Issue No 121 | 30 November 2001 | |
NewsConcern As Sydney CollapsesBy Phil Davey
The pre Christmas rush to finish construction work is endangering public and workers safety according to the CFMEU. The spectacular collapse of a building in Camperdown on the weekend, which caused traffic chaos, together with the death of a man last week when a wall collapsed in Canterbury, were not coincidences say the Union. In both instances, CFMEU safety experts had visited the sites just days before the accident, issuing safety rectification notices to no avail. At the Canterbury site, CFMEU officials counselled a contractor on safety problems on site. 72 hours later the same boss was dead. At Camperdown, a CFMEU official again issued safety notices just days before the accident. For his trouble the official was threatened by management. Days later that very same site collapsed. CFMEU officials at Camperdown today have shut down another four building sites within 200 metres of the accident site, finding significant safety problems on all four. CFMEU Safety Co-ordinator Brian Miller believes a rush to finish work for Christmas is the cause of the deteriorating safety situation and the spate of recent accidents. "Corners are being cut by shonky builders all over Sydney at the moment. I am very concerned that this spate of accidents will continue unless state and local Government and the public at large report and police the shonks who are putting peoples lives at risk."
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Interview: Back to the Battle Federal Labor's new industrial relations spokesman Robert McClelland outlines the challenges for the next three years. Politics: The Baby and the Bath Water ACTU secretary Greg Combet gives his take on the debate over the ALP's relations with the union movement. Unions: We're Solid Bradon Ellem charts the history of the Pilbara dispute, and finds a revitalised grass-roots unionism challenging BHP's individual contracts bulldozer Organising: Benidgo Pioneer Comes Up Trumps ACTU Delegate of the Year, Leonie Saunders, is living proof of the way unions are adapting to life under the strictures of a hostile Government. Technology: India: Cricket, Computers and Corruption Russell Lansbury cuts through the hype to look out the so-called hi-tech revolution on the sub-continent. International: Soul Searching The party of labour in Canada � the NDP - is right now undergoing a massive struggle for its heart and soul. History: A Timeless Debate The ALP and unions - it's a debate that's raged for years as this extract from a 1947 Lloyd Ross pamplet shows. Review: In Fear of Security Launching his new book, Anthony Burke argues that the cry of "security" is the last refuge of the political scoundrel
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