Why howes is really howling at rio

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View our membership page for more information. Registration for this event is available only to Intelligent Investor members. Already a member? Log in. Howes, secretary of the Australian Workers Union also said: "We are going to take Rio Tinto on and make sure that they pay a liveable wage to the workers who make the wealth that these shiny arses sitting in the boardroom in London enjoy.

For one thing, making sure Rio Tinto pays a "living wage" to workers would, on the face of it, involve big pay cuts, not raises. The Australian today quotes Commonwealth Bank data showing that the two highest earning regions in Australia are Port Hedland and Karatha, with Sydney's swanky Mosman coming third.

Cop that you shiny-arse bastards! In his address to the AWU's biennial conference on the Gold Coast on Monday, Howes said: "How much should mine bosses get for wealth from a land they did not create; that is not their own? And you don't have any automatic right to dig it up and take it away and sell it for outlandish, fortuitous, prices that have no precedent. Prices that may never be repeated! If there is a good case for the socialisation of mining profits, it should be made in relation to the Gillard government's minerals resource rents tax, not by swelling the pay packets of workers who, based on the Commonwealth Bank data, earn 62 per cent more per annum than their comrades nationally.

Moreover, Rio Tinto, being approximately 70 per cent foreign owned, could point to the extraordinary amount of foreign capital it is pouring into the Pilbara to facilitate the minerals boom that kept Australia out of recession during the GFC. Perhaps Tom Albanese, tying a foreign-made silk tie around his forehead, will stand up at the next Rio AGM and shout: "We have told Paul Howes, you didn't put the capital there!

And you don't have any automatic right to take away outlandish, fortuitous wages that have no precedent! So has Paul Howes simply lost his mind? Actually, no. Setting his comments in context, a larger agenda emerges. First, there's union numbers. After a long decline in union membership — from close to half the workforce in the early s to a recent low of less than 20 per cent — the past two years have seen union numbers turn north once more.

New union membership figures from the ABS won't be available until May, but its last survey showed 22 per cent of workers belonging to a union. This was heavily skewed towards teachers, nurse and public servants, with 46 per cent of the public sector unionised and only 14 per cent of the private sector. In fact, Howes claims his union's membership has grown at the fastest rate in 30 years, over the past two not too hard, given most of those other years saw declines.

Howes has clearly waited for the right moment to launch his attack, and it actually has little to do with the Pilbara at this stage. The proportion of workers in Rio's aluminium and glass operations is nearing the tipping point of 50 per cent — under the Fair Work Act, Howes will become negotiator-in-chief for any workplace in which more than half the workers vote to bargain collectively.

Under the Howard government, workers on AWAs, even if in the minority, were 'protected' from collective bargaining, but not now. So Howes is focusing membership drives in Rio Tinto's Alcan operations in Launceston and Gladstone, where he thinks the first 50 per cent unionisation will be achieved. It is here that he thinks big pay rises are achievable — any workers in the Pilbara who choose to start paying union dues can afford to wait their turn.