Saturday 24 April 2010

Send kisses to Julia in support of community workers


Want to support a pay increase for Australian community workers?
Send Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Julia Gillard an online 'kiss' postcard at Pay Up - No More Lip Service to Equal Pay:
An the online a campaign of the Australian Services Union (ASU). The ASU is the union of Community Sector Workers.
Community Sector workers are undervalued and underpaid and not properly respected. Their work has traditionally been seen as "women's work" and their wages have been restricted as a result.
In 2010, Unions led by the ASU and supported by the ACTU and the Federal Government are lodging a test case in Fair Work Australia using the new Equal Remuneration Laws embedded in the Fair Work Act. The case will impact the working lives of about 200,000 community workers.
The Community Sector is largely reliant on Government funding to run its essential services and to pay the wages of the workers. Winning the case will prove that these workers are undervalued – but, the case outcome alone will not correct the injustice. Workers need the Government to fund the outcome of the case to make Equal Pay a reality.
As to any hope that this might equate to equal pay for women generally - well that is a very long bow to draw.

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