Back to bad old days

Our economy begins to slow and higher unemployment looms , so the Rudd government wants to bring back the bad old days of union power:

A RADICAL overhaul of workplace laws, to be unveiled by the Rudd Government today, will propose a vastly increased role for unions, venturing far beyond the policy Labor took to the election a year ago.

Business groups are already branding Julia Gillard's 600-page legislative package a "throwback to the Keating era" as unions stand to win back rights to demand industry-wide pay deals and access to the wage records of non-members.

Employers are furious that unions - which represent just 14 per cent of the private sector workforce - will get a seat at the bargaining table even if just one worker in a large company belongs to a union......

I hope the Opposition can stop it in the Senate. The government had a mandate to abolish Workchoices not bring back Union dominated industry.