After just two sitting weeks, there are already worrying signs for working Australians and their families.
We know the government is listening to big business but they need to listen to you! Business groups are raising the volume: calling for the scrapping of penalty rates, slashing minimum wage, cutting important services and numerous other changes that would change the Australian way of life.
Do you want your government to only listen to big business? Or do you want your government to hear what’s important to you?
Take a minute to send your MP a message. A message that says you want to keep the Australian way of life. That means fair wages for fair work, equal rights whether you’re a builder, a nurse, a teacher, a banker, an engineer or a plumber. It means when you give up time with your family on weekends, at nights or on public holidays you get fair compensation. You can use our form email on the right, or even better, use the tool to write your own!
Some points you may want to mention in your email:
- Protect essential services and jobs from big business’s government razor gang.
- Ensure the rights of all workers to be the treated the same by rejecting a secret body into the building and construction industry.
- Respect the role of unions as member-led organisations and understand they are not corporations with bottomless pockets.
- Maintain the independence of the Fair Work Commission as Australia’s industrial umpire.
- Support Australian industries and jobs.
- Ensure all people can retire from work in dignity with a fair superannuation where low income earners are helped by the wealthy - not the other way around.
- Ensure that the minimum wage is fair pay for a fair day’s work.
- Protect our way of life by guaranteeing people are compensated for giving up weekends, nights or holidays with decent rates of pay.
- Deliver on equitable schools and childcare funding to give all kids a good start to their lives.
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