The ACTU welcomes the re-election of the Albanese Labor Government, and we look forward to working with them to ensure working people continue to see real wage growth, increased job security, and safe and fairer workplaces.
Australians have rejected the Coalition’s proposals to take working people backwards. The flip-flopping of policies related to working people, such as Same Job, Same Pay and working from home during the election, reinforced the view that a Dutton-led Government would be a risk to working people’s rights.
This election is a clear rejection of the Coalition’s threats to unwind workplace rights and to undo the significant improvements made during the first term of an Albanese Government.
The result is a rebuff to the Coalition’s 41,000 public service job cuts. The Coalition underestimated the level of community support for the public sector in places like Tasmania, the NSW South Coast, the Hunter Valley and Cairns, that stood to lose jobs and local services.
The ACTU will continue working with the Albanese Government to ensure working people’s living standards grow, that we build industries in Australia which have good well-paid jobs in these globally uncertain economic times.
Quotes attributable to ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus:
“We congratulate the Albanese Government on their re-election and look forward to working with them to ensure real wages keep growing and that workers living standards grow. Australian workers have lived through some tough years due to global inflation and now we need to continue the job of rebuilding.
“Australians have rejected the path of Donald Trump’s far right populism.
“The Liberal Party should learn the lesson that the Australian people will punish them for going after workers’ rights. Leaders of political parties lost their seats when they did so, and now Peter Dutton joins them.
“The Liberals were forced to flip flop on policies such as Same Job, Same Pay and working from home during the election campaign and this hurt them badly.
“People knew that Peter Dutton was a big risk. You cannot help people with cost-of-living pressures by cutting their rights.
“We look forward to the creation of good well-paid jobs with the implementation of a Future Made in Australia. We also welcome the expansion of Medicare and the significant investment in education which are all part of building a better future.”
