Issue No 40 | 19 November 1999 | |
Letters to the EditorCCT - Destroying Rural Communities
Dear Editor, please forgive me but did I read something along the lines of a union kicking up a stink about competitve tendering in NSW in the roads dept and local councils. If im not mistaken there is a LABOR gov't in NSW isn't there?? As a member of the ALP in Vic ( yes a Mexican!!) you may or may not be aware that as policy we have or soon will have abolished compulsory competitive tendering( cct). As the article suugests it DOES cost jobs in rural communities and destroys the local economy tranfferring job oppurtunities out of local areas to the city. I simply cant believe this is happening under a "labor" gov't. Please, fellow unionists, make your government wake up to itself and get rid of cct. it's anti union, anti worker and anti rural communities. piss it off. we did have a bumper sticker here, "CCT- Destroying Rural Communities!!" Ray Wilson, President, Victorian Country Labor Executive.
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