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Summer 2006

KATE TAKES ON ANNA STEWART PROJECT

Kate Ransley, from Rosary Gardens, is the 2006 HACSU participant in the Anna Stewart Memorial Project. Participants have been asked to prepare and present a small project over the two-week training program. Kate has chosen to focus on learning how to set up a worksite committee, knowledge she hopes to take back to her own worksite.

Kate has already completed work placements with HACSU and the CPSU where she has learnt about the inner workings and structure of two of Tasmania's largest unions. Kate says that she's learnt a lot about the kind of work undertaken by union organisers on a day-to-day basis, as well as learning about the State and Federal industrial relations systems and the likely impact of the Coalition Government's new work laws.

Kate joins four other participants in the program this year. The participants include a lab technician and Australian Education Union member, a teacher from the Tasmanian Catholic Education Employees' Association, a childcare worker and Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union member and an administrative worker who is a member of the United Firefighters' Union.

In October, Kate will complete the second week of the project, where participants will visit the Industrial Relations Commission, Workplace Standards Tasmania and various other organisations connected to the work undertaken by unions. She will also finish and present her project.

Kate says, "I see it as a way to get more exposure to the workings of unions and then practically apply what I've learnt to my own workplace."