An upcoming unfair picture in a LIARS (Liberal into Australian rhetoric supremacy) golden frame:

A fair boot for a fair days work; A porkie of massive proportions.

Expect the next step to be the only reward for low paid workers in some professions be financed by USER's gratuities, like waiters in the US. The user pays discretionarily for service. Workers will get abused till the last sunset. While the big pork at the end of town will suck on more caviar on silver plater with golden spoons.

Ugly! Ugly! Ugly! When will this UGLY government be thrown out?

Reform tax now, warns Business Council of Australia president Hugh Morgan in a speech at the National Press Club yesterday. Guess the government figured give the employer the power to cut the workers throat would save them having to cut what they are taking from business themselves. Reckon they better think again. Business Council of Australia wants it from all directions. How's it go "give em an inch an they'll take a yard". 

great pic!

From the ABC

Business lobby criticises Beazley IR pledge
A major business umbrella group says a promise by Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley to abolish individual workplace agreements would hurt the Australian economy.

At the New South Wales ALP conference yesterday, Mr Beazley announced that Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) would be cut under a Labor government.

The union movement has welcomed the promise, saying it is now clear where Federal Labor stands on industrial reform.

NSW-based Australian Business Limited spokesman Paul Ritchie says Australia has benefited from the increased flexibility under AWAs.

"The result of that, of course, has been improved productivity, lowering unemployment, improvement in real incomes of about 14 per cent over the past 10 years, so you're putting those benefits at risk," he said.

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Gus speak

The aim of most business is not the welfare of workers but the maximisation of profits, usually by first reducing the cost of workers...

There are circumstances where employers and workers are happy to reach a common ground (Individual contracts, unionised agreement) that benefit all. But too often, employers have treated their workers as slaves and have demonised unions. That the Howard government is condoning this ancient attitude with the IR laws is deplorable.

I know of many far right wingers who are very worried the Howard IR laws have gone too far.

But also there are some rotten egos to deal with...
I know of some businesses where workers (in mid to high executive positions) did work their guts out in a couple of years to double the client base, double the output and the profit for a company, to get the sack for "showing up a boss had not been doing his job in the first place and had kept the company stagnant for years..."

... And — dear Mr NSW-based Australian Business Limited spokesman Paul Ritchie — 14 per cent over ten years is pitiful considering real estate has gone 200 per cent up over the same period... The price of petrol has gone up 150 per cent or more ... and every one knows that the true level of inflation has been hovering between 7 and 8 per cent for all that time. Only the price of flat screen TV has gone down... and that's due to our trade deficit generously funded by underpaid Chinese.