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Boland backs calls for greater access to arbitration

The President of the NSW IRC, Justice Roger Boland, says there is "merit" in calls to increase access to compulsory arbitration in the wake of the protracted Qantas, Victorian nurses, Cochlear and Boeing disputes, and that it is "quite anathema to the Australian character and the ethos of a fair go to sit idly by whilst industrial parties slug it out to a standstill for no gain on either side".