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  • ALP Dumps on Steel Workers

    17/06/11

    Labor Member for Throsby Stephen Jones sells out 4,500 workers employed at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks and a further 7,500 workers in steel related industries in the region.

    Mr Jones is defying the unions and local workers. He says that the steel industry should be exposed to the carbon tax because making the steel industry exempt would “open the flood gates” for other industries and remove incentives for emissions-intensive industries to reduce pollution.

    This admission supports his earlier statements that it is unrealistic to expect that not one job will be lost.

    Instead of caning the steel industry the Member for Throsby should be fighting for the survival for this world leading Australian industry and its workers. Together with Ms Gillard, he has sold out local workers to satisfy Green demands.

    Other Labor MPs should stand up for jobs in their electorates such as Corio, Corangamite, Hunter, Capricornia, Wakefield, Bass and Brand. They should not abandon the workers who voted for them so they could have a voice in Parliament.

    The Labor Party has turned its back on Australian manufacturing and generations of Labor-voting workers.

    This is a Government more interested in holding onto power at any cost than the workers who were once the heart and soul of the Labor Party.

    Perhaps the Member for Throsby should have stood for an inner-city green seat.

    The Coalition calls on all Labor MPs to stand up for workers.
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