Issue No 23 | 23 July 1999 | |
NewsNew Currawong Deal Ends 25 Years of Trying
Unions have approved a deal to improve the facilities at the Labor Council's Pittwater property, ending 25 years of gridlock on the movement's prize asset.
Delegates at this week's Labor Council meeting voted overwhelmingly to accept a Joint Management Agreement with the Transcendental Meditation Movement's World Plan Executive Council. The terms of the deal are substantially the same as those contained in a lease arrangement that was rejected when seven unions vetoed the plan earlier this year. But the new deal stages the development of facilities which will be shared by trade unionists and the TM Movement. Under the new plan, the development will occur in four stages, starting with the refurbishment of nine fibro cottages which had been earmarked for demolition in the initial plans. Future stages involved the construction of a ten-room pavilion, the construction of 15 additional rooms and finally, the construction of a further 15 rooms. As with the initial proposal, the Labor Council will receive $200,000, indexed, per annum which will be earmarked for organising activities. Unionists will retain existing access in the upgrading facilities, which will be focussed on trade union training facilities. Labor Council secretary Michael Costa says he's confident the proposal, to be administered by the Currawong Beach Preservation Foundation, will meet environmental and heritage standards.
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Interview: An Economic Wet Dr Christopher Sheil on economic rationalism and the 1997-98 water failures in Adelaide and Sydney. Unions: The Stench from the South In 1997 the entire Adelaide metropolitan area was drenched in foul, sulphorous, sewerage odours, emanating from the Bolivar waste water treatment plant. Environment: Trading into Trouble Seattle, USA, is shaping up as demonstrator mecca in the lead up to World Trade Organisation talks. History: Eveliegh Rail Reunion Former workers and their families from the historic Eveleigh Railway Workshops in inner-Sydney are holding a picnic reunion and folk music festival on the site on Sunday, August 29. International: Bosses Use Armed Gangs to Break Russian Picket On 9 July 1999, eighty masked, uniformed gunmen accompanied by the local prosecutor and other officials tried to storm the Vyborg Pulp and Paper Mill, under occupation by workers for the past eighteen months. Satire: New Refugee Crisis: Journalists Flee Peace Zone The camps are once again full in the Albanian border town of Gruntiez. Review: 10 Reasonably Interesting Moments in Film Cultural theorist Snag Cleaver flies off the handle again..
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