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Burrow flags push for Euro-style revamp of income security systems
ACTU president Sharan Burrow has signalled unions might push for a European-style "flexicurity" system to protect workers' income security, saying it is no longer acceptable for workers on average earnings of $1,000 a week to be thrown out of work and forced to rely on unemployment benefits of just $220 a week.
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