About 80 mainly young casual workers attended the Unite Casual Workers’ Conference in Melbourne’s Trades Hall on April 3rd. After a VJ performance (video and reggae music) on casualisation, the first session of the conference was led off by Lynn Beaton. Lyn is a left wing academic who concentrated on the rise of casualisation. She showed with facts and figures that casualisation is a massive growing feature of Australia’s workplace relations, especially effecting women.

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