It’s been revealed today that the Labor Party of Tasmania, the so called party of the workers, is too weak to even have a position on public sector wages.
What wages policy do they support? A two percent increase? A twenty percent increase? A one percent increase? No one knows and Labor refuses to say.
When asked about wages policy today, Bryan Green, the man who launched his political career at the front of a picket line with a placard in one hand and a bullhorn in the other, had completely lost his voice and startlingly had absolutely nothing to say about public sector wages.
That’s because Mr Green knows that the Government’s two percent wages policy is fair, sensible and affordable – after all, it was also his policy when he was in Government. He just won’t admit it.
When Labor was in power they stuck to a two percent wages policy. In 2011, then Premier Lara Giddings said that a two percent wages policy would “…ensure all new wage agreements are affordable in the current Budget and minimise the need for further job losses in the State Service.”
Nothing has changed, except Labor has lost the courage of its convictions.