Community entitled to truth on Shorten/Melhem wages deals

The more the Bill Shorten/Cesar Melhem wages deals with Cleanevent are scrutinised, the worse they look.

 Today’s Australian newspaper has a detailed analysis – a cleaner doing a 38 hour week including 16 hours of weekend work, for example, would have received $673.46 under the award, but only $586.32 under the 2004 Shorten agreement.

 Yet it took until yesterday for the AWU to go to the Fair Work Commission to have the current agreement scrapped “in the public interest”, even though the employer says it’s being trying to get the union to scrap the agreement since 2013.

 For The Australian’s report on yesterday’s FWC hearing, see Australian Workers Union ditches ‘sell-out’ deal  and for the analysis of the Shorten/Melhem deals see Cleanevent agreement exposes Bill Shorten’s bluster .

 See also today’s strong Herald Sun editorial It’s time to tell the truth at  on the need for Bill Shorten and Premier Daniel Andrews to tell the community the full facts about their roles in the AWU and Somyurek allegations.