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Union Solidarity aims to build a mass based united front campaign on the ground to defeat the repressive IR laws. Union Solidarity is a wide network of affiliated community and welfare organisations and unions with the single aim of building a broad people’s movement to beat back attacks on workers, unions and communities.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Victory for workers in the City of Yarra.

The Yarra City Council on Tuesday 11th October passed a motion restricting the council contracts to organizations with collective workplace agreements. This has created a bridgehead for other Councils to follow; if all ALP or Green-influenced Councils followed this lead it would protect tens of thousands of workers from individual contracts. Contractors at Councils employ some of the lowest paid workers in Australia, including staff delivering 'Meals on Wheels'.

Workers and trade unionists, including Phil Cleary, and many comrades from Union Solidarity spoke brilliantly of the low wages faced by those working for contractors, and of the new IR regime of terror Howard is introducing. They all called for Councillors to vote for 'the Jolly motion'. Well done to the all of the trade unionists that turned up on the night and also especially to the ETU, CWU and Union Solidarity comrades who helped get this motion over the line. Hopefully this is a decision that will hopefully have national consequences.

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