter belting the unions. [More…]
Union members are the one group of people who meet in the open to pass a resolution. [More…]
Bear in mind that most unionists fought in the two World Wars. [More…]
Most of those who lost their lives in violent action were unionists, yet the Government has this dreadful fixation- I will not use the word paranoic- what is wrong with unions. [More…]
He has continually attacked the trade union movement and referred to what is wrong with his fellow Australians. [More…]
Let us not put ourselves in the stupid situation in which the passing of a resolution by a particular union that its members will not load a ship is regarded as an overt act directed at hindering the Defence Force. [More…]
An extensive inquiry has just been carried out by a committee of this Parliament into the denial of” civil liberties to persons in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The clause before the Committee is not greatly different from the law in the Soviet Union which permits breaches of civil liberties to occur. [More…]
He raised the Union Jack, and Banaba was annexed to the Empire. [More…]
1 ) How many persons are employed in Canberra by the Embassies of (a) Afghanistan; (b) Bulgaria; (c) Burma; (d) China; (e) Czechoslovakia; (f) Finland; (g) the German Democratic Republic; (h) Hungary; (i) Mongolia; (j) Poland; (k) Romania; (I) the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and (m) Vietnam. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Number of persons employed: home-based- 37, locally engaged- nil. [More…]
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Ambassador- 1 minister/counsellor, 1 trade representative, 3 counsellors, 3 first secretaries, 1 deputy trade representative, 4 second secretaries,1 third secretary and 2 attaches. [More…]
Australia has concluded agreements for scientific and technical co-operation with the Federal Republic of Germany, India, the Soviet Union and the United States. [More…]
Is it true that the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia and other elements of the union movement are presently engaged in a war against the housing industry sub-contract system? [More…]
Government take action to protect the subcontract system from destruction by the union movement? [More…]
The honourable member for Mitchell is quite right when he speaks of the attack presently under way by certain elements of the union movement, in New South Wales in particular, on the housing industry sub-contract system. [More…]
This attack has been evident for some months, especially in New South Wales, but it has extended to a couple of other States- Victoria and South Australia- involving in particular the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia, which obviously seeks to destroy the self-employed status of tradesmen and other small business people who are involved in this important industry. [More…]
The union wants to force people to become employees. [More…]
It wants to unionise the housing industry, to extend its power and influence over this industry and of course, its income from the subscriptions that employees would be required to pay. [More…]
We do not have the hundreds of millions of people of the American customs union. [More…]
I want to make it clear that the Opposition realises that its more expansionary economic policies can be pursued only if it obtains the confidence of all sections of the communityincluding the trade union movement- to implement an incomes policy. [More…]
Fortunately, good sense prevailed and a majority of Australians, not only supporters of the Government of the day but also leaders of the trade union movement, recognised the importance of immigration to Australia’s development and economic well-being. [More…]
Those people should heed the warning given at that time by the then President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Albert Monk, who said: [More…]
At that time the union leaders told him that they rejected this, that the common sense of the unions could be relied upon to restrain wild inflation, and that any element of regimentation was unacceptable in peacetime. [More…]
In view of the losses that have already occurred in real wages, family allowances and taxation, it is not surprising that the trade union movement has knocked back what amounts to only a con trick upon the wage and salary earners of this country. [More…]
With the United States, the Soviet Union and other nations relying increasingly on nuclear power, we in Australia, who have something like only 20 per cent of the world’s uranium supplies, can have little influence indeed on the world trend towards the use of nuclear energy. [More…]
The unions involved in the mining of uranium cannot afford to ban it and the men concerned would simply leave their unions if any attempt was made to close down the mines. [More…]
The policy of the Leader of the Opposition and his left wing union colleagues is completely out of step with community feeling, as the South Australian election showed. [More…]
I rise in the adournment debate this evening to raise two matters and to make some protest about the way in which Government members- in particular, Ministers- attack unions in this chamber. [More…]
They lead people to believe that the activities of organisations such as the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia and the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association are designed simply to disrupt industries rather than to present legitimate claims on behalf of their members. [More…]
The matter finally went before the Full Bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, which found that the union had a legitimate claim. [More…]
Once again the union bashing policies of the Government have led to industrial disputation in order to serve the political aspirations of the Government. [More…]
Being a Queenslander, and a follower of the great sport of rugby league Mr Deputy Speaker, you will be surprised to know that no result was given for any of the rugby games, either rugby union or rugby league. [More…]
It means that throughout the Far East, besides listening to the booming voices coming from the United States and the Soviet Union, at last the voice of Australia is being carried to our neighbours and at last what is going on in Australia is clearly of interest to our neighbours. [More…]
Australia-Japan Parliamentarian Union [More…]
I suggest that the question of the establishment of an Australia-Japan Parliamentarian Union might be taken up with the Parliamentary Presiding Officers. [More…]
America, with millions of people, is able through the customs union to provide economies of scale which mean greater productivity and greater competitiveness. [More…]
The first is that at the Australian Labor Party biennial conference in Adelaide a once great party, which had the admiration of many Australians in the past but over which the trade unions had a mortgage, sold out the Left. [More…]
Since the Australian Council of Trade Union Congress a few weeks ago the ACTU itself has become owned lock, stock and barrel by the Left. [More…]
The major piece of policy in relation to the trade unions that was decided at that conference was simply that the trade unions should be free of all government and judicial interference. [More…]
They have set the trade unions above the law. [More…]
That particularly applies to trade unionsIn the recent past we have seen, according to very in-depth recent studies, that violence, while not yet commonplace within the union movement, tends to be an increasing part of the trade union scene. [More…]
The second reason for raising this matter- it is linked with the first- is that the trade union movement, having been given the green light by the Left in New South Wales and recently in South Australia, has set about trying to demolish the building industry in Australia. [More…]
We all know that for many years past building unions have done their best to sabotage the building industry. [More…]
They are trying to force unionism and unionisation on the whole of the building industry in Australia, and particularly in New South Wales and, until recently, in South Australia. [More…]
The unions are trying to abolish the entire subcontract system and, by a centralised enforced system - [More…]
By a centralised enforced system, the unions are attempting to get rid of all subcontractors in the building industry and to ensure that the prime contractor has to treat every single person under him who has anything to do with the job as an employee. [More…]
He will be an employee of a particular employer and the employer will be open to union blackmail within the whole range of his employees. [More…]
The unions will then be free to order stoppages, to go on strike and to enforce their sabotage and blackmail throughout the entire building industry. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party and the unions oppose independence, freedom and small business. [More…]
The unions are trying to attack the very basis of a great Australian industry. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr) will deal in more detail with this and other policies of the trade union movement. [More…]
It will develop one with the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement. [More…]
The Trade Unions would be immune from any penalties, but the penalties would still apply to the employers. [More…]
There would be no judicial interference with the trade unions. [More…]
In this matter of public importance we are talking about the trade union movement. [More…]
I do desist from making any mention of any member of this House, but it does make a mockery of the standards which this Government says it adheres to when on the one hand it initiates a debate about the trade union movement because of the inquiry being conducted by a former conciliation commissioner into the subcontract system of the building industry in New South Wales and calls upon the Government to reaffirm the law- whatever that means, insofar as the Federal Government is concerned- and on the other it does not take any notice of the law in some other aspect of its administration. [More…]
Another point that has to be made is that there is absolutely no evidence at all- there is not one skerrick of evidence- that any trade union in the building industry in New South Wales has come out against the contract system in that State. [More…]
The unions have gone before the inquiry. [More…]
The unions are not against the contract system but they are against body hire. [More…]
Wales, which is co-ordinating the trade union submissions. [More…]
They are accusing the Trade Union Movement and the Labor Government, of seeking to restrict the freedom of the individual, besides claiming that the unions are out to abolish the contract system in the cottage industry. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Labor Council of New South Wales is writing to each State Labor member of Parliament to put the facts right and to seek your continued support for the efforts of the trade union movement to protect contract workers within the housing construction industry of this State. [More…]
Let me read to honourable members a letter from the Building Workers Industrial Union because it seems, in the mind of the honourable member for St George, to be the main culprit. [More…]
The letter goes on to state that in return the union is prepared to allow a speaker from the Housing Industry Association to come before the Building [More…]
Workers’ Industrial Union to put its views. [More…]
This statement was subsequently contradicted and disowned by Mr KirkbyJones, who on Channel 7 on Wednesday, 15 August 1979, stated that the union proposals would increase costs by 10 percent. [More…]
I point out to the honourable member for Port Adelaide that the main substance of this matter of public importance is the need for the Government to reassert the rule of law over the trade union movement. [More…]
Not once during the whole of his speech did the honourable member for Port Adelaide refer to bringing the trade union movement under the control of law. [More…]
An important section of the resolutions that the honourable member for St George pointed out is that an ALP government would recognise the rights of unions to regulate their own affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Port Adelaide that ‘free from judicial interference’ must and can only be interpreted as placing the unions above the law. [More…]
What sort of laws would the ALP place the union movement above? [More…]
What sort of actions that anybody else in the community can term only as criminal actions is it prepared to allow unions to get away with? [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Port Adelaide that one of the well known members of the trade union movement, Mr Pat Clancy, is reported as writing on this subject in his own Building Workers Industrial Union newspaper, the Socialist. [More…]
Internal union violence has taken two main forms- firstly intrusion of professional gangsterism, including deliberate marking out and gunning down of a union official’, says the Socialist. [More…]
‘The second form has seen increases in bashing incidents when some unionists have been seriously injured in internal union conflict . [More…]
That is the sort of action for which the honourable member for Port Adelaide and other members of the ALP would exempt the unions from any form of judicial action. [More…]
What other actions do we hear of from other members of the union movement? [More…]
Mr Terry Gordon, Federal Secretary of the Painters and Dockers Union- I am sure most of us are familiar with some of the actions of that particular union- in giving evidence before Commissioner Sweeney when he was inquiring into allegations of illegal payments paid to maritime unions said: ‘We catch and kill our own’. [More…]
I turn to a responsible reaction from one union that mostly would be considered to be on the left wing side of the Labor movement. [More…]
Mr Ted McBeatty, who was the New South Wales secretary of the Transport Workers Union, in February 1975 wrote: [More…]
If a union is taken over by an organisation that is not prepared to work within the system, not prepared to observe the iawful acts of society, that union can organise a form of anarchy and capture the imagination of people who might be trying to wreck society. [More…]
That is the sort of action in relation to which the ALP is very purposely choosing to put the unions above the law. [More…]
I also remind the House and people who might choose to read Hansard that some of these actions and the scenario for them go well back before the present trade union officials came to office. [More…]
Mr Lance Sharkey, who in his day was a well-known communist leader, in his book The Trade Unions in 1942 had this to say: [More…]
At the same time, politics must be introduced, linked with the union ‘s problems. [More…]
That was the scenario laid down in 1942 by Lance Sharkey, the well-known communist, that is very purposely followed by trade union leaders today. [More…]
Also, directions have gone out from the Premier’s Office and from the Tasmanian Government to the effect that sub-contractors who are not members of an appropriate union cannot and will not be employed on government jobs. [More…]
But the ALP Government in Tasmania by Cabinet decree has instructed its departments that a person who is not a member of a trade union cannot be employed on a government job. [More…]
I remind the House that it is well known that the Adelaide conference was dominated by the Left wing of the union movement. [More…]
The Bruce-Page Government was brought down by the sort of attack that honourable members opposite have made, not only tonight but also as pan of the union bashing process which they have carried out ever since the Government came to office. [More…]
The Government wants to bring the unions within the area of common law. [More…]
It wants to apply the common law to unions. [More…]
It wants to restrict the ambit of the trade union movement in this country so as to destroy it. [More…]
It wants to produce tame cat unions. [More…]
It wants to stand over those who, in very difficult circumstances, do their best to represent the people who form the unions. [More…]
We are talking about the application of vicious penal codes that would bring the trade union movement to its knees. [More…]
It led to the gaoling of a trade union official when he gave effect to a decision of his own organisation. [More…]
What the trade union movement told the Government then is what it will say in the future. [More…]
If you gaol every trade union official in this country we will not bow to that suppression. [More…]
He came into the Parliament and accused the Building Workers Industrial Union of attacking the contract system in the building industry. [More…]
The public stance of the Building Workers Industrial Union in the current New South Wales inquiry into building subcontracting has been to support the continuation of the contract system. [More…]
I had something to do with the building industry when representing the Electrical Trades Union of Australia before tribunals in this country. [More…]
Because of this damning evidence the Housing Industry Association and the Master Builders Association are now making outrageous statements attacking the building unions and distorting the evidence presented in the inquiry. [More…]
On 10 July 1979 Mr Sellars of the Housing Industry Association said that housing costs would go up by 25 per cent if the submissions of the Building Workers Industrial Union were implemented. [More…]
Workers ‘sick leave, annual holidays, superannuation, trade union membership and eligibility for social security employment benefits are all factors that need to be discussed if we are to acknowledge that there is an ever increasing place for part time employment. [More…]
Quite frankly, I would doubt that the numbers in the rank and file of the trade union movement would share the view being expressed by their trade union leaders at that Congress. [More…]
I think it is hot air that we hear from a number of trade union leaders when they express concern for the unemployed in this country but at the same time pass policies that would lead to a very substantial increase in the number of unemployed. [More…]
There have been many examples of a rank and file revolt against the dictates of the more militant sectors of the union movement. [More…]
Does he know what happened at the Blaney abattoir where members of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union stood up against their shop stewards and representatives from Sydney and said: ‘We want to work. [More…]
The Government blames and has consistently blamed inflation on the union led wage push. [More…]
Yes, I did use those words in correspondence with the AMIEU in 1976 in relation to questions raised by the union over co-operation by meat processors in purchasing and slaughtering reactor cattle. [More…]
If that argument is seriously put forward, then it follows that members of the Labor Party, trade union officials, are quite justified in believing that if they went before the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Garfield Barwick, who went from a senior position as a Liberal Minister in this Parliament to the position of Chief Justice, there would be no fairness nor any justice for them. [More…]
