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Issue No. 128 | 15 March 2002 |
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Why I'm Marching
Interview: The Wedge Buster History: Fighting for Peace Unions: Rattling the Gates International: Facing Retribution Technology: How Korean Workers Used The Web Industrial: Working Futures Review: Rumble, Young Man, Rumble Satire: GG Survival Doomed: Fox-Lew In Charge Of Rescue Bid Poetry: PSST
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review
 Carr and the Fire FightersOn InequalityHarmony Day
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News Guards Force Drinks Break
The decision to supply the free water was announced on Friday afternoon, just as the LHMU Security Union was gearing up for mass meetings, on Monday, of SRA Security Guards in Sydney. " Our members have been asking for the water for two years - they are quite rightly resentful that they have to buy water, or soft-drinks, as trains pull into stations on the trips between Newcastle and Sydney," NSW LHMU Security Union Assistant Secretary, Mark Boyd said. " Earlier this month the members had had enough, and they walked out for fourty-eight hours leaving train services out of Newcastle without any security personnel." The LHMU Security Union has called mass meetings in Sydney on Monday to report on the Newcastle stoppage, and the on-going dispute over providing proper and hygienic facilities for security guards working on the SRA train services. There are over 1000 Chubb Security guards patrolling SRA train services which run throughout Sydney, and out to Newcastle, Wollongong and Lithgow. " It is not much to ask for chilled water for these workers - and it has been part of a long campaign for proper amenities which Chubb and the SRA are refusing to provide our members." " The 40 Newcastle rail security guards who service local and inter-urban trains, coming out of the Newcastle SRA depot, had listened to the lies from their bosses and weren't taking it anymore," Mark Boyd said. The two-day strike resulted in trains running between Sydney and Newcastle without any security personnel. Pointing the Finger " After this latest stoppage both Chubb and the SRA were squirming when we met them last Friday in the Industrial Relations Commission - they were pointing the finger at each other, blaming anyone but themselves," Mark Boyd said. " At the start of February LHMU members in Newcastle held a one day stoppage; Chubb had solemnly promised their workforce after this strike they would finally provide the new facilities - and it would happen within weeks. " When they squibbed it, again, members decided to walk a second time on February 28 - but this time they went out for 48 hours. " As a result of this second stoppage both Chubb and the SRA have been forced by the union, through the Commission, to set an immediate timetable to fix up the long-standing complaint about amenities. The LHMU mass meetings in Sydney on March 18 and Lithgow on March 20 will discuss the results of this dispute and any on-going campaigns before the union reports back to Industrial Commission on March 26. The Sydney meeting will take place at 11am, March 18, LHMU Security Union conference room Level 8, 187 Thomas St Haymarket. The Lithgow meeting will take place at 11am, March 20, the Lithgow Workers Club
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