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Today’s tea:
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_(___(____)____(___(_____
\ Poverty exists not /
\ because we can't / |
\ feed the poor, /__ |
\ but because we /
\ can't satisfy /
\_the rich___/
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Hey Muffin Break:
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_(___(____)____(___(__ _
\ If you can't afford to /
\ pay a living wage, / |
\ you can't afford /__|
\ to run a /
\ business. /
\___________ /
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CEO pay UP 40%
Profits UP 26%
But workers are getting less than 1%.
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\ If you can't afford to /
\ pay a living wage, / |
\ you can't afford /___ |
\ to run a /
\ business. /
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We are nurses.
We are construction workers.
We are teachers.
We are manufacturing workers.
We are retail workers.
We are public sector workers.
We are firies.
We are office workers.
We are hospo workers.
We are paramedics.
We are
#proudtobeunion
.
#unionthug
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Are you ready to vote the Morrison Government out?
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When this is over, remember it wasn't the CEOs and billionaires that fought back against
#COVID19Aus
- it was health workers, cleaners, supermarket staff and every single essential worker that kept the wheels turning.
#qanda
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Today’s tea:
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_(___(____)____(___(__ _
\You can't pay rent with /
\ "exposure" - / |
\ stop expecting /___ |
\ artists to work /
\ for free /
\__________/
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He actually said this. Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible to all.
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Won’t tackle the cost of living.
Will tackle an actual child.
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We work in hospitals.
We work in offices.
We work in shops.
We work in construction.
We work in schools.
We work on farms.
We work in aged care.
We work in mines.
We work in media.
We work in factories.
We are your friends.
We are your neighbours.
#weareunion
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Mathias Cormann didn't know who paid for the holiday.
Michaelia Cash doesn't know anything that happens in her office.
Peter Dutton doesn't know about multi-million dollar Paladin contracts.
Does anyone in this Government know anything?
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One in six workplace deaths occur around forklifts and similar machinery.
We shouldn’t have to say this, but children should not be driving forklifts.
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Scott Morrison’s pivot to a user-pays pandemic is a disgrace.
Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible to all.
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Without union members we wouldn’t have:
• Sick leave 😷
• Weekends 🍻
• Superannuation 💵
• Annual leave ✈️
• Parental leave 👶
Thank a union member ♥️
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When Morrison says "personal responsibility" what he really means is "not my responsibility".
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The best thing for small business is customers with money to spend
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Rapid Antigen Tests should be free and accessible.
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Reminder that Barnaby Joyce gets rapid antigen tests on demand for free.
If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for the rest of us.
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Harvey Norman are the face of corporate greed.
1) They refuse to pay back $22m in JobKeeper after increasing their profits in 2020 by 116%
2) They’re campaigning to stop the minimum wage increase
3) This reply when an ex worker alleges they were nearly driven to suicide
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Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible for all.
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|￣￣￣￣￣￣ |
| RAPID |
| ANTIGEN |
|TESTS MUST |
| BE FREE |
| ＿＿＿＿＿__|
(\__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ づ
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Morrison attacking working people for wanting wages to keep up with the cost of living says more about him than it does about us.
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Access to rapid antigen tests should not be determined by your income or your postcode. They must be free and accessible to all.
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BREAKING: The $450 superannuation threshold has just been abolished.
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Scott Morrison says he has never seen corruption in the Liberal party. 😂
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We oppose the Religious Discrimination Bill.
This Bill does not protect against discrimination – it enables it, and it will discriminate against workers.
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Your boss cannot lawfully coerce you to work if you are sick.
For those with sick leave entitlements: you may take this leave.
For those without sick leave: you are entitled to leave without pay.
Every worker has the right to stop work if it is unsafe.
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Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible to all.
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People who've had wages stolen don't eat out at cafes.
People who've had penalty rates cut don't buy clothes.
People who haven't had a real pay rise in years don't buy a new washing machine.
People on Newstart can't afford the basics.
Scott Morrison is crashing the economy.
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It’s
@sallymcmanus
birthday. Happy birthday Sally! Solidarity from the Australian Unions team 🎂
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Austerity only hurts working people. That's it, that's the tweet.
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We have been very aware that there has been a targeting of unions about vaccination. This is coordinated and it's coordinated by some extremist groups, the same people who are organising those rallies on the weekend.
@sallymcmanus
on
#abc730
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This tweet is from June.
