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Issue No. 298 | 10 March 2006 |
Home Truths
Interview: Organising In Cyberspace Industrial: How Low Is Low Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Bad Medicine History: Right Turn, Clyde Economics: Long Division International: Union Proud Politics: Howard�s Sick Joke Indigenous: The year of living dangerously Review: Lights, Camera, Strike! Culture: News Front
Wipeout: Minchin Surfs New Wave Scoop-idity: How The Truth Was Nicked Howard's Bastard Under Lock and Key Computer Strike Could Crash System Builders' Cleavage Strikes Gold
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News Unions Counsel Queen
Maintenance contractor United Services Group stands accused of intimidating workers to force them onto individual non-union contracts as well as blacklisting other workers because of previous injuries and union activism. "We are not going to let this company stand over us and force us to sign away our basic rights at work or face the sack," said John Madureir, one of the Opera House workers who has been blackballed by United Services Group for his union activism. Madureir and his fellow workers plan to take their case directly to the monarch when she attends a major media event set down for Opera House on Monday.
"We are demanding justice and we will keep fighting until we get justice," says Madureir. "Companies should not have the right to sack injured workers or to say to other workers that they must sign away several hundred dollars a week or look elsewhere for work.
"We are protesting on Monday to let the Queen know that the Australia she last visited, where workers had proper rights and protections, is under attack and that working people in Australia want her support as they battle for fairness in the workplace."
"It's very disappointing that the state government's own Trust has breached procurement guidelines," says Andrew Ferguson from the CFMEU, who lashed out at the anti-union practices of united Services Group. "This isn't just about 13 workers, this is about a multinational company with thousands of workers being looked after by their mates in Canberra."
A protest against United Services Group is scheduled top coincide with the Queens visit on Monday 13th March at 10:30am.
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