Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

This is a fundamental difference between the coalition and the Labor Party. It is enshrined in the Labor Party’s industrial relations policy that every employer has to give a prospective employee an invitation to join the trade union movement when they apply for a job. That is Labor Party policy. It is written and enshrined in their policy that they issue an information statement to any new employee to give them an invitation to join the trade union movement. On the weekend, the Leader of the Opposition said that union bosses are just another voice. He declared on Sunday—it was classic Kev—that union bosses could ‘jump in the lake’ if they had a problem with what he had to say. You can imagine Kevin Reynolds and Joe McDonald shaking in their jackboots as Kevin Rudd says to them—

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