Any member of the Labor Party or any trade unionist appearing before him would be justified in believing that there would be neither fairness nor justice for them. [More…]
The five-day Conference, cosponsored by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and the InterParliamentary Union, was the first to bring parliamentarians together to discuss global issues under the auspices of a United Nations organisation. [More…]
But I cannot understand the trade union movement of Australia which is not alive to the situation. [More…]
Of course that Labor Government was helped by a trade union movement which was determined to increase strike activity in Australia. [More…]
I make a special appeal to trade union leaders and members of the trade union movement as far as the export of primary products is concerned. [More…]
People in that State spoke through the ballot box a couple of weeks ago about what they thought of irresponsible trade union activity regarding the export of live sheep. [More…]
I ask the trade unions whether they really understand what they are doing. [More…]
Do they know how wrong it is that a great export industry, a great income earner, can be held up because of a demarcation issue between two unions on some simple procedure? [More…]
I inform the trade unions that rural Australia will be contained no longer. [More…]
Quite bluntly, we have had a ‘gutfull’ of irresponsible trade unions. [More…]
I serve notice on the trade union movement that if its members are not going to load the wheat ships, whether they be in Fremantle, Gladstone or Brisbane, the Australian wheat farmer will. [More…]
If union members are not going to load the wheat ships, if they are not aware that they are denying their fellow workers a job, they should understand that people in the rural industry who have been silent will not remain silent. [More…]
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks now going on in Moscow are proof that the Soviet Union and the United States would like to come to an agreement, and that the agreement should be honoured by the United States, but the discovery of a Soviet mechanised regiment in Cuba- even though it has been there since 1972- has caused some problems. [More…]
A war between the Soviet Union and China is as illogical as it is unthinkable. [More…]
Even though the Soviet Union may decide to build more modern battle cruisers this should not cause us undue alarm. [More…]
If the Soviet Union persuades Vietnam to build naval installations at Da Nang and Cam Ranh Bay that would be a matter of some concern to Japan and all of us in the Pacific area. [More…]
Maybe the Soviet Union just wishes to demonstrate that she is a world power in practice as well as in theory. [More…]
It is a fact of life that in the past 15 years military expenditure by the Soviet Union and its allies has leaped dramatically far beyond the increase in the United States. [More…]
What is the Soviet Union doing about aid? [More…]
Yet we find that the Soviet Union has increased its forces in Asia. [More…]
What is its policy which was decided at the Australian Council of Trade Unions Congress and the Labor Party Conference in Adelaide and which binds every single member of the Parliamentary Labor Party in this House, all of whom took the socialist pledge? [More…]
It says that it will develop an economic policy with the understanding and cooperation of the trade union movement- the trade union left-wing movement. [More…]
The Union does not tolerate any police interference in industrial matters … [More…]
I think it is most interesting that before a case is heard in the courts a settlement, which has been agreed upon by the parties, is made a matter for the public by the union involved. [More…]
I think that the collusion and the pressure- blackmail- that has been used by the BLF in these circumstances has made it impossible but for the Premier or for the company to continue to accept the agreements put forward by the union. [More…]
I take this opportunity to charge that union with criminal contempt of the court. [More…]
There is little need for me to inform honourable members of the enormous amount of legal inquiry, court challenge and counterchallenge into matters concerning this union and the shop branch of the Australian Workers Union. [More…]
Another woman has complained to me that, although her employer has been deducting union dues and forwarding these to Victoria for use by the union, she has been denied a vote because she is not on the roll. [More…]
The Government wants the courts to control all union affairs when it suits it, and many Government members opposite want to involve courts in decisions on strike action. [More…]
If union ballots, which one would anticipate are relatively straightforward, cannot be conducted without problems such as I have outlined, I believe the Government should take some action to tighten up procedures to ensure that abuses do not take place. [More…]
With the understanding and co-operation of the trade union movement, development of economic policy which would encompass wages, incomes, non-wages incomes, the social wage, taxation reform and elimination of tax avoidance, and which will achieve a more equitable distribution of our national wealth and income with the commitment to the maintenance of real wages by quarterly adjustments and the passing on of the benefits of the increases in productivity. [More…]
The Minister in his second reading speech said that it was unfortunate that the trade union movement was not present at the August meeting which discussed the measures contained in this Bill. [More…]
A the time the trade union movement was protesting about the Government’s actions in respect of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Act so it boycotted the meeting. [More…]
There was no voice at all from the trade union movement. [More…]
Subsequently, it became a pretty happy club with the representatives of the employers and the Minister sitting down to say: Well, how can we go on and do a little more union bashing in this country? [More…]
Of course, whilst there was some questioning as to the legality of these measures, by and large the employers said: Well, if it is going to make it tougher for the trade union movement, if you think you can get away with it, let us have a go ‘. [More…]
The legislation has been brought in without the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Council of Australian [More…]
Thus, in the case of the Master Builders’ Association and the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation, Commissioner Taylor ordered a company to make good the wages withheld from members of the union who were on strike because, firstly, the amenities were unsatisfactory and, secondly, the company had failed to abide by an agreement for the settlement of the dispute by private arbitration. [More…]
In a further case of Hurst and the same union strike pay was awarded because the strike over the hazards caused by materials left lying around the building site was justified. [More…]
In a recent decision in the case of Costain Australia Pty Ltd and the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia, Mr Justice Alley of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission commented that there was no proper basis for payment for time lost as a result of industrial action unless the actions of the employer were so extreme that the refusal to work was the only reasonable course left open to the employees. [More…]
Industrial action in order to establish trade unionism in some places accounted for 4.4 per cent of disputes. [More…]
Does the Government think that as a result of amending the Act trade union members will say when they have lost a week’s work because of bad safety conditions prevailing on a building job that they do not want to be paid for it even though they lost the time because of bad management? [More…]
For the Government to involve itself in determining the behaviour that a union will have to adopt in order to remain a registered party is something that no one involved in industrial relations could have imagined in his wildest dreams. [More…]
The Government is taking away from the Commission its traditional role and giving itself the power, behind the cloak of the Governor-General in Executive Council, to determine the question of deregistration of unions. [More…]
As I have said, under the new provisions the Minister alone has the power to seek a declaration which means that for the six months after that declaration the Government can lay down the standards for the operation and behaviour of a trade union. [More…]
This can be determined not as a result of the actions of all the trade union members but as a result of the actions of only two or more members of that union. [More…]
Some unions in this country have 160,000 members. [More…]
If two or more of those members do anything which in the words of this amending Bill affects the safety, health or welfare of the people of this country a declaration can be sought from the Commission that if such behaviour occurs again within six months the union will be deregistered. [More…]
No union will tolerate this measure. [More…]
Everything that is done in this country affects the safety, health and welfare of people, but the Prime Minister wants to kick the trade union movement and use it as the last resort in order to stay Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
That is the reason why the measure was pushed through the National Labour Consultative Council when the unions were not present. [More…]
As time will tell, the trade union movement will not be able to subscribe to the powers that the Government has given itself. [More…]
No one in this House or in this nation should lose sight of one of the resolutions of the Australian Labor Party conference at Adelaide earlier this year to the effect that an Australian Labor Party government would recognise the rights of unions to regulate their affairs in a democratic way free from government and judicial interference. [More…]
The key to the reason why the honourable member for Port Adelaide is so opposed to this legislation is that the Labor Party is opposed to any form of regulation of or interference in trade union affairs by any government or by any jurisdiction. [More…]
In his speech, the honourable member for Port Adelaide seemed to lay some importance on the fact that the trade union movement did not participate in the National Labour Consultative Council discussions when the amendments proposed by this Bill were brought forward. [More…]
He seemed to lay at the feet of the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) all of the blame for the failure of the trade unions to attend that meeting. [More…]
On two occasions, the Minister wrote to the Australian Council of Trade Unions and to the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations inviting them- in fact, appealing to them- to participate in the NLCC discussions for the reason that he was proposing amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
But the trade union movement, showing its usual short-sightedness, refused to participate in those discussions. [More…]
That is why the trade union movement did not participate. [More…]
It was certainly not because of any failure on the part of the Minister; he did everything in his power to ensure that the trade unions would be represented. [More…]
He invited, and appealed to, the trade unions to come to those meetings. [More…]
Can the Minister be blamed because the unions did not attend? [More…]
I suggest that, for their own self-preservation, members of the Opposition take a good hard look at community thinking on the actions of the Opposition’s colleagues in the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Opposition believes that it can cling to the apron strings of the trade union movement and win elections, it has another jolly think coming to it. [More…]
The community will not tolerate unruly disruption by certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
Without a shadow of doubt, the trade union movement is dominated by the left wing of the Labor movement. [More…]
The purpose of the people on the opposite side of the chamber is to become the puppets of the left wing of the trade union movement. [More…]
I remind members on the opposite side that we accept our constitutional responsibilities to make laws for good government and good conduct of this country and regardless of what members of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the trade union movement generally and members on the opposite side of this House say, we will not shirk those responsibilities. [More…]
Quite obviously, he would be aware of the situation and I suspect that he would have taken part in private discussions about it with people in the trade union movement. [More…]
We once had a great Labor Party and a great union movement but by crikey they have been led down the mine by the people who now sit opposite, and the people of Australia need to accept that. [More…]
What happened- I am sure my colleague the honourable member for St George would remember it- was that that notable leader of the trade union movement, Mr Gallagher, decided to use guerrilla tactics to blackmail a $30 a week increase out of employers. [More…]
There was industrial disputation and the matter went before Commissioner Brown who said that the members of the union should be paid full wages for the five weeks of that dispute. [More…]
What the honourable member for Port Adelaide also did not say in his speech was that this Government cannot simply make an order for deregistration of a union. [More…]
What actions could the trade union movement take?’ [More…]
What government, acting responsibly, could allow unions to take that sort of irresponsible action and not respond to it? [More…]
What we will not do is to sit quietly by and allow the trade union movement to ride roughshod over this community. [More…]
Honourable members on the other side of the house would be prepared to do that because they are being dictated to by the left wing of the union movement. [More…]
I am not referring to the remarks of a trade union leader who has just read this draconian Bill but to comments that were made today by the member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) when citing Mr Justice Kirby. [More…]
They failed because the trade union movement was not convinced that it should commit itself to or abide by a compulsory arbitration system. [More…]
They failed because the unions refused to pay the fines, and they will refuse to pay the fines in the future. [More…]
The Australian Telecommunications Commission, after many months of attempted negotiation by the union, refused to negotiate any further. [More…]
Lo and behold, when the matter finally went before the Full Bench- not because the unions wanted the dispute to go there but because, through considerations of public interest, the unions were reaching a stage in the dispute when they had to move a little to gain a little- the Full Bench decided that it was an anomaly to have a $20 difference between the amount being paid to Telecom workers and the amount being paid to workers in like classifications in private enterprise. [More…]
When it suits the Government it introduces legislation of this nature for the express purpose of attempting to cajole the unions and the Commission into giving effect to its policies. [More…]
He pointed to the viciousness with which its provisions are to be applied and to some aspects that will be and must be under challenge by the trade union movement. [More…]
Perhaps time did not permit him to deal with one of the most important aspects of the Bill, namely, the question of deregistration of unions. [More…]
If deregistration took place in the past there was a limit to the extent that the union would find itself out of the traditional areas of the trade union movement. [More…]
The proposed section allows the Minister to apply for a declaration from a full bench of the Commission that industrial action by a union or its members has had, is having or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect on the safety, health or welfare of the community. [More…]
Where a declaration is made the Governor-General may, within a six-month period, order the deregistration of the union concerned, or in heu of, or before ordering the deregistration he may do certain other things. [More…]
In that six-month period the Minister will sit there like God and say: ‘You move one inch out of line and, as far as we are concerned, down will come the back of the axe in typical fashion and that union will be dealt with’. [More…]
It says that the Governor-General may suspend any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the union or all or any of its members under the Act or under any award; give directions as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that have been suspended; and provide for restricting the use of the funds or property of the union or branch and for the control of those funds or that property for the purpose of ensuring observance of the restrictions. [More…]
In other words, the GovernorGeneral may, for example, suspend the benefits flowing to members of the union under an award or may take control of the funds of the union in order to prevent the payment of strike pay or the publication of any material relating to the industrial action. [More…]
This particular clause of the legislation must put to challenge the trade union movement. [More…]
Do what the Government may, this section is doomed to failure because the Government is painting the trade union movement into a corner. [More…]
It is forcing the trade union movement to stand up and fight because no organisation worth its salt would accept this vicious legislation under any circumstances. [More…]
Where the registration of a union has been cancelled under proposed section 143 A, the union may not be re-registered without the consent of the Governor-General. [More…]
Where a union is re-registered subject to a condition specified by the Governor-General the Minister may at any time apply to a Full Bench of the Commission for a declaration that the union has not complied with the condition. [More…]
What union could accept them? [More…]
If the Minister still intends to hold the bludgeon over the head of the unions, what recourse do the unions have? [More…]
The Minister has a responsibility to the people of Australia, to the Parliament, and to the unions to explain precisely what this provision means. [More…]
The third objection is that the proposed section ignores the existing safeguard of a full judicial examination before the serious step of deregistering a union is taken; the Government may, by Executive act, deregister or take control of a union. [More…]
The proposed new section is designed to promote pimps, scabs and bludgers in union to do the bidding of this Government and anybody who wants to destroy the trade union movement. [More…]
This argument is at present before the High Court in the case of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union v. Wood. [More…]
They will be challenged in the courts and by every worker and by every union that is worth its salt. [More…]
