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Unions vow to wage grassroots IR battle.

Australasian Business Intelligence, December, 2005

Byline: Mark Skulley and Mark Davis

Dec 04, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Senate has passed the controversial industrial relations (IR) legislation. The new laws have not been

welcomed by trade unions groups, the ACTU and the Australian Labor Party. The ACTU, has vowed to continue a grassroots advertising

campaign against the IR laws. The ACTU will use ordinary people, in marginal electorates across Australia, to put pressure on MPs whose political lives hang by a thread. The ACTU campaign will be backed by more political advertising, showing the "face of working Australia". Labor is angry because

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