Sydney, 15 June 2011: Massive stop work rally opposes O’Farrell state government’s attacks on public sector workers.
Crush The NSW Government’s Attacks on Public Sector Workers! Use The Only Means That Work – All Out Strike Action!
June 15 – Twelve thousand trade unionists demonstrated today outside NSW Parliament House against the O’Farrell state government’s attack on public sector workers. The stop work rally was the biggest workers rally in Sydney in five years. Particularly large contingents were brought out by the NSW Nurses Association, the Health Services Union, the Rail, Bus and Tram Union and the Fire Brigade Employees Union. Continue reading Crush The NSW Government’s Attacks on Public Sector Workers! Use The Only Means That Work – All Out Strike Action!→
Sydney, 8 June 2011: Over 5,000 community sector workers and their supporters stop work and march for Equal Pay.
15 December 2010: Sydney rally for Equal Pay. Female-dominated community sector workers are underpaid in comparison with others doing equivalent work.
Sydney, December 2010: Equal Pay struggle has brought together women and men trade unionists of different ethnicities.
Turn the widespread support for the campaign
into the strike action that can bring victory
Equal Pay for Equal Work!
Don’t Let Governments Tell You They Can’t Afford It –
Ripping Wealth from The Greedy Tycoons Will Easily Fund Equal Pay!
June 8 – Over 5,000 community sector workers and their supporters marched through Sydney City today to demand Equal Pay for Equal Work. The Sydney rally was part of nationwide stop works and rallies by community sector workers angry at how badly they are being paid. Community sector workers are truly getting a raw deal. These workers – who include childcare workers and disability and aged carers – are doing the same work as other workers (like public sector workers) and often have equivalent qualifications. But they are getting paid much less. This discrimination has much to do with the fact that 85% of community-sector workers are women. Continue reading Equal Pay for Equal Work! Don’t Let Governments Tell You They Can’t Afford It – Ripping Wealth from The Greedy Tycoons Will Easily Fund Equal Pay!→
The hated Basics Card. As a result of the racist Northern Territory intervention, 50% of the income of an Aboriginal person receiving welfare payments is quarantined so that it can only be accessed with the Basics Card and cannot be used for purchasing “non-essential” items. The federal ALP government has extended this “welfare quarantining” scheme to other parts of the country including to non-Aboriginal communities like Sydney’s Bankstown. Now, the latest federal budget introduces additional humiliations against the poor.
September 30 – She was almost in tears. She was being tormented. It started from around the time of the start of the financial year. Government agencies started calling her up … and calling her up. They were intimidating. They demanded she go through further medical checks to prove that she really was too ill to work. Her illness was bad enough. Now she was being punished for it. Rude bureaucrats would call at strange hours – to check that she was really at home … and presumably not playing sports like a fit person? It was “like the Gestapo” she said. Continue reading Gillard/Swan Budget Punishes the Poor, Seeks to Undermine Workers Conditions. Unite the Working Class and Poor to Smash Capitalist Austerity Attacks!→
