Issue No 67 | 18 August 2000 | |
NewsSelleys Fight Kicks OnBy Andrew Casey
The Selleys dispute has stretched into a second week as the company refuses to budge in enterprise bargaining talks.
Selleys is the producer of popular homemaker products such as Araldite, Polystrippa and PolyFilla. This is now the longest strike at this plant in more than a decade. Members of the union will meet again on Monday to discuss the future of the dispute. The strike began on August 9 and the 130 members of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union (LHMU) have maintained a 24 hour peaceful protest outside the plant ever since. The support from other unionists and community members has been astounding with people coming to the Padstow plant unannounced to join the protests. A group of Maritime Union of Australia members rolled up earlier in the week to show their solidarity - while that very modern form of solidarity, e-mail messages, have come in from all over the country. If readers of Workers On Line have the time they would be more than welcome to join LHMU members this weekend outside Selleys at 1 Gow St Padstow. Selleys brought in new management to their Padstow plant 12 months ago and negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement between the company and the LHMU have now gone on for six months. Last weekend unionists handed out leaflets outside retail outlets to inform Selleys customers of the company's actions in this dispute and leading up to the dispute. Enterprise bargaining negotiations between the LHMU and Selleys broke down when the company refused a claim for a 6 per cent wage increase.
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