Your Super - Your Future - Australian Unions

Right now your retirement savings are being jeopardised by a deal between the Government and the big banks.

But if we act quickly, we can stop it. The Government is trying to push new superannuation laws that will leave many workers and their families significantly worse off in retirement. The proposals are called Your Future, Your Super.

We’re calling them the Your Future, Bank Super laws, because these laws are designed to funnel as much money as possible to corporate bank-aligned super funds.

The laws will:

Pin 3 million workers to dud funds, potentially for life,
Make it harder for workers in high-risk industries to get adequate insurance
Exclude a whole bunch of poor performing corporate products from performance testing, and
Put profits paid out to bank shareholders on the same level as your financial interests

The Government is trying to rush these laws through the Senate in the next two weeks.

But the Senate Crossbench is still making up their mind on how to vote. We need to do everything we can to make sure they know that these laws will be nothing but another handout to the big banks.

Can you send a message to the Crossbench right now to tell them to reject these laws and stand up for workers?

Send a message to the Crossbench calling on them to vote against these unfair laws.

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Dear [Politician Name],

I’m a worker and a member of a superannuation fund, and I’m writing to ask that you oppose the Government’s proposed Your Future Your Super Bill. This Bill would be another gift to the banks and greedy corporate forces in superannuation.

Rather than ensure all workers are in high-performing funds which work for their interest, it will funnel as much money as possible to corporate bank-aligned funds.

From day one, it will staple workers to underperforming funds, potentially for life. It will put workers in dangerous industries at risk cutting off access to insurance.

It will exclude some of the most overcharging and underperforming funds from performance benchmarking. All the while, deeming dividends paid to bank shareholders to be in members’ best interests.

Even though the Banking Royal Commission exposed rorts like fees charged to the dead, thousands of breaches of the law and a toxic culture working against customers’ interests this Bill offers the banks’ corporate super funds a light touch approach to scrutiny and double standards in superannuation regulation.

The Bill will make workers poorer.

I hope I can count on you to stop this attack on workers’ super.

Sincerely,

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Your Super – Your Future

Right now your retirement savings are being jeopardised by a deal between the Government and the big banks.

Send a message to the Crossbench calling on them to vote against these unfair laws.

Thank you for standing up for working people against the Government's dangerous and extreme industrial relations Bill.