Friday, February 24, 2017

Secondary boycotts: The ghost of policies past

Apparently the current government is boycotting building companies with unacceptable labour practices.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/clock-ticking-for-builders-to-avoid-black-list-20170208-gu8bp6.html

I wonder if this is different from a secondary boycott, both legally and in principle?


Noting that the Liberal government appears to think that the use of secondary boycotts to further political aim is unfair


I suppose it could be argued that a building company's employee union is not a third party to the relationship between the government and the building company, but in any case, it does seem to me to be a tactic that doesn't make sense unless the government is engaged in class warfare.

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