What is the sticking point in Labor’s industrial relations bill and how would it work?

Tony Burke says Victorian early childhood educators, who have negotiated a multi-employer agreement at separate workplaces paying 16% above the award will need the single interest stream to bargain next time. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Labor likely needs David Pocock to pass its industrial relations bill, but the ACT senator has called for the most controversial element to be split off and debated next year.

The so called single-interest stream had sparked wide-ranging concerns from a broad range of stakeholders, Pocock said in a Senate inquiry report.