Hundreds on protest train

Hundreds of Central Coast working families were expected to board the "Rights at Work Express" train yesterday.

The participants were travelling to join an expected 40,000 people at Homebush Bay attending the Unions NSW Last Weekend picnic protest against the Federal Governments changes to workplace rights.

The all-stations train was expected to leave Woy Woy at 9.27am.

Organisers had planned to deck out the carriages of the train in colourful regalia to protest what the Federal Government has planned "to reduce rights at work".

Press release, August 2 Tara de Boehmler