Attention all FBEU members

Reminder Re: This Thursday's Public Sector Day of Action

Round 2 against O’Farrell’s IR laws – 8 September

With the O’Farrell Coalition Government refusing to restore the rights of public sector workers in NSW, it’s time to step up the campaign. FBEU members have already campaigned at community rallies, at meetings with MPs, and at meetings with local councils. The next step is the second major Macquarie Street rally to be held, bringing together public sector workers, their unions and community members on Thursday 8 September 2011. FBEU members will assemble at 1130 hours outside St Mary’s Cathedral on College St. At 1200 hours we will move to the Domain to join other unions and from there along Macquarie Street, past NSW Parliament and concluding at Hyde Park.

This protest will follow a widely-predicted horror state budget that same week and is expected to be considerably larger than the first rally which saw 12,000 workers descend on Parliament House at short notice. It is important that FBEU members join with other public sector workers and the broader community to resist this Government’s attacks on our wages, our conditions and (as hundreds of health and transport workers have already found out) our jobs.

Please ask your crew if they are attending, and let them know about it if they are unaware. Bring the family, bring your friends.

Please check the FBEU web site this week, and the FBEU forum. There are regional rallies and events also. Feel free to contact me, your sub-branch rep, or the FBEU office for more details. Please forward this to your workmates and friends in the fire brigade and public service.

See you there – Stay united,