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When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

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 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
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
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
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.
BILL SHORTEN

Better Complain Dispute Good Money Union
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.
BILL SHORTEN

Community Ideas Party
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
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

Agreement People Records
I’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
BILL SHORTEN

Christian Equality Law Marriage
I’m proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.
BILL SHORTEN

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.
BILL SHORTEN

Believe Employees Views War
When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
BILL SHORTEN

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 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.
BILL SHORTEN

Country Employee Employer Future Get People
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
BILL SHORTEN

Levels Wages Workplace
What I believe to be every Australian’s right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.
BILL SHORTEN

Believe Jobs Safe

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