The first criticism made by the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) was that the Bill had not been properly considered and no opportunity had been given to the union movement to consider the Bill. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide got up in this House and said that the Labor Party would consult with the union movement to do all the right things. [More…]
How can we help it if the union representatives failed to attend? [More…]
It seems now that the Opposition wants us to pass bills to force union representatives before the Consultative Council. [More…]
That council was set up precisely for the purpose of consultation between Government, the unions and the employers. [More…]
Now really, I think it is going a little too far to try to expect us to force Labor Party members and union representatives to go to Consultative Council meetings. [More…]
What happened to the close affiliation between the Labor Party and the union movement? [More…]
If ever a community has made a judgment on the sort of activity it wants to see in relation to the union movement, I believe that South Australians at that election clearly did so. [More…]
Certainly they want unions and they want unions to represent them and to look after their interests as long as these actions are reasonable. [More…]
I believe that the Australian community just does not believe that many sections of the union movement are acting reasonably. [More…]
He has just confirmed in this House that he wants to put the union movement above the law, outside the common law. [More…]
Is it not worthwhile for the members of a union to have a vote? [More…]
It lasted for 10 weeks and we saw exports thrown to the wind by the unions in Western Australia. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation of Australia and the Australian Workers Union were involved in a waterfront dispute over wheat with the Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd in Western Australia. [More…]
Export trade was under threat of being lost permanently because of the actions of these unions. [More…]
Industrial disputation is starting to increase in Australia and I believe we have to give the people within the unions the right to be heard. [More…]
It is hoped that this proposal will encourage unionists as a whole to exert a moderating influence on particular union members or officers who are prone to strike, rather than use the umpire, that is, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The difficulties faced in invoking the deregistration sanction in section 143 of the Act are clearly demonstrated in the case of industrial action earlier this year by the Transport Workers Union. [More…]
-This legislation is provocative; it is vicious; it is antiworker and it is anti-union. [More…]
However, the reality is that this legislation is just as much part of that same arsenal of weapons against trade unionists and wage and salary earners in Australia as those pieces of legislation in Western Australia and Queensland. [More…]
If one looks at the track record of this Government in industrial relations one finds that in October 1977 the amendments to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, otherwise known as the Industrial Relations Bureau legislation, introduced measures providing for the deregistration of a union, the seizing of union property and funds, fines on officers and rank and file trade unionists, suspension from office of union officers and the debarring of members of unions from standing for election to any position, full or part time. [More…]
The Queensland essential services legislation, which obviously is condoned by this Government, provides for the emasculation of unions, the encouragement of scab labour against unions, the sacking of employees who go on strike. [More…]
It provides for the imposition of massive fines, the deregistration of unions, the refusal of compensation to workers and the prohibition of employer-employee agreements based upon negotiation and conciliation. [More…]
It also allows union property to be sold off for the payment of fines imposed under the legislation. [More…]
Under it some local police constable can take it on himself to determine whether union leaders, trade unionists and workers will be allowed to conduct a meeting to discuss their affairs. [More…]
I turn now to what I consider to be the most iniquitous section of the legislation, that is, proposed new section 143 A which provides that the Minister may request that the Full Bench declare that a union is in breach of the legislation. [More…]
The Full Bench may then decide that the Governor-General may, within a six-month period, order the deregistration of the union concerned. [More…]
In lieu of or before ordering the deregistration he may suspend any of the rights, privileges or capacities of the union or of all or any of its members under the Act or any award, give directions as to the exercise of any rights, privileges or capacities that have been so suspended, and provide for restricting the use of the funds or property of the union or branch and for the control of those funds or that property for the purpose of ensuring observance of the restrictions. [More…]
The fact is that the Governor-General may, at any time within the next six months after that declaration is made, decide that the union in question ought to be deregistered and may later decide under what condition the union should be reregistered. [More…]
What he is saying is that after a declaration, if the union and the unionists become good boys and behave themselves- in effect become tame cat unionsthey may not be deregistered. [More…]
I ask honourable members: What union could accept that situation? [More…]
In 1 979 it is seeking to use him again to sack unions. [More…]
We could see the deregistration of a union on the say-so of the Governor-General, in conjunction with the Government, and we could then see the Government take control of union property. [More…]
But this crowd of union baiters are bankrupt of economic and industrial policy and that is the reason for this legislation. [More…]
We know also that the Labor Party is currently very much in the clutches of that section of the trade union movement, as evidenced by the decisions of the Adelaide conference of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
They had every opportunity to be there, but in line with the industrial action that was envisaged at that time by the union movement, the employees boycotted that particular meeting of the NLCC. [More…]
Today Australia has learnt with dismay of a further decision by the Telecom unions which threatens once again the telecommunications network of this country. [More…]
Notwithstanding the decision of State branches of the union body over the past week- two States voted not to proceed with the industrial action that was proposed - [More…]
But we find the hard core unionists in the State of New South Wales and the State of Victoria wanting to go ahead with militant action. [More…]
In that regard we found that the union leadership was not prepared to accept the umpire’s decision. [More…]
The union leadership stood right away from the recognised procedures of conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
Eventually there was a cave in by the union and its members agreed to further negotiations. [More…]
Weeks and months have gone by and now we find once again that the union members are demanding simply to get what they want. [More…]
That was for one reason: Irresponsibility on the part of the militant sections of the trade union movement of this country. [More…]
In other words, that Party wants to surrender completely to union domination. [More…]
If these are put at risk, following procedures that can only begin in the court itself, action can be taken to deregister a union. [More…]
We all know- members from both sides of the House know and the public knows- that we cannot take every unionist by the scruff of the neck and say: You will go back to work by tomorrow morning’. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne, if I recall, is a very experienced gentleman in terms of his time in the trade union movement, including his period as vice-president of the ACTU. [More…]
Is it suggested for two minutes that anybody from the peak councils, or from the trade union movement, was consulted or that- [More…]
The workers want to be at work; they want to earn their money and they do not want inter-union disputation. [More…]
The most common theme that I hear amongst union members and their families is from the wives who ask me: Why cannot we have a vote for a strike?’ [More…]
They will judge it on its policy which says that ‘the unions in Australia will run wild and do as they like; there will be no government interference, no government moderation; the government will stand back from that situation and let them run riot’. [More…]
It is interesting to note that at the ALP conference in Adelaide the person who I suppose will soon become a member of this House, Mr Bob Hawke, endeavoured to establish what would have been a democratic process for the union movement in Australia. [More…]
The left wing unions said: ‘We will not wear that’. [More…]
He said: ‘I am not going to be up there and cop it from everybody as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Fancy a union official with the experience and capacity of Charles Fitzgibbon not being on that body. [More…]
Bob Hawke has left the union movement. [More…]
The Labor Party has said that the union movement can run riot. [More…]
Its supporters have said: ‘We will let the unions run riot and we are not prepared to step in and act on behalf of Australian citizens’. [More…]
How many union members today break that oath of faith in their movement and go out and work in clubs and pubs around the country doing any casual job that they can get? [More…]
They are not concerned about their fellow unionists; they are after the finance that keeps their families going. [More…]
But the Labor Party will not espouse those causes, those principles of the union movement of Australia. [More…]
This legislation sets down firmly and solidly, as it is should, the principles that the union movement itself holds, one of which is: No work, no pay. [More…]
I think that when considering the other proposals of this legislation, such as referral to a full bench for deregistration, one only has to look at some of the disputes involving the Transport Workers Union of Australia and at the rights of the individuals in this matter. [More…]
Let them look to the newspaper article whose headline reads: Wran blasts unions for undermining jobs’. [More…]
The article refers to Mr Wran’s addressing shipbuilding unions and people in Newcastle and states: [More…]
So there we have a person in the Labor Partythe Premier of New South Wales- saying that there must be fairness, responsibility and dedication to the wellbeing of the union movement at large and not the selfish point of view that has been put forward tonight. [More…]
It would seem to me that the Labor Party, in its policy produced in Adelaide, has proposed a complete sellout of any rule of law, any sane and sensible industrial relations, in every union in this country. [More…]
There is no thought for moderate unions and the families of moderate unionists. [More…]
He is recognised by the union movement in Australia as being such. [More…]
The union movement, piqued at not being able to browbeat the Minister, has not seen fit to involve itself in proper discussions on this legislation. [More…]
The union movement has not seen fit to sit down and discuss these provisions. [More…]
The trade union movement, which knows the Minister well, also knows that he would not willingly be party to this kind of legislation. [More…]
Neither the Australian Industrial Court, the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, nor the trade union movement was consulted in the preparation of the Bill now before the Parliament. [More…]
I did not call the Council together, but on every occasion on which I sought to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act I sent copies of the proposed Bill to the judiciary, the unions and the employers before it was brought into this House. [More…]
On frequent occasions, as the parliamentary draftsmen will testify, I made substantial alterations to those drafts after receiving comments from the judiciary, the trade union movement and, on one occasion, even from the employers. [More…]
If two members of any union stop work in some remote corner of the Commonwealth, the Minister- not the judge, not the Full Bench- can ask the Full Bench of the Commission to give a certificate to the effect that there are two members on strike in the Gulf of Carpentaria. [More…]
If the Minister proves that two members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union are on strike the Full Bench is obligated to give the Minister a certificate that he has asked for - [More…]
We are going to deregister the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union or we are going to do something else’. [More…]
These two Ministers, sitting in Executive Council with the Governor-General, may freeze the whole of that union ‘s funds if that is how they feel moved to act. [More…]
They can direct that a specified officer of that union shall cease to hold office in the union. [More…]
They can order that a particular employee or group of employees shall not be permitted to contest a ballot for union office. [More…]
They can also order that a particular employee, and they can name him individually, or a group of employees- that is, nobody in South Australia, for instance- shall be permitted to vote in a union election, shall be permitted to nominate for any union office or shall be permitted to attend a union meeting. [More…]
By this means they will be able to stack the meetings by having their stooges at the meetings finding out who are the militants, getting their names and, in the Executive Council, directing that those particular members shall forthwith be disqualified from attending union meetings or voting at union meetings. [More…]
Should any of these remedies by sought be the Government, I am certain that it will force the trade union movement to court rather than to try to avoid deregistration in order to escape these oppressive, tyrannical and unjust features of the legislation. [More…]
The irony of the whole matter is that once the unions get into the arbitration system under the law as it now is, they are locked into it; they cannot get out. [More…]
A union gets in by application but it cannot get out of the system once it is in except by expulsion. [More…]
Deregistration will remain the only alternative that the unions will have open to them. [More…]
Australia’s system of conciliation and arbitration cannot work without the co-operation of the trade unions. [More…]
How can the system work if it does not have trade unions registered, if the only organisations which are registered with the arbitration system are the employers? [More…]
He criticised me for seeking to give unions immunity from actions for torts arising out of strike action. [More…]
That case was followed by a case against officers of the Australian Workers Union in the same year, 1902, when Spence and Macdonell were charged under the provision of the Taff Vale law. [More…]
The truth is that the honourable member has been interfering in union matters for his own political purposes and in support of the disgraceful attitude of the employer, Metro Meats Ltd who now operate the former Conkey ‘s Abattoirs. [More…]
Under the excuse that he was acting for members of the union to get the works reopened, he was trying to persuade the workers to accept the employer’s proposition that their rates of pay and conditions of employment be covered by a federal award. [More…]
The honourable member’s campaign included the use of all local media outlets, the manipulation of a small minority of gullible union members and pushing his spurious claims that the dismissed employees would not be entitled to the dole because they were on strike, although he knew in reality that they had in fact been stood down. [More…]
After consultation the union informed management that it would not agree to this change. [More…]
The union members have offered repeatedly to go back to work under the existing State award pending the result of the Commission’s hearings. [More…]
These telegrams referred to meetings of a minority of union members organised by the honourable member for Hume in Cootamundra on Saturday, 1 1 August. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member will refrain from future excursions into union business. [More…]
The AMIEU is a union with a long and proud record. [More…]
In the 1965 elections, voter turnout was 78 percent; in 1970, 70 per cent; and in 1975, 82 per cent All three elections were contested by the Tanganyika African National Union (the then sole party on mainland Tanzania) and the Afro-Shirazi Party (the then sole party in Zanzibar). [More…]
In 1977 the Tanganyika African National Union and the AfroShirazi Party combined to form what is now the sole legal political party in Tanzania, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi [More…]
But, of course, any of the five permanent members- the United States of America, Britain, France, the People’s Republic of China and the Soviet Union- has the right of veto. [More…]
The prime element behind what is transpiring in Indo-China is not restricted solely to the People’s Republic of China and Vietnam, but in fact to the variants within the play of the four communist states- the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam and, to a lesser extent because of its control by Vietnam, Kampuchea. [More…]
I speak in particular of the Unemployed Workers Union because it was the Unemployed Workers Union in Canberra which sent out an invitation which, among other things, called on people to bring a friend, or two, and a plate, old tomatoes, eggs, et cetera. [More…]
It was also the Unemployed Workers Union which, from a post office box in Canberra- No. [More…]
1875- sent out a leaflet saying that the union opposed the idea of having a conference. [More…]
It appears to me that the Vietnamese Government, backed by the Soviet Union, is now determined to mount another offensive in Kampuchea for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of the Pol Pot regime. [More…]
I believe that the Vietnam Government, and the Soviet Union, which supports it, seek to mount another offensive for the principal purpose of obtaining international recognition for the Heng Samrin regime in Vietnam. [More…]
Therefore, one has to ask whether we could remove from Vietnam and the Soviet Union the incentive to mount another bloody offensive. [More…]
It is also interesting to note that a considerable amount of Australian wheat is getting into Kampuchea via the Soviet Union. [More…]
At present, the Soviet Union provides about $2m of military aid to Vietnam each day. [More…]
The delivery of wheat to Vietnam from the Soviet Union- wheat that has been purchased in Australia- is something that we should keep under review; but it is hoped that the supplies are going to the people concerned. [More…]
Only the Soviet Union and the United States have the capacity for the air transportation of huge amounts of equipment, material and other aid. [More…]
