Rip up ALL anti-worker laws! Motion calling on Rudd government

Motion calling on the Rudd government to repeal all anti-union laws
[This motion was put to the AMWU Brisbane delegates meeting, held on Tuesday, February 26. The motion will go to AMWU National Conference later this year]

Preamble
The Rudd Labor government came to power on the back of a massive upsurge of working people who took mass action on the streets and campaigned tirelessly through Your Rights at Work and other community groups for the repeal of all of Work Choices.
The backlash was so great that the Howard government was voted out and even John Howard lost his own seat.
Now is the time for the Rudd-led ALP government to deliver on its promise to workers and get rid of all of Work Choices and all anti-union laws.

This [name of union or community group] calls on the federal Labor Government to:

1. Abolish Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs)
- Backdate the abolition of Australian Workplace Agreements to the date of the ALP’s election victory, November 24, 2007
- No AWA clones! Abandon legislation for Interim Transitional Employment Agreements (ITEAs).
- Allow workers covered by existing AWAs to opt out and to move onto union negotiated Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBA) awards.
2. End “prohibited content” in EBAs
3. Reinstate strong awards for all workers (no award stripping)
Awards must include:
- The protection of all penalty rates, loading rates and allowances
- Full wage indexation
- Protection of shift arrangements and rosters
4. Reinstate unfair dismissal laws for all workers immediately. No delay until 2010
- No watered-down system of “conciliation”
- Restore all lost rights
5. Guarantee that all legislation abide by ILO conventions on workers’ rights to freedom of association including
- Union officials right of entry to workplaces
- Workers right to elect workplace delegates
- Workers right to strike, without the threat of fines
- Repeal the ban on industry-wide (pattern) bargaining
6. Abolish the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC)
7. Abolish the anti-union powers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

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