HOW LABOUR CAN LEAD THE WAY AND LAND ON ITS FEET
Ronald E. Johnson
Abstract
As our nation begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australians are facing the disastrous prospect of unemployment moving towards levels not witnessed since the Great Depression (Bennett 2020; Wright 2020). History shows that during periods of high unemployment, labour unions fare very poorly in their pursuit of wage justice. To avoid the crushing defeats of the 1890's (Hagan 1989) and the 1930's (Louis 1968) and the associated social misery, the Australian labour movement needs to quickly adapt. There is an opportunity for unions to facilitate the creation of decent jobs for their members and lead the way for a fundamental rebalance of the labour market by working to make land more accessible to labour for production.
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