It's time for more action!
07 Dec 2011
Cleaners across the country are still standing up. And they need your support.
Last Thursday Australia's cleaners made history by taking their first ever national industrial action in shopping centres around the country.
Westfield Centrepoint cleaners in Sydney took action by wearing union t-shirts for two hours. And the response they got was bullying; these minimum wage workers were docked a whole day of pay and threatened about taking further action. But cleaners have decided they can't sit back and watch things get worse - for themselves, for future cleaners, or for the public who deserve more. Shopping centre cleaning is unsustainable; workloads are unsustainable, and cleaners’ wages are not living wages. And that's despite Australia's shopping centres being some of the most profitable spaces in the world.
Cleaners will be taking action this Thursday and Friday around the country, and they are asking for your support.
They're taking on some of the biggest greediest corporates Australia's got - they need people power to win.
SYDNEY: Meet at 1.30pm this THURSDAY 8th at Westfield Centrepoint, Pitt St, for a rally and march – please bring banners/flags!
MELBOURNE: Meet FRIDAY 9th, 8.30am at the United Voice office on Capel St, to catch the Clean Start bus
BRISBANE: Meet FRIDAY 9th at the United Voice office, 27 Peel St, South Brisbane at 9:30am to catch the Clean Start bus
ADELAIDE: Meet THURSDAY 6pm & FRIDAY 12 noon at Main North East Road McDonalds, outside Tea Tree Plaza

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