At the #climatestrike. Here’s a 🧵 on how climate strikes could go into the workplace even within Australia’s restrictive IR system. The starting point is to organise based on how workers concretely experience climate breakdown at work - extreme heat, storms, fire, floods and all the threat to safety and disruption to livelihoods that flows from these events.

Here’s a thread on Mobil’s announced closure for the Altona refinery, what it means for workers, tackling global warming and economic recovery. 1 Let’s start with the workers. Who they are and what skills they have. 2

SPOTLESS Dandenong update: the company have decided not only tthst they’re not paying pandemic/quarantine pay to the workers but also they have made it harder for workers to access the state government payment! 😡 Workers were told last night that if they are permanent they can access annual leave and long service leave but unless they test positive they cannot access sick leave for the shutdown.

As a union leader I can say that #paidpandemicleave and secure work is absolutely vital. Here's an example re Serco and immigration detention that should give you pause. The problem in Serco immigration detention centres is not a lack of PPE currently. It's the intersection of pandemic leave policies and insecure work.