Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Heilongjiang provincial Federation of Trade Unions

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Today I meet with a delegation of Chinese union officials visiting Sydney from the Heilongjiang provincial Federation of Trade Unions. Issues discussed included collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, union structures, and the roll of Unions in Australia, as well as union history...an invitation to visit  Heilongjiang was also extended to me. In a world of rapid change and the influences of China in the regional, meeting with Union Delegations is important use now, but is of major significance to our future union colleagues, and our children and their descendants. The global community and global ideas of public sector reform and issues unions confront are significant  but there significance will grow as the bridges of trade and ideas grow . Exchanges of ideas and views builds these understandings at an industry and union level.