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The Australian Services Union (ASU), Victorian Private Sector Branch has today made public the report by the Workplace Rights Advocate, which severely criticised the AWA offered by Melbourne based call centre, Global Tele Sales (GTS).

ASU Secretary Ingrid Stitt said the complaint was made to the Advocate on behalf of 80 workers when offered an AWA by GTS who had obviously taken full advantage of John Howard’s cruel and vicious IR laws.

One woman lost her job after 18 years, another woman had her hours of work repeatedly threatened.  A group of women were told to meet their union in a toilet block and another group were not allowed to have a say over their new job contracts.  These are the real stories outlined in a new booklet produced to inform politicians about the detrimental effect that WorkChoices is having on Australian women.

 

Concerned that the experiences of many women have not been told and that the new industrial relations laws will not be strong enough, representatives from the Australian Services Union (ASU) and Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) and women workers launched Untold Damage: Why women need new IR laws in Canberra today.

 

The booklet details how women workers have been the hardest hit under WorkChoices and calls for new laws and rights – beyond the scrapping of WorkChoices.

 

ASU branch secretary Ingrid Stitt said women had an important role to play in the growth of Australia’s workforce and economic prosperity but WorkChoices had left a trail of destruction.

 
After months of waiting staff working for Toll Dnata at Melbourne’s International Airport were notified this week that their employment contracts have failed the Workplace Authority’s No Disadvantage Test.

The Workplace Authority has written to customer service and check-in staff informing them of the decision.  Toll Dnata has until mid October to fix the contracts.

The ASU has been publicly campaigning against Toll Dnata’s AWAs and ITEAs after estimating that staff were being under-paid about $5,000 a year, when compared to the Award.
 
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Nationwide, a large and diverse group of associations concerned with women’s recognition and rights in the workplace have united to oppose the downsizingof women’s awards.


The Australian Services Union, the Australian Nursing Federation and a number of other groups listed below, have today published an open letter to theFederal Government to ensure women's gains in the workforce were not lost.


Linda White, Assistant National Secretary of the ASU said, “downsizing women’s awards, by removing occupational awards and placing them withinthe industrial awards framework, will remove the hard earned recognition that
women have gained over the past 100 years.

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