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Issue No. 184 | 27 June 2003 |
To the Victors The Spoils
History: Nest of Traitors Interview: A Nation of Hope Unions: National Focus Safety: The Shocking Truth Tribute: A Comrade Departed History: Working Bees Education: The Big Picture International: Static Labour Economics: Budget And Fudge It Technology: Google and Campaigning Review: Secretary With A Difference Poetry: The Minimale Satire: Howard Calls for Senate to be Replaced by Clap-O-Meter
Electrolux Blows Fuse at Fundraiser ACM Loosens Handcuff on Democracy Now For Industrial Shock and Awe Brian Miller – Working Class Hero Dynamite: Howard Handout for Rorters Family Case to Nurture Mothers Militants Lock Out Another 600 Tipping the Turtle – Fijian Style Westie Takes On Westfield ‘Hypocrisy’ Eleventh Hour Reprieve for Women's Centre
Politics The Soapbox Media The Locker Room
The Story in General Thinking of America
Labor Council of NSW |
News Sick Call on Mum’s Job
The ASU has demanded the immediate reinstatement of permanent part-timer, Megan Carberry, sacked by Tamworth Challenge Disability Services CEO Barry Murphy today for responding to a messagebank call from Oxley High School, urging her to pick up her daughter. Carberry received her supervisor's permission to respond to the call but was verbally abused and dismissed by Murphy, in front of colleagues and intellectually disabled clients, according to the union. "I was told that answering the emergency (messagebank) call breached management's direction that it was to receive emergency calls from the school on my behalf," Carberry said. "I was still in shock for being sacked over this when the CEO took it upon himself to personally remove me from my workplace, using the most foul and abusive language." Carberry said she had only recently started using messagebank after being informed by Oxley High that it's principal had an obligation to personally alert parents when a child was sick. "The principal knows that my daughter needs to have medicine administered at certain times and has to alert me personally, especially if there's a problem. I knew that picking up a mobile call from the school would get me in trouble, so I've been relying on messagebank. I'm deeply shocked to be sacked for simply answering a distress call," she said. ASU Executive President Sally McManus says the union has notified the NSW Industrial Relations Commission and is seeking a public apology as well as immediate reinstatement. "Sacking a single mother for responding to a call about a sick child would have to be the worst, most un-Australian act of bastardry a union could come across," McManus said.
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