Labor’s decision to put the construction union into administration has triggered a revolt within a significant part of the union movement.
But the former ACTU secretary says the move to overhaul the CFMEU is justified by the need to protect the interests of ordinary members.
It is regretful that the ACTU has had to take steps to suspend the CFMEU,but it had no choice if it wanted to protect the interests of working people.
But the former ACTU boss has dismissed much of the talk of a looming wage-inflation spiral as “hyperbole”.
Bill Kelty,the industrial consigliere behind some of Australia's most significant economic reforms,says Daniel Andrews can build a broad consensus for generational change.
Winning for Women is a vital repository of first-hand labour history,gender history and media history.
By allowing 40,000 Chinese to stay in the country following Tiananmen Square,Hawke put the knife into the white Australia policy,Bill Kelty said.
The other partner in the reform project of the 1980s and 90s,ACTU secretary Bill Kelty,chokes back tears as he talks about his mate of 53 years.
Bill Kelty has warned the alternative prime minister he has a duty to protect workers' savings over the vested interests of "loud underperformers".