Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

There is a simple answer to that. To do what you say—to take away all the conditions under an agreement, an AWA or a ITEA, and replace it with a collective agreement—would mean those workers would not get a vote on it, so they would lose those conditions. That is why we believe this is a more orderly transition.