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Schweppes Lockout Bubbles Internationally


The lock-out of Cadbury-Schweppes LHMU members in Melbourne has been made an Urgent Action item of the Swiss-based beverage workers union international.

The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) has taken up the case of the more than 150 union members, employed by Cadbury-Schweppes at the Tullamarine plant, have been locked out of their jobs.

Last Saturday police forcibly removed them to bring an end to a sit-in at the plant which had lasted for several days. The sit-in began to protest the failure of negotiations for an enterprise agreement.

The police reaction came shortly after the Victorian WorkCover Authority had forced a shutdown of the plant because unqualified management personnel and casual workers brought in as strike breakers were operating the sensitive syrup room in violation of health and safety regulations.

The IUF on its website has called on all its affiliates to fax and e-mail Cadbury-Schweppes in Australia and the UK.

The IUF has advised its affiliates and supporters that E-mail protests should be directed to the global headquarters of Cadbury-Schweppes by clicking here.

Copies should be sent to [email protected] and [email protected] to be passed on directly to the LHMU workplace delegates and members.

More information about the IUF campaign for Melbourne's Cadbury-Schweppes workers can be found on the IUF website by clicking here.

For protest faxes, the addresses of Cadbury-Schweppes Australia and the UK are:

* Schweppes Cottee's Australia, Cadbury Schweppes House,636 St Kilda Road, PO Box 6134, Melbourne, Victoria 3004,

Tel: + 61 3 9520 7444

Fax: + 61 3 9520 7400

* Cadbury Schweppes plc, 25 Berkeley Square, London GB - W1X 6HT

Tel +44 20 7409 1313

Fax +44 20 7830 5200

More information about the dispute can be found at this web-site. Click on Cadbury-Schweppes Locks Out Workforce.


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*  Interview: Chewing the Fat with Della
In a rare extended interview, NSW 's new industrial relations minister State John Della Bosca outlines his vision for the new workplace.
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*  Unions: Organising - There Is No Choice
LHMU national secretary Jeff Lawrence responds to Brisbane Institutue director Peter Botsman's attack on organising.
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*  Corporate: The Riddles of Democracy at Telstra
Shareholder activist Stephen Mayne explains how the big guys ran roughshod when he and trade union activists attempted to stand for the Telstra board.
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*  Education: Training for Change
Labor Council's Michael Gadiel outlines a traiing agenda for the 21st century.
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*  History: A Stack of Hypocrits
Ballot rigging, sanctioned by the courts, sponsored by the government were a Liberal Party and Bob Menzies speciality - and they introduced legislation to legalise it.
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*  International: African Unions Go To War Against AIDS
The war on AIDS is now the number one priority of the ICFTU's African Regional Organization (AFRO), which has launched an ambitious five-year action plan in nine of the most severely afflicted African nations.
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*  Satire: Teenage Hackers Behind Shock Cabinet Reshuffle
Seasoned front-benchers and political greenhorns alike were joined in stunned surprise today, as a sudden Cabinet reshuffle radically altered the shape of the Federal Government.
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*  Review: Manufacturing Dissent
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