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Issue No. 261 | 29 April 2005 |
Lest We Forget
Interview: Australia@Work Unions: State of the Union Industrial: Fashion Accessories Legal: Leg Before Picket Politics: Business Welfare Brats Health: Cannabis Controversy Economics: Debt, Deficit, Downturn History: Politics In The Pubs Review: Three Bob's Worth Poetry: Do The Slowly Chokie
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News Dick Tracy Booted In Blacktown
The managers, who have been labelled Dick Tracy and Co by workers, were lambasted by the industrial umpire, who described their actions as "disappointing". One of the managers drove across Sydney from Sutherland to spend two and a half hours sitting in his car spying on workers on their picnic day. Workers claim they have been photographed and shadowed in cloak and dagger style operations while they are going about their work. Managers at council's Rooty Hill depot were accused of writing detailed reports on staff movements, taking photos, and "building a case" for dismissal against them. The workers conducted a sit in at Blacktown Council's Rooty Hill depot after a worker was threatened with the sack after popping into a shop for five minutes. The worker had been shadowed for two and a half hours by a manager; an act that has seen him labelled as "an industrial peeping Tom" "The Award clearly states that managers must give instruction in the first instance," says Steve Donley from the United services Union (USU). "Management are saying they have the right to manage, but this is ridiculous." "This is another example of the importance of award protection." Donley said that if workers were doing the wrong thing then management should step in straight away. Commissioner Bishop of the NSW Industrial Relations Commission chastised Blacktown Council's actions and ordered essential services staff to paid from 4pm on the day of the strike.
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