Church leaders have voiced their concerns about the Government's industrial relations bill and have asked to meet the Prime Minister, John Howard, to discuss the planned changes.
The National Council of Churches, which includes leaders from Catholic, Anglican, and Uniting churches, and 12 other national church groupings, said they were worried about the changes' impact on workers. "We are uneasy about the bottom line in all this," said the council's general secretary, Reverend John Henderson.
"The value of each worker is not as a commodity, but as a person, a human being, loved by God. Our community has values that are more important than economics." He asked the Government to "slow down and step back from its apparent haste".
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