Every few years the unions raise the same tired old arguments about ‘free riders’ in pursuit of their perennial claim for non-members to be charged bargaining agents’ fees. The claim grossly offends freedom of association principles.
It is worth recalling the reasons why bargaining agents’ fees were outlawed in Australia in 2003.
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Stephen Smith is the Principal of Actus Workplace Lawyers and former Director of National Industrial Relations of the Australian Industry Group.
