Australians: With a new govt, are we going to get a pay raise? Will there be unions in every workplace?

Answer 1

I can guess who you voted for. Still trying to make problems, hey ?

Answer 2

I believe that yes, a large number of Australians will receive pay rises, based on increased union activity and unchecked power. This will be followed by a large number of either a) redundancies or b) bankruptcies leading to a large number of unemployed people. But hey, those who get to keep their jobs will be doing ok, except for rising interest rates and a greater tax burden, and of course it will be all the business' fault for going bust.

Answer 3

Maybe now people might be able to get into a hospital or buy a house and be able to afford to put petrol in their car and the gap between the rich and poor wont get any wider.
I hate bully boy unions but our nurses and police have needed their unions to fight for what they deserve and I am sure you wont be working Xmas day with no penalty rates like they will be.

Answer 4

Given that political powere has effectively been handed to the unions. (rudd is afterall just a puppet for the unions). There is a strong likelyhood that there will be unions in most work places. Yes there will be pay increases, but they will be directly off-set by increases in interest rates and increases in the price of food and commodities. The result will be an increase in inflation causing still more increases in interest rates and pushes more more pay rises. So much for owning your own home or being able to afford one. Welcome to the banana republic.

For those thinking that they will now be able to get into hospitals, maybe you should ask all the state labour leaders why their state run hospitals are a total shambles.What on earth makes you think it's going to be any better under a federal labour government The States govern their own education systems that's why their are so many different curriculums, different school holiday times etc. In good old WA the state labour government went as far as spending 42million on a new school and forgetting to get the power and sewerage put in. Now that's competence.

Answer 5

There should be the opportunity to have unions in every workplace if the workers want them there. Pay rises will continue to happen in the same old way ... some people will have to struggle for them, some people will be granted them as part of cost of living increases. If Rudd can achieve industrial harmony as Hawke did, and at the same time lift the lives of those currently oppressed, then he will get my vote again and again.

Go Labor! and go Maxine McHugh!!

Answer 6

Howard has left a big financial mess. Average wages have increased only slightly but the average spend on housing (both rent and mortgage) has quadrupled in the last decade under Howard/Costello. People need homes but under Howard only wealthy people can afford what many people could afford years ago. Poetic justice will be to see all the people who voted Liberal (just so they could borrow to the hilt) now see their home values plummet as Labor introduces more affordable housing schemes.

Answer 7

How about a paycut? Would you like one of those? It was all about the war. That was the real reason Howard lost. People are sick of getting lied to.

Answer 8

lets be honest about the reforms, should have been put in in the first place, and if they can pay an honest wage they dont deserve to have staff under them

Answer 9

I thought Australia was just electing new officials today. I had no idea you guys were choosing a new system of government.

Answer 10

More like industry going to be leaving Australia, Just like in the states. Unions chase more jobs out of countries than they create.

Answer 11

Unions are near on dead and buried with minimal power in most sectors and will be kept in line by Julia to keep the peace