At-Home Union Action

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Description (Dublin Core)

Text reads: WAGE SUBSIDY FOR ALL #NoWorkerLeftBehind #PutYourApronOut

Trade unions were strong advocates for a more robust safety net for workers who had lost their jobs owing to the pandemic. The JobKeeper package left behind casual workers (like me) and workers on temporary visas who were already had the most insecure labour conditions. My union shifted online. We ran social media campaigns, online pickets, and a whole range of other digital actions.

Unfortunately, this one didn't get up. LNP stuck to their guns of looking after wealthy, white folk. Typical...

HIST30060

Date (Dublin Core)

April 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jacob Antoine

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jacob Antoine

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph, my garage door

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Government Federal

English Politics

English Protest

English Social Media (including Memes)

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

social media

JobKeeper

Trade union

insecure labor condition

white folk

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

unions

wage subsidy

politics

Collection (Dublin Core)

Service Industry

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

2020/10/19

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

2020/10/30

02/21/2021

10/19/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

2020/04/08

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Covid 19

Australian Collection

This item was submitted on October 19, 2020 by Jacob Antoine using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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