UnionsACT will today launch a major awareness campaign in support of the jobs created by light rail. Light rail will be a major source of new, secure and local jobs, with over 3,500 jobs created during construction and thousands more in the years following due to the economic stimulus effect. The UnionsACT campaign involves major […]
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UnionsACT has found that Canberrans want to support the jobs created by the light rail infrastructure project, despite the negative campaign run by the ACT Liberals. UnionsACT commissioned polling shows that, although opinion is divided on light rail, support dramatically increases when the job creation benefits are explained. Get more information about light rail The
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Unions broadly support the ACT Budget’s focus on protecting jobs, delivering services, and growing the economy, said UnionsACT’s Secretary Alex White today. The ACT has been hit hard by savage public sector sackings, cuts to funding by the Federal Government to schools, hospitals and social services, reduction in GST funding, and the Mr Fluffy disaster.
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[two_thirds flow=start]May Day is an event of central importance for the labour movement, and in the ACT has long been a celebration of working people. This year we will continue the tradition of awarding May Day Awards that recognise significant achievement amongst the activists and delegates of Canberra’s proud unions. With unions and the broader
The announcement by ActewAGL that it will make “substantial” job cuts as a result of the Australian Energy Regulator decision highlights the need for a jobs plan for Canberra, UnionsACT’s
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Speaking notes from Workers Memorial Day, 28 April 2015, for Alex White, Secretary of UnionsACT. Thank you all for being here, at the National Workers Memorial, a monument constructed to
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Our rights at work are again under attack from the Abbott Government and employers. It recently became even clearer that the full-scale Productivity Commission inquiry into our rights at work could deliver cuts to penalty rates, the abolition of the minimum wage, bring back unfair individual contracts and swing even more power to the employers.
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10 October at 16:00 – 18:30 Manning Clark Theatre 6 This will be a forum to discuss community coalitions as a political force. Our keynote speaker is Jenna Price, academic at University of Technology Sydney, Canberra Times columnist, and a co-founder of Destroy the Joint.RSVP: www.fairgoforcanberra.org.au
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This Family & Community Day, come by the Fair Go for Canberra stall for a free sausage and a yarn. This year, we’re talking about how the Federal Budget has hit Canberra hardest. We’re angry about the Government’s plans to: • Slash the public service• Destroy universal Medicare • Triple university feesWhat’s on your mind? Come by
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