
Issue No 75		27 October 2000

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Letters to the Editor

No Back Down By SRA

Re: Workers Online Issue 40 Dated 19/11/99.

The SRA did not back down on surveillance.

The two dismissed employees are still fighting to get their jobs back in the AIRC.

The SRA wants to use them as a precedent so they can use the Automatic Ticket Barriers on other employees and dismiss as many as they can.

The dismissed employees were never redeployed as mentioned in that issue.

Twelve (12) months has passed and the two dismissed employees are still in the street pending the AIRC findings because the SRA is using the ATM's information against these employees even though they admitted to no proper protocol or union agreements.

Please warn other employees that The SRA will utilise the ATM's data as surveillance after they set a precedent with these two employees (who were doing their job collecting timesheets going through the barriers not knowing that the barriers are collecting data to be used as surveillance, and then were asked 9 months later what they have done on the relevant days in question, and because their answers were not plausible they were dismissed for serious misconduct).

George Matalani

(one of the dismissed employees)

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Issue 75 contents

Interview: Civilized Capital
The FNV's Harrie Lindelauff explains to Peter Lewis how a friendly government and moderate employers make for a different sort of workplace in Holland.

Politics: Where Too Much Politics Is Barely Enough
With daily newspapers providing polling and analysis, television, cable, radio and Internet providing 24 hour coverage over a year long campaign -- there's more than enough politics for even the most voracious American political junkie reports Michael Gadiel.

International: US Cleaners on Hunger Strike
A number of US cleaners have this week gone on a hunger strike to back a union campaign for higher wages.

Economics: The Pass The Risk Trick
Derivatives, often seen as the currency of casino capitalism, are the fastest growing, largest and potentially most volatile aspect of capitalist economies. Economist Dick Brian sees behind this image an even deeper danger.

Health: Depressing Workplaces
New technologies and the impact of globalisation have sparked more stress and bouts of depression for workers, while causing a growing burden for social security systems, a new ILO report says.

Unions: Costello's Con
The low paid are bearing the brunt of the GST with inflation at a 10 year high argues the ACTU's Greg Combet.

Satire: Bush campaign an in-joke, admit advisors
TEXAS, Thursday: Following Bush's disastrous performance in the first Presidential debate it has been revealed that his bid for president is actually the result of a in-joke about how stupid the American people are.

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