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Ban on New AWAs Welcome - Now it's Time to Scrap WorkChoices

By Steve Birney
USU President
Apr 9, 2008
The USU welcomes the ban on new Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) that took effect at midnight Friday 28 March however we urge members to continue the campaign to scrap Work Choices in its entirety.

The law to ban new AWAs is an important first step in restoring the rights of Australian workers that were taken away by the former Liberal Government’s Work Choices IR laws.

But the job is not over yet. Unfortunately this is not the end of WorkChoices. The USU joins the ACTU in campaigning for the complete dismantling of WorkChoices and for the establishment of a fair and balanced IR system that fully protects workers’ rights.

Unions are determined to achieve laws that give workers:
  • Protection from being dismissed unfairly.
  • The right to bargain collectively to improve our workplaces and an obligation for employers to negotiate in good faith.
  • The right to join and be collectively represented by a union, to access advice and information from unions in their workplace and to have a say about decisions that affect their work.
  • A strong safety net of awards and minimum standards that maintain safe workplaces and a decent standard of living for all workers.
  • A genuinely independent umpire that has the power to resolve disputes and grievances.

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