Minister Tony Burke and the weak Albanese Labor Government are refusing to stand up for vulnerable women workers who want the right to leave Australia\u2019s most militant union, the CFMEU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Senate today Labor said they would not support a private Senators\u2019 Bill brought forward by Senator Jacqui Lambie. Senator Lambie\u2019s bill will enable the manufacturing division of the CFMEU, which includes the Textile, Clothing & Footwear workers, timber workers and furniture workers, to hold a secret ballot to consider whether they wish to demerge from the CFMEU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Michaelia Cash said the Coalition strongly supported the Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have seen numerous examples of intimidation, standover tactics and even violence from members of the CFMEU,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is no wonder that textile workers, including a very large number of women, want to split off from the CFMEU and form their own organisation,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLabor talks a big game about standing up for women but when it comes to a test like this they show their true colours,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe know Labor hates small businesses but it\u2019s also obvious now that they hate small unions as well,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2020 the Coalition brought forward and passed important legislation allowing greater freedom for registered organisations, which the Labor Party actually supported at the time. Now Labor has removed those freedoms and refuses to back their re-instatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Government is hopelessly beholden to the big unions and in particular the CFMEU. We know its all about the millions of dollars those large unions give to Labor,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMinister Burke and the entire Labor side should bow their heads in shame,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister Tony Burke and the weak Albanese Labor Government are refusing to stand up for vulnerable women workers who want the right to leave Australia\u2019s most militant union, the CFMEU. In the Senate today Labor said they would not support a private Senators\u2019 Bill brought forward by Senator Jacqui Lambie. Senator Lambie\u2019s bill will enable … Continue reading “Burke refuses to stand up for vulnerable women workers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25525,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25524\/revisions\/25525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}