Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury) Share this | Hansard source

The trade union movements didn't just bring us the eight-hour day and public holidays. They didn't just bring us annual leave and worker safety laws. They also contributed to better pay and conditions. Unionised workers are more likely to go home safe to their families at the end of the day. Unionised workers are more likely to earn more. If the shadow minister's best argument in favour of his amendment is his experience in the 1980s with closed-shop laws that were repealed 30 years ago, I think that says it all for the coalition's position on industrial relations.

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