EDITORIALThe ALP supports the abolition of the ABCC, has announced new policy to reduce labour hire on infrastructure projects, bring in wage theft and industrial manslaughter laws and promised to use $1 million for asbestos identification training. Many glaziers are exposed to asbestos through residential work.

The ALP has committed to a number of new infrastructure projects that benefit the economy.

The CFMEU is a proud affiliate of the ALP and wants more action on working in heat policies, support for TAFE, local procurement, public service apprenticeships, reversing privatisation of government assets, surveillance in the workplace laws, high risk licences for glaziers, development of proper infrastructure in working class areas, levies on commercial and residential building projects to pay for corporate collapses, better workers compensation and higher levies on companies without safety representatives, better schools and health systems and more affordable utility prices.

More needs to be done by the ALP to listen to workers but in this election the CFMEU urges members to vote ALP.

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WE CAN’T TRUST THE LIBERALS

CFMEU Manufacturing SA District March 2018

SA LABOR TO CRIMINALISE WAGE THEFT

Employers who knowingly, recklessly or repeatedly underpay their workers, including failing to pay, or underpaying superannuation will be covered by the new laws and could see the worst repeat offenders face prison sentences of up to 15 years.

Employers who make genuine mistakes will be exempt from the laws.

The changes will be introduced as part of a suite of workplace protections.

YOU CAN NEVER TRUST THE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVESThey voted for the ABCCThe Liberal Party, the Australian Conservatives, Nick Xenophon and One Nation have all supported the reintroduction of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (the ABCC).

The ABCC’s priority is to stop unions organising workers in the dangerous building and construction industry.

Employers are rarely fined but unions are fined millions.

The Liberal Party of which Opposition Leader Steve Marshall is a member, and Cory Bernardi from Australian Conservatives voted for the ABCC and its supporting guidelines that include:

• no rights to permanent employment in EBAS, no rights to wear union logos or fly union flags, and:

• no rights for shop stewards to have desks, filing cabinets or access to faxes.

The ABCC has fined the CFMEU for trying to get local workers jobs, for going on site for a meeting about glaziers’ suicide prevention and for supporting workers walking off the job when cranes collided on the New Royal Adelaide Hospital site.

The SA Labor Party have vowed to crack down on employers who knowingly ‘rip off’ their workers by underpaying and exploiting them, if it wins the State election to be held on 17 March 2018.

Announcing the pledge at his campaign launch, Premier Jay Weatherill stated that, if re-elected his government would amend the Criminal Law Consolidation Act (SA) 1935 to create a new offence for wage theft.

This comes on the back of several recent high profile examples of underpayments, such as those committed by franchise outlet 7Eleven.

CFMEU Manufacturing SA District March 2018

LABOR TO MAKE INDUSTRIAL MANSLAUGHTER A CRIME

Labor will amend the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 to create a new offence of industrial manslaughter.

The new offence will have a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment for an individual or $10 million for a corporation.

The new offence will send a strong message that employers will be held accountable for workers losing their lives and it will also prevent individuals hiding behind corporate structures to avoid being held responsible for their criminal negligence.

Workplace fatalities shatter families. No worker should die on the job. The CFMEU has been calling on governments of all persuasions to bring in industrial manslaughter laws for many years. SA Labor’s commitment to bring in these laws if elected will mean that when fatalities do occur, we will have decent laws to protect workers. A re-elected Labor Government will introduce legislation to make industrial manslaughter a criminal offence.

SA Labor will also commit $1 million for education to improve awareness of the dangers associated with working with asbestos.

Those measures will include working with unions, victims groups and SafeWork SA in promoting ways to deal with asbestos safely, education around the dangers of expose and expediting the removal of asbestos in publicly owned buildings.

CFMEU Manufacturing SA District March 2018

JUSTICE FOR JORGEA small gathering of union comrades met at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital late last year vowing to continue the fight for Justice for Jorge.

The SA ALP have now promised to introduce industrial manslaughter laws if elected in the 2018 campaign.

A coroner’s inquest is proceeding after union stoppages and demonstrations at State Parliament.

LIBERALS REFUSE TO RULE OUT FURTHER CUTS TO PENALTY RATESUnions have called on Opposition Leader Steven Marshall to come clean on his plans for South Australia’s part-day public holidays.

Retail, fast food and hospitality workers fear the Liberals will scrap the two part-day public holidays which will mean no penalty rates for working or right to voluntary work on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.

The historic part-day public holidays were introduced in 2012 following a massive union campaign.

It was opposed by the SA Liberal Party and Steven Marshall called the new public holidays “a pig of a deal.”

A removal of the part-day public holidays would also impact the penalty rates of other industries such as nurses, emergency service workers and police.

Unions are calling on Steven Marshall to respect the 80% of South Australians who support these public holidays and commit to their retention.

AUTHORISED BY MICHAEL O’CONNOR 540 ELIZABETH ST, MELBOURNE 3000

CFMEU Manufacturing SA District March 2018