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Public meeting: ALL welcome! _
Defend our Rights at Work, Tear up all of Work Choices
Saturday, June 16, 1.30pm
RMIT function Room, 360 Swanston St, City
Speakers:
Len Cooper, Victorian secretary, Communications Division, Telecommunications & Services
Carol Williams Monash University NTEU branch president
John Parker Gippsland TLC secretary
Chris Spindler AMWU organiser and Socialist Alliance
Figures for March show that corporate profits are growing at the expense workers' wages. The Howard government plans to even tougher anti-union laws if it gets re-elected. And the Labor Party will keep the majority of Work Choices if it gets elected, including draconian penalties for workers who strike outside the bargaining period, a ban on pattern bargaining and special policing of building workers.
This panel will discuss options for union campaign against Work Choices, whether the anti-Work Choices campaign should be independent of the ALP, the potential for a right to strike campaign in Australia and the implications of both major parties support for a building industry police force continuing after the federal election.
for more info contact 9639 8622
This meeting is sponsored by Socialist Alliance and is part of the Socialist Alliance state conference. For agenda and more details on the conference check http://www.socialist-alliance.org/melb
