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TCFUA urges Rudd Government to go further with TCF Industry Plan

19 September 2008 The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) has called on the Rudd government to carefully consider its response to a new industry report and urged it to freeze tariff cuts and expand industry assistance. The government released Professor Roy Green’s report Building Innovation: Review of the Australian Textile Clothing and Footwear (TCF) industries today in Melbourne.

TCFUA urges Rudd Government to go further with TCF Industry Plan (283 KB)

TCFUA Submission to the Review

The submission proposes a new Textile Clothing and Footwear (TCF) Industry Plan – one that repositions government policy and programs. A plan that supports jobs, innovation, skill, product and export development. A plan that has as its foundation, support for an industry which is smart, ethical in its treatment of workers and sustainable in its environmental credentials. A plan that genuinely assists workers and their communities affected by restructuring.

TCFUA Submission to the Review (531 KB)

Canberra Times - Workers Rally Against Tariff Cuts

About 50 textile clothing and footwear industry workers will descend on Parliament House today to campaign for a freeze on tariff protection for the $2.8billion industry.

Canberra Times - Workers Rally Against Tariff Cuts (151 KB)

ABC online - Textile Workers Lobby Government for Help

Australian textile workers want the industry rebranded as an innovative, green producer to counter low-cost overseas competitors.

ABC online - Textile Workers Lobby Government for Help (145 KB)

TCFUA Campaign on youtube

http://au.youtube.com/user/makeitwellmakeitfair The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia lobbied politicians in Canberra in anticipation of the federal governments response to Professor Roy Green's review of the Australian Textile Clothing and Footwear Industry. TCFUA officials and 50 workers from around Australia went to Parliament House to meet MPs about the governments response to the report and to urge them to be proud and public in their support of Australias TCF industry

TCFUA Campaign on youtube (0 KB)

ABC Radio National - Textile workers protest for more industry support

Listen to National Secretary of the TCFUA Michele O’Neil talk to Fran Kelly about the campaign on the ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2008/2353817.htm

ABC Radio National - Textile workers protest for more industry support (2561 KB)