Why don’t we have rapid testing kits? Asking ppl who have been at exposure sites to line up for hours will mean many won’t. These kits were developed in Australia - yet the Fed Govt did not secure them. Forward planning to “live with the virus” lacking!
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Unions and businesses urged Scott Morrison in OCTOBER to get ahead of the curve and procure enough rapid antigen tests and make them free & accessible.
He did not listen. He did not act.
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Leave a restaurant without paying a $150 bill in QLD? You could face up to five years in prison.
Steal $7.8 million from workers? You can still be on primetime TV.
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The TWU requested RATs from Fed Govt in October to keep truckies safe and minimise disruption to supply chains. They were ignored.
Now up to half of all drivers are out because of COVID illness or isolation and empty supermarket shelves are becoming a frequent sight all over.
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The Deputy PM has said that going a week without pay ‘is not a long time.'
He’s on $433k a year. That rakes in $8,320 dollars a week. That’s 12.8x more than a casual in a non-managerial position facing insecure work.
This man has never had to live pay cheque to pay cheque.
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Rapid Antigen Test kits are free and accessible in the UK - why aren’t they here?
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It's official. The union-busting 'Ensuring Integrity' bill is dead. The bill is no longer before parliament. Thank you to everyone who fought so hard to defeat this bill.
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Scott Morrison voted:
• 8 times to cut penalty rates
• 10 times to give the big banks a $17 billion tax cut
• 26 times to block a banking royal commission
If Scott Morrison is the answer, what on earth was the question?
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Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible for all.
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.
@Harryslaststand
is an inspiration to all who fight for fairness.
#IStandWithHarry
Always remember that without trade unions workers would have no rights, no holidays, no protection against exploitation, and Theresa May wants to take all that away from you so that the 1% can get richer.
#TUCNewDeal
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People who've had wages stolen don't eat out at restaurants.
People who haven't had a pay rise in years don't buy a new fridge.
People who've had penalty rates cut don't go on holiday.
People on Newstart can't afford the basics.
Scott Morrison is crashing the economy.
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Reminder that George Calombaris was a high-profile public advocate for cutting weekend penalty rates – whinging how much it cost him.
Turns out he wasn't even paying them.
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Solidarity with NSW rail workers who are at work, ready to work but are being shut out by the NSW Government.
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Scott Morrison gets his RATs for free. How much have they cost you?
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We have called for an emergency meeting with the PM demanding:
👉 Free and accessible RATs.
👉 Paid Pandemic Leave for close contacts.
👉 No weakening of work safety laws
👉 N95 or P2 masks.
👉 Reinstate income support.
We are in a national crisis. We need leadership.
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If someone is forced to use their super to survive 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 then the government has failed.
#Qanda
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Stuart Robert attacking the public school teachers who went above & beyond for our kids during the pandemic really says more about him than it does about them.
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Simon Birmingham and Scott Morrison get easily accessible rapid antigen tests supplied to them for free.
What’s good enough for them is good enough for the rest of us.
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He still doesn’t get it.
Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible to ALL.
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He may as well go back to Hawaii at this point.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Scott Morrison abandons workers, holds secret meeting with employers to wind back isolation requirements in transport sector
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Have you seen our latest TV ad about winning a wage increase? Union members are the only people winning wage increases for workers. Can you help by sharing this to make sure as many workers as possible see it?
#ausunions
#fortheworkers
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To everyone whose pay is not keeping up with the cost of living - have you considered becoming a racehorse?
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Rapid antigen tests must be free and accessible for all.
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No distraction can change the facts. Every decision at every turn of the Robodebt disaster - it all goes back to Scott Morrison.
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Good morning to everyone except Ken Wyatt who is advocating for a bump to his $426k salary, but has remained silent about millions of workers copping huge real-terms pay cuts.
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.
@KellyODwyer
, remember that time the Liberals shut down Parliament because you couldn't decide who the PM would be?
We're not copping any lectures from you about our protests.
#ChangeTheRules
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When did we become a country where one in three large companies pay no tax yet volunteer firefighters have to crowdfund to buy protective masks?
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Without transport workers, supermarkets empty.
Without health care workers, hospitals don't run.
Without teachers, students don’t learn.
Without workers nothing works.
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The Government wants to freeze your super guarantee at 9.5%.
But members of Parliament get 15.4% in super.
It's one rule for them and a different rule for us.
