Issue No 58 | 16 June 2000 | |
NewsTips Rip-Off Sparks Hotel Picket
Workers at a city hotel are bucking up over management's policy of keeping tips earmarked for porters for themselves.
The Millennium Hotel workers have raised the tips scam as one of a series of triggers for industrial action to occur next Thursday. The workers say the Kings Cross hotel has had a long established practice of levying tour groups for "porterage" which is then distributed amongst porters as tips. But new management of the hotel have come in, maintaining the levy but no longer passing it on to the porters. Hotel Porter Alistair Campbell told this week's Labor Council that the policy had taken about $300 off his monthly take-home pay. Other issues include underpayment of staff, unfair workloads for casuals and the denial of annual leave. Room attendant Zenni Aruta says flexi-days have also been denied by management, leaving some workers holding more than 1560- hours but unable to claim it. The Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union is assisting with the picket line and the barbeque which will take place 6am - where guests will be encouraged to support the workers. Full details in next week's Workers Online.
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Interview: After the Gold Rush NSW building union leader Andrew Ferguson on life after the Olympics and why Che Guevara is his political hero. Unions: MUA Women's Policy Back on Course A hard hitting report by the Maritime Union's women's delegate Sue Gajdos prompts the union to, once again, promote its female members. Politics: Raising the Rafters Opposition leader Kim Beazley delivered a stirring address to last weekend's NSW ALP State Conference. Here's every word of it. History: Time and Tide Greg Patmore surveys the themes of Working Lives in Regional Australia in this introduction to the latest issue of 'Labour History' International: Fair in the Land of the Free More than 20,000 immigrant workers, union members and community and religious leaders packed a Los Angeles Sports Arena on June 10 in support of immigrant workers' rights. Environment: Life's a Beach Workers are invited to join an environmental campaign to protect the coastal communities and coastline from exploitation by multinationals. Satire: More Pacific Coups Forecast The popular holiday resort of Great Keppel Island is bracing itself for a bloody coup, following the rash of rebel uprisings in other parts of the Pacific. Review: At the Barricades Denis Evans' photo essay on the Patrick dispute captures the camaraderie on the Melbourne picket lines - solidarity that, like solder, welded workers and their communities together into a human barricade.
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