Smash the Howard Government's IR reforms!

From Green Left Weakly

What do conservative church leaders, a couple of neoliberal economics editors and Green Left Weekly have in common? Warning against the disastrous effect of the federal Coalition government’s new industrial relations agenda, misnamed WorkChoices, on working people’s lives.

Archbishops George Pell and Philip Jensen, the Sydney Morning Herald’s economic editor Ross Gittins and many others have joined trade unionists in criticising PM John Howard’s plans to erode our weekends, remove penalty rates and rely on workers’ ability to “bargain” individually with their bosses for decent pay and conditions. Individual workplace agreements (AWAs) are being presented as a choice: they are nothing of the sort.

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Interesting reading, for its polemical style if nothing else. For example,

They...	We...
"attack"	"combat"
"smash"	"build"
have a "disastrous agenda"	"criticise" and "warn"
have "draconian laws"	seek "decent pay and conditions"
"erode"	have "growing organisation"
are "anti-union"	are "union and (wider) community"
"shift the balance of power"	"protest"

along with the old favourites...

They...	We...
have "profit"	have "wages"
are "bosses"	are "workers"
are "employers"	are [still] "workers"

There's a big ACTU sponsored rally on November 15.