
Issue No 103		20 July 2001

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One Hundred Reasons to Save Aussie Post

Supporters of Australia Post will rally this week against plans to contract out jobs and secret plans to close up to 100 post offices.

The rally, organised by the CEPU, will be held outside Australia Post's Sydney Headquarters in Strawberry Hills at 3pm on Monday.

CEPU state secretary Jim Metcher says the rally is the first industrial action of its kind since 1986 and comes in response to an increased militancy by management under the Howard Government.

"Over the last decade, workers have cooperated with management to turn Australia Post into one of the most efficient and profitable postal services in the world," Metcher says.

"They've been rewarded with a determination on the part of management to sell off any profitable parts of the organization and contract out their jobs."

Anger is rising over the recent decision to contract out three jobs from the Stockton mail centre. Management has now indicated they intend to use the same model in other regional centres.

And Metcher says that Australia Post has announced its intention to close 100 corporate Post offices - although the locations are still unknown. After seeing 2,000 jobs cut in the past two years, Metcher says workers have had enough.

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Issue 103 contents

Interview: Political Witch Hunt
CFMEU 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 Crisis
In 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 Violence
Rowan 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 Recoil
Neal 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 People
A new group believes there is an alternative to corporate gobalism and economic rationalism

Satire: Marsden Now to Sue Himself
Sydney solicitor John Marsden is suing himself for defamation, claiming the recent libel case he brought did irreparable damage to his reputation.

Review: In The House
Resident Four-Eyes Mark Morey attempts the impossible with this attempt at a serious analysis of Big Brother.

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» Howard's Union Stooge in Hot Water

» Unions Cash in on Big Brother

» Big Boys Bully Over Della Compo Changes

» Where's WorkCover? Safety Prosecutions Drop Off

» Telstra's Ultimatum: Stay Away From Kim

» Workers Win Stake in New Bank

» Hours Test Case Gets Green Light

» St John of God Workers Pray for Justice

» Five-Star Action From Security Guards

» Howard Plans to Stop the Vote

» Rio Outrage Heads for Court

» Nurses To Fight For Pay

» One Hundred Reasons to Save Aussie Post

» Rail Track Sell-Off Part of Privatisation Push

» Coles Myer Abandons Regional Jobs

» Qld Wage Rise Still Not Enough

» Activists Notebook

» The Soapbox

» The Locker Room

» Trades Hall

» Tool Shed

» Problems with Hunter Decision

» A Lost Cause

» High Farce

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