The Australian Services Union recently launched its 'Pay Up! No More lip Service to Equal Pay' campaign targetting the 17% pay gap that exists between Australian men and women. The online campaign works alongside the pay equity 'test case' being lodged with Fair Work Australia by the ASU, using 'Equal remuneration' laws that exist within the Fair Work Australia legislation. The case targets the wages of community sector workers, an industry that is heavily feminised and incredibly undervalued.
'Pay Up! No more lip service' calls on the Government, whose funding many Community organisations rely on to operate, to properly fund the sector so that the outcome of the test case can result in actual pay increases for community workers.
NUS Women's Department calls on students around the country to send a 'kiss' to Julia Gillard and make sure that pay equity can become a reality for Australian women.
