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Not-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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Features
*  Interview: The Seeds of Genocide
Brian Daluz, from the Council for the National Resistance of Timor, believes Timorese are being herded into concentration camps.
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*  Unions: The Mice That Roared
Hotel housekeeper Belinda Nicholls stole the show at the Second Wave rally with her story of the triumph of a group of newly-unionised workers.
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*  International: The Hand of God?
John Passant asks whether Turkey�s Earthquake was a natural disaster or a criminal act.
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*  Republic: The Republic Debate: Should It Go Into Extra Time?
In the battle of political - sporting analogies, a skeptic states his case.
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*  Legal: Call Waiting
The Federal Court has put a dampener on outsourcing within a corporate structure.
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*  Satire: Ticketing Chaos!
Sydney Olympics to be held in Beijing
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*  Review: The Thirteenth Floor
A new film challenges the boundaries between reality and �virtual� reality and explores some of the moral issues that these technologies will introduce.
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*  Labour Review: What's New at the Information Centre
Read the latest issue of Labour Review, a resource for union officials and students.
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»  Sydney Unionists Forced to Leave Dili
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»  SOCOG Called to Cancel Indonesian Contracts
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»  Union Busters To Go Cyber
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»  Not-So Aussie Post for Sydney 2000
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»  Horror Tales - the Nights of the Living Dead
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»  Asbestos Sufferer Bequests $30,000 To Union
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»  Woodlawn Workers Edge Towards Justice
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»  Telstra Shareholders Asked to Block Union-Busters
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»  Reith Letter to be Revealed in Conspiracy Case
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»  Shock: Tele Thumbs Up For New Years Eve Holiday
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»  Tales From the Picket Line
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Columns
»  Guest Report
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Piers Watch
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Letters to the editor
»  League's Working Class Takeover
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»  Proverb for the Cyber Age
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»  Postcard from the Emu
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»  Mind Your Language
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»  The Other Young Speaker
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»  Timor: A Call to Action
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»  A Letter to Downer
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