Ken Phillips Self Employed

Home
Podcast
Chat
Modern Marxism
Aust Work Issues
Archive
About

Aust Work Issues

We are all Micro Capitalists now
The political idea of the 'worker' as a 'class' is so 'yesterday.'
 • 
Ken Phillips
Pet puppies and the CFMEU
From employment stupidity to union corruption. Campaigning to compensate 'screwed' workers.
 • 
Ken Phillips
CFMEU—What the heck is going on?
A story of (weird) Australian political gyrations. Coup and counter-coup!
 • 
Ken Phillips
1
Stopping the trade union death spiral?
Recent changes to Australia's industrial relations laws are intended to stop unions membership collapse. Here's an explanation.
 • 
Ken Phillips
Unions stealing from workers? Never!
This is an update on the coal miners wage theft scandal. Now the Australian parliament is taking action.
 • 
Ken Phillips
The IR laws of legislative nonsense
This is the final analysis of the Albanese governments strange new IR laws.
 • 
Ken Phillips
A strange case of (IR) laws about nothing?
This is Part Two of my assessment of the Albanese government’s new world of industrial relations. This assessment covers the strange ‘employee-like…
 • 
Ken Phillips
Enter the new 'deal-making'
Here's my (part one) assessment of the Albanese government new world of industrial relations.
 • 
Ken Phillips
Killing casual work is wage theft
The Albanese government has passed new laws that will effectively kill off casual work as it's currently known in Australia. The outcome will be lower…
 • 
Ken Phillips
Stealing from the workers: Part 2 - Deal making politics
The report into the wage theft from coal miners has big implications for Australia's political establishment.
 • 
Ken Phillips
Stealing from the workers - A union agenda.
The revelation that the union, the CFMEU, has been and is involved in a massive wage theft scandal trashes assumptions about who protects or exploits…
 • 
Ken Phillips
The 'Loophole' of political game play
If you want a case study in how politics actually works, my letter to one 'independent' Senator perhaps give you a 'peak' into the games.
 • 
Ken Phillips
© 2025 Ken Phillips
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture