WHERE: Meet @ the Tram86 Studio, 206 Tyler Street, Preston

WHEN: 3-7pm Monday March 12, Labour Day

This Labour Day, Monday March 12, join us to have hundreds of conversations with the people of Melbourne about the Adani Group’s terrible workers’ rights record ahead of the Batman by-election on March 17.

On Labour Day, we celebrate those who fought for decent and fair working conditions, and we recharge for the fight ahead.

The Adani Group has an appalling record when it comes to workers’ rights and safety. From reports of cholera outbreaks amongst workers forced to live in crowded, unsanitary conditions to child labourers as young as 12 chronically overworked and underpaid, and worker deaths and serious injuries at Adani sites [1] [2] [3]. None of the Adani Group’s four companies have any engagement with their associated unions. [4]

And for their proposed mine Australia, Adani Australia CEO says “We will be utilising at least 45, 400-tonne driverless trucks… Everything will be autonomous from mine to port. In our eyes, this is the mine of the future.”

This Labour Day, let’s stand up for the rights of all workers by making sure that the people of Batman know where the Adani Group stands on workers rights and how they can use their vote to #StopAdani.

References:

1. Jason Koutsoukis and Daniel Flitton, 'Concerns at Barrier Reef contractor's humanitarian, environment record', The Sydney Morning Herald (5 September 2014)
2. DNA Mumbai, 'Labourer dies in mishap at Adani Power plant', Daily News and Analysis (9 May 2012); TNN, 'Worker killed in mishap at Adani plant', Times of India (31 December 2014); Mahesh Langa, '7 people died in an accident in Adani power plant on April 20th', The Hindu (28 April 2016); IANS, 'Four killed in Adani-managed Dhamra port in Odisha', Business Standard (15 August 2017)
3. Environmental Justice Australia, ‘The Adani Brief: What governments and financiers need to know about Adani Group’s record overseas’, 15 February 2017.
4. None of Adani’s four companies have any engagement with any of their associated union organisations or for that matter recognise any Employee Associations, as evidenced in their latest annual report: Adani Enterprises Limited, ‘AEL Annual Report 2016-2017’, p.90, Adani Group (2015).