Can the ACTU fix wage inequality?

Thursday, 22 March 2018

Sally McManus has called for a return to industry-level bargaining to help unions win pay rises and organise workers in industries such as childcare.

Appearing at the National Press Club on Wednesday, the Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary outlined the key demand of the Change the Rules campaign: “equal rights” for all workers including casuals, labour hire and gig economy workers.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.