#auspol
#ausunions
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Without union members we wouldn’t have:
• Sick leave 🤒
• Weekends 🍻
• Superannuation 💵
• Annual leave 🏖️
• Parental leave 👶
Join your union 👍
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The restaurant industry body is blaming workers for why George C’s business collapsed.
He lead the bosses’ campaign against penalty rates while he was stealing workers’ wages.
If you can’t pay your workers the legal wage, you shouldn’t be in business.
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Scott Morrison is lying.
The NSW Government made the call to shut down the Sydney train network.
Facts matter.
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Emma Alberici’s reporting dared to question the trickle-down economics of the Turnbull/Morrison government which infuriated them. We need a fiercely independent public broadcaster and we must protect the ABC.
#4corners
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The yearly full-time minimum wage is $37,398.40.
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BREAKING: Unions win historic wage increase of 5.2% for those on the minimum wage and 4.6% for those reliant on award wages.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Unions to demand new Covid safe plans from all employers, free RATs for community and will take action to ban unsafe work
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MEDIA RELEASE: Unions condemn failure to provide Rapid Antigen Tests and call emergency meeting of all unions.
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Do you think Scott Morrison even intends to deliver half of the desperate election bribes the government announces tomorrow?
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We remember the balaclavas & dogs on the waterfront.
We remember WorkChoices.
No-one should cop any lectures on inequality from this man.
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If only Scott Morrison cared as much about falling wages as he does about Albo’s falling kilos.
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When this is over, remember it wasn't the CEOs and billionaires that fought back against
#COVID19Aus
- it was health workers, cleaners, supermarket staff and every single essential worker that kept the wheels turning.
#qanda
@sallymcmanus
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The ABC pulled down this article that Malcolm Turnbull attacked in Parliament. It'd be a real shame if it got retweeted hundreds of times again.
#auspol
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The reason why we have inequality is because the rules are written are for the billionaires. That's why we need to
#ChangeTheRules
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MUST WATCH AND SHARE -
@sallymcmanus
on the greed price spiral that is behind massive inflation and resulting interest rate increases.
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Scott Morrison says in his keynote address to the
#WomensSafetySummit
that he is committed to making women safer. So why did his Government refused to implement 49 of the 55 recommendations of the Respect @ Work Report?
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Scott Morrison apologised to NewsCorp in less than 24 hours.
But no one in this Government has ever apologised to:
👉 RoboDebt victims
👉 Workers purposely excluded from JobKeeper
👉 Workers targeted by the ABCC
He's not working for you.
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Scott Morrison disrespected every single union member in Question Time today.
This nurse wasn't having it.
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Morrison may not hold a hose, but thankfully union delegates in Lismore can.
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Qantas has split its cabin crew workforce across 14 companies and contractors to drive down wages and conditions so they can post billions in profits, whilst workers struggle with the cost of living.
Take action:
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Cedar Meats workers were mostly labour hire/casual workers. These workers didn't have access to paid sick leave. In fact, 1 in 3 workers have no access to paid sick leave. That's why we need paid pandemic leave for ALL workers so we can stop coronavirus.
#qanda
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Australia didn’t have masks - we started manufacturing masks.
Australia didn’t have hand sanitiser - we started manufacturing sanitiser.
Poverty was a threat to public health - we doubled JobSeeker.
Governments have power to help solve problems if they choose to.
#insiders
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We do not have a labour shortage – we have a fair pay & secure job deficit.
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It’s
@sallymcmanus
' birthday today. She hates fuss and attention but we just wanted to say: Happy Birthday Sally. Solidarity forever. - Australian Unions team.
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Harvey Norman blocked us🙁
Guess they don't like hearing about how they oppose minimum wage increases when their profits went up and they pocketed JobKeeper.
#PayTheWorkers
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They're right.
Two former Labor prime ministers have united to urge the Coalition not to dump next year's increase to compulsory superannuation. Paul Keating and
@MrKRudd
held a joint conference in separate states slamming plans to freeze the increase as cowardly and un-Australian.
@riley7news
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Penalty rates will be cut again on 1 July 2019 if Scott Morrison wins the election.
#ausvotes
#auspol
#changetherules
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Good morning to everyone except Scott Morrison who refuses to make rapid antigen tests free & accessible.
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Pre
#insiders
look back at the week.
Mathias Cormann didn’t know who paid for the holiday.
Michaelia Cash doesn’t know anything that happens in her office.
Peter Dutton doesn’t know about multi-million dollar Paladin contracts.
Does anyone in this govt know anything?
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