Tuesday, April 19
11 job seekers competing for each vacancy (more for low-skilled jobs); 750,000 unemployed workers, more than one million underemployed; Newstart Allowance $380 below the poverty line per fortnight; $1.3 billion job services industry discredited and dysfunctional; bullying and harassment at work-for-the-dole sites. It doesn't have to be this way. What should we demand of the federal government? Can we build a united position? Join the discussion! Keynote speakers: Bill Mitchell (Centre of Full Employment and Equity), Gerardine Kearney (President ACTU), Cassandra Goldie (ACOSS). 9am- 4pm. Unwaged: free, waged: $15, solidarity: $25. FEU Conference Rooms, Ground Floor, 120 Clarendon S, South Melbourne. Hosted by Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union.