 Brisbane Times | Shorten cool on ACTU push to make penalty rates stick The Australian THE Gillard government has refused to back the ACTU push to have penalty rates enshrined in law while employers claimed the proposal would wreck jobs and "light a bonfire" under the economy. ACTU secretary Dave Oliver has used an address to the ... Unions ready for war to protect penalty rates Abbott's silence on IR a problem Unions prepared to work with coalition |
