The MUA last year funded a report by left-wing think tank the Australia Institute that labelled the PC’s draft findings about the union’s port-side dominance “unreasonable and deficient”.
Unions are using the Productivity Commission’s findings about the Maritime Union Australia’s stranglehold on the waterfront to bolster their campaign to undermine the economic adviser and push for its abolition.
The Productivity Commission found the MUA had “significant – and unbalanced – bargaining power” at Australia’s ports.at Australia’s ports that was hurting the economy. in which he accused the PC of being at the “vanguard of Australia’s failed experiment with neoliberalism”. He made no mention of the MUA-funded report.accused the PC of being stacked with former staffers to Liberal politicians
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