Your Rights at Work Campaign

It is vital that everyone who is active in the campaign understands and can communicate effectively our key messages, whether we are chatting with our next door neighbour or talking to millions of Australians on national television.

We need to spell out clearly what is wrong with the federal government’s planned changes. The key information we need to convey is:

• The federal government wants to take away basic rights at work
• They want to do this making sweeping changes, including:
  • removing conditions from awards
  • keeping minimum wages low
  • using individual contracts (AWAs) to undercut existing rights
• This will mean lower living standards for Australians who are just keeping their heads above water now
• It will benefit big business at the expense of Australian working families
• It will impact on the Australian way of life
• We need to fight for our basic rights at work
• We need unions to protect our basic rights at work