ACTU president Ged Kearney believes the federal parliament can stop the Fair Work Commission decision to cut penalty rates if government MPs cross the floor to support a Labor bill.
The federal opposition will put forward a bill in the parliament to reverse the decision to cut Sunday rates for workers in retail and hospitality.
"We need some to break away from the government to get through the lower house, in this crazy parliament that is not impossible," Ms Kearney told Sky News on Sunday.
Ms Kearney said the trade union movement will refuse to join any mitigation to phase in the penalty cut.
"I don't care if you mitigate over one, two, three or five years, it is still a pay cut," she said.
"This is really an outrage."
She said there was no evidence anywhere in the world to support the claim that cutting pay will actually create jobs.
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