Stop the Scams: scrap the IR Laws

Politics in the Pub

Blackburn’s Family Hotel, 15 Parke Street, Katoomba

[Download Blue Mountains Union News: Feb 2007]

Saturday, 24th February 2007, 2.30 pm

Stop the Scams: scrap the IR Laws

The past few months has seen a host of anti-worker and anti-union scams by employers emboldened by Howard’s IR Laws.

With the upcoming State and Federal elections we will have a chance to show the emphatic community opposition to these laws and to the types of backwardness they encourage amongst some employers.

The most recent scams include:
Qantas selloff ... management profit via loaded up debt:
reducing job security
Tristar moving offshore ... trashing redundancy payments
Misuse of 457 visa scheme ... Filipino workers in Bribane:
using the excuse of gaps left by 10 years of cutbacks in local training

Speakers include:
Paul Bastian, NSW State Secretary, AMWU
Special Guest, Tristar delegate from the Sydney factory

Further information:
Brett O’Brien 0413866520