WA: IR would be disaster under Labor, says Court

AAP General News (Australia)
01-18-2001
WA: IR would be disaster under Labor, says Court

The coalition says industrial relations in Western Australia would go to pot under
a Labor government, as the state election spotlight swung to workplace issues.

Premier RICHARD COURT claims the ALP has struck a secret deal with unions to abolish
individual workplace agreements, and that the arrangement will decimate the state's industrial
relations system.

But Labor says there is no secret deal, as its proposal to introduce a new form of
workplace agreements has been freely available since the launch last September of its
industrial relations …