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Thatcher and Regan started the neo-liberal revolution which is all about ripping off the workers and giving more to the corporate elites and maximising corporate profits at the expense of the majority.  Harsh IR law reforms aim at stripping away workers pay and conditions and in the long run pushes down the  Minimum wage has been abolished or will be abolished.

The harsh IR laws introduced in Australia under an ultra conservative government may be a sign of more harsher IR laws intent on turning the clocks in western countries back before unions fought for workers rights in the early 20th century. 100 years of reforms wound back to only profit big business/employers and corporate elites. Workers rights and conditions eroded and all the 

Something like WorkChoices and other harsh IR law reforms? Introduce new IR laws that take away workers pay condition. Flexible laws to allow employers to sack workers for no reason. Enforce more laws which makes it a crime to protest against the harsh IR laws.

Harsh IR laws that only profit the big end of town and maximises their profit margins at the expense of the workers. Workers with unions have protection. Workers without unions have no protection from IR law reforms. 

I simply regard the neo-liberal harsh IR reforms as reverse Robin-Hood syndrome: the corporate elites ripping of the 25% lowest paid workers. Neo-liberals will try and talk about social democrats debts and deficits and they always push through austerirty measures which hurt the low to middle socio-economic class.

What can be fought for can very easily be taken back by the use of the law.