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Issue No. 306 | 12 May 2006 |
Good Times
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
Workplace Cop Shrugs Shoulders Gerry Built Apartments Fall Behind Killer Bosses Swoop on Croweaters US: Thousands Fired For Joining Unions
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Budget Dividend The Real Truth About Independent Contractors
Labor Council of NSW |
News Workplace Cop Shrugs Shoulders
Three Bendigo construction workers, employed by contractor McFee Propriety Limited, had their pay docked after delivering proceeds from a whip-around to a union office in town.
The company said they were 15 minutes late from their lunch break and extracted 30 minutes off their wages in retaliation. McFee site manager, Peter Anstee, told local radio: ``We are not involved in mining, we are a construction company. If we had to chip in for every poor bugger who got killed at work we'd go broke.'' About a hundred construction workers employed at the Bendigo gold mine passed the hat around for Larry Knight's family, raising about $3500. "Three shop stewards on the site went to management and said, 'look, we want to take this money down to the AWU office in Bendigo so that they can deliver it as quickly as possible to the family'," Victorian secretary of the Construction and Mining Union, Martin Kingham, told ABC radio. "They asked for permission to leave the site. They indicated that, because there was some distance for them to travel, that they might be a little bit late coming back from their lunch break. The ABC reported that the Office of Workplace Services has looked into the matter and didn't propose taking action. The Australian Building and Construction Commission said the actions of McPhee Propriety Limited might well be legal. "For the Howard Government to praise the Australian spirit, while overseeing laws that will destroy mateship and collectivity at work is a joke," said Kingham.
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