Equal Pay - Pay Up!

After entering into an agreement with the Australian Services Union (ASU) last year to support the Equal Pay Case for social and community services sector workers, the Gillard Government has gone weak on that support for equal pay. In the submission put to Fair Work Australia yesterday, the Government has claimed that protecting the future budget surplus is more important than finally delivering pay equity to employees who work with the most marginalised in society.

The Government has certainly not said that there isn't a pay equity problem, on the contrary, they agree that the problem is real and needs to be fixed. They just don't want to pay what is necessary to fix it. For more information, check out the links below, which will be updated regularly. The ASU is asking all our supporters to contact their federal politicians and make their concerns known.

You can send an online postcard to Julia Gillard showing your support for the Equal Pay Case at http://www.payup.org.au/ - a renewed flurry of postcards will show them in Canberra that we don't agree with their submission!