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TAKE ACTION: Make Bangladesh Garment Factories Safe |
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From the TCFUA
The Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh. Over 800 workers are confirmed dead and over 2,400 are seriously injured.
Do not be fooled by global brands promises of investigation, statements of sorrow and concern and website statements of corporate social responsibility.
This is not an isolated incident.
Bangladesh is the most dangerous place on earth to work behind a sewing machine. Over the last decade more than 600 garment workers have lost their lives there making fashion for the western world.
This industry is worth $20 billion annually. Consumers have power.
Some of the companies, shops and brands selling Bangladesh-made clothes here in Australia are Target, Big W, G-Star, Adidas, Duchamp, Cotton On and Kmart.
Join us in naming and shaming those companies manufacturing in Bangladesh until they agree to be a party to the enforceable factory safety agreement that IndustriALL Global Union and Clean Clothes endorse.
Take action by sending a message here.
Get more information at the Clean Clothes Campaign. |
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Are feminists opposing Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme on personality grounds only?
There is an odd consensus emerging between conservative Liberals opposed to their own leader’s paid parental leave scheme and defenders of the Gillard government’s version of the same policy.
Into the strange mix, we can throw the business sector, which also opposes the contentious Abbott scheme. The business excuse is that it is paid out of a new levy on business – their view is obviously self-interested – but the motives of the conservative Liberals are less clear.
This is only a short excerpt from The Conversation’s piece by Eva Cox. Read the entire article here. |
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Approval of Public Sector Agreement Imminent |
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A conference has been scheduled in the Fair Work Commission next Wednesday for the approval of the Public Sector Agreement.
We expect that the approval process will be straightforward and that the Agreement will come into effect 7 days later on Wednesday 22 May 2013. The pay increases, back pay and sign on bonus should start flowing into members pay packets in the following pay periods. |
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Community Health Services Agreement |
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We have written to the VHIA (representing CHCs) regarding the drafting of the Agreement to cover members employed in stand-alone Community Health Centres. It was agreed in negotiations that the CHC Agreement will mirror the outcomes in the public sector Agreement. We have been waiting for a response from the VHIA for nearly three weeks.
We will provide a more detailed report as negotiations progress. |
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