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National rights and entitlements plus collective bargaining at heart of new union policy
The union movement's support for a national IR system based on the corporations power plus its new collective bargaining position are at the heart of its IR legislation policy - unanimously endorsed by ACTU Congress in Melbourne yesterday. But the 37-page document - which unions will lobby the ALP to adopt - also deals in detail with a raft of other key matters, including the AIRC's role, minimum standards, unfair dismissal, freedom of association, independent contractors, trade practices law, employee entitlement protection, and which government bodies should go and which should stay.
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