Stop the Sell Off: Members Resolve to Maintain the Fight
By Scott McNamara
USU Manager Energy & Utilities
Oct 22, 2009
Mass Meetings have been held around the state where members have unanimously resolved to maintain and boost the fight leading up to NSW ALP State Conference.
“The support around the state from members and the community to refocus the campaign against the NSW Government’s most recent update to its Energy Reform Strategy is enormously encouraging,” Energy Manager, Scott McNamara said.
The Unions have collectively mapped out a strategy leading to NSW ALP State Conference and beyond. The campaign will refocus attention to MP’s around the state.
“It is our intention to educate the MP’s around the state to ensure that there is a very clear understanding about the Government’s updated plan and its immense failure to secure any extra generation for NSW, its failure to secure employment protections for employees around the state along with ensuring core employment numbers within regional and rural NSW. Most critically, the NSW Government is attempting to sell the retailers and their ongoing revenue stream at a bargain basement price at the expense of the NSW tax payers,” Mr McNamara said.
A combined Union Campaign A Delegates meeting was held at Unions NSW on Friday 9th October which was the second of its kind in two weeks. A third meeting has been scheduled for Thursday 15th October as the campaign strengthens. Delegates will then roll out around the state meeting with all MP’s ahead of NSW ALP Conference on November 14 and 15.
The remaining mass meetings will be held over the next two weeks. A special mass meeting will be held at Country Energy’s Leeton Call Centre during the last week of October. Please stand by for further details. The USU encourages all members and their family and friends to contact your local MP and visit the USU website and complete the proforma email which will automatically send an email to all MP’s around the state.
The Stop the Sell Off campaign has had great success and two years later and we are still standing and have not been sold. The next stage of the campaign is intensifying as we move toward the pivotal annual NSW ALP State Conference. Join the Campaign, become an activist and help protect your industry and your jobs.
