Like your post Vors, but
At present Australia has relatively favourable labour laws
You can't be serious?! Even after nearly a a decade of Labor, the laws and FWA still heavily favour employers and hamstring employees trying to not get humped at the whim of unscrupulous companies with no regard for their 'most important asset'. And no, I'm not comparing Oz to third world dictatorships
In terms of how to deal with it, I agree unity is the main way to safeguard some sort of life in this industry. The problem as always lies in some of our colleagues thinking they know better/put their own and immediate interests before the good of all (and eventually themselves!)