ACTU secretary Sally McManus urges workers to mobilise against Scott Morrison

ACTU secretary Sally McManus has condemned Scott Morrison as “Australia’s biggest supporter of trickle-down economics”.

ACTU secretary Sally McManus says Scott Morrison is the “architect” of the plan to give the big banks a $17 billion corporate tax cut. Picture: Glenn Hunt

ACTU secretary Sally McManus has urged workers to “mobilise like never before” to defeat Scott Morrison, condemning the prime minister-elect as “Australia’s biggest supporter of trickle-down economics”.

In an email to union supporters this afternoon, Ms McManus said Mr Morrison was the “architect” of the plan to give the big banks a $17 billion corporate tax cut.

She said he was “100% behind every toxic trickle-down policy of the Turnbull Government”, including penalty rate cuts, slashing funding to schools and hospitals, and the setting up of the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Registered Organisations Commission.

“Scott Morrison’s record as Treasurer is one of failure — wages are stagnant, inequality is at 70-year highs (and) 40 per cent of Australians are in insecure work,’’ she said.

“We now have the opportunity to mobilise and defeat Australia’s biggest supporter of trickle-down economics.”

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