Unions and employers have backed an insane case to boost migration from 160,000 to 200,000 places a year.
This will throw thousands of people out of work as cheap labour floods the jobs market and drives wages down.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians – so far uncounted – have dropped out of the workforce in the last 14 years and more so since Covid-19 hit.
I am pro-migration but I’m working at the coalface of employment services and since the GFC, wages have stagnated and under-employment has sky-rocketed – and the government wants to bring more people onshore?
Albanese spoke of federal funding for skills and training, including TAFE colleges, which are basketcases. They can hardly teach local students.
In a major step back for Australians, ACTU secretary Sally McManus and Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott, endorsed the need for more migrants.
McManus and Westacott issued a joint statement saying the migration program was “critical” to Australia.
Westacott said on the ABC’s Insiders program, the Business Council of Australia wanted an increase in permanent migration to “around 200,000 to 220,000”.
McManus responded by saying the ACTU could accept “around the same figure”.