Saturday, June 04, 2005

1000 march through Sydney over IR reforms

University teachers and staff march through Sydney for a rally about individual contracts.About 1000 university students and staff marched through Sydney in protest against the Federal Government's industrial relations plans.

Protesters were angry at Government plans to use new workplace relations powers to force staff to sign new individual contracts or face funding restrictions.

At the rally ACTU secretary Greg Combet highlighted the danger of "The Howard Government's legislative blank cheque to overturn industrial relations and higher education laws."

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