Comments on: Freedom of contract

By: yobbo

yobbo — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:27:46 +0000

Hi Rob, just letting you know your website is banned in China. You haven’t been talking about the Falun Gong or Freeing Tibet lately, have you? :P

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 06:20:33 +0000

An Excellent Summary on the perils of Howard’s “IR Reforms”.

This should be compulsoary reading by ALL workers.

Plus the West are hypocrites about whinging about the WA Govt using Taxpayers money to fight these reforms – and then accepting payment to run those same ads they say are propoganda.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:07:31 +0000

I was interested to see one of the ACTU ads on the subject. Only saw the one because I’ve been busy. The woman on the phone with her two kids watching her from the couch as her boss announces to her she has to work a shift right now or lose her job. But I haven’t got child care, she says. Bang. sacked. I was interested in the fact she called the guy on the other end of the phone “sir”. I thought it was strange in an australian context. We usually call our bosses by their first names these days, particularly at a level where they’d be ringing up to arrange shifts. It didn’t ring true at all. BUT… if things did go back to a more “master and servant” arrangement of individual contracts, perhaps they’d introduce it.
Just a funny choice of words, I thought. Taste of things to come?
Lick that boot!!!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:44:03 +0000

Yes, the choice is between an AWA or the sack.

By: Manas

Manas — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 01:16:15 +0000

Well the government say that it is choose between an AWA and the award; ie: you can choose not to sign the AWA and remain on the Award.

But if the employer does’t want to apply the award, and is determined to offer AWAs, well I think the technical term is that you’re up shit creek without a paddle.

By: Alex White

Alex White — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:13:40 +0000

Surely choice would be “choose between an AWA or the Award”, not “choose between the job or an AWA”…

By: mp

mp — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:39:50 +0000

What I’ve referred to since my law school days as “the euphemism of choice”; the choice you have when you aren’t having a choice, might be another way to put it.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:25:17 +0000

Interesting to see Mark Olson on the news sticking up for his new Liberal Buddies re the Beat up over Public Servants being allowed to attend the Day Of Action without their pay being docked.

I’ll bet the nurses aren’t happy with him now :-)

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:58:48 +0000

Rob,

Not a comment as such, but I’ve got a guest post ready to go, “hot off the press”, and can’t find your email addy. Please email it to me at pauljwatson AT hotmail.com , and I’ll forward you the post.