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20 July 2001 |
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NewsHoward's Union Stooge in Hot Water
The aspiring union leader who received a personal endorsement from John Howard has been criticised in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for his incompetence and lack of knowledge of the system. In 1995 Quentin Cook received the backing of then shadow IR minister Howard, when he made a tilt at the leadership of the CEPU's - Postal Division. That bid failed miserably, but Cook has since established the Postal Delivery Officers Union - an unregistered organization that purports to represent postal workers in competition with the CEPU. While only attracting a handful of members, the PDOU represented a postal worker sacked for trying to strangle another worker. On the PDOU's advice the worker refused to cooperate with two internal inquiries conducted by Australia Post and refusing to accept a transfer to another centre. When the matter came before Commissioner Bob Redmond in the AIRC, he let fly at the PDOU. It was, he said "an unregistered union, had little knowledge of the industrial relations system and failed to give [the worker] the correct advice, on the evidence before me". CEPU state secretary Jim Metcher says that "the only hope for PDOU members facing disciplinary action is that management will protect them from Quentin Cook". The comments are the latest blow for the PDOU, which last year was denied registration by the AIRC for failure to follow its own rules.
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   Interview: Political Witch HuntCFMEU national secretary John Sutton on the mooted Royal Commission and what is really needed to clean up the building industry E-Change: 1.3 The Nation State in CrisisIn the latest instalment in their study on the new politics, Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel looks at the rise and fall of the institutional State. Unions: Industrial ViolenceRowan Cahill agrees with Tony Abbott that thuggery and violence are part of Australian industrial relations landscape - but it's the bosses who do most of the bashing. History: Total RecoilNeal Towart looks at how Royal Commissions designed to kick unions have typically come back to haunt their architects. International: Behind the Eight Ball Jubilee Australia's Thea Ormond looks at the international activity being generated around this week's Group of Eight Summit in Genoa Politics: Now We The PeopleA new group believes there is an alternative to corporate gobalism and economic rationalism Satire: Marsden Now to Sue HimselfSydney solicitor John Marsden is suing himself for defamation, claiming the recent libel case he brought did irreparable damage to his reputation. Review: In The HouseResident Four-Eyes Mark Morey attempts the impossible with this attempt at a serious analysis of Big Brother.
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