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Cleaners in New Zealand have been protesting against the Government plans to withdraw hard won protection rights known as 6A .Beating red buckets with wooden spoons they chanted: "Hands off 6a." The workers union the SFWU (the Service and Food Workers Union) organised the demonstration.

The Government wants to scrap the clause of the Employment Relations Act, which protects low-paid workers when their jobs are restructured.

The demonstrators, mostly from the Service and Food Workers Union, handed over more than 2000 submissions to the transport and industrial relations select committee on the proposed Employment Relations Amendment Bill.

For further details and a link to the news story see

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/politics/8958758/Cleaners-protest-employment-law-changes

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