Issue No 33 | 01 October 1999 | |
NewsBuilding Workers Won’t Settle for Half Pay
Building workers have set up a picket outside a new apartment building site in Brumby Street Surry Hills to demand payment of their wages by head contractor Samadi Constructions.
"It's a classic example that's no longer supposed to be happening in NSW, where the builder fails to pay the subcontractor and the subbie ends up unable to pay his workers' wages," says CFMEU organiser Brian Parker. Samadi's tactics have allegedly resulted in subbies ending up being paid for less than 50 per cent of the work they've completed on the project. The first and second formworkers are allegedly owed $100,000 and $75,000 respectively. A cement renderer is owed over $120,000. "This is the kind of situation the Security of Payment legislation before NSW Parliament is supposed to be eliminating. But while we wait for the law to be changed, subcontractors are still being ripped off for work they have completed and workers end up losing their wages," said Mr Parker.
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