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Issue No. 307 | 19 May 2006 |
Open for Business?
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
Laughing All The Way To MacBank Perth Apartments Go Like a Bomb Andrews Puts Contracts on Families Worker Dumped Over Casual Affair
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Pleased with Beazley What is Working Class National Day of Protest Tax Cuts Solidarity Independent Contractors Drought Proofing Higher Profile for Labor
Labor Council of NSW |
News Councils Trash Workers
A new joint contract by Gosford City and Wyong Shire for garbage services could see pay cuts of up to $340 a week and over 100 jobs placed at risk. A new contractor could dodge negotiated rates by passing itself off as a "new enterprise", under WorkChoices provisions that allow conditions to be ignored. After 10 years the council workforce was told last month a new joint contract would go to tender with a flat pay rate as low as $12.75 an hour; a decision workers have slammed as "disgraceful" and "insulting". Wyong Council waste worker Paul Weston said he had challenged Wyong and Gosford Mayors to start work at 5am for $12.75 an hour and still manage to support their families. "I am very worried about my family's financial future if I lose my job. If another company is prepared to work for the minimum rate of pay with no penalty rates then we are in real trouble," says Weston. "All we ask is that the Councils do the right thing by working families on the Central Coast." Protesting workers called on both Mayors to protect their jobs, entitlements and working conditions. "The Gosford and Wyong Councils are willing to leave 100 local families without any certainty about their futures," says Transport Workers Union secretary Tony Sheldon. "This loyal workforce performs a vital and important community service. How can the Councils possibly expect them to do the same job for $340 less a week?"
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