Letters to the editor January 23 2019

January 22 2019 - 8:30pm
Paws for Effect by Margaret Johnston.
Paws for Effect by Margaret Johnston.

GREED THE PRIORITY

The decision of BHP to terminate the contract involving vessels crewed by Australian seaman is absolutely appalling. But for those of us who worked in the Australian coal or steel industry during the 1998’/90’s it come as no shock. Companies such as BHP, grabbed with both hands the Industrial Reforms introduced by the Hawke/Keating administrations, reforms endorsed, then refined by the subsequent Howard administrations. Reforms which at their centre, was the requirement Australian workers adopt “World’s best practice” to ensure Australia’s employers became, more “internationally competitive.”  In “plain speak”,

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