
Issue No 113		28 September 2001

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Paint Workers Finish the Job

By Andrew Casey

Sydney paint workers have won a 10 per cent pay increase after a long and bitter dispute, which involved a seven-week strike by LHMU Paint Union members.

The Taubmans paint workers returned to work this week after voting to accept a deal negotiated yesterday in late night talks before Mr Justice Munro of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

" The 150 workers covered by the new Enterprise Bargaining Agreement have also won improvements in long service leave, and an agreed process for the company to discuss with the union and its members the vexed issue of how workers entitlements can be properly protected," Mark Boyd, the NSW LHMU Assistant Secretary said .

A South African multinational Barloworlds now owns the Taubmans paint company.

" This has been a long dispute, made worse by the harsh anti-worker laws introduced by the Howard Government," Mark Boyd said.

" These laws force workers to tough it out, they sideline the Industrial Relations Commission from playing a pro-active role.

" The Howard Government laws do not help both parties to sit down and negotiate in a civilized way the best possible outcome for all parties.

" The workplace organization at the Taubmans site - plus the support we received from other paint workers in Sydney and inter-state has helped these paint workers achieve this victory."

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Interview: The Custodian
Labor's arts spokesman Bob McMullan on the role government can play in nurturing national culture.

Media: Chucking a Wobbly
Veronica Apap meets Dan Buhagiar, the programmer of Labor Council's new online initiative, Wobbly Radio.

E-Change: 3.3 Unleashing a Networked Culture
Politics does not occur in a vacuum - it's is as much a product of its culture as it is an influence on it. In the post-Industrial Age how will this relationship change?

Unions: Are You a Terrorist?
Away from the talkback noise, Mark Hearn reports on how a Sydney workforce is taking up the cause of racial understanding and tolerance.

Organising: STAA Performers
Film industry workers are acting collectively to ensure they don't become Mexicans with Mobiles.

Workplace: Making Art Work
The Workers Cultural Action Committee is a community cultural development provider. What is this? And what does it mean for the union movement?

History: Creative Alliances
Neale Towart wanders through the archives to look at how unions' have worked with artists to promote progressive casuses.

Performance: Tales from the Shop Floor
Peter Murphy profiles Sydney's New Theatre and the role it has played in fostering working culture.

Review: Homegroan
In an extract from her new book, The Money Shot, Jane Mills argues that the local film industry needs more than patriotism to get bums on seats.

Satire: PM Pleads To Nauru: Take Our Aborigines Too
In the wake of Nauru�s acceptance of the Tampa refugees, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has struck a new deal with the small island nation to take our Aborigines as well.

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