ACTU wowser must dump immigration to fix wages

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Via The Australian:

Federal Labor will come under union pressure to change laws to allow workers to take legal strike action in support of sector-wide pay claims, as ACTU secretary Sally McManus declared that ­“enterprise-only bargaining” had failed to deliver for workers.

Unveiling a six-point plan designed to lift the wages of workers, Ms McManus told The Australian the Fair Work Act needed to be amended to give greater power to unions and workers to negotiate across sectors and with host employers.

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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.