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Issue No. 330 | 27 October 2006 |
Fair Weather Friends
Interview: Cowboys and Indians Industrial: Seven Deadly Sins Unions: The IT Factor Politics: Bargain Basement Environment: An Inconvenient Hoax Corporate: Two Sides International: Unfair Dismissals History: A Stitch in Time Review: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Aunty Strikes at Lakemba Mosque Community Volunteers for Heavy Lifting Life Education for Apprentices
Parliament The Soapbox Culture
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News Aunty Strikes at Lakemba Mosque
As reporter John Stewart began his cross to newsreader Juanita Phillips from Lakemba - where Muslim leaders were in a crisis meeting over comments by controversial cleric Sheikh Taj Din al Hilaly - the camera trailed off then cut out. The camera operator then packed up his camera and left the scene.
The bizarre stunt left Stewart, along with the audience, mystified while Phillips cut to the next story citing 'technical problems'. But the camera operator's action was part of a rolling industrial campaign of 'selective disruption' at the ABC. Over the last two weeks TV and radio programs including the 7.30 Report, state-based 7pm news bulletins, current affairs show AM and the Triple J morning show have been pulled as employees in different sections walked off the job without warning. The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) and the Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU) - which cover 2,500 ABC employees between them - are co-ordinating the rolling strikes in a bid to win an acceptable pay rise. But Thursday's action has caused some friction between the unions, with MEAA journalists critical of the unilateral and unflagged action taken by the CPSU-affiliated camera operator. The unions are campaigning for a pay rise above the 4% a year for three years currently being offered by management, which is up from the 3.5% per year on offer before a nationwide 24-hour strike in September.
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