Multi-employer pay deals top demand from unions at jobs summit, ACTU boss says

Sally McManus says industry-level bargaining across workplaces essential to address Australia's wages crisis

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Unions must be allowed to strike pay deals covering multiple workplaces to help increase wages, the head of the labour movement has demanded ahead of next week's jobs summit.

Unions have nominated multi-employer pay deals as their top priority for the summit, setting them on a collision course with business.

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