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Nov 03 2020
New Workplace Minister Michael Wood Says Unions Need to Attract New Members Themselves
New Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood has a trade union background, but he is not keen to seriously help them bolster their woeful membership with law changes.
Wood is instead keen for unions to stand on their own feet instead of changing the law to make union membership more promoted or the default option for new workers, rather than opt-in. […]
Wood said unions needed to be “dynamic and attractive enough” to build up membership.
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Nek Minnit…
May 08 2021
For the Labour Party as an institution, this move is almost as important as it is for the Government. This will massively empower a union movement that has been disheartened and struggling for the past 30 years. It is now likely that, in the longer term, the institutional importance of the union movement will greatly outweigh its strength in numbers.
[…] more powerful and structurally important unions can only be good for the Labour Party: as a source of expertise, volunteers and donations. Some union reps will now be negotiating big, national deals.[…] Make no mistake, this will be centralised wage bargaining
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