Friday, March 16, 2012

UnionNSW: Focus on Jobs

The State Government's attempt to force Clover Moore to chose between State Parliament and Town Hall is an abuse of process that denies the people of Sydney the right to determine who represents them, Unions NSW said today.

A full council meeting of the State's trade unions will tonight vote on a motion endorsing the right of voters to determine who represents them at both the state and local government level.
Unions NSW Secretary, Mark Lennon, said the NSW Government was a repeat offender when it came to abusing democratic institutions.

"This Government has already nobbled the industrial relations commission and tried to silence working people through electoral funding laws. Now it's trying to dictate who the people of Sydney can elect to parliament and council.
"The ultimate discipline is the scrutiny of the ballot box.
"It seems every chance the State Coalition get, they try to rewrite the rules to suit themselves. This is about more than Clover Moore, this is about the right of the people to exercise their democratic will."

The following motion will be considered by the full council meeting of Unions NSW.

That this meeting of Unions NSW insists the O'Farrell Government respect the sanctity of democratic process and allow voters to determine who represents them at a state and federal level.
The meeting notes with concern the politically motivated attacks on the Lord Mayor.
Further, this meeting condemns the Government's attack on the democratic rights of NSW citizens as only the latest in a series of attempts to silence working people and interfere with their political and industrial rights.

"The Government needs to stop fiddling with electoral laws and get on with the task it was elected to perform - creating 100,000 jobs," Mr Lennon said.

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