Sun, Aug 12, 2007
Earlier this year former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating said the union movement was "dying on the vine", and that it was "dying out of lack of passion" and "general incompetence". Is he right? Have unions lost their relevance and usefulness in today's world? At the beginning of the 1990s, 40% of Australian workers were in a union. Now in 2007, there's just 20%, and only 15% in the private sector.