The Soviet Union bears a heavy degree of moral responsibility for the recent invasion by Vietnam and that country is supplying food as well. [More…]
If this legislation provides that a trade union can be granted a certain amount of money by a commissioner and that amount can be changed by the deputy president in favour of consistency and against the arguments that the commissioner has heard, obviously this Parliament is adopting a bad law. [More…]
An appeal by the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union over the constitutional validity of that legislation is now before the High Court of Australia. [More…]
In 1 930 in the case of the Australian Railways Union v. Victorian Railways Commissioners the High Court held invalid provisions which allowed conciliation committees comprising persons not members of the then Court of Conciliation and Arbitration to make decisions without hearing argument. [More…]
As well as being in close consultation with the trade union movement, on occasions I do have conversations with those from employer organisations. [More…]
I am not arguing for complete conformity, but I believe that this process of consultation will assist those in the union movement who are in weak bargaining positions. [More…]
This derives from the judgment of the High Court in R. v. Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; ex parte Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1967. [More…]
I am proposing to give the members of the Electrical Trades Union an extra $5’. [More…]
We need to understand the situation that was being dealt with in the dispute between the Australian Railways Union and the Victorian Railways. [More…]
He then said that neither employers nor unions support it. [More…]
I reiterate the points which I made in my second reading speech, namely, that the opportunity was given to the union movement to come along and discuss these amendments with us. [More…]
The unions did not take advantage of that opportunity. [More…]
-Clause 4 of this amending legislation goes to the very hean of the problem which we face in the Australian community- the disruptive activity of irresponsible trade unions. [More…]
In the industrial relations scene in recent times we have seen a significant shift in power towards the unions, especially union leadership, and away from employers and government. [More…]
The attitude revealed by the Australian Labor Party Opposition in this debate highlights the attitude of the trade union movement. [More…]
It seeks the protection of the law when it is to the advantage of the unions but seeks to escape from the provisions of the law when that law is to the disadvantage of the unions. [More…]
The lack of responsibility by the trade union leadership in the industrial relations sphere is of major concern to the people of Australia. [More…]
Many constituents have personally complained to me about the disruption that they experience through the activities of trade unions. [More…]
The reports indicate that that survey showed that the abuse of trade union power and industrial disruption were major issues in the minds of people resident in the Kingston electorate. [More…]
Its aim is to ensure that militant trade unions do not get privileges to which they are not entitled. [More…]
The unhappy fact that we face is that the militant union leadership today is getting way out of touch with the day-to-day desires and aspirations of the average union membership. [More…]
Clause 4 is very important in the process of overcoming union militancy and protecting the rights of the average citizen. [More…]
I think it is worth reiterating the need for workers and grassroots members of unions to involve themselves actively in the affairs of their unions to ensure that the leadership accurately reflects their views and takes action appropriate to their wishes. [More…]
I believe it is especially important that they become involved with the election of union office bearers through secret ballots. [More…]
In the most recent case of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia v. Costain in 1979, Mr Justice Alley stated the position of the Commission when he said that there was no proper basis for payment for time lost as a result of industrial action unless the actions of the employer were so extreme that the refusal to work was the only reasonable course open to the employees. [More…]
If the union cannot negotiate, it will black ban that job until the matter is resolved. [More…]
They are so one eyed in their attitude towards the trade union movement and its members that any law will do. [More…]
When the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, employers and trade union representatives search the Hansard record tomorrow for the answers that ought to have been given by the Minister, they will find a vacuum. [More…]
This is most important in order to avoid union blackmail. [More…]
Some years ago it was apparent that certain unscrupulous union bosses had devised a tactic to cause serious damage to employers. [More…]
A week goes by and then, just as the parties come to the court, the union, by that time having bled the employer dry of all liquid funds, calls off the strike and the workers go back to work. [More…]
Of course, the unions always fight tooth and nail against having stand-down clauses inserted. [More…]
Whenever the employers go to the Commission, the unions put up every sort of tactic. [More…]
The past master as far as these socalled settlements are concerned is Mr Hawke, who used to come in at the tail end of disputes and take the credit for settling them when really the employee’s union had managed to settle those disputes by blackmail tactics. [More…]
Firstly, I hope it will encourage unionists as a whole to exert a moderating influence on union members or officers who want to strike rather than to use the processes of arbitration. [More…]
The Australian people are sick and tired of arrogant trade union bosses calling them out on strike without any reasonable cause. [More…]
The great, traditional trade unionists always understood that the trade unions developed in order to assist employees in certain circumstances where the employees were prepared to go on strike. [More…]
They all have the right to strike but it is up to the union funds to provide financial assistance to those members who go on strike. [More…]
That is why union dues are paid. [More…]
It is the union funds- the $ 18m or similar huge amounts that the largest unions in Australia have locked away, and one remembers the good legislation that the Government has introduced in regard to disclosure- which should be used to provide the wherewithal for employees who go out on strike, and not the employers funds or the profits that keep the business going and consequently provide employment, and not the taxpayers’ funds because it is the taxpayer who is the ultimate employer where the public sector is concerned. [More…]
Sometimes they do not want to strike but the union forces them to. [More…]
I am quite certain that, if the vast majority of unionists have this point brought home to them instead of getting paid when they are on strike, as at present, they will take a new line. [More…]
The day has to come when we have to enfranchise wives into the union system. [More…]
One day in this country wives will get a vote in union office elections so that they can come in and help kick out the left wing and communist leaders of the trade unions through the ballot box. [More…]
Also, in those exceptional cases where there are secret ballots, wives should be included on issues so that they will have a fair say and will not be subject to this union blackmail. [More…]
A person may be democratically elected by any trade union, right wing, left wing, centre or whatever it may be, but the Government is giving itself the power over the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, over the judicial review of the deregistration processes which are now in order, to bring about total confrontation with the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
Could honourable members imagine what would happen if a union with 100,000 members has half a dozen members take action in a locality over which the central office or the State branch has very little capacity to override what they do. [More…]
Because of that action of a very small group out of a total membership of 100,000 or 150,000 members we find the Government giving itself the power to suspend a union offical, to freeze the union’s funds, to suspend any of its activities, virtually to tell that union under a bonding system that for six months there will be no industrial confrontation and virtually to tell the employers involved in that industry: ‘Take whatever action you like against these employees in this industry because if they take any action under the bond which we have set for their behaviour we are going to deregister them’. [More…]
I ask honourable members to look at the clause and the powers that two Ministers, acting with the GovernorGeneral, are going to try and enforce on the trade union movement. [More…]
I emphasise to members opposite, and quite proudly we should all say, that at least in this country we have a free trade union movement. [More…]
Overwhelmingly these unions subscribe to conciliation and arbitration. [More…]
This law cuts across all that It will mean a loss of respect, not only for the Parliament because we have not understood fully the law that has been passed, but it will undermine the relationship between the Government and the trade union movement of this country. [More…]
It shows its bias by the fact that the whole legislation is aimed at the trade union movement and not just, as the Minister or Government would have us believe, at one or two militant groups. [More…]
How can any union keep control over its total membership? [More…]
We again were going to introduce a similar Bill in 1972 and the trade unions decided not to proceed with their tactics. [More…]
I agreed that the Parliament should be called together in order to ensure that a Bill containing similar clauses to these would be introduced, but the trade union movement did not care to stand up to the fight. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies tried to discover a way of altering the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to give him the power to prevent communist union officials from holding office, and to prevent people who were declared by the Minister to be supporters of Marx and Lenin from holding office. [More…]
It said that any person who supported any of the principles or teachings of Marx or Lenin would be ineligible to hold office in any trade union. [More…]
Under this Bill, once a certificate is issued by the Conciliation Commission to the effect that there is a stoppage of work in a particular union which affects the welfare of the community, the Minister will have the right to declare that particular members of that union shall not be eligible to continue to hold office, or that particular members of the union shall not be eligible to contest a ballot for office, or that particular members of a union may not be eligible to record a vote in an election for union officials, or that a particular member or members shall be prohibited from attending a union meeting, voting at a union meeting or attending a meeting of workers on a particular job. [More…]
Of course, the answer lies in the increasing power of the militant extremists of the Left in the trade union movement. [More…]
It should be noted that this is happening despite a widening gulf between the attitudes of the militant union leaders and the grass roots union membership. [More…]
We need to remember the long historical ties between the Labor Party and the trade union movement and especially between the party and the trade union leadership. [More…]
The very origin of the Labor Party goes back to when the trade union movement decided to achieve through Parliament what it could not get through industrial force. [More…]
Thus when the trade union movement becomes more extreme inevitably so does the Labor Party. [More…]
The reason is the direct link between the Labor Party and the trade union movement which has expressed opposition to these clauses. [More…]
The voters, particularly in South Australia, are very much aware of the attempts of the Trades Hall to foist left wing union candidates into safe Labor seats at both State and Federal levels. [More…]
it is apparent that the executive officers of the union have endeavoured to establish an unreasonable domination of employers and indeed of employees by intimidatory actions, arrogant, vulgar, and insulting communications, mass violence to property, and menaces, sometimes in mass, and sometimes terrifying to persons . [More…]
Despite that it was very difficult for that union to be deregistered. [More…]
The importance is emphasised by the link between the Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
In fact, Australia has made significant sales already, including three million tonnes to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which has to be supplied by the middle of next year. [More…]
A number of trade unions in Western Australia have already been fined and a number are facing charges. [More…]
Unionists have even been arrested without warrant and incarcerated for having attended meetings, which action in Western Australia is contrary to the law. [More…]
We have had the spectacle of a national strike because unionists have been arrested without warning and subsequently fined for having attended a meeting of their trade unions. [More…]
If such legislation is allowed to persist in this country which means that people can be incarcerated or fined simply because they have expressed their democratic rights it will lead to a very fascist-like domination of the trade union movement and many other movements. [More…]
In this particular case the people involved held a meeting to discuss the rights of their fellow trade unionists, an action which the Conciliation and Arbitration Act well encourages. [More…]
It is quite ridiculous to think that the national Parliament will abdicate its responsibilities when we can have a complete confrontation with the whole of the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
The trade unions are entitled to confront this Government; they are entitled to call further national strikes if this repressive legislation remains. [More…]
The history of the case started in last June when two union officials attended a meeting and, following that meeting, were arrested when they got to Perth. [More…]
The union officials concerned were Mr Carmichael and Mr Marks. [More…]
They had attended a meeting at Port Hedland to address their fellow unionists in respect of an industrial relations seminar. [More…]
The local union convenor, Don Bartlem, orally asked permission from the local police to hold a march. [More…]
It was pointed out to the police that only a week before the Seamen’s Union had marched in Port Hedland after getting permission, on virtually the same day, from the Police Commissioner in Perth by means of telex communication with the Port Hedland office. [More…]
When he was complaining about the situation in Western Australia he also failed to mention that the responsible unions have not supported the left wing unions in that State. [More…]
Mr Ivan Sands, the head of the moderate group of trade unions, secretariat in the Pilbara, has said that all these confrontations are to use his words, ‘completely contrived’. [More…]
He pointed out that the confrontations have come about because permission to hold these assemblies had not been sought by the union persons concerned. [More…]
The unions had not sought permission and therefore the police had not given permission and therefore for all intents and purposes the unions have been in breach of laws similar to those that apply in the Labor States. [More…]
Many union officials are involved in these demonstrations. [More…]
As we found out the recent demonstration of the Unemployed Workers Union carried out in Canberra was one in which they circularised young people and said: [More…]
In the interpretation of this provision successive governments have followed two basic principles: Firstly, the Government cannot permit unemployment benefit in effect to become strike pay; secondly, responsibility for sponsorship or support of a strike by a trade union must be accepted equally by all members of that union. [More…]
The Bill provides that unemployment benefit will not be payable to a person whose unemployment was or is due to industrial action by him or by members of a union of which he is a member. [More…]
But the organisers of the demonstration of which the throwers and the spitters were a pan- the Unemployed Workers Union-cannot simply dissociate themselves from the disgraceful incident and hope to emerge blameless. [More…]
One of the organisers of the demonstration, a representative of the Unemployed Workers Union, Mr Paddy Garrity, who is well known throughout Australia for his pro-ALP sympathies. [More…]
Mr Lowe, the Premier of the State, said that the Unemployed Workers Union dissociated itself from violence, but he did not say that the ALP did so. [More…]
It is using the Unemployed Workers Union as its front for violence. [More…]
This article quotes the former Federal President of the Storemen and Packers Union, Mr Fred Nicol, as saying: [More…]
Mr Nicol said that when this was raised with the management the union was told that the Vietnamese were better workers and more willing. [More…]
Later in the report Mr Nicol said that his union: [More…]
It involved alleged discrimination against British migrants by the same man and the same union. [More…]
It is unlawful … to prevent or hinder another person from joining a trade union by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that other person. [More…]
In the same article there are comments from other union officers that they have had no trouble with Vietnamese or refugee members of their unions. [More…]
I think that that is to the credit of those union officials. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Special Trade Representations and Acting Minister for Trade and Resources inform the House of the outcome of his recent talks with the New Zealand authorities on closer economic union and what action has been taken, or is contemplated, by the two governments concerned? [More…]
Political union is not being considered, and I emphasise that. [More…]
The amendments will give a Minister the right to start deregistration of a union or part of one engaging in any industrial action harming community safety, health or welfare. [More…]
As has been made clear in debate from this side of the Parliament and throughout the community- not just from the trade union and professional association side of the community but from employer representatives toothese represent draconian powers and will bring into discredit the conciliation and arbitration system of this country. [More…]
Mainly they are senior representatives from the union movement, from government or from the employers. [More…]
Part of the judgment of the High Court of Australia, in the case of the Australian Railways Union v. Victorian Railways Commissioner states: [More…]
