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La Trobe Your Rights at Work Campaign launch

The President of the ACTU, Sharon Burrow, warned electors in the marginal seat of La Trobe that a return of the Howard Government at this year’s election would mean even more attacks on the living conditions of ordinary Australians.
 
Ms Burrow was speaking at the launch of the Your Rights at Work Campaign and office opening in the marginal electorate of La Trobe in Melbourne’s outer east.
 
She told about 100 Your Rights at Work activists that the Howard government planned to extend the attack on the rights of working people by reducing their health and safety protection in the workplace. Ms Burrows said Government Ministers had already indicated - but not spelled out - their agenda for attacking workers’ rights in their next term.
 
“They have said that WorkChoices is only in its first phase and that they have new plans to reduce the rights of injured workers.”
 
A new term for Howard would give his government the confidence to take his attack on ordinary Australians to a new level.
 
“We need a Government that restores Australian values - that understands and values our community,” she said.
 
ACTU Your Rights at Work Coordinator, Katie Hall, stressed that the campaign still needed more activists to door knock, leaflet and staff polling booths.
 
“We’ve had fantastic local support - that’s been the absolute basis of our campaign - but our electorate is really big and we always need more volunteers,” Ms Hall said.
 
Ms Hall asked the people at the launch to offer their support.
 
“The launch went really well and stacks of people put their names down to work in the electorate, but we need more. The more we have the less we all have to do. You know - ‘many hands make light work’ - we want election day to be a great celebration for all of us. Sharon made that clear during her speech and I think she was ‘spot on,’” she said.

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