The Change the Rules campaign looks at securing jobs and improving pay for electrical trade workers. 

ETU secretary Dave McKinley claimed current laws significantly impact families and communities.

“Our members have seen wages stagnate, job security reduced, penalty rates being cut. 

“In recent years, our members have seen how employers can use the system to prevent them from getting a fair deal. At the same time, redundancies, outsourcing, casualisation, and the growing use of labour hire have stripped away job security.

“Big business has been making record profits, but that money isn’t being shared around, with workers enduring stagnant wages and apprentice numbers plummeting,” Mr McKinley said. 

Mr McKinley added the laws also affect consumers. 

“Stagnant wages, cuts to penalty rates, and a lack of job security have all reduced the spending power of working families, having flow-on impacts throughout the economies of their local communities,” Mr McKinley said. 

“That’s why we are committed to campaigning to change the rules to give working people the basic rights they need to improve their living standards through more secure work and improved wages.”

Mr McKinley will travel throughout regional NSW in the coming months as part of the campaign.