What the LNP call “casual work” is actually “precarious”. With the destruction of unions a priority work became increasingly “precarious ” or “insecure”. How did it get this way when Royal Commissions found trade unions to be basically honest and Banks and Business callous and corrupt. Where was the ALP during all of this?(ODT)

Australians deserve better than a post-crisis “snapback” to an economy in which workers worry about job insecurity while jobseekers are relegated to poverty, Anthony Albanese will declare on Monday.

In his latest “headland” speech, the Labor leader will sharpen his message that the public is looking for a recovery “in which no one is left behind” and will not accept a return to “the law of the jungle and unfettered market forces”.

via Society must not ‘snap back’ to insecure work and poverty after coronavirus crisis, Albanese says | Australia news | The Guardian