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The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers’ conditions.

Bill Shorten

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
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
What I believe to be every Australian’s right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.
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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
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.
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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.
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Done Leader Unions
I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation.
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Community Ideas Party
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
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
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
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Disability Ends Parliament
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
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
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.
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Pay Preference 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
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
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

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