WORKERS OUT! AT NOVEMBER 27
EQUAL MARRIAGE RIGHTS RALLY

There’s no doubt that the rally was a significant event on the road to full rights for GLBTI Australians. The speakers included Lisa Newman, CPSU National Vice President. A number of unions were sponsors of the rally including the CFMEU, Teachers’ Federation, Maritime Union of Australia as well as the CPSU.
Before the rally moved off to march through the city and Oxford street to Taylors square,Workers Out! distributed a leaflet the text is shown below.

In the 2007 Federal election, the Union movement’s “Your Rights at Work” campaign was decisive in the defeat of the Howard government. We aimed to keep the right to receive fair pay, conditions and treatment in the Australian workplace. It was an outcome achieved by the efforts of many individuals and organisations working together.
The right to Equal Marriage rights is another part of a movement working collectively to ensure that all people living in Australia have the same rights and are not treated as second class citizens. Anything less than full and equal rights can never be acceptable.
There are many practical and financial reasons why having the Equal Marriage rights is important for non-heterosexual people. There are also social and symbolic reasons why these rights are significant and why they are so vigorously opposed by religious and political conservatives across the nation.
For all these reasons, Workers Out! supports change and will continue to work with others until Equal Marriage rights are achieved for everyone.

What is Workers Out?
We’re a voluntary group of unionists who identify as GLBTI and aim to:
• promote active union membership in the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, Transgender and Intersex (GLBTI) community;
• agitate within the union movement and elsewhere on issues that affect the GLBTI community; and
• encourage all GLBTI unionists to join us in our work!

Further details are at our website www.workersout.org.au