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S E C R E TA R Y ’ S A D D R E S S<br />
with Mick Buchan<br />
RALLY<br />
I’d like to thank everyone for attending our recent rally in support of jobs for locals first, more local content on major<br />
resource projects and more training opportunities for our kids. As I said when we started this campaign over 12 months<br />
ago, we are in this fight for the long haul.<br />
457 VISAS AND EMA’S LOCAL JOBS<br />
The federal governments long-overdue announcement of tougher rules for the 457 visa system has been welcomed by<br />
our union, but the Government needs to go further: Australian workers should have a legal first right to jobs here and<br />
Enterprise Migration Agreements (EMA’s) should be scrapped altogether. In construction alone there were 68,000 jobs<br />
lost, a drop of 6.5% in the 12 months to August last year. At the same time there was a rise of 38% in the number of 457<br />
visa holders in the industry.<br />
Page 2 Construction Worker – <strong>Autumn</strong> 2013
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