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Issue No. 187 | 18 July 2003 |
Hearts, Minds and Other Body Parts
Interview: As They Say In The Bible ... Industrial: Just Doing It Unions: Breaking Into the Boys Club Activists: Making the Hard Yards Bad Boss: In the Pooh Unions: National Focus Economics: Pop Will Eat Itself Technology: Dean for President International: Rangoon Rumble Education: Blackboard Jungle Review: From Weakness to Strength Poetry: Downsized
Authority Shafts Excessive Mine Hours Insurance Quiz: Money or the Baby? Monk Lined up with Jihad Masters Vote Snooping Bosses Out of House US Actors Back Aussie Comrades Teachers Caught in Family Feud Longer Strikes Spark Picket Code Max Sets Athens as Airport Standard Indigenous First for Construction Call Centre Jobs Diverted From Delhi
The Soapbox The Locker Room Postcard
Sid Einfield Would be Proud Tom in the Manger Sermon on the Mount
Labor Council of NSW |
News Max Sets Athens as Airport Standard
Unions have called on Tourism Minister Joe Hockey to intervene, fearing Australia's reputation as a safe tourist destination is at stake as SACL chief Max Moore-Wilton pushes on with plans to cut 40 per cent of full time jobs. A week after the announcement more questions than answers have been provided by airport management. They have confirmed that 100 maintenance workers will be cut and a third of the operations division, responsible for security within the airport perimeter, will also go. But the following key questions remain: - will contract maintenance workers be subjected to the same level of security of ASIO checks as the full-time workers they will replace? - how will contractors be trained to meet the specialist requirements of the full time staff carrying our critical work such as maintaining runway lighting? - and what personal stake does Max Moore-Wilton have in the cuts, giving he must reach a $380 million profit target set by Macquarie Bank. Most bizarrely, a meeting of airport delegates this week was told that Sydney Airport would benchmark itself against Athens and Brisbane Airports. The CPSU's Larissa Andelman says the choice of these airports shows someone is missing the plot. "Brisbane is a much smaller operation than Sydney, while anyone who has traveled to Greece would question why Sydney would set this as any sort of standard." Airport unions this week succeeded in forcing SACL to negotiate on the changes after a hearing in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
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