In the wake of the Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union threatening to pull support from Labor at the next election after it agreed to support legislation to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union also threatening to pull financial support, Labor has vowed to take tougher action against foreign workers. From The AFR:
…while the TPP was effectively a done deal, Labor would, in general, have more to say on the issuing of temporary work visas, given there were 1.6 million people on Australia currently on such arrangements…
