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To: Senators Jacqui Lambie, Rex Patrick & Stirling Griff

Block anti-worker bill

The Coalition has failed to address flat wage growth, unemployment, energy prices or the Australian economy’s steady slide into recession. And now the Morrison government is unleashing a further attack on working people with its Ensuring Integrity Bill. The clear purpose of this bill is to disempower unions – the only voice working people have. No other Australian group including business and politicians is subject to the same degree of interference in organisational governance.
This bill will affect not only the 1.4 million Australians who are union members. It will affect the entire Australian workforce of 12.5 million people. Sign our petition to block this bill.

Why is this important?

Barwon Voices is a Geelong based group of activists who campaign for industrial justice.
We care about workers’ wellbeing and our right to have unions represent us.
The Ensuring Integrity Bill is an attack on all of us. It will seriously weaken the capacity of unions to protect our working conditions, win fair pay rises and maintain workplace health and safety. It is undemocratic because it undermines the right of union members to elect our representatives.
If the bill had been law when unions were campaigning against James Hardie and seeking justice for workers with asbestosis, the outcome could well have been deregistration of those unions and James Hardie getting off scot-free. If the bill is enacted, it will severely curtail the ability of Hospo Voice to publicly expose venues guilty of wage theft, which is rampant in the hospitality industry.
Workers deserve access to effective union representation.

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Updates

2019-10-31 20:09:52 +1100

50 signatures reached

2019-10-25 21:04:36 +1100

25 signatures reached

2019-10-25 07:03:30 +1100

10 signatures reached