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Parents Won’t Volunteer To Clean Schools: Exclusive Poll 13 August 2004
NSW public school parents are telling Bob Carr he shouldn’t expect them to volunteer and help out in the cleaning of local schools if the State Government goes ahead with a plan to cut back cleaning contracts in 2005.
In an opinion poll just completed 88 percent of already over-stretched parents said it was unreasonable to ask parents to help clean their children’s schools.
“Imagine it. A parent rushes home from work, has dinner, drops the kids off at footy training and then goes in to wash the windows in the kid’s classroom.
“No wonder people think it is unreasonable, the community is already complaining about the unfair work-life balance they are trying to maintain – now Bob Carr’s Government wants to pile on more demands,” Annie Owens, NSW LHMU Cleaners Union Secretary, said.

E-mail protest campaign starts

The NSW LHMU Cleaners Union is launching today a protest e-mail campaign to give the community an opportunity to voice their discontent about these cleaning contract proposals directly to the Premier, the responsible Minister, John Della Bosca and the Education Minister and Deputy Premier, Dr Refshauge.
Just log onto the LHMU website to find the e-mail protest campaign :
www.lhmu.org.au/lhmu/campaigns/nsw_cleaners/protest_form.html
or go to the front page at www.lhmu.org.au.
The e-mail protest campaign and the union’s opinion poll research are released today, on the same day that school cleaners in New England, Goulburn, Kogarah and Ryde walk off the job for 24 hours to take part in the rolling stoppages which have now gone on for a fortnight.