Pledge to support Aboriginal workers (Advocate 23 03)

By Jeannie Rea. ACTU Executive met in Darwin in August this year, the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill Walk-Off ‘as a demonstration of commitment and bond between Indigenous working people and the wider trade union movement,’ according to ACTU President Ged Kearney.
Back in August 1966 around 200 pastoral and domestic workers and their families walked off Wave Hill pastoral station. They were taking industrial action as local representatives of their employer, Vesteys, had refused yet again their request for equal pay with white workers. More...