The 12,000 who rallied outside parliament house against NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell’s “worse than WorkChoices” laws on June 15 showed how much anger there is about his attack on public sector workers.
A continued campaign of protests and industrial action can make it impossible for him to use these laws.
It's not good enough to simply focus on the hope of voting out O'Farrell at the next election — which is four years away.
Unions NSW is planning another day of action in August. We need to generate pressure to make sure this includes serious stop work action and protests — on a larger scale than June 15.
What you can do:
• Contact your union organiser and ask what your union has planned for the August day of action. Make it clear you want the union to authorise stop work action at your workplace.
• Call a union branch meeting and move this motion (or at the regional delegates meetings — please email successful motions to nswunionactivists@gmail.com):
This meeting calls on Unions NSW and affiliates to call a 24-hour stop work for all public sector workers in August 2011. We also call for Unions NSW and affiliates to hold state-wide cross-union delegate meetings, including in metropolitan Sydney, in the lead up to this stop work to ensure public-sector wide participation and support.
• Attend the symposium jointly organised by Power to the People and NSW Union Activists: “Resisting & repelling the NSW O’Farrell government attacks on workers, public assets and services”, 2-4pm, Saturday July 16, MUA offices, 365 Sussex St, Sydney.
• Get involved in the NSW Union Activists Group to help organise pressure on Unions NSW and public sector unions to build a campaign to stop O’Farrell’s laws.
Contact nswunionactivists@gmail.com for more details.
[This statement has been circulated by the NSW Union Activists Group.]