What the Media is saying about the Manufacturing Alliance:
- Steel industry buoyed by rescue package (Illawarra Mercury)
- Steel plan will ban rigged contracts, set access parameters (The Australian)
- Steel industry gets its own ‘Buy Australia’ alternative (ABC)
- ‘Buy Australia’ policy smoothes out (Sky News)
- Contractors to show they tried to buy Australian (SMH)
- Victory for unions: ‘Buy Australia’ campaign gets Govt support (ABC 7.30 Report)
- Carr negotiates halt to stoush on jobs (The Australian)
- $23m package defuses union row (Melbourne Age)
- Labor risks throwing away Australian jobs (The Punch)
- Rudd right to rebuff Buy Aussie push: Opposition (AAP)
- Buy Australian? That’s depressing, according to PM (AAP)
- Manufacturing Alliance to protect and promote Australia’s manufacturing industry (FEN)
- Union rejects Rudd’s protectionist claim (AAP)
- Labor rejects unions’ buy Australian campaign push (Canberra Times)
- Get real, Rudd tells unions (SMH)
- Unions’ push to buy local rejected by Kevin Rudd (The Australian)
- Australia resists ‘Buy Australian’ union pressure (Associated Press)
- Employment is still the battlefield (SMH)
- At issue for Labor is a boring conference (Sydney Daily Telegraph)
- Community backs ‘Buy Australian’ push: unions (ABC)
- ‘Buy local’ push gaining momentum, say unions ( Sunday Age)
- Public says protect Australian jobs: union (Sun-Herald)
- Government should buy Australian: poll (AAP)
- Rudd rejection sets up conference showdown with unions (AAP)
- Spend Australian to protect jobs, say unions (AAP)
- Australia rejects ‘protectionist’ push to buy local (AFP)
- A case of make or we break (The Australian Opinion piece)
- Two union foes form alliance to save manufacturing jobs (ABC AM)
- Unions push PM on action plan for jobs (The Australian)
- Factional politics out as unions try to save jobs (AAP)
- Union alliance to focus on manufacturing (ATN)
- Union leader Paul Howes plays down economic recovery (The Australian)
- AWU and AMWU join forces on jobs (The Union Show)
