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BLACK
TUESDAY - IR LAWS GRIM ANNIVERSARY
27 March 2007
The impact on working families in
South Australia's three key marginal electorates will be the focus
of community protests marking the first anniversary of the federal
government's unfair work laws.
SA Unions Secretary, Janet Giles says
life has become much harder for people in the past year.
"The Government's own data shows that
every person put onto an Australian Workplace Agreements (individual
contracts) loses at least one award right."
"Australian Bureau of Statistics
figures show that real wages have fallen behind inflation since the
work laws were brought in."
"In the past 12 months, total average
earnings for full time adult worker have decreased 0.6% compared to
the rate of inflation."
"Then there's the uncertainty of
dismissal at any time, with no reason and no recourse."
"It means workers in Kingston, Makin
and Wakefield along with the hundreds of thousands of other South
Australian workers are earning less, yet the cost of living rises."
"The federal government has delivered
a recipe for disaster and people are beginning to taste the pain",
Ms Giles says.
"We will not rest until we get rid of
these unfair laws and the government that forced them upon us", Ms
Giles says.
Protest action :
Kingston : 7.00 am
outside Kym Richardson's Office, 209 Main South Road, Morphett Vale
and at 5.00 pm outside his new office corner Bains Road and South
Road. There will be balloons representing the 1751 Kingston
workers put on AWA's in the past 12 months, and each balloon will be
popped to symbolise their loss of working rights and income.
There will be a first hand account by a local worker of her
exploitation at a brick cleaning job where she earned just over $16
for nearly a days work.
Makin : 7.30 am outside
Bob Day's Campaign Office, 928 North East Road, Modbury.
Placards targeting Bob Day "Bob Day 'Makin' life hard"
handing out the Bob Day shopping list filled out with demands from
workers. Speeches will include Bridgestone workers.
Wakefield : 4.00 pm
outside David Fawcett's Electorate Office, Munno Para Shopping
Centre, off Main North Road. Local workers will tell their
stories of the impact of the work laws and thee will be placards
targeting the local member David Fawcett.
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