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Maori Take Challenge to Canberra
A demolition worker dudded out of entitlements has vowed to be in the front row of a mass haka planned to challenge Howard�s work laws.
Rawiri Iti will join 200 other Maori workers to perform the haka outside parliament house in Canberra in November as the politicians inside are debating the new work laws.
Iti, who joined his 21 brothers, sisters and cousins in travelling from the Hokianga Harbour area of New Zealand to Australia in search of work, is an employee of D3 Demolition, who folded owing $150,000 in entitlements.
"It will be an honour to be in the front line leading that haka," says Iti. "The laws they brought in in New Zealand in the 90's have split up families as they have had to leave to find work.
"Let's not have the same thing that happened in New Zealand happen here."
Iti estimates that 90% of the workforce of D3 Demolition is Maori.
Pickets have been set up outside D3 Demolition jobs at the ABC Technology Park at Gore Hill and at Coles Epping; where there are fears the site is contaminated with asbestos.
"New Zealand workers, and in particular Maori workers, were more the victims in the 1990's anti-union legislation very similar to that being proposed by the Howard Government," says NSW secretary of the CFMEU, Andrew Ferguson.
Maori from other unions will join CFMEU members outside parliament house on November 2 for the mass haka.
Maori wanting to join the haka can contact Steve Keenan on 0410 559261.
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