Unions are at new heights of power. Now they just need to retain it
In the rocky world of industrial relations, the policy pendulum swings from one extreme to the other depending on who’s in power.
David Marin-GuzmanWorkplace correspondent
Holding up the hands of ACTU leaders Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil in triumph and declaring his speech to the peak body’s congress “one of the honours of my life”, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese left no doubt about his commitment to the union movement.
“Without the trade union movement there isn’t an Australian Labor Party, and therefore there isn’t a Labor government,” he told the congress dinner.
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