{"id":471327,"date":"2022-01-15T21:13:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=198689"},"modified":"2022-01-15T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T21:13:27","slug":"australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/15\/australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Trade Unions Demand Free COVID Testing For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a scathing condemnation of the Scott Morrison government, Australian trade unions criticized its inability to make testing for COVID-19 freely available for all. The country\u2019s largest apex trade union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), released a statement on Thursday, January 13, criticizing the failure to make Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) free and accessible for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ACTU condemns in the strongest possible terms the Prime Minister\u2019s failure at National Cabinet to ensure Rapid Antigen Tests be made free and accessible for all to protect worker and community safety and get the economy moving again,\u201d reads the ACTU statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also criticized the announcement made on Thursday to relax quarantine rules for close contact workers in transport, education and emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all-as-cases-surge\/\">Australian Trade Unions Demand Free COVID Testing For All<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/australian-trade-unions-demand-free-covid-testing-for-all-as-cases-surge\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scathing condemnation of the Scott Morrison government, Australian trade unions criticized its inability to make testing for COVID-19 freely available for all. The country\u2019s largest apex trade union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (AC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,304,3493,5720,1667,6162],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471328,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471327\/revisions\/471328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}