Hot issue: Hundreds of people rally down King Street, Newtown to protest over plans to mine for coal seam gas in the area. The protesters are calling on the NSW government to prohibit the mining of coal seam gas in the city until all water, health and other environmental impacts are known. Picture: Dan Himbrechts Source: The Daily Telegraph
MANUFACTURING in Australia, employing nearly one million workers, is in crisis. And it's really hurting NSW.
In 2011, BlueScope Steel laid off over 1000 workers at the Port Kembla steelworks. As a proportion of our gross domestic product, manufacturing slid to record lows.
And on nearly every working day this year the AWU had to deal with manufacturing redundancies. This, obviously, is not good for workers, but it's also bad for business.
So in an example of organised labour and capital working together, both the union movement and industry groups recognised the crisis, and asked the Prime Minister to take action - which she did through the establishment of a Prime Ministerial Taskforce into manufacturing and associated measures. I am very hopeful that together we will be able to arrest the loss of jobs during 2012.
So in an example of organised labour and capital working together, both the union movement and industry groups recognised the crisis, and asked the Prime Minister to take action - which she did through the establishment of a Prime Ministerial Taskforce into manufacturing and associated measures. I am very hopeful that together we will be able to arrest the loss of jobs during 2012.
Sunday Telegraph (01/01/12)
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