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Primed To Win

By 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:

  • Agreements to be company-wide basis rather than site-by-site;
  • Agreements to be for two years;
  • Ten per cent rise per year;
  • Increased superannuation payments;
  • Union-endorsed Income Protection Scheme;
  • Industry fund to protect entitlements;
  • Company wide redundancy schemes.

"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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Features
*  Interview: Politics Italian Style
Italian journalist's union official Rodolfo Falvo talks to Peter Lewis about Italy's Rupert Murdoch and why Italian politics is so crazy.
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*  Unions: A Partnership That Works
Students at Williamstown High in Victoria are benefiting from a creative partnership with TAFE and the Electrical Trades Union. Kevin Peoples reports.
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*  International: Fiji Paymasters Fill Their Own Pockets
The Interim Administration imposed on the people of Fiji, as a result of the coup-makers, have voted themselves a hefty pay increase at the same time as they demand public sector workers take a twelve per cent pay cut.
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*  Politics: USA Campaign 2000 - On the Road
Michael Gadiel reports on the thrills, spills, highs and lows of the US Presidential Election.
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*  Women: Party Girl
'You can take the girl out of the Port, but you can't take the Port out of the girl' - Stephanie Key recounts her life as a feminist in a male bastion, the Transport Workers Union.
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*  Satire: Telstra to issue $50,000 Reith Phonecard
CANBERRA, Monday: Telstra have announced Peter Reith-themed phonecard. The phonecard allows friends and family to make $50,000 worth of phone calls on it before you receive a bill. Plus, you only have to pay the bill in total if there is sufficient public outrage, otherwise the card costs just $950.
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*  Review: Health, Wealth and Mutual Obligations
Mutual obligation for the poor only, increasing income inequality and a widening health gap. Welcome to the 21st century -or is it the 19th?
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