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.
BILL SHORTENI’m a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.
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When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.
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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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I’m proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What I believe to be every Australian’s right – a good, safe job with proper pay and conditions.
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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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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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Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
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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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