Get ready for June 28 National Day of Protest : Melbourne Indymedia

Fight for Fair and Just Work Laws

Get ready for June 28 National Day of Protest
Unions and Community stand together against Howard's IR laws
Mass Rally and Protest
June 28 2006
10AM

Gather at these points:

o Trades Hall
o Federation Square
o Spring St
o Southern Cross Station

Then march to the Bourke St Mall for a mass rally and demonstration.
Union Starting Locations
Trades Hall

AMIEU
ETU
Plumbers
ASU – Auth
AMWU
MSAV
RTBU
FSU
NTEU (meeting initially outside State Library will join in)
TWU
HACSU

Federation Square

SDA
AEU
ASU - Priv
MEAA
VIEU
APESMA

Spencer St

CFMEU – all jobs
NUW
MUA
CEPU - Postal
NTEU
LHMU (initially Flagstaff Gardens)
CEPU Telecomm
CPSU (PSU)

Spring St

ANF
AEU
AWU
HSUA
CPSU – SPSF
UFU
TCFUA

Working Rights: Worth Fighting For

Australia has a long history of fighting for working rights.
In 2006, 150 years after Victorian workers fought for and won an eight-hour working day we are facing an extreme attack on those rights.

Under John Howard's IR laws many of the rights won in this country will be lost. Jobs will be threatened, real wages will go down, protection from unfair dismissal will disappear, workplace safety will be eroded. And that’s just the beginning.
Yet we're here to continue the fight. We know from past success that we can overcome such attacks.

Stand up on June 28 and be join the fight against these unjust laws. Together we can win and overturn these extreme and dangerous laws.
In 1856 Victorian workers campaigned for and won an eight-hour working day across all industries. This world first led to this country becoming known as the “Workers’ Paradise”.

Today, 150 years later, Australians work longer hours than any other OECD country and some of the longest in the world. Now it’s a case of Paradise Lost.

Yet the ideologically-driven Howard Government is seeking to erode working rights even further. Their WorkChoices legislation is the most serious attack on working people in Australian history. It will hit young workers, casual and part-time employees and working families the hardest. We won’t stand for it.

John Howard styles himself as the best friend the workers have ever had. We know better. We know your friends don’t rob you and lie to you and seek to destroy your way of life. Your mates stick up for you.
During the past ten years the Howard Government has opposed every single increase in minimum working wages. At the same time executive salaries in Australia’s largest companies have risen to an average $3.4 million per year or around $64,000 per week! It obvious who John Howard’s mates are, and it’s not the working people of this country.

Regional Events - June 28
There will be a range of events to mark the June 28 Day of Protest
Join in at these locations:
North East & Border TLC
North East & Border TLC will be holding a cross border (Albury & Wodonga) rally in Wodonga on 28th June,12.30pm - 1.30pm, march up Jack Hore Place to High St and on to the Wodonga Civic Centre. Julia Gillard will be the guest speaker.
South West Trades & Labour Council ph:5523 4272

Warnambool - Temperance Hall 11.15 am info stall, 12.15 speaker then march to Vogels office
Portland - Angling Club, Foreshore 10amHamilton - to be confirmed
Geelong TLC
Ph: 5221 1712

Geelong rally - 28 June, 1pm
Where: Meet at 3 locations:
Geelong Trades Hall, 127 Myer St;
Geelong Hospital, Bellarine St; and
Gordon Tafe, Johnston Park area.
What: March from starting points into the CBD for community rally.
Ballarat TLC COMMUNITY CAVALCADE
Join the drive for “YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK”
Cars assemble in Victoria Park (Sturt St side)
11am sharp Wednesday 28th June 2006
Final destination and speakers at 12 noon
Wendouree Village, Gillies Street

Join the General Strike Bloc Fiesta!
Bring General Strike signs/banners and your radical spirit!
Bring some music, some instruments, some drums and make some noise!

FIESTA STARTS: 9:30AM
WED 28TH JUNE
CNR BOURKE/SWANSTON STS

Initiated by Eureka Sedition.
Endorsed by Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) Melb

This year using General Strikes, our French brothers and sisters took on bad Industrial Relations law and won!

The only thing that will beat Australian IR laws is the thing that got us our rights in the first place - DIRECT ACTION!

Join us at the Workers and Community National Day of Protest in Melbourne and show your support for a General Strike!

more info: http://iww.org.au/node/76

The 1st rule of project mayhem:

"Bring some music, some instruments, some drums and make some noise! "

The 2nd rule of project mayhem:

If you don't have a drum you probably do have a pot/pan and a wooden spoon. I was talking to somebody from Sth America who told me about a time when everybody, and that means everybody started banging and clanging on pots and pans like that over there. She said the noise was so incredible and even scary that it was hard to think. They had about five presidents in the space of months during that time. That really says something. I don't know what but something.

"We are the people who collect your garbage and serve you food -- DO NOT FUCK WITH US!"