Fairness at Work Rallies - 21st August

Submitted by SimonO (not verified) on 26 July 2010 - 10:57pm
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Fairness at Work Rallies - 21st August

 Please note that the CTU is holding Fairness at Work Rallies in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin on Saturday 21st August from 1 pm to 3 pm.

 

Exact venues for the march and rallies are to be confirmed.

 

These rallies are aimed at:

 

(a)   Demonstrating our concern about employment law changes proposed by the Government.

(b)   Reaching out to the wider community to get support for Fairness at Work.

 

At a planning meeting today, we have discussed advertising for the rallies, a leaflet aimed at the general public to be distributed prior to the rallies, placards, flags and banners for the rallies, on-the-ground organisation for each rally including marshals, speakers, sound system, and so forth.

 

The CTU will be supplying Fairness at Work flags and placards on the day.

 

A further campaign meeting for affiliates is scheduled for:

 

Friday, 6th August, 9.30 am to 12.30 pm, CTU office Wellington with videoconference link to CTU Office, Auckland. Affiliates are asked to bring along any planning they have done for getting members to these rallies.

 

The rallies are only one aspect of the Fairness at Work Campaign. Unions are holding discussions on combined activity. Planning is already under way for Helen Kelly to visit regional centres for a day including meeting affiliates, a site meeting, media and public events. Many more activities are planned.

 

We have also released correspondence to John Key today.

 

Further information will be sent out soon about the rallies.

 

regards

 

 

Peter Conway
Secretary
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions - Te Kauae Kaimahi
P O Box 6645
Wellington
+64 4 8023816
mobile 0274 939 748

peterc@nzctu.org.nz
www.union.org.nz

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Today in Christchurch a

Submitted by Jared on 26 July 2010 - 11:15pm.

Today in Christchurch a meeting took place to further organise the protest for August 8th and ongoing action. 

While we support and participate in the CTU's activities, we on the radical left must move beyond the limitations and aims of these actions. We must make plain and clear an alternative based on ending the very system which allows such bills to be passed in the first place. Fairness at work is one thing, but we need more than fairness to end such attacks on our working lives.

It's time for the radical left to come together in our own regions, and nationally, to organise and widen the struggle.

Informal talks between the Workers' Party, Beyond Resistance and others also took place today. In the spirit of solidarity we discussed how to transcend the limitations of moderation before us. We hope these discussions will continue, and on a national level, between all shades of revolutionary colour. We cannot sit back and allow our struggles to be co-opted and diffused by the Labour Party and their fellow travelers. 

The time for dialogue and organised action — independent of the CTU and with a revolutionary, anti-capitalist alternative — is now. Let's get talking.

In solidarity,

Jared (in a personal, kind-of-ranty capacity).