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Issue No. 135 | 10 May 2002 |
The Costs of War
Interview: Squaring Off Industrial: Heroes Betrayed History: At The Coalface International: Wobblies With Chinese Characters? Politics: Dancing with Trotsky Economics: You Are What You Eat Poetry: Alexander's Bragtime Band Satire: Stott Despoja Celebrates Engagement With Minor Party Review: Painting Paradise
Gun-Runners Threaten Aussie Coast Kings Cross Date For Commissioner Cole Sunbeam Irons Out Sydney Grand Mother NSW Libs Open to Abbott Takeover Terror Bill Needs More Work, ACTU Burma Release Fails to Blunt Campaign East Timorese MPs oppose Timor Sea Arrangement Airport Screeners Face Men in Jocks Unions Push into Regional Queensland
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard Bosswatch Week in Review Tool Shed
No Choice Who Rules Australia? No Wrap for Song Comp Abbott's Contempt
Labor Council of NSW |
News Barking The Wrong Way In NSW
One NSW LHMU Security Union member has been able to pocket more than $6,300. The Security Union members who have just won the big pay-out work at the Big Four NSW power stations in the Hunter and Lithgow regions. Two months ago the LHMU forced the same company - Bark Security - to pay out tens of thousands of dollars to Queensland security members owed money for underpayments and superannuation. Security Union members bite Bark back. " Union members - acting together - can help clean up the security industry," Annie Owens, NSW LHMU Secretary, said. "This second big win over Bark Security is an example of what we can do together. " Because of constant breaches of the Award and regular disputes about how they treated their workers at the Bayswater, Liddell, Mt Piper and Wallerawang power stations the LHMU has been hounding this company," Annie Owens said. " In Newcastle Commissioner Jim Redman of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission, on Tuesday, ordered Bark to pay $67,100 in entitlements to our members. " The company obviously didn't like the way the union activists put the bite on them to win their legal entitlements, 'cause Bark Security has walked away from their contracts at these power stations - and Chubb and SNP have taken over the contracts. " The union has ensured that all twenty-five union members at these power stations have retained their jobs with the new contractor." The LHMU and the superannuation company Australian Retirement Fund are together continuing to pursue the company for all superannuation monies through the Australian Taxation Office.
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