I point out that the Government also sought to consult with national representatives of employers and trade unions on this proposed legislation. [More…]
The members of the Opposition who make such a lot of noise about consultation might go back to their friends in the trade union movement and ask them what views they put when they had the opportunity. [More…]
When they get nothing but silence, they might ask the trade unions why they did not put any views at all. [More…]
The unions advised me that they would not be attending. [More…]
I wrote back to the unions on 26 [More…]
We know who the puppets are; every member of the Australian Labor Party in this House is, in fact, a puppet of the trade union movement because the trade union movement controls the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The legislation is designed to promote and protect the individual against abuse of trade union power. [More…]
-Yes, trade union officials. [More…]
The honourable member said that I interfered in union matters. [More…]
I said and continue to say that members of the union concerned in Cootamundra have it in their hands to make their own decisions, that they do not have to be used as pawns by the union officials in Sydney. [More…]
The union itself said it would be bound by the majority in Cootamundra but refused to call a meeting on the award issue between 1 1 May and 25 August. [More…]
Are we to accept that union officials have a monopoly on the right to speak, as the honourable member for Parramatta would suggest? [More…]
I did not interfere in union affairs. [More…]
The union interfered with the right of 320 people to work, 200 of whom are still not employed. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta speaks with pride of that union. [More…]
It is a union which has caused more disruption than probably any other. [More…]
It is a union which has contributed nothing but disorder and chaos to a great Australian industry. [More…]
They were organised by concerned union members and former employees who wanted their jobs back and were not concerned about the technicalities of award coverage. [More…]
It is to the credit of those people, not me, that they were prepared to indicate their dissatisfaction with the way in which their situation was being handled by the union. [More…]
The union has emerged from the whole affair with no credit. [More…]
The facts are that the honourable member for Hume sought to involve himself in a union dispute when he had no right to do so. [More…]
Incidentally, that association is the association which covers the management of company meatworkers- went to see Mr Fred Hall, the secretary of the Federal Branch of the AMIEU, and stated the company does not condone any statements being made (or meetings called) by Stephen Lusher or any other political figures, because the dispute is between the union and Metro only and decisions that may come out of these meetings will have no bearing on the opening of the works. [More…]
And one overwhelming point that was put to me by the trade union officials and the workers there unanimously was . [More…]
what right have you, the Australian trade union movement to tell us, the Japanese people, about the dangers of nuclear power. [More…]
They have been through it and they have made an economic decision endorsed by the trade union movement that in terms of the economic needs of Japan, it is essential that they have nuclear generated power. [More…]
The Soviet Union introduced fairly all-embracing laws regarding its citizenship and the ramifications of these laws should be responded to, I believe, with the best of legal advice available, both at private international law and public international law. [More…]
For example, between 1956 and 1958 the Soviet Union concluded bilateral agreements with Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland and Mongolia. [More…]
Unlike the Conventions concluded between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, which require only that a person seek the consent of the State in which he is not resident but whose nationality he wishes to retain, Chapter II of the Council of Europe Convention requires that a person seek the consent of the State whose nationality he wishes to renounce. [More…]
between 1956 and 1958 the Soviet Union included bilateral agreements with Yugoslavia - [More…]
I remember speaking at a meeting of the InterParliamentary Union in Majorca how I astounded some of my co-delegates when I set out some of the complaints I had against the laws and the government of this country. [More…]
It may have a good deal more in common with the system of the Soviet Union. [More…]
It appears that the Department of Industrial Relations played no part in the drafting of the amendments, that no member of this Commission was consulted and no trade union or employer or peak council representing employees or employers was consulted. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech claimed that the “initial proposals” (but not, apparently, the final proposals) were shown to some persons present at the National Labour Consultative Council, but he admits that no trade union representatives were present at that meeting. [More…]
He does not claim that those “initial proposals” were forwarded to the trade union representatives who were entitled to be at the meeting, or left in the possession of the employers’ representatives present. [More…]
I wish to add to the count a ruling I gave in a dispute between the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists and the Australian Postal Commission on 26 April 1979 (Print D9961)-a ruling which provoked a certain displeasure in high places at the time. [More…]
In the particular case an employee had carried out 99.999 per cent of his duties, omitting one of trifling significance as a work task but of monstrous import to the bureaucratic mind, for by reason of a union ban he had declined to sign a document which was otherwise authentic, complete and accurate, lacking merely his mark. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the concern of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union that occupational as well as family and community health standards are threatened by the lack of research into the Zoonoses disease to which meat workers are exposed. [More…]
1 ) I am aware of this concern of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. [More…]
In view of the Government’s reluctant decision to consult with the President of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, Sir John Moore, regarding the consultation provisions of the conciliation and arbitration legislation, will the Government delay the Bill in order that talks can be held with the peak councils of the trade union movement? [More…]
Not one trade union representative will be a member of that body. [More…]
These truck drivers, it might be stressed, were suffering the consequences of their own staunch refusal to join a trade union, a refusal which brought about their oppression at the hands of big contractors. [More…]
If, on the other hand, a strike is called by members of a trade union, it is immediately labelled as unwarranted and extreme. [More…]
Suddenly the dreaded spectre of the much despised unionism, the act of banding together to survive the system and to eke out a fair return on their investment became the panacea to save them from their plight. [More…]
The hapless Mr Laws, without even realising what he was doing, was in fact emphasising the absolute necessity for people like the truckies and every other group of workers to be united in a union if ever they were to survive in the jungle of big business. [More…]
They have no hope of surviving the extreme forces of the free enterprise system if they are not unionised and united and, most importantly, do not have the hard-won right, as the truckies did not, to withdraw their labour as their only weapon against harsh oppressive employers. [More…]
For Fraser, beset by an increasingly cheeky opposition and falling personal popularity it was all grist for the union bashing mill. [More…]
If the petition turns out to be another cudgel in Fraser ‘s anti-union arsenal we might also reflect . [More…]
I would hope that now that Mr Laws has returned to Sydney, attracted no doubt by a huge salary, he might adopt a more responsible attitude to the privilege that he is given by the people of Australia to use the public air waves by putting his time to better use than bashing unionists. [More…]
The union people of Australia, the workers of Australia, are the backbone of this nation. [More…]
The working group report rejects the idea that unemployment will result from the construction of the satellite but the Australian Labor Party, the union movement and many Australians have strong doubts on this subject. [More…]
We would have to go to the Soviet Union or China to see a comparable concentration of media control. [More…]
I notice that at page 145 of the report the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union and the Australian Telecommunications Employees Association submissions are quoted as follows: [More…]
I deal firstly with the availability of unemployment benefits to people who are not involved in strike action but who are stood down as a result of industrial action by other members of their union. [More…]
They may not be involved in strike action and they may even live outside the State in which their union is engaged in an industrial dispute but they are stood down. [More…]
Because they belong to the same union they will be excluded from receiving unemployment benefits. [More…]
Yet people who may support that strike, who work in the same factory as the people who are on strike, who are stood down and who could, in fact, exert some pressure on the strikers, will still be eligible for unemployment benefits because they do not belong to the same union. [More…]
After paying a lot of lip service to the principle of reducing the number of unions- I have some reservations on this, though I realise I am in a minority, probably on both sides of the Housethe Government is saying to people that they are worse off if they belong to a large union than if they belong to a small union. [More…]
If a person belongs to the Australian Workers Union, which covers 150,000 or 200,000 people all over Australia, and he is stood down as a result of a strike in which Australian Workers Union members are actively participating, he will no longer be able to obtain unemployment benefits. [More…]
Even though he may be an AWU member working in a completely different industry in a country area in New South Wales, he will automatically be stood down because he belongs to the same union. [More…]
The situation would be different if the union movement were more fragmented- I point out again that the Government believes this would not be in the interests of industrial peace, therefore the Government does not advocate it-and the refinery workers at Kurnell belonged to a small State union. [More…]
In fact they want to belong to such a union rather than to the Federal AWU but the Government is objecting to it. [More…]
If they belonged to a different union other people would not have their eligibility to unemployment benefits affected by a strike at Kurnell. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Bill will also have the effect of depriving innocent victims of industrial action, sometimes in another State, of any income support at all if that action has been taken by members of the same union. [More…]
In the past, unionists actually on strike have been denied unemployment benefits. [More…]
The amendments to the Social Services Act seek to extend this denial to any unionist, belonging to the same union as the striking union, who may be stood down as a result of the strike. [More…]
This denial is quite irrespective of the fact that the unionist may be in another establishment, may be in another State, may be ignorant of the strike and may even be opposed to the strike. [More…]
I believe that this quite savage welfare punishment of unionists as the result of the industrial action of fellow unionists is wrong in principle. [More…]
We do not subscribe to the position where a unionist, with all the weapons and control at his command, does not have enough intestinal fortitude to go to his union meeting to tell those people who are leading him that they are wrong, that they are adopting an un-Australian attitude. [More…]
One can turn to the other aspect of the legislation which deals with the denial of unemployment benefits to people who are unemployed as a result of a strike which affects their union. [More…]
In fact, it reinforces the Fraser Government’s philosophy of union bashing. [More…]
If the Government wants to cripple union action- I guess there is no need for me to say ‘if; it is showing plenty of signs of wanting to do it- it should use industrial measures, not the provisions of the Social Services Act. [More…]
This Bill is a divisive and heartless way of making war against the union movement. [More…]
If, for example, a husband and wife are in the same union and the wife voted against strike action and was not involved in it, the family still cannot receive any benefit, even if the breadwinners are supporting children. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) is on record in the Age of 13 October 1977 urging the Government to reconsider its proposals to stop dole payments to workers who are stood down in a strike and who belong to the same union as the strikers. [More…]
The Bill provides for a wide definition of trade unions. [More…]
Even deregistered unions would be covered under this legislation. [More…]
The Government is attempting to widen the catch-all provisions of that section to ensure that anyone who is associated with any union that may be on strikeo is in a particular area and who is stood down shall not receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
They said an example was a stoppage by the Vehicle Builders Union in South Australia which led to the standing down of workers at plants in Victoria because of lack of work and shortage of parts. [More…]
What effect could those vehicle builders in Victoria have on a decision that is arrived at by a completely autonomous branch of the union in South Australia? [More…]
We could have the ridiculous situation where under the provisions of this Act, if the electricians or the power workers and the members of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia in some State decided to put on bans and limitations any electrician or member of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union covered by the electricians award could find that he could be stood down in some industry although he has had absolutely nothing to do with the decision taken by the group of workers in some other part of the State or country. [More…]
But to make sure that the Government catches as many people as it can it has provided for a very wide definition of a trade union. [More…]
The definition of a trade union in this Bill includes any organisation or association of employees, whether corporate or unincorporate, that exists or is carried on for the purpose, or for purposes that include the purpose, of furthering the interests of its members in relation to their employment. [More…]
It could cover a deregistered union or it could cover a union for management people. [More…]
Who is going to decide who is and who is not in a union. [More…]
I can assure the House that the unions are not going to make their records available to members of the Government so that the Government can find out who are members of the union. [More…]
What happens to people who are in two unions- those who may belong to a professional association as well as a union. [More…]
Frankly at that stage he almost gave it away, but he happened to run into his union representative, who insisted that he go to see the union solicitor. [More…]
In an excellent booklet just published by the Printing and Kindred Industries Union a number of items are put forward as to what is occurring in industry. [More…]
The unions are doing their best to salvage something out of the changes that are taking place as far as technology is concerned, but all they have been able to salvage is the right to see that none of their present members is dismissed from employment. [More…]
The unions are not able to guarantee that the jobs available in industry today will be there in the future for the children who come out of the educational institutions. [More…]
If we look at some of the instances given in the booklet printed by the Printing and Kindred Industries Union we will see that the Government ought to be initiating a great deal more debate and discussion on this subject in the Parliament. [More…]
Only in rare instances thus far in Australia has management seen fit to inform trade union officials and employees in advance of the purchase and installation of new technology. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), who is interjecting at the moment, has not made the kind of case that he might have made had he followed the arguments put forward by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) in a recent speech to the Printing and Kindred Industries Union. [More…]
All I can say to industry- both industrial management and the trade union movement- in Australia is that Australia is extraordinarily well placed. [More…]
If members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union went on strike over a dispute in Adelaide and if General Motors-Holden’s Ltd or Ford Motor Co. of Australia Ltd in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane went to all their employees and said: ‘Because our supply of tyres has been cut off from Adelaide we can no longer continue in production, so we are standing you all down’, all the manufacturing industries related to the motor vehicle industry in Australia would close down. [More…]
But a person who is a member of the union- that is the metal workers unionwhich decided to go on strike at the Uniroyal works in Adelaide, when he goes to the counter to register to receive the unemployment benefit, will find that under this legislation the Government has devised a mechanism whereby that person will be denied the benefit. [More…]
However, members of other unions who are stood down and who are not involved in the dispute at the Uniroyal plant in Adelaide will receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Under this legislation a fitter, boilermaker, sheetmetal worker and an instrument maker in Brisbane can be stood down because the car plant cannot receive tyres from Adelaide but only those people who belong to the metal workers union will be denied the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Those people who belong to another union such as the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia or the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union- the people who work in the canteens at these works- will be entitled to receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Such a person has to go home to his family and say: ‘Look, we have been stood down because of an industrial dispute 2,000 miles away but I am told that because I am a member of the same union that went on strike in Adelaide, I cannot receive any unemployment benefit from the Government’. [More…]
