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23 November 2001 |
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NewsSweet Victory for Sugar WorkersBy Phil Davey
The Sunshine Sugar lockout has ended in a massive victory for mill workers, their families and the local community. A mass meeting of all mill workers at Broadwater this afternoon has voted (98%) to accept the management's withdrawal of lockout notices and a spectacular management climb down from its long standing insistence that core award and other employment conditions be stripped away. Workers will now not be forced to work on all public holidays and will receive a 7% pay rise over two years. Commenting on the victory today, CFMEU State Secretary Andrew Ferguson, who spent most of this week with affected workers, paid tribute to them. "These guys had everything thrown at them. Deliberate misinformation was put out to local cane farmers in order to cast our guys in the worse possible light and management for two weeks attempted to starve them and their families into submission. It is a testimony to their discipline and resolve that they have got such a solid result and not compromised their integrity." Massive Support for Sugar Workers Earlier in the week, three North Coast sugar mills workers touring Sydney building sites were overwhelmed by the support they have received in Sydney. Nine mass meetings were held on Sydney sites with thousands of dollars raised for the sugar workers and their families. Leigh Brown of Yamba expressed jubilation at the reception he received from workers in Sydney. "I told building workers about our struggle with management, how they have refused to rule out further lock outs and how tough we are doing it up the coast," Brown says. "We passed the hard hat around at the end of the meeting and I couldn't believe how much was in there. It was thousands. "Construction workers in Sydney seem determined to ensure we have a decent Christmas in spite of the best efforts of our own management up the coast"
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