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:: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 ::
Australia: Number of unions doubles
Registered trade unions have more than doubled in number in three years, vastly outstripping overall membership growth.
Victoria University researchers attribute the increase from 82 registered unions in 1999 to 174 at the end of last year to the legislated monopoly they hold over collective wage bargaining.
Over the same time period union membership grew a more modest 10.7 per cent, to 334,783 workers, or 21.7 per cent of wage and salary earners.
New video shows union boss's thuggery was no one-off
Australia's top construction union boss insisted he had indulged in union thuggery only once in his career after surveillance video revealed him attacking managers' cars outside a Sydney factory.------------------------------------------- posted 10:45 AM :: reference link ::
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