Speeches and opinion

Sharan Burrow: Interest rate rise will hit working families hard 02.08.06 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work In a public address at the University of Melbourne 2 August 2006, ACTU President Sharan Burrow provides new ACTU analysis of the key pressures on working families as a result of the IR laws and the Federal Governments economic policy.

Greg Combet: The Human Cost of the Howard Government's IR Laws 28.06.06 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work Greg Combet outlines the impact of the new IR laws and the union campaign ahead.

Greg Combet: Address to the National Day of Community Protest 15.11.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work Today, by rallying in such huge numbers, we declare that working people will not be denied a central place in Australia's future. Working families built this country. They fought and died for it.

Sharan Burrow: Remember This Day 15.11.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work Remember this day. Remember this day. Because THIS is the start of something. For more than 100 years Australia has had an industrial relations system that has given working people a share of the benefits of economic prosperity.

Greg Combet: Real Economic Challenges and the WorkChoices Legislation 02.11.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work Greg Combet outlined his critique of the Government's new IR legislation in the context of the real economic challenges facing Australia.

Sharan Burrow: The WorkChoices Legislation 24.10.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work On any measure the WorkChoices legislation will be bad law. Not just because it is unjustified by any credible economic argument. Not only because of the social impact, and the damage to our social cohesion and social progress.

Greg Combet: Industrial Relations: Give Workers a Genuine Choice 23.08.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work I would like to use the opportunity I have to speak to you by going straight to the heart of the Governments industrial relations changes, and why they fundamentally undermine employee rights.

Greg Combet: Industrial Relations, Employee Rights and the Economy 06.07.05 | Speeches & Opinion | Rights at Work On the 26th of May John Howard announced the Government’s plans to rewrite Australia’s industrial relations laws, arguing that this was “one of the great pieces of unfinished business in the structural transformation of the Australian economy”.