Support Qantas Valet Parking workers
21 February 2008
By ASU-Victorian Private Sector Branch
About 170 workers across major airports in Australia currently need your support. In the dying days of AWAs in Australia, the new firm contracted to provide Qantas' Valet Parking wants to put all staff on a five year AWA.
Reports of the death of Work Choices are greatly exaggerated say unions
21 February 2008
Work Choices is not dead while the Liberal Party remains committed to using individual contracts and refuses to rule out bringing back AWAs say unions.
Liberals still hurting workers by holding up scrapping of Work Choices
19 February 2008
Thousands more Australian workers will be hurt by the loss of pay and conditions while the Liberals continue to delay a new law to ban AWA individual contracts and begin dismantling of Work Choices said the ACTU.
Ombudsman to investigate pay cuts of $300 a week at Qantas
19 Feb 2008
THE Workplace Ombudsman is investigating claims that Qantas valet staff are being offered individual contracts that remove penalty rates and cut their pay by $300 a week.
Hockey shows Liberals are still dishonest & out-of-touch with working families on ‘Work Choices’
18 February 2008
Claims by the former Minister responsible for ‘Work Choices’, Joe Hockey, that his Liberal Cabinet colleagues did not understand that workers would be worse off by the Liberals’ Work Choices laws are simply not believable, say unions.
Qantas parking workers sacked & then offered their jobs back on AWAs that pay $15,000 less
16 February
Around 170 staff at Qantas Valet Parking across Australia are being made redundant and then offered their jobs back on five-year AWAs that remove their penalty rates and cut their take home pay by up to $300 a week or $15,000 a year.
New Employment Standards to create strong, modern safety net
15 February 2008
All Australians will be able to look forward to a more secure working future under the 10 new employment standards proposed by the Rudd Government, says ACTU President Sharan Burrow.
Elective surgery cancelled as hospital scientists walk out across Victoria
14 February 2008
Talks in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission fail to settle the long running pay and conditions dispute in Victorian public hospitals
First step towards dismantling WorkChoices is welcome for working Australians
13 February 2008
By the ASU - fighting for your rights at work
The Labor Government's proposed new workplace relations law, tabled in Parliament today, is an important and welcome first step towards reversing the damage done to working Australians by the Liberal and National Parties' unfair 'WorkChoices' laws, say unions.
SORRY.
13 February 2008
The ASU endorses the new Rudd Government's apology to the stolen generations. This should have been done long ago by the previous federal government and we are pleased that Kevin Rudd has seized the opportunity provided by the first sitting of the new Parliament to make a fresh start on reconciliation with the symbolic gesture of "sorry".
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