Sally McManus has asked all ACTU organisers around Australia to arrange debates/forums around the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement and its impact on local jobs, wages, conditions, and workers' rights. These events would involve the sitting Liberal MP debating the issue with a senior member of the trade union movement (e.g. national secretary of the AMWU) with a very large audience and plenty of media coverage.
Mary Yaager and I have decided to hold a joint event covering the electorates of Macquarie and neighbouring Lindsay. I have already spoken to some of the key people from the Penrith Valley Community Unions and they are keen to arrange a meeting with key people from the BMUC to lock in details such as the event date, time, venue, etc. I will be joining Mary and the PVCU team in handing out flyers at the Penrith Paceway Markets on Wednesday morning so perhaps it would be possible to set up a meeting on the tail end of this?
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