Issue No 45 | 10 March 2000 | |
NewsTWU Calls on Workers to Steer Clear of Woolworths
The Transport Workers Union has called for working people to reconsider shopping at Woolworths after an activist for driver safety was banned from one of the retail giant's stores.
Concerned Families of Australian Truckies (CFAT) chairperson Judy Penton was thrown out of the St Clare outlet after holding a protest about the unreasonable demands the company was putting on drivers. TWU state secretary Tony Sheldon says: "Woolworths cannot keep getting away with just pushing it's weight around and expecting the drivers and their families in the transport industry and other concerned members of the community to continue shopping at their stores and contributing to their profits." "Woolworths and other retail industry clients are going to have to accept that they have a responsibility to the drivers and the trucks out there on the road that are keeping their industry alive, their shelves full and their profits up. "It is the only way we are ever going to substantially reduce the number of people killed in truck accidents on our roads," Mr Sheldon said. Last year of the 351 people killed in work related accidents, 171 were killed in work related accidents involving trucks.
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