In May 1981, average weekly earnings surged by 14 per cent and inflation that year reached 11 per cent, Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed. Ms McManus's proposal for 'multi-employer or sector bargaining' is also a plan to return Australia to an era four decades ago before the Australian Council of Trade Unions and Bob Hawke's incoming Labor government in 1983 negotiated Prices and Incomes Accords to restrain a wage-price spiral. 'People in smaller workplaces and care sectors which are often dominated by women also need access to the collective bargaining system.' Unions are putting forward a radical plan to give workers big pay rises that would involve turning the clock back four decades - and a Labor minister is open to the idea (pictured is the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union's Victorian secretary John Setka) 'As the economy has changed, our bargaining system needs to as well.
'Our economy is now dominated by services and care industries. 'Our current system was designed 30 years ago where we had a completely different economy with many more large workplaces,' she said. It would mean a wage rise in one workplace within an industry would be copied by similar employers - reviving an industrial relations system from four decades ago before unions agreed to wage restraint in 1983.Īhead of the government's Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra, ACTU secretary Sally McManus has repudiated the existing enterprise bargaining system which former Labor prime minister Paul Keating's government established in 1993. The ACTU has proposed 'multi-employer or sector bargaining' - effectively a return to industry-wide bargaining that in the early 1980s saw workers receive double-digit pay rises. Unions have a radical plan to give workers big pay rises that would involve turning the clock back four decades - and Labor's employment minister is open to the idea.
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