How is it that a person living in another State, in another country town, working in another establishment, can be denied the unemployment benefit, which would otherwise be his due, because a member of his union went on strike? [More…]
Almost every industry in Australia would involve members of the metal workers union because of the specific work that they do. [More…]
The union has 160,000 members spread throughout Australia. [More…]
If the members of a union go on strike in an industry which supplies components to major manufacturers and as a result all those industries are closed down, only the members of the metal workers union will be unable to get the unemployment benefit. [More…]
If a person is a member of another union he can get the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The comical feature of clause 35 is how the Department of Social Security is to tell to which union a person belongs. [More…]
Will those people who seek to register have to show their union card to the Department before a decision is made? [More…]
Later definitions by the honourable William Wentworth when he was the Minister for Social Services laid down that where some members of a union were in dispute, as a result of that dispute other members of that union were stood down. [More…]
It is not unreasonable to draw attention to a union such as the Miscellaneous Workers Union or the Australian Workers Union whose awards cover a massive diversity of occupations. [More…]
Members within those unions do not necessarily attend- and in the case of the AWU they do not attend at all- meetings of members covered by other sections of the union. [More…]
They have, in fact, an amalgamation of a number of small unions. [More…]
Yet under this legislation if members of that union, for instance, were involved in the power dispute in Queensland, because of some narrow association of their membership they would be deemed ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
In a dispute in Victoria a few years ago, because one member of a union involved in a power dispute- the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation of Australia which the honourable member for Port Adelaide mentioned- the persons employed by the companies involved, namely the Ford Motor Company of Australia Ltd and General Motors-Holden’s Ltd, and other vehicle builders union employing organisations in Melbourne which were neither in the dispute nor stood to benefit from the dispute, were all deemed to be ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
I submit to the Committee that in taking this legislation to the stage at which it is now before the chamber, the Government is merely providing for a punishment for persons for being members of a trade union, of a protective association for their rights. [More…]
That is the import and the meaning of this piece of legislation- to punish a person because he is a member of a trade union, not because he is involved in an industrial dispute and not because he is in any way supporting or in control of an industrial dispute, or has any say or derives any benefit from that dispute. [More…]
What the Government is doing here is saying that if a trade union covers a particular area where a dispute exists, all persons throughout Australia who are members of that trade union stand to lose, whether or not they have any say. [More…]
It feels that unions are unpopular and it feels that unemployment benefit recipients are unpopular. [More…]
So it feels free to legislate in order to punish people for being members of unions or for taking industrial action. [More…]
But in this case the Government is not punishing the person taking the action; it is seeking to punish any person who is a member of a trade union which is involved in an industrial dispute. [More…]
I draw the Committee’s attention to the breadth of the cover of some organisations within the trade union movement. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young), in his usual histrionic manner, tried to suggest that the Government in some way is taking some dreadful step against all unionists by bringing in this proposal for unemployment benefits to be refused to those members of a union who are unemployed as a result of industrial action related to their particular union. [More…]
Surely it has been obvious to this country for many years that the tactic of the trade unions is no longer to have the old form of strike, to call out the union. [More…]
Now they create the industrial atmosphere that they require by calling out a few key workers and use the taxpayers’ money to meet union responsibilities. [More…]
Unions are going out on strike. [More…]
There is a responsibility for the rank and file members of the unions. [More…]
Union members have to say to the handful of people causing these pinpricking strikes; ‘Cut it out; don’t do it, it is starting to affect us as well as everybody else’. [More…]
We are part of the same union and we support your strike but we do not want to be held responsible for it. ‘ [More…]
The Government- and through the Government the taxpayer- cannot be expected to pay union responsibilities. [More…]
Unions extract an enormous amount annually in fees from their members and put that money into coffers so they can pay Australian Labor Party campaign funds, as well as use it for other nefarious purposes. [More…]
Clause 36 has the effect of denying unemployment benefits to someone who, as a result of industrial action perhaps in another State, is involved indirectly in industrial action because he is a member of the same union. [More…]
It is one thing to suggest that someone who has struck ought not to be paid unemployment benefits; it is another matter to suggest that someone indirectly involved, who is not part of the decision to strike but who is in the same union in perhaps another State, ought to be refused his benefits. [More…]
Only a week or so ago we heard the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) maligning the Unemployed Workers Union for its efforts simply to organise the unemployed in various cities. [More…]
What else have the unemployed got if they cannot get themselves together in terms of their own union? [More…]
In this House, the Prime Minister talked about the Unemployed Workers Union being some kind of way out organisation which has no right to express a view or dissent on behalf of its members in the various States of Australia who are bearing the full dint of this Government’s economic policies. [More…]
The only point I would like to make in relation to clause 35 is that this Government pays a lot of lip service to the proposition that unions should be amalgamated. [More…]
It says that we should have large unions, unions covering whole industries, that we should have Federal unions instead of State unions and that that would prevent some of the industrial conflict. [More…]
Yet it introduces this legislation which obviously penalises members of a large union. [More…]
If a person belonged to a small union- let us say a union covering only tyre makes in New South Wales, or an even smaller union covering people employed in tyre manufacturing in a particular plant- that person would not be covered by this dragnet clause. [More…]
But a member of a large unionthis Government encourages the amalgamation of unions to form large unions- is covered by this legislation. [More…]
Take a member of the Australian Workers Union or any of the other large unions in this country. [More…]
If one or more members of that union are on strike anywhere in Australia and that strike causes him to be stood down, he is not entitled to benefits. [More…]
But if he belongs to any other union he is still entitled to benefits. [More…]
Yet in another case, in the case of the unions, it introduces much discretion. [More…]
The Director-General is to have discretion to decide whether a particular standing down is due to an industrial dispute, whether a person in a different establishment is covered by a particular union and so on. [More…]
My own advice to people applying for unemployment benefit because they have been stood down from their plant, if they want the unemployment benefit, is not to admit to being members of the union concerned. [More…]
It is a penalty on their union membership. [More…]
All a person has to say, I assume, is: ‘I do not belong to that particular union. [More…]
I am not a member of that union’. [More…]
A person can claim that he is not a financial member of a union or that he belongs to a different union. [More…]
It strikes me as being quite ridiculous that this Government would impose these sorts of penalties on union members, particularly on members of large unions, and at the same time claim that it encourages large unions. [More…]
The apparent intention of the Federal Government, however, to deny unemployment benefits in the future to workers stood down as a result of a strike if the union to which they belong does not condemn the strike is a threat to the right to freedom of opinion, a denial of justice to taxpayers, and a perversion of the conventional definition of what constitutes unemployment [More…]
The second is that when we talk about the solidarity of unions, responsibility for sponsorship or support of a strike by a trade union must be accepted equally by all members of that union. [More…]
Does a member of a participating union, although not a direct participant, as an individual, employed at the place of industrial action get the unemployment benefit? [More…]
Does a member of a non-participating union which does not disown the strike get the unemployment benefit? [More…]
I ask honourable members to listen to this: Can a member of a non-participating union not a direct participant, as an individual and not employed at the place of industrial action, get the unemployment benefit? [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide did ask how it is to be established whether an applicant is a member of a union or not. [More…]
Information relevant to determining whether a person is disqualified from obtaining the unemployment benefit by reason of industrial action or by membership of a union, members of which are engaged in industrial action, will be sought initially from the claimant. [More…]
-The Opposition is dealing with this episode devised by the Government whereby a person who is a member of a trade union is stood down, and that trade union has taken some industrial action elsewhere. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has since responded to the questions I raised earlier this afternoon as to how the Department would identify the union those people would be members of, and how the Department would make this sort of decision. [More…]
I suppose he means some sort of union membership card, or that the employer would be asked to furnish information. [More…]
In most cases I would have thought that unless the employer deducted the union dues he would not have a record, and the Department of Industrial Relations would have to furnish the information. [More…]
From what the Minister has said one can see exactly how cumbersome this whole system will be in trying to deny a few people unemployment benefit as a result of action taken by people who belong to the same union. [More…]
The Minister for Industrial Relations is in the House and I wonder if he could tell us whether the Industrial Registrar has been consulted- the word ‘consulted’ seems to have been popular in this place for the last couple of weeks- about the new role he is going to have to play in furnishing the Government with information so as to deny unionists unemployment benefit. [More…]
It ment does not seem to me that it helps industrial relations very much in this country to have the Department that is there to assist in the good relations between the parties involved in this affair setting itself up as some police authority to furnish the Department of Social Security with information so as to deny the unemployment benefit to a person who is a member of a union which is taking industrial action. [More…]
One can conceive that many more people will be needed in the Department of Social Security should we have a spate of industrial disputes leading to the standdown of numbers of people and it becomes necessary to identify what unions they are members of. [More…]
What if those people say that they are not a member of a union at all? [More…]
If a person turns up at the Department of Social Security and says: ‘I am not a member of the union,’ he will be paid his unemployment benefit. [More…]
Will they raid his home and take his wallet to see whether he is carrying a union ticket? [More…]
Will the field officers ask the Industrial Registrar to give them a list of the members of all unions in Australia? [More…]
Look at all the mechanisms that will have to be used to prove that someone is in a union so he can be denied the unemployment benefit. [More…]
To make the position worse, the person who is to be denied unemployment benefit can have been working with people who will be paid unemployment benefit because they are not members of the unions involved in the industrial dispute in some other plant in some other city in some other State. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) made quite clear what his position on this is when he said that since the unions contribute to the Labor Party any union member should cop whatever consequences are necessary. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo made it quite clear that that was what he saw this legislation as- a piece of industrial legislation designed to punish those people who, although not being involved in a strike but being members of a union, happen to be stood down for a period in excess of one week. [More…]
I give a parallel situation: In the case of two men who are working beside one another in a plant which is not on strike and who ultimately are stood down, the person who stands to benefit financially by the results of the strike but who is not a member of the union will be paid unemployment benefit because he is not a member of the union. [More…]
The man beside him who is a member of the union and who may have no beneficial expectations as a result of that strike will be punished by not being paid the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The person who is a member of the union may have had to join the union in order to get the job that he has got. [More…]
He may have been on the job for two days after being two years out of work but he would still be fined his unemployment benefit because he did what every working man needs to do to protect his own position, and that is he joined his union. [More…]
if the Director-General is satisfied that the person’s unemployment during that period was due to another person or other persons being, or having been, engaged in industrial action- that the first-mentioned person was not, during that period, a member of a trade union of which the other person was a member, or of which any one or more of the other persons was or were a member or members, during that period. [More…]
We could see a situation arising under clause 35 in which a small number of workers in the flat product centre at the Australian Iron and Steel works at Port Kembla who belong to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union go on strike. [More…]
No doubt the next move of the Government would, be firstly, to effect standdowns and then, secondly, to deny the unemployment benefit to those people and their families along with members of other unions who may be affected by a strike or disputation. [More…]
Let us examine what happened in the container terminal dispute in Melbourne last year when a number of maintenance workers belonging to the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union were in dispute with the employer. [More…]
I would have worked towards the real long term answer, and that is to create industry unions. [More…]
When some unions come out and try to say that the real answer to these small interminable demarcation disputes is to set up an industry union covering a whole industry, honourable members opposite oppose it simply because they do not wish to see unions becoming powerful. [More…]
But when a number of unions want to get together and form their own cartel to protect the interests of their own members, honourable members opposite oppose it. [More…]
The intransigent attitude of the unions led the commissioner hearing the case to issue an order restraining them from taking any strike action. [More…]
Nevertheless, the union officials went ahead and called this 48-hour strike. [More…]
What the Opposition is about to do is to go out and support full indexation, support this productivity and work value hearing and do its level best to support the trade union movement in its push to get wages up. [More…]
That is exactly what is going to happen if the sorts of policies are followed that the Labor Party and the trade union movement want to follow. [More…]
The Committee gave extensive consideration to the text ban question, but work on the drafting of a treaty awaits the conclusion of the discussions now under way among the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain. [More…]
The United States and the Soviet Union presented to the Committee a draft convention banning- radiological weapons. [More…]
The Soviet Union at that stage did not seem to have enough allies to enable Australia to get a place on the Committee. [More…]
The Minister notes that this prospective treaty is currently the subject of negotiations between the two super-powers, namely, the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
This is true, but even more to the point is that the achievement of a comprehensive test ban is dependent in the first instance on the conclusion of a new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. [More…]
Firstly, without agreement on SALT II there is little prospect of the United States and the Soviet Union agreeing on any other arms control matter in the next few years. [More…]
Secondly, unless the Soviet Union and the United States agree on limitations to their own armaments, there is nil prospect of critically important countries, such as India, Pakistan, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, agreeing to a comprehensive test ban. [More…]
Commission ever looks at the legislation in Western Australia or Queensland relating to trade unionists and to Aborigines, it will find that we have failed miserably. [More…]
It is ridiculous to think that trade unionists are now being incarcerated because they attended a meeting to discuss trade union matters. [More…]
Again I reiterate what I have said on many occasions, that whilst we send delegations overseas to attend Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conferences and Interparliamentary Union conferences and whilst we have committees in this Parliament dealing with a number of matters, and legitimately so, we have no direct access to the bureaucracy in terms of manpower planning in this country because the Government refuses to establish parliamentary committees on manpower planning. [More…]
All authorities in these other countries had representatives of employers and trade unions on their controlling boards. [More…]
