What the hell happened to Tracey?
What happened to her Rights@Work?
You remember Tracey?, she was featured in one of the ACTU TV ads. Her boss calls her to come in to work but she has no one to look after her children and is threatened with the sack. “You can’t sack me”, she says – but under WorkChoices she was. And she still can be under Labor’s Fair Work Australia!
Thursday 13 August @ 6pm
Beer Garden, Oxford Scholar Hotel
427 Swanston St, cnr Swanston & a’Beckett streets, Melbourne
Informal social evening aimed at providing young people with information of the real facts about the Fair Work Australia Act & how it impacts on our lives.
With participation of Dean Mighell (ETU), Danielle Archer (Victorian Young Unionists) & Kirk Leonard (UNITE).
Followed by music
Are you tired of being under-paid and overworked?
Don’t stay in the dark about your work rights!
Do something about it!
Organise and win better wages and conditions.
Find out how!
Organised by the Spirit of Eureka
Supported by: Young Unionists Network & UNITE
For more info. Call 0417456001 or 0421957341
Contacts: Melbourne (VIC): contact@spiritofeureka.org
Adelaide (SA): soeurekasa@gmail.com
Around 40% of Australians, including young workers are defined as being in "precarious employment", meaning they have no security of continued employment and little control over rosters or their hours of work.
Ordinary Australians in their millions totally rejected Howard government's WorkChoices policies and threw him and his government out of office. The Labor government of Rudd & Gillard rode into office hanging onto the coat tails of this great public backlash, they promised time and again to "tear WorkChoices up and restore fairness and justice to the world of work."
Well, guess what? WorkChoices hasn't been torn up, it's just been given a new suit of clothes and a new name: Fair Work Australia Act.
If like Tracey and millions of other Australians you work in a small business with less than 15 employees you can still be sacked harshly and unfairly, the same as under WorkChoices, and have no right to appeal against unfair dismissal if you worked for less than 12 months in the small business.
Don't stay in the dark about your work rights!
Do something about it!
Organise and win better wages and conditions.
Find out how!