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Issue No. 326 | 29 September 2006 |
Interview: Australia�s Most Wanted Industrial: The Fox and the Contractor Unions: Industrial Wasteland International: Two Bob's Worth Economics: National Interest Environment: The Real Dinosaur History: Only In Spain? Review: Clerk Off
Death Sites Under Construction
Legends The Soapbox Obituary Fiction
Botched Surgery Values Call
Labor Council of NSW |
News Uni Flunks AWA Test
The University this week cancelled a September 28 cut-off date and, instead, told staff they could apply for individual contracts at any time. Fifty university staff celebrated the backdown by staging a Tear-Up-Your AWA demonstration on the sandstone uni's Isabel Fidler Lawns. "If staff sign these AWAs they stand to lose over 50 percent of their union-negotiated rights, including paid parental leave and sick leave," CPSU state branch secretary, John Cahill, told them. "These AWAs are a disaster for anyone with a family, a mortgage or who has the misfortune to become seriously ill. "The union agreement offers higher pay than the AWA over its life, as well as protecting key conditions that cannot be enforced under the AWA." Sydney University was forced into offering AWAs by a federal government threat to slash funding. Like most AWA employers, it hasn't offered individually tailored documents but pattern agreements with pay scales that reflect rates negotiated by the union. The big difference is that most negotiated conditions have been taken out of the AWA and moved into university policy. Cleaner and workplace delegate, Ralph Halden, said that meant they would be unenforceable and could be changed by the university at any time.
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