Department of Social Security Work-In

</image> <label>Performers</label> <label>Date</label> <label>Location</label> </infobox>The Department of Social Security Work-In was an episode of workers' control in Australia in 1980. White-collar workers organized in the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association who were employed in the federal Department of Social Security staged a series of work-ins. In 1980, they decided against a “traditional work-in” and instead backed up their demand for improved staffing levels by refusing—for more than two years—to recover overpayments made to social security recipients, which cost the federal government many millions of dollars.

See Also

• Work-In
• Harco Work-In
• Sydney Opera House Work-In
• Clutha Development Mine Work-In
• Whyalla Glove Factory Work-In
• Wyong Plaza Work-In
• Nymboida Mine Work-In
• Coal Cliff Work-In
• Sanyo Television Factory Work-In
• Union Carbide Work-In