Workchoices

[catsnknots]

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

If so why? 

[fourandsixpants]

Don't get me started with this topic.....you might get more than you bargained for!

[catsnknots]

why Paintsew? 

do you think they had a mandate to get rid of Workchoices? 

I erally don't mind if you get started..... I am open to all sides on this one.... 

Personally Workchoices made it easeir than ever for me to get a job..... I never had a cut in wages and when I had to take an employer to task over sacking me and telling me I was a single mother and didn't have time for work I still had options to get compensated. 

[lakeland27]

i assumed you were setting up a case for a 'mandate'  there is no longer the case, mandate is a mere term now.

[catsnknots]

I want to know if Labor had a community given right to remove Workchoices.... were the people right to expect Labor to remove it and does that mean that the Libs can never go back and alter these workplace agreements? 

[lakeland27]

what do you mean ? they won government , and this was what everyone (except you it seems) wanted. abbott said 'dead buried 'many times .. meaning he acepted that the public wont tolerate a return.

[catsnknots]

So did the opposition (Coalition) do the right thing in 100% going with the flow of the argument of the people that voted? 

And it would not have been everyone as not everyone voted for Labor... but Labor won fair and square so the Coalition didn't argue against it. 

Was that the right thing to do or should they have argued that some people didn't vote for Labor so therefor they should not agree with the legislation. 

[lakeland27]

and i was off topic according to the mod and the BP, are you sure you aren't about to change the topic ?

[poddster]

I wouldn't mind seeing a return of having the choice to negotiate my own wages and conditions,but I have always done that anyway.  That means that unions don't have a strangle hold on employee or employer,  that was the cause of the death knell.

The Labor Union symbiotic relationship is mutually dependent, it is a path to disaster and oblivion in this enlightened age of mass communication.

Yet they each cling to that relationship in a mortal embrace.

Roll on, the demise 🙂

[lakeland27]

labor were able to change it because they had the numbers. in june/july next year PUP will vote with the LNP, so you'll have the numbers then .. when abbott is out again everything will be changed back anyway . the only partisan area left is in the area of illegitimate wars now.