| Dear Inga –Tony Abbott has signed the China FTA and it’s a shocker for working people.
Tony Abbott has signed a deal that means Chinese enterprises investing as little as $22.5 million dollars in a project will be able to bring their own workforce into Australia and will NOT have to offer these jobs to locals first.
And of course tariffs will be lifted on all imports from China.
This will hit the construction, mining, timber and pulp and paper industries hard.
Jobs will be lost. Cheap imports that do not meet Australian standards will flood the market. And there will be fewer jobs for our kids for the future.
The China FTA is a total sell out of the Australian community.
It’s important that we send a message to the government urging local members to stand up and to speak out against a deal that is not fair and that will destroy local jobs and local communities.
Please click here to send a message to your local member.
It’s important that we do something today so that Abbott and the Coalition get a strong message that the China FTA is just not on.
Yours in unity,
Michael O’Connor
CFMEU National Secretary |