If we do this we are then talking about three major parties, the Government, the trade union movement and the employers. [More…]
Whether one is a medical practitioner, a science graduate, a school teacher, a trade union leader, a housewife or just interested in social sciences there are many contributions one can make from one’s own expertise and skill. [More…]
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has been trying for a long time to get the Federal Government to evolve a system whereby these cattle, once they are detected as carriers of a disease, are killed at the nearest abattoir to the point of detection. [More…]
One reason the union wants that done is to avoid having to transfer the cattle long distances. [More…]
The Government’s attitude is typified in the reply received by the union from the former Minister for Primary Industry, the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), who said: ‘It is not possible, nor would it be reasonable, to demand co-operation from meat exporters and processors especially if they would suffer financial loss’. [More…]
One would think that the Government would adopt a more responsible attitude by listening to the arguments of the meat industry and of the union and insist that these cattle be killed at the nearest export works that are governed by the Department of Primary Industry inspectors because the men at these works are provided with clean protective clothing every day. [More…]
A campaign among all consumers from the housewife to corporate and Government managers and union leaders: to encourage the purchase and use, and the export of Australian products, services and technology so as to increase employment opportunities. [More…]
Existing arrangements for Repatriation pensions provide for two methods of payments, fortnightly in advance by cheque or twelve-weekly in arrears by direct deposit to a nominated account in a bank, building society or credit union. [More…]
Since Mr Speaker had his trip to France, the European Parliament and other places, I have been very glad to represent this Parliament at not only a debate on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, to which I was accompanied by the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde), but also at a seminar in Geneva run by the Interparliamentary Union, a seminar on the environment. [More…]
I refer here to the first major international convention dealing with the protection of industrial property, the Paris Union. [More…]
This Union was based on the principle of mutual recognition and recorded an agreement to develop domestic laws along certain established lines. [More…]
How difficult it is when we find the trade union movement in this country denying the workers the opportunity of work by, as it were, exporting jobs out of this country. [More…]
It has come to my ears that Squizzy Williams of the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union is slandering me with statements that my charge that he presided over an unlawful manipulation of union funds was a libel and that he will take me to court if I repeat the truth outside the Parliament. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs received an application from three so-called trade union officials from Hanoi for entry permits to visit Australia this weekend? [More…]
Does the Minister recall that in August, when another group of three Hanoi trade union officials visited Australia, they contributed greatly to disharmony among Indo-Chinese refugees by claiming that all refugees who had fled their country were either former prostitutes or former millionaires? [More…]
If the Minister has approved the entry of this further group of so-called union officials, will he assure the Indo-Chinese refugees in Australia that the visit has been organised by Australian communist union officials and their fellow travellers? [More…]
I have received a request for entry permits for some trade union officials from Vietnam to attend a conference in Sydney organised by the Building Workers Industrial Union of Australia which is to be held, I think, from 12 to 14 November. [More…]
I point out in passing that the leading officials of the Building Workers Industrial Union have a very close association with the Soviet Union and strongly support the policies that that country pursues. [More…]
I will be making arrangements for officers of my Department to be in contact with the leaders of Indo-Chinese communities in Australia to ensure that they understand that the invitation was extended by the Building Workers Industrial Union, and not by the Australian Government, and that it would be in the best interests of the refugees themselves and the Australian community in general if no action were undertaken which could lead in any way to any violent demonstrations. [More…]
Last night I referred to some very serious accusations of a criminal nature made against Squizzy Williams of the Queensland branch of the Australian Workers Union by two persons whom I named. [More…]
-On behalf of the Joint Committee on Foreign AfFairs and Defence I present the Committee’s report on Human Rights in the Soviet Union, together with the transcript of evidence. [More…]
-by leave-The report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence entitled ‘Human Rights in the Soviet Union’ is based on the evidence given to a sub-committee of the Joint Committee. [More…]
Many witnesses had extensive experience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Nevertheless, the Soviet Union has failed to enter into the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and has failed to implement many of its formal commitments in such documents as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Within three years of Mr Brezhnev signing the Final Act of the Helsinki Agreement, the Soviet Union flouted the Agreement’s human rights provisions to such an extent that it has even imprisoned or expelled most of the people who, with considerable courage, had openly monitored the extent of Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Soviet citizens may not engage in independent political activity, nor form or belong to political parties other than the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; nor do the Soviet people have an opportunity to effect a change in their government or parliaments through the ballot box. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is unique among the major powers in that the Soviet Union’s dominant nationality is portentially outnumbered. [More…]
The democratic movement in the Soviet Union has received some severe setbacks in recent years. [More…]
Many leading activists are now imprisoned for long terms, exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union or expelled abroad. [More…]
The Soviet Union is systematically abusing psychiatry through the forced internment of mentally healthy people in order to cure them of their political or religious beliefs. [More…]
This also enables the Soviet Union to avoid the presence of some important dissidents at trials. [More…]
Australia should be conscious of its respect for human rights in its relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Similarly this can be done by individual Australians during cultural, academic and scientific exchanges with the Soviet Union. [More…]
As the evidence before the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union was to a great extent unfavourable to the Soviet Government, the Committee regrets that the Soviet Embassy in Australia did not avail itself of ample formal or informal opportunities to put a Soviet viewpoint to the Sub-Committee. [More…]
-by leave-As a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence but not a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union I think it is important that the House take note of the fact that a number of dissenting reports have been published as well as the report which has just been tabled. [More…]
They are not available in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-Before the suspension of the sitting I was speaking to the report on human rights in the Soviet Union which has been presented today. [More…]
They do not indicate that there is not a denial of human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
My concern is that in undertaking an inquiry of the magnitude of this report into human rights in the Soviet Union no funds- I repeat, no funds- were made available for the Committee to enable it to ensure it had available to it those witnesses whom it sought in order to carry out its inquiries or inspections. [More…]
Certainly, an invitation was extended to the Soviet Union to give evidence. [More…]
I do not think that anyone of intelligence in this House would expect the Soviet Union to appear before a jury in Australia to give evidence on its own affairs. [More…]
-The Soviet Union is not obliged to appear before such an inquiry and Australia is not obliged either. [More…]
The Soviet Union is a restrictive and repressive regime as are those regimes throughout the world which are totalitarian in character. [More…]
Such regimes are not limited to the Soviet Union but many do not profess to be libertarian or democratic. [More…]
The conditions exposed in this report deal with civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Those I speak of are those responsible for the denial of those civil liberties in the Soviet Union. [More…]
-by leave-This report is an indictment against the Soviet Union. [More…]
It documents the alleged devotion of the Soviet Union to human rights. [More…]
Citizens in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics are deprived of basic human rights. [More…]
The relationship between Australia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics could be damaged by this report. [More…]
In accepting this reference on Human Rights in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics the Sub-committee placed itself in an invidious position. [More…]
Whether or not Jews in the Soviet Union are the victims of adverse discrimination in citizenship, in rights to religious practice, in rights to publish, communicate, travel, emigrate and organise. [More…]
Human rights in the Soviet Union bearing in mind Australia’s support for the principles contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the final act of the Helsinki Agreement. [More…]
Included in those 25 witnesses were six who had served prison sentences in the Soviet Union- for example, Pastor Grivans, who had graduated from the theological institute in Riga in 1928. [More…]
The human rights movement throughout the world was responsible for the ultimate release by the Soviet authorities of Leonid Plyushch and the permission which was granted to him to leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
In fact, if it had not been for the French Left, which included the French communist party and unions from the French Left, he would not have been released at all. [More…]
It will be clear to any reader of the transcript of the public evidence which is available, or from this report, that witnesses were called to give their evidence because of expertise on the Soviet Union and its application of human rights, and not for their political allegiance or philosophy. [More…]
If one examined the documents from the Soviet Union- for example, the Soviet Constitutions of 1936 and 1977, the Helsinki Accords, the criminal code or the law on religious associations, and then took the evidence of former citizens of the Soviet Union who suffered as a result of action by Soviet authorities pursuant to Soviet law, the Committee’s conclusions are found to be soundly based. [More…]
In the first place, I refer to the program of Russification adopted by the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is an integral federal multi national state formed on the principle of socialist federalism as the result of the free self-determination of nations and the voluntary association of equal Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
Each union republic shall retain the right freely to secede from the USSR. [More…]
If the political climate of the Soviet Union does not change, then the consequence is likely to be the dilution of our nation in the sea of the Soviet Union. [More…]
Going even further, there is some anxiety in the ruling circles in Moscow that the birth rate is growing only in the Asian republics of the union. [More…]
Anti-semitic practices adopted in the Soviet Union are summarised in Chapter 5 of the report. [More…]
In 1975 the Soviet Union signed the final act of the Helsinki Agreement, which states: [More…]
That is part of the Helsinki accords which were signed by the Soviet Union four years ago. [More…]
The Committee received evidence, for example, that such literature is published outside the Soviet Union and we had one case referred to us where an action was taken against the Soviet officials in the USSR Embassy in France to stop the dissemination of anti-semitic literature in that country. [More…]
On this particular matter the Committee recommends in paragraph 26 of the conclusions and recommendations that our Government should press the Soviet Union to cease the circulation of any anti-semitic literature in this country. [More…]
The Committee found it difficult to understand Soviet thinking because there are many citizens of the Soviet Union who practise the Jewish faith who are anxious to remain as citizens of that State and who wish to continue with Jewish cultural activities within the USSR. [More…]
I conclude by considering one matter which the Committee was careful to determine early in its deliberations and that is the question whether an investigation by a parliamentary committee into human rights in the USSR would have an adverse affect in the Soviet Union on those people whom the Committee was anxious to support. [More…]
Almost without exception witness after witness confirmed that the Committee’s actual hearing, let alone its final report and recommendation, was of considerable assistance to those within the Soviet Union who were seeking to establish human rights. [More…]
In the course of his examination, I asked whether protests by lawyers or legal institutions in Australia would have any influence on the denial of due process of law in the Soviet Union. [More…]
When Professor Telford Taylor has criticised the proceedings that have been conducted in the Soviet Union, and particularly in many of the Jewish dissident cases, I think it is important, although they deny that it makes any impact upon them. [More…]
He referred in particular to the Soviet Union being a super power which, because of the enunciation of the rights of Soviet citizens in the Constitution, wants the world to believe that those rights are enjoyed by every citizen in that country. [More…]
The Chairman would also say that the Soviet Union is an ‘evangelising super power’ seeking to persuade people outside the Soviet Union that the USSR model is one which should be followed in other nations. [More…]
It would be also my wish that every member of the Red Army Russian Song and Dance Company, presently touring Australia, could return to their homeland with a copy of the human rights in the Soviet Union report made to this Parliament. [More…]
This report should be compulsory reading for every visitor, sportsman and woman and official who will visit the Soviet Union for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. [More…]
This report should be read by all people interested in the freedom of the individual and by those who seek to understand how society operates in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As a member of the Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence which prepared the report on human rights in the Soviet Union, I would like to make a few points. [More…]
The Soviet Union has only one political party. [More…]
It has no independent trade unions and it has no organisations independent of the State. [More…]
That is why the present position in respect of human rights exists in the Soviet Union, as illustrated in this report. [More…]
I make one point in relation to human rights in the Soviet Union and in relation to the nationality question: I do not necessarily support nationalistic claims, whether they be by people who originated in the Baltic States or in the Ukraine, those of Jews and so on and tend to oppose nationalism. [More…]
I think that it is important to have democratic freedom in the Soviet Union. [More…]
But what is happening at the present time is that they can neither change the setup inside the Soviet Union nor leave the Soviet Union. [More…]
I would like to make a couple of points about human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I think that those of us who have been interested in the question of freedom and the question of human rights in the Soviet Union and in other countries know- the report emphasises it in its first conclusions- that there have been positive changes. [More…]
In other words, changes have occurred in some ways away from the extreme totalitarian state of what was generally considered to be a Stalinist society in the Soviet Union until the death of Stalin. [More…]
But it is still important to know what is happening in the Soviet Union at the present time. [More…]
He has a very intelligent approach to what is happening in the Soviet Union. [More…]
It was certainly a pleasant change from the usual content of Broadband programs on the Soviet Union and its satellites. [More…]
I hope that it will stimulate discussion on the question of civil liberties not only in the Soviet Union but in other countries. [More…]
-Following on from what was said by the previous speaker, the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), I have never asked for a visa to visit the Soviet Union, or any country associated with the Soviet Union, either in Europe or in Asia. [More…]
The Committee has aimed in its report on Human Rights in the Soviet Union to present an objective, factual body of material. [More…]
From this information the Committee has drawn a number of conclusions which to a large extent are based on the testimony of witnesses whom the SubCommittee on Human Rights had sought due to their personal experience in the Soviet Union. [More…]
Other speakers have outlined the justification for the production of the report on human rights in the Soviet Union and some of its findings. [More…]
A major area in which the Soviet Union represses human rights concerns ethnic minorities. [More…]
As emphasised in the report there is State interference in almost all religious activity in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union will need to pay great attention to the aspirations of its large Muslim communities. [More…]
A further example of repression of human rights is the restriction on a citizen’s intention to permanently move to another part of the Soviet Union. [More…]
There have been some successful campaigns outside the Soviet Union to secure the release or emigration of imprisoned Soviet intellectuals and dissidents, or on behalf of those threatened with imprisonment. [More…]
One of the most notable international efforts to counter human rights violations in the Soviet Union has been the campaign against Soviet abuse of psychiatry for political purposes. [More…]
