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I’m proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.

Bill Shorten

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

Believe Jobs Safe
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.
BILL SHORTEN

Before Challenge Death Grapple Ignorance Life
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 proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.
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Cooperatively Employees Moderate Official Union
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action – ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
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Australia Ideas Party
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’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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Christian Equality Law Marriage
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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