Jim Casey

The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise and face them.

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

The crew at Balmain B Platoon on the prowl. We're down at the site of the old Balmain Colliery. Shows you how Sydney has changed. This used to be a mine employing 300 people, now it's millionaire's row. https://t.co/6M8lBoqIER

[Liz Atkins Greens 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @liz_greens]

Voting in the Greens NSW Upper House preselection closes at 5pm. My no.1 went to @JimCaseyGreens and no. 2 to @LyndaJune1 but it was a really tough decision with such an outstanding candidate list. Main thing is, make sure you vote if you're eligible.

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

@The_OtherOtter @unspoonerisable @thomsonwithap98 @LyndaJune1 @DrAmandaCohn Voting closes next week but you can’t vote if you’re still provisional sorry comrade

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

Voting is open today.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

10 We think that if the public knew what has happened here they would be rightly outraged.

Help us get this story out.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

9 Where to from here?

We've written to the Premier requesting an urgent meeting.

We'll continue campaigning, and, as necessary, striking.

We've put out a media release, but there's no national media outcry.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

8 The idea that life-saving family and domestic violence leave provision would be scrapped as payback for strikes is abhorrent.

Yet is's hard to avoid that conclusion. The Minister responsible for industrial relations intervened just after a new wave of strikes.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

6 However, to his credit, Transport Minister David Elliott backed the deal. He went on record in support of this in the Saturday Tele on May 7.

A fight within the NSW Government ensured... on whether rail workers should have best practice FDV provisions.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

5 However, we soon started hearing Ministers in the NSW Government weren't happy.

For example, we heard one Minister was unhappy that they didn't achieve this - as if it's about who in Government gets to claim credit, not the actual outcomes that save lives.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

4 This included:
20 days paid Special Leave for domestic and family violence per year;
Access to leave for casual employees on a pro rata basis;
Carers leave to support a member of their immediate family or household experiencing violence;
and much more.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

3 We hired one of Australia's leading gender equity experts and former head of Domestic Violence NSW, Karen Willis, to negotiate this agreement.

It set a standard that would spread across NSW Public Sector and, with determined campaigning, across every workplace in Australia.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

2 Three months ago rail unions and Sydney Trains, NSW Trains and Transport for NSW agreed to ground-breaking family and domestic protections for rail workers.

[Unions NSW @unionsnsw]

The NSW Government has gutted domestic and family violence leave for rail workers.

There will no national outcry. No front page stories.

But we think the public does care. So here's the story for you to decide for yourself.
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[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

Roe v Wade was overturned because the centre left party didn’t fight to protect and extend the right to abortion at a federal level - they thought the matter was “settled”. There is being pragmatic and then there is just being gutless.

[Samantha Maiden @samanthamaiden]

Anthony Albanese does not support 2019 policy of @billshortenmp and @tanya_plibersek to ensure public hospitals offer abortion.

Sounds like he thinks if you don’t talk about things it’s not “divisive”. What a shit take - forcing low income women to pay private operator

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

This won’t change because Labor won; they're part of a political system that puts the interests of a few big corporations ahead of the rest of us. We need to fight for non-profit power, public housing, caps on rents - the kind of politics that allows everyone to be safe & thrive.

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

Four adults and two children sleeping in a granny flat. My guess is they were using a charcoal heater because of the cost of power. The rising cost of living and the housing crisis are having real and awful impacts. All while profits and CEO pay go up. https://t.co/wMdHb2ljTN

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

Labor only adheres to “fiscal responsibility” when trying to screw over workers and ordinary people. They’re to emeshed with News Corp, big business and their corporate donors to have the will to do anything different.

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

Labor’s reversal of its decision to cut casual workers off from paid COVID leave is welcome and a reminder that we have to pressure them as much as we did the Coalition.

[Jim Casey @JimCaseyGreens]

No paid leave for casual workers who get sick with COVID but a $9000 tax cut for Gina Rinehart, Clive Palmer and everyone politician in Canberra. Labor continues to abandon workers and everyday people.