Workchoices

[catsnknots]

Did Labor have a mandate to get rid of Workchoices after they won the election from John Howard? 

If so why? 

[acacia_pycnantha]

They are changing. As people vote out the old and vote in the new they evolve and change.

hmmm. . . .  Until they realise that the new is only distuinguishable from the old in the finer details. Then they become disillusioned and vote for the old again, and round and round, and still there is no remedy for the disillusionment and the frustration which people feel when they vote in what amounts to just another side of an old and much devalued coin.

The only change which people get, no matter which of the two major parties they vote for, is of the "short" variety.

[givemeaspell]

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@catmad*2013 wrote:

hm.. I feel for people that had to do that and can't handle it.. sorry that happened... 

I have never had a problem... I always managed to get on very well with bosses and got good agreements or left... 

I feel that people should be able to bargain themselves though...why should only Unions be able to do that? 

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they can bargain themselves, but most of the time they need representation because unfortunately a large amount of employers will have the like it or leave it attitude.  I was in a workforce where union membership was mostly for the shift workers not admin staff yet I joined the union, not because I was pressured, because I wanted to.  I knew they would be there if I needed any assistance, never viewed them as a negative.  Work choices is what got the Howard govt removed, Hockey admitted it at the time, it was sent loud and clear - no work choices.  Where I worked I could see all the execs/managers getting massive bonuses, pay rises yet time and time again the staff were told - times are tough, freeze on payrises......yet lining their own pockets.  The old saying, the workers united will never be defeated!