The report makes several recommendations on what the West can do to secure improved human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
As long as the Soviet Union seeks goodwill and economic concessions from the West, there seems to be scope for the West to achieve a more humane Soviet attitude towards its own people. [More…]
Australia should insist that a regard for human rights be part of Australia’s relationship with the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union sometimes claims a lack of understanding in the West of its case on human rights. [More…]
The Committee has recommended that the Australian Government suggest to the Soviet Union that it may be possible to arrange a reciprocal exchange of views in the Soviet and Australian newspapers and in other publications. [More…]
That may seem to some to be an unrealistic suggestion and I doubt that the Soviet Union will take it up. [More…]
Furthermore, it is recommended that Australia seek the right to distribute informative publications in the Soviet Union, in the same way that the USSR is allowed to distribute in Australia. [More…]
The Soviet Union of course is not the only offender regarding the violation of human rights; there are some other nations where attention needs to be directed. [More…]
However, the substance of this particular report is directed to the Soviet Union and therefore that is where the original charge lies. [More…]
We would reiterate our view that based on the substantial evidence available the civil rights of certain groups, especially minorities, in the Soviet Union are seriously infringed and fall below that which should be expected in any civilised society. [More…]
For those reasons, whilst I accept completely that there are infringements of civil rights in the Soviet Union, I am one of those who feel that the recommendation in paragraph 65 and the original reference of the matter to the SubCommittee can do untold harm to Australia in the future. [More…]
-As a member of the Sub-Committee on Human Rights in the Soviet Union, which undertook this inquiry, I want to speak for a few moments on this subject. [More…]
We are concerned here with civil rights not only in the Soviet Union but also throughout the world. [More…]
I shall read part of the Reservations that was expressed because we did not hear evidence from the Soviet Union. [More…]
It is realised that the Soviet Union was asked to provide contrary evidence and refused to do so. [More…]
Above all, the important aspect of this document is that a group of members from both sides of this Parliament was given the responsibility to look into human rights in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I regard myself as a friend of the Soviet Union. [More…]
I am depressed that suspicion of the Soviet Union has increased over the last few years, and likewise Soviet Union suspicion of the rest of the world, particularly the West, has also increased. [More…]
But, one would have to be blind to not recognise that inside the Soviet Union there are great deprivations of human rights. [More…]
First of all, why pick the Soviet Union? [More…]
One has to say that the Soviet Union is powerful, influential and stable. [More…]
Having been there, I can say quite emphatically that one feels safe and secure wherever one travels in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Soviet Union now has some of the problems of the rest of the world in regard to these matters but, it does have freedoms. [More…]
So far as one can tell, the people of the Soviet Union are free of the real poverty that inflicts a great number of other societies. [More…]
That is obviously not the case in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The Chilean Government, which I think would be much worse than that of the Soviet Union, permitted the inquiry to go ahead. [More…]
I note that the Australian Medical Association- the most militant and selfish trade union in the country- is still instructing and advising its members to hold out for a 20 per cent increase. [More…]
Never does one find the names of butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, fitters and turners, school teachers or trade union officials in the lists of names of those evading tax- only the establishment. [More…]
to construct and maintain a National Union Catalogue to list library materials used by handicapped people held in Australian libraries in order to avoid unnecessary overlap and make maximum use of existing resources; [More…]
Then we had the conflict between Fretilin and the Timorese Democratic Union which was an excuse for the Indonesians to take over the country. [More…]
The sad thing about it is that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), when Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, implied that really most of the losses had occurred during the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
Each Commonwealth government was invited to send up to three delegates chosen from among young parliamentarians and government members, leaders of youth wings of political parties, elected leaders of youth organisations, young trade union leaders and young government officials- all preferably under 35 years of age. [More…]
They must kick the old trade union or communist can again. [More…]
It is interesting to note that at yesterday’s hearing the federal unions, particularly the Transport Workers Union and the Australian Workers Union, made it quite clear that they wanted an absolute assurance that any joint sitting arrangements would not interfere with their rights and their operations and would not adversely affect their members involved in other refineries throughout Australia. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions supports the federal unions’ view and sees the need for further consultation. [More…]
This compares with 83,000 million tonnes in the Soviet Union and 1 14,000 million tonnes in the United States. [More…]
If one examines the access of producer and union groups to Government, compared with consumers and minorities, the evidence is clear. [More…]
Dr Karmel was surrounded and accompanied by experienced committee members drawn from education, business and the trade union movement. [More…]
I can recollect the statements put out by National Union of Australian University Students- a body now defunct- talking about the days when 3 per cent or more of the gross domestic product would be spent on education and everything would be all right, that we would have arrived where we ought to have arrived. [More…]
As a further example, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard table 5.3 of the Queensland Teachers Union submission on funding to the Queensland State Government. [More…]
Minimum ages are set in all 56 countries described in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s publication Parliaments of the World. [More…]
implied that really most of the losses had occurred during the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross proves that only 1,500 people died in the civil war between the Fretilin and the Democratic Union of Timor. [More…]
I was enormously unnerved to read of a police union official in Queensland stating a little while ago that in fact he saw the police force as a paramilitary unit serving the community. [More…]
For such views as these which are critical of the Government because of its lack of adequate policies and actions, I could have called for support from the Heavy Engineering Manufacturers Association annual report, on the published views of trade union leaders and the annual reports from the chairmen of industrial companies to the shareholders of those companies. [More…]
Other reasons could be advanced such as ineffective managerial performance, opposition to change from the trade union movement, insular attitudes which resulted in insufficient consideration of the potential benefits of economy of scale arising from exports, and a lack of adaptability to change. [More…]
There is the potential that the situation there may lead to further conflict between China and Vietnam, which in turn could possibly involve the Soviet Union in the area. [More…]
The potential influence of the Soviet Union, using its surrogate, Cuba, for disruption in the internal affairs of Africa, has caused considerable concern both on the continent and elsewhere. [More…]
Discussions have also been held with an individual union and these will continue. [More…]
Secondly, a conference restricted to a particular region such as ASEAN tends to deal with much more tangible problems than conferences of broader scope such as that of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [More…]
In particular, the Government considers its continuing financial support of trade union training is a most important contribution in this regard. [More…]
No professional is going to do a Union Carbide Building bust job and just to keep his amateur status leak the information for the benefit of the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Government took the view that the situation then existing in southern Africa was morally wrong, and we believed that it would only enhance the interests and activities of hostile outside nations, including the Soviet Union and its supporters. [More…]
The main purpose of both Bills, the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill, although it is not obvious from reading the clauses of the Bills, is to dismember and destroy the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The clauses tie the hands of the Australian National University Council and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Council by providing that moneys collected by way of fees shall not be made available to any student organisation- the Australian Union of Students is not actually named at this stage- unless ‘the Council is satisfied that the governing body of the organisation is representative of the members of the organisation’; and by providing that Councils may not pass statutes to authorise expenditure on ‘amenities or services that are not of an academic nature’ unless the provision of these amenities will directly benefit the University, the College of Advanced Education or its students, or promote sporting, recreational, educational, social, cultural or post-graduate interests. [More…]
Let us suppose that the Australian Union of Students tried to organise a Kampuchean relief fund or an East Timorese relief fund. [More…]
It is striking, for example, that clause 19 of the Australian National University Amendment Bill and clause 5 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill provide that membership of student unions should not be compulsory. [More…]
This is an extraordinary example of a piece of legislation which is both superfluous and offensive, because the existing rules of the Australian National University provide that membership of student unions should not be compulsory. [More…]
Fifteen per cent of the student membership at the ANU is not in the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The criticism of the AUS, and it is criticism that might have had a good deal more validity two or three years ago and is less valid now, is that it did not have enough people actively involved in student unions and in voting for the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
We will cut out compulsory membership of student unions’. [More…]
Inevitably that will have the effect of reducing the number of people who are likely to want to vote in student union elections. [More…]
As a general principle, I believe that there ought to be a nationwide coalition of student unions. [More…]
Like Voltaire’s God, if there was not an Australian Union of Students it would be necessary to invent one. [More…]
However, as within the trade union movement, the cure must originate basically from the members themselves. [More…]
It is within the students ‘ unions to rectify the matter. [More…]
It relates to the determination of the ANU Students Association payment of outstanding affiliation fees to the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
Item15- ANU Students’ Association- Payment of Outstanding Affiliation Fees to the Australian Union of Students [More…]
It was noted that the Standing Committee of Council in its consideration of this matter on 12 October 1979 had been satisfied, through the investigations of the General Services Fee Advisory Committee, that there was a liability on the part of the Students’ Association to pay to the Australian Union of Students the 1977 and 1978 outstanding fees, and that the legal impediment to payment that had stood during 1977 and 1978 had now been removed. [More…]
In discussion it was suggested that the only test of a legal obligation was whether the Australian Union of Students was competent to sue the Students’ Association and to succeed in that suit. [More…]
It was resolved to approve, that in the context in which the Students’ Association manages its own affairs, the Association be permitted to use the sum of $5,224.81 from pre- 1 979 fees received in 1979 and the sum of $1,934.44 towards the payment of outstanding 1977-78 Australian Union of Students fees of $ 1 6, 1 25.84. [More…]
It was noted that the Standing Committee of Council at its meeting on 12 October 1979 had referred to the Council Tor consideration the matter of whether the Students* Association should be permitted to pay to the Australian Union of Students the Association’s affiliation fee for 1979 from the 1979 General Services Fee money. [More…]
The following documents were received: 3029/1979-Paper by the President, ANU Students’ Association on the payment of Australian Union of Students affiliation fees by student organisations. [More…]
the Standing Committee of Council had been satisfied that the ANU Students’ Association had a liability to pay outstanding affiliation fees to the Australian Union of Students; [More…]
the matter of the payment of the 1979 affiliation fee by the Students’ Association to the Australian Union of Students should be treated on its own merits and should be decided by the Council without regard to the impending University legislation and the Minister’s request; [More…]
That expressed policy should be taken into account before any decision was made by Council in respect of the Students’ Association’s 1979 affiliation fee to the Australian Union of Students; [More…]
7 ) the Students ‘ Association, as a responsible body, had accorded with Council’s direction that no payments be made without Council’s express approval to the Australian Union of Students from 1979 General Services Fees money. [More…]
The Association was concerned about its financial obligation to the Australian Union of Students which it had contracted before the Council had determined its 1 979 fees policy. [More…]
It considered it should be allowed to honour its commitment to the Australian Union of Students; [More…]
8 ) the Council while directing the Students ‘ Association to refrain from paying affiliation fees to the Australian Union of Students from the 1979 General Services Fee had not requested the Students ‘ Association to test the attitude of its members to the question of affiliation to the AUS and had not asked the Students’ Association to refrain from accepting AUS benefits flowing from the Association’s affiliation with that organisation. [More…]
Before any decision was reached the Council should investigate whether the amenities and services provided by the Australian Union of Students to affiliates were acceptable to the University under the principles established by Council ‘s General Services Fee Advisory Committee relating to recognised student bodies within the University. [More…]
1 ) to rescind any extant resolution that would prevent the Council from authorising payment of moneys collected from the General Services Fee in 1979 to the Australian Union of Students; [More…]
to request the General Services Fee Advisory Committee, using the principles it had applied already in relation to advice to Council concerning distribution of that fee to recognised student bodies within the University, to advise Standing Committee what payment if any the University should permit those organisations to make from that fee for the purpose of affiliation with the Australian Union of Students; [More…]
Among the revolutionaries who have been thrown up by the Australian Union of Students and its predecessor, the National Union of Australian University Students- for obvious reasons, it could never have had the initials of the Australian National Union of Students- was that terrible revolutionary, Senator Peter Durack, the Attorney-General, who is a former president! [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) tried to pin this legislation as an attack on the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The thrust of these two Bills - the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill- represents the Federal Government’s response to the problems of compulsory membership of student organisations, so-called student unionism, and the unrepresentative use of student funds from those campuses for which the Federal Government has some sort of legislative responsibility. [More…]
The second fact is that in the past there has been a denial of student status and student rights by some university administrations around the country to those students who refused to pay the compulsory student union levy. [More…]
Union of Students or any other organisation, but this legislation goes one step further in that it provides for the freedom not to join and not to pay that money, and importantly, not to be penalised for that decision. [More…]
These include: the Major Private Line Lessees Croup; the Data Communications Users Group; the Australian Bankers Automation Committee; the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled; the Commonwealth Press Union. [More…]
The Government understands that, in addition to Australia, the following countries are conducting research and development on laser isotope separation of uranium: the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. [More…]
I impress on the House that conduct of the nature I have just described has been held by the royal commissioner to be ‘entirely improper and contrary to trade union standards and ethics’. [More…]
In relation to the rail strike which had very serious implications right across the nation, all I can say is that I severely condemn those few union leaders who brought it about. [More…]
I hope that responsible union leaders will do the same thing and withhold their judgment until we have a report instead of causing so much disruption across the country on a subject on which I do not believe they have the full knowledge. [More…]
The Opposition should be encouraging the trade union movement, management and government to co-operate so that we can solve a national problem. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) then made his offer to the union movement. [More…]
17-19 September-Plenary Meeting pf ICIREPAT 23-30 September- Annual Executive Meeting of WIPO and a meeting of the Nice Union Assembly. [More…]
10-15 December- Extraordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Copyright Committee of the Universal Copyright Convention and the Executive Committee of the Berne Copyright Union. [More…]