Worker/Community at Moreland City Council
by Union Solidarity Thursday May 18, 2006 at 02:57 PM
contact@unionsolidarity.org

It's time to bite the bullet and demand that community assets are run by the community not private operators for profit. Join in the struggle to force the Moreland City Council to take over the Coburg Leisure Complex

Moreland City Council is set to make a decision at a special council meeting on who will run the Coburg Leisure Complex.

Special Council Meeting
6pm May 22
Coburg Town Hall
Bell St Coburg

Community members at a public meeting in Brunswick last night (Wed 17 May) unanimously passed a motion urging Moreland City Council to bring a local leisure complex under council management. The complex is currently tendered out to a non-government organisaton. Workers and the union representing them believe that the only way to guarantee wages, conditions and high quality service to the community is direct council control of the facilities.

In the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne workers at council owned but privately run recreation centres earn roughly 25% less than employees at council managed centres for doing exactly the same work.

The leisure industry is notorious for poor conditions and a high-staff turn over. In recent years the Australian Services Union has achieved modest gains in improving conditions. A tender process that sees private companies undercut each other for control over community owned assets however undermines these gains.

We urge all supporters to attend the Special Council Meeting. We request that you print out and ask the following questions at the meeting. Please take the time to contact the elected Moreland City councillors.

Time that community assets are run for the community and not profit!

6pm May 22
Coburg Town Hall
Bell St Coburg

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Motion passed at meeting
Questions to ask councillors
Contact details of local councillors

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