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Issue No. 305 | 05 May 2006 |
Contract With Australia
Interview: Out of the Bedroom Industrial: Cloak and Dagger Unions: Lockout! Legal: The Fantasy of Choice Politics: Labor Pains Economics: Economics and the Public Purpose Corporate: House of Horrors History: Clash Of Cultures International: Childs Play Culture: Folk You Mate! Review: Last Holeproof Hero
Plant Fission for Cost Savings Aussie Bushman Pronounced Dead Unmask the Puppeteers, Union Demands King of Onkaparinga Cries Poor
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Labor Council of NSW |
News Cleaners Mop Up
About 100 cleaners marched from LHMU offices in Haymarket to the three-tower Darling Park in Sussex St, last Friday, where they called on owners, tenants and office workers to look at cleaning practices introduced by contractor Baytons. The amount of time cleaners have to keep the offices in shape has been slashed by 116 hours a week, in a contract agreed to by Baytons. "Our research indicates that these practices do not just hurt the nearly 100 cleaners who work in the 73 floor 132,000 square metre complex," says Mark Boyd from the LHMU Cleaners Union. "We believe they hurt the workers in these offices. "It is our view that the consumers of this service, as well as the cleaners who provide this service, are both being unfairly treated by the contract cleaning company Baytons," Friday's noisy rally is part of the continuing Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign that was launched last month. More than 1500 cleaners and their supporters - including leading religious and community figures - attended the Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners launch across the country in April. Since then additional successful protests have been held in Adelaide, Brisbane and New Zealand. The Clean Start: Fair Deal for Cleaners campaign was launched because of concern that the radical and harsh new workplace laws introduced by the Federal Government will hit hardest the more than 90,000 low-paid cleaners employed by outsourced contractors around Australia - most of whom are women or recent immigrants. "Australia's low-paid cleaners know they deserve to be treated with more respect and decency - and they are ready to have their voices heard," Mark Boyd said.
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