Employment Rights Network

Employment Rights Network was established in 2008 by SEARCH Foundation connected activists.

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The campaign against WorkChoices was one of the main reasons for the defeat of the Howard Government. Yet employers and Coalition MPs are still pressing for continuing WorkChoices provisions in the negotiations for Labor’s industrial relations reforms, despite the Minister’s mandate to introduce change.

The new Government says that it will fully implement all its election commitments. It is clear that the commitment on Rights At Work will not be delivered without a strong campaign. The employers, the media commentators, and the conservative think tanks are trying to undermine the commitments now. Labor’s weakness in the Senate will be used to justify the need for compromise. Even with full implementation of the new Government’s commitments the labour movement has plenty of work to do in coming years to fully establish our rights at work.

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Authorised by: Sally McManus (Secretary, ASU Services NSW), Julius Roe (National President AMWU), Louise Connor (Victorian Secretary MEAA), Angelo Gavrielatos (Federal President AEU), Susan Hopgood (Federal Secretary AEU), Rob Durbridge (Industrial Officer AEU), Maree O'Halloran (President NSW Teachers Fed), John Irving (General Secretary NSW Teachers Fed), Richard Shearman (Secretary NSW/ACT Independent Education Union), Dave Oliver (National Secretary AMWU), Paul Bastian (NSW Secretary AMWU), Brian Manning (retired MUA), Sonia Laverty (Sociologist), Peter Murphy (SEARCH Foundation), Adrian Shackley (solicitor), Cathy-May Gill (AMWU), Donna Sargent (AMWU), Anthony Forsyth (researcher), Fran Hayes (trainer), Scott Batchelor (AMWU), Darren Hanisch (AMWU), Noel Willis, Asian Women at Work Action Group (Sydney).