Sally McManus: Australia’s workplace laws are broken

ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

In her first address to the National Press Club as ACTU secretary on March 29, Sally McManus repeated her earlier statement that it was right to break unjust laws.

She said Australia’s workplace laws were broken and that “wage theft” had become the new business model for too many employers. McManus also set out the ACTU’s case for a $45 a week increase in the minimum wage.

McManus said neoliberalism had run its course. It had caused inequality to reach a 70-year high in Australia and that “working people and ordinary Australians have been the victims”.

“The Keating years created vast wealth for Australia, but it has not been shared, and too much has ended up in offshore bank accounts or in CEO’s back pockets.”

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