Bosses try it on - by Sue Bolton, Green Left Weekly, Australia
It"s not just Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs - individual contracts) that drive down workers' conditions and wages. Non-union agreements are also a big problem, he said.
Parker cited a company at Hayfield in Victoria, making light concrete castings for building sites, that introduced a non-union agreement for 48 standard hours over a week, without penalties for night or weekend work.