
Issue No 111		14 September 2001

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Trans Tasman Battle for Entitlements

Australian workers should boycott Air New Zealand services until the estimated $500 million owing in workers entitlements was repaid to Ansett workers, the ACTU has vowed.

ACTU President Sharan Burrow sounded the warning at the Sydney rally of Ansett workers and their supporters as evidence emerged of the extent of the unpaid entitlements.

Apart from the redundancy and accrued leave entitlements, it was revealed that Ansett had not been deducting payments for health funds or union dues for some time.

"Air New Zealand must accept responsibility or we will pursue them through whatever means are necessary," Burrow said

She also called on the Howard Govt tot underwrite workers entitlements and to support the ACTU in pursuing the New Zealand carrier and the New Zealand government.

Burrow says the ACTU is seeking legal advice with a view to pursuing Air New Zealand and would be the unions in New Zealand in seeking a meeting with the NZ PM Helen Clark.

MUA Goes All the Way with Ansett Workers

Meanwhile, the Maritime Union has pledged to mobilise support for the Ansett workers on an international basis.

As an executive board member of the International Transport Workers' Federation, National Secretary Paddy Crumlin has also called on the ITF London office to mobilise support for Ansett workers from international affiliates.

Crumlin has laid the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Federal Government transport policy comparing today's grounding of the airline to the Government's sinking of the Australian shipping industry.

"Not content with their destructive competition policies against Australian shipping, Transport Minister John Anderson and the Howard Government are now intent on the destruction of the Australian aviation industry," Crumlin says.

"The world crisis triggered by terrorism in the US only illustrates the important national and strategic importance of key transport modes like aviation and shipping.

"Deregulation of the US aviation industry greatly exacerbated the human tragedy there this week. Yet we have a Government here in Australia determined to sell off or destroy our national transport infrastructure.

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Interview: Amidst the Debris
ACTU President Sharan Burrow surveys the wreckage from a week that rocked the world.

Politics: Consequences of Empire
The horror of the events in New York has not led to all American and international observers feeling committed to bloody revenge.

Industrial: Grounded
Ansett workers lay bare their feelings at seeing their company driven into oblivion.

International: Election Results from East Timor
Fretelin as expected has topped the poll in East Timor�s first free democratic election and the violence predicted by some has not eventuated.

E-Change: 3.2 The Electronic Consumerist
In their latest instalment Peter Lewis and Michael Gadiel ask how effective has the law become in safeguarding the things that really matter to us?

Legal: Howard's Falkland War
Zoe Reynolds chronicles the bizarre tale of the Tampa and how a group of refugees bacame pawns in a bigger political game.

Compo: Round Two Begins
Nancy Searle reviews the Sheahan Report and highlights some of the areas of concern to injured workers.

Economics: Knowledge, Power, Banking
Raj Patel questions whether a new World Bank initiative is actually designed to control the way the Third World thinks.

Review: Political Theatre
The Naked Theatre Company is a youthful, adventurous, professional, Sydney theatre company committed to the development and production of Australian playwrights.

Satire: Howard US Visit "Marginally Overshadowed"
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his US trip was a complete success, if slightly upstaged towards the middle.

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