Declare your job a 90-day free zone!
Workers Party press release
National’s sacking bill is going to meet resistance.
The 90 day bill is an overt attack on workers' rights, targeting the most vulnerable in small worksites. Workers in
these job sites currently enjoy few rights as they are mostly not unionised and the employers consequently have a great
deal of power.
The CTU is responding with a petition and looking at putting adverts in the major newspapers. This falls well short of
what is needed.
Direct action by workers is the way to respond to this attack.
Unite union is taking the lead by saying that any worker can join Unite for $2 a week and get phone advice and back up
where needed. If workers are wrongly sacked in the 90 day period Unite will organise pickets in defence of these people.
Any employer who sacks under this legislation could find themselves confronted by a rowdy picket line and Unite's 20
foot rat.
Employers plainly want to put the pressure on workers; it's time to push back. END