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Burke on the union team
More than a year ago, Productivity Commission slammed the MUA’s excess bargaining power. Now the union can add the IR minister to its side of the table.
Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has outrageously damned port operator DP World for its attempts to get him to intervene in a months-long waterfront dispute.
Here is a government which promises to ease cost-of-living pressures caused by supply-chain disruptions but lets a minister run off in support of a union that is legendary in its ability to spin out disputes, wearing down employers while staying just the right side of legal strike action and leaving them only with extreme responses.
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