Union backflips, now supports Pacific labor scheme
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Australia's biggest blue-collar union, the Australian Workers Union, has performed a backflip and is now supporting a proposal to allow unskilled workers from the Pacific into Australia to meet season labour shortages. People on the land and big agricultural businesses say the scheme is desperately needed because there aren't enough Australians to do the work. Until now, the AWU has been opposed to the idea, but the union says now that it's had a change of heart, it wants to make sure that the federal government brings in a scheme that's fair to all workers.
Presenter: Donna Field
Australian Workers Union national secretary, Paul Howes; New Zealand farmer, John Bostock
