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      <title>Equality for BAME and International staff at QUB</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/equality-for-bame-and-international-staff-at-qub.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>This petition relates to the introduction of a new online system for reclaiming staff expenses at Queen's University Belfast named QFIS. The system allows for pounds, dollars and euros to be entered and any required currency conversions to be made automatically. However it excludes all other currencies placing the onus on staff to make their own calculations and provide screenshots of each conversion. This places a significant additional burden on BAME and international staff working in many other countries outside of the EU and the US, affecting such staff disproportionately.</p>

<p>Such a practice is patently opposed to:<br />
i. Principles of equality enshrined in the university own policies.<br />
ii. Principles of global justice in which some nations and currencies carry disproportionate influence over others especially those of the global south in which the majority of the world's population may be found.<br />
iii. Research in areas outside of the EU-US sphere.</p>

<p>BAME and International staff have objected to this practice and raised the matter internally. However the University Finance directorate has so far refused to review the system  despite the matter being raised by I-rise (BAME and International staff group) and UCU.<br />
.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2019 06:23 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">102875</quid>
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      <title>Save the Port of Cairns</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-port-of-cairns.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Support the Sea Port of Cairns, Australia. Our port, our city, our future.</p>

<p>Let the politicians and their advisers know we support the Cairns Shipping Development Project that can sustainably open up one of Australia's most beautiful ports to more cruise shipping and vessels that service our region.</p>

<p>We love the Great Barrier Reef, our stunning beaches, the Atherton Tablelands, Port Douglas, Daintree, Innisfail and want to share it with others.</p>

<p>The Port of Cairns, developed over 100 years, underpins jobs, businesses and investments. Support the Cairns Shipping Development project by submitting a petition to the Queensland State Government Coordinator General.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 12:56 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">73304</quid>
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      <title>Disability nurses deserve better pay</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/disability-nurses-deserve-better-pay.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Ageing, Disability and Home Care (ADHC) nurses working under the Department of Family and Community Services are the first nurses to face sweeping cuts to their awards by the state Liberal/National government.</p>

<p>But we are fighting back by starting a campaign for pay parity with nurses in the Public system.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:52 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">56968</quid>
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      <title>FPH nurses deserve fair pay</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/fph-nurses-deserve-fair-pay.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Forster Private Hospital nurses deserve fair pay. Pulse Health, the owner of Forster Private, has allowed our wages to fall significantly behind nurses at other local hospitals.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:00 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">57755</quid>
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      <title>Please bring a Big W to Ulladulla!</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/please-bring-a-big-w-to-ulladulla.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>In 2009 the following petition was posted online and in local businesses, and got over 1000 signatures (<a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/big-w-for-ulladulla.html" title="Petition - Big W for Ulladulla">Big W for Ulladulla Petition</a>), it was submitted and the proposal was denied. In time Franklins Ulludulla suffered and has closed its doors.</p>

<p>Many unemployed and now a vacant building. The town has gained little from the Woolworths project.</p>

<p>I would now like Big W and Woolworths Ltd consider taking over the Franklins building and giving Ulludulla a go with a Big W, even if it is a scaled down version and be a Big W Country.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:44 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">57484</quid>
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      <title>Increase employer superannuation contributions to 12%</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/increase-employer-superannuation-contributions-to-12.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>The Finance Sector Union is calling on finance workers to support the push for employer superannuation contributions to be increased to 12%.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 6 Nov 2011 06:06 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">49159</quid>
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      <title>An amendment to the FLSA of 1938</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/an-amendment-to-the-flsa-of-1938.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>This will save lives by reducing heart attacks and stroke (by reducing stress) and increase tax revenue (without tax hikes).</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:35 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">27964</quid>
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      <title>Pour une politique économique en communauté française de Belgique</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/pour-une-politique-%C3%A9conomique-en-communaut%C3%A9-fran%C3%A7aise-de-belgique.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>Février 05, 2006</p>

<p>La situation économique de la communauté francophone de notre pays se dégrade d'année en année. Les chiffres sont très alarmants et témoignent d'un glissement progressif de notre communauté vers un sous-développement chronique.</p>

