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Issue No. 308 | 26 May 2006 |
If the Answer is Nuclear �.
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
Lets Get Physical, Building Bosses Sparkie Vote Will Go To the Wire Nine Vanish in Melbourne Triangle Labor Roots In Graft Allegations
The Soapbox The Locker Room Parliament
Noll On Riders on the Strom No Gerry Can Insight Fires Up
Labor Council of NSW |
News Nine Vanish in Melbourne Triangle
The AIRC endorsed all their sacking under WorkChoices laws that deny unjustified dismissal recourse to anyone with less than 100 workmates.
To bring itself into Canberra's sack-at-will zone, Port Melbourne outfit, Triangle Cables, restructured using dubious labour hire arrangements, and denied responsibility for workers scattered across the globe. The AIRC, operating under new WorkChoices regulations, ruled all nine sackings were valid, last week. The NUW said that in August, last year, Triangle Cable's chief engineer quit, reappeared as a labour hire operator, and won the contract to supply his former employer. None of these people were included in the 97 employees Triangle claimed to have had at the time of the dismissals. A Thai-based company of the same name, which employes 22 staff, was exempted when the AIRC ruled that, under the Corporations Act, it was not a related entity. Workers Online can reveal that the official Triangle Cables website, lists that operation as part of the group. The same website still boasts18 operations, worldwide, but the company successfully argued that none, outside Melbourne, employed any staff. The nine union members, who had been active in industrial and health and safety matters, were all axed when WorkChoices came into effect in March. Workers Online understands the NUW will now seek remedies in the federal court, arguing discrimination against its members on the grounds of their union involvement.
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