Forty per cent of all work in Australia is insecure, and there are now 1.2 million Australians living below the poverty line who derive their main income from wages (not welfare). These facts are confronting and the NUW has made the campaign for jobs all workers can count on a priority industrially. But we know that inequality extends outside the workplace and that workers’ issues are not just industrial issues. That’s why we’ve launched a community membership program.