In the speech, delivered to the Queensland Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Brisbane last Friday, Tony Abbott boasted "You know, at four elections running we had a mandate to take the unfair dismissal monkey off the back of small business and we will once more seek that mandate, at four elections running, we had a mandate to introduce statutory, non-union contracts and we will seek to renew that mandate."
Julia Gillard said that Abbott wanted to reinstate the "most hated aspects of Work Choices", including Australian Workplace Agreements.
"AWAs will be back, unfair dismissal laws will be scrapped and, according to Julie Bishop today, penalty rates are under threat," the Workplace Relations Minister said.
"The opposition mantra appears to be 'Work Choices is dead' but the fine print shows that, if elected, they'll simply return the same laws, just under a different name."
ACTU president Sharan Burrow said unions were finalising a pre-election strategy that would seek to stop the return of the Coalition while extending the gains made under Labor.
She nominated superannuation, job and income security, pay equity and extending the right to request more flexible working hours to care for grandparents as key priorities.
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