Union calls for shearing  hire licensing system 

THE Australian Workers’ Union have called on the Australian government to step in with a new national licensing and enforcement body following extensive reports of labour mistreatment in shearing sheds across the country. Photo: SPEC FILE.
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SHEARERS will continue to work for poverty wages in unsafe shearing sheds across the country until the Commonwealth Government imposes a licensing regime on all labour hire companies operating in regional Australia the union which represents shearers, the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) recently claimed.

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