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Surviving not livingDate: 15 October 2003
Try living on around $400 per week when you pay most of your wages in rent and have teenage children to support. That's the challenge that Jon Stanhope, the ACT Chief Minister, will get when he meets today at 11.30 am people like Sally Scanlan of Curtin, Gerda Lawrence of Evatt, Carlos Pavez of Spence and Wally Kuhn from Chifley. A delegation of nine low-wage workers will meet the Chief Minister in his office at the Assembly Building as part of the LHMU's National Day of Action for Fair Wages and Decent Work. ------------------
MEDIA ALERT Low-wage workers lobby ACT Chief Minister-------------------------- Rank-and-file union members from across Australia are meeting Labor State and Territory Premiers and Chief Ministers today to ask them to back their campaign to end the crisis of low pay. Anti-Poverty WeekThe union's national day of action comes in the middle of Anti-Poverty Week an Australia-wide initiative that began several years ago and continues to grow. In 2003, Anti-Poverty Week began on Monday 13 October and finishes on Friday 17 October." Our union members want to tell Labor politicians they are angry and want to speak out because if we don't we'll end up in a deeper hole," Lyndal Ryan, ACT LHMU Assistant Secretary, said. " Our people are surviving - not living. " While a base rate ACT Government public servant earns $17.28 an hour, with at least five increments, the group of low-wage workers meeting Mr Stanhope earn between $12.23 and $13.02 an hour ... except for child care workers none of the others can ever expect an increment." Sonia Stefanovska from Kambah is a 27 year old cleaner earning $13.02 an hour, and trying to pay off a mortgage with a partner who is an apprentice mechanic. Le-anne Martin of Fraser is a child care worker earning $12.57 an hour and trying hard on these wages to save enough money to get a deposit for her first home. Sally Scanlan of Curtin is a personal carer at Brindabella Gardens, a single parent of adult children who earns $13.02 an hour .
The LHMU proudly represents around 130,000 hard working women and men throughout AustraliaFor further info: Lyndal Ryan, LHMU ACT Assistant Secretary, 02 6273 1238 or 0411 643 982
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