Issue No 74 | 20 October 2000 | |
NewsPrimed To WinBy Andrew Casey
Two thousand paint industry workers, in all mainland states, have launched the Paint 2000 Campaign - a national industry-wide campaign to win better pay and conditions for LHMU members.
On November 1 the national Wattyl agreement, which covers three hundred LHMU members, expires. The Taubmans agreements in Victoria and Queensland expire in December. Dulux agreements expire in December in Victoria and Queensland, and in February for WA. "The Paint 2000 Campaign seeks to mobilise our membership to win improved conditions across the industry, in a move away from site-by-site bargaining," Cheryl Hyde, Assistant National Secretary of the LHMU, said. " The three largest paint companies in Australia have enterprise agreements which expire over the coming weeks. Our delegates at Wattyl have met a number of times with the company to discuss our key demands." The demands are based on a series of national meetings of all Paint delegates, from all Paint companies - as well as rank-and-file meetings. The key demands of the Paint 2000 campaign are:
"The national campaign is a response to the increasing centralisation and rationalisation that is going on in the paint industry," Cheryl Hyde, LHMU Assistant National Secretary, said. "The companies have moved away from regional, state-by-state, strategies to national strategies. "If the companies want national, rationalised and centralised, strategies, they should also adopt national - not regional - pay agreements for their workforce," Ms Hyde said.
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