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By an AUWU Member Recently I resigned from my casual job at a regional council Gallery due to bullying and discrimination. It took me over a year to land this casual position and I was grateful for the small amount of work the Gallery drip fed me, which had me competing for hours with four other women and which hasn’t allowed me to get off welfare benefits. I asked constantly for more work but instead

The AUWU is petitioning Ed Husic, the shadow Minister of employment services, to establish a Senate inquiry into the broken job agency system. Please click here to view and sign the petition. Why is this important? The $10 billion employment services system is one of the biggest and most socially destructive rorts ever perpetuated against a Federal government Every day, private job agencies bully unemployed workers into attending dangerous Work for the Dole sites and

The AUWU has 5 tickets to give away to AUWU members for the Right2Work Conference in Melbourne on 21 July (valued at $25 each). To win a ticket, write a letter to Minister Cash at senator.cash@aph.gov.au explaining how the Coalition’s failure to address the employment crisis has affected you. Post your letter on your facebook or twitter with the #Right2Work hash tag. The Right2Work conference features renowned experts John Falzon (St Vincent De Paul), Jim Stanford (Australian

 

Renee Viellaris, The Courier-Mail June 27, 2017 12:00am Subscriber only A SOPHISTICATED “bludgers’ club” that coaches dole ­recipients how to fight being pushed into paid work is being financially backed by Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon. Senator Rhiannon has told The Courier-Mail she wants the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (AUWU) membership to increase, raising questions why a parliamentarian would want more jobless Australians to rebel against their mutual obligations to taxpayers. The union, which is not registered and