Issue No 82 | 20 December 2000 | |
NewsUnions Head West
The Labor Council is planning to go to the bush early in 2001 to assist rural unions to develop a campaign strategy for rural and regional NSW.
The Australian Workers Union and the Labor Council recently held a Rural Issues Forum in Young and invited unions employers and local Government representatives to attend. Representatives at the forum were angry about being totally ignored and could believe that there is no strategy whatsoever to address their issues There was general consensus about the major issues, in particular the banks foreclosing on property owners particularly, after the one third of NSW had been flooded and crops devastated. Also the price of petrol in the bush was high on the list.. One of the AWU Delegates who attended the forum said that these issues directly affect workers as well as employers however no one is listening or doing anything about them. There are about three property owners in Young who are about to lose their farms. Labor Council and the rural unions want to make sure the issues affecting Rural and Regional NSW are addressed and will be developing an issues paper after conducting a number of Rural Issues Forums.
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