Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Your Rights at Work protest in Brisbane

Liz Coffey is like many other child care workers – loves her job especially the children – but she’s decided to take the time to attend the big union Your Rights at Work protest in Brisbane.

"Childcare is an industry already vulnerable to workplace pressures. Taking away our unfair dismissal rights will make this industry even more unstable," the young worker explained.

"We need stability and assurances of job security if we are going to build a good professional structure for this important employment sector which supports so many other Australian working families," Liz Coffey said.

" If governments undermine security in the childcare workforce then they are really undermining other working mums and dads who need a stable childcare service if they are going to have peace of mind in their own workplace."

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