Howards IR laws hitting families.

Wow becuase of John Howard Australian cleaners are required to work twice as hard as their U.S. counterparts for far less money and worse conditions. The worst part of these contracts is that anyone complaining about toxic chemicals they may be using and the lack of education and PPE they will not be working again.

So shut up and die if you want to work, or don't work. Isn't it sad Australian cleaning companies exposing these people and then requiring them to provide their own PPE for chemicals they don't know of untill they start work.

John Howard needs to be charged with Industrial Murder for his IR laws and the way contracts are taking over the workplace! If not he should at least be charged and jailed for industrial manslaughter becuase it is he that is ultimately responsible for the comming deaths and illness from exposure to toxic cleaning products!

But then he doesn't care about people he only cares about increasing profits and killing and maiming people is ok to him if you make a profit.

Disgusting!


Cleaners dirty on conditions

October 18, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Courier-Mail

CLEANERS marched through Brisbane yesterday demanding fair wages and working conditions.

Garry Bullock from the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union said cleaners chose Anti-Poverty Day to hold the rally and raise awareness of the 12,000 cleaners in Queensland living below the poverty line.

Mr Bullock said cleaners' main concerns were the length of their shifts and the work rate expected.

"At the moment cleaners are working two or three short shifts a day which means more travel, more uniforms to wash and wasted time in between shifts," Mr Bullock said.

"Because of contracting, they're also forced to clean up to 1000sq m an hour, which is twice the work rate required in the US."

Premier Peter Beattie pledged support for the Clean Start Campaign at the ALP State Conference in June.

Mr Bullock said another trend emerging was the employment of overseas students.