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Issue No. 125 | 22 February 2002 |
Unfair and Dismal
Interview: If Not Now, When? Activists: Fighting Back Industrial: Croon And Divide Politics: Politics of Extinction History: Harry Bridges: International Labour Hero International: Rats in the Ranks Review: Follow The Fence, Find The Truth Satire: Howard Screws Refugee Kids: G-G Turns Blind Eye Poetry: Let It Be
Building Workers' Bid to Win Back Lives Dog-Tired � Long Hours Leave Beagles Buggered Home Care Workers Reject Sweat Building Commission's Costly Spin Caltex Asked To Explain Price Hikes Palm Sunday Resurrected for Refugees Dismissals: Labor Blocks The Lot Company Collapses: Union Wants Bank Powers Legal Action to Block Job Exports Councils Targeted in Contracting Campaign CFMEU Constructs Lebanese Bridge Israeli Aircraft Destroy Most Of Palestinian Union HQ
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
Tom's Foolery Give Us a Spray!
Labor Council of NSW |
News Building Workers' Bid to Win Back Lives
The NSW Labor Council is coordinating a strategy across the industry, involving delegates and rank and file members, in what shapes as the industrial battle of 2002. The Labor Council this week formally voted to back the campaign, which will target all major building companies in the state. Claim details are being finalised by the unions involved - the CFMEU, ETU, AWU, AMWU and the Plumbers Union - with plans for a formal agreement between the unions to underpin the campaign. While the strategy will not replicate the Victorian 36-hour week campaign, CFMEU state secretary Andrew Ferguson says the issue of excessive working hours will be central, with a focus on winning extra leisure days. "Excessive hours of work in the building industry not only impact on the quality of life of our members and their families but represent a serious threat to worker and public safety," Ferguson says. "Building workers are locked into a six-day week and this has negative consequences everybody." Ferguson says workers will fight developers and builders who run the industry, rather than their individual employers.
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