Issue No 30 | 10 September 1999 | |
NewsNot-So Aussie Post for Sydney 2000
Postal services to the Olympic Village during the 2000 Games will be carried out by an international mail delivery service rather than Australia Post, unions have been told.
Communications union branch secretary Jim Metcher says he's been advised the decision has been made by the International Olympic Committee after a foreign carrier successfully bid against Australia Post for the contract. Metcher has asked Australia Post for clarification of the situation, warning that the union would disrupt mail service during the Games period if it emerged that the jobs would not go to Australian workers. "Our members have already formed the view that if they cannot provide a mail delivery service to the Olympics site, then no other International Postal Service provider should either," Metcher says. Metcher says it appears laws making Australia Post the only carrier for small letters will be suspended during the games to allow the international carrier to operate. "This is a national disgrace," Metcher says. "It's an Olympic site - not a sacred site - the same rules should apply."
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