The Hidden Workforce Behind Melbourne’s Tram Seats

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Nearly 80 per cent of Melbourne’s tram seats are now reupholstered by women from migrant, refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.


SisterWorks is a Melbourne-based not for profit social enterprise that supports refugee, asylum-seeker or migrant women to achieve economic independence.

SisterWorks CEO Ifrin Fittock says for most of these women, the job is a first step into Australia’s workforce.

The Sisters currently refurbish around 70 seats a month, generating more than 1,500 hours of employment and diverting over 1,200 kgs of waste from landfill over the last financial year.
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