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Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I’d rather someone be in the union than not in the union.
BILL SHORTEN

Pay Preference Unions
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
Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
BILL SHORTEN

Cost Outcomes People
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the – my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren’t in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
BILL SHORTEN

Trade Tradition Unions
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.
BILL SHORTEN

Done Leader Unions
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
Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face.
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Country Death Life Real
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
I’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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Christian Equality Law Marriage
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
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
The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers’ conditions.
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Jobs Safety Winning
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
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Disability Ends Parliament
What I believe to be every Australian’s right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.
BILL SHORTEN

Believe Jobs Safe
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
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.
BILL SHORTEN

Mean People Thinking

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