Peter Lalor at the Australian‘s blogs takes a fairly standard potshot at our goverment deciding to rename the Orwellian Worckchoices scheme and then delivers a litany of cases of workers drastically disadvantaged by unscrupulous employers pushing the Howard government’s new legislation as far as it can go and then some, and sums it up with:

Prime Minister John Howard argues you can’t legislate against companies behaving like this, but the point is his legislation allowed them to do it.

Too bloody right.

Lalor then opens up comments to readers telling of their experiences with AWAs and other employment contracts over recent years, and particularly since the advent of Workchoices. Compelling reading.

Categories: culture wars, economics, Politics

Tags: economics, social change