Issue No 40 | 19 November 1999 | |
NewsRio Tinto Black List Exposed at Blair AtholBy Paddy Gorman
A forensic expert this week gave evidence in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission which exposes the existence of a Black List targeting union activists at Rio Tinto's Blair Athol coal operation in Central Queensland.
The vital evidence emerged this week in the CFMEU's case against the unfair dismissal of 16 union members at Blair Athol who were retrenched in July last year. In an attempt to discover how Rio Tinto's selection criteria for retrenchment works, the CFMEU subpoenaed management notebooks that were not orignially presented by the company. One in particular was found to have been tampered with and when it was referred to a forensic expert in document examination, reference was discovered of a management directive that those on the "Black List were unlikely 7 or 8" on the criteria scale needed to secure jobs. The expert presented evidence that the original notes had been written over to replace the term "Black list" as "Rating List". there were seceral other instances of altering the original reference to "Black List" throughout the notes - written eight months before the 16 unionists were sacked. When called in evidence, the manager questioned claimed privilege not to answer questions which could incriminate him.
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