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stui magpie 
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| Post subject: Fear of workchoices eases - unions step up campaign |  |
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Two different articles.
One from News.com.au, a survey has found that the public fear of workchoices as decreased in the last quarter.
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,21897259-462,00.html
| Quote: | FEAR of the Federal Government's industrial relations changes is easing, but understanding of Work Choices remains extremely low, a new survey has found.
The June 2007 Sensis Consumer Report, released today, found just 28 per cent of Australians believe Work Choices would have a negative impact on them, down from 36 per cent in the previous quarter.
The figure is the lowest recorded by Sensis.
The proportion of Australians who agree with the changes in principle rose from 22 per cent to 28 per cent in the June quarter, the report found.
However, the number of Australians who believe the changes will have a positive impact on them personally has remained static at 11 per cent.
“At the same time, we have also seen an increase in the number of people who believe the changes would have no impact on them, up six percentage points to 55 per cent,” report author Christena Singh said.
The survey, which interviewed 1500 people between April 30 and May 28, also found fewer than one in five people believe they have a thorough understanding of the new workplace laws.
“Fourteen per cent felt they did not understand the new system at all, unchanged in the past quarter,” the report said.
Ms Singh said there was a clear difference of opinion between Australians who belonged to a union and those that did not.
“Of the nineteen per cent who said they are members of a union, some forty-seven per cent of them believe workplace changes would have a negative impact on them,” she said.
“In contrast, only 24 per cent of those who are not union members said the changes would have a negative impact on them.”
Twenty-two per cent of small business operators believed changes to workplace relations would have a positive impact on business, up one percentage point over the quarter.
Just five per cent of small businesses believed the changes would have a negative impact.
The workplace relations system was ranked overall as Australian's ninth most pressing concern.
The report found the most pressing concern for Australians is the drought and the environment.
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second article,
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21897286-5005961,00.html?from=public_rss
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UNIONISTS are being recruited by the ACTU to fight in marginal seats as part of a strategy to drive the Federal Government from power.
In 22 marginal seats, tens of thousands of union members are being targeted across Australia, News Limited reports.
The recruitment is part of a secret “six-step” battle plan which uses a special computer program, devised by the ACTU, to recruit members willing to help in the election campaign.
The ACTU has also urged activists to woo swinging voters by targeting churches and “faith” groups.
Swinging voters are likely to be “systematically contacted”, according to a confidential strategy document obtained by News Limited.
The document also details the “unprecedented” level of money to be spent on advertising in a bid to beat the Coalition.
“We must get out and ensure members understand how bad these (industrial relations) laws are and exercise their vote,” ACTU Assistant Secretary Chris Walton said in his pitch to union officials.
“If through contact we only move a small percentage of these voters, we can potentially change the election result.”
In parliament yesterday Acting Opposition Leader Julia Gillard cited a leaked government document to claim John Howard planned to force 1.5 million workers onto individual work contracts.
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The age view of the same thing.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/hockey-slams-actu-campaign/2007/06/13/1181414339182.html
| Quote: | Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey says the ACTU has employed American-style politics to trick people into voting Labor.
Unionists are being recruited by the ACTU to fight in 22 marginal seats as part of a "six-step" battle plan which uses a special computer program to recruit members willing to help in the election campaign.
"This is a very detailed guide in how to trick people into voting Labor at the next election," Mr Hockey told ABC Radio today.
"It clearly illustrates that the union bosses are desperate to get Kevin Rudd into the lodge."
But Federal opposition industrial relations spokeswoman Julia Gillard has defended the plan.
Ms Gillard today said it was no surprise the union movement was campaigning against the government's workplace laws.
"It's no news that the ACTU is campaigning against Mr Howard's unfair WorkChoices laws," she told reporters.
"The ACTU has been campaigning against these laws since they were first introduced.
"And the ACTU is campaigning against them because they're unfair to Australian working families - there's nothing new in that."
Labor 'not too close to unions'
Ms Gillard denied the campaign demonstrated Labor was too close to the unions.
"The Labor party made its own decision about industrial relations; we've made our own decisions about the future of the industrial relations system," she said.
"The ACTU has made its own decisions about what's in the best interest of its members and it's been campaigning for some time now against WorkChoices."
But Mr Hockey said the recruitment strategies were far more sophisticated than those currently used by political parties.
"Political parties obviously have information about voters and they do that because they have candidates running in individual seats," he said.
"This is a consolidated database held outside the political party system.
"It is held by the trade union movement. It is a database that has thousands and thousands of names of families and a significant amount of information about those families that is being used to canvas votes for the union movement and for the Labor party.
"Last time I looked the Labor party had its own information base, this is an entirely separate database with a huge amount of information about individuals gathered together by door knocking from union members in key marginal seats.
"This is American-style politics on a scale we have never seen in Australia and it is funded, it is authorised, it is written by the union bosses for Kevin Rudd."
Mr Hockey said the unions and the Labor party have been caught out by the political strategy manual.
"It's a very comprehensive document," he said.
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The unions are obviously desperate to make a big deal about workchoices and convince people that it's bad. Is that because the legislation is really that bad for the average person or because it cuts the unions out of their preferred power state. 
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Dave The Man 
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We have to get Rudd in and Howard Out!
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stui magpie
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | We have to get Rudd in and Howard Out! |
Thanks DTM, welcome back. Maybe when you've got your wish you might change your mind. 
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Proud Pies 
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the 2nd article is a laugh.......we've been working on this in Marginal Seats for 2 years!
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Joel 
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | We have to get Rudd in and Howard Out! |
Why do you say that Dave? |
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