Day: 2 November 2008

Unionize to beat redundancy pain in economic meltdown

The Mar­itime Union says that mem­ber­ship in a union is the best strat­e­gy for work­ers to get pro­tec­tions at a time of inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ic tur­moil.

Mar­itime Union Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Trevor Han­son says that while both major polit­i­cal par­ties have been out­lin­ing pre-elec­tion “job tran­si­tion poli­cies” to assist redun­dant work­ers, the best guar­an­tee for work­ers to do even bet­ter was to join a union today.