<p>Cette situation est le résultat :<br />
-	de politiques économiques inadaptées,<br />
-	d'un manque d'attention de nos politiques,<br />
-	d'un manque flagrant de 'leadership',<br />
-	de structures étatiques lourdes, complexes et chères,<br />
-	de formations inadaptées et complexes (9 universités en communauté française),<br />
-	de coûts salariaux totaux, qui avec taxes et d'impôts divers, sont parmi les plus hauts du monde<br />
-	enfin d'une culture et d'un contexte qui ne permet pas à notre communauté de comprendre et surmonter les enjeux qui l'affectent.</p>

<p>Comme affirmé par 3 professeurs d'économie: « en terme d'exclusion sociale, ce que nous connaissons en Wallonie (et à Bruxelles) relève du scandale. Plutôt que de s'occuper de balivernes comme Francorchamps, les politiques de tous les partis ne devraient plus dormir à voir la pauvreté persistante, les taux de chômage à 20pc »</p>

<p>Le taux de chômage des jeunes wallons (15-24 ans) est le plus élevé d'Europe : 26,5pc en 2002 contre 11,6pc pour la Flandre. Plus de 40pc des chômeurs en Wallonie sont des chômeurs de longue durée contre moins de 20pc en Flandre.</p>

<p>Quelques extraits d'articles de presse:<br />
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<p>La région de Charleroi compte 47521 demandeurs d'emploi inoccupés, soit 18,5pc du total en Wallonie, selon l'état des lieux socio-économique présenté jeudi par le Forem local.<br />
A Charleroi, sur 100 personnes en âge de travailler, seules 51 ont effectivement un emploi. Un peu plus d'un tiers des chômeurs (36pc) ont moins de 30 ans et plus de 60 pc ont un niveau d'éducation qui ne dépasse pas l'enseignement secondaire inférieur (contre 56pc pour l'ensemble de la Wallonie).</p>

<p>Le taux d'activité entrepreneuriale (TAE), qui établit la proportion de la population en âge de travailler impliquée dans un projet de création d'entreprise ou ayant participé au lancement d'une entreprise durant les 42 derniers mois, a atteint l'an dernier 3,9pc en Belgique. Ce taux, en légère hausse (+0,4pc) par rapport à l'année dernière, reste très faible au regard de la moyenne générale des pays analysés (8,4pc), et de la moyenne européenne (5,2pc)</p>

<p>Les chiffres du GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) pour 2005 indiquent une chute du taux de création d'entreprises en Wallonie. Il est passé de 4,7 pc (2004) à 3,6 pc,.</p>

<p>Selon lui, la Wallonie conserve de nombreux atouts pour accueillir des entreprises étrangères mais les coûts totaux salariaux sont arrivés à leur limite, alors que les ouvriers ont souvent moins en poche que leurs collègues des pays proches.</p>

<p>Pour M. Cuisinier, notre compétitivité est au plus mal et se dégrade chaque jour: la Belgique s'isole dans le peloton des mauvais élèves.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:48 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">8025</quid>
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      <title>Bring Back O.K Karaoke Show at the Performance Grill</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/bring-back-ok-karaoke-show-at-the-performance-grill.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>George Hobson, and his show the "O.K Karaoke show", was recently relieved of his services at the Karaoke Show. It was replaced by another show.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:18 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">23618</quid>
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      <title>Keep Australian jobs here!</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/keep-australian-jobs-here.html?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p>TO THE HONOURABLE THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ASSEMBLED IN THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT:</p>

<p>This petition of certain citizens of Australia draws to the attention of the House the analysis of Australian labour market trends undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research (NIEIR) which found 850,000 jobs in the services sector, or 1 in 10 jobs, are at risk of being off-shored over the next 2 decades. In banking and financial services, businesses are being reorganised in such a way that Australian staff will be/are being made redundant, because the work they perform/ed in Australia for their employer will be performed offshore, in countries with substantially lower labour costs, by either a third party service provider or an owned subsidiary.</p>

<p>Your petitioners point out to the House that the loss of these jobs from Australia is bad for the Australian economy and of grave consequence for the workers and communities affected by the changes.</p>

<p>Your petitioners further point out that we harbour serious concerns for the security of the very sensitive personal data of Australian customers that must accompany these jobs to other countries where Australian privacy and data protection laws have no jurisdiction.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:43 UTC</pubDate>
      <quid isPermaLink="false">20269</quid>
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