I was wrong about Australia’s union movement. Yesterday I attacked them for seemingly folding “like a cheap deck of cards” to the Albanese Government’s ‘Big Australia’ immigration policy.
Now I have egg on my face, with the ACTU releasing a brilliant submission to the upcoming Jobs & Skills Summit, making their support for expanding the annual permanent migration program to 200,000 places conditional on the Albanese government backing policy changes that wind back individual employer control, lift the skills and wages of workers (including skilled migrants), and stamp out exploitation:
The ACTU makes expansion of skilled migration conditional on structural changes to deliver wage growth across the economy, investment in skills and training for local workers and reforms in the visa system in a paper on migration and skills released this morning.
