CTU MEDIA RELEASE
02 July 2008
National's ACC plans gets murkier
News that the Australian insurance industry is lining up to profit over National's secret plans to privatise ACC means the party must come clean on their intentions, the Council of Trade Unions said today.
"Last month we issued a 'please explain'
"Today "National needs to front up and explain why,
in the face of recent evidence of the benefits of the
national insurer, it would want to scrap this asset for the
benefit Australian commercial interests." "The
PricewaterhouseCoopers report
"It is not clear what the
National Party means by choice. Do they mean the same policy
as in 1998? Which accounts do they want to open up for
private insurance companies? Workers value the reliability
of the current ACC scheme, and deserve answers from the
National." "The National Party's dealings with the
private insurance industry at the last election, revealed in
Nicky Hager's book, have gone unchallenged." "We are
calling on National to front up for once and for all on what
their plans are for ACC."
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