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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

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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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Christian Equality Law Marriage
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

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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