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I’m proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you’ve got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety.
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Games Safety Teaching
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
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Creating Jobs Labors Ordinary
I’m proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.
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Cooperatively Employees Moderate Official Union
Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn’t rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they’re irreconcilable.
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Believe Employees Views War
I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.
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Country Employee Employer Future Get People
Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.
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Better Complain Dispute Good Money Union
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
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Levels Wages Workplace
I’m interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.
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Companies Everyone Security Worker Workplace
I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn’t mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.
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Mean People Thinking
There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.
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Before Challenge Death Grapple Ignorance Life
What I’ve done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.
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Done Leader Unions
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
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Cost Outcomes People
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
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Disability Ends Parliament
I’ve spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn’t matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.
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Construction Matter Two Workers
I’m proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.
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Agreement People Records
I’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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Christian Equality Law Marriage

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