Fed: Unions launch new workplace campaign

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2010
Fed: Unions launch new workplace campaign

CANBERRA, April 27 AAP - A new advertising campaign slamming the previous Liberal government's
industrial relations policy will be launched by unions on Tuesday.

The television ads will feature people negatively affected by Work Choices, talking
about their experience of the policy and why they don't want it brought back.

The campaign will be launched before more than 500 unionists at the ACTU's organising
conference in Sydney later today.

ACTU secretary Jeff Lawrence said unions would continue to push for improvements to
workers' rights, and that it was essential Work Choices was not revived.

"The Australian public voted at the last election to get rid of Work Choices," he said
in a statement.

"Today our message to (Opposition Leader) Tony Abbott is clear and simple: 'Work Choices:
whatever the name, never again'."

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KEYWORD: WORKPLACE

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