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The unprecedented growth in Australia of part-time, casual employment and outsourcing (contracting out) together with growing insecurity in work and income are a direct consequence of globalisation, competition policy and deregulation. Congress notes
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The ACTU believes that unionists employed in aged care services should work in a national system of nursing home, hostel and community based care delivery, where the primary objective is quality of life, health, security and dignity for residents.
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Unions should raise their public visibility by acting on and running campaigns on all issues relevant to young people including ( but not limited to): ensuring quality vocational education and training, promoting fair wages, opposing the exclusion of
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Congress notes with concern the aggressive anti-union assaults contained in Commonwealth and certain State industrial laws. Congress considers that such legislation deliberately attacks the right of organised labour to bargain collectively and
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Congress affirms support for the Living Wage claim to ensure continuing protection for low paid workers. Congress calls on the ACTU to file an application as soon as possible, seeking wage increases for low paid workers.
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Australian workers are becomingly increasingly restive with an anti-union Federal Government, some anti union employers and the increasing gaps between the haves and have-nots. We are the movement that gives those workers voice and organisation to
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The ACTU is committed to a system of high quality affordable childrens services encompassing centre-based care, family day care, preschool services, out of school hours programs, vacation care, occasional care and respite care.
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The ACTU and affiliates will continue to campaign for improved public awareness of OHS issues, adequate government funding and resources for OHS, and the development, implementation and enforcement of national OHS standards. We should demand adequate
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Congress condemns the stated intention of the New South Wales Labor Premier and Treasurer, to embark on the folly of privatisation of the electricity industry in that State. Having observed the outcome of a similar course of action by a Conservative
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A stand against racism is taken as a matter of fundamental principle. All people are created equal and any suggestion that the colour of one's skin, language, religious beliefs or cultural values should result in second class citizenship, must be
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