"The Week on Wednesday" with Van Badham & Ben Davison

Weekend Wrap 4th September 2022: Jobs Summit wins for workers, Dutton’s ideological blinkers and big business turns on small business


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Ben Davison gives a breakdown of the Jobs and Skills Summit.  Looking at the outcomes, the positioning, the deal making and the politics behind the biggest step change in how Australia's economy is set up since the Howard era.

Australian Unions made huge progress towards multi-employer bargaining, tripartite decision making on the transition to net zero as well as skills and policies that improve access for women, workers with disabilities and migrant workers to better pay and secure employment. 

Ben also looks at Brendan O'Connor's Insiders interview and the need for everyone to do more to support apprentices.  You can join your union, whether you're an apprentice or not, at australianunions.org.au/wow

Peter Dutton and his Liberal Party decided not only to not attend but launched attack ads against the summit participants.  Dutton and his team rolled out the same old attacks against workers and pretended to be concerned for small business while their big business lobbyist mates were attacking small businesses calling them "weak links"  and accusing them of "betrayal".

Alan Joyce, Gerry Harvey and the usual gang of rent seekers have tried to undermine the summit outcomes because their business models are built on exploiting a system that is about to change.

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