Victorian Trades Hall Council. The voice of Victorian workers since 1856.Victorian Trades Hall Council. The voice of Victorian workers since 1856.

Victorian unions step up campaign against new work laws

Victorian unions step up campaign against new work laws

 
ACTU Secretary Greg Combet and VTHC President Peter Marshallmarch through the streets of Melbourne after the rally.

Victorian union delegates and shop stewards rallied in Melbourne on Wednesday 29 March to plan the next steps in the fight against the Howard Government’s IR laws. Over 4,000 unionists attended a VTHC delegates and shop stewards’ rally at Dallas Brooks Hall to ratify a resolution that condemned Howard’s IR laws and called for a mass mobilisation of Victorian workers at the next national day of protest set down for June 28.
Victorian Trades Hall Council Secretary, Brian Boyd, told delegates that there had to be a strong campaign to overturn the laws.
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Read the resolution as passed


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