Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It is good to be corrected. Senator Bilyk was not a union leader. She was a union official. Whether as a union official she sold workers down the river, I do not know. I guess that is something she will have to answer for, and I have no evidence one way or another in terms of Senator Bilyk's time as a union official, but we do have evidence in relation to the SDA, a union that was mentioned by Senator Bilyk. She said that they do a great job for workers. We have had a few examples in recent times where it has been highlighted that perhaps they did not do such a good job. I pointed to the fact that back in the nineties it was time and a half for Woollies' workers on a Sunday, so less than the award, and that was more than 20 years ago. In August 2016, we heard from Australian workers in retail and fast food outlets including Woolworths, Hungry Jack's and KFC being underpaid more than $300 million a year in a national wages scandal centred on a deal struck with the shop assistants union. That is $300 million in one sector where workers were being underpaid because of deals done by one of your favourite unions, Senator Bilyk, the SDA. If you are going to talk about the SDA—