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Naomi Steer - Senior Executive Officer

• Highlights of Activity
• Community and Public Affairs
• Industrial
• Naomi's other responsibilities:

	Naomi Steer
	Senior Executive Officer

Highlights of Activity

Highlights of Naomi's activities in 1999 include:

• Writing and delivering a workshop on Migrant Workers at a conference sponsored by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Manila in January 1999.
• Organising Labor Council's `Work Time Life' Conference held in February 1999.
• Working as the Campaign Office Manager for John Watkins in his successful campaign to win the NSW seat of Ryde in the NSW State election.
• Organising, as part of the East Timor Alliance, the first public union rally on East Timor in May, with guest speakers including Hazel Hawke, actor Chris Haywood, the Honorable Justice John Dowd, Jane Singleton and Estaneslau Da Silva of the Council of National East Timorese Resistance.
• Organising the Labor Council forum on Drug Policy in May, with speakers representing the various views in the debate, including; Dr Alex Wodak, Director - Drug and Alcohol Unit, St Vincents Hospital, and Lieutenant Paul Moulds, Director - Salvation Army's OASIS Youth Support Network.
• Organising the NSW campaign against Reith's Second Wave legislation including the NSW Women's Roundtable at which Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) President, Jennie George, and federal Shadow Minister for the Status of Women, Jennie Macklin, addressed more than 70 women which represented over 20 women's organisations and unions.
• Organising the 30th anniversary of the 1969 Equal Pay Case celebration at the NSW State Library in August, with guest speakers including Neville Wran (the advocate for the unions in the case), Meredith Burgmann and Betty Spears.
• Hosting Labor Council's Annual Women in Trade Unions Dinner in October with guest speaker, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Ms Susan Halliday. More than 150 trade union women attended the dinner.

Community and Public Affairs

Naomi maintained liaison with a wide range of community organisations and participated in a number of community campaigns, including FairWear, opposition to the Second Wave legislation, East Timor, and the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

As part of her Community and Public Affairs role Naomi supervised Labor Council and union participation in the Sydney Women's Festival, the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Survival Day and the Big Day Out.

Naomi addressed a wide range of public forums on issues relating to family friendly and flexible work practices, the hours of work campaign, outworkers, industrial rights and entitlements, pay equity and casual work, and sex discrimination.

Industrial

Naomi's areas of industrial responsibility included media and entertainment, roads, the food industry, outworkers, women and community and children's services.

In the latter part of 1999 she assisted Roads & Traffic Authority (RTA) unions in their ongoing negotiations on a new Enterprise Agreement. She also assumed responsibility for co-ordinating the Labor Council's Pay Equity Case.

Discussions continued with employers throughout 1999 about how to implement the recommendations contained in the Pay Equity Report released on Christmas Eve in 1998. Unfortunately, little progress was made and, accordingly, Labor Council applied to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to have the matter heard. Hearings for the case have been set for February 2000 and Labor Council has briefed legal counsel to run the case. Labor Council's submissions have been filed including a new Equal Remuneration Principle.

Naomi's other responsibilities:

Naomi represented the Labor Council on the following bodies:

• Working Womens Centre Executive
• Professional Standards Council
• Assett Superannuation Fund
• Co-operative Council of NSW
• Correctional Services Industry Council
• Australian Centre for Cooperative Research and Development Advisory Board
• ACTU Women's Committee
• ACTU Children Services Committee
• Ethics Working Party, Premier's Office

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