1pm 8 September after the rally - meet us

Meet us after the rally – 1pm at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (cnr Pitt and Bathurst St. City)

Leaflet for 8 September Day of Action

Save the NSW Public Sector - NO CUTS IN NSW
WE NEED STRIKE ACTION TO DEFEND WAGES, JOBS AND PUBLIC SERVICES
We demand

• Union rights to pursue wage rises and improved working conditions
• No redundancies – create more jobs for better public services
• Keep our public services in public hands
• Defend the right to take industrial action in defence of our public services

Public sector workers and public services are under attack in NSW.
The O'Farrell government is threatening 80,000 public sector jobs and robbing NSW public sector workers of their industrial rights. It is intent on cutting pay and conditions, and ransacking services to the community.
Assets and services are under threat of privatization. Sydney Ferries is already being leased to private interests. This is part of a global attack on workers that is dismantling the public sector and shifting costs onto working people. Community sector workers are fighting O’Farrell for equal pay.
If O'Farrell gets away with these attacks, no worker is safe. If the campaign becomes one of simply re-electing the ALP in 4 or 8 years’ time, it will fail. We need a serious campaign of escalating industrial action beyond September 8, that is planned with maximum rank and file participation, and that unites all unions and sectors under attack.
We are a network of unionists and activists who believe that our public services can and must be saved. We aim to drive O'Farrell back by campaigning for our unions to:

• Take industrial action -- strikes, stop works and bans to make O’Farrell’s laws unworkable
• Involve public sector workers via local union branches, workplaces and delegates meetings in developing a strategy to win – with industrial action, joint union-community action and solidarity action with other unions
• Unite with all unions and communities affected by O’Farrell’s attacks to defend jobs and services marked for closure or cuts
• Support individual unions that take a lead, and commit to solidarity action if any unionist or trade union is penalised for defying the laws that limit union rights to industrial action

What can you do?
In your workplace and union

• Mobilise! Talk to your workmates and colleagues. Get our message out to the community!
• Call workplace meetings to discuss O’Farrell’s attacks and the campaign to defend our public services
• Move motions for serious industrial action to stop the government and pass these on to your union’s executive
• Organise your workplace to join industrial action, attend rallies and protests.

In the community

• Meet us after the rally – 1pm at the Edinburgh Castle Hotel (cnr Pitt and Bathurst St. City)
• Join your local Your Rights@Work or a Better Services for a Better State campaign group and get involved in educating your local community about the attacks on public services and public sector unions.
• Contact: Wayne (0401155245), Susan (0400 320 602), Bron (0413 668 916). Email nswunionactivists@gmail.com to be added to our contact list.
• Invite us to provide a speaker for your workplace or community meeting.

This leaflet has been produced by Power to the People and the NSW Union Activists Network http://nswunionactivists.blogspot.com and is endorsed by
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