Jobs you can count on
A 2012 NUW campaign
This year will see the initial phase of a whole-of-union campaign to tackle casual, labour-hire, dodgy contracting and other forms of insecure work. The NUW will be campaigning in 2012 to make sure every worker counts.
In a message from National Secretary Charlie Donnelly in our 2011/12 Summer Nuwsletter, the situation for workers who are not given the same protections and opportunities in insecure jobs is out lined. You can download our Summer Nuwsletter here.
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An article in The Age in the final days of 2011 by IR reporter Ben Schneiders looked at the different sides of the current debate facing the Australian industrial landscape. Employer associations do not want their ability to shift risk onto workers restricted, suggesting they feel they should have no responsibilities to workers and their families.
NUW Victorian Branch Secretary also spoke about what it really means to work as a casual or insecure worker and explained the research that has gone into the NUW campaign Jobs you can count on, which will be running throughout 2012.
Ben Schneiders, The Age Newspaper, December 28, 2011
You can read the full article here
ACTU Secretary Jeff Lawrence, long-term casual worker and NUW Delegate Kylie Goldburg, contract poultry worker and NUW member Sokhom Koey, and ACTU President Ged Kearney at the ACTU launch of their campaign Better Jobs Better Future, in Sydney last September.
