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To: David Carter, Group CEO of RACQ
Stand With RACQ's Roadside Patrols
When your car gives up on the side of a Queensland highway - in the heat, in the dark, in the rain - it's an RACQ patrol who turns up to get you home safe. They're qualified mechanics doing skilled work, often in far tougher conditions than any workshop.
So here's the question RACQ won't answer: why are your roadside patrols paid less than the workshop mechanics they work alongside?
Same trade. Same skills. Same employer. The only difference is that one team fixes cars under a roof and the other fixes them on the side of the road - at 10pm, in a storm, with traffic flying past.
RACQ's patrols aren't asking for the moon. They're asking for one fair thing: parity. The same rate as the RACQ Auto workshop mechanics, for the same skilled trade. And with RACQ turning over $1.8 billion a year, this was never about what the club can afford - only whether it chooses to be fair.
We stand with RACQ's AMWU patrol members and call on David Carter to close the gap.
Same job. Same skill. Same pay. It's that simple.
Why is this important?
Every Queenslander knows the relief of seeing an RACQ patrol pull up when you're stranded on the side of the road. These are the workers who get us - and our kids, our parents, our mates - home safe, day or night.
They're qualified mechanics doing the same skilled trade as RACQ's workshop mechanics, often in far tougher conditions - yet they're paid less for it. That's not a fair go, and it's not the Queensland way.
Here's the thing: RACQ is a member-owned club. If you're one of its 1.7 million members, this is happening in your name and funded by your membership. Your club can do better than short changing the people who keep you moving.
It takes ten seconds to add your name. Public pressure works - especially on a club that trades on its reputation for looking after Queenslanders. Stand with the patrols and tell RACQ: same job, same skill, same pay.