Issue No 28 | 27 August 1999 | |
NewsFresh South Coast Ballot Called
The Labor Council of NSW has moved to heal the rift on the South Coast, ordering a fresh ballot on November 24 to reunify the movement.
The recommendation is contained in a report completed by Labor Council President John Whelan and secretary Michael Costa, follow a request by a breakaway group of unions to affiliate with the Labor Council. The Illawarra Council of Trade Unions is seeking affiliation after breaking with the South Coast Labor Council following a disputed ballot for the SCLC's leadership positions earlier this year. Following the vote, where Paul Matters claimed victory, a sequence of unions left the SCLC and entered a new cross-factional alliance, which became the ICTU. The two camps have remained in conflict, despite attempts by union stalwarts Tom McDonald and Tas Bull to mediate the issue. With the ACTU Congress due to be held in Wollongong in June 2000, the report argues there is a need to bring about reunification quickly. Under then proposal endorsed by the NSW Labor Council, all unions that have been affiliated to the SCLC in the past three years would be eligible to vote. Unions would show their bona fides by depositing one quarter of a year's affiliation fees and agreeing to abide by the outcome of the ballot. John Whelan and Tom McDonald shall be the joint returning officers in the ballot for secretary and the executive, which would take affect from March 2000. It was also recommended that once the ballot is finalised, changes proposed by Tom McDonald and Tas Bull would be implemented and TUTA director Michael Crosby would be asked to conduct an independent audit and devise an organising strategy for the South Coast.
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