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Issue No. 208 | 13 February 2004 |
All The Way With FTA?
Interview: Trading in Principle Unions: While We Were Away Politics: Follow the Leader Bad Boss: Safety Recidivist Fingered Economics: Casualisation Shrouded In Myths History: Worker Control Harco Style Review: Other Side Of The Harbour
Ban "Ruthless" Operators - Judge Taskforce Ignores Million Dollar Rorts Musos Tune-Up for Election Rock Chubby Fingers in Timorese Pockets Aussie Sites Doing the Business TAFE Stands Over Poor Students
The Soapbox Postcard Sport Parliament
TAFE Support State Of Confusion Scambuster History Lesson Generation Angst Give Them A Medal
Labor Council of NSW |
News Ban "Ruthless" Operators - Judge
County Court Judge Joe Gullaci made his stand in gaoling a truck driver after an accident that killed a western Victorian woman.
The court heard the truck driver had been working 14-hour shifts, on fear of dismissal, in the days leading up to the fatal accident. Joseph Terry Caldwell, 24, of Warrnambool, was gaoled in the Victorian County Court for at least three years and 10 months over the death of Francis Fava on July 6, 2001. The Transport Workers Union has endorsed the judge's call, after campaigning for years to have excessive hours curtailed. "It's time employers and clients accepted responsibility for what's happening in the [transport] industry," says Transport Workers Union spokesperson Scott Connolly. "The problem is out of control." Connolly said there has been a 100% increase in trucking fatalities in January. "The authorities need to take immediate action because of the crisis on our roads," says Connolly. Meanwhile the NSW Industrial Relations Commission has heard that only a "superhuman" could have worked the hours a long-distance truck driver did in the days before he died when his semitrailer crashed on the Pacific Highway. WorkCover NSW is prosecuting a transport company over the death of the driver. The court hearing is continuing.
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