Shellharbour council workers rally outside Civic Centre | 21 May 2024 - video Dailymotion

Workers and supporters rallied outside Shellharbour council, in protest at a restructure that will see front-line positions made redundant.

Transcript

00:00 Why we're here today is to show our opposition to what's going on.

00:03 Council has notified, as short as half an hour ago,

00:06 that they intend to press ahead with making our members redundant

00:10 and reduce the capacity of this service.

00:12 It's not right, it's not good enough,

00:14 and it's going to lead to a degradation of this Council and this community in the long run.

00:18 I'm happy to see...

00:19 But when we're talking about axing all three youth workers,

00:24 all of them,

00:26 we've got to ask the question,

00:28 who came up with these ideas?

00:30 Because our elected councillors tell us it wasn't them,

00:34 and in fact they were given an undertaking that it wouldn't happen.

00:37 I suspect the Commission is going to be looking at some of these things soon as well.

00:42 Uniontown will not wear this.

00:45 We don't like seeing workers getting badly treated.

00:48 We don't like seeing workers getting shafted from an employer

00:53 that's supposed to be accountable to the community

00:55 that is being served by these workers.

00:57 It's not going to happen.

00:59 We'll stand by them and their union until they win,

01:03 and until Shell Harbour wins.

01:05 Thank you.

01:07 [applause]

01:09 [no audio]