A reckoning in workplace relations is inevitable, and the $140 million financial hit Woolworths suffered in December from a near-three-week strike underscores just how harsh it could be.
The industrial action, which left supermarket shelves empty and disrupted supply chains ahead of the holiday season, demonstrates the damaging consequences of union-driven demands enabled by the Albanese government’s interventionist workplace relations legislation.
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John Lloyd PSM is a senior research fellow at the H.R. Nicholls Society
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