Declare your job a 90-day free zone!
Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 9:28 am
Press Release: Workers Party of New Zealand
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
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