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Issue No. 137 | 24 May 2002 |
An Aussie Icon
Interview: Just Done It? Tribute: Lest We Forget History: Solidarity Forever Technology: Unblocking the Superhighway International: Gloves Off Unions: Out Of Work Review: Strange Business Poetry: The Lawyer's Lament Satire: Government Mourns Loss Of Last Anzac
Retailers in Outworker Spotlight Syd in Vicious Backpacker Stand-off Microsoft Monopoly Under Challenge Kiddies Not Exactly Having a Ball NSW ALP Faces Asylum Seeker Test Canberra Acts on Industrial Manslaughter Santa Claus Strikers on Christmas Island Abbott Believes Management Should Dictate Low Paid Not To Blame For Beer Price Rise Casino Award Covers Eastern States Security Workers Want Bosses Sacked Sydneysiders Rally For Western Sahara
The Soapbox The Locker Room Bosswatch Postcard Week in Review
Your Tools Page is Down Big Dave Foster Give Us a Click! Will the Real Mark Latham Please Stand Up? Unified Labour The Last Survivor Not Hate Mail
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News Security Workers Want Bosses Sacked
"Qantas is about to put their security contracts at airports out for tender. The company's dominant position makes them some of most lucrative security contracts in Australia. "Our members are concerned that these contracts should not be won on just price alone - which means their low wages subsidise the contract process," Jo-anne Schofield, LHMU Airport Security Union, assistant national secretary said. "Airport contracts should provide the best possible service for the travelling public, for the airlines, and for the workers they employ." The union is writing to airport security specialists overseas, and around Australia, with a reputation for showing more respect for airport workers, to ask them to tender for the five year contract. "We have already started talking to a number of security companies here in Australia who want to take the tender off the existing providers," Schofield said. " Unlike the companies now holding the airport contracts there are a number of major international security companies - who specialise in airport security - who have established positive working relationships with their employees and their unions. " We would want them to replace our current bosses," Jo-anne Schofield said. " We are prepared to work co-operatively with those airport security companies who are prepared to provide better security standards, improved quality training and a healthier working relationship with their employees and their unions."
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